BRIEFLY CAPRIATI EASES ON OVER HARKLEROAD.Byline: - Daily News Staff and Wire Services Second-seeded Jennifer Capriati Jennifer Marie Capriati (born March 29, 1976, in New York City) is a former World No. 1 women's tennis player from the United States. She won three Grand Slam singles titles (2001 and 2002 Australian Open, 2001 French Open), and the women's singles gold medal at the 1992 Olympic needed only 53 minutes to beat Ashley Harkleroad Ashley Harkleroad (born May 2, 1985), is an American tennis player. Born in Rossville, Georgia, Harkleroad reached a career-high ranking of No. 39 on June 9, 2003. As of October 16, 2007, she is ranked 92 in singles and 94 in doubles, as well as 83 in the Race to the Sony Ericsson 6-0, 6-3 in a second-round match Tuesday at the Acura Classic in Carlsbad. Capriati used her powerful groundstrokes to overwhelm the unseeded Harkleroad. --Pete Sampras beat Wayne Ferreira 7-6 (8-6), 5-7, 6-4 to advance to the second round of the Toronto Masters Series. Andy Roddick, the 12th seed, defeated Dominik Hrbaty 6-2, 6-4. HOCKEY: The Kings agreed to terms with defenseman Mike Pudlick on a one-year contract. Pudlick, 24, had 15 points and 42 penalty minutes in 64 games last season with Kings minor-league affiliate in Manchester, N.H. COLLEGES: The NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association is investigating possible rules violations involving three Fresno State athletic programs, including the men's basketball team formerly coached by Jerry Tarkanian. The NCAA is examining whether a local Japanese restaurant fed basketball players for free and whether a sports agent provided benefits to a basketball player. The NCAA also is looking into the women's basketball program and men's soccer program. FOOTBALL: UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX recruit C.J. Niusulu has been arraigned on felony assault charges in his hometown of Barstow after allegedly punching a clerk at a drive-in theater. The clerk suffered a broken nose and had to have his jaw wired shut after the dispute July 17, according to San Bernardino County Sheriff's Dept. Sgt. Lon Jacobs. TRACK & FIELD: Barbara Ferrell-Edmonson, who coached track and field at USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. for seven years in the 1990s, has been hired as women's track and field and cross country coach at UNLV UNLV University of Nevada, Las Vegas . SOCCER: The World Cup was seen on television by a combined 1.5 billion viewers in 18 countries measured by Nielsen Media Research. Thailand had a combined total of 269 million, most among the 18 nations included by Nielsen, followed by co-host South Korea (266 million) and China (263 million). The United States was sixth at 85 million, but that figure included only English-language viewers on ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. , ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network and ESPN2. An additional 80 million Spanish speakers watched on Univision and Telefutura. MOTOR SPORTS: An autopsy showed race car driver Robert Kasik, 56, of Roscoe, Ill., suffered a heart attack before he was killed when his car slammed into a wall of tires during a weekend race in Elkhart Lake, Wis. |
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