Daily sport news

AFP - Super Bowl MVP Santonio Holmes denies injuring a female bar patron who says he threw a glass at her in a Florida club, according to a police report released Tuesday.

AFP - Former champion Andy Roddick continued his mastery over Benjamin Becker by beating the unseeded German 7-6 (6/4), 6-3 in the fourth round of the WTA and ATP Masters Tournament on Tuesday.

AP - Ambidextrous pitcher Pat Venditte threw with both arms for the New York Yankees on Tuesday, giving up one run in 1 1-3 innings during a 9-6 split-squad loss to the Atlanta Braves.

AFP - The 2010 Tour de France from July 3-25 will have 22 teams competing for the top prize in cycling, race organisers announced on Tuesday.

AP - Tiger Woods' playing partners for the first round of the Masters since he turned pro in 1997, and the tee time (a-amateur):

AP - Anthony Rizzo and Josh Reddick homered to help build an early lead that slipped away from Boston before Kevin Frandsen's ninth-inning RBI single gave the Red Sox a 9-9 tie against the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday.

AFP - Bayern Munich stunned Manchester United 2-1 in their Champions League quarter-final first leg Tuesday, with an injury-time goal by Ivica Olic evoking memories of their famous clash in 1999.

AP - Minnesota Wild goalie Josh Harding won't play the rest of the season.

AP - The NCAA has found that the University of Texas-Pan American men's basketball program committed major violations in recruiting between 2006 and 2008.

AP - The New Jersey Nets' brown bag summit is over.

AP - Cuban defector Aroldis Chapman will likely start the season in the Cincinnati Reds' farm system.

AP - Caster Semenya is tired of waiting for track and field's ruling body to release results of her gender tests and plans to return to competition.

AP - Al Skinner is out as the Boston College basketball coach, ending a 13-year tenure in which he led the Eagles to more wins than anyone else in school history — many of them in front of lackluster home crowds who never embraced the program.

AP - Having a hometown team play in the Final Four has Indianapolis buzzing, but Butler's Cinderella run — and the proximity of two other competitors — could hurt the bottom line from one of the NCAA's biggest events.

AP - Francisco Liriano locked up the final spot in the Twins' rotation on Tuesday, striking out eight in six shutout innings of Minnesota's 4-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.

AP - Former UCLA coach Steve Lavin agreed to become the basketball coach at St. John's on Tuesday.

AP - Tim Floyd is coming back to Texas-El Paso.

AP - Forget about simply betting on Tiger Woods to win the Masters, British bookmakers are taking wagers on whether the No. 1 player in the world will hit a tree on his first drive or if he'll kiss an anonymous blonde before teeing off.

AP - Former Indiana University basketball player Todd Leary will stand trial July 20 on charges stemming from an ex-business partner's multimillion-dollar fraud scheme.

AP - This is now an annual rite of spring for Maya Moore, who is fast joining some of the greatest players in women's college basketball.