FanFare 5/25/03

Briefly

Baseball

Barry Bonds is not expected to play in the rest of San Francisco's four-game series with Colorado after tests revealed tendinitis in his sore right knee. Bonds was injured Friday night in the first game of the series when he crashed into the wall chasing a flyball by Preston Wilson in the fourth inning of Colorado's 10-7 win. The five-time MVP stayed in the game but limped off the field after leading off the fifth inning with a single.

Red Sox ace Pedro Martinez reported slight discomfort in his right side after throwing Saturday and he will not start until at least Tuesday. The pain was "nothing extreme," team doctor Bill Morgan said. "We will remain cautious." Martinez was scratched from Tuesday's start against the Yankees after feeling pain the previous day while playing catch in the outfield.

Colleges

Stanford freshman Amber Liu overcame a 5-3 deficit in the first set and beat top-seeded Vilmarie Castellvi of Tennessee 7-6 (5), 6-2 in the NCAA women's singles final. The fifth-seeded Liu won three straight games to take a 6-5 lead but wasted three set points in the 12th game and another in the tiebreaker before taking the first set.

Bobby Benson and Kyle Barrie each scored four times as Johns Hopkins tallied 13 straight goals in the second half of a 19-8 rout of defending champion Syracuse in the NCAA lacrosse semifinals before a record crowd of 37,823 at M&T Bank Stadium. The Blue Jays lost their last seven semifinal appearances. They face second-seeded Virginia in Monday's final. Virginia also avenged a regular-season defeat as it rolled to a 14-4 win over third-seeded Maryland.

Samford University football player Charles Williams was killed in a car accident Friday. Williams apparently was a passenger in one of the four vehicles involved in the crash in downtown Birmingham, police said. Williams died after being taken to University Hospital.

Football

Wide receiver Shawn Jefferson agreed to a one-year contract with the Lions. The 12-year veteran is expected to sign the contract this week, spokesman Bill Keenist said.

Motorsports

Matt Kenseth took the lead on the last restart and cruised to victory in Saturday's Busch Series race at Lowe's Motor Speedway.

Tennis

Top-seeded Andy Roddick beat Russia's Nikolay Davydenko 6-3, 6-2 in the final of the Raiffeisen Grand Prix for his first ATP title of the year. Roddick won his sixth career title in the clay-court event leading to next week's French Open and won a tournament outside the United States for the first time since taking a juniors title in Australia.

On the air

TODAY

Arena football playoffsWildcard game, 2 p.m., WPSD

College baseballBig 12 Conference championship, 1 p.m., Fox-Midwest

College softballArizona vs. California, noon, ESPN

Texas vs. Washington/Oklahoma winner, 2:30 p.m., ESPN

Arizona vs. California, 5 p.m., ESPN2 (if necessary)

Texas vs. Washington/Oklahoma winner, 7:30 p.m., ESPN2 (if necessary)

Golf

Volvo PGA Championship, 9 a.m., TGC

LPGA Corning Classic, 1 p.m., TGC

The Colonial, 2 p.m., KFVS

Columbus Southern Open, 5 p.m., CNBC (same-day tape)

MLB

N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, noon, TBS

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 12:35 p.m., WDKA, KZIM-960, KBXB-97.9

Chicago Cubs at Houston, 1 p.m., WGN

Minnesota at Seattle, 7 p.m., ESPN

Motorsports

Indianapolis 500, 10 a.m., WSIL, KAPE-1550, KRHW-1520

Summer Nationals, 2:30 p.m., ESPN2 (same-day tape)

Coca-Cola 600, 4 p.m., KBSI, KAPE-1550, KRHW-1520

NBA playoffsSan Antonio at Dallas, 7:30 p.m., TNT

NFL EuropeBerlin at Rhein, 1 p.m., KBSI (same-day tape)

MONDAY

College softball world seriesTeams TBA, 3:30 p.m., ESPN

MLB

Boston at N.Y. Yankees, noon, ESPN

Cincinnati at Atlanta, noon, ESPN2, TBS

Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 1:10 p.m., WGN

Houston at St. Louis, 3 p.m., WDKA, KZIM-960, KBXB-97.9

Montreal at Florida, 3 p.m., ESPN2

Chicago White Sox at Toronto, 6 p.m., ESPN2

Men's college lacrosseTeams TBA, 10 a.m., ESPN

Soccer

U.S. vs. Wales, 9 p.m., ESPN2

Tennis

French Open, early round, 7 a.m., ESPN2

CHARTER CABLE KEY:CNBC (ch. 53), ESPN (42), ESPN2 (43), Lifetime (49)Fox-Midwest (45), Fox-Central (352), Fox-Pacific (353), Fox-Sunshine (351), Fox-World (350), FX(50), KBSI (9), KFVS (7), MSNBC (55), Outdoors (38), Outdoor Life Network (74), Oxygen (75), Speed Channel (44), TBS (10), The Golf Channel (46), TNT (48), WDKA (17), WPSD (6), WQWQ (33), WSIL (3). Listings and times are provided by the networks and individual stations and are subject to change.

Area events

TODAYNo events

MONDAY

Amateur baseball

Cape Riverdogs at Saline County (Ill.) (2), 1 p.m.