WASHINGTON [bar] Fordham completed the worst season in NCAA women's basketball history Saturday, losing 66-27 at No. 15 George Washington to become the first team to go 0-29.
Fordham finished with one more loss than the 0-28 teams of Charleston in 1990-91 and Centenary in 1999-2000. The Rams have lost 33 straight games.
Reduced to eight players by injuries and relying on a young lineup featuring one senior and one go-to player - freshman Megan Mahoney - Fordham faced the worst possible scenario to avoid the record: on the road against a ranked team battling for first place. George Washington (24-5, 12-2 Atlantic 10) pulled away with an early 19-0 run.
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Cornell clinched the Ivy League regular-season title and became the first team to secure a spot in the NCAA tournament with an 86-53 home victory against Harvard. It is Cornell's first title since 1987-88, the last year a team other than Penn or Princeton won the league.
John Wooden remained hospitalized in good condition, having undergone blood transfusions after the 97-year-old UCLA coaching great broke two bones when he fell at home Thursday. Wooden could be released Monday.
The Oklahoma men's basketball team set what is thought to be an NCAA record for the longest time holding an opponent scoreless since the advent of the shot clock in 1986 by blanking Texas A&M for 16 minutes and 12 seconds in a 64-37 home victory. The record entering the season was 13 minutes and 53 seconds, set by Utah State against Idaho on Feb. 15, 2006.
golf
at pga national, 3 tied for lead
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. [bar] Luke Donald shot a 4 under, Mark Calcavecchia finished at 67 and the two former Honda Classic champions wound up tied with Matt Jones atop the leaderboard at PGA National.
All three were at 6 under, one shot better than Brian Davis and Jose Coceres, who lost a four-way playoff at PGA National a year ago.
A bogey-free 64 on Thursday started Donald on his way, but a quadruple - an 8 on the 14th hole Friday - knocked him off the pace. With five birdies and no bogeys, he has been flawless since.
Calcavecchia made a bogey on the second hole Saturday when his drive nestled against a palm tree and he decided to take a lefthanded whack to advance the ball a few yards. He missed everything and eventually made bogey.
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Lorena Ochoa had five birdies for a 3-under 69 to extend her lead in the HSBC Women's Champions to eight strokes entering the final round in Singapore. Ochoa is 16 under; Paula Creamer and Annika Sorenstam are 8 under.
Taichiro Kiyota shot a 5-under 67 to take the lead after the third round of the Johnnie Walker Classic in Gurgaon, India. Kiyota is 14 under, one stroke ahead of Mark Brown and Jyoti Randhawa.
tennis
davenport nets 55th career title
memphis, tenn [bar] Lindsay Davenport brushed aside Olga Govortsova 6-2, 6-1, securing the Cellular South Cup in just 60 minutes to win her 55th career singles title.
The victory tied the fourth-seeded Davenport with Virginia Wade at No. 7 on the WTA Tour all-time singles titles list.
On the men's side, Robin Soderling advanced to his second consecutive ATP final, beating Radek Stepanek 7-6 (2), 6-3. The eighth-seeded Swede, who upset top-seeded Andy Roddick to reach the semifinals, lost to Michael Llodra in a third-set tiebreak last week in Rotterdam.
Soderling will play Steve Darcis, who defeated Jonas Bjorkman 4-6, 6-1, 6-4.
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Elena Dementieva won the Dubai Championships, beating Svetlana Kuznetsova 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.
nba
yao picks surgery for foot fracture
HOUSTON [bar] Yao Ming will have surgery to repair a stress fracture in his left foot, Houston Rockets officials said.
The surgery will be performed Monday in Houston by team doctor Tom Clanton. The team announced the All-Star center's injury Tuesday and said he would get a second opinion before deciding whether to have surgery.
Clanton said the surgery would involve placing screws across the bone to hold it together with a recovery time of about four months. The second option was to treat it with a cast and crutches.
The injury should not keep Yao from playing for China in the Olympics in Beijing.
college football
trustees approve projects at duke
DURHAM, N.C. [bar] Duke University trustees formally approved $5 million to fund several improvement projects at Wallace Wade Stadium, including new restrooms and improved concession facilities at the nearly 80-year-old facility.
The funds will also be used to plan for the eventual installation of a state-of-the-art scoreboard on the north end of the stadium, The Herald-Sun of Durham reported.
Although no definitive timetable has been set, school officials hope to have the restrooms ready for the season opener Aug. 30 against James Madison.
IN OTHER COLLEGE NEWS
Auburn defensive end Antonio Coleman was treated and released from a hospital a few hours after he was taken off the field in an ambulance during a scrimmage. Coleman sustained a cervical sprain and had full mobility in his extremities, Auburn spokesman Kirk Sampson said. He is expected to make a full recovery.
in other news
David Beckham was the only one of five Los Angeles Galaxy players to convert in a shootout as the MLS team lost to host FC Seoul in an exhibition game in South Korea. The score was 1-1 heading into the shootout, which FC Seoul won 2-1.
Yutaka Niida stopped Jose Varela in the sixth round to defend his WBA minimumweight title in Tokyo.
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