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Dick Trickle, whose larger-than-life personality and penchant for fun won him legions of fans despite a lack of success beyond the nation's small tracks, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.

BASEBALL Major League Baseball hopes to expand video review by umpires for the 2014 season and says all calls other than balls and strikes could be subject to instant replay.

French tennis has certainly picked up the pace in recent years -- well, on the men's side anyway -- and the latest of its quality ball-strikers is Benoit Paire.

Grigor Dimitrov, Milos Raonic and Ryan and Christian Harrison lead the next generation of ATP players in a Men's Journal feature entitled "Hit Squad" where they divulge what opponents fear most about their game.

It seems that all of the chatter about Nadal's seeding for Roland Garros may have been for nothing, as the Spaniard may be guaranteed the No.

Venus and Serena , Maikan Baird and Michelle Major's documentary about the Williams sisters, has an exciting, improbable tale to tell.

Two-time champion Novak Djokovic, two-time runner-up Roger Federer and reigning titlist Rafael Nadal were among Thursday's third-round winners at the $3.475 million Italian Masters tennis event.

ESPN will be the exclusive home in North and South America of the US Open beginning in 2015, in an agreement with the United States Tennis Association which was announced on Thursday.

Bell Media's TSN and RDS have extended their partnership with the United States Tennis Association with a new 11-year multimedia rights agreement for the US Open.

You do not want to face Rafael Nadal right now. And you most certainly do not want to meet him on a clay court at Roland Nadal has also beaten every elite player he's faced this season - including a win over Roger Federer and two over David Oh, and he's also won eight of the last nine French Open titles, with only Federer's win in 2009 interrupting ... (more)

Stars from different eras included, from left, Bjorn Borg, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer and Rod Laver.

The U.S. Open tennis tournament will leave CBS after nearly a half-century and move all TV coverage to cable starting in 2015 under an 11-year contract with ESPN.

Andy Murray retired from his second-round match in Rome. He is doubtful for the French Open and concerned about being healthy enough for Wimbledon.

But Peter Kobelt's path to the top of college tennis hasn't been so conventional.

Tennis Hall of Famer Andre Agassi left Nike eight years ago to become sponsored by adidas, only to return to the "Swoosh" this past Monday.

Pick any match, any tournament in which Andy Murray is playing and observe his player's box.

Britain's Andy Murray pulled out of his second-round match at the Rome Masters due to a back injury.

Red-hot Serena Williams was an easy second- round winner, while last year's Wimbledon runner-up Agnieszka Radwanska was an upset victim Tuesday at the Italian Open tennis event.

For 20 years, Jimmy Connors was one of tennis' most provocative public figures. And then, after retiring at the end of the 1992 season, he almost vanished.

Photograph: Clive Mason/Getty Images Serena Williams proved one sister too many for Laura Robson but theLondon teenager, who took four games off the American with 15 grand slams to her name, leaves the ATP Rome Masters event with the encouragement that she is not out of her depth at or near the top of women's tennis .