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A moment of silence: The sports world was rocked by the news from Boston, where twin blasts killed three people and injured more than a hundred during the city’s famed marathons. (Photos: Hannah Foslien/Getty Images; Marc Serota/Getty Images; Ross D. Franklin/The Associated Press)
BRIGHT LIGHTS: Bubba Watson, right, watches as Scott Piercy hits a drive on the 14th hole during a practice round for the Masters golf tournament on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
JUMP: Five-time champion Serena Williams advanced Tuesday to the Sony Open semi-finals and tied the women’s record for career victories in the tournament by beating No. 5-seeded Li Na 6-3, 7-6 (5).
The top-ranked Williams overcame six double-faults and rallied in the second set from a 5-2 deficit. She hit six winners in the tiebreaker, including a forehand passing shot cross-court on the final point.
When Williams smacked a winner on match point she jumped for joy cannonball-style, knees high and fist raised.
“I don’t usually leap like that in the quarter-final,” she said. “But it was just a good shot.” (Photo: Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)
Michigan State guard Denzel Valentine (45) grabs a rebound over Valparaiso guard Matt Kenney (23) in the first half of a second-round game of the NCAA college basketball tournament. (Photo: Paul Sancya/The Associated Press)
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Kobe Bryant is out indefinitely after landing on Hawks defender Dahntay Jones as he tried to put up a baseline jumper. Bryant is not happy - as you can imagine - and accused Jones of playing dirty.
‘He Jalen Rose’d me,’ he told reporters after the game. (Photo: Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/via The Associated Press)
Kim Yu-na’s performances in Vancouver were so majestic it seemed unlikely anyone could ever come that close to perfection again.
“The Queen” sure wants to try.
The Olympic gold medallist returns to major competition for the first time in two years at this week’s World Figure Skating Championships, and she looked so sharp in practices Monday and Tuesday it was as if she had never been away.
“After I won the Olympics, like any other gold medallist out there, I did feel some emptiness in my heart,” Kim, speaking through a translator, said Tuesday night. “I did think about coming back for a long time. What motivated me was that skating is something I’m best at. And it’s something that I love the most, so I want to give it one more try.” (Photo: Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
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It’s been quite a ride: A 53-year-old former champion has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to become the oldest winner of Alaska’s gruelling test of endurance.
Mitch Seavey and 10 dogs crossed the Nome finish line to cheering crowds at 10:39 p.m. Alaska time Tuesday.
“This is for all of the gentlemen of a certain age,” he said after crossing the finish line in temperatures just above zero. His race time in the 1,600-kilometre race was nine days, 7 hours and 39 minutes. (Bill Roth/The Anchorage Daily News)
Photo, middle right: A musher and dog team cross the ice between the Rohn and Nikolai checkpoints. (Bill Roth/The Anchorage Daily News)
Bottom photo: Iditarod Air Force pilot Scott Ivany prepares to take off with a load of dropped dogs in his Cessna 185. (Bill Roth/The Anchorage Daily News)
Tiger Woods had gone more than three years without a World Golf Championship. He had no trouble remembering the drill.
He sat at a table with the blue Gene Sarazen Cup trophy – he has six just like it at home – and signed a stack of flags for posterity and charity after a two-shot win that was never in question during the final two hours on the Blue Monster at Doral.
Woods entertained a few questions about his new 5-wood, how his performance stacked up with a four-shot win in January at Torrey Pines and whether he thought Rory McIlroy, now overlooked as the No. 1 player in the world, was on the right track.
“Can the Masters get here soon enough?” someone else asked.
It was the only question Woods ignored. (Photo: Warren Little/Getty Images)
Well this is … new. The opening round of the Match Play tournament was postponed due to snow. The championship is in Arizona. Nowhere is safe from winter, apparently. (Photo: Stuart Franklin/Getty Images)
From dawn ‘till dusk: Novak Djokovic plays a return during his men’s singles match against Czech Republic’s Tomas Berdych on the nineth day of the Australian Open tennis tournament. (Photo: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images)
