Tennis is tainted by cheaters just like every other sport, and it's naive to think otherwise. Just look at the recent drug-violation news.

Andy Roddick launched an interesting tirade about why tennis is not as popular as wrestling after being dumped out of the Western & Southern Open on Monday ...

First-Class Tour Statistics World XI Batting and Fielding Name Mat I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St HM Ackerman 7 13 1 449 112 37.41 1 3 8 - Asif Masood 7 8 3 40 8 8.00 - - 3 - BS Bedi 10 10 4 76 24 ...

Sri Lanka innings (50 overs maximum) R M B 4 6 +KC Sangakkara not out 138 210 147 13 2 ST Jayasuriya b Agarkar 15 26 15 2 0 *MS Atapattu c Dhoni b Yadav 17 61 49 1 0 DPMD Jayawardene c Sehwag b ...

New Zealand innings (50 overs maximum) R M B 4 6 L Vincent lbw b Pathan 4 9 11 1 0 *SP Fleming c Dhoni b Nehra 1 10 7 0 0 NJ Astle lbw b Nehra 5 15 13 1 0 HJH Marshall lbw b Pathan 9 40 15 1 0 SB ...

Cricket Australia Chairman's XI innings (50 overs maximum) R M B 4 6 +AC Gilchrist b Streak 2 3 5 0 0 DR Martyn c Evans b Blignaut 31 15 8 3 3 JL Langer run out (Blignaut) 27 110 70 1 1 SE Marsh c ...

Close of Play: Day 1: Australia 368/3 (Hayden 183*, Waugh 61*, 90 overs) Day 2: Australia 735/6d, Zimbabwe 79/1 (Gripper 37*, Vermeulen 9*; 31 overs) Day 3: Zimbabwe 239 and 87/2 (Vermeulen 50*, ...

Rafael Nadal didn't give the impression he was lacking any confidence as he raced through the first round of the Australian Open with a 6-3 6-2 6-2 win against Mikhail Youzhny on Monday. Coming back ...