Michelle Wie is tied for the lead a...

Michelle Wie is tied for the lead at a tournament again.

Now she has to confirm she can stay there.

Wie discharge a 6-under 66 in the next to the first round of the Evian Masters forward Thursday to share the lead with Lorena Ochoa and Karrie Webb in Evian, France. It's the fourth time the 16-year-old from Hawaii has had a share of the lead as a professional -- nevertheless she's still looking for her first victory.

"I just played more smart," said Wie, who explained with a first- round 69 "You none know what might happen."

Ochoa, the top coin winner this season in women's golf missile a 69 to get to 9-under 135 Webb had a 68 to proceed with her opening- round 67 forward the lakeside course in the Alpine foothills where the temperature reached 94 stages

Wie, who in no degree has led a tournament outright, shared the lead after the first and third circulars of the U.S. Open in 2005 This year, she was in a tie for the lead at that tournament after the third orbed

uLoren Roberts missile a 5-under 65 for a share of the first-round lead in the Senior British lay open with Peter Jacobsen and Craig Stadler in Turnberry, Scotland.

Defending champion Tom Watson struggl in his turn back to Turnberry with a 73

uLee Westwood missile a course-record 9-under 63 to take the first- spherical lead in the Deutsche Bank Players' Championship in Alveslohe, Germany.

WNBA

weather FALLS TO 3-22

Alana Beard scored 26 points to help the armed force Washington Mystics snap a two-game losing streak with a 92-74 victory through the Sky.

Chasity Melvin had 16 points and eight reverberations for Washington (13-13), which missile 58.3 percent from the field.

Former Mystics guard Stacey Dales scored 18 points for the celestial expanse (3- 22), who have missing eight straight and 12 in a outbreak on the road. Bernadette Ngoyisa had a career-high 18 points, and Jia Perkins added a career-high 10 assists.

JURISPRUDENCE

BONDS' TRAINER LEAVES COURT

Barry Bonds' personal trainer left federal court with his legal team after shuttling between hid grand-jury hearings and closed- door appearances before a critic in San Francisco.

Anderson was ordered to testify before a federal grand jury investigating durances on suspicion of perjury and tax evasion. His attorneys had promised that he would not testify and instead would fight the subpoena and move to prison if necessary.

His sum of two units appearances before U.S. District critic Jeffrey White, who barred the public from entering, prompted that Anderson followed through forward his vow of silence, and that White postpon his imprisonment pending a legal fight. A similar scenario played gone out in June, leading up to Anderson's July 5 incarceration for sum of two units weeks after he declined to testify before a different grand jury investigating connections

Prosecutors and lawyers for Anderson declined annotate

- A federal arbitrator has refused to revisit the prison dogma he handed Mike Danton for the former St Louis livids player's failed bid to have his agent killed, again foiling the inmate's push to be transferred to his native Canada to conduce to his time.

MISCELLANEOUS

DEVILS RE-SIGN GOMEZ

The recent Jersey Devils re-signed Scott Gomez to a one-year, $5 million contract, ending speculation that the team would be unable to fit the 26-year-old forward's contract in a less degree than the NHL's salary cap.

uAndy Roddick slowed down his play after straining his back late in the match and held onward for a 6-7 (3), 6-3 6-2 victory throughout Scott Oudsema in the Countrywide Classic in sees Angeles.

The top-seeded Roddick apparently give pain to himself about midway through the final stake and was in obvious pain.

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