Kirkwood Mountain Resort in the Sierra Nevadas was forced to close lifts after a power generator caught fire and is expected to re-open 9:00 a.m. Saturday.

An engine filter over-heated causing a fire in the power generator at about 2:00 p.m., consuming the building that housed it, with the roof catching fire that was difficult to put out.

Recently snapped shots of former Chicago Cubs slugger, Sammy Sosa, have shocked fans and just about everyone all over the world, as the star player has been shown sporting a much lighter skin tone, more like a stark white skin tone, which is total contrast with what people are used to. Also, he seems to be sporting green contact lenses everywhere he goes.

Yesterday Bob Griese, an ESPN broadcaster, apologized twice after the tasteless remark he aimed at the NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya.
During the announcing of the Minnesota-Ohio State game, ESPN displayed a graphic of the top five drivers in NASCAR's Chase for the championship points race. Griese's fellow analyst Chris Spielman inquired where Montoya was and the former replied that Montoya was "out having a taco."

Rafael Nadal broke five times as he struggled before finally controlling James Blake in a battling 7-5, 6-7 (4-7), 6-3 win into the quarter-finals of the China Open Thursday.

Nadal was tested by the American who was once a regular member of the Top 10 before a slide this season which has left him on 24th with only a pair of losing finals to show for his 2009 efforts.

Nadal levelled at three wins each in the series, having begun turning the tables after standing 0-3 in 2006.

On Monday, a judge will decide whether Michael David Barrett, 47, of Westmont, Ill., who has been accused of stalking ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, including secretly video-taping her nude, returns to Los Angeles as a federal prisoner or is freed on bail to face the charges.

On Monday, a judge will decide whether Michael David Barrett, 47, of Westmont, Ill., who has been accused of stalking ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, including secretly video-taping her nude, returns to Los Angeles as a federal prisoner or is freed on bail to face the charges.

Provisional starting grid for Sunday's Japanese Formula One Grand Prix, the 15th of 17 season races over 53 laps of 5.807 kilometres for 307.573km.

First row 1. Sebastian Vettel, Germany, Red Bull 2. Jarno Trulli, Italy, Toyota

Second row 3. Lewis Hamilton, Britain, McLaren-Mercedes 4. Adrian Sutil, Germany, Force India

Third row 5. Rubens Barrichello, Brazil, Brawn GP 6. Nick Heidfeld, Germany, BMW-Sauber

Fourth row 7. Jenson Button, Britain, Brawn GP 8. Kimi Raikkonen, Finland, Ferrari

The former England manager Bobby Robson died on Friday following a long battle with cancer.

A player for Ipswich Town and West Bromwich Albion, he won 20 caps for England, but it was as a manager that he achieved his greatest success.