Overtime

Baseball

Ex-Braves pitcher will speak at event

The American Legion-City League Annual Baseball Reunion will be held at 6 p.m. today at Richmond Post 63 on Milledge Road.

Former Atlanta Braves pitcher Craig Skok will be the featured speaker at the invitation-only gathering.

Skok is currently the president of the Atlanta chapter of the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association.

College Football

Bryan signs to play for Presbyterian

In Clinton, S.C., Wardlaw Aca¤demy's Jake Bryan has been announced as one of 11 additional signees for Presbyterian College's 2005 recruiting class.

Bryan, of Edgefield, S.C., plays linebacker and defensive end.

Tommy Spangler's Blue Hose are coming off a 6-5 season.

The new players increase Presbyterian College's incoming class to 22.

Tennis

Federer, Agassi are first-round winners

In Dubai, United Arab Emirates, two-time defending champion Roger Federer came back to edge Czech qualifier Ivo Minar 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-6 (5) in the first round of the Dubai Open.

Andre Agassi, fifth-seeded Tommy Robredo, No. 6 Nikolay Davydenko and No. 8 Ivan Ljubicic also won.

Martinez reached the quarterfinals, where she'll face Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia, who ousted sixth-seeded Elena Bovina of Russia 6-0, 3-6, 6-3.

Meanwhile, top-seeded Amelie Mauresmo, No. 2 Maria Sharapova and No. 4 Alicia Molik advanced, but No. 5 Patty Schnyder lost.

Martinez won her first singles title in five years in Thailand this month, and she hadn't beaten reigning French Open champion Myskina in three previous meetings.

William Lepeska, who has been detained in a psychiatric unit on $250,000 bond, faces up to 30 years in state prison if convicted of two counts of battery on police officers, resisting arrest and burglary, all felonies. He also faces misdemeanor charges of stalking, indecent exposure and criminal mischief.

The 40-year-old Lepeska, who once stabbed a sleeping college student, admitted swimming nude across Biscayne Bay, bound for Kournikova's $5 million estate Jan. 30.

He was arrested when he turned up on the pool deck at the wrong house and started yelling, "Anna! Save me!"

"I was absolutely shocked and fearful, and I was very much concerned for my safety," Kournikova testified.

"It was very frightening and scary and just knowing there is someone out there who's obsessive."

She said she has hired bodyguards for the first time and added security at her home since Lepeska's arrest.

Hockey

Two meetings are planned next week

The NHL players' association will present a collective bargaining agreement update to agents Wednesday, one day after meeting with its rank and file.

The gathering of agents in Toronto with union executive director Bob Goodenow will be the second such meeting since the lockout that wiped out the entire hockey season began over five months ago. The players' association held a six-hour information session with 62 agents in Chicago in November, and everyone seemed to be unified then. The dynamics of the upcoming meeting are expected to be similar.

Tuesday also will be a big meeting day as players will gather with union leadership in Toronto while the NHL board of governors get together in New York.