MILWAUKEE -- The return of Michael Redd has the Milwaukee Bucks playing with confidence.

Dave Hollman is ready for the next chapter in his life.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Athletes and celebrities were involved as customers of an illicit steroid sales network that produced arrests of four company officials on Tuesday, a New York prosecutor said.

San Francisco will hold its 96th annual internationally-known footrace, the ING Bay to Breakers 12K, on May 20 starting at 8 a.m. at the intersection of Howard and Main streets. Runners are treated to live music as they make their way 7.46 miles west across the peninsula to the finish line at Ocean Beach.

LOS ANGELES — A new women’s professional soccer league, with help from Major League Soccer, will be launched in 2008 with teams in Los Angeles, Dallas, St. Louis, Chicago and Washington.

It all started at the Napa Town & Country Fair in the summer of 1981.

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NOTES AND QUOTES for a Wednesday in the Napa Valley:

It’s off to Orlando, Fla., Thursday for the Napa High School varsity spiritleaders, a competition cheer and dance team, which is entered in the National Dance Alliance High School Dance Championships.

The Justin-Siena High School swimming and diving team opened its 2007 season against St. Patrick/St. Vincent-Vallejo on Friday.

IN THE WESTERN DESERT, Egypt — Three ultra-endurance athletes have just done something most would consider insane: They ran the equivalent of two marathons a day for 111 days to become the first modern runners to cross the Sahara Desert’s grueling 4,000 miles.

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LAWRENCE, Kan. — Rob Phillips still remembers his first horse, a paint named Mickey he got more than 50 years ago. It was the start of a lifelong love affair with horses that’s led to plans for an endurance race over the Santa Fe Trail.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — The air quality at two of the most popular winter spots here continues to improve, a new study finds.