Although the issue of their failing to report their whereabouts three times to anti-doping officials remains unresolved, a Belgian court ruled to suspend their one-year ban from pro tennis.  See link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/8412855.stm

For more about the circumstances of Wickmayer's suspension, see SLT's blog of 11/6/09.




Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario has been ordered by the Spanish Supreme Court to pay $5.1 million in back income taxes.  The former top ranked tennis player had claimed that she was not a resident of Spain during the period in question, but rather of Andorra.  The court found that Sanchez-Vicario, “never effectively lived in Andorra and never had the intention of doing it in any moment, either.”
http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/news?slug=ap-sanchez-vicario-taxbill&prov=ap&type=lgns




Two college football coaches who both happened to be outstanding college quaterbacks from different eras have just signed extensions with their respective universities.