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New gadgets from Fort Lauderdale company make spying easier
- As a private investigator, Jim Bender has tracked everything from straying spouses to strung-out trust-fund babies - sometimes following them for days at a time.But thanks to an innovative GPS device the size of a matchbox, he can now stake out a cheating husband without leaving his Fort Lauderdale office. Or, as he has done the last few weeks, help a major company figure out who is draining the diesel fuel from its big rigs. AL Capsules
- Carl Crawford hit a three-run homer and Cliff Floyd added a pair of run-scoring singles, helping the Tampa Bay Rays stop Ervin Santana from becoming the AL's first seven-game winner with an 8-5 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday.Santana departed with a 5-4 lead with one runner on and two outs in the sixth inning, but the game quickly shifted when Justin Speier (0-3) entered and gave up a double to Akinori Iwamura and Crawford's third homer of the season. Cuban team member missing after Judo competition
- A member of Cuba's women's national judo team left the team at some point Sunday afternoon following the final day of the Pan American Judo Championships, USA Judo officials said.As of Sunday evening, her location was still unknown. Brush fires force home evacuations in Florida
- Brush fires forced residents to flee more than 500 homes in central Florida on Sunday and closed a major interstate, authorities said.A fire in Volusia County has burned between 500 and 600 acres and caused road closures and home evacuations, state Division of Forestry spokesman Timber Weller said. Wildfires burn in central Florida
- Brush fires shut down roads in central Florida on Sunday and forced hundreds of homes to evacuate, authorities said.Heavy smoke from a blaze near Malabar shut down a portion of Interstate 95 in Brevard County, and another fire forced residents out of about 100 to 200 homes near Cocoa, Brevard County Fire and Rescue spokesman Orlando Dominguez told the Orlando Sentinel. Garcia win The Players
- Sunday at Sawgrass felt tougher on Sergio Garcia than what he faced last summer at the British Open, a playoff loss that seemed to define a career filled with more talent than trophies.He was tormented by a suspect putter. He heard questions whether he could win a big one. Goydos comes up short at Players
- Paul Goydos hit the first and the last ball into the murky lagoon surrounding the famed par-3 17th during The Players Championship.One was much more costly than the other. 
Garcia ends drought with playoff win at Players Championship
- Sergio Garcia, the best player without a major, got the next best thing Sunday. Garcia ended the longest victory drought of his career by making a clutch par putt to force a playoff and hitting the island-green 17th on the first extra hole to defeat Paul Goydos in The Players Championship.Haunted by putting problems that kept him without a victory the past three years and 53 PGA Tour events, Garcia came up with a 45-foot birdie on the 14th to get back in the game and a 7-foot par putt on the 18th hole for a 1-under 71. Chinese fall short on final day of USA Diving Grand Prix
- China did not reign supreme Sunday at the USA Diving Grand Prix, giving hope to the other nations preparing for the Beijing Olympics.On the final day of competition, the Australians took home two gold medals and a silver, with Russia winning the only other gold medal awarded. Garcia wins TPC in a playoff
- Sergio Garcia ended the longest victory drought of his career Sunday by making a clutch par putt to force a playoff and hitting the island green 17th on the first extra hole to defeat Paul Goydos in The Players Championship.It was the first time The Players had gone to a playoff in 21 years, and the first time it started on the most notorious par 3 in golf. |
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