Sports Briefs

TENNIS

Errors cost Wozniacki in Dubai semis

Defending champion Caroline Wozniacki lost in the semifinals of the Dubai Tennis Championships on Friday, her game undone by mistakes in a 7-6 (7-3), 7-5 defeat to Julia Goerges.

Goerges will play for the title today against Agnieszka Radwanska, who beat Jelena Jankovic 6-2, 2-6, 6-0 in the first semifinal.

Wozniacki led 4-2 in the second set before Goerges regained control to close the match.

"Made way too many unforced errors, and Julia took advantage of that," Wozniacki said.

Wozniacki, a former No. 1 ranked player who was seeded third, struggled with her serve, and Goerges never let her find her rhythm.

"I felt I had all the opportunities in the world today and didn't take advantage of them. If you don't take your chances, there is no way to win," Wozniacki said. "It's easy to say I should have done this and could have done that. But, you know, as well for Julia she took her chances. If I came with a weak shot, she was there straight away and she punished me."

Goerges has a 3-2 head-to-head record against Wozniacki.

"It's never easy playing her," Goerges said. "It's always a lot of balls, a lot of rallies. We played over two hours for two sets."

• Jo-Wilfried Tsonga edged Edouard Roger-Vasselin 6-4, 7-5 to reach the semifinals of the Open 13 in Marseille, France. The top-seed will face Juan Martin Del Potro, who edged Richard Gasquet 7-5, 7-6 (7-5). Also, Michael Llodra defeated Albano Olivetti 7-6 (7-5), and Janko Tipsarevic beat Ivan Ljubicic 6-4, 6-4.

• Radek Stepanek rallied from 1-4 down in the first-set tiebreaker to beat Sam Querrey 7-6 (7-5), 6-0 in the quarterfinals of the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships in Memphis, Tenn.

• Top-seeded David Ferrer beat Fernando Gonzalez 6-2, 6-4 to advance to the Copa Claro semifinals in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ferrer next plays David Nalbandian or Carlos Berlocq, who played a late match Friday. Also winning were defending champion and second-seeded Nicolas Almagro, and No. 6 Stanislas Wawrinka.

• Serena Williams announced she will join sister Venus at the Family Circle Cup championships in Charleston, S.C., in April.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Oregon releases draft of NCAA review

Oregon has acknowledged in documents it did not adequately monitor its football program and it did not follow NCAA regulations relating to recruiting and use of recruiting services

A statement of "proposed findings of violations" submitted by the NCAA to the Oregon athletics department was obtained in a public records request by several media outlets.

The NCAA has been looking into Oregon's recruiting practices since questions arose over a 2010 payment of $25,000 to Willie Lyles and his Houston-based recruiting service. The information Oregon said Lyles provided for the fee was largely outdated.

Oregon has not received a formal Notice of Allegations from the NCAA. The heavily redacted documents released do not include any possible penalties.

• Burns Hargis, the chairman of the Big 12's board of directors, said the conference has agreed to terms with Texas A&M and Missouri on the schools' exit penalties but the league's members must still give final approval. No terms were released.

SAILING

Group sues to halt America's Cup plans

The former president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has filed a lawsuit seeking a new environmental review of the America's Cup sailing race.

A group calling itself Waterfront Watch filed the lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court.

Former board president Aaron Peskin signed the lawsuit, saying he was a member of the group. The unincorporated group describes itself as "persons and entities that objected to approval" of San Francisco hosting sailing's most prestigious racing event in September 2013.

The lawsuit alleges the city failed to properly review the environmental impacts the event will have on the San Francisco Bay and the city.

The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote next week on final approval of the financial agreement between the city and race organizers.

ELSEWHERE

• Michigan sophomore Jon Horford will miss the rest of the college basketball season with a right foot injury. The 6-foot-10 Horford hasn't played since Dec. 10. He played in nine games, starting one. He averaged 2.7 points and 10.8 minutes.

• Authorities said former NFL defensive back Glenn Sharpe has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a man in the Atlanta suburbs. A DeKalb County Sheriff's spokesman said the 27-year-old was charged Thursday in the Feb. 2 death of Christopher Galloway in Stone Mountain, Ga. Sharpe began his career with the Atlanta Falcons in 2008 as an undrafted free agent out of Miami. In the 2003 Fiesta Bowl, he received a late penalty in overtime, giving Ohio State a second chance to upset the Hurricanes' bid for back-to-back national championships. He won a Super Bowl ring in 2010 with the New Orleans Saints' practice squad, and briefly played for the Indianapolis Colts.

• Katie Uhlaender won gold medal at the Skeleton World Championships in Lake Placid, N.Y. Uhlaender, of Breckenridge, Colo., finished the four-heat, two-day event at Mount Van Hoevenberg in 3 minutes, 42.33 seconds. She beat Mellisa Hollingsworth of Canada by 0.17 seconds. Elizabeth Yarnold of Britain took the bronze, 0.36 behind.

• Bode Miller will skip a second World Cup super-G race today in Switzerland after having minor surgery in the United States U.S. team coach Sasha Rearick said Miller had a "scope to clean up" his left knee this week. He missed the super-G race won by Didier Cuche on Friday.

From wire reports