Key Biscayne

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. -- When the pioneer Matheson family gave Dade County half of this tropical island 50 years ago, it set one condition: The 900 acres stretching from Biscayne Bay to the Atlantic Ocean had to remain a public park forever.Now the family wants a chunk of the park back and filed suit recently to take it.The Mathesons insist that the county broke its promise by inviting the Lipton International Players Championships to make its home there and by agreeing to build a $16.5 million stadium for the tennis tournament by 1993.

1 Want fries: with that dunk?: Maybe he'll be a Terp, so watch Lance Stephenson in the McDonald's All-American Game (8 p.m., ESPN). 2 World view: The U.S., leading its group, faces Trinidad and Tobago in the final round of World Cup qualifying, in Nashville, Tenn. (7:30 p.m., ESPN2). 3 Quotatious: Maybe Shaquille O'Neal (left) will get a technical for dissing a ref via Twitter during the Suns-Rockets game (10 p.m., ESPN). 4 Ace place: It's like tennis' fifth Grand Slam, and the Sony Ericsson Open from Key Biscayne, Fla., is in the quarterfinals (1 p.m., Comcast SportsNet)

John C. Sheehan, 76, the scientist who developed synthetic penicillin, died Saturday in Key Biscayne, Fla. after a long battle with cancer. He held more than 20 patents, but the most important was ampicillin, now a commonly used semi-synthetic penicillin.

Horse racing It's True Love wins Laurel Park stakes Edward Seltzer's It's True Love won her third race in six starts since abandoning the turf, this time taking the $55,000 Winter Blues Overnight Stakes for older fillies and mares at Laurel Park. The time for the one-mile race on the main track for seven runners was 1 minute, 39.14 seconds. Business Man U the richest team in soccer Manchester United is the richest team in world soccer and Ronaldinho the highest-earning player, according to a survey by Forbes magazine.

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. - There will be no Sister Act Part III this year at the NASDAQ-100 Open. World No. 2 Venus Williams saved eight match points, then succumbed on the ninth last night, as 22nd-ranked Meghann Shaughnessy of Scottsdale, Ariz., upset Williams, 7-6 (2), 6-1, at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park. "These are the moments I play tennis for," said a beaming Shaughnessy, 23, who will meet fifth-ranked Jennifer Capriati tomorrow in a quarterfinal. "I live for these times, and that's what all my training goes into.

Juanita Proctor McCleary, who left her Southern hometown as a teen-ager but never lost the charm she took from the region, died Thursday at an assisted living facility in Salisbury of complications from Alzheimer's disease. She was 95. Born in Columbia, S.C., Juanita Proctor never graduated from high school, running away at 16. She ended up in Baltimore where she worked as a secretary at what would become Legg Mason. There she met Standish McCleary Jr. He went on to become a prominent vice president of the company, and the two were married in the early 1930s.

1 Want fries: with that dunk?: Maybe he'll be a Terp, so watch Lance Stephenson in the McDonald's All-American Game (8 p.m., ESPN). 2 World view: The U.S., leading its group, faces Trinidad and Tobago in the final round of World Cup qualifying, in Nashville, Tenn. (7:30 p.m., ESPN2). 3 Quotatious: Maybe Shaquille O'Neal (left) will get a technical for dissing a ref via Twitter during the Suns-Rockets game (10 p.m., ESPN). 4 Ace place: It's like tennis' fifth Grand Slam, and the Sony Ericsson Open from Key Biscayne, Fla., is in the quarterfinals (1 p.m., Comcast SportsNet)

The coolest sporting event in South Florida this week is the Sony Ericsson Open, the popular pro tennis event in Key Biscayne. The tournament has been spiced up this year with something called Night Tennis, which is basically a glitzy downtown exhibition that features players in glow-in-the-dark clothing competing under black lights on a court that will open up to an all-night party that is free to the public tonight and tomorrow. The tournament is no slouch either, featuring just about every big name in professional tennis.

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. - Serena Williams was the winner, coming back after being off the tour more than eight months with a knee injury and capturing the Nasdaq-100 Open title in a mortifying 50-minute final. But Elena Dementieva, whose wild serves were the butt of jokes during this 12-day tournament - she totaled 57 double faults, after all - was not the loser. The real loser was women's tennis, which took a terrible hit with several top players not entered because of injury or fatigue. That allowed sixth-ranked Williams to dance through the draw and crush No. 8 Dementieva, 6-1, 6-1, on a perfectly blue and perfectly boring afternoon yesterday.

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- Mark O'Meara shot a third-round 68 yesterday to take a two-stroke lead into today's final 18 holes of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am."

The coolest sporting event in South Florida this week is the Sony Ericsson Open, the popular pro tennis event in Key Biscayne. The tournament has been spiced up this year with something called Night Tennis, which is basically a glitzy downtown exhibition that features players in glow-in-the-dark clothing competing under black lights on a court that will open up to an all-night party that is free to the public tonight and tomorrow. The tournament is no slouch either, featuring just about every big name in professional tennis.

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. - Serena Williams was the winner, coming back after being off the tour more than eight months with a knee injury and capturing the Nasdaq-100 Open title in a mortifying 50-minute final. But Elena Dementieva, whose wild serves were the butt of jokes during this 12-day tournament - she totaled 57 double faults, after all - was not the loser. The real loser was women's tennis, which took a terrible hit with several top players not entered because of injury or fatigue. That allowed sixth-ranked Williams to dance through the draw and crush No. 8 Dementieva, 6-1, 6-1, on a perfectly blue and perfectly boring afternoon yesterday.

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. - There will be no Sister Act Part III this year at the NASDAQ-100 Open. World No. 2 Venus Williams saved eight match points, then succumbed on the ninth last night, as 22nd-ranked Meghann Shaughnessy of Scottsdale, Ariz., upset Williams, 7-6 (2), 6-1, at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park. "These are the moments I play tennis for," said a beaming Shaughnessy, 23, who will meet fifth-ranked Jennifer Capriati tomorrow in a quarterfinal. "I live for these times, and that's what all my training goes into.

Juanita Proctor McCleary, who left her Southern hometown as a teen-ager but never lost the charm she took from the region, died Thursday at an assisted living facility in Salisbury of complications from Alzheimer's disease. She was 95. Born in Columbia, S.C., Juanita Proctor never graduated from high school, running away at 16. She ended up in Baltimore where she worked as a secretary at what would become Legg Mason. There she met Standish McCleary Jr. He went on to become a prominent vice president of the company, and the two were married in the early 1930s.

MIAMI - A 13-year-old boy got an unfriendly greeting from an underwater creature Friday while he walked in murky water about 4 feet deep off Key Biscayne near Miami. Patrick Homer, who says he believes that it was a nurse shark that bit him on the left leg, was in good condition and spirits when he told his story about an hour after the attack. Patrick said he was not initially fearful when he saw the animal as he walked toward his tree fort out on the flats near his home. "I thought, `Just a shark; probably won't bug me,'" Patrick said.

Standish McCleary Jr., a retired senior vice president of Legg Mason Wood Walker Inc. who had a 73-year career at the Baltimore investment firm, died Thursday of congestive heart failure at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Berlin. He was 91 and lived in Key Biscayne, Fla., and in Ocean City. Mr. McCleary was known for tenacity and common sense during his years with Legg Mason and its predecessor firms. He retired June 8 after a series of ailments. Forty years ago, when people commonly traveled into Baltimore to see their broker, his vision led him to recommend that Legg & Co. open an office in the rapidly expanding suburbs.

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. -- The microphone isn't working, so chairs are pulled closer and the reporters are scarcely breathing in order to hear every word. Stefan Edberg, hair still damp from the shower, is at the snug center of the media circle, chatting sociably, looking smaller and slimmer than he does on the court.Edberg, the No. 2-ranked tennis player in the world, perhaps only a tournament away from regaining the No. 1 position that he held for 66 weeks, doesn't look imposing enough, or sound arrogant enough, to convince you that he's entangled in a battle to be the best in the world.

MIAMI - A 13-year-old boy got an unfriendly greeting from an underwater creature Friday while he walked in murky water about 4 feet deep off Key Biscayne near Miami. Patrick Homer, who says he believes that it was a nurse shark that bit him on the left leg, was in good condition and spirits when he told his story about an hour after the attack. Patrick said he was not initially fearful when he saw the animal as he walked toward his tree fort out on the flats near his home. "I thought, `Just a shark; probably won't bug me,'" Patrick said.

TennisGoran Ivanisevic lost a match in his sleep yesterday, giving Andre Agassi a tainted title.On the morning of their final at the Lipton Championships in Key Biscayne, Fla., Ivanisevic woke up with a stiff neck. He underwent three hours of treatment and tried to play but quit in the fourth game."To beat Andre you have to be 105 percent, and I was maybe 2," Ivanisevic said.The tournament doctor said Ivanisevic probably slept wrong, and the ailment is unlikely to bother him for more than a few days.

Reading Time, Two Minutes: Remember Earl Weaver's "deep depth" when he was pushing the buttons for dominant Oriole teams of the 1970s?A facsimile of those bottomless pits of reasonably good talent is off to a good start in the NHL playoffs by the name of the Washington Capitals.When the Caps won their second straight game over defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh the other night, they ended up scratching two guys who played all season, Nick Kypreos and Todd Krygier.Still, they hit the Penguins with four forward lines, three turning in goals, the fourth holding its own when elbows began flying.