Traffic engineers and police officials jokingly figured out a solution to the highway backups Monday caused by the Texas Rangers opening day sellout crowd."We need to change Ballpark Way to Does Not Lead to Ballpark," said Mike Blake, an engineer in Arlington's Traffic Management Center. Cars backed up on Interstate 30 as too many motorists took the most obvious route to the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington despite an ad campaign to get them to take two new routes.

After trying and failing to land several bigger-name coaches, Memphis chose a member of its own staff to be its new head coach.Josh Pastner, an assistant to former Memphis coach John Calipari, will be introduced as the Tigers new coach at 1 p.m. on Tuesday.

It remains unclear what Pastner will be paid, but the Memphis Commercial-Appeal reported that he earned a base salary of $200,000 last season as an assistant.

Rising Star Dean Smith continued his fantastic form in the 2009 Porsche Carrera Cup GB Championship at Brands Hatch in Kent today, Sunday, 5th April, by securing a top four finish in the second round of the campaign.Added to his fifth place result from Saturday afternoon's first race of the season, Dean is actually now fourth overall in the championship standings with only the vastly experienced trio of Michael Caine, Tim Harvey and Tim Bridgman ahead of him.

SIR Alex Ferguson took a title gamble on teenage rookie Federico Macheda and it paid off big time.The Reds boss threw on the 17-year-old Italian with his side trailing 2-1 to Aston Villa and on the verge of handing over the championship advantage to Liverpool.But, after Cristiano Ronaldo equalised, Macheda produced a stunning strike late in injury time to give the Reds a dramatic 3-2 victory and put them back on top of the table and strike a huge psychological blow."You have to gamble," said Fergie.

Once the Final Four is over, the focus will turn to the WNBA draft on Thursday.Three players in the national semifinals are generally regarded as top-five picks — Louisville's Angel McCoughtry, Oklahoma's Courtney Paris and UConn's Renee Montgomery.The Atlanta Dream has the first selection, followed by Washington, Chicago, Minnesota and Phoenix."My head is spinning with this one, but I would take Renee Montgomery [with the first pick]," Rebecca Lobo said. "But Atlanta [with Ivory Latta and Kristin Haynie] doesn't really need another guard.

A magnificent display of fast bowling from Zaheer Khan, coupled with a spineless batting performance by the home team, put India well on course to a series-clinching victory after just two days of the Wellington Test.