<table> </table> <strong><span class="subhead">USA Gymnastics defends coaches</span></strong></p><p>One day after former Romanian gymnast <strong>Trudi Eberle Kollar </strong>alleged that <strong>Bela </strong>and <strong>Martha Karolyi </strong>had abused her nearly 30 years ago, USA Gymnastics said it had never received a complaint about either coach in the nearly 30 years they have been coaching in the U.S.</p><p>Kollar, a double silver medalist at the 1980 Olympics, said the Karolyis hit her when she was at the Romanian national training center in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She said she had never spoken publicly about the abuse because she was too scared. She now coaches in Sacramento, Calif.</p><p>In an interview with Romanian daily <em>Cotidianul</em>, Bela Karolyi said he feels no guilt for anything he did, but he did not deny striking her. &#8220;Some of the girls have bad memories. Perhaps others say it was the best time of their lives.&#8221;</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Wimbledon buying back club</span></strong></p><p>Wimbledon organizers, the All England Club, will pay $83 million to regain total control of the tournament, buying back the 50 percent it gave away in 1934 to Britain&#8217;s Lawn Tennis Association. The deal will allow the club to keep 10 percent of the profits instead of giving it all to the LTA. Last year the tournament generated a profit of $39 million.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Sorenstam&#8217;s farewell tour</span></strong></p><p>She still has some silly-season events left, but the ADT Championship this week in West Palm Beach, Fla., is scheduled to be <strong>Annika Sorenstam&#8217;s </strong>farewell to the LPGA Tour. More than 50 friends and family, some of whom flew in from Sweden and around the globe, are on hand for her final event.</p><p>&#8220;Normally, I&#8217;m this cold Swede just going down the fairways,&#8221; Sorenstam said. &#8220;It&#8217;s been very different. But I&#8217;ve enjoyed it. It&#8217;s been a great year in so many ways. I&#8217;ve had a chance to summarize my career and had a chance to share my memories with a lot of fans.&#8221;</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Finally, a rider happy with Lance</span></strong></p><p><strong>Carlos Sastre</strong>, the 2008 Tour de France winner, says he&#8217;s happy that <strong>Lance Armstrong </strong>is coming back this year, and he is looking forward to racing against Armstrong in the Giro d&#8217;Italia.</p><p>&#8220;To have Lance in front of me and to try to beat him is really nice,&#8221; Sastre said. &#8220;It will be his first Giro d&#8217;Italia, and there is where I will have an advantage over him. It is my fourth Giro.&#8221;</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Last chapter</span></strong></p><p>&#8226;<strong>Bernie Glannon</strong>, who brought professional basketball back to Kansas City with the Kansas City Sizzlers of the CBA in the 1985-86 after the Kansas City Kings left town, died on Nov. 14 at Kansas City Hospice House. He was 73. Funeral mass will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Pius X Catholic Church in Mission.</p><p>&#8226;<strong>Carole Caldwell Graebner</strong>, who won doubles titles at the U.S. and Australian Championships in the 1960s, died in New York Wednesday following a brief battle with cancer. She was the top-ranked doubles player in the U.S. in 1963.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Elsewhere</span></strong></p><p>&#8226;Cameron Dodson, who drives for Carl Edwards U.S. Auto Club team, was critically injured in a car crash in Indiana late Wednesday night.