Sites and times have been set for the WPIAL and District 10 high school basketball playoffs.

WPIALClass AAA boys -Mars (17-7) will battle Elizabeth Forward (16-7) at 7 p.m. tonight at Fox Chapel High School.Knoch (17-5) will open postseason play at 7 p.m. Tuesday against Keystone Oaks (14-11) at Valley High School.Class AAA girls -Mars (17-8) and Knoch (14-9) both won in the first round and will face Hopewell and Blackhawk, respectively, at a site and time to be determined.

District 10Class AAA boys -Grove City (17-6) will take on Corry (11-12) at 8:30 p.m. Thursday at Slippery Rock University's Morrow Field House.Class AAA girls -Slippery Rock (17-7) will meet Villa Maria (19-5) at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Commodore Perry High School.Grove City (15-8) drew the district's top seed in Mercyhurst Prep (21-3). The game is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Fort LeBoeuf High School.

NEW YORK - No progress was reported Sunday by the NHL or the players' association after the sides met with federal mediators in Washington just hours before a weekend deadline to save the season.The meeting that lasted just over five hours was arranged Friday at the request of a high-ranking federal mediator. Neither commissioner Gary Bettman nor players' association executive director Bob Goodenow attended.Instead, NHL chief legal officer Bill Daly was joined by outside counsel Bob Batterman, with players' association senior director Ted Saskin and outside counsel John McCambridge on the other side.The sides were assisted by mediators twice before - as recently as a Feb. 2 negotiating session in Newark, N.J. Sunday's meeting was requested by Scot B. Beckenbaugh, the acting director of the U.S. Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service.

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. - Phil Mickelson won for the second straight week, closing with a 1-over 73 to become the first wire-to-wire winner in the 68-year history of the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.The only thing he didn't do on a cold, damp day along the Pacific was set the tournament scoring record. Mickelson finished at 19-under 269, missing by one shot the record set seven years ago by Mark O'Meara.He wound up winning by four shots over Mike Weir, who shot a 67, the best round of a difficult day at Pebble.Mickelson won for the 25th time on the PGA Tour. His $954,000 check pushed him over $2 million for the year and put him atop the money list.

Butler High School graduate Adria Matonak tallied 13 points, five rebounds and four assists to help the St. John Fisher College women's basketball team defeat Elmira College 84-74 last Friday.The Cardinals improved to 20-2 with the win and are ranked 24th nationally.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Jimmie Johnson is the odds-on favorite to win the NASCAR Nextel Cup championship in 2005 and his performance in Saturday night's exhibition race at Daytona International Speedway did nothing to dispel that notion.Johnson, who finished second to Kurt Busch by just eight points last year - the closest margin in stock car history - took the lead 16 laps from the end of the 70-lap Budweiser Shootout and held off a pack of charging challengers to the end.Ryan Newman grabbed a big lead when he took only two fresh tires on the required pit stop in the second segment of the made-for-TV race. But Johnson, with four new tires, was the next fastest driver out of the pits and tracked down Newman in just eight laps on the 21/2-mile oval.Roddick breezes to tennis titleSAN JOSE, Calif. - Andy Roddick played a near-flawless first set and breezed to a 6-0, 6-4 victory over unseeded Cyril Saulnier in 50 minutes to win the SAP Open in the fastest final on the ATP circuit this season.The American star is the first to record a shutout set in the championship of this event since Arthur Ashe beat Guillermo Vilas in 1975.Roddick, who had just nine aces, won his 16th career title less than 20 hours after a thrilling 7-6 (3), 6-3 semifinal win Saturday night over third-seeded Tommy Haas that featured the best rallies of the tournament.