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here are many things the Atlanta Braves must do better in the second half to contend for the NL wild card. Yes, I’m giving the NL East to the Washington Nationals. It’s going to be tough to knock them out of first place. But Atlanta still has a shot at being one of two teams to play in Braves 6, the doPhillies 3 or-die game Next: at that will Phillies, deter1:35 p.m., mine the Sunday (Fox wildSports South) card winner. One of the most important things will be the starting rotation, which must be better for the Braves to win around 90 games. Atlanta entered the weekend with the fifthworst earned run average for starting pitchers in the NL. Last year, the Braves had the fifth-best ERA in the league. Help is on the way. Ben Sheets, a former star in Milwaukee, signed last week and pitched well Wednesday in his first Double-A tune-up. Sheets will start again Monday for Mississippi, and then the Braves will determine if he’ll be ready to go after the AllStar break. Even if Sheets is 85 percent of what he used to be, the Braves will have a good pitcher. Sheets was one of the best pitchers in the game before he got hurt after the 2008 season. He says he’s healthy now, so acquiring Sheets was a good gamble. Jair Jurrjens, who pitches Sunday against Philadelphia, has been better than expected in his three starts back from the minor leagues. There is a worry that the other shoe is going to drop and he’ll return back to his mediocre ways. But expect the Braves to go with Jurrjens as long as he gives them reason to go with him. Randall Delgado and Mike Minor have been very frustrating this season. There is zero doubt these two kids can pitch. They’ve both had great games, and then they’ve turned around and been horrible. Delgado has gotten the worst run support of all the starters, getting only 2.9 runs per start from his offense. That’s the main reason he has lost a league-leading nine games. We watched him pitch well this week against the Chicago Cubs, and Delgado had great starts against Baltimore, Miami, Cincinnati and Philadelphia. But then we remember the awful start he had two weeks ago in Boston when he looked overwhelmed.

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Serena Williams celebrates with her trophy after defeating Agnieszka Radwanska to win the women’s final Saturday at Wimbledon.

Five-time champion Health scares put in the past, Serena Williams is back on top following her championship win at Wimbledon By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer

WIMBLEDON, England — For Serena Williams, the low point came in early 2011, when she spent hours laying around her home, overwhelmed by a depressing series of health scares that sent her to the hospital repeatedly and kept her away from tennis for 10 months. The high point came Saturday on Centre Court at Wimbledon, when Williams dropped down to the grass, hands covering her face. She was all the way back, a Grand Slam champion yet again. Her serve as good as there

is, her grit as good as ever, Williams was dominant at the start and finish, beating Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 to win a fifth championship at the All England Club and 14th major title overall, ending a two-year drought. “I just remember, I was on the couch and I didn’t leave the whole day, for two days. I was just over it. I was praying, like, `I can’t take any more. I’ve endured enough. Let me be able to get through this,”’ recalled Williams, a former No. 1 whose ranking slid to 175th after a fourth-round SEE

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Serena Williams, right, embraces her father, Richard Williams, center, as her sister, Venus, looks on following Saturday’s women’s final at Wimbledon.

Stewart slips past field for win at Daytona

WRALL West has strong start By ANGELA WOOLEN awoolen@macon.com

WARNER ROBINS — Leyton Pinckney hit a two-run home run in the first inning for the Warner Robins American Little League West all-star team in the team’s district tournament opener Saturday, and the team never looked back. Warner Robins West won 14-1 in four innings over Western Little League to conclude the first day of action at the seventeam, double-elimination Georgia District 5 tournament. Pinckney went 2-for-3, adding a double to his home run, and also pitched for a third of an inning. Also having home runs were Chase Padgett, who had a two-out grand slam in the top of the fourth, and Cody Winner, who hit the ball over the left-field fence to score three in the top of the second. “We were fortunate we made some runs early,” manager Martin Pinckney said. Warner Robins led 5-0 after one inning, 8-0 after two and 10-0 after Conner BookANGELA WOOLEN/awoolen@macon.com out’s two-run double in the third. Warner Robins West’s Tee Adams jumps for the ball to make SEE

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an out at first base during Saturday’s Little League district tournament game against Western.

By JENNA FRYER AP Motorsports Writer

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Tony Stewart charged past Daytona 500 winner Matt Kenseth on the final lap Saturday night, then held on to win as his challengers stacked up in Coke Zero 400 a melee at Daytona International Speedway. Kenseth and Roush Fenway Racing teammate Greg Biffle likely would have made one final attempt to beat Stewart, but Biffle wiggled and cars began sliding all over the track. Nobody could then catch Stewart, who sailed away to his third win of the season. The defending Sprint Cup Series champion is tied with Brad Keselowski for most wins this season. Roughly 90 minutes before the race, NASCAR announced AJ Allmendinger had been suspended for failing a random drug test. Sam Hornish Jr. replaced him in the car.