the defending champion is ernie els, and u.s. champion justin rose is looking to become the seventh golfer to win the british open and the u.s. open in the same year. >>> tiger woods signed a new deal with nike. woods is at muirfield trying for his 15th major title, his first in five years. woods' seven-year contract with nike worth $45 million ends this year. >>> and in baseball alex rodriguez says he could return to the yankees as early as monday. rodriguez has been rehabilitating from a hip surgery and hasn't played in the major leagues since october. he began a rehab assignment in the minors this month. >>> when we return, another look at this morning's top stories, and the man accused of holding thee women hostage for a decade enters a plea in court. >> announcer: sports >> announcer: sports sponsored by autostop. new autostop is foolproof. gray is over. autostop is foolproof. gray is over. [ male announcer ] monopoly's back at mcdonald's this summer and the food you love is serving up tons of prizes, like huge amounts of ca

ernie els was never in contention, but he had one of the best shots on the day. his ball flies into the cup for an eagle. tiger woods started tied for second, but he could never figure out the greens. a 74 left him tied for 6th. the third round leader leigh westwood faded thanks to five bogies. he had a final round 75 and good for a share of third. america kill son got hot on the back 9 with a birdie on 13 and then here on 14, that put him one under. adam scott had the lead and he made four straight bogies on the back 9. that opened the door for mickelson who pulled away with a birdie on 17 and then here on 18 a great approach as the ball avoids going into the bunker and then rolls back toward the cup. that would set up another birdie giving him four over his last six holes. a final round 66 gave mickelson a three-stroke victory. it is his first british open title and fifth career major. he called it the best round of his career. >> it really doesn't matter how. just to capture this championship and to be a part of the history and to win the championship i though

ernie els was never in contention, but he had one of the best shots on the day. his ball flies into the cup for an eagle. tiger woods started tied for second, but he could never figure out the greens. a 74 left him tied for 6th. the third round leader leigh westwood faded thanks to five bogies. he had a final round 75 and good for a share of third. america kill son got hot on the back 9 with a birdie on 13 and then here on 14, that put him one under. adam scott had the lead and he made four straight bogies on the back 9. that opened the door for mickelson who pulled away with a birdie on 17 and then here on 18 a great approach as the ball avoids going into the bunker and then rolls back toward the cup. that would set up another birdie giving him four over his last six holes. a final round 66 gave mickelson a three-stroke victory. it is his first british open title and fifth career major. he called it the best round of his career. >> it really doesn't matter how. just to capture this championship and to be a part of the history and to win the championship i though

redemption, remember, he won a chance at the open last year when he blew the last five holes and lost to ernie elsose, u.s. open winner, is also even. phil mickelson is minus 3. muirfield, by the way, one of three clubs in the british open rotation that doesn't allow female members. of course, that's come under fire for that policy. >>> the day after baseball's all-star game, we all know that it's the slowest sports day of the entire year, exactly why espn has the espys. the miami heat won best team. lebron, a little '70s edition tux right there. first repeat winner of the best male athlete award. since lance armstrong, by the way, won it four times. an emotional night by the way the best moment of the year, jack hoffman for his touchdown run. you might recall, hoffman, the 7-year-old cancer patient suited up and dashed the ball across the goal line for nebraska. i can watch this highlight all day long. what a great job by the folks at nebraska. >>> and robin roberts won the awa awa award. >> i never imagined that i will be standing here 20 years after jimmy v.'s speech and say that because of eve

has year's winner, ernie els, was never in contention but had one of the best shots of the day.goes in for eagle. tiger began the day tied for second but could never fig out the greens. end tied for sixth. lee westwood faded thanks to five bogeys. mickelson got hot on the back nine with a birdie on 13 and then here on 14. that put million 1-under. adam scott had the lead but this bogey on 13 dropped him into a tie for first with mickelson. lefty then pulled away with the birdie on 17, and then on 18. a great approach, his ball avoids going into the bunker and stops about 10 feet from the cup. mickelson would go on to sink the birdie, giving him four of his last six holes, final round 66, his fifth career major. mickelson called is the best round of his career. >> doesn't matter how, just to capture this championship and be part of the history of this event, and to win the event i thought we the hardest and has been the hard next my career, to capture to come out on top and play my best golf, but the birdie four last holes was awesome. >> in lake tahoe, the celebrate championship

has year's winner, ernie els, was never in contention but had one of the best shots of the day.all goes in for eagle. tiger began the day tied for second but could never fig out the greens. end tied for sixth. lee westwood faded thanks to five bogeys. mickelson got hot on the back nine with a birdie on 13 and then here on 14. that put million 1-under. adam scott had the lead but this bogey on 13 dropped him into a tie for first with mickelson. lefty then pulled away with the birdie on 17, and then on 18. a great approach, his ball avoids going into the bunker and stops about 10 feet from the cup. mickelson would go on to sink the birdie, giving him four of his last six holes, final round 66, his fifth career major. mickelson called is the best round of his career. >> doesn't matter how, just to capture this championship and be part of the history of this event, and to win the event i thought we the hardest and has been the hard next my career, to capture to come out on top and play my best golf, but the birdie four last holes was awesome. >> in lake tahoe, the celebrate champion

last year ernie els was never in contention, but look at this shot.iger never could figure out the greens. misses the short par putt. finished identified for sixth. westwood began with the lead and had a final round of 75 for a share of third. and mickelson on 14, put him 1-under. adam scott had the lead but this bogey dropped him into a tithe with -- into a tie with mickelson. and then on 18, the great approach. the ball avoids going into the bunker and stops ten feet from the cup. mickelson would go on to sink the birdie, giving him four over has last six holes, tree three-stroke victory. mickelson called it the best round of his career. >> it really doesn't matter how. just to capture this championship and to be part of the history of this event, and to win the open championship, the event i thought would be the hardest and has been the hardest in my career to capture to come out on top and play my best golf, it's awesome. >> at at&t park, the giants were going for a three-game sweep of arizona. the fans in mccovey cove going to have fun. buster po

ernie els encourages you to learn the signs of autism. when i have an asthma attack... i feel like a fish with no water. learn how to prevent your child's next asthma attack. because even one attack is one too many. >> good morning, a picture of the san mateo that still littles hazy this morning certainly the case yesterday from the oregan fires. we will check in with mike nicco and find out the weather conditions. you can see traffic is moving fine on the san mateo. >> an environmental justice coalition is threatening to sue the epa for allowing emissions from pg&e natural gas power plant to jeopardize wildlife. the "contra costa times" reports at risk is a butterfly which is near extinction and can only be found at the antioch dunes national wildlife refuge. the wild equity institute says the epa violated the endangered species act when it issued clean air act permits for the generate station without consulting the fish and wildlife service. the epa has not issued a comment. >> a community pool in danville will re-open today after tackling a bacteria problem. it was c

ernie els will be among favorites. he won third of the four major titles there. fourth came last year. birdying final hole but looking on he bogeyed the final fourk today as is tradition ernie returned a well traveled jug. >> it's going on my sked yu. quite a lot of places. asia, africa. europe. just about every where. except for south america. >> fun race on the bay today with a kite boarder going up against team oracle. in the mammoth ac 72. >> bringing in, i'd say. >> out on the floor. >> pretty good analogy nalg. kai lenny putting his $1500 board against $15 million catamaran. he took the early lead but once oracle yacht cranked it up, they hit 30 knots and left kai in their wake. >> i don't know better luck next time, buddy. >> and see ya. so you didn't win, kind of playing chicken here or looking for a match race. do you want a piece of me? i'm here on my kite. that is a great video there. but for a little while, guys on team oracle are like who is this guy? whoo is going on here? >> join me tonight at 9:00 do as i say not as i do. then at 11:00 raiders drea

ernie els was the winner last time. big easy, 25-1 odds to win. last time he saw tiger he was struggling he says despite lack of practice he's confident. >> i feel good about the game. so good going into a championship. i've had a pretty good year this year. i just need to keep putting myself there. and i'll get some. >> phil mickelson have second best odds to win. if anyone can win it might be phil. >> it's difficult. difficult to win the week before a major then follow up winning maingors but last person to do it, you're looking at him. >> i like the confidence. abc 7 sports brought to you by orchard supply, hardware. >> join me tonight, an exotic beach down becomes last chance of freedom for a bay area official. he's now being held on $1 million bail then at 11:00 a bizarre medical mistry. a man wakes up with no memory of who he is and he is speaking only swedish. that is tonight at 11:00. >> and in prime time we have extreme weight loss and body of news. >> that is it nor edition of abc 7 news. >> from all of us here, thanks for watching. we a

ernie els will be among favorites. he won third of the four major titles there. th came last year. birdying final hole but looking on he bogeyed the final fourk today as is tradition ernie returned a well traveled jug. >> it's going on my sked yu. quite a lot of places. asia, africa. europe. just about every where. except for south america. >> fun race on the bay today with a kite boarder going up against team oracle. in the mammoth ac 72. >> bringing in, i'd say. >> out on the floor. >> pretty good analogy nalg. kai lenny putting his $1500 board against $15 million catamaran. he took the early lead but once oracle yacht cranked it up, they hit 30 knots and left kai in their wake. >> i don't know better luck next time, buddy. >> and see ya. so you didn't win, kind of playing chicken here or looking for a match race. do you want a piece of me? i'm here on my kite. that is a great video there. but for a little while, guys on team oracle are like who is this guy? whoo is going on here? >> join me tonight at 9:00 do y not as i do. then at 11:00 raiders dreams. the new

ernie els was the winner last time. big easy, 25-1 odds to win.time he saw tiger he was struggling he says despite lack of practice he's confident. >> i feel good about the game. so good going into a championship. i've had a pretty good year this year. i just need to keep putting myself there. and i'll get some. >> phil mickelson have second best odds to win. if anyone can win it might be phil. >> it's difficult. difficult to win the week before a major then follow up winning maingors but last person to do it, you're looking at him. >> i like the confidence. abc 7 sports brought to you by orchard supply, hardware. >> join me tonight an exotic beach down becomes last chance of freedom for a bay area official. he's now being held on $1 million bail then at 11:00 a bizarre medical mistry. a man wakes up with no memory of who he is and he is speaking only swedish. that is tonight at 11:00. >> and in prime time we have extreme weight loss and body of news. >> that is it nor edition of abc 7 news. >> from all of us here, thanks for watching. we apprecia

ernie els defending open champ winner last time the field hosted back in 2002.y listed 25-1 odds to repeat. tiger woods the favorite at 10-1. last time we saw tiger he was kind of in pain. elbow flared up at the u.s. open. he says it's healed despite a lack of practice time woods is confident. >> feel very good about my game. very, very good going natural major championship. had a pretty goodyear this year so far. one 4 times. i haven't won a mainly championship in 5 years. i have been in a bunch of them. just need cutting myself there and eventually i'll get some. >> phil and u.s. open champion rose have the second best odds to win there. both listed at 20-1. phil has momentum. he won on sunday at the scottish open. if anybody can win in back-to-back week maybe it's phil. >> no it's difficult. i mean it's difficult to win the week before a major and then follow it up winning the major but then again the last person to do it is looking tl at him. >> he's feeling request about the chance. stage 16 of the tour de france race leader train crossing there. back and f

ernie els with an eagle. he is 8 shots off the pace. and this is his tee-shot on the par-3 15th. that is sticking it. kuchoor just two shots behind the leader and that would be brandt snedeker, who made nine birdies to shoot a 63. here is another one on 16. he holds a one-shot lead over david lingmerth. we high tail it to great britain for the british open. langer is seeking his second career senior open championship. >>> nascar spending the weekend at historic indianapolis motor speedway and today ryan newman stole the pole position from current points leader jimmie johnson. >>in the national hot rod association in sonoma and hagan on the inside lane funny car set a sonoma track record last night hitting 320.51 miles per hour. hagan is the top qualifier for tomorrow's eliminations in the funny cars. grubnic is the top qualifier in the top fuel division and that sports as we see it for this saturday night edition of sportswrap and again, the a's win and lead the al west by five full game up at giants another shut down in an agonnizing d

. >> and ernie els may have something to say about that. >>> trucks arriving at the port of oakland areto turn around. coming up how the death of a long shore worker is affecting this. >>> on the golden gate bridge, the traffic looks good. it's not really foggy here. we'll tell you more about the morning commute. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> more than 8 a passengers on flight 214 plan to be sue boeing, the plane's manufacturer over the crash- landing at sfo. a chicago law firm filing on behalf of the passengers said the crash may have been caused by a mechanical malfunction. the suit also says some escape ramps that opened inside of the plane blocked the passengers' exit. >>> a bay area woman has filed a lawsuit against the airline. an attorney claims the woman and her 8-year-old son suffered back and neck injuries in the crash. the woman says she's been unable to return to her job as a foreign language instructor for the military. the suit is seeking at least $5 million in injuries. >>> the death of a long shore worker has stopped business at the port of oakland. tara moriarty is live at the port where t

even though the last two british open winners, darren clarke was 42 and ernie els was 42. >> the invasion it and take the british open. >> he was the favorite going into today. had a two-stroke lead going into the final round and lee westwood, this is his 61st major and yet to come away with a major championship. he's a terrific golfer. i think he said it best. anybody who goes out and shoots a 66 wins the tournament. he said his performance today was mediocre, about average. average was 73 on the course today and phil mickelson shot a 66. seven strokes difference, so he let an opportunity get away. but today wasn't a day where he really lost. he was just beaten. >> phil mickelson entered today five strokes down and ended up winning by three. he just had a great day. >> it's just incredible. phil mickelson now has won for the 42nd time pga tour victories and there's only 12 guys ahead of him on the major list and it's just sensational and everybody, you know, he is the most popular golfer of his generation and probably the most popular golfer in golf since arnold palmer, so he is the peop

ernie els encourages you to learn the signs of autism. elcome b >> welcome back.e made one of the most memorable plays in the history of the new orleans saints. >> then diagnosed with a disease that absolutely changed his life. as abc's josh elliott shows us gleason isn't allowing that from stopping him from finding new challenges. >> reporter: september 2006, a year after hurricane katrina laid waste to the city of new orleans. the saints are back in the super dome. for the first time. in their opening series, the atlanta falcons are forced to punt. steve gleason 37 rushing from the middle. >> as soon as i came around the corner and saw the punter there was certainly some adrenaline, like man this could happen. if it does this is going to be chaos. >> recovered by the saints for a touchdown. >> just the emotion coming from the crowd, it was infinite joy. >> reporter: new orleans immortalized the turning point with this statue outside the stadium. they named it rebirth. but today it has new meaning. profound and bittersweet. because the man whose simple act became

ernie els encourages you to learn the signs of autism. ♪ when you recognize something isn't right, makee at 1-800-273-8255 and press 1. >>> all right. familiar scene in london. june of 1982, the day the world welcomed prince william. >> so this morning we are opening up our abc news vault, june 21 of 1982 and the coverage of an unforgettable celebration. >> we are here in london tonight in direct contrast to much that is bad news in the world and an announcement that led to some happiness. buckingham palace has let it be known the prince and princess of wales are parents. abc's mike lee has been avidly following developments. >> reporter: after a day of suspense, buckingham palace tonight, in time-honored fashion, announced the birth of a boy to the prince and princess of wales. he weighs 7 pounds, 1 1/4 ounces. the crowds outside went wild with joy. outside st. mary's hospital those who waited all day long reacted as though there had been a birth in their own family. prince charles who had been by his wife's side all day long came out of the hospital late tonight beaming with pride. >>