• Four teams did not have first-round picks, but stepped up in the second round to start filling their needs.

    WSJ: 10 things to know about the NFL draft

  • Poulter showed up to the second round of the Barclays on Friday dressed in a black Cobra visor and red, purple, black, gray and white tartan IJP Designs trousers.

    FORBES: Golfer Ian Poulter Continues to Turn Heads with Unique Style

  • Golovin had a chance to round the match off when serving 5-4 up in the second set only to miss out.

    BBC: SPORT | Tennis | Molik, Baltacha crash out of DFS

  • Unconcerned about a hoax involving a fake girlfriend and a flop in the national championship game that have dogged Te'o for four months, San Diego Chargers rookie general manager Tom Telesco moved up seven spots in the second round to draft the Notre Dame linebacker on Friday night.

    WSJ: Chargers take Manti Te'o in 2nd round of NFL draft

  • Since consumers obtain less satisfaction from buying more of the same stuff, the rewards dropped for each extra purchase they made, from 120 points for the first unit to 80 for the second and so on up to a maximum of four purchases per round.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus

  • Frenchman Gilles Simon crushed 18-year-old American qualifier Donald Young 6-1 6-3 to set up a second-round meeting with world number one Roger Federer on Wednesday.

    BBC: Djokovic opens defence in style

  • Two days after rallying for a 142-134 triple-overtime victory, the Bulls were outscored 15-1 at the finish and failed to set up a second-round series with Miami.

    WSJ: Nets win 110-91, cut Bulls' lead to 3-2

  • World No. 46 Andreas Seppi beat his fellow Italian, qualifier Stephane Bohli, 6-1 7-5 to set up a second-round clash with either Serbian eighth seed Viktor Troicki or Austria's Jurgen Melzer.

    CNN: Soderling survives scare in Rotterdam

  • But the 2008 French Open champion, who also beat Azarenka on her way to the semi-finals in Rome in May, fought back to set up a second-round clash with Yaroslava Shvedova.

    BBC: Ana Ivanovic beats Victoria Azarenka at Cincinnati Open

  • Britain's Lorna Woodroffe fought off an injury scare and went on to set up a second-round meeting with US start Jennifer Capriati in the DFS Women's Tennis Classic at Edgbaston in Birmingham.

    BBC: Woodroffe sets up Capriati tie

  • The CAF appeals committee, which met in Johannesburg, found no new reasons to overturn the disqualification, announced last month after the South African club failed to turn up for their first round second leg game in Madagascar.

    BBC: Chiefs' appeal quashed

  • And, although Ireland have nine of the line-up who started their second round shoot-out defeat to Spain in the summer, a succession of injuries forced McCarthy to travel with a much-depleted squad.

    BBC: McAteer making sense of it all

  • But Honda teed up Shinji Okazaki to seal a famous victory for Japan, which ensured they finished runners-up to Netherlands in Group E and reached the second round for only the second time in their history.

    BBC: Denmark 1-3 Japan

  • Manassero, the tour's 2010 rookie of the year, had completed his second round in the morning with two birdies to move up to fourth place with a 71.

    CNN: Leader McIlroy feeling the heat in Malaysia

  • Kansas became just the second No. 12 seed to advance to the second weekend of the NCAA tournament, joining San Francisco in 1996 as the only No. 12 seeds to follow up a win in the opening round with another in the second.

    NPR: Kansas Races Past South Carolina 75-69

  • Maria Sharapova was even more convincing a few hours earlier, winning 6-0, 6-0 for the second time in two matches to set up a third-round encounter with Venus Williams.

    NPR: Djokovic, Sharapova Cruise At Aussie Open

  • In Tuesday's only second round match, Wimbledon runner-up Tomas Berdych overcame a stomach problem to see off Spain's Tommy Robredo 6-0 6-4.

    BBC: Andy Roddick through to round two of Shanghai Masters

  • After a disappointing season, Higginson returned to form as a top break of 107 helped him set up a second round meeting with Masters runner-up Stephen Lee.

    BBC: CHOOSE A SPORT

  • The Shockers lived up to their nickname in the West, knocking off top-seeded Gonzaga in the second round and No. 2 seed Ohio State in the regional final Saturday night.

    WSJ: Final Four set after blowouts and another surprise

  • The ninth-seeded Shockers lived up to their nickname in the West, knocking off top-seeded Gonzaga in the second round and No. 2 seed Ohio State in the regional final Saturday night.

    NPR: The Final Four Is Set After Blowouts, Surprises

  • The Spaniard was the only seed to fall in the first round, while Taylor Dent, ranked 83rd in the world, set up a second-round encounter against world number one Rafael Nadal after beating Feliciano Lopez 6-3 6-2.

    BBC: Andy Roddick through to Cincinnati Masters second round

  • Boyd's second round was indifferent until he closed with five birdies in his final eight holes to set him up perfectly for the weekend.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Sri Lankan all-rounder Sanath Jayasuriya did not play after a strain he suffered on the recent tour to Australia flared up, although the team hope he will be fit for the opening second-round match on Wednesday.

    BBC: Sri Lanka see off India

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