Former French Open champion Francesca Schiavone has revealed she has successfully overcome cancer.

The 39-year-old became the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam with her 2010 Roland Garros triumph and won eight titles before retiring in 2018.

Schiavone, who has not revealed the type of cancer diagnosed, said: "I did chemotherapy, I fought a tough battle and now I am still breathing.

"I have won this fight. And now I am back in action."

In a short video on Instagram, Schiavone added: "Hi everyone, upon seven-eight months of silence from social media and from the world, I wish to share with you what happened to me. A cancer had been diagnosed to me."

Having defeated Australia's Samantha Stosur in the 2010 French Open final, Schiavone reached a career best fourth in the world rankings in January 2011.

Later that year she came close to defending her French title but lost to China's Li Na in the Paris final.

After retiring following last year's US Open, Schiavone said: "When I was 18 years old, I had two dreams. The first one was to win Roland Garros, and the second one was to become top 10 in the world. And I completed them, so I'm very, very happy, and lucky."

STATESVILLE, N.C. – GMS Racing announced its crew chief and truck number lineup for the team’s four full-time NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series entries on Friday.

Chad Norris has been named crew chief for Brett Moffitt and the No. 23 Chevrolet team, while Chad Walter will lead Tyler Ankrum and the No. 26 team.

Kevin “Bono” Manion will call the shots for Zane Smith with the No. 21 entry, and Jeff Stankiewicz will remain as the crew chief for the No. 2 team piloted by Sheldon Creed.

Norris has been with the Statesville, N.C., organization for two years. He led GMS Racing to its first NASCAR Xfinity Series win with Spencer Gallagher at Talladega Superspeedway in 2018. The Iowa native has experience in all three NASCAR Series and has called the shots for many successful drivers like Carl Edwards, Matt Kenseth and Mark Martin.

Most of Norris’ experience came in the Xfinity Series, where has called the shots for 23 different drivers and accumulated four wins, 39 top-fives, 132 top-10s and five poles.

Walter, who served as an engineer for Ankrum last year, will step up to lead the team.

Walter is no stranger to the crew chief role, serving as a crew chief in seven Cup Series and 208 Xfinity Series events since 2005 for Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and many others.

In 208 Xfinity Series starts, Walter earned five wins, 42 top-fives, 101 top-10s and eight poles.

Manion has called the shots atop the pit box for many notable NASCAR drivers, including Dale Earnhardt Jr., Martin Truex Jr. and Kyle Busch.

A crew chief in all three NASCAR national series, Manion has accumulated five Cup Series wins, 27 top-fives, 65 top-10’s, and 10 poles, as well as 15 Xfinity Series wins, 36 top-fives, 53 top-10’s, and nine poles in that series.

Manion earned two Xfinity Series championships with Martin Truex Jr. in 2004 and 2005. He also has four Gander Trucks wins, 16 top-fives, 28 top-10’s and one Truck Series pole.

Stankiewicz will remain as crew chief for Sheldon Creed after the team hired him on partway through the 2019 season. The duo accumulated seven starts, two top-fives, four top-10s, and led 36 laps.

In 2018, Creed won four races and earned 11 top-five, 12 top-10 finishes and three poles with Stankiewicz atop the pit box en route to the 2018 ARCA championship.

Stankiewicz was previously with GMS Racing from 2015-2017 and led the team to an ARCA Menards Series championship in 2015 with Grant Enfinger.

“All four of our teams have veteran crew chiefs to lead the way and I don’t think we could get a better group,” said Mike Beam, president of GMS Racing. “All of them have the knowledge and experience to lead each of their teams to success this year and I am excited to see what they can do.”

INDIANAPOLIS – Australian ace James Davison will attempt both the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500 as part of a partnership with Hayward Motorsports and Jonathan Byrd’s Racing.

Davison will run both crown-jewel events next year with support from David Byrd and Brodie Hayward, as well as compete in selected AMSOIL USAC National Sprint Car Series events under the Hayward Motorsports banner as well.

Team alignments for Davison’s runs at Daytona and Indianapolis will be announced later.

The most recent driver to attempt both Daytona and Indianapolis in the same season was Danica Patrick, who did so under the ‘Danica Double’ branding in 2018 as the final two on-track events of her motorsports career.

David Byrd of Jonathan Byrd’s Racing, who backed the late Bryan Clauson in two of his three Indianapolis 500 appearances, spoke with SPEED SPORT Friday by phone about the unique deal and how it came together.

“I’ve worked with James the last two years at Indy, and I’d known him for several years before that, where we tried to work together for a few years and it didn’t work out. Then it finally all came together,” said Byrd. “He really impressed with his performance. He’s always impressed me with his performance, from really the first time I saw him race at the Indy 500. I was always impressed with him and the way he handled the car and handled the pressure, because it was always a pressure situation that he was in.

“But it was late in the summertime this year when James told me that, at some point in time, he’d like to give Daytona a try,” Byrd continued. “For me, I’m always interested in doing interesting things when it comes to motorsports. … But James was able to get himself approved to race at Daytona in the Cup car. Usually they kind of stair-step drivers through ARCA or Trucks or Xfinity at Daytona or Talladega before they’ll approve them to run the Daytona 500, but based on his resume (across motorsports), he was approved.”

OILFIRE Whiskey will serve as the primary sponsor of the 33-year-old’s efforts.

“I’ve been partners with Brodie Hayward now since 2014 in one way, shape or form, and Brodie was working on his program with OILFIRE … and they had asked about the possibility of maybe adding a Daytona 500 component to the Hayward Motorsports and Byrd partnership, because they’d been there (as a NASCAR sponsor) before,” added Byrd. “When Brodie asked me about it, I laughed and said, ‘well, you know, as a matter of fact, not a week and a half ago James and I had this conversation and he got himself approved to run Daytona. So that’ll make a pretty compelling story for OILFIRE … where you have a driver running the Great American Race and the Greatest Spectacle In Racing, because there’s not a lot of that (type of) crossover these days. But James is now a guy that wants to do that and we’re excited for the prospect.”

“We sponsored a couple of NASCAR events this season and sponsored some of Brodie’s races earlier this year at Indy and the Chili Bowl,” said OILFIRE president Carroll Lockhart. “His teams are top notch. His quality of drivers and crews are some of the best out there. I feel with OILFIRE, the racing fans are the type of audience and clients that my company is trying to market to. As the industry shows in the whiskey business, music fans, racing fans and sports fans drink a lot of whiskey. So it was an easy choice for me. That’s why I jumped on the chance to sponsor Hayward (Motorsports) in 2020.”

Byrd also recognizes the importance of supporting and fostering grassroots racing and reconnecting it with the Indianapolis 500, seeing that as a key to the Davison deal.

“It’s so hard to make the jump from the dirt track or short track ranks to the upper echelon of the sport right now,” said Byrd. “It’s a tough transition. But at the same time, you can’t have racing at the top level without a strong foundation at the grassroots level. We still have an eye towards helping to develop a short track guy and a short track champion, but at the same time we want to try and take that next step and try to unite the short track world with IndyCar and the Indy 500 at least.

“In my eyes, Indy flourishes when it has a connection to the short track (world), and short track racing flourishes when it has a connection to the Indy 500,” he added. “Right now, (the pipeline) is a little bit broken, but I’m kind of trying to relink it a little bit. Short tracks are where many of us got our start. No matter what, they will always have our support in some way and we want to develop drivers that have the ability to stand in both worlds to aid in that cause.”

Speedweeks in February will mark Davison’s first attempt on the 2.5-mile Daytona Int’l Speedway oval, though he does have three starts in the Rolex 24 at Daytona in IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship competition.

Davison’s highest-career finish in the Indianapolis 500 was 12th, earned this past May with Dale Coyne Racing.

Tshwane Spartans 166 for 4 (van Biljon 48*, Wiese 31*, Nabe 2-24) beat Nelson Mandela Bay Giants 144 for 8 (Morris 42, Dunk 35, Wiese 3-30, Morkel 2-22) by 22 runs

The Tshwane Spartans will play the Paarl Rocks in the Mzansi Super League (MSL) final, after beating the Nelson Mandela Bay Giants by 22 runs in the playoff in Port Elizabeth. The Spartans are surprise finalists after half of their pool matches were washed out. Still, they snuck into the final three and then denied the favourites, the Giants, who were on top of the log for most of the competition, the chance to challenge for the trophy.

The Giants opted to play to their strong suit and chase under lights but a committed effort in the field from the Spartans, who were without Lungi Ngidi, Tom Curran and Wiaan Mulder, saw the Centurion-based side advance. Ngidi sat out as a precaution after experiencing discomfort his hamstring, which he did not want to risk ahead of a busy International summer, while Mulder has a back injury and Curran has left for the Big Bash League. Lutho Sipamla, David Wiese and Imran Manack came into the Spartans side and played their part in ensuring Mark Boucher's men will play in Paarl.

For Boucher, the result could not have come at a better time, with the former international wicket-keeper set to be unveiled as acting South Africa coach on Saturday.

The Giants will be bitterly disappointed with their performance in a crunch match, especially after Chris Morris' sensational 42 off 23 balls, which kept them in the hunt until the final over. They ended the tournament in third place, despite having the leading run-scorer and wicket-taker in the competition.

Ben Dunked

The tournament's top run-scorer survived two inside-edges off Corbin Bosch's bowling that he could easily have played on to his own stumps, but was not granted a third life when Pite van Biljon ran him out at the end of the seventh over. With the required run-rate touching nine an over, Heino Kuhn wanted every single on offer, even the one when he nudged the ball to point off Morne Morkel's bowling. Kuhn ran hard, Dunk tried to run harder, but van Biljon picked up and threw in one motion and a direct hit at the striker's end found Dunk short of his crease.

Catches win matches

After his involvement in Dunk's run-out, Kuhn had to take on the responsibility of steering the chase but his former franchise team-mate had other plans. Kuhn cut Morne Morkel into the covers and another fielder may have deemed the ball too far away for them to cut off. Not Roelof van der Merwe, who spent years playing alongside Kuhn at the Titans. He launched himself to his right, went with both hands and took the catch low down to end Kuhn's innings on 5 and leave the Giants on 57 for 4, still needing 110 runs off 69 balls.

Magic Morne

Dale Steyn and Imran Tahir have used this tournament to show South Africa's soon-to-be-announced selectors that they are first in line for the T20 World Cup and Morne Morkel has used it to show that he would be right beside them had he not retired last April. After van der Merwe took the catch to dismiss Kuhn off his bowling, Morkel could have had big-hitting Marco Marais caught at mid-off when he sliced one into the air but Wiese couldn't get there. With the next ball, Morkel had Marais under-edging onto his stumps, leaving the Giants on 83 for 5 in the 13th over. Morkel finished with 2 for 22 from his four overs.

Nice one, Nabe

Mthiwekhaya Nabe may not have played this match if Junior Dala was fit but the Giants will be pleased that he did. Not only did the 24-year-old take the two biggest opposition wickets, but he also claimed a stunning catch to keep the Spartans to a par total at St George's Park. In his first over, Nabe had Dean Elgar caught off a cutter by Chris Morris at mid-on to end a 21-run opening stand. Then, he returned in the eighth over, with AB de Villiers looking imperious on 27 off 14 balls and duped him with a slower ball that he hit to extra-cover, where JT Smuts took a straightforward catch. And Nabe wasn't done there. He was perfectly positioned at short third man in Imran Tahir's third over when Toby de Zorzi reverse-swept a googly and just didn't get enough elevation on the stroke. Nabe went for it with both hands, diving to his left and held on to add a 17th wicket to Tahir's tournament total.

Welcome to it, David Wiese

Wiese was roped in for the playoff match after Tom Curran left for the Big Bash League and was immediately thrust into the thick of things. He joined van Biljon with the Spartans in trouble on 79 for 4 in the 12th over. Together, they added 87 runs off 52 balls including 71 runs in the last six overs. Van Biljon's 48 off 32 balls will grab the headlines but Wiese provided important support. His strong cut shot was on display more than once but the highlight of his innings was the straight six he hit off Nandre Burger, which sailed over the sightscreen. Wiese also took three wickets, including two in two balls in the Giants' last over to seal the win.

The Arizona Cardinals released veteran linebacker Terrell Suggs on Friday, coach Kliff Kingsbury announced. The 37-year-old will now go on waivers.

Suggs, a seven-time Pro Bowler, is one of the most accomplished pass-rushers in NFL history, ranking first among active players with 138 sacks.

He played 69% of Arizona's defensive snaps this season and started all 13 games, leading the team with 5.5 sacks.

Kingsbury said at his Friday news conference that the move was best for both parties, as it gives Arizona an opportunity to play more young guys and gives Suggs a chance to find a new team.

It's uncertain if Suggs will want to continue playing, but he will be on waivers until Monday.

Suggs, the longtime face of the Baltimore Ravens' defense, signed a one-year, $7 million deal with the Cardinals in March.

Suggs, known for his leadership, durability and passion, was the NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 2011.

ESPN's Jamison Hensley contributed to this story.

MINNEAPOLIS -- The LA Clippers' backcourt will be even more short-handed after guard Lou Williams was ruled out on Friday against Minnesota.

The Sixth Man of the Year has a sore right calf and is considered day-to-day. The Clippers play against the Timberwolves on Friday and then at Chicago on Saturday night.

Head coach Doc Rivers said at the Friday morning shootaround that Kawhi Leonard and Paul George are available to play against the Timberwolves.

The Clippers are already without point guard Patrick Beverley (concussion) and shooting guard Landry Shamet (left ankle sprain). Guard Rodney McGruder is on track to return on Friday from a right hamstring strain injury. Power forward JaMychal Green is considered questionable with a tailbone contusion.

Williams is averaging 19.9 points this season.

EVERY MORNING, BRONNY James is driven 25 miles from his family's home in the West Los Angeles enclave of Brentwood, through the recently fire-ravaged Sepulveda Pass and into a quiet corner of the San Fernando Valley.

The hourlong trip into the teeth of the 405 traffic would be a tough commute for anyone, but he and his 12-year-old brother, Bryce, go through it to reach an institution that has numerous elite athletes, that is more than 40% nonwhite and where celebrities and children of celebrities are common.

The Sierra Canyon School gives Bronny something LeBron James couldn't have dreamed of 20 years ago as he burst onto the national scene: a semblance of normalcy.

The high school is less than 15 years old, one of its founding board members was Will Smith, and the fundraising push to open the school was highlighted by a Stevie Wonder concert that raised seven figures.

Scotty Pippen Jr. and Kenyon Martin Jr. transferred to finish high school at Sierra Canyon last year. So did current Duke freshman Cassius Stanley, who is the son of NFL and NBA agent Jerome Stanley. Marvin Bagley III's jersey hangs in a glass case. He transferred in, graduated a year early, went to Duke and was picked No. 2 in the 2018 NBA draft by the Sacramento Kings.

"When my son saw what it was like at Sierra Canyon, he had no interest in any other schools," says Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen, whose son graduated last year and is now playing at Vanderbilt. "He loved what he saw there and he was very comfortable."

The Trailblazers are ranked among the top five high school teams in the nation by various outlets. They play a high-level national schedule with games planned in eight states. They play disciplined offense and use complex defensive systems as their coach prepares them for Division I college basketball.

And now, with Bronny, they have the most famous high school freshman in the country.

"Bronny is a fairly typical 15-year-old who is trying to find himself and learn," says head coach Andre Chevalier. "He keeps his head down and works. I'm impressed with the way he handles the attention."

Bronny has good size at 6-foot-2 and he's in excellent shape. His graceful gait and team-first approach -- he's a willing and gifted passer -- are just like his dad's.

But unlike his father, who was already the best player in his home state of Ohio as a high school freshman, Bronny is currently a role-playing guard on this loaded team, scoring in double figures just once this season.

The 7-0 Trailblazers will spend this weekend in Ohio, where Sierra Canyon will play LeBron's alma mater, St. Vincent-St. Mary, in a showcase game in front of what most expect to be a large crowd at the Columbus Blue Jackets' home arena (streamed on ESPN+). The heavily favored California team has a couple of older five-star prospects on the roster, but many of the viewers and attendees will be there to get in on the ground floor for what they hope will be the next LeBron.

Unlike the show LeBron put on in Columbus as a 15-year-old -- he won the state tournament MVP in front of a sellout crowd at nearby Ohio State -- this likely will be more about the experience than the stats for the James family.

"Obviously, everybody knows that St. Vincent-St. Mary is when people started to recognize me from a national standpoint," LeBron told ESPN's Dave McMenamin. "And my son is about to play a high school game versus my alma mater in our home state. The only thing that would have been more emotional is if my son was playing St. Vincent-St. Mary at the LeBron James Arena in Akron. That would have been, like -- that would have been too much."

LeBron donated $1 million to his old school to renovate its gymnasium, provided uniforms for all the school's athletic teams and gave another $100,000 in 2018 with the promise of further donations. But even with his love for the school that made him, LeBron has often expressed hope that Bronny could have a different experience -- a contributing factor when he decided to move to L.A. last year.

He wanted a place like Sierra Canyon, with its loaded and famous team -- which also includes senior guard Zaire Wade, son of Dwyane Wade -- for the way it develops high-profile young athletes and the controlled high school experience it provides.

"I've found that these former players want their kids to be coached and to practice and play alongside other elite players," Chevalier says. "They want them to have to earn their playing time and their roles."

ESPN Daily Podcast: Like Father, Like Son? What LeBron's Legacy Means for Bronny James

WHEN LEBRON WAS a senior in high school in 2003, he had been selling out full-size arenas from North Carolina to L.A., playing on pay-per-view TV and garnering his high school a shoe contract from Adidas. An untold amount of money surrounded the team in LeBron's wake.

That season, the Ohio High School Athletic Association stripped him of eligibility when it came to light that he had accepted a few throwback jerseys in exchange for autographs and pictures.

A judge reduced the ruling to a one-game suspension, but the damage had been done. LeBron would never forget the way he was treated.

The lessons LeBron learned then now show up everywhere at Sierra Canyon. It is not personified so much in Bronny but in a senior teammate, 6-foot-6 wing B.J. Boston.

Boston, who had already committed to play at Kentucky, enrolled in Sierra Canyon for his senior year.

"I came here so that my family could have a better opportunity, my younger sister and my [cousin]," Boston says, explaining his decision to move from the Atlanta area. "I had my [college] scholarship already. I knew I could come here and have fun and learn, but I did it for them."

His sister is in seventh grade and his cousin, a sophomore, is part of the football team that just won the California Interscholastic Federation state championship. Both were awarded financial aid by the school, which costs nearly $40,000 per year but provides aid to many students, according to school officials.

During LeBron's high school era, this type of scenario could have been seen as trying to take advantage of his fame.

But not at Sierra Canyon. It's more like this: a modern great athlete -- a young star who will be playing in front of huge crowds and on national television wearing the school's name on his chest -- giving his family a chance at a high-level education and the school a chance to further diversify.

"That young man has only talked about helping his family since the first day we talked to him," says Jim Skrumbis, the head of school. "Because I'm fortunate to have the sons of pro athletes paying full tuition, we can help out other families and improve our student body."

LAWYERS, MEDIA DEMANDS, potential agents and eager sneaker reps created a sometimes chaotic atmosphere in LeBron's high school days. But even with an appearance on the cover of Sports Illustrated at 17, being featured in nationally televised games and the aforementioned suspension, there was no agency for the Akron phenom as an amateur athlete. Often, there was only madness.

What Sierra Canyon strives to provide is controlled madness, controlled chaos. It's a school not just familiar with athletic fame but celebrity, which has complexities beyond what even LeBron had faced.

For example, Sierra Canyon doesn't attempt to restrict players' social media. Players are put through a four-week course to educate them about its benefits and dangers. But Bronny is permitted to say whatever he wishes to his 3.7 million Instagram followers. Stanley and Pippen Jr. had hundreds of thousands of followers themselves.

"We don't want to stop any of our players from building their brands," Chevalier says. "They may be able to use that later in life, whether they make it as basketball players or something else."

Bronny's parents and school officials agreed before the year that Bronny wouldn't do any media interviews this season. But when Chevalier calls a timeout, multiple cameras move into position around the bench and several boom mics lower into the huddle.

In 2003, a college student working on a school project with a single handheld camera took some footage that eventually turned into a LeBron-based documentary six years later. Now there are two documentary series in production about the Sierra Canyon team and its players -- one by LeBron's Uninterrupted media platform and the other in conjunction with Dwyane Wade's production house. After games, Bronny walks past reporters but is followed to his car by his dad's cameras.

The thought, according to school officials, is that there's going to be media attention anyway. So why not let someone whom the school and parents trust have the access?

There are many of these types of scenarios around Bronny and the team: a layer of protection and comfort weaved in with needed acceptance of the new world order for elite high school basketball.

On one hand, LeBron wanted his son to go to an environment where he'd have to earn playing time and not always be the center of attention. On the other, Bronny and Zaire went with the team on a two-week barnstorming tour of China over the summer, where they and 7-foot-3 Chinese teammate Harold Yu were treated like visiting dignitaries. Then they took part in the school's official media day with photo shoots and filming for the professionally produced pregame hype video. That was followed by the Trailblazers' midnight madness show, which included players tossing logoed items into the crowd and a dunk contest.

Young players dream of these sorts of trappings, and Sierra Canyon tries to responsibly deliver them, walking a line of trying to be elite without being elitist.

"This season is exponentially bigger than the past few years," Skrumbis says. "We try to recognize it and respect it."

Meanwhile an NBA father is trying to enjoy it as much as his son.

Last week, after he scored 25 points in a victory in Denver, LeBron streamed the second half of a Sierra Canyon game as he was soaking his feet in ice. Bronny had made his first start that night, 20 years to the day after LeBron made his. When he'd arrived in the postgame locker room, the footage of Bronny's first in-game dunk -- off a lob from Boston -- was waiting for him.

"It's just a pretty cool thing. You don't know how things are going to line up in life and it almost seems like it's all coming back full circle, seeing my oldest son doing the things that he's doing. I'm proud of him and his basketball club," LeBron said. "They got a great team, but more importantly, they are great kids."

The Milwaukee Brewers have signed left-hander Brett Anderson to a one-year contract, the team announced Friday.

The 31-year-old Anderson just finished his third stint with the Oakland Athletics -- 10 years after breaking into the big leagues with the club.

He set a career high for wins while going 13-9 and 3.89 ERA in 31 starts for the A's last season. He posted the lowest strikeout rate of any qualifying starter in baseball (just 12.1% of batters faced) yet still boasted a 2.7 bWAR (Baseball-Reference's Wins Above Replacement) thanks to a low walk rate and the third-best groundball rate among starters.

For his career, he is 59-61 with a 4.05 ERA and 682 strikeouts in 176 starts.

Anderson spent the 2009-13 seasons with Oakland before being dealt to the Colorado Rockies in December 2013. In 2017, he pitched for the Chicago Cubs and Toronto Blue Jays, going 4-4 with a 6.34 ERA in 13 starts and 55 1/3 innings.