By Seth Lakso, Globe correspondent

Boston Cannons goalie Jordan Burke earned his fourth career Major League Lacrosse Defensive Player of the Week award for his 17-save performance in a 15-3 win over the Rochester Rattlers last Saturday.

After surrendering two goals in the first 58 seconds, Burke, rebounded to hold Rochester scoreless for the next 36 minutes before allowing a goal midway through the third quarter. The Rattlers, who were without leading scorer Ned Crotty, finished with an MLL-record low three goals (previous mark was five).

"It was such a great defensive effort, from the midfield down to our close guys," Burke said in a statement released by the team. "We really executed the game plan well. We made two mistakes to start the game and then had one rebound goal, but other than that it was pretty much flawless."

The next time you have trouble getting out of bed to make first chair, complain about a lack of snow, a broken binding, or your kids whining about heading into the lodge for hot chocolate, watch this and re-gain some perspective.

Here's Josh Dueck a paraplegic who broke his back during a skiing accident in 2004. Since then, his dream has been to once again do a flip on snow, a task he accomplished last Friday. Dueck became the first person to perform a backflip on snow in a Sit Ski.

Max Quinzani, No. 88, proved to be the Boston Cannons hero in their 14-13 win over the Chesapeake Bayhawks. (Patrick Smith / Getty Images)

By Zuri Berry, Boston.com Staff

Max Quinzani scored with one second remaining and the Boston Cannons beat the Chesapeake Bayhawks 14-13 after giving up a last-minute goal in the Major League Lacrosse semifinals.

The Cannons advance to the MLL championship, which will be held 3 p.m. Sunday in Annapolis, Md.

Watch game highlights and player interviews on Major League Lacrosse's web site.

By Zuri Berry, Boston.com Staff

Clint Dempsey scored the US national team's game-winning goal yesterday in the 76th minute against Panama, a 1-0 win to advance the US to the Gold Cup final.

While Dempsey will get the glory for the goal, teammate Landon Donovan deserves just as much, if not more, credit. Donovan's perfect placement in front of the net for Dempsey's love tap makes his assist one of the better setups we've seen in the Gold Cup. Check out the video above of the game's highlight play.

By Zuri Berry, Boston.com Staff

Tickets for the New England Revolution's friendly with Manchester United are selling pretty quickly with more than 35,000, including most of the lower-bowl at Gillette Stadium, already sold, according to the team.

The Revs host Manchester United Wednesday July 13. Check out the Revs website for ticket information.

Barry Bonds arrived at federal court as a jury deliberated perjury charges against him on Wednesday, April 13, 2011, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

By Zuri Berry, Boston.com Staff

Former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds has been found guilty of obstruction of justice, one of four counts a jury decided upon today after deliberating for the last four days in his perjury trial.

According to reports, the jury was dismissed after the other three counts were declared a mistrial.

Bonds' perjury trial stems from the 2003 raid on BALCO laboratories and his subsequent testimony to the grand jury. The counts that the jury could not resolve accused Bonds of lying to the grand jury investigating BALCO in 2003 when he said he never knowingly took steroids or human growth hormone, and when he said he was never injected by anyone except his doctors.

His lawyer, Allen Ruby, signaled that he would fight the conviction.

"There's some very important legal issues that need to be addressed with the verdict," Ruby said afterward.

Bonds declined to comment.

Bonds played his last season in 2007 with the San Francisco Giants, finishing as the all-time home runs leader with 762. He was a seven-time MVP, eight-time Gold Glove winner and a 14-time all-star.

He was indicted on Nov. 15, 2007, exactly 50 days after taking his final big league swing and 100 after topping Hank Aaron's career home run mark of 755. He also set the season record with 73 home runs in 2001 with the Giants.

Bonds did acknowledge that he took steroids but said Greg Anderson, his trainer and childhood friend, misled him into believing it was flaxseed oil and arthritis cream.

Anderson was sentenced by in 2005 to three months in prison and three months in home confinement after pleading guilty to one count of money laundering and one count of steroid distribution. The trainer was jailed on March 22 for the duration of the trial after again refusing to testify against Bonds. He was released last Friday.

Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.

You know those halftime shows, where they bring out some fun-loving fan to take a half-court shot or, in this case, a 175-foot slapper, for a prize.

Well, this is one of those cases where the guy makes the shot -- a gem might I add -- into a hole big enough for an oversized puck and then gets stonewalled for the winnings by an insurance company.

The shot, which would have entitled the man to $50,000, was made at the Allstate Good Hands Shootout hosted by the Indiana Ice, a minor league hockey team for their "Hockey for Heart" charity promotion. He had previously announced that he'd donate the money to charity. See the shot below.

Richard Marsh was the lucky fellow to nail the shot, gliding it across the ice with a controlled swing of his stick. Little did he know that he had no control over the payout, or the drama that would ensue

Allstate insurance, albeit the sponsor of the event, was not responsible for the payout, according to the Indianapolis Star. Instead, that responsibility fell upon on unnamed insurance company which deemed the shot illegal.

In the Star's report:

The United States Hockey League says in a news release that the insurance company voided the award because Marsh stood in front of a designated starting line -- too close to the target, in other words -- disqualifying him from the win.

The disqualification, if you can call it as much, has riled the Indianapolis community, with Allstate and the Ice taking grief for the actions of this yet-to-be named insurance company. The Ice has instead decided to make two donations to nonprofits (St. Vincent's Cardiovascular and the American Heart Association) to quell the outrage.

This one has been steady on the the "SportsCenter" loop.

At the 2011 Australian Open, TV reporter and former tennis pro Todd Woodbridge was blindsided by women's star Kim Clijsters when she confronted him about a text message he sent to Rennae Stubbs wondering if Clijsters was pregnant.

Woodbridge, who should have gone running at that immediate moment, decided to ask the question anyways. Clijsters said she was indeed not pregnant and then went on to add this gem:

"Let me say what was written in the message. First of all, you said 'she looks really grumpy and her boobs are bigger.' "

Woodbridge thinks his TV career is over. I think it's just funny.

A Florida high school basketball player was so livid with a technical he received, he pushed a referee before going on to body-slamming the man.

The player, from Desoto County high school, has not been named since the incident, according to a report on The Big Lead. Skip to the 1:20 mark in the video to see the attack unfold.

People magazine is reporting this morning that Boston native Mark Wahlberg, who plays Lowell boxer Mickey Ward in the movie "The Fighter," has landed on the cover of Sports Illustrated this week. SI has named The Fighter "the best sports movie of the decade." Wahlberg received a Golden Globe Best Actor nomination for his role in the film today.

Sports Illustrated features the 39-year-old Wahlberg shirtless in his boxing shorts and gloves. This also marks one of the rare times in the 56-year history of SI that a non-athlete has appeared on the cover of the magazine aside from the annual swimsuit issue..

Christian Bale, who plays Ward's older half-brother and trainer Dickie Eklund, poses with Walhberg on the cover.

"As somebody who always dreamed of being a professional athlete," Wahlberg says in the People story, "to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated is an amazing accomplishment." In fact, it's a knockout."

Check out the many Boston athletes that have appeared on the cover of SI since 2007.

Who said tennis is boring?

A fight among tennis fans broke out in the upper deck of Arthur Ashe Stadium during a second-round US Open match between third-seeded Novak Djokovic of Serbia and Philipp Petzschner of Germany last night in New York.

According to the New York Post, the fisticuffs (seen at the 1:08 mark in the video above), that began just after 9 p.m. started when a female fan complained to a man in his early 20s about his repeated use of the f-word during the first set, a source told the Post.

“He said, ’You’ve got a problem? Go ahead and hit me,’ and she slapped him across the face” the source said.

"C'mon, smack me again," he taunted after the blow according to the New York Daily News. "Go ahead ... I don't give a f--- what anybody wants. I got a lot of money on this game, and I f------ paid for my ticket."

The Daily News reported that Arnold Florendo, 37, of Great Neck, L.I., who caught the fracas with a video camera, said the verbal sparring seemed to slow down before turning physical again.

"You f------ made me miss half the game, because you're being a f------ idiot!" the young man snapped - prompting the woman's father, a white-haired man with glasses, to grab the younger man by his throat and the pair grappled with each other before the older man fell over two rows of seats in the upper deck.

Djokovic — who won the set en route to a 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (6) victory — turned from the court and appeared to watch intently as the fight unfolded.

“It was far away from the court; we couldn’t really see what was going on,” Djokovic said. “I hope it was no Serbian up there.”

Up there, in fact, was a male fan – whether he was Serbian the authorities did not say — who was cursing and acting obnoxiously, according to the police in a New York Times report.

All three people were handcuffed and brought to the 110th Precinct in Queens, said Tim Curry, a spokesman for the United States Tennis Association. The unidentified threesome have been banned from attending the US Open until 2013.

"If they come on the grounds any time before then, they can be arrested for trespassing," said Chris Widmaier, spokesman for the US Tennis Association told the Daily News. The bans cover the rest of this year and all of next year's tournament.

Update, 4:43 p.m.:

Some new video of the incident has surfaced on YouTube. WARNING: This close-up footage contains harsh language:

Material from the New York Times tennis blog was used in this report.