2-time former champion Ivanovic wins Linz opener

A group of 10 former college athletes have filed a proposed class action, antitrust lawsuit against several television networks and college conferences, including ESPN, CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox and the Southeastern Conference, for profiting off their names and likenesses without their permission in both ads and televising games.

The lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Nashville features former Vanderbilt safety Javon Marshall as lead plaintiff along with former teammates Eric Samuels and Steven Clarke. The lawsuit wants a class action for all current and former players in the Football Bowl Subdivision and Division I men’s basketball.

In the lawsuit, plaintiffs allege the release studentathletes are forced to sign is “unconscionable, and vague,” rendering it void and unenforceable.

Mack Brown to enter Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame

Former Texas football coach Mack Brown headlines the newest list of Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame selections.

Brown, who is from Cookeville, led Texas to a 2005 national title and stepped down as coach at the end of the 2014 season. The Hall of Fame class also includes Bob Cummings, William Dunavant Jr., Jim England, Jamie Rotella Henry Hooker.

Cummings is a former Tennessee high school football coach. Dunavant owned the United States Football League’s Memphis Showboats and developed the Racquet Club of Memphis. England was an all-Southeastern Conference basketball player at Tennessee. Rotella was a star linebacker for Tennessee. Henry and Alice Hooker helped transform Nashville’s Iroquois Steeplechase into the premier sporting event benefiting Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital.

The group will be inducted June 6 in Nashville.

The NFL is attempting to shed light on who allegedly shined a laser pointer at Buffalo Bills players at Detroit’s Ford Field last weekend. League spokesman

said Tuesday the NFL is investigating the Bills’ complaint and attempting to identify the person responsible. Quarterback Orton and holder Colton Schmidt said they had a laser directed at them during Buffalo’s 17-14 win over the Lions on Sunday.

The league will share the results of its investigation with police, Signora said. All four North American major professional sports leagues bar the use of laser pointers at their facilities.

Fans caught using them can be ejected, are subject to being arrested and face the possibility of being banned from entering the facility for any future event.

Detroit police spokesman Sgt. Michael Woody said that in general, laser pointers and their use isn’t illegal. Any criminal case, he said, would depend on how the pointer is used and whether it caused any damage.

TENNIS

Kyle

overcame a left thigh injury to beat Pau

of France, 6-3, 6-2, while Italy’s Camila routed fourth-seeded

6-1, 6-2, in the opening round of the Generali Ladies on Tuesday.

Ivanovic, who won the event in 2008 and 2010 and reached the final last year, lost her opening service game. But the second-seeded Serb went on to dominate the match until asking for medical treatment while trailing 2-1 in the second set.

The eighth-ranked Ivanovic, who is chasing her fifth title of the season, didn’t concede a game afterward to set up a second-round match against Madison Brengle. The American qualifier was leading 7-5, 3-1 when her Romanian opponent Irina-Camelia Begu retired.