Not a tweet until the Ryder's over
U.S. and European players have been banned from using Twitter and other social networking sites during the Ryder Cup.
U.S. and European players have been banned from using Twitter and other social networking sites during the Ryder Cup.
U.S. captain Corey Pavin and European counterpart Colin Montgomerie say there will be a ban in place this week to keep players focused on the three-day competition, which begins Friday at Celtic Manor in Cardiff, Wales.
Montgomerie also told his players to avoid Facebook.
Montgomerie said his decision was prompted by the incident involving England cricketer Kevin Pietersen, who was fined for tweeting a profane comment.
Stewart Cink, who won the Open Championship in 2009, has more than 1 million followers on Twitter.
"We're finally off to Wales!! Won't be tweeting until we get back. I guess I'll have to pass the down time actually reading or something," Cink tweeted before the team's charter flight from Atlanta to Cardiff.
Jordan Spieth won both his matches and the Americans built a 9-3 lead over Europe after the first day of the Junior Ryder Cup. The Junior Ryder Cup, played every other year for girls and boys under the age of 18, concludes Tuesday with 12 singles matches.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Iowa defensive tackle Mike Daniels has been named the Big Ten's co-defensive player of the week.
Daniels, who played high school football at Highland High School in South Jersey, had four tackles for loss and a sack in the Hawkeyes 45-0 win over Ball State.
No. 17 Iowa (3-1) opens Big Ten play by hosting No. 22 Penn State on Saturday night.
Penn State's Collin Wagner has been selected Big Ten Special Teams Player of the Week after connecting on a school record-tying five field goals to help lift Penn State past Temple Saturday.
Villanova senior wide receiver Matt Szczur, who sprained his left ankle in last Saturday's 22-10 win over Penn, will not practice this week and is questionable for Saturday's game at No. 7 William & Mary (3-1), a rematch of last year's FCS national semifinals, a 14-13 Villanova win.
Delaware (4-0) collected a first-place vote and moved up two spots to No. 5 in the Sports Network FCS poll after a 34-13 win over Richmond.
NHL: Forward Matt Hendricks has signed a one-year contract with the Washington Capitals after going to training camp on a tryout basis.
Hendricks scored three goals in Washington's 6-2 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets in the Capitals' exhibition opener last week.
TENNIS: Thiemo de Bakker of the Netherlands and Viktor Troicki of Serbia earned straight-set wins in the first round of the Thailand Open in Nonthaburi, Thailand.
No. 1 Rafael Nadal and the three other top-seeded players have first-round byes.
Forty-year-old Japanese veteran Kimiko Date Krumm rallied to beat defending champion Maria Sharapova, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, in the first round of the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Lindsay Whalen scored 16 points and Angel McCoughtry added 11 to lead the U.S. team to an 87-46 rout of Canada in the second round of the women's basketball world championship in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
- Staff and wire reports