Garcia wins wet Wyndham
RAINY WEATHER left Sergio Garcia stuck in Greensboro, N.C., for an extra day. Turns out, it was worth the hassle - he left with his first PGA Tour victory in 4 years.
RAINY WEATHER left Sergio Garcia stuck in Greensboro, N.C., for an extra day. Turns out, it was worth the hassle - he left with his first PGA Tour victory in 4 years.
Garcia claimed a two-stroke win Monday in the water-logged Wyndham Championship for his first victory on tour since the 2008 Players Championship.
He finished with a 66 to wind up at 18-under-par 262, claim $936,000 in prize money and close in on a spot on the European Ryder Cup team. Tim Clark was at 16-under following his 67 in the final tour event before the playoffs.
Basketball *
Simon Gourdine, who became deputy commissioner of the NBA in 1974 and went on to work for and lead the players association in the 1990s, died Thursday at 72. No cause of death was given.
* Three of the four seniors on Central Florida's basketball team - including Michael Jordan's son Marcus - have decided to leave the program in the wake of NCAA sanctions, but All-Conference USA big man Keith Clanton said he will return.
Sport Stops *
Center Mike Fisher agreed to a 2-year, $8.4 million contract extension with the Nashville Predators. Fisher, 32, is married to singer Carrie Underwood.
* Texas Tech dismissed linebacker Daniel Cobb after he was arrested Sunday and charged with felony burglary. Cobb started seven games last season.
* Philip E. Moriarty, who coached U.S. divers at the 1960 Olympics and was Yale's swimming and diving coach for 17 years, died at 98 Saturday.
* NASCAR announced a deal with Fox Deportes in which the Spanish-language network will offer live coverage of six Sprint Cup Series races next year and carry nine more on tape delay.
* A federal judge in Austin, Texas, threw out Lance Armstrong's lawsuit against the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, a decision that allows the agency's drug case against the seven-time Tour de France winner to move ahead.
* Nebraska horse trainer Kim Veerhusen has been suspended and fined $1,500 pending an investigation of Cheatin' Cowboy, a horse that tested positive for a powerful stimulant called "frog juice" that's barred from use in the United States.