in brief

golf

Three tied for lead in Heritage;
ex-Rebel Campbell one behind

Jim Furyk (68), Charles Howell III (67) and Greg Owen (69) were tied for the second-round lead Friday in the PGA Tour's Verizon Heritage at Hilton Head Island, S.C.

They are at 7-under-par 135, one stroke ahead of a group of five that includes former UNLV star Chad Campbell. First-round leader K.J. Choi shot 74 and is three shots off the lead.

Also: Masters champion Phil Mickelson committed to play in the Quail Hollow Championship in Charlotte, N.C., joining Tiger Woods, who said Thursday he will play in the PGA Tour event that starts April 29.

Mark O'Meara shot a 6-under 65 to take a one-stroke lead over Mike Reid and defending champion Nick Price after the first round of the Champions Tour's Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am in Lutz, Fla.

Sweden's Anna Nordqvist won the inaugural Mojo 6 Jamaica LPGA Invitational in Montego Bay, beating Amanda Blumenherst 1-up in the six-hole championship match. Nordqvist made $350,000 in the unofficial event.

Hall of Fame receiver Jerry Rice shot a 5-over 76 -- seven strokes better than his opening 83 -- and missed the cut in the Fresh Express Classic in Hayward, Calif. Rice, in his Nationwide Tour debut, finished one stroke ahead of last-place Brendon Todd. The cut was 2 under.

miscellaneous

Dolphins trade disappointing
Ginn to 49ers for draft choice

Underachieving receiver Ted Ginn Jr. was traded from the Miami Dolphins to San Francisco, filling one of the 49ers' biggest offseason needs.

Miami got a fifth-round pick in the NFL Draft for Ginn, the ninth overall pick in 2007. Last season, he lost his starting job and had 38 receptions for 454 yards and one touchdown, and he had five TD catches in three seasons with Miami. He also returns kicks.

Also: The Seattle Seahawks signed receivers Mike Williams and Reggie Williams, both former first-round draft picks, to free-agent contracts. Mike Williams, who played for first-year Seahawks coach Pete Carroll at Southern California, has been out of the NFL for two years, and Reggie Williams, who attended Washington, has been out of the league for a year.

Kelly Pavlik will defend his WBC and WBO middleweight titles against Sergio Martinez tonight in an HBO-televised doubleheader in Atlantic City. Pavlik (36-1, 32 knockouts) will be fighting for only the second time in 14 months when he meets Argentine southpaw Martinez (44-2-1, 24 KOs).

The HBO broadcast includes an IBF super middleweight title fight between champion Lucian Bute and Edison Miranda in Montreal.

Portland Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy had arthroscopic surgery on his right knee and will miss one to two weeks. The three-time NBA All-Star has been ruled out of Portland's first-round playoff series against the Phoenix Suns but could return if the Blazers advance.

One year after signing a seven-year, $10.85 million contract extension at Missouri, Mike Anderson is talking with Oregon about its basketball coaching vacancy. The Ducks fired Ernie Kent last month after a 16-16 season and ninth-place finish in the Pac-10.

Michigan State guards Durrell Summers and Kalin Lucas said they will return for their senior seasons rather than enter the NBA Draft.

Top-seeded Novak Djokovic and second-seeded Rafael Nadal advanced to the semifinals of the ATP Tour's Monte Carlo Masters in Monaco. Nadal has won 30 straight matches in the event.

Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki advanced to the semifinals of the WTA Tour's Family Circle Cup in Charleston, S.C., but second-seeded Jelena Jankovic was upset by Daniela Hantuchova, 1-6, 6-3, 6-3.

About 130,000 World Cup tickets have been sold in the first 36 hours of the final phase, and the semifinals and final are sold out for the event in South Africa. Twenty-nine of the 64 matches are sold out, and about 370,000 of 2.7 million tickets are still available.

Aided by junior Chris Cameron's all-around victory, Michigan won its first NCAA men's gymnastics title in 11 years, beating Stanford by 0.7 of a point in West Point, N.Y.