In Brief
golf
UNLV squad tied for first place at NCAA men's golf regional
The No. 12 UNLV men's golf team shot an opening-round 6-over-par 294 on Thursday and is in a four-way tie for first place at the NCAA Regional in San Diego.
UNLV is tied with Oregon, California and Tennessee, and the group leads the field by a stroke.
UNLV senior Eddie Olson is atop the individual leaderboard after shooting a 4-under 68.
The low five teams and low individual not on those teams will advance to the NCAA Championship.
Also: Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo is a step closer to competing in the U.S. Open.
Romo was among seven golfers who moved on to sectional play after a round at The Honors Club of Dallas. Romo shot a 2-under 69, which put him in a four-man playoff for three spots.
Romo advances to a 36-hole qualifier June 7. If he's among the top finishers there, he would have a spot in the season's second major June 17 to 20 at Pebble Beach.
Michelle Wie survived a tight opening match against Stacy Prammanasudh in the Sybase Match Play Championship at Gladstone, N.J., taking the lead with a 30-foot birdie putt on the par-3 16th and winning 2-up with a conceded birdie on 18.
The eighth-seeded Wie will face Hee Young Park, a 19-hole winner over Ji Young Oh, in the second round today.
Top-seeded Jiyai Shin and No. 2 Ai Miyazato also advanced.
Jason Day birdied four of his first six holes on his way to a 4-under 66 for a share of the first-round lead when play was suspended at the Byron Nelson Championship at Irving, Texas.
The threatening skies never actually drenched the TPC Four Seasons course, but the radar looked so scary there was a delay of 3 hours, 44 minutes.
Joe Durant finished with an eagle and a birdie to match Day. Steve Elkington, Hunter Mahan and Jarrod Lyle were on the course with scores of 4 under.
college football
NCAA issues four-year license to MAACO Bowl Las Vegas
The MAACO Bowl Las Vegas was licensed through the 2013 season by the NCAA Football Issue Committee, the first time that the four-year cycle was used.
Bowls previously were licensed year to year, but this was to get in line with the four-year contracts that bowls sign with their conference affiliations.
This year's bowl, pitting the top selection from the Mountain West Conference against the fifth choice from the Pacific-10 Conference, is Dec. 22 at Sam Boyd Stadium.
Also: The head of the Bowl Championship Series is standing firm in his belief that Congress should stay out of the college football business.
BCS executive director Bill Hancock responded to a letter from two U.S. senators who are unhappy about the way the sport determines its champion.
Hancock wrote that "decisions about college football should be made by university presidents, athletics directors, coaches and conference commissioners rather than by members of Congress."
miscellaneous
Former Mojave High athlete dies in fall in West Virginia
A former Mojave High School football and baseball player has been identified as a man who died in a fall Sunday in Charleston, W.Va.
Charleston police said Daniel J. "D.J." Tilche, 22, of Charleston was found on an Amtrak Station platform after apparently falling from a bridge sidewalk. Investigators think Tilche was walking home when he fell. His body was discovered by an Amtrak passenger, according to media reports.
Tilche was a quarterback on the Rattlers football team in 2004. The next spring he played for the school's varsity baseball team and was selected an infielder at-large on the Class 4A All-Southern Nevada team.
Tilche graduated from the University of Charleston this month. He was a starter on the Golden Eagles baseball team for four years.
Also: The UNLV baseball team lost to San Diego State 8-4 in a Mountain West Conference game in San Diego.
Jarred Frierson went 3-for-4 with two RBIs for the Rebels (27-25, 11-10 MWC).
Super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan defeated Eric Barcelona by unanimous decision in a bantamweight fight at Sydney, Australia.
The Armenian-born Darchinyan, who fights out of Australia, knocked down Barcelona twice in the fifth round and once in the 11th. The judges scored the fight 120-103, 118-105 and 116-108.
Trainer D. Wayne Lukas said Dublin will not run in the Belmont Stakes, eliminating the chance of any horse running in all three Triple Crown races this year.
Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki retired with an injured ankle in the Warsaw Open quarterfinals in Poland, jeopardizing her play at the French Open.
Wozniacki, ranked No. 3 behind the Williams sisters, lost the first set 6-3 to fifth-seeded Zheng Jie before retiring.
