IN BRIEF

GOLF

Kim, Allenby to meet in Match Play semis

Anthony Kim advanced to the Volvo World Match Play Championship semifinals Friday despite losing to Scott Strange by three holes in his final-round match at Finca Cortesin in Casares, Spain.

Strange needed to beat Kim by at least four holes to advance and was 4-up going to the par-5 18th, but Kim took the hole after hitting his second shot within 4 feet. Strange put his third shot into a bunker before conceding the hole.

Kim will face Robert Allenby in today's semifinals. Allenby beat Oliver Wilson by three holes to set up a Presidents Cup rematch, where Kim won easily.

Angel Cabrera will face Ross Fisher in the other semifinal. Cabrera beat Simon Dyson by seven holes, and Fisher edged Jeev Milkha Singh by a hole.

Also: John Cook shot a tournament-record 10-under-par 62 to take a three-stroke lead over Tom Watson and Phil Blackmar after the second round of the Champions Tour's season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship in Sonoma, Calif.

Cook had 10 birdies and needed just 23 putts to reach 14-under 130 for the tournament.

PGA Tour officials postponed the Viking Classic in Madison, Miss., until at least Sunday and will evaluate the course today before making a decision on whether the tournament will be held.

Heavy rain this week has left standing water and tracts of mud all over the course.

Sweden's Daniel Chopra shot a 6-under 65 for a share of the lead with England's Ian Poulter and Taiwan's Chan Yih-shin in the rain-plagued Singapore Open.

Poulter had 15 holes left and Chan 11 when play was suspended because of darkness. Phil Mickelson was 1 under after four holes in the second round.

Americans Anna Grzebien and Meaghan Francella shot 6-under 66s in wet conditions to share the first-round lead in the LPGA Tour's Hana Bank KOLON Championship in Incheon, South Korea.

South Korean star Jiyai Shin was a stroke back with Bo-Kyung Kim, Jimin Kang, Vicky Hurst, Catriona Matthew and Pat Hurst.

MOTOR SPORTS

Allmendinger punished by Petty Motorsports

NASCAR Sprint Cup driver A.J. Allmendinger has been fined $10,000 and placed on probation through the 2010 season by Richard Petty Motorsports following his arrest on a charge of drunken driving.

Mooresville (N.C.) police said Allmendinger, who drives the No. 44 Dodge for RPM, failed a field sobriety test after being pulled over early Thursday. Allmendinger said in a statement he had drinks with dinner and made a mistake by getting behind the wheel.

Also: Dale Earnhardt Jr. will keep his crew chief next season.

Hendrick Motorsports said Lance McGrew will stay with the No. 88 team in 2010.

McGrew took over the job on an interim basis in May when Tony Eury Jr. was fired after a horrendous start to the season.

Juan Pablo Montoya was never upset by the "taco" remark that got ESPN announcer Bob Griese suspended.

The network this week suspended Griese from broadcasting a college football game today for the remark he made last week about Montoya. During a spot for NASCAR, the top five drivers in the standings were shown and Griese was asked where Montoya was in the promotion.

Griese replied Montoya was "out having a taco."

"At the end of the day, it's not my responsibility, it is not our sport, it is completely out of my hands," Montoya said at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway. "I never paid attention to the comment, and as I said, I didn't really care. If they wanted to suspend him for what he did, it's their problem, not NASCAR or myself.

"I was good with (the remark)."

NASCAR will allow double-file restarts in its Truck Series in 2010, part of a series of modifications coming to the circuit next year.

Teams will be able to add fuel and change tires on the same pit stop, and teams will be able to have a maximum of six crew members in the pits, up from five this year.

UNLV ATHLETICS

Men's soccer team ends league road skid

Will Zieghan scored off an assist from Roberto Sarsan in the 75th minute as the UNLV men's soccer team beat San Jose State 1-0 in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation match in San Jose, Calif.

It was the first conference road victory for UNLV (7-5-3, 1-3-1 MPSF) since 2004.

Also: UNLV men's tennis player Mehdi Boura won twice to advance to the semifinals of the Rebel Classic at the Fertitta Tennis Complex.

Bouras downed David Flodberg of Northern Arizona 6-1, 6-2 and beat Dmitry Lebedev of Arkansas, 7-5, 6-0.

In doubles, Matthew Kunkiel and Attila Toth posted an 8-6 opening victory over a duo from Northern Arizona.

The UNLV men's and women's swim teams split a Mountain West Conference meet with Brigham Young in Provo, Utah, with the men winning 171-122 and the women losing, 213-87.

The men claimed 12 of 16 events with seven different individual-race winners. Three Rebels were double-event winners: Kier Maitland in the 500- and 1,000-yard freestyle, Michael Lowenstein in the 100 and 200 backstroke and Andrew Morrell in the 100 and 200 breaststroke.

Marley Prothero had the women's lone victory, in the 200 breaststroke.

MISCELLANEOUS

Lukacevic, Lawrence lead Wranglers to win

Winger Ned Lukacevic scored the tie-breaking goal 13 minutes, 46 seconds into the third period as the Wranglers beat the Ontario Reign 4-3 in an ECHL game in Ontario, Calif.

Mick Lawrence scored two goals for Las Vegas (3-3-0).

Wranglers goaltender Michael Ouzas stopped 22 of 25 shots.

Also: Kentucky point guard John Wall has been cleared to play by the NCAA.

The school announced that the 6-foot-4-inch freshman must sit out two games and repay almost $800 in expenses incurred during unofficial visits to schools during his junior year at Word of God Christian Academy.

Wall's status had been up in the air as the NCAA investigated the relationship between Wall and Brian Clifton, his former AAU coach.

Connecticut picked up right where it left off last season: unanimous No. 1 in the women's basketball poll.

The Huskies received all 40 first-place votes from a national media panel. It's the seventh time in school history UConn has held the top preseason ranking.

Connecticut was the unanimous choice atop the poll the final 15 weeks last season, winning its sixth national championship to cap a 39-0 run. Huskies coach Geno Auriemma returns four starters from that team, including player of the year Maya Moore.

Stanford was voted second and Ohio State third, with Notre Dame and North Carolina rounding out the first five.

The San Francisco Giants signed Freddy Sanchez to a $12 million, two-year contract extension.

The Giants held an $8.1 million option for 2010 for the three-time All-Star second baseman. Sanchez, who was acquired from Pittsburgh on July 29 for a minor league pitcher, will make $6 million in each year of the new deal.

New York's top racetracks are off limits to trainer Jeff Mullins for six months.

The New York Racing Association barred the trainer from Aqueduct, Belmont and Saratoga for violating its barn rules by giving one of his horses an unknown substance, then providing conflicting information about it.