In Brief

GOLF

Gainey fires 65 for three-shot
Wyndham Championship lead

Tommy Gainey shot 5-under 65 on Friday to move to 12-under 128 and take a three-stroke lead after two rounds of the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C.

Gainey, who shared the first-round lead with Jeff Quinney, had six birdies to post the second-best 36-hole score in tournament history.

Ernie Els (66), Webb Simpson (65), Stuart Appleby (67) and Daniel Summerhays (65) were at 131. Jim Furyk (67), Alexandre Rocha (66), Paul Casey (67) and Retief Goosen (65) were four strokes back at 132.

Gainey's two-round score is second only to Carl Pettersson's 125 in 2008.

Also: Fred Couples shot 5-under 66 to take a one-stroke lead after the second round of the Senior Players Championship, the Champions Tour's final major of the season.

Couples was at 8-under 134 as he tries for his fifth Champions Tour victory of the season at Westchester Country Club's tree-lined West Course in Harrison, N.Y.

Peter Senior remains in second at 135 after a second-round 69.

Na Yeon Choi double-bogeyed the par-4 final hole, but her 6-under 65 held up for the first-round lead at the LPGA Safeway Classic in North Plains, Ore.

Grace Park, who has withdrawn or been cut in 38 of her last 67 tournaments, was two strokes back with a 67. Se Ri Pak, Anna Nordqvist, M.J. Hur and Ashli Bunch all shot 68s.

Spain's Jose Manuel Lara shot 4-under 68 to share the lead with Sweden's Mikael Lundberg at the Czech Open in Celadna, Czech Republic, after rain cut short the second round.

Lara had five birdies and a bogey for a 7-under 137 total. Lundberg stood at 7 under when his round was halted on No. 15.

COLLEGE ATHLETICS

Oregon QB says he was asleep
as teammate drove 118 mph

Oregon quarterback Darron Thomas said he was asleep in the car when a teammate was pulled over for driving 118 mph earlier this summer.

Thomas also denied he was smoking marijuana. A police dashboard camera video revealed that the officer who pulled over cornerback Cliff Harris thought he smelled the odor of marijuana coming from the car.

Harris was cited for speeding and driving on a suspended license following the traffic stop June 12 on Interstate 5 near Albany, Ore. No other citations were issued.

Harris, driving a rented car he said was lent to him by a university employee, was suspended indefinitely after the incident by Oregon coach Chip Kelly. He will not play in Oregon's opener against Louisiana State on Sept. 3 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Harris has been allowed to practice with the team, and his family paid the $1,620 in fines for the citation. The university compliance office was looking into whether NCAA rules were broken when the school employee allowed Harris to use the rental car.

Also: Police are investigating allegations that Louisiana State quarterback Jordan Jefferson and unidentified teammates were involved in a fight outside a Baton Rouge bar.

Baton Rouge Police Sgt. Donald Stone said witnesses claimed Jefferson and other players were involved in a fight in the parking lot outside Shady's bar around 2 a.m., but investigators hadn't substantiated that allegation or spoken to Jefferson.

"We are not naming (Jefferson) as a suspect at this time," Stone said. "We're in the early stages of our investigation."

The drug case against former Oklahoma State basketball coach Sean Sutton was dismissed by a judge, and his record has been expunged.

Sutton's attorney, Trace Morgan, confirmed that Payne County Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler had granted Sutton's motion to speed up his deferred sentence.

Sutton was arrested in February 2010 after agents from the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs said he picked up a shipment under another person's name that included about 40 pills, including the anti-anxiety drug clonazepam and two forms of the stimulant adderall.

The Big Ten Conference said it's not looking at another expansion -- for now.

The 12-team league said that its Council of Presidents/Chancellors met recently and there is no plan to "actively" engage in expansion now "or at any time in the foreseeable future, barring a significant shift in the current intercollegiate athletic landscape."

The Big Ten added Nebraska from the Big 12 in July. The Big 12 also lost Colorado to the Pac-12, and another Big 12 team, Texas A&M, this week confirmed its interest in joining the Southeastern Conference.

The UNLV women's soccer team opened its season with an offensive outburst, rolling past UC Riverside 3-0 in the Rebel Classic at Peter Johann Memorial Field.

Jenna Howerton, Courtney Botehlo and Jenn Wolfe scored for UNLV. Goalkeeper Kylie Wassell got the shutout, recording six saves.

TENNIS

Nadal, Federer knocked out in
quarters of Cincinnati tourney

A weary Rafael Nadal and an off-target Roger Federer were knocked out of the quarterfinals of the Western & Southern Open in Mason, Ohio.

No. 1 Novak Djokovic had to scuffle to avoid an upset, too.

Playing a day after he spent five hours on court, Nadal faded in a 6-3, 6-4 loss to American Mardy Fish, who had never beaten the second-ranked Spaniard.

Later, the third-seeded Federer struggled with his groundstrokes during a 6-2, 7-6 (3) loss to a sore-shouldered Tomas Berdych, who has won three of their last four matchups. Djokovic survived a match of long rallies and electrifying shots, beating Gael Monfils, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.

Fourth-seeded Andy Murray of Britain completed the semifinal field by beating France's Gilles Simon, 6-3, 6-3.

In the wide-open women's bracket, second-seeded Vera Zvonareva, No. 4 Maria Sharapova and No. 9 Andrea Petkovic advanced in straight sets. Jelena Jankovic moved into the semifinals when Peng Shuai withdrew with a sore left hip.

Also: Two-time defending U.S. Open champion Kim Clijsters will not go for three in a row this year because of a stomach muscle injury.

Clijsters, who missed Wimbledon with an ankle injury, pulled out of a tournament in Toronto this month with a muscle strain on the left side of her stomach.

MISCELLANEOUS

Prosecutors in Clemens case
say they made honest mistake

Prosecutors in the Roger Clemens perjury case said they made an honest mistake in showing jurors inadmissible evidence, and that shouldn't save the baseball star from facing a new trial.

The prosecutors filed arguments disputing Clemens' position that a second trial would violate his constitutional protection against double jeopardy by making him face the same charges twice.

Clemens had argued the showing of the evidence was a deliberate ploy to invoke a mistrial because the prosecutors' case was going badly. But the prosecutors say their case remains strong and Clemens wants to "gain an unwarranted windfall from this inadvertent error."

The prosecutors said it was an oversight when they showed jurors a video clip that mentioned that Clemens' teammate told his wife that Clemens admitted using performance-enhancing drugs -- evidence the judge had ruled inadmissible. The filing is the prosecutors' first public admission of wrongdoing in the case and first explanation of what went wrong.

Also: Braydon Salzman and two relievers combined on a three-hitter, and Huntington Beach, Calif., used a six-run fifth inning to pull away from Cumberland, R.I., for an 11-0 win at the Little League World Series in South Williamsport, Pa.

In other pool-play games, British Columbia beat Saudia Arabia, 6-5; Venezuela beat Netherlands, 6-1; and LaGrange, Ky., beat hometown favorite Clinton County, Pa., 1-0.

Chris Drury retired from the NHL after 12 seasons, unable to hook up with a new team after the New York Rangers bought out the final year of their captain's contract in June.

The center struggled through a final injury-plagued season with New York that limited him to 24 games. He returned for the final regular-season game and scored his lone goal in a win over New Jersey that helped the Rangers clinch a playoff spot.

The Chinese team that got into a nasty brawl with Georgetown players in an exhibition game went to the Beijing airport to reconcile with them.

A brief statement from Georgetown said coach John Thompson III and two of the team's players met with representatives of China's Bayi Rockets following "heated exchanges" in Thursday night's exhibition game.

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai said Bayi members went to Beijing airport to see off the Georgetown team and the sides exchanged souvenirs.

Danell Leyva won his first title at the U.S. gymnastics championships in St. Paul, Minn., beating two-time defending champion and world bronze medalist Jonathan Horton.

Horton had all but erased Leyva's lead midway through the meet, but he fell on his first release move on high bar, his second-to-last event, and Leyva finished with a high-flying spectacle on high bar to clinch the title.

Leyva finished with 183.8 points, 2.75 ahead of Horton. Three-time junior champ John Orozco was third.

U.S. sprinter Jeremy Dodson was arrested in Boulder, Colo., on suspicion of identity theft just days before leaving for the world championships in Daegu, South Korea.

Dodson was arrested and released Wednesday after posting a $10,000 bond. A condition of his bond is that he surrenders his passport.

Dodson is slated to run the 200 meters at worlds, with the preliminaries in that event beginning Sept. 2.