In Brief

GOLF

Glover ends victory drought,
claims Wells Fargo in playoff

Lucas Glover had gone 41 tournaments and nearly two years since winning the U.S. Open for his last victory. His win Sunday in the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, N.C., was every bit as demanding.

Glover closed with three tough pars on the rugged finishing stretch at Quail Hollow for a 3-under 69. Then he faced a playoff with close friend and former Clemson teammate Jonathan Byrd, who made a 15-foot birdie putt on the final hole to catch him.

Glover kept the tournament in suspense to the very end.

After Byrd took bogey with a poor chip from the hazard, Glover had two putts from 25 feet for the win. He left the first one 4 feet short and still above the hole, then knocked that in for his third career victory.

Byrd, who started the final round with a one-shot lead as he tried for his third win in seven months, closed with a 72. Even so, he finished with two clutch pars and one dramatic birdie to catch Glover and force the playoff.

They finished at 15-under 273.

Rory Sabbatini, who closed with a 65 and was 13-under 131 on the weekend, wound up alone in third and will move into the top 50 of the world.

Also: Tom Lehman captured the Regions Tradition at Shoal Creek in Birmingham, Ala., for his third victory in seven Champions Tour events this year, beating Peter Senior with a par on the second hole of a playoff.

Senior, from Australia, missed a 5-foot par putt on No. 18. Lehman two-putted from about 20 feet.

Both parred the first playoff hole, also No. 18.

Lehman and Senior finished at 13-under 275. Lehman had a bogey-free 3-under 69, and Senior shot a 68.

Thomas Aiken earned his first European Tour title with a two-shot victory at the Spanish Open in Terrassa, and promptly dedicated the victory to golf great Seve Ballesteros.

The South African player shot a 2-under 70 for a 10-under total of 278 to edge Anders Hansen (70) of Denmark.

Ballesteros died on Saturday from complications of a cancerous brain tumor. Aiken said the 54-year-old Spaniard, who won the Spanish Open three times, was "everything to the game of golf and I am happy to have won for him."

COLLEGE ATHLETICS

Feiner's tiebreaking home run
lifts UNLV to 6-3 baseball win

Travis Feiner snapped a 3-3 tie with a solo home run in the top of the sixth inning, and the UNLV baseball team went on to beat Washington State 6-3 in a nonconference game in Pullman, Wash.

The tiebreaking shot made a winner of Rebels starter Max Javate (5-1), who went six innings and gave up five hits and three runs, while striking out three and walking one.

Jesse Garcia and Zack Hartman finished up for UNLV (30-19), with Hartman recording his eighth save.

Feiner added a single in the eighth inning, and Trent Cook also had two hits for the Rebels.

UNLV took two of three games from the Cougars.

Also: Ashlii Holland drove in five runs, including three on a walk-off home run in the seventh inning, as the UNLV softball team beat San Diego State 13-11 in a Mountain West Conference game at Eller Media Stadium.

Trailing 11-9 with one out in the seventh, the Rebels rallied on a double by Heather Harrison, a run-scoring single from Paige Emerson and an infield single by Elena Fata, before Holland clubbed the game-winning shot to left-center field.

Holland also had a two-run homer in the first inning for the Rebels (24-18, 6-5 MWC).

UNLV's Kylie Wagner (3-2) picked up the win in relief.

Former Findlay Prep stars Cory Joseph and Tristan Thompson are leaving the University of Texas and headed for the June 23 NBA Draft, according to the Austin American-Statesman.

Butler guard Shelvin Mack said he is keeping his name in the NBA Draft and won't return for his senior season with the small Indiana school that made it to the NCAA basketball finals two years running.

Mack is Butler's all-time NCAA Tournament scoring leader with 232 points in 13 games.

He told The Indianapolis Star by phone that he thinks it's a good time for him to chase his dreams.

Kentucky guard DeAndre Liggins will remain in the NBA Draft.

Liggins' length and aggressiveness helped him become one of the top defenders in the country during his three years at Kentucky. He averaged 8.6 points and 4.0 rebounds last season while helping the Wildcats reach their first Final Four in 13 years.

Tennessee's all-Southeastern Conference guard Scotty Hopson announced he'll enter the NBA Draft.

The 6-foot-7-inch swingman, who averaged 17 points per game last season, told the Knoxville News Sentinel that he felt the timing was right to leave and that coach Bruce Pearl's firing "played a lot into my decision."

Stanford guard Jeremy Green decided to skip his senior season and enter the NBA Draft.

Green averaged 16.7 points per game last season, fifth-best in the Pac-10 Conference.

Michigan wide receiver Darryl Stonum was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of drunken driving, the day before the school announced he had been suspended indefinitely.

Coach Brady Hoke said Saturday that Stonum had made a "poor decision" and was being disciplined, but he didn't elaborate.

Stonum started 12 games as a junior last season and ranked second on the team in receptions and yards receiving. He has 76 career receptions for 1,008 yards and six touchdowns.

MISCELLANEOUS

Vettel's leisurely Sunday drive
ends with Formula One victory

Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel cruised to victory in the Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul, clinching his third win of the season ahead of teammate Mark Webber to extend his lead in the standings.

The 23-year-old Formula One champion was never in trouble at Istanbul Park after starting from the pole for the fourth consecutive race.

Red Bull started 1-2 on the grid and Webber passed Fernando Alonso late in an exciting race that saw a lot of bumping and overtaking early on, and featured four tire changes by the top four drivers.

Alonso was third, giving Ferrari its first podium finish this season.

Vettel leads McLaren's Lewis Hamilton by 34 points and Webber by 38.

Also: Manchester United is on the verge of a record 19th English championship crown after beating title rival Chelsea 2-1 in London.

Alex Ferguson's team is six points clear of Chelsea with two games to go and will regain the Premier League trophy from the London club with at least a draw at Blackburn on Saturday.

"The players won't muck it up," Ferguson said. "They'll get the point."

United can afford to lose its matches against Blackburn and Blackpool if Chelsea doesn't secure a maximum of six points from its remaining fixtures.

Panathinaikos won the Euroleague basketball final in Barcelona, Spain, beating Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv 78-70 behind 16 points and nine assists from Dimitris Diamantidis.

It was the sixth European title and third in five years for the Greek club. Italy's Montepaschi Siena beat Real Madrid 80-62 for third place.

Former NFL player Mack Herron was arrested in Chicago on a charge of heroin possession.

The 62-year-old Herron played for the New England Patriots in the 1970s. The team's website said he set a 1974 NFL record with 2,444 all-purpose yards.

Chicago police said they spotted Herron on Friday near an abandoned building with a tinfoil packet containing heroin.

Police said Herron has been arrested some 20 times and served jail time, mainly on drug convictions.

Bail was set at $25,000.

Lionel Rose, the first Australian Aborigine to win a world boxing title, died in Melbourne. He was 62.

Rose beat Japan's Fighting Harada in Tokyo in 1968 to win the world bantamweight title during a career that included 42 wins, 12 by knockout, in 53 fights.