In Brief
GOLF
Overton fires 64 to take
lead at Byron Nelson
Jeff Overton shot a bogey-free 6-under-par 64 on Thursday to take the first-round lead at the Byron Nelson Championship in Irving, Texas. Overton was one shot better than Ryan Palmer in the PGA Tour event.
A year after tying for second at TPC Four Seasons, Overton began his back nine with four birdies in a seven-hole stretch.
Sergio Garcia, who withdrew from a British Open qualifier this week and didn't even play a practice round because of an infected fingernail, was in a group of nine players at 66.
Also: Japan's Kiyoshi Murota shot 6-under 66 to overshadow stars such as Mark O'Meara and Tom Watson and grab the first-round lead in the weather-plagued Senior PGA Championship in Louisville, Ky.
Half the field was still on the course when darkness fell. Those 78 players will hit Valhalla Golf Club early today to complete the first round.
Murota had a one-shot edge on alternate Trevor Dodds, with former Masters and British Open winner O'Meara at 68. Watson, an eight-time major champion, shot 70.
Luke Donald shot 7-under 64 to take a two-stroke lead in the suspended first round of the BMW PGA Championship in Virginia Water, England. Donald, ranked second, was eight strokes ahead of No. 1 Lee Westwood in their battle for the top spot in the world ranking.
UNLV
Doubles squad comes up
short in NCAA upset bid
UNLV tennis players Mehdi Bouras and Bernard Schoeman fell just short of an upset in the first round of the NCAA Doubles Championships at Stanford, Calif.
Bouras and Schoeman, ranked 43rd, lost to No. 2 Drew Courtney and Micheal Shabaz of Virginia, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 7-6 (2). The loss ended the season for UNLV, following Bouras' exit in the first round of singles Wednesday.
Also: UNLV sprinter Emily Blok advanced to the quarterfinals in the 100-meter dash at the NCAA's West preliminaries in Eugene, Ore. Blok clocked 11.73 seconds.
Blok will run in the 100 quarters today, along with the 200 prelims, and Amanda Bingson will lead three Rebels into the hammer throw.
MISCELLANEOUS
Cycling star Armstrong
beefs up legal team
Lance Armstrong is adding two lawyers to his legal team who previously won a major legal victory against federal investigators in a doping case.
John Keker and Elliot Peters of San Francisco represented Major League Baseball players as they won a key appeals court case two years ago in which a panel of federal judges ruled that agents had no right to seize baseball's anonymous drug-testing results from 2003.
A top investigator in that case, Jeff Novitzky, has been leading a federal probe into whether seven-time Tour de France winner Armstrong took performance-enhancing drugs.
Also: World-record holder Usain Bolt needed a late kick to win his first race in nine months, capturing the 100 meters in 9.91 seconds to edge former record holder Asafa Powell at the Golden Gala in Rome.
Powell finished in 9.93, and European champion Christophe Lemaitre was third in 10.00.
Age and injury finally caught up to Doug Weight, who retired from the NHL at age 40 after a lengthy career that ended with a stint as the New York Islanders' captain.
Weight, who played for six teams in 19 years, announced his retirement and accepted a job with the Islanders as an assistant coach and senior adviser to general manager Garth Snow.
Former North Carolina State point guard Ryan Harrow said he's transferring to Kentucky.
Harrow averaged 9.3 points in 29 games as a freshman. He will have three years of eligibility, starting in 2012-13.
Former WNBA player Margo Dydek, who was pregnant with her third child, has died after suffering a heart attack a week ago and being placed in a medically induced coma.
The Poland-born Dydek, 37, suffered the heart attack May 19 at her home in Brisbane, Australia. Dydek was the No. 1 pick in the 1998 WNBA Draft by the Utah Starzz.
Three area high school players were honored by US Lacrosse.
Michael Morse of Centennial and Halston Harding of Coronado were among 40 players recognized as Regional All-Americans. The organization will announce two more rounds of regional awards, with 24 players eventually being named first team All-Americans.
Coronado's Rudy Gerson was one of 21 players to receive All-Academic honors.
No. 3 seed Brigham Young lost to top-seeded Texas Christian 12-5 in a losers' bracket game at the Mountain West Conference baseball tournament in San Diego. BYU reached that game by beating San Diego State 8-2, with Cougars shortstop Andrew Law recording an unassisted triple play.
In other action, No. 6 New Mexico beat No. 2 Utah 6-5 to reach the championship, where the Lobos will face TCU or get a rematch with the Utes.
