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College Golf
EUGENE, Ore. – Beau Hossler injured his left shoulder and still managed to close out his match Tuesday to send top-seeded Texas into the NCAA championship final against Oregon.
Hossler first felt pain on a 4-iron on the 15th hole, and he winced coming down the stretch at Eugene Country Club. From a bunker short of the 17th green, he used a putter to get it on the green, and then holed a 25-foot putt for a 2-and-1 victory over Andrew Levitt of Southern California.
Oregon, No. 26 in the NCAA ranking going into the championship, knocked off Illinois in the other semifinal match.
The Ducks will be going for their first national championship.
Texas coach John Fields said he was not sure if Hossler would be able to compete in Wednesday’s final.
College Football
DESTIN, Fla. – Alabama coach Nick Saban wants a college football commissioner.
Speaking at the Southeastern Conference annual meetings Tuesday, Saban said satellite camps are “bad for college football.”
The Crimson Tide coach added “there needs to be somebody that looks out for what’s best for the game, not what’s best for the Big Ten or what’s best for the SEC or what’s best for Jim Harbaugh, but what’s best for the game of college football – the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players and the people that play it. That’s bigger than all of this.”
Saban said each of the Power Five conferences continue to politick for what they want, often creating the kind of chaos that surrounded satellite camps earlier this year. The NCAA Division I Board of Directors rescinded a proposed ban on satellite camps in April, rebuffing a request from the SEC and others and clearing the way for coaches to hold clinics far from their campuses.
Saban said someone should be overseeing all of it. Asked who he would want in the role,.
Cycling
BRUSSELS – Five-time Tour de France winner Eddy Merckx, considered by many the greatest cyclist of all time, will be charged Wednesday in a Belgian corruption case linked to irregular purchases of equipment by Brussels-area police and municipalities, a Brussels prosecutor said.
The prosecutor, who spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to make public statements, said Merckx is accused of corruption and the use of false documents in the sale of 46 bicycles by his company Cycles Eddy Merckx to police in southern Brussels in 2006-07.
NBA
ATLANTA – The Warriors’ Game 7 win to complete a comeback from down 3-1 in the Western Conference finals drew the largest TV audience for an NBA game on cable.
The defending champs’ 96-88 come-from-behind victory over the Thunder on Monday night on TNT averaged 15.9 million viewers – more than several NBA Finals games in recent years.
It’s the most-watched telecast of any kind in TNT’s 28-year history, the network said Tuesday.
It was the largest audience for any pre-NBA Finals game since Game 7 of the 2000 Western Conference finals between the Lakers and Trail Blazers.
The Oklahoma City-Golden State series was already a major attraction after the Thunder upset the San Antonio Spurs in the conference semifinals. Then Oklahoma City left the Warriors on the brink of elimination with two straight blowout victories against a team that won a record 73 games during the regular season.
Associated Press
