Auto Racing

Family files wrongful death suit against Tony Stewart

ALBANY, N.Y. – The family of a young driver struck and killed by Tony Stewart’s car on an upstate New York sprint racing track filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the NASCAR star Friday.

The lawsuit was filed as Stewart returns to Watkins Glen International on the one-year anniversary of the fatal crash.

The lawsuit accuses Stewart of gross negligence, saying he gunned his engine and put his car into a skid as 20-year-old Kevin Ward Jr. walked onto the track after a crash at Canandaigua Motorsports Park on Aug. 9, 2014. The car struck Ward, and he was killed.

A grand jury declined to indict Stewart.

Golf

Furyk erasing bad course memories with stellar play

Jim Furyk is two rounds away from erasing a couple of bad memories at Firestone.

Even with a bogey on his last hole for the second consecutive day, Furyk did plenty right Friday in the Bridgestone Invitational for another 4-under 66 that gave him a four-shot lead going into the weekend.

RENO, Nev. – Andres Gonzales had 11 birdies and a bogey in a 21-point round Friday for a share of the lead with Brendan Steele in the Barracuda Championship.

CALGARY, Alberta – Colin Montgomerie birdied three of the final four holes for an 8-under 62 and the first-round lead Friday in the Champions Tour’s Shaw Charity Classic.

NFL

49ers let Aldon Smith go after more legal issues

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Linebacker Aldon Smith was released by the San Francisco 49ers after his latest arrest.

The team announced the move Friday, hours after Smith was let out of jail.

Smith was arrested Thursday night, the fifth legal run-in since the team drafted him, and two days after general manager Trent Baalke said the organization would like to keep him beyond this season.

Santa Clara police arrested Smith, who is accused of drunken driving, hit and run and vandalism.

South Dakota tribe doesn’t welcome Redskins’ money

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – A Native American tribe in South Dakota will return a $25,000 donation from a charitable arm of the NFL’s Washington Redskins.

A check for that amount from the Washington Redskins’ Original Americans Foundation was made out to the rodeo association of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota.

Tribal Council Vice Chairman Ryman LeBeau told The Associated Press that the council voted Wednesday to return the current donation and any future money from the organization.

Team owner Dan Snyder created the organization in March 2014 after calls for the team to change its name, which activists have long considered offensive.

Soccer

Top CONCACAF official out in latest scandal backlash

MIAMI – CONCACAF fired its secretary general, Enrique Sanz, who is implicated in a U.S. Department of Justice investigation of corruption in soccer.

Sanz is already facing a life ban from FIFA which provisionally suspended him June 1.

On the same day, he was provisionally banned by CONCACAF pending an internal inquiry of corruption which also implicated its president Jeffrey Webb in taking bribes arranged by Sanz.

Sanz, a Colombian-American, was an executive with marketing agency Traffic Sports when he joined CONCACAF in 2012.

Associated Press