Golf
Connelly stays tied for 6th at NCAA event; Song leads
Central Florida senior Stephanie Connelly, a native of Pasadena, shot a 3-over-par 75 on Thursday and remains tied for sixth at 5-over 221 after three rounds of the NCAA Division I women's championship at Caves Valley Golf Course in Owings Mills. Southern California freshman Jennifer Song shot a 71 and leads by two strokes at 216.
PGA HP BYRON NELSON CHAMPIONSHIP: : Rookie James Nitties of Australia finished with four consecutive birdies for a 5-under 65 and a share of the first-round lead with Ken Duke in Irving, Texas.
CHAMPIONS SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP: : Scott Hoch bogeyed the final two holes in Beachwood, Ohio, for a 4-under 66 and share of the first-round lead in the first major of the year for the over-50 set.
LPGA CORNING CLASSIC: : Hee Young Park matched her career low with an 8-under 64 for a share of the lead with Karine Icher after one round in Corning, N.Y.
NFL
Ex-quarterback Leaf indicted on drug, burglary charges
Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf has been indicted by a Randall County, Texas, grand jury on drug and burglary charges. The indictment was handed up Wednesday in Canyon. It charged the 33-year-old former San Diego Chargers quarterback and former West Texas A&M quarterbacks coach with one count of burglary to a habitation, seven counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and delivery of a simulated controlled substance. Canyon police Lt. Dale Davis said Leaf is suspected of breaking into a Canyon apartment on Oct. 30 and stealing the painkiller Hydrocodone, which had been prescribed to an injured football player.
MICHAEL VICK: : Suspended NFL quarterback Michael Vick returned home from prison in Leavenworth, Kan., and was fitted with an electronic monitor. He remains a federal inmate, serving two months of home confinement to complete his 23-month sentence for running a dogfighting ring. He will also be starting his $10-an-hour job as a construction laborer - a condition of his probation.
ET CETERA: : Former Bears defensive lineman William "The Refrigerator" Perry, 46, has been released a hospital in Aiken, S.C., after a monthlong stay for complications of Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a nervous system disorder. ... Veteran cornerback Dre' Bly signed a one-year deal with the 49ers. ... Eagles executive Mark Donovan was named vice president and chief operating officer of the Chiefs.
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