Five to be inducted into Golf Hall of Fame
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Ian Woosnam, Davis Love III, Meg Mallon and Lorena Ochoa have been selected for the World Golf Hall of Fame.
Also selected Tuesday for induction was Henry Longhurst, a London Sunday Times columnist who later became a golf commentator for the BBC.
The induction will be Sept. 26 in New York.
Woosnam is a former world No. 1 who won the Masters in 1991. Love is a former PGA champion with 20 career PGA Tour victories. Mallon won 18 times on the LPGA Tour, including four majors. Ochoa won 27 times and two majors when she retired at No. 1 in the world.
College football: Stanford coach David Shaw said running back Christian McCaffrey is feeling better and is hopeful that the 2015 Heisman Trophy finalist will be back in the lineup against Colorado on Saturday. McCaffrey has been sidelined since suffering an undisclosed injury in the first half against Washington State on Oct. 8. He did not play in last week’s win against Notre Dame and the Cardinal are continuing to take a cautious approach with him. McCaffrey could be cleared to join practice on Wednesday. McCaffrey leads Stanford with 520 rushing yards and three touchdowns this year.
NBA: Commissioner Adam Silver says returning the All-Star Game to Charlotte in 2019 is “a high priority,” providing there’s a resolution to a North Carolina law that restricts the rights of LGBT people. The NBA moved the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte because it felt the law known as House Bill 2 was discriminatory. It will be played in New Orleans instead. … The Knicks have re-signed forward Cleanthony Early The 6-foot-8 Early averaged 1.8 points in 17 games for New York during his second NBA season in 2015-16, a season shortened after he was shot in the right knee and robbed in December 2015. He was assigned to the NBA D-League’s Westchester Knicks on four occasions, averaging 15.6 points and 7.3 rebounds in seven appearances.
— Wire reports
