Miscellany

Don Pooley shot an 8-under-par 64 to grab a two-shot lead after the opening round of the BellSouth Classic, being played for the first time at the new TPC Sugarloaf Country Club in Duluth, Ga… . Jack Flash will skip the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of racing’s Triple Crown, after finishing seventh in the Kentucky Derby. … Duke University was awarded the College Football Association’s Academic Achievement Award after graduating 100 percent of its players last season. … Seventy countries, regions and territories, including reclusive North Korea, have said they intend to participate in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, organizers announced.