Campbell sends Woods packing in Match Play
Chad Campbell was certain he was headed into overtime, standing to the side of the 18th green Friday as Tiger Woods crouched to study a 12-foot birdie putt in the Match Play Championship in Carlsbad, Calif.
But when the ball took a hop after leaving Woods’ putter and stayed right of the cup, Campbell emerged with a 1-up victory and advanced to the quarterfinals on a day when some of the biggest names went home.
Vijay Singh lost to Padraig Harrington; Phil Mickelson never led in losing to David Howell; defending champion David Toms saw his eight-match winning streak end by going down to Tom Lehman; and Geoff Oglilby trailed by four with four holes to play and rallied to beat Mike Weir on the 21st hole.
•Loren Roberts opened his bid for a record fourth straight Champions Tour victory with a 2-under-par 69 in the Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am in Lutz, Fla., leaving him four strokes behind leaders Mark McNulty and Bruce Lietzke.
•South Korean rookie Seon Hwa Lee quietly shot a 6-under 66 to take a two-stroke lead over Natalie Gulbis after the second round of the Fields Open in Kapolei, Hawaii. Lee sits at 13-under-par 131. Wendy Ward of Edwall, Wash., is five shots off the pace after carding a 71.
Football
No tag for Vinatieri
Kicker Adam Vinatieri may get a chance to test free agency after the New England Patriots declined to protect him with the franchise player tag.
•Defensive lineman Raheem Brock signed a five-year contract to remain with the Indianapolis Colts.
Basketball
Sharp will retire
Texas Tech women’s basketball coach Marsha Sharp said she will retire at the end of the year. In 24 seasons at Tech she posted a 570-187 record with one NCAA title.
•Men’s coach Thad Matta insists he wants to stay at Ohio State, trying to quiet speculation he is a candidate for the Indiana coaching job.
Miscellany
Davenport loses
Maria Sharapova beat defending champion Lindsay Davenport 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 to reach the final of tennis’ Dubai Women’s Open in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. She’ll face Justine Henin-Hardenne, who defeated Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-2, 7-5.
•Driver Shane Hmiel has been suspended from competition for life by NASCAR after failing a third substance abuse test.
•Mark Martin won the Craftsman Truck Series Racetickets.com 200 in Fontana, Calif., his second win in the series in eight days. Also at Fontana, Kurt Busch won the pole for Sunday’s NASCAR Auto Club 500, averaging 187.086 mph in his Roger Penske-owned Dodge.
•Former WBA heavyweight champion Greg Page, 47, who sustained brain damage during a 2001 fight against Dale Crowe, was hospitalized in critical condition in Louisville, Ky., with respiratory failure, sepsis, hypothermia and seizures.
•Basketball player John Tofi, Texas-El Paso’s leading scorer and rebounder, is out for the season after tearing his right ACL this week.