PGA commissioner sees no reason for testing
The PGA Tour is one of the few major sports organization that does not have a drug testing program, and commissioner Tim Finchem said Wednesday that’s not about to change.
Finchem was defensive about the tour’s lack of a drug policy – the tour doesn’t even publish a list of banned drugs – and suggested that it was not worth testing without any evidence that players were using performance-enhancing drugs.
“I don’t think we’re naive,” Finchem said at the Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio. “I think we’re very aggressive in having the capability to do whatever is necessary. But we need more than somebody just saying, ‘Why don’t you go test and make sure?’ “
The Royal & Ancient Golf Club, which sets the rules for everywhere in the world except the United States and Mexico, plans a random test at the World Amateur Team championship in South Africa in October.
•Kevin Tway, son of 25-year PGA Tour veteran and former PGA champion Bob Tway, beat Lloyd Saltman 4 and 3 to advance to the second round of the U.S. Amateur Championship at Chaska, Minn.
He moved on in the match play competition at Hazeltine National beating the 20-year-old Saltman, who played in the 2005 British Open and was a member of Great Britain and Ireland’s Walker Cup team.
College football
Keller becomes Husker
Former Arizona State starting quarterback Sam Keller is now a Nebraska Cornhusker.
Keller decided to leave ASU after coach Dirk Koetter demoted him to the second string on Sunday.
•An Athens, Ohio, judge refused to let Ohio coach Frank Solich withdraw his no contest plea to a drunken driving charge, finding that there was ample evidence to support the offense.
Solich had asked to drop the plea based on his claim that he was not drunk but was slipped the “date rape” drug GHB.
Miscellany
Frost claims innocence
A former NHL agent who was the target of a murder-for-hire plot by one of his players was freed on $10,000 bail in Napanee, Ontario, proclaiming himself not guilty of charges that he sexually exploited a group of teenagers.
“Innocent,” said David Frost as he was led from the courthouse and into his lawyer’s car after a brief court appearance.
Frost represented former St. Louis Blues forward Mike Danton, who’s serving a 7 1/2-year sentence in a New Jersey prison for his role in a $10,000 plot to kill Frost, also his Canadian youth hockey coach.
•Portland Trail Blazers forward LaMarcus Aldridge, the second overall pick in the June draft, underwent surgery to repair a ligament tear in his right shoulder and will miss the start of the regular season.
•Mark Martin, starting from the pole for the first time in a truck race at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway, made just one pit stop and won the Craftsman Truck Series’ O’Reilly 200.
•Derek Keller and Devon DeJardin of Beaverton, Ore., combined to no-hit Lemont, Ill., and advance to the U.S. Championship game with a 4-3 win at the Little League World Series in South Williamsport, Pa.