Clemson cited for smarts
Clemson’s most recent national championship football team also met the mark in the classroom.
On Tuesday, the Tigers’ 2018 football team was one of 10 national champs to earn recognition from the NCAA for their Academic Progress Rate scores. The scores cover the academic years 201516 through 2018-19.
Every player on a team receives one point each semester for remaining academically eligible and another point for staying enrolled. Graduating players receive both points for the semester. Programs that produce a perfect score of 1,000 and those finishing among the top 10% of teams in their sport are honored by the NCAA.
All 881 women’s programs that made the list earned perfect scores. Of the 1,380 teams that were honored — an increase of 52 over last year — none scored below 987.
Clemson’s football team is one of only two FBS programs to make the cut nine times in the last 10 years, a run that includes both the 2016 and 2018 championship teams.
UConn, Miss. St. OK tourney play
UConn and Mississippi State are scheduled to play in November’s Hall of Fame Women’s Challenge basketball tournament in Connecticut.
The Huskies are scheduled to take on instate rival Quinnipiac in the tournament’s first round while the Bulldogs open the tournament against Maine.
The winners will face off the next day in the championship game and the losers will meet in a third-place game.
The tournament is hosted by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and held at the Mohegan Sun Arena, about 30 miles from UConn’s campus in
Storrs. Mississippi State and UConn have not met since the 2017 national semifinals in which the Bulldogs upset the topranked Huskies 66-64 in overtime to snap the Huskies’ record 111-game win streak.
Drive-in concerts at Rangers park
Texas Rangers season ticket holder Pat Green will be among the Texas artists who will play a series of drive-in concerts in the parking lot of the team’s new stadium that has not yet hosted a baseball game because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Eli Young Band, Whiskey Myers, along with Josh Abbott Band and Kevin Fowler, will also do hourlong acoustic sets during the Concert In Your Car series June 4-7 at Globe Life Field.
Organizers said Tuesday that 400 vehicles will be allowed in for the shows each night, with fans having to remain in their vehicles and listen to the performances through FM radio signals. General admission tickets, for $40 per vehicle, will have to be bought online in advance and will be scanned through the window for entry.
Tulsa to host ’30 PGA Championship
Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma, will host the 2030 PGA Championship.
The PGA of America made the announcement Tuesday in a news release.
Southern Hills was originally awarded a record fifth PGA Championship in June 2017, but the year had not been determined.
Southern Hills also will host the 2021 Senior PGA Championship. The course has hosted seven major championships, beginning with the 1958 U.S. Open. Tiger Woods won the PGA Championship there in 2007.