Foyt driver Kanaan tops final Indy practice
INDIANAPOLIS —
Tony Kanaan found himself in a familiar place atop the speed chart Friday at the final practice for the Indianapolis 500.
Kanaan paced the field with a lap of 227.791 mph, underscoring the might that Chevrolet has shown all month. But he was followed by three Hondapowered cars driven by Scott Dixon, Marco Andretti and Sebastien Bourdais — a sign of just how wide open Sunday's race figures to be.
“I've started first. I've started last. So I've been at both ends,” said Kanaan, who will start 10th for A.J. Foyt Racing. “If it goes right, we have a pretty good chance. I think we can get there.”
Danica Patrick was the eighth-quickest in the final practice session of her racing career. Patrick posted her lap of 223.653 early in the hour-long session before an electrical issue sent her to the garage.
TENNIS Nastase arrested twice in six hours
Former player Ilie
Nastase was arrested twice in the space of six hours in his native Romania, first on suspicion of driving a car while drunk and refusing to take a breathalyzer test, and then for going through a red light on a scooter.
Nastase, 71, had a level of 0.55 mg of alcohol per liter of breath, according to the Bucharest police — far enough over the legal limit to face a maximum five-year prison sentence.
Police initially stopped the former U.S. and French Open champion at about 4:45 a.m.. They said he was visibly drunk; he said that he had three beers.
Nastase refused to take a breathalyzer and officers removed him from the vehicle and handcuffed him. He later was released as police opened a criminal investigation against him for drunken driving and failing to take a breathalyzer test.
Police stopped him again about six hours later after he allegedly went through a red light on a scooter. His driving license had been suspended after the first incident.
GOLF Rose owns lead at Fort Worth
Justin Rose shot a 6-under-par 64 in the second round of the Fort Worth Invitational at Colonial Country Club, getting to 10 under for a one-stroke lead over Emiliano Grillo.
Rose, the 2013 U.S. Open champion who won the HSBC Champions in
Shanghai in his season debut last October and has four top-10 finishes, had five birdies in a seven-hole stretch in the middle of his round.
Grillo had a 67 that included six consecutive holes without a par. Brooks Koepka (63)
and Satoshi Kodaira (67) were 7 under.
In other news: • Kevin Sutherland birdied his last two holes for a 5-under 66 and a share of the Senior PGA Championship lead at 8-under 134 with Scott McCarron. Jerry Kelly shot a 65 to join Tim Petrovic (69), Chris Williams (68) and Joe Durant (67) at 7 under. Nevada club professional Stuart Smith, tied for the first-round lead after a 66, had an 83 to miss the cut.
• Nasa Hataoka shot a 4-under 68 to take a one-stroke lead over Minjee Lee (69) after the second round of the LPGA Volvik Championship. The Japanese teen, who lost in a playoff last week at the Kingsmill Championship, made seven birdies at Travis Pointe Country Club in Ann Arbor, Mich. She is at 9 under for the tournament.
• Rory McIlroy shot a 7-under 65 to move into the second-round lead at the BMW PGA Championship. So good was McIlroy's bogey-free round at Wentworth in Virginia Water, England, that playing partner Alex
Noren, the defending champion, called it the best round he has seen. “I'm about to quit golf, I think,” joked Noren, whose own round of 68 left him five shots off the pace at 7-under par alongside Robert Rock and Kiradech Aphibarnrat.
MISCELLANEOUS Rondon powers Skeeters to win
Alvarao Rondon’s two-run double in the second inning provided all the runs Sugar Land needed in a 4-1 Atlantic League victory over Somerset at Bridgewater, N.J.
Barrett Barnes’ first homer of the season in the fifth inning and Anthony Giansanti’s RBI single in the eighth accounted for the Skeeters’ other runs. …
Prosecutors in Washington state dropped domestic violence charges against former U.S. national team star goalkeeper Hope Solo. She was charged with two counts of fourth-degree assault in 2014 after police said she assaulted two family members at a home in Kirkland, east of Seattle. The case was delayed by appeals. KING-TV reported that city prosecutors dropped the charges Wednesday, saying the witnesses in the case wanted to move on with their lives and did not want to participate in a trial.