Creamer, Lee share Lotte lead
America’s Paula Creamer and South Korea’s Mi Hyang Lee shared a one-stroke lead after shooting six-under 66 in the first round of the LPGA’s Lotte Championship in Kapolei, Hawaii. Americans Beth Allen and Lizette Salas were in the group of five golfers at five under.
Oregon junior forward Dillon Brooks says he is entering the NBA draft. The Pac-12 Player of the Year has hired an agent, which ends his eligibility with the Ducks. Brooks averaged 16.1 points per game this season for Oregon, which went to the Final Four. A clutch performer, he scored game-winners against Tennessee, UCLA and Cal this season . ... Kansas guard Svi Mykhailiuk is entering the NBA draft, but is not hiring an agent and could decide by May 24 to withdraw his name and return for his senior season. The 6-foot-8 Mykhailiuk started 25 games last season, averaging 9.8 points and shooting 38.9% from beyond the arc.
The Dallas Stars are bringing back Stanley Cup-winning coach Ken Hitchcock, hoping to turn themselves back into a championship contender. Hitchcock is returning to Dallas and will be named coach at a news conference Thursday, a person with direct knowledge of the situation confirmed to the Associated Press.
Hitchcock, 65, won the Cup with Dallas in 1999, coaching there for parts of seven seasons from 1995-96 through 2001-02. He has since coached the Philadelphia Flyers, Columbus Blue Jackets and St. Louis Blues. He was fired as Blues coach in February and replaced by Mike Yeo. Hitchcock replaces Lindy Ruff, who was fired Monday.
German authorities arrested a suspected Islamic extremist Wednesday in their investigation into a bomb attack on a German soccer team Borussia Dortmund, while the team — missing a defender wounded in the blasts — lost 3-2 to visiting Monaco in a hastily rescheduled Champions League match. Amid heightened security, the defeat for Borussia Dortmund in Europe’s top club competition came less than 24 hours after three explosions shattered a window of the team’s bus and rattled nerves across the gritty city in western Germany.
Dortmund coach Thomas Tuchel said after the loss that he felt European soccer’s governing body, UEFA, had not taken the attack seriously enough as it swiftly rescheduled the match.