Miles gets sack at LSU
LSU fired coach Les Miles and offensive coordinator Cam Cameron, and promoted defensive line coach Ed Orgeron to interim head coach, athletic director Joe Alleva announced Sunday. He said Miles has done a “tremendous job” and been a “great ambassador” for LSU, but that “it’s apparent in evaluating the program through the first month of the season that a change has to be made.” Miles’ firing, reported first by The Advocate of Baton Rouge, comes one day after LSU (2-2, 1-1 SEC), which spent last week ranked 18th, lost 18-13 at unranked Auburn to fall out of the Top 25.
Miles went 114-34 at LSU, the secondmost victories in school history, including a national title in the 2007 season.
RORY’S $10M WIN
Rory McIlroy finally won the FedEx Cup when he least expected it. McIlroy was three shots behind with three holes to play in the Tour Championship at East Lake in Atlanta. Nearly two hours later, he holed a 15-foot birdie putt on the fourth extra hole to beat Ryan Moore to win the tournament and claim the $10 million FedEx Cup bonus to go with a tournament prize of $1.53 million.
“I took advantage of my opportunities today and yeah, here we are,” McIlroy said, his voice hoarse from screaming over so many quality shots and big moments.
McIlroy won on the 16th hole, where his remarkable rally began in regulation when he holed out from 137 yards for eagle, and then made birdie on the final hole for a 6-under 64 to join a three-man playoff with Moore (64) and Kevin Chappell (66). Moore had an 8-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole to win and it caught the lip and spun out. Chappell had a 20-foot birdie putt on the last to win and left it short. They finished at 12-under 268. Chappell was eliminated with a par on the first playoff hole.
Dustin Johnson hit too many errant shots on the front nine and never recovered, closing with a 73. Johnson still would have won the FedEx Cup if either Moore or Chappell had won the tournament.
Late Sunday night, Moore became the fourth captain’s pick of Davis Love, earning the last slot on the 12-man U.S. Ryder Cup team that tees off against Europe at Medinah in Minnesota in five days.
EX-SPARTAN KILLED
Mylan Hicks, a former Michigan State defensive back and member of the Calgary Stampeders, was killed early Sunday in Calgary in an “act of violence,” the CFL team said. He was 23. Police had said they were investigating a shooting outside a Calgary nightclub and that the victim had been taken to a hospital in life-threatening condition before dying of his injuries.
Kevin Harvick won at Loudon, N.H., to earn a spot in the second round of the NASCAR Sprint Cup playoffs, pulling away off a restart, then holding off Matt Kenseth, who was trying for his third straight win at Loudon.
SKY ADVANCES HARVICK WINS
Courtney Vandersloot scored 21 points with 13 assists, Jessica Breland had 20 points and 16 rebounds, and the host Chicago Sky beat the Atlanta Dream, 108-98, to advance to the semifinals of the WNBA playoffs. Chicago will face Los Angeles in a best-of-five series.
WAWRINKA BEATEN
Promising German 19-year-old Alexander Zverev won his first tour title, beating U.S. Open champion Stan Wawrinka in the St. Petersburg (Russia) Open final, 6-2, 3-6, 7-5. Zverev became the first man to beat Wawrinka in a tour final since 2013, snapping an 11-match win streak in finals for the Swiss star, who had been trying to win back-to-back titles in his first tournament since the Open.