Off the wire

GOLF Storms delay round

Brittany Lincicome will have to wait until the weekend to resume her bid to make the cut in a PGA Tour event. Overnight storms delayed the start of the second round Friday in the Barbasol Championship at Nicholasville, Ky., and an afternoon thunderstorm suspended competition for good. The round will resume this morning with much of the field still to play. The second stoppage at Champions Trace at Keene Trace Golf Club came 20 minutes before Lincicome’s scheduled tee time. Lincicome was near the bottom of the field after opening with a 6-over 78 on Thursday. The first LPGA Tour player since Michelle Wie in 2008 to start a PGA Tour event, she needs a huge rebound to join Babe Zaharias (1945) as the only female players to make the cut in a PGA Tour event. Troy Merritt had the clubhouse lead at 15 under, following an opening 62 with a 67. Matt Atkins (Henderson State) was tied for eighth through 16 holes. Ken Duke (Arkadelphia, Henderson State) was 2 over after an even-par round of 72. Ethan Tracy (Arkansas Razorbacks) was unable to start his round.

Two tie for first

Dawie van der Walt shot a 5-under 66 and moved into a tie for first place in the second round of the Web.com Tour’s Pinnacle Bank Championship at Omaha, Neb., on Friday. Van der Walt is tied with Tour rookie Sungjae Im (67) at 10 under. Brock Mackenzie (64) and Kramer Hickok (66) are tied for third at nine under. Erik Barnes (66), David Skinns (66) and Brandon Matthews (66) are tied for fifth at 8 under. Sebastian Cappelen (Arkansas Razorbacks) is 1 under after a 68. Patrick Sullivan (Maumelle, UALR) is 2 over after a second consecutive 72. Tag Ridings (Razorbacks) is 6 over after a 70.

TRACK AND FIELD World record smashed

Beatrice Chepkoech of Kenya smashed the 3,000-meter steeplechase world record by more than eight seconds in 8 minutes 44.32

seconds at the Herculis Diamond League meeting in Monaco on Friday. Chepkoech improved the previous mark of 8:52.78 set by Ruth Jebet of Bahrain two years ago in Paris. Courtney Frerichs was a distant runner-up, crossing the finish line in 9:00.85 to break the American record. Earlier, Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas set a world-leading time of 48.97 seconds to win the 400 meters. Miller-Uibo, who set the previous fastest time in the world this year of 49.52 in Eugene in May, came off the final turn with a small lead over Bahrain’s Salwa Eid Naser and held over the final section to set a new meet record in the Principality.

FOOTBALL Luck to get time off

Indianapolis Colts General Manager Chris Ballard said quarterback Andrew Luck will take some extra days off during training camp

but will have no limitations when he’s on the field. Luck is trying to return from a partially torn labrum in his throwing shoulder, which required surgery in January 2017. After missing all of last season, Luck resumed throwing in public during the team’s mandatory three-day minicamp last month. Since then, Ballard said Luck has continued to progress. The plan calls for Luck to throw at least four days per week, following his regular season routine. Luck and his teammates report to camp Wednesday. They will work out at the team’s new camp site, Grand Park Sports Campus, through Aug. 18.

DE Fowler suspended

Jacksonville Jaguars defensive end Dante Fowler has been suspended without pay for the season opener against the New York Giants for attacking a man in a parking lot a year ago. Fowler was arrested last July after confronting a man who made a comment about his driving in a parking lot. Authorities said Fowler exchanged words with the man before hitting him. Police said the man’s glasses were knocked off and Fowler stepped on them before taking a grocery bag from the man and tossing it in a lake. Fowler pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of battery, criminal mischief and petty theft. He was sentenced in March to a year of probation and 75 hours of community service.

Ex-AD’s claims ‘baseless’

Baylor University said its former athletic director made “factually baseless assertions” in a court deposition when he claimed regents tried to steer blame for the school’s sexual assault scandal to the football team. The Waco Tribune reported Friday that former Baylor AD Ian McCaw in June gave a 400-page deposition in a Title IX case against the university. McCaw, football coach Art Briles and university president Ken Starr all left Baylor in 2016 after the school hired a law firm to investigate how sexual assault claims, some against football players, were handled. McCaw criticized the Pepper Hamilton investigation, saying regents directed its outcome.

MISCELLANEOUS 100 testify about doctor

Ohio State University said more than 100 former students have provided firsthand accounts of sexual misconduct by a now-dead team physician in an ongoing investigation. Independent investigators are reviewing allegations against Richard Strauss involving male athletes from 14 sports and other students. Former athletes said they verbally raised concerns about Strauss as early as 1978, near the start of his two decades at the university. Ohio State has said university officials’ response to concerns about Strauss is a key focus of the investigation. University President Michael Drake said Friday more than 200 former students and university employees have been interviewed. Those interviewed include Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, who denies some wrestlers’ claims he knew about abuse while coaching at Ohio State. Strauss killed himself in 2005. His relatives have said they were shocked by the allegations.