Orlando Sentinel

Press Box: Sports Recap

- EDITED FROM NEWS SERVICES

■ COLLEGES: This year’s Puerto Rico Tipoff will move to Orlando, Fla,, because of concerns about the Zika virus. The eightteam basketball tournament will move from Coliseo Roberto Clemente in San Juan to the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex. It will keep its original Nov. 17-20 schedule, as well as the field of Xavier, Oklahoma, Arizona State, Clemson, Davidson, Missouri, Northern Iowa and Tulane . ... NFL scouts will get more access to college underclass­men under an agreement announced by the league and the American Football Coaches Associatio­n. Schools will be able designate five underclass­men for special eligibilit­y after they have completed their second seasons of college football. NFL teams can scout them the way the league evaluates them in their senior seasons. Starting in February 2017, some players will be permitted to participat­e in school pro scouting days a year before they would be permitted to apply for early entry into the draft.

■ GOLF: Bubba Watson will be at the Ryder Cup, even if it’s not exactly the way he imagined it. U.S. captain Davis Love III announced that Watson has been added to the team as a fifth vice captain. The twotime Masters champion and 7th-ranked player in the world competed as a player on the last three U.S. squads and said at the start of the year that his goals were to play in both the Olympics and the Ryder Cup. Watson finished tied for eighth at the Rio Games but wound up just outside of the eighth and last automatic qualifying spot as a Ryder Cup player. The four captain’s picks went to J.B. Holmes, Rickie Fowler, Matt

Kuchar and Ryan Moore. Watson joins Tiger Woods, Steve Stricker, Tom Lehman and Jim Furyk as assistants.

■ HOCKEY: Kings F Marian Gaborik is leaving the World Cup of Hockey and will be out for eight weeks because of a foot injury. Gaborik had 12 goals and 10 assists last season for the Kings, playing just 54 games because of a knee injury . ... The Bruins signed F Brad Marchand to an eight-year, $49 million contract extension. Marchand, 28, had a career-high 37 goals and 60 points last season.

■ NBA: Heat President Pat Riley said Chris Bosh has almost certainly played his final game for the franchise, with the All-Star forward’s latest health setback convincing team officials that his plan to play again is no longer feasible. Riley said the team is essentiall­y out of options with Bosh after he failed a physical last week. “Chris is still open-minded,” Riley said. “But we are not working toward his return.” ... Paul Pierce said this season with the Clippers will be his last as an NBA player. Pierce made the announceme­nt in a post on The Players Tribune. He turns 39 next month and wrote, “It’s time to move on from the game of basketball.” He is 16th on the NBA’s career scoring list . ... Wizards G John Wall will participat­e only in “bits and pieces” of training camp as he rebounds from offseason knee surgery. Coach Scott Brooks said there is no timeline for Wall to be ready for game action and that he doesn’t know if Wall will play in any exhibition games before the Wizards open the regular season Oct. 27 in Atlanta.

■ ALSO: Four-time Iditarod champion and cancer survivor Lance Mackey has dropped out of next year’s race for health reasons, organizers said. Mackey said in an email to the Iditarod Trail Committee that he hopes to be ready to compete in 2018.

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