Ex49er Ginn retires

Ted Ginn Jr. returned to Glenville High School in Cleveland to announce his NFL retirement.

The 36yearold former Ohio State receiver and returner played for his father, Ted Sr., at Glenville before moving on to the Buckeyes and the NFL, including three seasons with the 49ers capped by an appearance in the Super Bowl XLVII loss to the Ravens after the 2012 season.

Ginn spent 14 seasons in the NFL with Miami, San Francisco, Carolina, Arizona, New Orleans and Chicago. In 193 regularseason games, he had 412 receptions for 5,742 yards and 33 touchdowns.

NHL: The New York Islanders acquired forward Richard Panik and a 2021 secondround draft pick from the Detroit Red Wings for defenseman Nick Leddy. Panik has 88 goals and 106 assists in 517 regularseason games in nine seasons with Tampa Bay, Toronto, Chicago,

Arizona, Washington and Detroit.

Golf: J.T. Poston shot a bogeyfree 6underpar 66 to take the secondround lead at 13under 131 in the PGA Tour’s Barbasol Championship in Nicholasville, Ky. Ryan Armour and Stanford and St. Francis High alum Joseph Bramlett were a stroke back, each shooting 67.

Defending champions Cydney Clanton and Jasmine Suwannapura shot a 5under 65 in alternateshot play to take a share of the lead into the final round of the LPGA Tour’s Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational in Midland, Mich. Pajaree Anannarukarn and Aditi Ashok had a 67 to match Clanton and Suwannapura at 15under 195.

Obituary: Former Illinois football standout Bobby Roundtree, who was paralyzed from the waist down in a swimming accident two years ago, died Friday at 23 in the Tampa, Fla., area. The cause of death was not immediately known.

Roundtree played two seasons for the Illini, starting as a freshman and becoming one of the top pass rushers in the Big Ten as a sophomore in 2018. He had 11.5 sacks in his two seasons.

Dennis Murphy, the impresario of alternative athletic leagues — he cofounded the American Basketball Association and World Hockey Association and also launched imaginative ventures in other sports, among them indoor roller hockey — died Thursday at an assisted living facility in Placentia (Orange County). He was 94.

Perhaps no single event with which Murphy was associated had greater cultural impact than the “Battle of the Sexes,” the 1973 tennis match in which Billie Jean King, 29, beat Bobby Riggs, 55. Murphy coproduced the match, which drew an estimated 90 million viewers worldwide.