Tour player Cauley recovering
COLLEGES: The Pac-12 will require teams to win at least six regular-season games to play in a bowl game, eliminating the opportunity for a 5-7 squad to earn a postseason spot . ... QBs Carson Palmer and Vince Young headline the 76 players and six coaches who will be on the ballot for the College Football Hall of Fame . ... Auburn gave basketball coach Bruce Pearl a fiveyear contract extension totaling $14 million through the 2022-23 season . ... Penn State hired Connecticut director of basketball administration Kevin Freeman as an assistant coach . ... Mississippi State baseball advanced to the super regionals for the third straight year by defeating Oklahoma 8-1 in the deciding game of the Tallahassee Regional. In other action, Madison Stokes drove in three runs as South Carolina advanced to the super regionals by beating UNC Wilmington 8-4 in Greenville, S.C.
GOLF: Adam Scott followed a 66 with a 72 in a Columbus, Ohio, qualifier for the U.S. Open, booking a spot in his 68th consecutive major. Had Scott finished one shot worse, he would have been in a 10-man playoff for the final spot . ... Discovery Inc., signed a 12-year, $2 billion agreement that gives it media rights to PGA Tour programming for 220 markets outside the U.S.
NFL: Dwight Clark, whose reception known as “The Catch” sent the 49ers to their first Super Bowl, died a year after revealing he had ALS. He was 61. Clark won two Super Bowls with the 49ers in a career that ended in 1987. He pulled down the winning TD pass from Joe Montana in the 1981 NFC championship game against the Cowboys, a play remembered simply as “The Catch.” ... President Donald Trump called off the Eagles’ visit to the White House, scheduled for Tuesday, due to the dispute over whether players must stand during the playing of the national anthem . ... Hall of Fame QB Jim Kelly will receive ESPN’s Jimmy V Award for the toughness and perseverance he has displayed during his battle with oral cancer . ... The Broncos held LB Shane Ray out of workouts due to a sore left wrist, on which he has had three surgeries . ... The Bears re-signed veteran TE Zach Miller to a one-year contract.
SOCCER: President Gianni Infantino said FIFA can afford to have Morocco host the 2026 World Cup, even if the rival North American bid promises billions of dollars more revenue. A FIFA panel’s evaluation noted a “significantly higher” forecast of $14.3 billion from the North Americans and $7.2 billion from Morocco . ... New Everton manager Marco Silva will not stand in Wayne Rooney’s way if the striker wants to leave the EPL club for D.C. United of MLS. ... Manager Pep Guardiola will be banned from the touchline for Manchester City’s first game in the Champions League next season for communicating with his staff after being tossed from a game last season . ... UEFA ordered Zenit St. Petersburg to play its next European game behind closed doors in another racism sanction for World Cup host nation Russia.
ALSO: Doris Burke agreed on a long-term extension to stay at ESPN as a full-time NBA reporter and analyst . ... Birmingham, Ala., will be the seventh city with a team in the new Alliance of American Football, joining San Diego, Atlanta, Orlando, Memphis, Salt Lake City and Phoenix.
DUBLIN, Ohio — PGA Tour player Bud Cauley says he's thankful to be alive after a car accident over the