Arizona State men’s golf a No. 5 seed in Texas Regional

Arizona State will open the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships as the No. 5 seed in the University of Texas Regional, May 15-17. Oklahoma State is the top seed. Eighty-one teams are competing in six regional sites, with the top 30 teams advancing to the NCAA Championships hosted by Northern Illinois, May 26-31. ASU won the Albuquerque regional last year and has won seven region titles in all, second only to Oklahoma State's 11.

Suns name Ray as new TV voice to replace Steve Albert

The Suns hired local broadcaster Kevin Ray as the television play-by-play replacement for Steve Albert, who stepped away after five seasons in the role.

Ray will appear on Suns broadcasts on Fox Sports Arizona starting this season. He's been part of Suns telecasts for the past 15 years, serving as the team’s sideline reporter the past five seasons.

Spurs’ Parker out for rest of playoffs with quad injury

San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker will miss the rest of the playoffs after rupturing the quadriceps tendon in his left leg in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals against the Houston Rockets.

Parker will need season-ending surgery, meaning the Spurs will have to go through the rest of the postseason without their veteran floor leader. He was injured with 8:34 to play in Wednesday night’s game and the Spurs went on to win and tie the series at one game apiece.

While the 34-year-old Parker is not the dynamic playmaker he was in his younger days, he has still been hugely important to what the team does. After the Spurs were blown out in Game 1, Parker responded with 18 points in 25 minutes before getting injured.

Johnson opens with a 70, 4 shots out of lead at Wells Fargo

WILMINGTON, N.C. - Dustin Johnson has shown more game than rust in his return to competition for the first time since a freak accident knocked him out of the Masters.

Johnson missed only two greens at Eagle Point, including the final hole that led to a bogey and a 2-under 70. That left him four shots behind Francesco Molinari among the early starters Thursday in the Wells Fargo Championship.

Johnson last played on March 26 when he won the Match Play to strengthen his hold at No. 1 in the world. He was the clear favorite at Augusta National until he slipped on a staircase the day before the Masters began and

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Brenden Sander tied a season high with 15 kills and BYU upset second-seeded Long Beach State 25-20, 25-18, 25-23 on Thursday night in the NCAA volleyball semifinals.

BYU (26-4) also topped Long Beach State (27-4) in the semifinals last year. The Cougars will play Saturday night against defending champion Ohio State (31-2), a 25-23, 25-18, 25-19 winner over Hawaii.

Police: Hernandez cited Bible passage in suicide

BOSTON - An investigative report on the suicide of ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez has confirmed he wrote a reference to a biblical passage in ink on his forehead and in blood on the wall of his prison cell.

The former New England Patriots tight end was found April 19 hanging from a bed sheet at the Souza-Baranowski maximum-security prison, where he was serving a life sentence in a 2013 murder. His suicide came five days after he was acquitted in a 2012 double slaying.

A report released by state police Thursday says “John 3:16” was written on Hernandez’s forehead and on the cell wall.