NOTEWORTHY
JACKSON, Miss. — Keegan Bradley likes the way he’s putting. He must really like the idea that the birdie putts he made Friday on his way to a 7under 65 were not terribly far from the hole.
In his debut in the Sanderson Farms Championship, Bradley made three straight birdies on the back nine to take the lead and closed with another short birdie putt to take a two-shot lead over J.T. Poston and Charley Hoffman.
More golf: Nasa Hataoka birdied two of the last three holes for a 4-under 67 and a one-stroke lead in the Shoprite LPGA Classic. ... Australian golfer Lucas Herbert carded seven birdies and one bogey in a 6-under 65 to lead the Scottish Open by a shot.
Auto racing: Josef Newgarden, a two-time Indycar champion, pulled away from the rest of the field, racing to his third win of the season, by a margin of 14.2940 seconds over Alexander Rossi. With the Harvest GP win, Newgarden moved within 40 points of what once seemed a seemingly safe 120-point lead of five-time series champ Scott Dixon. ... Honda will withdraw from Formula One at the end of the 2021 season as it shifts to a goal of carbon neutrality.
College football: The Hawaii and Bahamas bowls were canceled by ESPN Events because of the pandemic and related travel restrictions. The cancellation brings the total number of postseason major college football games still tentatively on for this season down to 39.
NBA: Atlanta hired Landry Fields, who spent the past four seasons with San Antonio, as assistant general manager.
NHL: Ottawa acquired defenseman Josh Brown from Florida for a fourth-round pick (95th overall) in Tuesday’s NHL draft. ... Los Angeles fired the employee who dresses as the hockey team’s mascot, Tim Smith, after an investigation into a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against him earlier this year.
Soccer: Tottenham ended its search for a new striker when Carlos Vinicius joined the English Premier League club on loan from Benfica.