College basketball:
Kansas forward Silvio De Sousa finally got some good news from the NCAA, who was granted a reprieve from the NCAA’s reinstatement committee and is clear to play next season. De Sousa’s long road toward playing for the Jayhawks again came after his name surfaced last summer in an FBI probe into corruption in college basketball. The NCAA found that his guardian, Fenny Falmagne, had received a $2,500 payment from a “university booster and agent” and agreed to an additional $20,000 payment for securing his commitment to Kansas. De Sousa was suspended for two full seasons, but Kansas argued in its appeal that De Sousa never knew of any alleged payments and that the punishment he received was inconsistent with those handed down by the NCAA in similar cases.
Clemson TE Braden Galloway and OL Zach Giella will miss next season after an NCAA panel rejected the school’s appeal of their drug suspension. The positive drug tests for Galloway, Giella and ex-Clemson DT Dexter Lawrence were announced in December while the Tigers were preparing to play Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl. They were suspended and missed the College Football Playoff games, including the national championship game when the Tigers beat Alabama 44-16. All three players had denied knowingly taking the banned substance ostarine.
Jonas Blixt holed out from 132 yards for eagle on the par-4 17th, highlighting a 6-under 64 that gave him the secondround lead at Colonial in Fort Worth, Texas. Blixt was 9 under after his bogey-free round, one stroke better than Kevin Na and first-round leader Tony Finau. ... Rebounding from a bogey on the par-4 14th with three straight birdies, Bronte Law shot a 3-under 68 at Kingsmill Resort in Williamsburg, Virginia, to match early starters Jennifer Song and Jacqui Concolino at 9-under 133 to lead the Pure Silk Championship. ... Defending champion Paul Broadhurst and Esteban Toledo shared the lead two rounds into the Senior PGA Championship after firing 3-under 67s to reach 3-under 137 at Oak Hill Country Club in Pittsford, New York.
DT Ndamukong Suh agreed to terms with the Buccaneers as a replacement for Gerald McCoy. McCoy was released this week after nine seasons with the Bucs, who selected him third overall in the 2010 draft — one spot after Suh was taken by the Lions. McCoy, meanwhile, visited the Browns facility Friday but left without a contract, a person familiar with the meeting said.
— News services