THOMPSON WINS INAUGURAL INDY TOURNEY BY FOUR
INDIANAPOLIS» After dazzling fans with two days of almost error-free golf, Lexi Thompson overcame some late bobbles for a four-shot victory over Lydia Ko on Saturday in the inaugural Indy Women in Tech Championship.
Thompson closed with a 4-underpar 68 to finish at 19-under 197 at Brickyard Crossing, the Pete and Alice Dye-designed course that weaves around and inside the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Thompson won her ninth career LPGA Tour title and became the fourth player — and first American — with multiple wins this season.
• Scott Hend of Australia extended his lead to two strokes when play was suspended during the weather-affected European Masters third round.
Hend birdied the par-3 13th hole minutes before fading light forced the players off a second time. Earlier, fog shrouding the Swiss Alps course caused a 2-hour, 24-minute stoppage. Leading overnight by one shot, Hend was 2 over par for his 13 holes.
• Scott Mccarron was in a familiar spot atop a PGA Tour Champions leaderboard in his first trip to Japan. California childhood rival Kevin Sutherland was close behind — again.
Coming off his third victory in the last six tournaments, the 52-year-old Mccarron shot his second straight 6-under 66 at Narita Golf Club to take a one-stroke lead over Sutherland in the Japan Airlines Championship.
Report: Paterno knew of abuse. Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno allegedly told former assistant Mike Mcqueary in 2001 that it wasn’t the first time he had heard that Jerry Sandusky had sexually abused children, according to a 2011 Pennsylvania State Police report obtained by CNN.
According to the police report, Mcqueary, who went to Paterno after witnessing an alleged act of abuse by Sandusky in 2001, was allegedly told by Paterno that it “was the second complaint of this nature he had received” against Sandusky.
Sandusky was convicted in 2012 of 45 counts of child sexual abuse. He maintains his innocence and is appealing while serving 30 to 60 years in state prison.
In February 2001, Mcqueary, who was a graduate assistant coach at the time, went to Paterno the morning after allegedly seeing, according to the police report obtained by CNN, “an extreme sexual act occurring between Sandusky and a young boy” late on a Friday in a team shower.
According to the police report, Mcqueary’s account was that “Paterno, upon hearing the news, sat back in his chair with a dejected look on his face” and that the Hall of Fame coach’s “eyes appeared to well up with tears.”
Paterno was never charged with a crime, although unsealed depositions by alleged victims said Paterno knew of the abuse as far back as 1976.
Self inducted into Hall.
MASS.» Bill Self spent
SPRINGFIELD, part of his induction speech Friday night listing Kansas basketball coaches — James Naismith, Phog Allen, Larry Brown and Roy Williams — then expressed disbelief that he was joining them in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Self was the first of 11 basketball greats enshrined in the class of 2017.
Notre Dame’s Muffet Mcgraw joined him a few minutes later, expressing gratitude for Title IX, the 1972 law that bars discrimination on the basis of sex in education.
The class also includes former NBA stars Tracy Mcgrady and George Mcginnis, former Uconn and WNBA star Rebecca Lobo, Texas high school coach Robert Hughes, former Harlem Globetrotters player and later owner Mannie Jackson, NCAA administrator Tom Jernstedt and former European star Nick Galis.
Former Chicago Bulls general manager Jerry Krause and former Globetrotters and New York Rens player Zack Clayton were honored posthumously. — The Associated Press