Stanford gets QB Costello back but loses star lineman
Stanford will get quarterback K.J. Costello back this week but it also lost the cornerstone to its offensive line when tackle Walker Little was declared out for the season.
Coach David Shaw confirmed Tuesday that Costello will return when the Cardinal travels to Florida to face 17th-ranked UCF on Saturday.
The 6-foot-5 senior, a second-team All-Pac-12 pick last year, suffered a scary head injury in the seasonopening win over Northwestern when he took a forearm to the head while sliding. Costello missed Saturday’s game as redshirt sophomore Davis Mills took over in Stanford’s 45-20 loss to USC.
After passing for the second-most yards in school history last year (3,540 yards), Costello seemingly picked up where he left off by completing 16-of-20 passes for 152 yards before leaving with the injury against Northwestern.
When he returns Satur- day, Costello won’t have the security of Little protecting his left side against UCF as the 6-foot-7, 304-pound ju- nior will undergo seasonending surgery on his left knee. Little, who was projected to be a first-round pick if he left for the NFL after this season, was hurt near the end of the Northwestern game two weeks ago.
Shaw also said the Car- dinal will be without inside linebacker Ricky Miezan for “an extended period of time.”
Soccer
MORRIS’ LATE GOAL GIVES U.S. MEN DRAW AGAINST URUGUAY » Former Stanford player Jordan Morris scored the tying goal in the 79th minute when the U.S. men’s national team rallied for a 1-1 tie with Uruguay in a soccer friendly at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.
The goal sequence started when the Quakes’ Nick Lima tried a cross from the end line, only to have it blocked. The clearance went off him to Morris, who was unmarked a yard in front of the net when he chested the ball for his sixth international goal.
Morris, who plays for the Seattle Sounders, hadn’t scored for the U.S. since July 2017 as a torn ACL and hamstring injuries plagued him the past two years.
Quakes’ midfielder Jackson Yueill earned a start for the U.S. men GOALKEEPER FROM CURACAO DIES BEFORE MATCH » Jairzinho Pieter, a backup goalkeeper for the national team of the Caribbean island of Curacao, has died ahead of a match. He was 31. CONCACAF, the soccer confederation for the region, said Pieter died on Monday at his team’s hotel in Port-au-Prince where Curacao played Haiti to a 1-1 draw Tuesday.
Basketball
ARGENTINA UPSETS SERBIA » Luis Scola scored 20 points, Facundo Campazzo finished with 18 points and 12 assists, and Argentina earned its first trip to the World Cup semifinals in 13 years by ousting Serbia 97-87 in a quarterfinal matchup on Tuesday in Dongguan, China.
Patricio Garino added 15 for Argentina (6-0), which will face either the U.S. or France in Friday’s semifinals.
Bogdan Bogdanovic scored 21 points for Serbia (4-2). The team came into the tournament fully expecting to win gold — after losing title games to the U.S. at the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, then rolling to wins in its first two games in China by a combined 105 points.
Nemanja Bjelica scored 18 and Nikola Jokic finished with 16 points and 10 rebounds for Serbia.
• Ricky Rubio scored 19 points, including a pair of 3-pointers in a game-deciding 11-0 run in the final minutes, and Spain advanced to the World Cup semifinals by topping Poland 90-78 in Shanghai.
Willy Hernangómez scored 18 points, Rudy Fernandez added 16, and Rubio had a game-high nine assists for Spain (6-0), which will face either Australia or the Czech Republic in the semifinals at Beijing on Friday.
Golf
BRIAN BARNES, WHO BEAT NICKLAUS TWICE IN RYDER CUP, DIES » Brian Barnes, the charismatic English golfer who beat Jack Nicklaus twice in one day in Ryder Cup singles matches, died after a short illness. He was 74. The European Tour said Barnes, who had cancer, died on Monday with family members by his side.
A nine-time winner on the European Tour, Barnes — known for playing with a pipe in his mouth and a bottle of vodka and orange juice in his bag — was most famous for his two victories over Nicklaus at Laurel Valley, Pennsylvania, in 1975 when the Ryder Cup was a contest between the United States and Britain & Ireland.
Barnes won in the morning singles 4 and 2, and Nicklaus asked U.S captain Arnold Palmer if he could play Barnes again in the afternoon. Bernard Hunt, Europe’s captain, agreed to a change in the draw and Barnes won again 2 and 1. INJURED LEWIS OUT OF SOLHEIM CUP » The United States was forced into a change three days before the start of the Solheim Cup after Stacy Lewis pulled out because of a back injury. U.S. captain Juli Inkster replaced Lewis with Ally McDonald, who will make her debut in the team event being played in Gleneagles, Scotland.
Motor sports
REPORT: SCHUMACHER TREATED IN SECRECY IN PARIS HOSPITAL » Seventime Formula One champion Michael Schumacher has been admitted to a Paris hospital to be treated with cutting-edge stemcell therapy, according to a French newspaper.
The Paris hospitals authority, citing France’s strict medical privacy rules, said it could not comment on the report in Le Parisien that Schumacher was admitted under tight guard Monday to the Georges-Pompidou hospital for transfusions of inflammation-reducing stem cells. The newspaper said the 50-year-old German was expected to be discharged today.
PAUL MENARD RETIRING, WOOD BROTHERS HIRES DIBENEDETTO » Driver Paul Menard has decided to walk away from NASCAR’s top level after more than 460 races and Wood Brothers Racing is replacing him with Matt DiBenedetto in the iconic No. 21 Ford next season.