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U.S. Open hasn't forgotten Ohio
(AP) -- The USGA hasn't entirely forgotten about Ohio when it comes to the U.S. Open.
Inverness Club in the far northwestern corner of Ohio will get the U.S. Open in 2045. It will be the fifth time Inverness gets a U.S. Open, but only after a 66-year absence. Hale Irwin won the the second of his three U.S. Open titles there in 1979.
The Donald Ross design went through an upgrade in 2018 by architect Andrew Green, who put back some of the design features that had been changed during an overhaul in the 1970s to prepare for the 1979 U.S. Open.
The announcement gives hope to clubs wanting the U.S. Open after the USGA announced its "anchor sites" that began filling the calendar. Riviera will get the 2031 U.S. Open after waiting 83 years, while Oakland Hills is set for 2034 after a 38-year absence.
The only other Ohio clubs to host the U.S. Open were Scioto in 1926 -- 100 years later it will host the U.S. Senior Open this summer -- and Canterbury in 1940 and 1946.
Cavaliers pay back Pistons
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Jaylon Tyson scored 22 points, James Harden added 18 and the Cleveland Cavaliers avenged a recent loss in Detroit by beating the East-leading Pistons 113-109 on Tuesday night despite playing without injured star Donovan Mitchell.
Evan Mobley also had 18 points and Dennis Schroder 15 for the Cavs, who split their four regular-season games with Detroit.
Mitchell sat out his fourth straight game with a nagging groin strain. Coach Kenny Atkinson said the seven-time All-Star is "trending better" but doesn't know when he'll be back to build chemistry for the postseason with Harden, who was acquired at the trade deadline.
Jalen Duren added 24 points and 14 rebounds and Tobias Harris scored 19 points -- all after halftime -- for the Pistons, who had their road winning streak stopped at six games. Cade Cunningham dished out 14 assists but scored only 10 on 4-of-16 shooting for Detroit.
The Pistons cut an 11-point deficit to one in the fourth, but Sam Merrill hit a big 3-pointer to help the Cavs hang on.
While it was the last meeting between Detroit and Cleveland before the playoffs, their rivalry has been reborn with both teams in Eastern Conference title contention.
Following the Cavs' overtime road loss last week, an unnamed Cleveland player chirped the Pistons "are not in our class."
Detroit coach J.B. Bickerstaff, who was fired by the Cavs in 2024, dismissed the bravado before Tuesday's game.
"If you mean it," he said, "you don't say it anonymously."
The Cavaliers will host Boston on Sunday.
RedHawks move to 30-0
OXFORD, Ohio (AP) -- Pete Suder scored 19 points, Antowne Woolfolk added 14 and No. 19 Miami (Ohio) closed within a victory of a perfect regular season with a 74-72 win over Toledo on Tuesday night that extended the RedHawks' season-opening winning streak to 30 games.
The RedHawks (17-0 Mid-American Conference) remain the only undefeated team in Division I men's basketball. Miami extended the best start in program history and added to its school record for wins in a season. Miami, which clinched the conference's regular-season title, also boasts the best start and longest win streak in MAC annals.
The Gator chomp
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida coach Jon Sumrall has a new appreciation for the gator chomp.
Sumrall got hissed at and snapped at while posing for promotional pictures with a live alligator last week. It was enough to prompt Sumrall to backpedal like his college playing days at Kentucky.
"I'm pretty certain I'd look like Chubbs from Happy Gilmore if the alligator had gotten close to my hand," Sumrall joked Tuesday following his first spring practice at Florida. "Yeah, that was cool, man."
A little nerve-racking, too.
"In my mind, I had this visual image of we're going to have like a little baby alligator, like a 1-foot alligator you might see on a riverboat cruise in Louisiana, mouth's taped," he said. "I walk up and there's this 7-foot alligator.
"I'm like, 'Hang on. What am I doing here?' They're like, 'We're going to take some pictures. You can get this close.' I'm like, 'Look, during COVID I wasn't allowed to get this close to people. I don't know about an alligator.'"
The alligator was named Helena and was from a nearby gator farm. She may have been relatively friendly, but she was far from trained. She walked in and out of shots while Sumrall flipped a football -- and eventually turned on the former Troy and Tulane head coach.
"As soon as I started to get kind of comfortable ... I'm like, 'All right, this thing isn't going to do anything crazy, I don't think.' I get 4 or 5 feet away and it starts to kind of hiss a little and it snaps," he said. "I'm like, 'What the hell is going on? I'm out of here.'"