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U.S. Open gets away from its roots

(AP) — Two players going into their senior year of high school are playing in the U.S. Open next week, along with another teenager who is headed off to college. The field for Shinnecock Hills includes T.K. Kim, a 35-year-old who was born in South Korea, raised on Maui, played college golf at Boise State and will get ready for his first U.S. Open by playing two Oklahoma mini-tour events in Muskogee and Duncan. Billy Horschel has 10 worldwide wins and more than $42.5 million in career PGA Tour earnings, not including his $10 million bonus from winning the FedEx Cup. His path to ...

Knicks need a quick response

NEW YORK (AP) — The last time the New York Knicks lost a game, they didn't do it again for another month and a half. When they fell behind against Atlanta in the first round of the NBA playoffs, desperation turned into domination. The Knicks won 13 straight games, many of them blowouts, in one of the most impressive postseason stretches in NBA history. They don't need to do anything so dramatic now. With a 2-1 lead over the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals, a simple 2-2 record the rest of the season would give New York its first championship since 1973. So after dropping Game ...

SPORTS BRIEFING

GRIFFIN ON WAY BACK PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pirates rookie shortstop Konnor Griffin's right forearm strain is improving, and the 20-year-old is optimistic he'll be back soon. Griffin initially reported discomfort in his forearm after a loss to the Chicago Cubs on May 27. He appeared as a designated hitter over the next two games before going on the 10-day injured list on May 31. The team thought his stay on the IL would be brief, though the timeline for his possible return was pushed back after the nature of the injury turned out to be a little more severe than the club anticipated. ...

Sorsby ruling shocks college athletics

A Texas judge granted Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby a temporary injunction that clears the way for him to play this fall despite being declared ineligible by the NCAA for wagering on college sports, including bets made on his own team while he was at Indiana. The decision sent shock waves across college sports since bans for gambling are a bedrock rule of the NCAA and in many professional sports. The NCAA said it strongly disagrees with the ruling and "is deeply concerned about the damaging, far-reaching and broadly destabilizing ramifications of this outcome — which ...

New Waterford man pleads not guilty to kidnapping woman from Columbiana daycare parking lot

LISBON — A New Waterford man accused of kidnapping a woman from a daycare parking lot in Columbiana and forcing her to a secluded area while armed with a pistol entered a not guilty plea to the indictment, which includes a first-degree felony kidnapping charge. Jason N. Hartsough, 48, state Route 558, appeared for arraignment and a pretrial Friday in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court before Judge Megan Bickerton, accompanied by his defense attorney Joseph Ohlin. Besides the kidnapping charge, the indictment against Hartsough includes a firearm specification, fourth-degree felony ...

SPORTS BRIEFING

BIG MONEY FOR TOP SEATS NEW YORK (AP) — In the NBA Finals, celebrity row property is worth $1 million. The New York Knicks announced that was the winning bid in an auction for two seats for Game 3 on Monday night, the first NBA Finals game at Madison Square Garden since 1999. The winning bid was split by the law firm Gibson Dunn and private equity firm Veritas Capital. The fundraiser benefitted the Garden of Dreams Foundation, and the Knicks said it was the largest single donation in the history of the foundation, which works with MSG's companies to assist children at need in the ...