Weekend Sports In Brief https://www.tampabay.com/weekend-sports-in-brief-ap_sportsbc5c6f18faed4b65bed4872cadf637ae

1. APPS CLASSIFIED CARS JOBS HOMES SUBSCRIBER SERVICES LEGAL ADS ADVERTISE PRESS
RELEASES ARCHIVES
81°
FULL FORECAST
Thursday, August 09, 2018
Today's Paper E-Newspaper
WeekendSportsInBrief
Published: August 6, 2018
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State will rely on an outside law firm to investigate what coach Urban
Meyer knew and did about domestic abuse accusations against a former assistant, a process expected
to be completed within two weeks, the university said.
Search...
0 0 0 0
ACCOUNT SUBSCRIBE
HOME NEWS POLITICS SPORTS THINGS TO DO VIDEO OPINION FEATURES & MORE CIRCULARS

2. Ohio State said in a release that a trustees' committee formed to coordinate
the investigation had an initial meeting and has hired a firm to conduct the
probe of Meyer, who says he followed proper protocol when informed of a
2015 abuse allegation against assistant Zach Smith.
Mary Jo White of the national firm Debevoise & Plimpton is leading the
investigation, the university said. She's a former federal prosecutor and a
former chairwoman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange.
Any decisions resulting from the investigation will be made by Ohio State
President Michael Drake in consultation with university trustees, the
statement said.
BASEBALL
BOSTON (AP) — Andrew Benintendi's hit bounced a handful of times before
finding its way into center field for the winning run and a big four-game sweep
over the rival Yankees.
Benintendi's RBI single with two outs in the 10th capped Boston's rally from
three runs down in the ninth against New York closer Aroldis Chapman, and
the Red Sox completed a four-game sweep with a 5-4 victory Sunday night.
Boston opened a 9 1/2-game lead atop the division over the Yankees, who lost
their season-high fifth straight.
Mookie Betts hit his 26th homer for Boston (79-34), which has won eight of
nine games and owns the majors' best record.
The Yankees hadn't been swept in a four-game series by the Red Sox when
they entered a series 30 or more games over .500 since Hall of Famer Ted Williams' rookie season in
1939, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Roberto Osuna is getting a second chance with the Houston Astros. They also
made it clear they won't give him another one.
The All-Star closer met his new Astros teammates Sunday and addressed the club for 10 minutes in a
closed-door meeting after completing a 75-game suspension for violating Major League Baseball's
domestic violence policy.

3. The defending World Series champions acquired Osuna on Monday in a trade with the Toronto Blue
Jays while he was still serving his penalty. The reliever was arrested and charged with assaulting his
girlfriend May 8 in Toronto. Few details have been made public and the next court date in the case is
scheduled for Sept. 5.
Speaking with reporters in the dugout, Osuna revealed little about the morning meeting in the Astros'
clubhouse at Dodger Stadium and did not discuss the case pending against him.
GOLF
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Justin Thomas took all the drama out of the final World Golf Championship at
Firestone, never letting anyone closer than two shots and closing with a 1-under 69 to win the
Bridgestone Invitational for his third PGA Tour title this season.
Thomas finished at 15-under 265 for a four-shot victory over Kyle Stanley, who got within two shots of
the lead until bogeys on the 13th and 14th holes. Stanley closed with a 68.
Dustin Johnson, the world's No. 1 player who was coming off a victory in the Canadian Open last week,
had a 64 and shared third with Thorbjorn Olesen of Denmark, who also had a 64. Rory McIlroy shot
73 to tie for sixth.
Tiger Woods, an eight-time winner at Firestone, shot 73 to finish 15 shots behind.
LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England (AP) — Georgia Hall of England reeled in Pornanong Phatlum in a
final-round duel at Royal Lytham & St. Annes to win the Women's British Open for her first major
title.
Roared on by the large galleries in her home country, the 22-year-old Hall only took the lead for the
first time after a 20-foot putt for birdie at the 16th hole and stayed steady to post 5-under 67.
After tapping in for a bogey at No. 18 — her first of the day — to secure a two-shot victory over
Pornanong (70), Hall hugged her playing partner from Thailand before being lifted off her feet by her
caddie, father Wayne.
Hall, who receives a check of $490,000, became the first English major winner since Karen Stupples
won this event in 2004, and the fourth overall along with Laura Davies and Alison Nicholas. She
followed Stupples and Catriona Matthew of Scotland — who won in 2009 at Lytham — as the only
British winners of the Women's British Open since it achieved major status in 2001.

4. RENO, Nev. (AP) — Andrew Putnam won the Barracuda Championship for his first PGA Tour title,
holding off Chad Campbell by four points in the modified Stableford scoring event.
Putnam closed with a 22-foot birdie putt from off the front of the green on the par-5 18th when a
bogey would have been enough for the breakthrough victory at Montreux Golf and Country Club.
Putnam earned $612,000, a two-year tour exemption and a spot next week in the PGA Championship
at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis. The 29-year-old from Tacoma, Washington, also jumped from
55th to 31st in the FedEx Cup standings.
The winner had nine points in the round and 47 overall under the format that awards eight points for
albatross, five for eagle, two for birdie and zero for par, and subtracts a point for bogey and three for
double bogey or worse.
Monday qualifier John Oda, a former UNLV player, tied for third with J.J. Spaun with 38 points. Oda
earned a spot in the Wyndham Championship with the top-10 finish.
BLAINE, Minn. (AP) — Kenny Perry won the 3M Championship one last time, closing with a 3-under
69 for a three-stroke victory in the PGA Tour Champions event that is being replaced by the PGA
Tour's 3M Open.
Also the 2014 and 2015 winner at TPC Twin Cities, the 57-year-old Perry matched Hale Irwin's
tournament record of three victories in the final edition of the event that started in 1993.
Five shots ahead after rounds of 66 and 60, Perry finished at 21-under 195. Perry won his 10th senior
title and first since the 2017 U.S. Senior Open. He won the last of his 14 PGA Tour titles in 2008.
Wes Short Jr. was second after a 63.
NFL
CANTON, Ohio (AP) — One of the great leaders football has seen, Ray Lewis used his Pro Football Hall
of Fame induction speech to call for more enlightened leadership in the United States.
The last of the seven members of the class of 2018 on hand to be enshrined, Lewis eschewed notes and
the lectern, instead strolling along the stage and passionately urging his listeners to come together.
"Are you living every day to make this world better?" Lewis asked Saturday night at the end of his 33-
minute oratory, often invoking the teachings of Martin Luther King.

5. Lewis was joined by Randy Moss, Brian Dawkins, Brian Urlacher, Jerry Kramer, Robert Brazile and
Bobby Beathard as inductees at the hall ceremony.
Another inductee, Terrell Owens , declined to attend. Instead, he held his own celebration at his
college in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was shown in a video and his photo was hanging in Tom
Benson Stadium. Otherwise, T.O. was MIA.
TENNIS
WASHINGTON (AP) — Alexander Zverev's second Citi Open title in a row is merely the latest sign that
he is separating himself from the other up-and-coming youngsters in tennis.
Zverev became the first man in nearly a decade to win consecutive titles at Washington's hard-court
tuneup for the U.S. Open, overpowering Alex de Minaur 6-2, 6-4 in the final Sunday.
Juan Martin del Potro won the Citi Open in 2008 and 2009.
Two-time major champion Svetlana Kuznetsova won the women's final, erasing four match points in
the second set on the way to a 4-6, 7-6 (7), 6-2 victory over Donna Vekic. Kuznetsova also won the title
in Washington in 2014.
Trending Now
More headlines
Records show road rage, gun threats in stand your ground shooter’s past
Age, experience, fresh perspective touted in District 69 Republican primary
Michigan infant died after parents refused to get help for religious reasons, police say
Yes, you can fail a drug test by eating a poppy seed bagel, as a Maryland mother learned
Woman tells police she’s a ‘clean, thoroughbred, white girl’ during DUI arrest
Daniel Ruth: Did wronged female re ghter assume Tampa Fire would change its good old boy ways?
Perish the thought.
Comments
0 0 0 0

6. Latest Older Articles »
Morethan2,000evacuatedtoremoveWWII-erabombinPoland
Polish police say they are evacuating more than 2,000 people after the discovery of an unexploded World War II-era bomb weighing
some 250 kilograms (550 pounds)
Updated: 1 hour ago
Morethan2,000evacuatedtoremoveWWII-erabombinPoland
Polish police say they are evacuating more than 2,000 people after the discovery of an unexploded World War II-era bomb weighing
some 250 kilograms (550 pounds)
Updated: 1 hour ago
ArgentineSenaterejectslegalizingelective
abortion
Argentina's Senate has rejected a bill to legalize elective abortion in the
rst 14 weeks of pregnancy _ an issue that bitterly divides the homeland of
Pope Francis
Updated: 1 hour ago
ArgentineSenaterejectslegalizingelective
abortion
Argentina's Senate has rejected a bill to legalize elective abortion in the
rst 14 weeks of pregnancy _ an issue that bitterly divides the homeland of
Pope Francis
Updated: 1 hour ago
ArgentineSenaterejectslegalizingelectiveabortion

7. Argentina's Senate has rejected a bill to legalize elective abortion in the
rst 14 weeks of pregnancy _ an issue that bitterly divides the homeland of
Pope Francis
Updated: 1 hour ago
APTopNewsat4:58a.m.EDT
AP Top News at 4:58 a.m. EDT
Updated: 1 hour ago
YementriballeaderssayairstrikesinYemen'snorthkill20
Yemeni tribal leaders: Airstrikes blamed on Saudi-led coalition hit market and bus, killing at least 20 people
Updated: 1 hour ago
YementriballeaderssayairstrikesinYemen'snorthkill20
Yemeni tribal leaders: Airstrikes blamed on Saudi-led coalition hit market and bus, killing at least 20 people
Updated: 1 hour ago
AustralianmanarrestedinBalioncocainecharges
An Australian man faces up to 20 years in prison in Indonesia after being arrested for allegedly selling cocaine on the resort island of
Bali
Updated: 1 hour ago
YemenitriballeaderssayairstrikesinnorthernYemenblamedontheSaudi-ledcoalition
havekilledatleast20people
Yemeni tribal leaders say airstrikes in northern Yemen blamed on the Saudi-led coalition have killed at least 20 people
Updated: 1 hour ago
Latest Older Articles »

8. Sponsored Content
Recommended by
Police Chief Arrested for Fuel
Theft
www.government- eet.com
Texas Launches No Cost Solar
Program
Energy Bill Cruncher
[Pics] She Lived A Life of A
Millionaire, Until They Uncovered
The Truth
Ice Pop
Switch and you could save $668
on car insurance
Progressive
Here's What An Online College
Degree Should Cost In 2018
Online College Degrees| Sponsored
Listings
[Pics] Colorado Mom's Double Life
Leaves Her Family Destroyed
Direct Expose

9. Weather Center
Radar Images:Weather Alerts:
Full-sized radar
Current conditions
10-day Forecast
Hurricane Guide

10. MugShots

11. SITE MAP
Index of site pages
ARCHIVES
Click here to search the
Archives
SUBSCRIBE
Subscribe
Renew
Customer Service
E-
NEWSPAPER
Subscribe
Subscriber sign-in
CONTACT US
Directory
Email Customer Service
Call Customer Service:
1-800-888-7012
ADVERTISE
WITH US
Place an ad
Market Info
Media Kit
Find Cars on
AutoTrader.com
JOIN US
About Us
Times Jobs |
Internships
Deliver the paper
TIMES-SPONSORED EVENTS
Click here for a directory of all Times consumer shows
TAMPA BAY TIMES FUND INC.
Grants
Scholarships
TIMES BRAND MERCHANDISE
Photo reprints and licensing
Article reprints and licensing
Photo Reprints FAQ
Home News Politics Sports Things To Do Video Opinion Classi eds Cars Jobs Homes Legal Ads
© 2018 • All Rights Reserved • Tampa Bay Times • 490 First Avenue South • St. Petersburg, FL 33701 • 727-893-8111
Search

12. Contact Us Privacy Policy Standard of Accuracy Terms, Conditions & Copyright