Overton takes the lead of Nelson without Bogey 64

Jeff Overton shot a bogey free 6-less of 64 Thursday to take the lead in the first round Championship Byron Nelson, a stroke better than Ryan Palmer.

A year after linking the second four seasons TPC, Overton started his back nine with four birdies in a stretch of seven holes. He had his best career score towers in 15 at the Nelson, even after his attempt to 22 feet birdie on the hole from closing to lips.

"It is nice having confidence because of last year," Overton said. "" "". I knew that I play well. I wanted to just keep things rolling. ?

After a putt of economy by 10 feet at the second hole by-3 220 yards, Overton had consecutive birdies.

"That broke a lot and I thought that I have missed him, and he went in reality", said Overton. "And next thing I was able to hit a lot of great shots and radiation at the beginning." I have never had a chance to make bogey there. "

Palmer made the cut only once in his previous seven appearances of Nelson. This week, he is to leave his caddie call all his shots.

Sergio Garcia, who withdrew a British Open qualifier this week and did not even play a practice round due to a nail on his left hand, infected was in a group of nine players at 66.

Infection on the fingers of Garcia ring makes it difficult to enter a club. His finger was there a few days that he thought that he could even not able to play.

Why this for a cure for Garcia? Antibiotic cream, draining infection, see the new film "Pirates of Caribbean" and an opening Eagle.

Dustin Johnson watches his putt on the ninth hole during the first round of the Byron Nelson Championship in Irving, Texas, golf tournament on Thursday, May 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Matt Strasen) Close

"" It's funny how golf is sometimes. "."Yeah, rarely practice at all and then it was y, Garcia said on a corner of sand of 116 yards on his first hole, the 10th 418-yard of categories. "I hit it and I saw the guys on the Green saying"In"and I thought,"Perfect!"" I could not have started in a better manner. ?

Overton was part of the Ryder Cup team last year when he was three finalist finishes, among them part of three tracks for the second equal in Nelson last year behind Jason Day.

Although he made the cut in his 13 previous tournaments this season, Overton has finished better than 20th only once. That a sixth place finish at the Honda Classic in March, and it was his missed cut and finished no better than 26 since then.

"I hope that this is the beginning of a series of good for me," he said. "I have struck it really well the last three or four weeks, just did not my rolls throughout the year."

The Greens of TPC were bombarded by hail described as half the size of baseballs during storms Tuesday night. Crews worked on the Greens before and after a pro - am Wednesday.

The opening round Thursday, players were allowed to treat hail as a brand of ball that they could repair. They also took advantage of lift, clean and place being in effect because of potential damage to other areas of the course.

Dustin Johnson, who played in the group with Garcia, was in the Group at 66 with Jeff Quinney, Scott Piercy, Will Strickler, Chris Riley, Josh Teater, Joe Ogilvie and Keegan Bradley.

Double bogey of Johnson on his second hole, the 329-yard 11th, came after he hooked his drive in water going for the green and then hit his fourth shot on the green.

He was bogey-free the rest of the round, starting with a birdie from 21 feet at the No. 12 and 22 to no. 14 footer. Its six birdie rolled on average more than 19 feet - shortest was 8 with a long of 35 feet.

Johnson, who finished second and third place finishes this season, has been under the by, for the eighth time in his last nine rounds of the Nelson.

"The Greens were large, so you know, I have come to give the grounds crew accessories," said Johnson. "They did a really good job of loan the Greens, especially after the hail storm.". You definitely have to give them a helping hand. ?

Garcia said he fixed several plugs on each hole, but said that the Greens are OK.

DIVOTS: K.J. Choi, who won the Players Championship two weeks before jumping Colonial last week, shot a 71 with four bogies while playing with Garcia and Johnson. ... Defending champion day shot a 72 that included a double bogey and four bogies.

Kenseth takes away late at Dover a second victory

DOVER,.-first idea of Matt Kenseth was to jump the pit road, take a chance that he could begin on a reboot first and hang a victory.

Then, he had another idea. Why not just take two tires on the road to the sky instead of four?

Matt Kenseth tamed the Monster Mile in improbable fashion, Sunday, using a pari pit-stop on the segment to deny the most dominant drivers of 400 of FedEx - Jimmie Johnson and Carl Edwards. With his No. 17 Ford on jack, Kenseth called the audible and said team Chief Jimmy Fennig that he wanted two.

"Two tires! Two tires! "Fennig said.

His crew has the switch before they abandoned the car and that was the perfect strategy Kenseth needed to win the Sprint Cup at Dover International Speedway Sunday race.

Kenseth led the final 32 towers to win for the second time this season. Also, he won in Texas and became the third driver to win twice this season.

Altered pursuant to rules of the NASCAR qualifying for the hunt for the Championship to focus on wins, Kenseth has strengthened its bid for the field with his second victory.

"My mind is to be there and try to carry out these points in the Chase and try to hunt as a Championship," said Kenseth. "We do not want to drag out victories." We want to go out there and as each race this week. ?

Mark Martin was second and third Marcos Ambrose. Kyle Busch and Brian Vickers rounded out the top five. Busch was forced to start at the back of the field due to a change of engine.

Russ Hamilton Sr.Matt Kenseth celebrates after winning the Sprint Cup race at Dover for his second victory of the season.

Kenseth made debut at Dover Cup in 1998 as a fill in for Bill Elliott. He won for the second time in the Cup on the road series concrete high-turns, 1 mile.

"It is one of these tracks is a challenge to bypass the Rapids, if you are an individual races or not", said Kenseth.

The 400 mile race was dominated by long periods of green flag racing. Jimmie Johnson and Edwards this transformed into a battle of two cars for first for the majority of the race. Edwards led 117 rounds before falling to seventh place. Johnson led a race high 207 towers and finished ninth.

Kenseth and crew, team leader Bob Osborne Edwards made a call for four tires on the last restart which he passed to ninth and spoiled his chance at victory.

"I had no choice," really, Edwards said. "It is for the guys in the box." It is too difficult to make a choice to make here and I don't blame not one bit of Bob Osborne. ?

Regan Smith was 34th week after it shocked the sport with his first victory of career at Darlington Raceway.

Busch, Kevin Harvick had no incidents after that a clash of road pit at Darlington their deplaned in probation. Harvick was 10th.

Martin stayed on the trail of old tires to take the lead when the caution flag comes out with 39 towers on the left. Kenseth made a stop faster and opted for two tires instead of four, the correct number for him to get old Martin on the restart and then remove for victory.

Matt Kenseth later fired the rest of the field late to win his second race of the season.

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"We were going to make four, we obtained in the stall and decided to make two. It was the key, "said Kenseth.

Kenseth overthrown team leader Jimmy Fennig and made the call for two tires.

"When I was on the jack, I asked if he was sure that we didn't try two and he said to two pants," said Kenseth. "It was really calling Jimmy and a good suggestion by me."

Kenseth said that it was difficult during the race green flag because the rubber which built on the fact way slick concrete - an obstacle for a car loose.

When the short runs has started coming, Kenseth has found a way cleaner and clean air was enough to raise his race.

Kenseth, 2003 series champion, won his 20th career Cup race.

Martin received his first top five of the season.

"Today, we have finally achieved a finish," he said. "It seemed that was going to get 15 with a race car again very soon." We had a race car that much this year good. But it seems that for one reason or another, we find ourselves on the back of the rear. ?

Kenseth dominated when he won in Texas to end a series 76-race winless. He has been strong this year and has four top fives of the page, which gives him the confidence that another victory was on the horizon. He began the 24 and roared back to win.

"The whole organization has been the better construction, the fastest race cars," said Kenseth.

Sanchez takes hitter in 7th against Nats

 Fortified by his mother pancakes, Anibal Sanchez was unhittable in 100 locations Sunday.

Sanchez took a hitter in the seventh round and struck out 11 record career to help the Florida Marlins to save the last game of their series against Washington, 8-0.

The crowd announced included 10,523 Sanchez mother, Evelia, visit the Venezuela.

"She made me breakfast this morning, that's why I launched a game like that,"Sanchez said."

But there do should not be the one doing the cooking on mother's day?

""I am supposed to,"he said with a smile, but I'm the baby".

First success Washington came 101st field Sanchez, when Laynce Nix leads off the coast of the seventh with a single line on the right, just out of reach of a diving Mike Stanton.

Sanchez (2-1) allowed two hits and walked no in seven rounds left after throwing 117 locations on a sunny afternoon, 86 degrees. Manager of Edwin Rodriguez joke blamé the conditions to realize belatedly how well Sanchez was tongue.

"In" the sixth round that I didn't know there was a hitter goes, Rodriguez said. "" "". It took me by surprise. My coach coach launcher and bench let me know. They thought I was kidding, but I didn't. It was hot out there. ?

The performance was crucial for the Marlins (20-13), who broke a stripe lost three games. They are always off the best start in the history section of franchise in a series of three matches starting Monday against the leader of the East NL Philadelphia.

"It gives the tone in the next series," catcher, said John Buck. "We were a little flat, slightly withered." Anibal lift and what to do for the team, which has been enormous. Certainly me much better now that we've played this game good. ?

Gaby Sanchez, with a stick of rose and pink shoes in respect for the day, hit a three-run homer, doubled in two times, designated and scored three runs.

He excluded ranging with Rose again Monday.

Absolutely "no", said. "I'll take those home with me.". "They gave me one day, but tomorrow I will wear my other things."

Greg Dobbs also exercised a pink bat and had two RBI hits to help Florida beat the nationals for the 13th time in their past 17 meetings.

Michael Morse followed Nix hit with a one-out single in the seventh, but Sanchez the two next batter at the end of the English channel and its afternoon retired. He received a standing ovation and waved medicine that he walked to the dugout.

Sanchez threw a hitter rookie in 2006, and he had one in the ninth round April 22 against Colorado before Dexter Fowler and he broke with none out.

"It is a good Launcher," said Jerry Hairston of Washington, who went 0 for 4 with three striped. "It is a reason why he has launched a hitter before." When you get each pitch strikes and hitting your messages, it is difficult to hit. ?

Ryan Webb and Burke Badenhop completed a four hitter. Nationals, which ranked next-last the majors in batting, struck out 38 times in the series.

Livan Hernandez (3-4) allowed six runs in five rounds, which has no match for Sanchez. The it of Marlins struck out the side in the second and fifth round, and he retired 12 straight after having struck Danny Espinosa with a field to start the third.

"I am not a launcher with stroke, but they took a lot of swings at the ball in the dirt," Sanchez said. He improved to 6-0 with a 2.16 era in 15 career starts against Washington.

Glover takes Wells Fargo end drought without a victory to put

CHARLOTTE, N.C - Figures Lucas Glover, he played more than 100 tours with Jonathan Byrd, golf junior when they were adolescents to their years together at Clemson and almost a decade on the PGA Tour.

The stakes have never were also high that they were Sunday in the Championship of Wells Fargo.

Glover has never been better.

Clinging to a One-Shot, Glover lead closed with three gutsy pars of the brutal finishing section, at Quail Hollow slamming his fist when he made the last time of 7 feet for a 3-under 69 and what appeared to be a sure win. Then came a Byrd, with two major pars on his own initiative, followed by a shooting in 15 feet he did birdie the 18th for a 72 to force a playoff.

Glover wound up a winner with equal on the first extra hole, ending a drought of 41 tournaments that stretched nearly to two years to his US Open win to Bethpage Black in 2009.

It is the eighth game this year on the PGA Tour and the third in a row.

"I am pleased," said Glover. "Any any time you win, you are happy." This means that beat you all the world. You did that you set for Thursday morning when the range of bell. Against this field and on this golf course and a tournament of this magnitude, I am very pleased. ?

And against one of his best friends?

Who could help. Glover, in his first game of PGA Tour, felt a sense of calm play against Byrd, who had won his last two tournaments in extra holes. And it showed.

In the regulations, Glover hooked his tee shot until this left he settled by a spectator. He was given a drop, then watched the ball roll down from the Bank towards the stream as it is ready to strike. Because never, he founded his club - which has been his plan, given the lie on one side of a steep hill - he played the next time without penalty.

"Better off, worse lie," he said.

He managed a 6-iron just over the Green, hit more difficult chip he had all day to 7 feet and escapes with another. In the playoffs, however, Glover struck his tee shot in the middle and two row of 25 feet.

Byrd, who passed a fairway bunker to danger left Green - just below the stream - struck a difficult chip 25 through the hole and wound up with a bogey.

Scott Halleran/Getty ImagesLucas Glover got his first victory since the US Open 2009 after having beaten Jonathan Byrd on the first hole of the playoff at the Wells Fargo Championship.

"I am just disappointed because you're here to win", said Byrd. "You love to do competition, especially when you get a series. You birdie the last, you feel like, "Hey, this is just going to work.".

"If I couldn't win, I couldn't choose someone else that I do not want to win other than Lucas, so I am very pleased for him."

Glover, who finished 15 - under 273, becomes the first player in the history of nine years of the tournament to display all of the four towers in the 1960s. He would have seen this entry.

He was going through a divorce for several months-"I'll probably leave that there, if it is all right," he said, refused to comment on his personal life - and had only one top 10 last year. He missed the cut in his last three events and had little confidence when it is presented in the quail hollow.

But he figured out Tuesday on the beach that the club was not square, he found better Wednesday in the pro-am and offshore, he went. This was not the US Open, although the way it has been tested in the last hour of a wild day, it was equally difficult.

Rory Sabbatini, who closed with a 65 and 13-under 131 weekend, only wound up third and moves in the top 50 of the world. There now remain for two weeks more to be exempted from the US Open.

Bill Haas had a 70 to finish alone in fourth. Pat Perez, who set a record for the tournament with 26 birdies, had a chance from the outside to win until the closing with three straight bogies to tie for sixth.

1 * Glover-(15)
2 Byrd-(15)
3 Sabbatini (-14)
4 Haas (-13)
5. Na-(12)
* a won the first hole of the play-off

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"It just proves that I cannot close, so I am fairly confident on this" Perez said, blunt as ever. "You will never win if you play as I did today." It's just terrible. "Embarrassing".

Glover was four strokes behind when he made his move by chipping for birdie on the eighth and categories of an Eagle from 30 feet on the 10th that gave the outright lead it never lost the rest of the road.

Next comes a wild ride - bogey-birdie-bogey-birdie - which brought him to the treacherous finishing. He rescued from well behind the 16th green. It has two row of slightly less than 100 17 feet, hand 6 footer, escaped no. 18 with the greatest of all.

"With a One-Shot lead, these three holes, you do not have to run," Glover said. "" "". A fact I am running the full swing? Who wants to say? But I signed my short game, and I had my wraps. ?

Byrd was on the tee when he heard the roar of peer Glover, knowing that he needed birdie.

Glover predicted all but that he would.

They had joked before the third round that they would be paired Sunday afternoon. They probably did not have this end in mind.

"I said, ' why do we plan on seeing the other tomorrow about 2 - and it is 6," says Glover. "" "". I think that this is perhaps why I knew that he was going to birdie on 18. ?

Sabbatini was among five players at the top of the rankings in a wacky final round, and the action is relentless.

It all started with the South African bold, who had only spoken this week about his argument filled with profanity with Sean O'Hair week last in New Orleans which could lead to a suspension. Sabbatini posted 14-under 274 and it seemed that it might be sufficient for a game as the Glover, Byrd, Haas and kept Perez find disorder and the last five holes.

Byrd seemed to be in control until the closure of nine front with back-to-back bogies, and then do another 14, while his shooting raw right also found the water. But he followed with a birdie on the 15th, then handguns of the trees on 16 and hit his shot of 167 yards to 2 feet for an improbable by and closed with a dramatic birdie.

"I am just disappointed the way I played the rest of the 15 holes earlier in the day," said Byrd.

 

2011 NFL draft: Chicago Bears' Jerry Angelo takes blame for trade failed with Baltimore Ravens

LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- The Chicago Bears have declined to compensate the Baltimore Ravens for the botched first-round trade the two teams agreed to but that the Bears did not turn into the NFL, a league source told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell encouraged the Bears to surrender some type of draft compensation but when he declined to order them to do so, Chicago opted not to give the Ravens anything.

"The only thing I'm gonna say [is] they have rules when you do something wrong, not when you make mistakes," Bears general manager Jerry Angelo said Friday. "A mistake was made, no rule was broken."

Moments before the Bears selected Wisconsin offensive tackle Gabe Carimi at No. 29 overall on Thursday, Angelo tried to move up and take Carimi three picks earlier. He worked out a deal to send the No. 29 selection and a fourth-round pick to the Ravens, who held the No. 26 pick.

The Ravens called in the trade and Angelo told two staffers to make the call for the Bears. But each staffer thought the other did it, and the call was never made, according to a source familiar with the situation.

"We had a disconnect and there might be something said about it because of not communicating with the league and proper protocol; that was my fault," Angelo told reporters on Thursday. "I called Baltimore and apologized to Baltimore and told them it was our fault. They did everything according to the rules, and we thought we were following everything, and we just ran out of time. It was a glitch on our part and that glitch obviously was under my reign."

The Ravens ended up passing the 26th pick to the Kansas City Chiefs, who selected wide receiver Jonathan Baldwin.

Baltimore then jumped back in the draft and took Colorado cornerback Jimmy Smith at No. 27.

According to an explanation of events on the team's website by Kevin Byrne, who is the Ravens' senior vice president of public and community relations, Byrne told Baltimore general manager Ozzie Newsome that the Ravens would take a hit in the media because they let the clock expire. Byrne didn't feel that was fair.

"I'm not going to throw the Bears under the bus," Newsome responded, according to Byrne.

Newsome said he called the NFL with 2? minutes left on the clock to consummate the trade, and never got confirmation from the league.

"There was an agreement made between the [Bears] team and I," Newsome told the Ravens' website. "I got on the phone with the NFL but the [Bears] never got confirmation from the league. At that point I was asked by the league to make the pick."

Angelo quickly accepted responsibility.

"Whatever you hear, Baltimore did everything the right way," Angelo said. "There were a lot of things happening in the draft room. We were getting a lot of calls, we just ... dropped the ball. I dropped the ball. I can't say anything more than that."