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Longhorns
Men's golf coach Fields named coach of year
Texas men's golf coach John Fields was anmed Golfweek's Coach of the Year after winning the national title. Dylan Frittelli and Jordan Spieth were named first-team All-Americans and Julio Vegas was named to the second team.
College basketball
Xavier-Cincinnati rivalry moving to neutral site
Cincinnati's annual rivalry is moving to a neutral court. Xavier and Cincinnati have agreed to change the setting for their annual game following a brawl that resulted in eight players suspended last season.
College athletics
North Dakota officially drops nickname
North Dakota dropped its contentious Fighting Sioux nickname for the third time, and officials expressed hope that the latest retirement ? fueled by this week's overwhelming statewide vote ? would finally stick. Advocates for keeping it are circulating petitions to force another vote this November that would mandate the nickname under the state's constitution.
Tennis
Nadal, Federer win in Wimbledon tuneup
Rafael Nadal defeated Lukas Lacko 7-5, 6-1 at the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany, his first singles match since he won a record seventh French Open. Roger Federer, a five-time winner of this Wimbledon tuneup, downed Florian Mayer 6-4, 7-5. Nadal announced that he will lead Spain's team at the London Olympics.
Tsonga injures finger; Wimbledon in doubt
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga may have to miss Wimbledon after injuring his right hand during a 7-6 (3), 3-6, 7-6 (5) third-round loss to Ivan Dodig at Queen's Club in London.
U.S. Open facilities will get makeover
The U.S. Tennis Association plans to give the home of the U.S. Open a makeover that will cost it hundreds of millions of dollars, but does not include putting a roof on Arthur Ashe Stadium. The renovation calls for the 6,000-seat Grandstand adjacent to Louis Armstrong Stadium to be relocated; seven tournament courts moved to create more room for spectators to get about the grounds; and Armstrong Stadium rebuilt and expanded from 10,000 seats to 15,000.
Horse racing
Kentucky Derby entries get new system
Churchill Downs simplified the path leading to the Kentucky Derby, announcing a new points system pegged to three dozen races that will set the field for the country's most famous thoroughbred race. The track scrapped a more complicated system in place since 1986 based on graded stakes earnings.
Zheng, Vinci reach Birmingham quarters
Zheng Jie, the only Chinese player to reach the singles semifinals at Wimbledon, will return to the top 30 rankings after reaching the Aegon Classic quarterfinals in Birmingham, England. Zheng beat Andrea Hlavackova 6-4, 6-1.
Track and field
Nike says uniforms can lower times
U.S. Olympic athletes will wear uniforms at the London Summer Olympics that Nike says could shave up to 0.023 seconds off 100-meter sprint times. The company said its tests showed an unexpectedly big difference in the 100-, 200- and 400-meter races. The outfits feature dimples like a golf ball.
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