The Charlotte Bobcats will interview Hall of Famer Jerry Sloan today for their vacant head coaching position. The 70-year-old Sloan spent 23 seasons with the Utah Jazz before resigning in February 2011.
Golf
Zach Johnson shot a bogey-free 6-under-par 64 to take a one-stroke lead over Jason Dufner, Harris English, Tom Gillis and Kyle Reifers after the first round of the Colonial in Fort Worth, Texas. … Roger Chapman shot a 3-under 68 to take the first-round lead at the Senior PGA Championship in Benton Harbor, Mich. … Peter Lawrie and David Drysdale shared the first-round lead at 6-under 66 in the BMW PGA Championship in Virginia Water, England.
Footnotes. Freshman Taylor Anderson made the most of his lone at-bat of the day, hitting his first college triple to score two runs and give Northern Colorado a 14-13 walkoff victory in the Bears’ second elimination game at the Great West Tournament in Orem, Utah. … The University of Colorado women’s golf team remained in 15th place at the NCAA Championship in Franklin, Tenn., heading into today’s final round at 36-over-par 900, 23 strokes behind front-running Alabama. CU’s Emily Talley and Jennifer Coleman are tied for 34th at 7-over 223. … Colorado’s Gus Handler, Colorado State’s Weston Richburg and Wyoming’s Nick Carlson were among the centers named to the Rimington Trophy watch list as the nation’s best at the position.
