Associated Press
RALEIGH ó The week football fans in North Carolina have been waiting for since the spring has finally arrived: It’s game week again.
Sunday marked the start of the weekly routines for most of the state’s five Bowl Subdivision teams.
North Carolina coach Butch Davis and East Carolina coach Skip Holtz will meet the media today during their first game-week news conferences of the season. Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe and Duke’s David Cutcliffe will take their turn the next day.
Three of those schools will play their season openers on Saturday. But a pair of them are getting a two-day jump start. North Carolina State will visit South Carolina while No. 23 Wake Forest is at Baylor on Thursday night.
GOLF
SNOQUALMIE, Wash. ó Tom Kite surged past Scott Simpson with three birdies in four holes on the back nine and finished at 14-under to win his second Boeing Classic title on Sunday afternoon.
It’s the first victory for Kite since winning the 2006 Boeing Classic.
– PINEHURST ó Danny Lee became the U.S. Amateur’s youngest champion, supplanting Tiger Woods by holding off Drew Kittleson 5 and 4 on Sunday.
The 18-year, 1-month-old Lee frittered away most of a 6-hole lead before regaining control with consecutive birdies midway through his second trip around Pinehurst’s No. 2 course. He capped his 11th consecutive day of competitive golf by sinking a 30-foot birdie putt on the 14th, dropping his putter and thrusting his fists into the air in celebration.
IRL
SONOMA, Calif. ó Helio Castroneves finally broke through for a victory Sunday at Infineon Raceway, winning for the first time in 30 races.
More important, the Team Penske star, frustrated until now with seven runner-up finishes this season, kept alive his hopes for an IndyCar Series championship as points leader Scott Dixon had one of his worst days of the season, finishing 12th.
Dixon saw his lead shrink from a seemingly comfortable 78 points to 43 heading into next week’s race at Detroit’s Belle Isle, the penultimate race of the season.
COLLEGE HOOPS
BUFFALO, N.Y. ó Leading scorer Andy Robinson was suspended for three games by the University at Buffalo on Friday for posting an advertisement on the Internet last spring to pay someone to write a course paper.
– VILLANOVA, Pa. ó Larry Hennessy, an All-American at Villanova who played in the NBA, has died. He was 79.
Hennessy died Wednesday in Williamsburg, Va.. Hennessy scored 1,737 points from 1950-53 at Villanova, which retired his No. 14 jersey.