GOLF

KAPALUA, Hawaii _ U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover had another big stretch of birdies on his way to an 8-under 65 that gave him the lowest 36-hole score at Kapalua in five years and a three-shot lead in the SBS Championship.

Glover was losing ground until a two-putt birdie on the fifth hole, the start of a six-hole stretch he played in 6 under. He needed all those birdies _ along with one eagle _ to keep ahead on a pristine day for scoring along the Maui coastline.

Glover was at 15-under 131 going into the weekend.

John Rollins (66) was three shots behind, and defending champion Geoff Ogilvy (66), Sean O’Hair (67), Matt Kuchar (68) and Martin Laird (68) were 11 under.

CHONBURI, Thailand _ Japan’s Ryo Ishikawa and Koukei Oda rallied to beat European captain Colin Montgomerie and Pablo Martin 3 and 2 in the opening foursomes matches to help Asia take a 21/2-11/2 lead in the Royal Trophy.

Asia’s Prayad Marksaeng and Thongchai Jaidee beat Henrik Stenson and Simon Dyson 3 and 1, and Europe’s Robert Karlsson and Alexander Noren topped Charlie Wie and Liang Wen-Chong 4 and 2. Asia’s Gaganjeet Bhullar and Jeev Milkha Singh halved their match with Peter Hanson and Soren Kjeldsen.

EAST LONDON, South Africa _ Trevor Fisher Jr. shot his second straight 7-under 66 to take the second-round lead in the Africa Open.

The South African eagled two par 5s and had five birdies and two

bogeys to finish 36 holes at 14-under 132, one shot ahead of

Sweden’s Patrik Sjoland (67).

PRO BASKETBALL

WASHINGTON _ Four Washington Wizards players have been fined $10,000 apiece for making fun of a serious situation. Coach Flip Saunders has banned gambling on the team plane.

Andray Blatche, JaVale McGee, Nick Young and Randy Foye were

docked by the team for their lightheaded participation when Gilbert

Arenas pointed his index fingers at teammates as if he were firing

a pair of guns during an on-court huddle before Tuesday night’s

game at Philadelphia. A photo shows most of the Wizards players

smiling or laughing, but the four players were deemed the worst

offenders.

SKIING

HAUS IM ENNSTAL, Austria _ Lindsey Vonn won her third straight World Cup downhill and regained the lead in the overall standings from Maria Riesch of Germany.

The reigning World Cup downhill and overall champion raced down the Krummholz course in 1 minute, 38.84 seconds to beat Anja Paerson of Sweden by 0.35 seconds. Riesch finished third, 0.39 seconds behind the American star.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska _ Kikkan Randall continued her tuneup for

the Vancouver Olympics by winning the 1.4-kilometer classic sprint

race for a sweep of women’s events at the 2010 U.S. Cross Country

Ski Championships.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. _ Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl dismissed forward Tyler Smith from the team, a week after his arrest with three other players on misdemeanor gun and drug charges.

Pearl had indefinitely suspended Smith, guard Cameron Tatum,

center Brian Williams and point guard Melvin Goins following the

Jan. 1 arrest.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

AUSTIN, Texas _ Texas All-America safety Earl Thomas is leaving school after his sophomore season to enter the NFL draft.

Thomas announced his decision Friday night, nearly 24 hours after Texas lost to Alabama 37-21 in the BCS championship game. Thomas, a Thorpe Award finalist, set a Texas record with eight interceptions this season.

LOS ANGELES _ Receiver Damian Williams is the latest to leave the troubled Southern California football program, announcing he’s skipping his senior season to enter the NFL draft.

TAMPA, Fla. _ South Florida fired football coach Jim Leavitt after a school investigation concluded he grabbed one of his players by the throat, slapped him in the face and then lied about it.

A letter hand delivered to the coach and released along with a report on the three-week probe said the university’s findings were based on “independently corroborated statements of persons found to be in the best position to observe your conduct.”

Reached by telephone, the only coach in the program’s 13-year history told The Associated Press he was “disappointed” and the allegation was “absolutely false.”

Leavitt told investigators he has never struck a player and that

he was trying to lift the spirits of a player who was “down” when

he grabbed the player’s shoulder pads during halftime of a game

against Louisville on Nov. 21.

SOCCER

LUANDA, Angola _ Gunmen in an area plagued by separatist violence used machine guns to open fire Friday on a bus carrying Togo’s national soccer team to a tournament in this southwest African country, killing the driver and wounding at least nine people, including two players.

Some players said they wanted to pull out of the African Cup of Nations tournament following the violence, but an official in Angola said it would go ahead as planned.

Togo’s bus in a convoy from Congo was six miles across the border in Angola when it came under fire. The bus driver died in the 30-minute ambush, according to Togo captain Emmanuel Adebayor, who was not hurt.

“We were machine-gunned like dogs,” Togo player Thomas Dossevi, who plays for French club Nantes, told Radio Monte Carlo. “They were armed to the teeth … We spent 20 minutes underneath the seats of the bus.”

LONDON _ Britain’s cold weather disrupted the weekend Premier League schedule and forced five matches to be called off Friday by clubs concerned about icy roads and railway delays to stadiums.

Four matches scheduled for Saturday _ leader Chelsea’s trip to Hull, Fulham against Portsmouth, Burnley against Stoke and Sunderland against Bolton _ have been postponed.

Liverpool’s match against Tottenham on Sunday was called off because of icy conditions on the roads outside Anfield.