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The No. 7 USC Aiken golf team is set for the upcoming NCAA South/Southeast Regional, which will take place May 9-11 in Gainesville, Ga.

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The PGA Championship field next week at Valhalla includes everyone from the top 100 in the world. The list officially has Tiger Woods. And seven invitations have gone out to LIV Golf players. The PGA Championship tries to get the top 100 in the world to maintain its reputation as having the strongest field. Patrick Reed is No. 92 and he extends his streak of playing in every major since the 2014 Masters. Two spots are being held for winners of two PGA Tour events if they're not already eligible. The PGA Championship returns to Valhalla in Louisville, Kentucky, for the fourth time on May 16-19.

Brooks Koepka leaves the bluster to everyone else at LIV Golf. He cares about only his golf, especially when it's not going well. Such was the case a year ago when he gave up a Sunday lead at the Masters. He responded by winning the PGA Championship. Koepka was furious with his Masters performance last month. He got it together to win in Singapore for a fourth title at LIV Golf. That gets everyone's attention with the PGA Championship next week. Koepka isn't the favorite. That's Scottie Scheffler. But Koepka is considered a major threat again.

Roger Penske has suspended the president of Team Penske along with three others for two races for their roles in the cheating scandal that has rocked IndyCar ahead of the Indianapolis 500. Tim Cindric oversees all of Team Penske’s operations and is the strategist for Indy 500 defending champion Josef Newgarden. Cindric is the top name suspended. Also suspended are team managing director Ron Ruzewski, Newgarden engineer Luke Mason and senior data engineer Robbie Atkinson. Ruzewski and Atkinson both work on Will Power’s car and Power is the only of the three Penske drivers not accused of any wrongdoing in the push-to-pass scandal.

Shohei Ohtani went 4 for 4 with two home runs, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Atlanta Braves, 5-1, on Sunday afternoon to sweep the three-game series. It was Ohtani's first multi-home run game as a Dodger and the 17th of his career. Teoscar Hernanez added a two-run homer and James Paxton (4-0) pitched 6 2/3 innings, allowed five hits and one run, walked two and struck out three to remain unbeaten on the season.

Shohei Ohtani went 4 for 4 with two home runs, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Atlanta Braves, 5-1, on Sunday afternoon to sweep the three-game series. It was Ohtani's first multi-home run game as a Dodger and the 17th of his career. Teoscar Hernanez added a two-run homer and James Paxton (4-0) pitched 6 2/3 innings, allowed five hits and one run, walked two and struck out three to remain unbeaten on the season.

Mika Zibanejad had two goals and an assist, Artemi Panarin also scored and the New York Rangers beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 in Game 1 of their second-round series. Vincent Trocheck had a goal and an assist, and Chris Kreider had two assists as the Rangers, won their seventh straight including the regular season. Igor Shesterkin stopped 22 shots to become the third goalie in franchise history to open a postseason with five straight wins. Jaccob Slavin, Martin Necas and Seth Jarvis each had a goal for Carolina. Frederik Andersen finished with 19 saves.

Lando Norris needed 110 starts and a mistake by Max Verstappen to earn his first ever Formula 1 race and end Verstappen’s dominance at the Miami Grand Prix. Verstappen started from the pole and was out front when he hit a chicane and knocked a cone out of place on the circuit. It forced the three-time reigning F1 champion to pit and gave Norris the lead. The 24-year-old driver for McLaren then controlled the race to give the organization its first win since a Daniel Ricciardo victory in 2021. It also made him the second British driver in F1 history to be feted on the podium by “God Save the King.”

Donovan Mitchell scored 39 points, Caris LeVert added 15 and the Cleveland Cavaliers avoided a potentially franchise-shifting loss by rallying for a 106-94 win over the Orlando Magic in Game 7. The Cavs will play Boston in the next round. Cleveland trailed by 18 in the first half and was in danger of being knocked out in the first round for the second year in a row. But Mitchell, who scored 50 in a Game 6 loss, put the Cavs on his back. Evan Mobley grabbed 16 rebounds as Cleveland won its first playoff series without LeBron James since 1993. Paolo Banchero scored 38 and added 16 rebounds to lead the Magic, who grew up in the series but couldn’t figure out how to win in Cleveland as both teams held serve on their floors.

Andrey Rublev has rallied to beat Felix Auger-Aliassime in three sets and win the Madrid Open for the first time. Rublev won 4-6, 7-5, 7-5 Sunday after Auger-Aliassime double-faulted on the last point of the final at the clay-court tournament in the Spanish capital. It was the second Masters 1000 title for the eighth-ranked Rublev. The 26-year-old Russian also won at Monte Carlo last year. Auger-Aliassime was playing in his first final at this level.

Back when the New York Knicks would annually march on in the playoffs, they’d almost always run into the Indiana Pacers. With the teams set to renew their playoff rivalry Monday in the Eastern Conference semifinals, it’s easy to think back to those rough and rugged tussles in the 1990s. But while the matchup may be old school, Jalen Brunson and the Knicks are bracing for an opponent who plays a new-age style. Tyrese Haliburton runs the NBA’s highest-scoring offense, with the Pacers scoring 123.3 points per game in the regular season.

There are no shortage of storylines for this Florida-Boston rematch. There’s the Panthers, trying to move another step closer toward a return to the Stanley Cup Final. There’s the Bruins, looking to avenge a shocking upset in a Round 1 series last season. The rested Panthers having just gotten a few days off, the razor-sharp Bruins rolling in after a Game 7 overtime win over Toronto. A second-round series between the Panthers and Bruins starts Monday night in South Florida, the two best teams in the Atlantic Division squaring off with a trip to the NHL’s final four on the line.

Mystik Dan won the 150th Kentucky Derby in a dramatic three-horse photo finish, edging out Sierra Leone and Forever Young for the upset victory. It was the 10th Derby to be decided by a nose, the closest margin in horse racing. Sent off at 18-1 odds, Mystik Dan and jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. rode the rail down the stretch with a short lead. Sierra Leone and Forever Young from Japan gave chase and pressured the leader to the wire in front of 156,710 at Churchill Downs on Saturday. Hernandez and trainer Kenny McPeek had teamed to win the Kentucky Oaks for fillies a day earlier with Thorpedo Anna. Mystik Dan ran 1 1/4 miles in 2:03.34 and paid $39.22 to win.

Taylor Pendrith has a one-shot lead going into the final round of the CJ Cup Byron Nelson. The Canadian is among several leaders seeking his first PGA Tour victory. Pendrith chipped in twice for consecutive eagles to kick-start his round of 8-under 63. It's the third time for back-to-back eagles on tour this season. Pendrith is at 19 under, one shot ahead of second-round leader Jake Knapp. First-round leader Matt Wallace is another shot back in a tie with Ben Kohles.

Kyle Larson's busy month of May is getting going at Kansas Speedway. He will be driving his No. 5 for Hendrick Motorsports in the NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday. That comes after two nights driving his sprint car at nearby Lakeside Speedway. But the big weekend will be Memorial Day weekend, when he tries to pull off “the double” by finishing every lap of the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on the same day. Tony Stewart remains the only drive to pull off the feat. Larson was second to Denny Hamlin in the spring race at Kansas last year. He also was second to Hamlin last week at Dover.

Michael Blowen can step outside his house anytime and visit retired racehorses at Old Friends, the thoroughbred retirement farm he founded in Kentucky two decades ago. The farm is dedicated to providing dignity and comfort to retired racehorses. Blowen's favorite resident is 30-year-old Silver Charm. The oldest living Derby winner resides at the 240-acre farm outside Georgetown, Kentucky. Visitors to the farm can take a guided, 90-minute walking tour while getting up-close looks at some of the farm’s most famous residents, including Silver Charm and I’ll Have Another, the 2012 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner. Old Friends has about 250 thoroughbreds in its care at its farms in Kentucky and New York. The Kentucky Derby is Saturday.

Owner Mike Repole is 0 for 7 in the Kentucky Derby. Two of his top horses never made the starting gate. Last year, Forte was scratched the morning of the race with a foot injury and in 2011 Uncle Mo was scratched the day before because of illness. Now Repole is back with morning-line favorite Fierceness for Saturday's 150th Derby. The bay colt will have to overcome a bit of Derby history since no horse has ever won out of the No. 17 post. Sierra Leone is the early second choice for trainer Chad Brown. After the two of them, the Derby becomes wide-open with 20 horses running 1 1/4 miles at Churchill Downs. A record $5 million purse is up for grabs.

A state championship-winning Aiken County team received recognition in Columbia Thursday. The South Carolina House of Representatives recognized the South Aiken High School Thoroughbreds volleyball team for winning the SCHSL AAAA state championship, S.C. Rep Bill Taylor said Thursday afternoon. 

Tiger Woods is headed to the U.S. Open after receiving the first of what likely will be many special exemptions. Woods has been eligible for every U.S. Open since he played in his first one in 1995 as the reigning U.S. Amateur champion. By the time he played his first Open as a pro, Woods already was the Masters champion. And 14 more major titles followed. Jack Nicklaus received eight U.S. Open exemptions. Arnold Palmer received five. Woods is a three-time U.S. Open champion as part of his 15 majors. The U.S. Open is June 13-16 at Pinehurst No. 2.

Rory McIlroy says it was during a drunken lunch after the Ryder Cup that he asked Shane Lowry to be his teammate in the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. That was some six months ago and it worked out better than he could have imagined. It's not so much he and Lowry won the PGA Tour's only official team event. They rediscovered the joy of golf. McIlroy has been winning plenty. But he's also caught in the middle of the battle with LIV Golf that has torn apart the sport. McIlroy says reinjecting fun into golf can always help.