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AUTORACING F1Chinese Grand Prix Prac- tice:11p.m.,NBCSN. COLLEGE BASEBALL Mississippi vs. Vanderbilt: 4:30p.m., ESPNU. Washington vs. Washington State: 9p.m., PAC-12. MLB BASEBALL New York Mets vs. Washing- ton Nationals or Minnesota Twins vs. Detroit Tigers: 10 a.m., MLB. Texas Rangers at Oakland Athletics: 12:30p.m., CSN. San Francisco Giants at San Diego Padres: 3:30p.m., CSNBA. Boston Red Sox vs. Philadel- phia Phillies: 3:30p.m., MLB. NBA BASKETBALL Chicago Bulls at Miami Heat: 5p.m., TNT. Portland Trail Blazers at Golden State Warriors: 7:30 p.m., TNT. GOLF Masters Tournament Round 1: noon, ESPN. COLLEGE HOCKEY Division I Tournament Frozen Four Semifinal Providence vs. Nebraska-Omaha: 2p.m., ESPN2. Division I Tournament Frozen Four Semifinal Boston U. vs. North Dakota: 5:30p.m., ESPN2. NHL HOCKEY Chicago Blackhawks at St. Louis Blues: 5p.m., NBCSN. San Jose Sharks at Edmonton Oilers: 6:30p.m., CSN. TENNIS WTA Family Circle Cup Round of 16: 10a.m., ESPN2. Ontheair ateurwhenhefinishedsec- ond behind Arnold Palmer in the 1960 U.S. Open. Nicklaus played that day with Ben Hogan, who also had a chance to win until he hit into the water on the 17th hole at Cherry Hills. Hogan said after the round, "Don't feel sorry for me. I played with a kid today who could have won this Open by 10 shots if he had known now." Nicklaus figured it out. Also on that list is Rory McIlroy, who returns to the scene of his greatest lesson in a major. He was a 21-year-old with a four-shot lead at the Masters in 2011, ready to be crowned the next big thing in golf, when he shot 80 in the final round. He handled the collapse with remarkable poise, said he would learn from his mis- takes. And then he posted scoring records at Congres- sional two months later in the U.S. Open. "A lot of that win has to do with what happened at Augusta," McIlroy said. The Masters is even more meaningful now. It's the only major keep- ing him from the career Grand Slam, and McIlroy will be the clear favorite when the Masters begins Thursday. "Everything I've done, all the work I've done gear- ing up for this week has been good," McIlroy said. "I'm just ready for the gun to go off on Thursday." The expectations are higher than ever for McIl- roy, and lower than ever for Woods, who is competing for the first time since Feb. 5. That's when he walked off the course at Torrey Pines to work on a game that had become so bad that hardly anyone recog- nized it. Woods has shown much improvement in three days of practice, including the nine holes he played with Crenshaw and Jordan Spi- eth. McIlroy and Woods, even at different ends of the spectrum, have domi- nated the talk so much this week that a large group of contenders have largely been ignored. Bubba Watson is the defending champion and going for his third green jacket in four years. Adam Scott is back to the long putter he used to win in 2013. Spieth and Jimmy Walker might be the hot- test players on the PGA Tour — Walker is the only player with two wins this season, Spieth has won, fin- ished second and lost in a playoff his last three starts. The question for Spieth is whether he already paid his major dues. A year ago, he was on the verge at age 20 of becom- ing the youngest Masters champion when he had a two-shot lead with 11 holes to play. Two bogeys put him behind going into the back nine, and he never caught up to Watson. "How much value do I take out of losing? A lot," Spieth said. "But I'm not one of those people who be- lieve it was better for me not to win. I don't think I would have handled it the wrong way. I don't think Rory would have if he had won. He was saying he didn't feel ready to close that out and found out what he was doing wrong. "I take a lot out of what happened, but I don't nec- essarily think it was better for me." PadraigHarringtonisan- other major champion who lost before he could win. "The best preparation for winning is contending," Harrington said. The Irishman made bo- gey on the final hole at the 2002 British Open that cost him a spot in the playoff at Muirfield. He finished with three straight bogeys at Winged Foot in 2006 and finished two shots behind in the U.S. Open. A year later, he won the first of his three majors, going back- to-back at the end of 2008. "You do need to be in that situation a couple of times to be comfortable," Harrington said. "That's not true for everyone. But for most players, you have to lose a few before you can win a few." Maybe that explains why no Masters rookie has won a green jacket since Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979. Or why the Masters has the few- est number of first-time champions compared with the other three majors over the last 20 years. McIlroy paid a steep price four years ago and found redemption in other majors right away. Still missing, however, is the green jacket. Masters FROM PAGE 1 in 2013 and '14 and has worked at minicamps, training camps and exhi- bition games. She has offi- ciated for Conference USA since 2007, with assign- ments including the Se- nior Bowl, the Pizza Bowl, the Fight Hunger Bowl, the Medal of Honor Bowl, and the league championship game in 2010 and '14. Thomas officiated two seasons in the United Foot- ball League, which is now out of business. "If you look at Sarah's background and her jour- ney to get here, this is not something that happened overnight," said Dean Blan- dino, the NFL's vice pres- ident of officiating. "She's been officiating 20 years and been on our radar screen for 8-9 years." Thomas worked a Ra- vens preseason game last year, and coach John Har- baugh said that "she might be one of the better ones we've had." "She's a good ref," he added, "so it was a good choice." Shannon Eastin worked regular-season NFL games in 2012 as a replacement of- ficial, making her the first woman to do so in any ca- pacity. She also was a line judge. Thomas played softball and basketball growing up and earned a college hoops scholarship to NAIA Uni- versity of Mobile. She was always around football and inspired to become an of- ficial when she attended a meeting with one of her brothers. The NFL was never the goal back then, but once she got into it, her natural competitive- ness kicked in. In 1996, Thomas be- came the first woman to officiate in a Division 1-A high school game in Mis- sissippi. Less than a decade later, she was hired by Con- ference USA, working as a line judge and head lines- man. She said she hadn't expe- rienced any problems with coaches or players. "Everyone has been very professional and looked at me as another official," Thomas said. NFL officials are part time, so Thomas' day job is as a pharmaceutical representative. She was already used to a heavy travel schedule with the college game. Thomas and her husband have three children: 14- and 11-year- old sons and a 2-year-old daughter. Like any official moving up from the college to the pro level, she expects the greatest challenge will be the speed of the game. The preseason can't quite repli- cate the real thing, but she and Blandino are confident she's got the quick reaction time she'll need to monitor the line of scrimmage. Thomas got her call from Blandino last Thurs- day, and she can tell you the exact time: 10:47 a.m. She was one of nine first- year officials announced Wednesday. The group includes side judge Walt Coleman IV, the son of NFL referee Walt Coleman. The Colemans will become the third active father-son offi- ciating duo, joining Ed and Shawn Hochuli and Steve and Brad Freeman. The other new officials are line judge Kevin Codey from the American Athletic Conference; head lines- men Hugo Cruz of Confer- ence USA and Bart Long- son of the Pac-12; umpire Clay Martin of C-USA; side judges Aaron Santi of the Pac-12 and Jabir Walker of the SEC; and field judge Shawn Smith of the Big Ten. APSportsWriterDavid Ginsburg in Owings Mills, Maryland, contributed to this report. Thomas FROM PAGE 1 Tip-Ins Kings: Sacramento is 1-6 in its last seven games. ... Sacramento mayor and for- mer All Star Kevin Johnson attended the game. Jazz: Trey Burke hit a half-court buzzer-beater at the end of the first quar- ter to cut the Kings' lead to 22-21. ... Hayward finished with four points on 1-for-3 shooting in just 19 minutes and looked fatigued while on the court. ... Gobert has 22 double-doubles this sea- son. Roughed Up The Kings were without all-star Cousins (foot), Dar- ren Collison (core muscle), Rudy Gay (concussion), Nik Stauskas (back) and Er- ick Moreland (shoulder). They started Casspi, Carl Landry, Thompson, Ben McLemore and Ray McCal- lum for the first time this season. "I always compare it to my CBA days," Kings coach George Karl said. "Where you lose a guy to Europe, then another guy gets hurt, then an- other guy gets called up to the NBA. Your whole personality of your team changes. Our job is to fig- ure out how to piece and put the puzzle together in a way ... every NBA team has a lot of talent on it. Sometimes the talent that doesn't play just needs the opportunity to play." George and Boogie Karl took over the Kings on Feb. 17 and said Wednes- day that Cousins has been the biggest positive since he took over, adding he's "better than I thought it was" and "there's not a weakness in his game." Karl also said there must be some changes from Cousins emotionally. "We've got to get to a dif- ferent place than we are right now with regards to the emotional failures and the refereeing and the lacks of the defensive retreats," Karl said, "be- cause we're complaining and frustrated because of a call. Bad calls have been around in this game for- ever. It's not going to go away." Kings FROM PAGE 1 Scoreboard MLB NATIONALLEAGUE WESTDIVISION W L Pct GB Colorado 3 0 1.000 _ Arizona 1 1 .500 1 ½ Los Angeles 1 1 .500 1 ½ San Diego 1 1 .500 1 ½ Giants 1 1 .500 1 ½ CENTRALDIVISION W L Pct GB Cincinnati 1 0 1.000 _ Chicago 1 1 .500 ½ St. Louis 1 1 .500 ½ Pittsburgh 0 1 .000 1 Milwaukee 0 3 .000 2 EASTDIVISION W L Pct GB Atlanta 3 0 1.000 _ New York 1 1 .500 1 ½ Philadelphia 1 1 .500 1 ½ Washington 1 1 .500 1 ½ Miami 0 3 .000 3 Tuesday'sgames Atlanta 12, Miami 2 St. Louis at Chicago, ppd., rain Colorado 5, Milwaukee 2 Arizona 7, Giants 6 San Diego 7, L.A. Dodgers 3 Wednesday'sgames Chicago Cubs 2, St. Louis 0 Philadelphia 4, Boston 2 Washington 2, N.Y. Mets 1 Atlanta 2, Miami 0 Colorado 5, Milwaukee 4, 10 innings Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, (n.) Giants at Arizona, (n.) San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, (n.) Thursday'sgames Pittsburgh (Burnett 0-0) at Cincinnati (DeSclafani 0-0), 9:35 a.m. N.Y. Mets (Harvey 0-0) at Washington (Strasburg 0-0), 10:05 a.m. Giants (T.Hudson 0-0) at San Diego (Ken- nedy 0-0), 3:40 p.m. Boston (Masterson 0-0) at Philadelphia (Buchanan 0-0), 4:05 p.m. Friday'sgames Chicago Cubs at Colorado, 1:10 p.m. Washington at Philadelphia, 4:05 p.m. St. Louis at Cincinnati, 4:10 p.m. Tampa Bay at Miami, 4:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 4:35 p.m. Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 5:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 6:40 p.m. Giants at San Diego, 7:10 p.m. AMERICANLEAGUE WESTDIVISION W L Pct GB Houston 1 1 .500 _ Los Angeles 1 1 .500 _ A's 1 1 .500 _ Seattle 1 1 .500 _ Texas 1 1 .500 _ CENTRALDIVISION W L Pct GB Detroit 2 0 1.000 _ Kansas City 2 0 1.000 _ Cleveland 1 1 .500 1 Chicago 0 2 .000 2 Minnesota 0 2 .000 2 EASTDIVISION W L Pct GB Baltimore 2 1 .667 _ Boston 1 1 .500 ½ New York 1 1 .500 ½ Toronto 1 1 .500 ½ Tampa Bay 1 2 .333 1 Tuesday'sgames Baltimore 6, Tampa Bay 5 Texas 3, A's 1 L.A. Angels 2, Seattle 0 Wednesday'sgames Detroit 11, Minnesota 0 Philadelphia 4, Boston 2 N.Y. Yankees 4, Toronto 3 Tampa Bay 2, Baltimore 0 Kansas City 7, Chicago White Sox 5 Cleveland 2, Houston 0 Texas at A's, (n.) L.A. Angels at Seattle, (n.) Thursday'sgames Minnesota (Gibson 0-0) at Detroit (Greene 0-0), 10:08 a.m. Chicago White Sox (Danks 0-0) at Kan- sas City (Volquez 0-0), 11:10 a.m. Cleveland (Bauer 0-0) at Houston (Wojciechowski 0-0), 11:10 a.m. Texas (N.Martinez 0-0) at A's (Graveman 0-0), 12:35 p.m. Boston (Masterson 0-0) at Philadelphia (Buchanan 0-0), 4:05 p.m. Toronto (Da.Norris 0-0) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 0-0), 4:05 p.m. Friday'sgames Toronto at Baltimore, 12:05 p.m. Houston at Texas, 1:05 p.m. Detroit at Cleveland, 1:10 p.m. Minnesota at Chicago White Sox, 1:10 p.m. Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 4:05 p.m. Tampa Bay at Miami, 4:10 p.m. Kansas City at L.A. Angels, 7:05 p.m. Seattle at A's, 7:05 p.m. Basketball WESTERNCONFERENCE PacificDivision W L Pct GB z-Golden State 63 15 .808 — x-Clippers 53 26 .671 10½ Phoenix 39 39 .500 24 Sacramento 27 51 .346 36 Lakers 20 58 .256 43 SouthwestDivision W L Pct GB x-Memphis 53 25 .679 — x-Houston 53 25 .679 — x-San Antonio 53 26 .671 ½ x-Dallas 46 31 .597 6½ New Orleans 42 36 .538 11 NorthwestDivision W L Pct GB y-Portland 50 27 .649 — Oklahoma City 42 36 .538 8½ Utah 36 42 .462 14½ Denver 29 49 .372 21½ Minnesota 16 61 .208 34 EASTERNCONFERENCE AtlanticDivision W L Pct GB y-Toronto 46 32 .590 — Boston 36 42 .462 10 Brooklyn 36 42 .462 10 Philadelphia 18 61 .228 28½ New York 15 63 .192 31 Sou th ea st D ivis i on W L Pct GB z-Atlanta 59 19 .756 — x-Washington 45 33 .577 14 Miami 35 43 .449 24 Charlotte 33 45 .423 26 Orlando 25 53 .321 34 CentralDivision W L Pct GB y-Cleveland 51 27 .654 — x-Chicago 46 32 .590 5 Milwaukee 38 40 .487 13 Indiana 35 43 .449 16 Detroit 30 48 .385 21 x-clinchedplayoffspot y-clincheddivision z-clinchedconference Tuesday'sgames Atlanta 96, Phoenix 69 Miami 105, Charlotte 100 New Orleans 103, Golden State 100 San Antonio 113, Oklahoma City 88 Sacramento 116, Minnesota 111 Clippers 105, Lakers 100 Wednesday'sgames Washington 119, Philadelphia 90 Orlando 105, Chicago 103 Boston 113, Detroit 103 Toronto 92, Charlotte 74 Atlanta 114, Brooklyn 111 Indiana 102, New York 86 Memphis 110, New Orleans 74 Cleveland 104, Milwaukee 99 San Antonio 110, Houston 98 Denver 119, Lakers 101 Utah 103, Sacramento 91 Phoenix at Dallas, (n.) Minnesota at Portland, (n.) Thursday'sgames Chicago at Miami, 5 p.m. Portland at Golden State, 7:30 p.m. Friday'sgames Toronto at Orlando, 4 p.m. Charlotte at Atlanta, 4:30 p.m. Indiana at Detroit, 4:30 p.m. Boston at Cleveland, 4:30 p.m. Washington at Brooklyn, 4:30 p.m. Milwaukee at New York, 4:30 p.m. Phoenix at New Orleans, 5 p.m. Sacramento at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m. San Antonio at Houston, 5 p.m. Dallas at Denver, 6 p.m. Memphis at Utah, 6 p.m. Minnesota at Lakers, 7:30 p.m. Jazz103,Kings91 KINGS(91) Casspi 5-9 3-4 16, Landry 6-11 4-6 16, Thompson 5-13 2-2 12, McCallum 1-7 0-0 3, McLemore 5-12 6-8 16, Williams 5-11 1-4 14, Miller 2-6 0-0 4, R.Evans 3-4 2-4 8, Bhullar 1-2 0-0 2, Hollins 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 33-75 18-28 91. JAZZ(103) Hayward 1-3 2-2 4, Favors 9-13 0-0 18, Gobert 4-7 4-8 12, Exum 4-10 0-0 12, Hood 7-14 3-3 20, Cooley 0-1 0-0 0, Booker 2-6 2-4 6, Burke 4-9 0-1 11, Johnson 1-4 3-3 6, Ingles 4-7 0-0 10, J.Evans 0-0 4-4 4. Totals 36-74 18-25 103. Sacramento 22 27 24 18 — 91 Utah 21 22 32 28 — 103 3-PointGoals: Sacramento 7-16 (Casspi 3-3, Williams 3-7, McCallum 1-2, Miller 0-1, McLemore 0-3), Utah 13-31 (Exum 4-9, Burke 3-5, Hood 3-7, Ingles 2-4, John- son 1-4, Booker 0-2);Fouledout: None; Rebounds: Sacramento 43 (Thompson 11), Utah 54 (Favors 11);Assists: Sac- ramento 19 (Casspi 5), Utah 23 (Ingles 6);Totalfouls: Sacramento 17, Utah 22; Technicals: Sacramento defensive three second, Utah defensive three second;A: 18,351 (19,911). NBALEADERS ThroughAPRIL7 SCORING G FG FT Pts Avg Harden, HOU 76 616 672 2104 27.7 Westbrook, OKC63 571 514 1732 27.5 James, CLE 66 604 364 1687 25.6 Da vis , N OR 6 3 60 0 34 2 15 43 2 4. 5 Cousins, SAC 59 498 423 1421 24.1 Curry, GOL 76 615 298 1796 23.6 Aldridge, POR 68 630 298 1591 23.4 Griffin, LAC 64 553 293 1409 22.0 Irving, CLE 72 562 306 1580 21.9 Wade, MIA 59 488 267 1270 21.5 Thompson, GOL 73 559 214 1552 21.3 Lillard, POR 77 557 327 1628 21.1 Gay, SAC 68 508 337 1432 21.1 Butler, CHI 61 399 366 1229 20.1 DeRozan, TOR 56 378 340 1117 19.9 Vucevic, ORL 69 597 153 1349 19.6 Hayward, UTA 74 475 364 1432 19.4 Ellis, DAL 76 574 226 1455 19.1 Paul, LAC 79 548 283 1510 19.1 Gasol, CHI 73 534 271 1351 18.5 REBOUNDS G Off Def Tot Avg Jordan, LAC 79 377 798 1175 14.9 Drummond, DET 77 411 624 1035 13.4 Cousins, SAC 59 185 562 747 12.7 Gasol, CHI 73 205 653 858 11.8 Chandler, DAL 71 277 529 806 11.4 Vucevic, ORL 69 227 544 771 11.2 Randolph, MEM 66 209 488 697 10.6 Monroe, DET 64 217 451 668 10.4 Davis, NOR 63 163 488 651 10.3 Aldridge, POR 68 170 529 699 10.3 NHL WESTERNCONFERENCE PACIFICDIVISION GP W L OT Pts GF GA y-Anaheim 80 50 23 7 107 234 221 x-Vancouver 80 46 29 5 97 231 217 Calgary 80 44 29 7 95 237 210 Los Angeles 80 39 26 15 93 215 201 San Jose 80 39 32 9 87 224 227 Edmonton 80 24 43 13 61 192 274 Arizona 80 24 48 8 56 169 265 CENTRALDIVISION GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-St. Louis 80 49 24 7 105 242 198 x-Nashville 80 47 23 10 104 229 200 x-Chicago 80 48 26 6 102 226 184 x-Minnesota 80 45 27 8 98 225 195 Winnipeg 80 42 26 12 96 225 208 Dallas 80 39 31 10 88 253 259 Colorado 80 37 31 12 86 215 225 EASTERNCONFERENCE ATLANTICDIVISION GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-Montreal 80 48 22 10 106 213 183 x-Tampa Bay 80 48 24 8 104 255 206 Detroit 80 42 25 13 97 230 217 Boston 80 41 26 13 95 209 204 Ottawa 80 41 26 13 95 232 214 Florida 80 36 29 15 87 199 219 Toronto 81 30 44 7 67 208 258 Buffalo 80 23 49 8 54 159 268 METROPOLITANDIVISION GP W L OT Pts GF GA z-N.Y. Rangers80 52 21 7 111 248 187 x-Washington 81 45 25 11 101 240 199 N.Y. Islanders 80 46 28 6 98 245 224 Pittsburgh 80 42 26 12 96 218 207 Columbus 80 40 35 5 85 227 244 Philadelphia 80 33 29 18 84 213 228 New Jersey 80 32 35 13 77 176 209 Carolina 80 29 40 11 69 185 223 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference Tuesday's games N.Y. Rangers 4, New Jersey 2 Philadelphia 5, N.Y. Islanders 4 Ottawa 4, Pittsburgh 3, OT Detroit 3, Carolina 2 Winnipeg 1, St. Louis 0 Minnesota 2, Chicago 1 Colorado 3, Nashville 2 Calgary 3, Arizona 2 Edmonton 4, Los Angeles 2 Wednesday'sgames Columbus 5, Toronto 0 Washington 3, Boston 0 Dallas at Anaheim, (n.) Thursday'sgames Ottawa at N.Y. Rangers, 4 p.m. Carolina at Philadelphia, 4 p.m. Detroit at Montreal, 4:30 p.m. New Jersey at Tampa Bay, 4:30 p.m. Boston at Florida, 4:30 p.m. Chicago at St. Louis, 5 p.m. Minnesota at Nashville, 5 p.m. Winnipeg at Colorado, 6 p.m. Los Angeles at Calgary, 6 p.m. San Jose at Edmonton, 6:30 p.m. Arizona at Vancouver, 7 p.m. Friday'sgames N.Y. Islanders at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m. Buffalo at Columbus, 4 p.m. Golf MASTERSTEETIMES AtAugustaNationalGolfClub Augusta, Ga. a-amateur Thursday-Friday 4:45 a.m. — Charley Hoffman, Brian Harman 4:56 a.m. — Larry Mize, Danny Willett, a-Byron Meth 5:07 a.m. — Tom Watson, Gary Wood- land, Camilo Villegas 5:18 a.m. — Mike Weir, Ben Crane, a- Corey Conners 5:29 a.m. — Vijay Singh, Russell Henley, Darren Clarke 5:40 a.m. — Jose Maria Olazabal, Bren- don Todd, Kevin Na 5:51 a.m. — Jonas Blixt, Kevin Streel- man, Stephen Gallacher 6:02 a.m. — Patrick Reed, Keegan Brad- ley, Ian Poulter 6:13 a.m. — Miguel Angel Jimenez, Lee Westwood, Anirban Lahiri 6:24 a.m. — Bubba Watson, Justin Rose, a-Gunn Yang 6:35 a.m. — Adam Scott, Dustin Johnson, a-Antonio Murdaca 6:57 a.m. — Morgan Hoffmann, Steve Stricker, Matt Every 7:08 a.m. — Ben Crenshaw, Bill Haas, Jason Dufner 7:19 a.m. — Webb Simpson, Hideki Matsuyama, Paul Casey 7:30 a.m. — Charl Schwartzel, Joost Luiten, Sangmoon Bae 7:41 a.m. — Phil Mickelson, Rory McIlroy, Ryan Moore 7:52 a.m. — J. 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Holmes, Martin Kaymer, Brandt Snedeker 8:03 a.m. — Ian Woosnam, Erik Compton, Marc Leishman 8:14 a.m. — Trevor Immelman, Kevin Stadler, a-Scott Harvey 8:25 a.m. — Ben Martin, Robert Streb, Cameron Tringale 8:36 a.m. — Sandy Lyle, Seung-Yul Noh, a-Bradley Neil 8:47 a.m. — Bernhard Langer, Bernd Wiesberger, Geoff Ogilvy 9:09 a.m. — Zach Johnson, Jim Furyk, Ernie Els 9:20 a.m. — Angel Cabrera, Louis Oost- huizen, a-Matias Dominguez 9:31 a.m. — Mark O'Meara, Chris Kirk, Shane Lowry 9:42 a.m. — Padraig Harrington, Ryan Palmer, Thomas Bjorn 9:53 a.m. — James Hahn, Mikko Ilonen, Hunter Mahan 10:04 a.m. — Matt Kuchar, Brooks Koepka, Graeme McDowell 10:15 a.m. — Jordan Spieth, Henrik Stenson, Billy Horschel 10:26 a.m. — Fred Couples, Branden Grace, Thongchai Jaidee 10:37 a.m. — Luke Donald, Victor Dubuis- son, John Senden 10:48 a.m. — Tiger Woods, Jamie Donald- son, Jimmy Walker 10:59 a.m. — Jason Day, Sergio Garcia, Rickie Fowler Soccer MAJORLEAGUESOCCER WESTERNCONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA Vancouver 4 1 0 12 7 4 FC Dallas 3 1 1 10 7 4 Salt Lake 2 0 2 8 6 4 Ka ns as C it y 2 1 2 8 6 6 Seattle 2 1 1 7 6 3 San Jose 2 3 0 6 6 7 Portland 1 1 3 6 6 5 Los Angeles 1 2 2 5 5 6 Houston 1 2 2 5 2 3 Colorado 0 1 3 3 0 2 EASTERNCONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA D.C. United 3 1 0 9 3 2 New York 2 0 1 7 5 2 New England 2 2 1 7 4 6 Chicago 2 3 0 6 5 7 N.Y. City FC 1 1 2 5 3 2 Orlando City 1 2 2 5 4 5 Columbus 1 2 0 3 3 3 Toronto FC 1 3 0 3 6 8 Montreal 0 1 2 2 2 3 Philadelphia 0 3 2 2 5 9 Note: Three points for victory, one point for tie. Wednesday'sgames Columbus at Vancouver, (n.) Friday'sgames Colorado at FC Dallas, 4 p.m. Saturday'sgames Columbus at New England, noon N.Y. City FC at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. New York at D.C. United, 4 p.m. Salt Lake at Kansas City, 5:30 p.m. Montreal at Houston, 5:30 p.m. Vancouver at San Jose, 7:30 p.m. Sunday'sgames Orlando City at Portland, 2 p.m. Seattle at Los Angeles, 4 p.m. Odds GLANTZ-CULVERLINE For April 9 MajorLeagueBaseball NATIONALLEAGUE Favorite Line Underdog Pittsburgh -120/+110 at Cincinnati at Washington -140/+130 New York at San Diego -150/+140 San Francisco AMERICANLEAGUE at Detroit -165/+155 Minnesota at Kansas City -140/+130 Chicago Cleveland -125/+115 at Houston at Oakland -145/+135 Texas at New York -140/+130 Toronto INTERLEAGUE Boston -140/+130 at Phillies NBA Favorite Line(O/U) Underdog at Miami Pk (192½) Chicago at Golden State 9 (207) Portland NHL Favorite Line Underdog at N.Y. Rangers -135/+115 Ottawa at Philadelphia -165/+145 Carolina at Montreal -140/+120 Detroit Boston -135/+115 at Florida at Tampa Bay -260/+220 New Jersey at St. Louis -125/+105 Chicago at Nashville -140/+120 Minnesota Los Angeles -130/+110 at Calgary Winnipeg -135/+115 at Colorado San Jose -140/+120 at Edmonton at Vancouver -320/+250 Arizona Transactions BASEBALL AmericanLeague DetroitTigers: Placed RHP Justin Verlander on the 15-day Dl, retroactive to March 29. Recalled LHP Kyle Lobstein from Toledo (IL). NewYorkYankees: Assigned C Austin Romine outright to Scranton/Wilkes- Barre (IL). OaklandAthletics: Agreed to terms with OF Cody Ross on a one-year contract. Optioned OF Billy Burns to Nashville (PCL). Designated OF Alex Hassan for assignment. TampaBayRays: Placed 1B James Loney on the 15-day DL. Selected the contract of 1B Allan Dykstra from Durham (IL). Recalled RHP Burch Smith from Durham and placed him on the 60-day DL. NationalLeague PittsburghPirates: Agreed to terms with 3B Josh Harrison on a four-year contract. BASKETBALL NationalBasketballAssociation SanAntonioSpurs: Recalled F Kyle Anderson from Austin (NBADL). FOOTBALL NationalFootballLeague DallasCowboys: Released DT Amobi Okoye. GreenBayPackers: Released T Aaron Adams. NewYorkJets: Signed LB Erin Hender- son. OaklandRaiders: Re-Signed Ss Larry Asante and Brandian Ross, Wrs Andre Holmes and Rod Streater, P Marquette King, DE Denico Autry, TE Brain Leonhardt, T Matt McCants, RB Jamize Olawale and CB Neiko Thorpe. HOCKEY NationalHockeyLeague ArizonaCoyotes: Recalled F Henrik Samuelsson on an emergency basis from Portland (AHL). CarolinaHurricanes: Recalled D Keegan Lowe from Charlotte (AHL). Reassigned D Danny Biega to Charlotte. NewYorkIslanders: Agreed to terms with D Kyle Burroughs on a three-year, entry-level contract that will take effect in the 2015-16 season. | SPORTS | REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2015 2 B