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White returning to West Virginia
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Former West Virginia quarterback Pat White will return to the Mountaineers as assistant quarterbacks coach and assistant to the head coach, Rich Rodriguez.
The Mountaineers were 35-8 with four bowl wins with White as their starting quarterback from 2005-08. He set 19 school, Big East and national records. His 4,480 rushing yards are third all-time among Bowl Subdivision quarterbacks.
White, a second-round draft pick of the Miami Dolphins, has been an assistant at four schools since 2018 and an assistant with the Los Angeles Chargers for two years. He was an athlete skills trainer in Alabama the past year.
Hill vs. Lyles
on the horizon
If they run as fast as they talk, this could be a doozy.
Yes, sprint and football fans, Noah Lyles and Tyreek Hill have moved one step closer to settling things on the track.
When, where and at what distance? All still TBD.
The reigning 100-meter Olympic champion and the fleet-footed NFL receiver conducted a joint interview/trash-talk session this week with People magazine, which pronounced they "will officially race each other" but did not offer any details beyond that.
Lyles accepted Hill's challenge earlier this month after winning a 60-meter indoor race, then flashing a piece of paper that said "Tyreek Could Never."
Hill has run a 40-yard dash at an NFL workout in 4.29 seconds. Lyles won the 100 meters at the Olympics last year in 9.784.
Most likely, they'll race at a distance in between.
People said the race will happen sometime before the national championships in July.
US-Canada now must-see TV
MONTREAL -- The United States and Canada are set to face off Saturday night in Montreal in what is by far the most anticipated round-robin game at the 4 Nations Face-Off.
U.S. forward Brady Tkachuk called it the biggest game of his life. Canada defenseman Drew Doughty still feels the heated desire to beat the Americans at age 35.
The game will air Saturday on ABC at 8 p.m.
And it has been nine years since the passionate hockey rivals have played each other in a tournament with the NHL's best players.
That, plus the geopolitical tension between the countries, sets the stage for some must-see entertainment.
"Saturday night in Canada, against Canada, I don't think there's much better than this for a hockey player of this level," U.S. winger Jake Guentzel said Friday. "The crowd's going to be intense, it's going to be hostile, it's going to be all of the above, so it'll be a lot of fun."
Thompson has one-stroke lead
SAN DIEGO -- Davis Thompson capped a roller coaster of a back nine at Torrey Pines with a birdie to take the lead Friday in the Genesis Invitational. Scottie Scheffler had an unusually wild day off the tee and was right on his heels.
It set up for a compelling weekend in this $20 million signature event with two names leaping off the pages of the leaderboard -- Scheffler, playing bogey-free despite hitting only five fairways, and Rory McIlroy showing the form that led him to victory at Pebble Beach.
Thompson made only two pars on the back nine and finished with a wedge to a foot for birdie and a 6-under 66 for a one-shot lead over Scheffler.
"We're halfway through, still a lot of golf left," Thompson said. "Yeah, just trying to stay in my own lane."
Scheffler, whose start to the year was delayed by a freak hand injury, appears to be gaining comfort in his game even if it didn't always look that way in far more agreeable weather along the Pacific bluffs.
He twice hit off the 12th tee, the first one with a 50-yard chip shot back to the 11th green for a remarkable par save. His tee shot on the par-3 11th was so far left it twice bounced on the cart path, and it settled close enough to a water station that he got free relief.
The Associated Press