Champions Tour rookies Keith Clearwater and Russ Cochran shot 5-under 66s to share the first-round lead in the AT&T Championship, the final full-field event of the season.

Clearwater, a Northgate High product who won his two PGA Tour titles in 1987, is making his fifth Champions Tour start after turning 50 in August. He eagled the 15th hole and had five birdies and two bogeys on the Oak Hills Country Club course in San Antonio.

"I feel like my game is great, but I need a few more times to play," Clearwater said. "My putting is noncompetitive right now, but it's just a matter of playing and getting my instincts back."

  • Rickie Fowler, a former standout at Oklahoma State in just his second pro tournament, shared the second-round lead with Englishman Greg Owen halfway through the PGA's Frys.com Open in Scottsdale, Ariz. ... Former Masters champion Trevor Immelman has had surgery on his left wrist and expects to return to the tour at full strength next year.

  • Matt Every shot a course-record 9-under 63 to a take a one-stroke lead over money leader Michael Sim and fellow Australian Cameron Percy at the season-ending Nationwide Tour Championship in Charleston, S.C.

    Motor sports

    Ryan Newman won the pole for Sunday's Sprint Cup race at Martinsville, Va., with a lap of 96.519 mph. Jeff Gordon was second at 96.519.

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    Points leader Jimmie Johnson, winner of five of the past six races in Martinsville, qualified 15th.

  • Mike Skinner ran a lap of 19.780 seconds to earn the pole for the Camping World Truck Series Kroger 200 at Martinsville, edging Roy Hornaday Jr. by .02 seconds.

  • Ford Racing says its first motor built specifically for NASCAR will make its debut next weekend in the Sprint Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway. Ford says Matt Kenseth and David Ragan will both use the "FR9."

    MLS

    The Earthquakes (7-13-9, 30 points) will put to rest a second straight last-place season tonight against the Los Angeles Galaxy in Carson. Heading into the offseason, management has said it wants to keep a majority of the players who have shown promise during a 2-1-4 run over the past seven games.

    Men's college soccer

    Kyle Nakazawa scored the game's only goal in the 41st minute and visiting No. 2 UCLA (9-1-2, 4-0-2 Pac-10) beat No. 20 Cal (8-6-0, 2-4-0) 1-0.

    Women's college soccer

    No. 1 Stanford (16-0, 5-0 Pac-10) stayed undefeated the hard way, needing an 87th minute goal from Christen Press and a sudden death overtime goal from Kelley O'Hara to beat No. 23 Washington State (10-4-1, 2-1-1) 2-1. The Cardinal's 16-game winning streak is an ongoing school record.

    College basketball

    Kentucky freshman guard John Wall practiced with his teammates in front of students, a day after a report that the highly touted guard might not be eligible to play.

  • Private donors are giving $75,000 to Bob Knight to settle a lawsuit he filed against Indiana University claiming it didn't properly defend him when he was sued by former assistant coach Ron Felling in 2002. Knight settled with Felling by paying him $25,000 and admitting that in 1999 he shoved Felling in anger after overhearing him criticize Knight's coaching and behavior.

    Olympic sports

    Noelle Pikus-Pace made the U.S. World Cup skeleton team by being the fastest woman for the third straight qualifying session victory in Park City, Utah. Pikus-Pace now is in position to qualify for the Vancouver Games in February after missing out on the 2006 Olympics after being hit by a bobsled.

  • Emily Sweeney, 17, pulled off the first major surprise of USA Luge's national team trials in Lake Placid, N.Y., winning a race-off, the second of a four-event series to determine the World Cup roster.

    MMA

    Undefeated Lyoto Machida will defend his light heavyweight title tonight against Mauricio "Shogun" Rua at Ultimate Fight Championship 104 in Los Angeles.

    Tennis

    Top-seeded Robin Soderling edged Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 7-6 (4), 6-4 in the Stockholm Open quarterfinals, remaining on course for a third home final in the Swedish capital. Soderling will play Cyrpus' Marcos Baghdatis, while Belgium's Olivier Rochus and Thomas Bellucci of Brazil will face each other in the other semi.