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OLYMPICSDALLAS -- U.S. Open champion Dustin Johnson withdrew from the Rio Games because of concerns over the Zika virus, costing golf three of the worlds top four players for its return to the Olympics after a 112-year absence.Jordan Spieth is the only player from the top four who has not said if he is going to Brazil. A decision could come as early as this weekend ahead of the British Open. Rickie Fowler also is undecided.Johnson, No. 2 in the world after his U.S. Open title and another World Golf Championship victory last week, is the 13th player to pull out of the Rio Games. Eight of them, including world No. 1 Jason Day and world No. 4 Rory McIlroy, specifically have cited Zika as the reason.SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Simone Biles is just four rotations away from her long-awaited trip to Rio de Janeiro.The three-time world champion led the way during the first night of U.S. Olympic womens gymnastics trials. The 19-year-old Biles, a lock to make the five-woman team when it is announced on Sunday night, wasnt as sharp as usual, but her score of 61.850 was a touch better than rising star Laurie Hernandez.EUGENE, Ore. -- High-school sprinters Michael Norman and Noah Lyles won their 200-meter semifinals at U.S. Track and Field Trials to move one race away from the Olympics.LaShawn Merritt ran the worlds fastest time of the year at the distance, 19.74 seconds, to easily win his semifinal heat. Merritt has already qualified for the 400. Also in Saturdays 200 final will be Justin Gatlin and Tyson Gay.On the womens side, Allyson Felix cruised through her first-round heat at 200 meters to keep her hopes alive for the 200-400 double in Rio.Among those not going are Dawn Harper-Nelson, who won gold in 2008 and silver in 2012, but failed to make it out of the semifinals of 100-meter hurdles. And American record-holder Keni Harrison finished seventh in the hurdles final.GOLFSAN MARTIN, Calif. -- When Sung Hyun Park entered her first U.S. Womens Open, her goals were modest. Halfway through the tournament, Park has put herself in prime position to contend.Park capitalized on the favorable morning scoring conditions, shooting a 6-under 72 Friday to take a two-stroke lead after the second round of the U.S. Womens Open at CordeValle.Park had four birdies in a six-hole span to move to 9 under before struggling on the final two holes.Amy Yang shot a 71 to get to 6 under, tied for second with first-round leader Mirim Lee. World No. 1 Lydia Ko bounced back from a 1-over par first round to shoot 66 for a tie for fourth with Haru Nomura.ENDICOTT, N.Y. -- Scott Dunlap shot an 8-under-par 64 on Friday to take the first-round lead at the Dicks Sporting Goods Open.Dunlap began the round with a bogey at No. 1, then rallied with four birdies in a five-hole span before the turn at En-Joie Golf Club and reeled off five straight birdies to start the back nine. He leads Glen Day, Bart Bryant, and John Riegger, who were tied for second at 66.Gibby Gilbert III, Kevin Sutherland, Paul Goydos and Joe Durant were another shot back in a tie for fifth.John Daly, Steve Lowery and Jay Haas were among nine players at 4 under, Frenchman Jean Van de Velde shot 75 in his Champions Tour debut, and Vijay Singh shot 3-under 69.BASEBALLCHICAGO -- The Chicago White Sox became the first team in the majors to turn three triple plays in a season since the 1979, turning one in the third inning of their 11-8 loss to the Atlanta Braves.With Chase dArnaud on second base and Gordon Beckham on first, Atlantas Freddie Freeman hit a soft liner off Chicagos Chris Sale that rookie shortstop Tim Anderson trapped.Anderson tagged dArnaud as he tried to retreat to second for the first out. Anderson stepped on second to force out Beckham, then threw to first baseman Jose Abreu to get Freeman.Chicago turned triple plays on April 22, against Texas and May 18, against Houston.In 1979, both the Oakland Athletics and Boston Red Sox turned three triple plays.NEW YORK -- Bartolo Colon and Max Scherzer are headed to the All-Star Game, picked as replacements for other pitchers originally selected to the National League team.Major League Baseball also announced that Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Michael Saunders and San Francisco Giants first baseman Brandon Belt won the final two All-Star roster spots, elected by fans in online balloting.The 43-year-old Colon was chosen to replace Madison Bumgarner in Tuesdays showcase in San Diego because the Giants ace is scheduled to pitch Sunday against Arizona.Scherzer (9-6, 3.21 ERA, major league-leading 155 strikeouts) was selected to his fourth straight All-Star Game. He will substitute for Washington Nationals teammate Stephen Strasburg, who came off the disabled list this week and wont pitch in the showcase as a precaution.LOS ANGELES -- The San Diego Padres have agreed to terms with 17-year-old Cuban pitcher Adrian Morejon, pending a physical.The left-hander led Cubas 15-under league with 113 strikeouts in 68.0 innings in 2014, and had a 1.93 ERA while issuing 40 walks. Morejon was named most valuable player of the 15-under World Cup in Mexico, where he threw a complete game with 12 strikeouts in Cubas 6-3 win over the U.S. in the gold medal game.COLLEGE BASKETBALLLarry Brown is leaving SMU after turning down a contract extension, ending a four-year run during which the Mustangs made the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1993 and then were banned from postseason play last season.SMU athletic director Rick Hart said Brown, who was signed through next season, had been offered a new deal through 2020.Brown didnt return messages left on his cellphone by The Associated Press.The Hall of Fame coach had repeatedly said how much he loved what he was accomplishing at SMU. Brown, who turns 76 in September, had indicated late last season that he wanted to keep coaching as long as SMU would have him.AUTO RACINGSPARTA, Ky. -- Kyle Busch led 185 laps and caught a huge break before surviving a final restart to win the 300-mile NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Kentucky Speedway.The defending Sprint Cup Series champion needed overtime to win in his No. 18 Toyota, with the race going one circuit past its scheduled 200 laps after a late caution. Busch then outdueled Daniel Suarez and Austin Dillon in a three-wide restart to earn his first series win at Kentucky since 2004.Busch benefited from a late mistake by Erik Jones. He passed Busch for the lead after a lap 174 restart just before the fourth yellow, but inadvertently shut off his car and fell to third as a penalty for failing to keep up with the pace car.Dillon was second in a Chevy, with Suarez third in a Toyota and Jones fourth in a Toyota.UFCLAS VEGAS -- A doping test on Jon Jones backup sample has confirmed the positive results that forced the UFC to drop the pound-for-pound star from his main-event bout at UFC 200 this week.USADA spokesman Ryan Madden confirmed an independent labs findings on Jones B sample.Jones was removed from the UFCs landmark card on Wednesday night after the potential doping violation was first discovered in a sample taken June 16.Jones and his management havent revealed the substance for which Jones tested positive, but the fighter tearfully denied knowingly using any performance-enhancing drugs. Custom Nationals T-shirts . 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The highest for Australia was by Kepler Wessels, who scored 50 against West Indies in Perth in 1983-84 then, bowling what someone once described as nude seamers, took 2 for 50. The only other one higher than Marshs double was Brett Lees 38 not out and 4 for 38 against West Indies in Adelaide in 2004-05. In that match Lee and Jason Gillespie added 73 for the tenth wicket - then shared six wickets as Australia won by 73 runs.Was Jason Roys 162 the highest score by an opener in ODIs? asked Qudrat Ullah Rahimi from Pakistan Jason Roys 162 against Sri Lanka at The Oval last week was the highest score by an England opener in one-day internationals, beating Andrew Strauss 158 in the tie against India in Bangalore during the 2011 World Cup. Strauss occupies the next two places on Englands list, too, with 154 against Bangladesh at Edgbaston in 2010, and 152 against them at Trent Bridge in 2005 (England have only four of the 66 scores of 150-plus in ODIs). Overall, though, Roy is well down the list: there have been 31 higher scores by openers in one-day internationals, including all six of the formats double-centuries. The biggest of all is Rohit Sharmas 264, for India against Sri Lanka in Kolkata in November 2014.In one of the recent ODIs between England and Sri Lanka, the umpire was wearing some contraption on his hand. What was it? asked Surendra Daya from South Africa The thing youre referring to was worn by the Australian umpire Bruce Oxenford on his left arm during the second match of the recent one-day series between England and Sri Lanka, at Edgbaston. Its a plastic shield, designed to protect the umpire in the event of the ball being smashed back straight at him - he can try to parry the ball away with the shield. Oxenford wore it during a match in this years IPL, and also in one of the warm-up games for the World Twenty20 - but this was the first time it had been used in a full international match.Liam Plunkett took his 50th ODI wicket in the series against Sri Lanka, ten years after his debut. Is this the longest for anyone to achieve this feat? asked Durgesh Kulkarni from India Liam Plunkett reached 50 wickets when he dismissed Kusal Perera in the third match of the recent series against Sri Lanka, in Bristol. It took him 37 matches, spread over more than 10? years since his debut in December 2005. Thats the slowest in terms of time for England apart from Graeme Swann, who took about a month longer. Swann, though, went wicketless oon his debut, against South Africa in Bloemfontein in January 2000, then didnt play another ODI for more than seven years, taking 1 for 47 in his second game, against Sri Lanka in Dambulla in October 2007.dddddddddddd. Overall 11 men took more time than Plunkett to reach 50 wickets in ODIs. Pakistans Saleem Malik, who needed 203 matches spread over almost 12 years, took the longest of all. Most of the players concerned were not frontline bowlers, although there is a rather surprising name just above Plunkett: Imran Khan, Pakistans World Cup-winning captain in 1992, took five days longer to make it to a half-century of wickets, finally doing so in March 1985 after making his debut in 1974. He got there in style, though, with 6 for 14 against India in Sharjah - and it should be borne in mind that far fewer ODIs were played back then. Jonny Bairstow took 19 catches in the recent Test series against Sri Lanka. Was this a record for a three-Test series, or against Sri Lanka? asked Tushar Mukherjee from the United States The only wicketkeeper to make more dismissals in a three-Test series than Jonny Bairstows 19 was, by coincidence, a Sri Lankan: Amal Silva made 22 (21 catches and a stumping) against India in 1985-86. The only other keeper to make 19 dismissals in a three-Test series is Australias Ian Healy, at home to Sri Lanka in 1995-96 (17 catches and two stumpings). Gil Langley (for Australia in the 1956 Ashes series) and Junior Murray (for West Indies in Australia in 1992-93) both made 19 dismissals in three Tests, but those were five-match series in which they did not play in two of the games. The previous England record for a three-Test series was 17 (one stumping) by Geraint Jones at home to Sri Lanka in 2006.Which bowlers have the best figures on debut in Tests, ODIs and Twenty20s? asked Subas Karki from Nepal The best innings figures on debut in Tests remain 8 for 43, by the Australian medium-pacer Albert Trott against England in Adelaide in 1894-95. Trott also scored 110 runs in that match without being dismissed … but, remarkably, played only four more Tests - two of them for England! The best match figures by a debutant are 16 for 136, by legspinner Narendra Hirwani for India against West Indies in Madras (now Chennai) in 1987-88. He just shaded the Australian swing bowler Bob Massies equally remarkable first-up figures of 16 for 137, in the 1972 Ashes Test at Lords. The best bowling figures on one-day international debut are 6 for 16, by the South African fast bowler Kagiso Rabada against Bangladesh in Mirpur in July 2015. The only other man to take a six-for on ODI debut is another fast bowler, Fidel Edwards, with 6 for 22 for West Indies v Zimbabwe in Harare in November 2003. And the best by someone in their first T20 international is 5 for 13, by the Bangladesh slow left-armer Elias Sunny against Ireland in Belfast in July 2012.Send in your questions using our feedback form. ' ' '