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After two days at the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow, Angel Cabrera and Martin Flores both sit atop the leader board with at 9-under 135.

When Loyola University plays Stanford for the NCAA men’s volleyball championship Saturday night, three former Wisconsin prep and club volleyball stars will play key roles.

Phil Mickelson was entertaining to the very end Thursday and finished one shot behind Angel Cabrera in the first round of the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, N.C.

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Bob Baffert is down to one horse for the Kentucky Derby after early 6-1 second choice Hoppertunity was scratched Thursday because of a sore left front foot.

Starting Monday, radio broadcaster Ted Davis will begin a new role with WOKY-AM (920), which bills itself “The Big 920.”

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Here are some thoughts found on Twitter this week. Go to www.jsonline.com/sportstweets for links to accounts of state athletes.

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Too much travel before the Olympic Games. An untested new skin suit and skate sharpening system. A pre-Olympics camp on an outdoor rink in Italy. All contributed to the hugely disappointing performance by American long-track speedskaters at the Winter Olympics, U.S. Speedskating has concluded.

ESPN’s Jon Gruden is not sold on the approach of taking a quarterback in middle or late rounds of the NFL draft with the idea of developing that player. Gruden said he likes the idea of taking quarterbacks “at the top of the first rounds.”

The only time Victor Espinoza won the Kentucky Derby was aboard War Emblem in 2002. They broke from the No. 5 post, the same position he’ll start the 140th edition of the race with early 5-2 favorite California Chrome.

THURSDAY

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The website Awful Announcing asked its readers to rank the television announcing crews of major-league teams. There was lots of love for San Francisco’s crew as well as the dean of broadcasters, Vin Scully of the Dodgers.

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