Golf

* Bend golfers can’t make up ground in Q-School: Bend golfers Chadd Cocco and Andrew Vijarro each fired their best scores of the PGA Tour’s National Qualifying School, but made up little ground Thursday at San Juan Oaks Golf Club in Hollister, Calif. Vijarro — a 23-year-old professional, and like Cocco, a former Bend High School golf standout — shot a 3-under-par 69 to move to even par after three rounds. That puts Vijarro in a five-way tie for 49th place that includes Cocco, a 27-year-old who fired a 2-under par 70. The Central Oregon golfers rest six shots back of a two-way tie for 18th place out of 77 golfers in the 72-hole first stage of Q-School. Only the top 19 golfers and ties from the San Juan Oaks site, one of 14 sites hosting first stage events, after today’s final round will advance to Q-School’s second qualifying stage. To earn their 2013 PGA Tour cards, Cocco and Vijarro must grind through 252 holes of three pressure-packed stages over the next six weeks.

Tennis

* U.S. tennis great, Oregon native duPont, dies at 94: Margaret Osborne duPont, the winner of more than 30 Grand Slam singles and doubles titles spanning three decades, has died. She was 94. DuPont died late Wednesday in El Paso, Texas, while in hospice care. DuPont won the singles title at Wimbledon in 1947, the U.S. National Championship (now the U.S. Open) singles title from 1948 to 1950 and the French singles title in 1946 and 1948. She won 31 doubles and mixed doubles titles at three Grand Slams between 1941 and 1962. DuPont never played the Grand Slam tournament in Australia. In 1967 DuPont was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She was born in Joseph in remote northeastern Oregon on March 4, 1918, and grew up on a ranch there. When the family moved to San Francisco, duPont played her first tennis on public courts in Golden Gate Park.

• Williams beats No. 1 Azarenka: Serena Williams extended her dominance over the top-ranked player in the world on Thursday, defeating Victoria Azarenka 6-4, 6-4 at the WTA Championships in Istanbul. Williams improved to 11-1 overall against Azarenka, winning the past nine matches. Li Na beat Angelique Kerber of Germany 6-4, 6-3 in another Red Group match to retain a slim chance of advancing. Sara Errani defeated Samantha Stosur 6-3, 2-6, 6-0 in the White Group. The top two players from each group advance to the semifinals.

Basketball

• Mavs suspend G West again: Dallas Mavericks guard Delonte West was suspended Thursday for the second time in as many weeks for conduct detrimental to the team, putting his future in Dallas in doubt. The first suspension lasted about a day, but a series of tweets by West soon after the team announced the latest suspension raised questions about whether he would return this time. “Just dont kick me … on the way out the door,” West tweeted. “I didn’t do anything to deserve that.” After practice Thursday, coach Rick Carlisle refused to elaborate on West, referring to the release from the team announcing the suspension but disclosing no specifics about his conduct.

Football

* No. 13 Clemson rolls: Tajh Boyd threw for a school-record 428 yards with five touchdown passes, Sammy Watkins added a school-record 202 yards receiving and No. 14 Clemson routed Wake Forest 42-13 in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Thursday night. Boyd was 27 of 38 and connected with Watkins for three plays of 50 or more yards, including a 61-yarder for a score. Watkins finished with eight catches and Boyd added touchdown throws of 9 yards to Brandon Ford, 12 yards each to Sam Cooper and DeAndre Hopkins and 2 yards to Charone Peake. The Tigers (7-1, 4-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) scored the first 35 points, including a four-touchdown second quarter, in their fourth consecutive victory and fourth straight in the series with the Demon Deacons (4-4, 2-4).

• Packers WR Jennings to have surgery: Rest and rehab weren’t enough to get Greg Jennings back on the field. The Green Bay Packers’ No. 1 receiver will have surgery next Tuesday to repair a torn abdominal muscle that has kept him out for most of the season. He would not put a timetable on his return, but said recovery from the 20- to 25-minute outpatient procedure is not season-ending.

Cycling

• LeMond calls on cycling leaders to resign: Three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond has urged the leaders of cycling’s governing body to resign in the wake of the Lance Armstrong doping affair, calling them “the corrupt part of the sport.” LeMond posted an open letter on his Facebook page Wednesday night that asked those who care about cycling to join him in telling International Cycling Union President Pat McQuaid and honorary president Hein Verbruggen to step down. LeMond’s letter came after the UCI stripped Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles and banned him for life on Monday for his involvement in what a U.S. Anti-Doping Agency report described as a massive doping program. Verbruggen led world cycling from 1991-2005, the era when Armstrong won his titles, and retains a seat on the UCI management board. He is still perceived in the sport as a mentor to McQuaid, who succeeded him. LeMond, the Tour winner in 1986, ’89 and ’90, said the problem for cycling is not drugs but corruption.

Winter sports

• Lolo Jones selected to U.S. bobsled team: Lolo Jones showed up in Lake Placid three weeks ago, unsure where her first foray into bobsledding could lead. The answer might be another Olympics — only this time, the winter one. Jones, a two-time Olympic hurdler, was one of 24 athletes announced Thursday as members of this season’s U.S. bobsled team, something that gives her the chance to vie for a spot on the World Cup circuit this winter and, possibly, represent her country at the 2014 Sochi Games.

Hockey

• All quiet as deadline for full NHL season nears: The NHL’s deadline for playing a full, 82-game season arrived Thursday with no new discussions between the league and its locked-out players. Without a new collective bargaining agreement that would end the league’s lockout of players on its 40th day, the NHL vowed to cut the season short. An announcement officially taking a full schedule out of play wasn’t immediately planned. Major money-making events such as the upcoming outdoor Winter Classic and the All-Star game could soon be in peril, too. “No contact, and I don’t anticipate any announcements today,” NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly told The Associated Press in an email Thursday.

Colleges

• NCAA grad rates improving in football, basketball: The NCAA says football and men’s basketball players are becoming more productive in the classroom. A one-year measurement, released Thursday, showed that 70 percent or more of Division I athletes who were freshmen in 2005-06 in those sports earned their diplomas — the first time that has happened since the governing body started collecting data 11 years ago for the annual Graduation Success Rate. Athletes in men’s basketball graduated at a rate of 74 percent, a 6 percentage-point jump over the 2004-05 freshman class. Football Bowl Subdivision athletes improved their scores by 1 percentage point over the previous year, hitting 70 percent.

Boxing

• Famed trainer Steward dies: Emanuel Steward, the owner of the legendary Kronk Gym and a standout trainer for boxers including Thomas Hearns, Evander Holyfield and Oscar De La Hoya, died Thursday. He was 68. Victoria Kirton, Steward’s executive assistant, said Steward died Thursday at a Chicago hospital. She did not disclose the cause of death. Steward trained, helped train or managed some of the greatest fighters of the past 40 years out of the Kronk, a dingy, overheated basement gym that produced world champions like Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard and Lennox Lewis.

—From wire reports