FOOTBALL

Ducks name 2 assistant coaches — New Oregon head coach Willie Taggart has added two members to his staff this week, naming Donnie Pimpleton as running backs coach and Charles Clark as a defensive backs coach. Pimpleton spent the past two seasons as running backs coach under Taggart at South Florida, where the Bulls in 2016 were among the national leaders in rushing offense. Clark spent the previous four seasons coaching defensive backs at Colorado and joins defensive coordinator Jim Leavitt in moving from Colorado to Oregon.

Beavers add pair of assistants — Oregon State has named Jason Phillips its passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach, and John Rushing its safeties coach. Phillips, who played at the University of Houston before five seasons in the NFL, spent last season as wide receivers coach at Kansas after three years as the co-offensive coordinator at SMU. Rushing spent last season with the Los Angeles Rams as a special teams and defensive consultant. Before that, he spent seven years with the Green Bay Packers. He has also coached at Utah State, Montana State and Boise State.

GOLF

Walker takes early lead — PGA champion Jimmy Walker began the new year with an 8-under 65 to take the first-round lead Thursday in the SBS Tournament of Champions at Kapalua, Hawaii. Jim Herman got in one last round with his former employer — President-elect Donald Trump — before coming to Maui. He started strong and finished with five pars for a 67. Daniel Berger and Jason Dufner were among those at 68. Defending champion Jordan Spieth struggled to make putts and was even par with two holes to play.

SKIING

Moelgg wins 1st World Cup race in 8 years — ZAGREB, Croatia — Manfred Moelgg of Italy won a men’s World Cup night slalom Thursday for his third career victory, but first in almost eight years. After dense snowfall in the opening run, Moelgg defied strong winds in the final leg on the Crveni Spust course in Croatia to beat Felix Neureuther of Germany by 0.72 seconds. Moelgg’s previous World Cup win in February 2009 came in a slalom in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. American Mark Engel, who was third after the opening leg, failed to finish.

SOCCER

Nagbe called into U.S. camp — Portland Timbers midfielder Darlington Nagbe is back with the U.S. national team after new coach Bruce Arena called him and 31 other MLS players to the team’s January training camp. The Liberian-born Nagbe, 26, became a U.S. citizen in 2015 and has since made 10 appearances for the national team before falling out of favor of former coach Jurgen Klinsmann. Seattle goalkeeper Stefan Frei and Vancouver midfielder Kekuta Manneh, both in the process of completing U.S. citizenship requirements, were also called in. Frei, 30 relocated from Switzerland with his family in the 1990s and played college soccer for California. Manneh, 22 and from Gambia, moved to Texas in 2010. The Americans play friendlies against Serbia on Jan. 29 and Jamaica on Feb. 3.

— From staff and wire reports