IN BRIEF

GOLF

Campbell tied for lead in PGA Tour event

Former UNLV star Chad Campbell shot 7-under-par 65 Thursday to tie Jeff Gove for the first-round lead at the PGA Tour’s Turning Stone Resort Championship in Verona, N.Y.

Campbell and Gove, who finished one stroke off the Atunyote Golf Club course record, were one shot ahead of Steve Flesch, John Senden, Matthew Goggin and Brendon de Jonge. Both Goggin and de Jonge bogeyed their final holes to drop from the lead.

John Rollins, who won the final B.C. Open here just over a year ago with a closing 64, shot 67 and was tied for seventh with John Mallinger, Robert Allenby, Matt Hendrix and Tag Ridings.

Third-year pro David Branshaw was at 68, tied with Justin Leonard, Las Vegan Robert Gamez, Steven Lowery, Mark Hensby, Joey Sindelar and five others.

John Daly, coughing and apparently ailing, withdrew after seven holes, complaining he was ill with the flu.

Also: Martin Erlandsson shot 9-under 63 to take the lead after the first round of the British Masters at Sutton Coldfield, England.

The Swede leads Jarmo Sandelin and Richard Sterne by two strokes.

PRO BASKETBALL

Bucks match offer to keep Bell from Heat

Against Charlie Bell’s wishes, the Milwaukee Bucks moved to keep their guard.

The Bucks confirmed they matched an offer sheet Bell signed with the Miami Heat for the restricted free-agent guard, a five-year deal worth $18.5 million.

Agent Mark Bartelstein said that Bell was absorbing what had happened and “getting his thoughts together.”

“He’s going to get himself prepared to have a great year with the Bucks and play his heart out, the only way he knows how to play,” Bartelstein said.

Bell had said he did not want to play for Milwaukee and instead wanted to go to Miami.

Bell averaged a career-high 13.5 points in a breakout season last year for the Bucks, making 64 starts.

Also: Two men charged with robbing New York Knicks forward Eddy Curry at his home in July pleaded not guilty in Bridgeview, Ill.

Antoine Larkins, 28, and Demorris Hill, 25, were charged with home invasion, armed robbery and aggravated kidnapping in the July 28 incident. They are being held on $5 million bond.

Hill, Larkins and two others also pleaded not guilty to a similar robbery of Miami Heat forward Antoine Walker at his Chicago home.

MISCELLANEOUS

Sabres’ Numminen has open-heart surgery

Buffalo Sabres defenseman Teppo Numminen had successful open-heart surgery to repair a faulty valve and hopes to be back on the ice within three months.

“There were no complications,” Sabres doctor William Hartrich said after speaking to the surgeon at The Cleveland Clinic.

Numminen learned he required surgery after a routine checkup in Cleveland earlier this month. Barring complications in his recovery, the 39-year-old player is eyeing a return to the lineup as soon as December.

Also: Lindsay Davenport advanced to the quarterfinals of the China Open by defeating Eleni Daniilidou 7-5 6-3 in Beijing.

Davenport will play fourth-seeded Elena Dementieva, who cruised past Tamira Paszek, 6-2, 6-0.

The U.S. men’s soccer team will make its first trip to South Africa for the Nelson Mandela Challenge Cup on Nov. 17.

The match will precede by eight days the qualifying draw for the 2010 World Cup, which will be staged in South Africa.

Heartswideopen, the 2-year-old filly that won the All American Futurity on Labor Day, had successful surgery to remove bone chips from her right knee and right ankle and won’t race again this year.