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Sports briefs
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In college football
Les Miles is headed back to the Big 12 and another massive rebuilding job, this time taking on the downtrodden program at Kansas in a splashy hire aimed at energizing a weary fan base.
The deal was finalized Sunday. Miles signed a five-year contract that will pay him $2,775,000 annually.
Miles was considered the front-runner for the Jayhawks’ job from the moment David Beaty was told he would not be retained two weeks ago. The 65-year-old Miles has a close relationship with athletic director Jeff Long dating to their days together at Michigan.
- Colorado fired coach Mike MacIntyre with the Buffaloes on a six-game losing streak in his sixth season at the school, and two years after he won AP coach of the year.
In 2016, MacIntyre led the Buffaloes to a Pac-12 South title and 10 victories. That was his only winning season at Colorado, going 20-40 overall and 6-38 in the Pac-12 in the other five.
In golf
Charles Howell III made a 15-foot birdie putt on the second hole of a playoff with Patrick Rodgers on Sunday in the RSM Classic in St. Simons Island, Ga., to end an 11-year victory drought.
Howell earned a return trip to his hometown of Augusta, in April to play in the Masters for the first time since 2012.
After Rodgers sent a birdie attempt of 21 feet past the cup on the second extra hole, Howell’s putt died in the cup and capped a comeback in which he went bogey-double bogey on his first two holes to lose the lead he had held through the first three rounds.
Howell earned $1,152,000 and a return trip to his hometown of Augusta, Georgia, in April to play in the Masters for the first time since 2012.
- Lexi Thompson was the best this week, and Ariya Jutanugarn was the best all season.
Thompson shot a 2-under 70 to finish at 18-under 270 and win the LPGA’s season-ending CME Group Tour Championship by four strokes over Nelly Korda. The win makes this the sixth consecutive year that Thompson has won at least once, extending the longest such active streak on the LPGA Tour.
Jutanugarn took the other two big prizes that were up for grabs this week, clinching the yearlong Race to the CME Globe prize – and the $1 million bonus that comes with that – as well as the Vare Trophy for winning the season’s scoring title. Jutanugarn shot a 66, finishing the week tied for fifth at 12-under 276.