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SUN CITY, South Africa -- Jamie Donaldson held on to his three-shot lead through the third round of the Nedbank Golf Challenge on Saturday, putting the Welshman in sight of the biggest payday of his career on his Sun City debut. The Welshman strung together six birdies and just a single bogey on No. 17 in a 5-under 67 to stay ahead of a two-way tie for second between Ryan Moore of the United States and Thomas Bjorn of Denmark. Donaldsson had a 16-under total of 200. Henrik Stenson, playing his first tournament since clinching the European money title last month to go with his FedEx Cup, was five shots back after a 69, tied with Sergio Garcia (66) and Thongchai Jaidee (66). Donaldson had his birdies in twos at the Gary Player Country Club, with back-to-back gains on Nos. 4 and 5, 10 and 11, and 14 and 15 for a good chance at the $1.25 million winners check at the newly-instated European Tour event. Before this week, he last played the course nearly 20 years ago. "Every win is special, this would be just a little bit more special," he said. Moore, another Sun City debutant, went bogey-free to card 67 and is also attempting to become the first rookie winner at the Nedbank since Zimbabwes Mark McNulty in 1986. Bjorn had a 66. Ernie Els struggled to a 77 after hearing before the third round that his former mental coach Jos Vanstiphout had died. Els said it was "another very sad day" for him after the death of former South African President Nelson Mandela on Thursday. Bjorn opened his back nine with an eagle and a birdie, but made bogey on the par-5 No. 14 to slip back again before finishing with his fifth birdie. Moore was flawless with five birdies and no dropped shots. Former Sun City winner Stenson recovered from a seven on No. 9, when the No. 3-ranked Swede twice hit the water, to birdie four holes coming home and stay in contention. Garcia bounced back from a 73 on Friday, making six birdies and an eagle on No. 13 to counter two bogeys. 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Henrik Samuelsson and Luke Bertolucci also scored for the Oil Kings, who are now 9-0 on home ice in the playoffs to cut Portlands series lead to 2-1. Chase De Leo and Mathew Dumba responded for the Winterhawks, who suffered just their fourth loss in their last 46 games, a string of success running all the way back to Jan.ATLANTA - The Atlanta Hawks are sticking with general manager Danny Ferry even though the teams new majority owner wants him fired for racially charged comments.CEO Steve Koonin on Tuesday told the Hawks flagship radio station that he made the decision to discipline Ferry but allowed him to keep his job managing the team. He did not say what the punishment was, but noted that he relied on a law firms three-month investigation of Ferry and his description of Luol Deng.Ferry made the inflammatory comments about Deng in a conference call with the Hawks ownership group in June when the team pursued Deng as a free agent.A letter from co-owner Michael Gearon Jr. recommends that Ferry resign or be fired. Gearon cites Ferry telling the ownership group that Deng has a little African in him.His June 12 letter to co-owner Bruce Levenson said Ferry went on to say, Not in a bad way, but hes like a guy who would have a nice store out front and sell you counterfeit stuff out of the back.Added Gearon: Ferry completed the racial slur by describing the player (and impliedly all persons of African descent) as a two-faced liar and cheat.Deng, 29, was born in what is now South Sudan. His father moved his family to Egypt and then England. The 10-year NBA veteran is now a British citizen and played for England in the 2012 Olympics.Deng, like Ferry, also played at Duke.Koonin said Atlanta law firm Alston and Bird went through 24,000 documents, conducted 19 interviews and read every email Danny Ferry has ever sent as general manager of the Atlanta Hawks. Koonin said no other negative information on Ferry was found in the probe.I took their advice and far exceeded their advice, Koonin said of the undisclosed punishment he imposed on Ferry.Hawks spokesman Garin Narain said the investigation of Ferrys comments uncovered a racially inflammatory email written two years ago by Levenson. That discovery led to Levensons announcement Sunday that he will sell his controlling share of the team.Despite Gearons desire to remove Ferry, Koonin is standing by him.I understand that emotion, Koonin said of Gearons recommendation. I certainly understand that emotion. I know people who have said that to me. But if we sentence people based on what everybody wanted, we wouldnt have a justice system.I listened to what (the law firm) said because they had done the work ... so thats a decision Im willing to live with.Gearon warned Levenson he believed Ferrys comments could be fatal to the franchise if made public.Gearon said he and the other co-owners were appalled that anyone would make such a racist slur under anyy circumstance, much less the GM of an NBA franchise on a major conference call.ddddddddddddGearon declined to comment when contacted by The Associated Press on Tuesday and Dengs agent, Ron Shade, did not respond to an interview request.Ferry apologized Tuesday but said he was only repeating what he had heard about Deng.In regards to the insensitive remarks that were used during our due diligence process, I was repeating comments that were gathered from numerous sources during background conversations and scouting about different players, Ferry said in a statement released by the team.I repeated those comments during a telephone conversation reviewing the draft and free agency process. Those words do not reflect my views, or words that I would use to describe an individual and I certainly regret it. I apologize to those I offended and to Luol, who I reached out to Monday morning.Koonin has agreed to meet with Atlanta civil rights leaders on Wednesday. The Rev. Markel Hutchins said Monday he asked for the meeting to discuss what he believes is a racist attitude throughout the organization.In his letter to Levenson, Gearon compared Ferrys remarks to much-publicized racist comments which forced Donald Sterling to sell the Clippers.We believe these comments by Ferry were far worse than Sterlings because they were not from a private personal conversation a€” they were in a business environment on a business matter in front of a dozen or more people, Gearon wrote. If Ferry would make such a slur in a semi-public forum, we can only imagine what he has said in smaller groups or to individuals.Ferry was named the Hawks general manager in 2012 following two years as vice-president of basketball operations for the San Antonio Spurs. He was general manager for the Cleveland Cavaliers from 2005-2010 and helped build the team that advanced to the 2007 NBA Finals.There was renewed optimism about the direction of the team after Ferry hired coach Mike Budenholzer from San Antonio in 2013.Now, the turmoil threatens to derail all their efforts.New ownership must be found and despite the support of Koonin, Ferrys ability to survive the crisis is unknown.In his letter of apology, Ferry pledged he would learn from the incident.I am committed to learning from this and deeply regret this situation, Ferry said. I fully understand we have work to do in order to help us create a better organization; one that our players and fans will be proud of, on and off the court, and that is where my focus is moving forward.___Follow Charles Odum on Twitter: http://twitter.com/CharlesOdum Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys Wholesale NFL Jerseys Jerseys From China Wholesale NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap Jerseys ' ' '


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