SLIPPERY ROCK — The Slippery Rock University men's basketball team will play defending NIT champion Penn State in an exhibition game at 6 p.m. Nov. 6 at the Bryce Jordan Center in State College.

The Rock is coming off a 21-8 season under first-year coach Kevin Reynolds and returns three of its top five scorers, Michael Evans Jr., Maron Brown and Maurice Douglas, this season.

Reynolds was named PSAC West Coach of the Year last season.

ALIQUIPPA — A foursome from Birdsfoot Golf Course captured the PGT Trucking Pro-3 Amateur at The Club at Shadow Lakes Friday.Professional Dennis Munko, along with amateurs Carl Miller, Bruce Baille and Tom Hunter, carded a score of 128 in the two best balls of four-gross plus net format, with a 144 par, to win by two points over Rolling Hills Country Club's professional Kevin Shields, and Chad Warmbein, Chuck Nettles and Douglas Schwimer.

MILWAUKEE — Greg Chalmers stayed on top of the leaderboard, firing a second-round 67 Friday to build a two-shot lead at the U.S. Bank Championship.A day after blustery conditions made the field post the worst scores in a round since 2004, no one passed the smooth putting, left-handed Australian who was nicknamed "Snake" by friends as a play off his last name. After an opening-round 64, Chalmers was at 9-under 131.While Chalmers charmed, fellow first-round leader Jeff Klauk shot a 69 to finish two strokes behind along with Chris Riley (66) and Kris Blanks (63). Kevin Na (65), Marc Turnesa (65) and Steve Flesch (65) were another stroke back at 6 under.

HOUSTON — Houston center Yao Ming will have surgery on his broken left foot next week and will likely miss all of next season, the latest blow to the Rockets' faltering bid to return to the NBA's elite.The team said Friday that there is no timetable set for the return of the 7-foot-6 Yao, a seven-time All Star, but that he is "expected to be available for the team's training camp in 2010." That camp is in October — 16 months away.The 28-year-old Yao chose a surgery that will involve a bone graft to promote bone regeneration, the team said. He's also hoping to reduce the arch in the foot by realigning and restructuring the bones.The decision for surgery was expected. The Rockets applied for a disabled player exception from the NBA a few weeks ago, betting that their center will miss next season as he recovers. The NBA agreed that Yao's return is unlikely and approved the request, freeing up about $5.7 million that the Rockets used to sign free agent Trevor Ariza from the Lakers.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Ex-NFL quarterback Steve McNair's mistress bought the gun she used to kill him from a convicted murderer whose fiancee was afraid to have it in the house, authorities said.Adrian J. Gilliam Jr., 33, of La Vergne, Tenn., was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. He admitted selling a 9 mm Bryco/Jennings to Sahel Kazemi for $100, according to court documents.Kazemi, 20, shot McNair to death at his condo July 4 before killing herself. Authorities say she met Gilliam while she was trying to sell her car and told him she was looking to buy a gun.A criminal complaint says Gilliam, who was convicted in 1993 in Florida for murder and attempted armed robbery, told police he sold the gun to Kazemi, whom he identified from a police photograph.Detectives traced the gun to its 2002 sale at a pawnshop. Gilliam eventually bought it from someone for $100 about a year or year and a half ago. Investigators said he told them he bought it for protection after his home was burglarized, and police reports show a burglary around that time.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Jennie Finch and Jenae Leles homered and the U.S. capitalized on some shaky defense by Italy for a 12-0 victory Friday night at the World Cup of Softball.Best known for her pitching prowess, Finch has become a staple in the middle of the lineup for a new-look American team that has 10 rookies.She hit a two-run home run in a six-run first inning for the Americans (2-0), and Leles added a three-run shot to center field in the third as the U.S. kept pulling away for a mercy rule win stopped after five innings.