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RENO, Nev. -- Leave it to Charles Barkley to capsulize the challenges he and others will face atop the Sierra this weekend trying to keep their golf balls in the fairway, away from the galleries and out of the water during the 27th annual American Century Celebrity Golf Championship at Lake Tahoe.Golf is fun, until you hit somebody in the head, said Barkley, the Hall of Fame basketball player whos a 6,000-to-1 long shot to win but still draws some of the biggest crowds at Edgewood-Tahoe Golf Course in Stateline.Two-time NBA MVP Steph Curry, NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers, singer Justin Timberlake and comedian Ray Romano are among the 90 athletes and entertainers who tee off Friday in the 54-hole tournament running through Sunday near the California border, about 60 miles south of Reno.Curry, who finished fourth three years ago in the tournament with a $600,000 purse, will be paired with his father, Dell, who played 16 years in the NBA, and fellow Golden State Warriors teammate Andre Iguodala. He said it will be special to be the tourneys first father-son duo.It will probably get really competitive between us two, which is how it always is, Steph Curry said Thursday.Tourney regulars and Hall of Famers Jerry Rice, Emmitt Smith and Marcus Allen are back, along with more than a dozen past and present quarterbacks, including University of Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh, Carson Palmer, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Alex Smith, Doug Flutie, Jim McMahon, Joe Theismann and Steve Young. Others include former vice president Dan Quayle, NASCAR driver Brian Vickers, Larry the Cable Guy, former Saturday Night Live star Kevin Nealon and Willie Robertson of Duck Dynasty.The Harrahs and Harveys Race & Sports Book across the street has made ex-pitcher and defending champ Mark Mulder the co-favorite with recently-retired tennis champ Mardy Fish at 3-1 odds, followed by ex-quarterback Mark Rypien (9-2), ex-Cy Young closer Eric Gagne (5-1) and Curry (6-1).A month after losing the NBA championship to Cleveland, Curry said he feels good about his golf game but confided he has much less confidence on the greens than I do on the court.Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws, he said after Thursdays pro-am. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And its just you, the ball and the target.But theres a lot more variables in golf, Curry said. The biggest thing is just routine. I think thats the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players.Barkley said he tries to help newcomers understand its quite different than playing a round at their local country club.It aint like regular golf, because there are people everywhere, he said during a recent conference call promoting the event. And like I say, most of the guys will tell you theyre pretty good until they hit somebody. And then they get really nervous, because nobody wants to hit anybody.This year marks the 10th anniversary of one of the most infamous shots at the tourney where yachts and speed boats anchor along Tahoes south shore next to the par-3 17th and par-5 finishing hole.Actor Matthew Settles slicing 5-iron on the 169-yard 17th broke a boat windshield in July 2006 -- a shot playing partner John OHurley called a flaming whoopsie.Ive seen broken windows on golf courses before but never on a boat, OHurley said.It wasnt that strange to former NBA star Chris Webber, who once won a $50,000 charity bet with Barkley on who would finish last.I hit somebody in a boat a couple of years ago and they threw the ball back out like it was a home run at a baseball game, Webber said at the time.Barkley said, I just hit people, I dont hit boats. 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Cheap Real Jordans Free Shipping . -- The Portland Timbers and Real Salt Lake played to a 0-0 tie Saturday night that left the top of the Western Conference standings unchanged. The NCAA committee that proposed football recruiting reforms, which include the addition of early signing periods, wants to create more transparency and access for coaches and players in a process that has been accelerated in recent years, said a key member of the group.Nebraska athletic director Shawn Eichorst told The Associated Press the football oversight committee created an interconnected and comprehensive package of reforms while acknowledging the new realities of recruiting.I think you need to think about it in that more broad context, Eichorst said in a phone interview Monday. I know people want to pull pieces and talk about the pieces, but really I think to understand and explain the rationale appropriately, youve got to understand the whole process.The proposal would change when and where summer camps and clinics can be held and limit so-called satellite camps. High school players would be allowed to take official recruiting visits in the summer before their senior years, conceivably creating opportunities for visits to be paired with attending a camp. The proposed changes, which could go into effect next year, would also allow a 10th assistant football coach and set a hard cap of 25 signees per year.The piece of the proposal that has drawn the most debate is the creation of two early signing periods in June and December. The June period would allow prospects to sign binding national letters of intent before their senior years of high school. The Collegiate Commissioners Association, which administers the NLI, must approve and implement the new signing periods.I hear the reasoning is because theres so many de-commitments, Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said in September about early signing periods before the Division I Council passed the oversight committees proposal in early October. So because 17-year-olds are de-commiting, lets give them a legal document so they cant de-commit. Thats not very smart. Young people have a right to choose where they want to go to school. Period. Let them de-commit 100 times.Alabama coach Nick Saban said he was against early signing because it could put players who take big steps forward in their development as seniors at a disadvantage after early signees scoop up scholarships.But there is no consensus among coaches. Michigans Jim Harbaugh is in favor of an early signing period. Clemsons Dabo Swinney liked the idea, but prefers the period be in Auggust.ddddddddddddArizona coach Rich Rodriguez has endorsed eliminating signing periods altogether, instead allowing schools and prospects to sign whenever both agree.Mississippi coach Hugh Freeze said the proposals make the recruiting process seem rushed.Eichorst, who was chairman of the subcommittee that worked on the satellite camps issue, said the NCAAs research indicates the process already is moving faster than ever.A recent survey showed 30 percent of more than 1,400 football players who signed a national letter of intent gave verbal commitments during their junior years or during the summer before their senior years.We wanted to get more transparency there, Eichorst said. In order to do that you had to reorder things a little bit because what we know is there are a number of kids who are being identified, evaluated, offered and commit before they start their senior year. And theyre doing that without the benefit of official visits. And theyre doing that without the benefit of permissible off-campus contact.De-commitments and flip-flopping by highly touted recruits gets a lot of attention, but it is still relatively uncommon. The survey showed 82 percent of football signees verbally committed prior to signing. Of those, 90 percent signed where they committed.The NCAA also wants to better regulate so-called third parties, such as seven-on-seven coaches who are often not affiliated with high schools, in the recruiting process and keep the emphasis on high school coaches.The reforms are also supposed to alleviate what can seem like nonstop recruiting for coaches.What we wanted to see was greater balance with our coaches and our current students, Eichorst said. And what we constantly hear from our coaches and others is often times I spend more time recruiting my next class than coaching my current.Of 55 NCAA sports, football is one of four that does not have an early signing period.According to the NCAA, 25,316 Division I student-athletes signed a national letter of intent in 2015-16. Of those, 18,103 had the opportunity to sign early and about 66 percent did.Why are we treating football players different from all the other students that come to us? Eichorst said. Theres no good answer for that.---The APs college football site at http://collegefootball.ap.org ' ' '