Saturday,  June 16, 2012 • Vol. 12--No. 338 • 24 of 27 •  Other Editions

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punches, so I'll be missing the start of the French team because I can't do anything for a week except keep the lens in and then take drops."
• Police said Brown, his girlfriend and his bodyguard were among several people injured during the bottle-hurling fight early Thursday at W.i.P in SoHo.
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Tiger Woods leads trio of major champions in lead at US Open

• SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- There were no fist pumps for Tiger Woods, just a deep breath and a slow exhale. Jim Furyk walked most of the 7,170 yards at Olympic Club with his head down. David Toms couldn't think of a single shot he hit without his full attention Friday.
• They were not the survivors of the U.S. Open. They were the leaders.
• And it's no coincidence that all of them have been tested in the majors, none more often than Woods, who survived a patch of bogeys early in his round for an even-par 70 that took him another round closer to a 15th major title.
• "I know that it takes a bit out of us, but so be it," Woods said. "Much rather be there than missing cuts or just making the cut. So it's a wonderful place to be with a chance to win your nation's open."
• Just when this U.S. Open was starting to look like child's play, a trio of major champions took it back.

Par at US Open might be good enough to win
ANTONIO GONZALEZ,AP Sports Writer

• SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The one thing everybody could agree on heading into the U.S. Open is that par would be a good score in any round at the unforgiving Olympic Club course.
• Just ask Tiger Woods, David Toms and Jim Furyk now.
• The trio of major champions enter Saturday's third round tied for the lead at 1 under, a rather ordinary number in any other week. Not even one other player in the field that began at 156 cracked par, which is shaping up to be a final score that might be all it takes to win.
• "I don't see it getting much away from that," said Graeme McDowell, the 2010 champion at Pebble Beach who is two shots back of the leaders. "As this golf course gets firmer and firmer, there's no rain forecast. It's up to the USGA, really.

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