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The kids are all right: Bradley, other rookies come up big as US takes 5-3 lead at Ryder Cup
• MEDINAH, Ill. (AP) -- Keegan Bradley's only regret was there weren't more holes to play.
• Not to worry. After the day he and the rest of the U.S. rookies had, no way captain Davis Love III is pulling them off the course.
• Bradley and good buddy Phil Mickelson knocked off Europe's top two teams, fellow rookies Webb Simpson and Jason Dufner each delivered a point, and the Americans are well on their way to winning the Ryder Cup for just the third time since 1995 with a 5-3 lead.
• "All the rookies ... played very, very well," Love said. "I was really impressed. We played as a team today, and I think that's all we wanted. We got off to a great start."
• There are two more sessions of team matches Saturday, and Love is sticking with his young guns. Simpson and Bubba Watson, who thrashed Paul Lawrie and Peter Hanson 5-and-4, will lead off the morning foursomes against Justin Rose and Ian Poulter. Bradley and Mickelson will face Lee Westwood and Luke Donald, and Jason Dufner and Zach Johnson will play Nicolas Colsaerts and Sergio Garcia. Jim Furyk and Brandt Snedeker will get another crack at Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell after pushing them so hard in Friday's first match Europe's top team had nothing left in the afternoon.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Saturday, Sept. 29, the 273rd day of 2012. There are 93 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Sept. 29, 1862, Prussia's newly appointed minister-president, Otto von Bismarck, delivered a speech to the country's parliament in which he declared the issue of German unification would be decided "not through speeches and majority decisions" but by "iron and blood (Eisen und Blut)." (Some references give the date of this speech as Sept. 30, 1862.)
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