Resurgent Lehman holds one-shot lead over Goosen

Two weeks after turning 50, former Ryder Cup captain Tom Lehman looked like his old self Saturday in the Transitions Championship with a 3-under-par 68 for his first 54-hole lead in more than four years at Palm Harbor, Fla.

Lehman ran off four straight birdies and shot 31 on the back nine at Innisbrook to grab a one-shot lead over two-time U.S. Open champion Retief Goosen. Lehman will try to become only the seventh player in his 50s to win on the PGA Tour.

Lehman, who was at 8-under 205, missed five months last year with tendinitis and missed the cut in his first four starts this year before a tie for 49th against a weak field in Mexico last month.

Masters champion Trevor Immelman is starting to play like one with his return to Augusta National around the corner. He had a 70 and was in the group at 5-under 208 that included Stuart Appleby (71), Jonathan Byrd (71) and Charles Howell III (71), an Augusta native suddenly presented with a chance to win and get into the Masters.

•Ochoa a stroke back in Mexico: Taiwan’s Yani Tseng shot a 3-under 69 for a share of the second-round lead with South Korea’s Na Yeon Choi in the Mastercard Classic, leaving top-ranked Mexican star Lorena Ochoa a stroke back at Huixquilucan, Mexico.

Auto racing

Martin struggles

Mark Martin’s Sprint Cup season is at a crossroads – and it’s only the fifth race of the year.

Going into today’s Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, Martin’s No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet is 35th in owners points. The top 35 cars in the owners standings are guaranteed starting spots each week.

Instead of being a fixture in the top 12 and positioning himself for a spot in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, Martin is battling to stay in the top 35.

He is off to the worst start of his Cup career, which began in the early ’80s. Martin has two wins and 21 top-10 finishes at Bristol in 40 races but has one top-10 finish in his past 12 starts at the .533-mile track. His victories came in 1993 and 1998.

•Harvick wins at Bristol: Kevin Harvick proved just how strong his organization is by winning the Nationwide Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway in his own race car at Bristol, Tenn.

Harvick led 44 laps in his Kevin Harvick Inc.-owned Chevrolet, his first victory in a car fielded by the race team he built with his wife.

Carl Edwards finished second and Clint Bowyer was third.

•Marlin victorious in legends race: Sterling Marlin won the “Saturday Night Special” legends race at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn.

Marlin led all 35 laps of the charity race and beat Rusty Wallace and 70-year-old L.D. Ottinger to the finish line.

NBA

Roy carries Blazers

Brandon Roy scored 30 points to lead Portland to a 96-84 win over the Bucks at Milwaukee.

Steve Blake added 21 and tied his season high with six 3-pointers as Portland, playing its fifth game in seven nights, came alive in the second half. The Trail Blazers finished their five-game road trip with a 3-2 mark and some momentum as they look to move up from their seventh spot in the Western Conference playoff scramble.

Baseball

S. Korea advances

Reigning Olympic champions South Korea reached the finals of the second World Baseball Classic with ease in Los Angeles.

Cleveland Indians outfielder Choo Shin-Soo hit a three-run homer to cap a five-run first, Yoon Suk-Min allowed two runs in 6 1/3 innings, and South Korea beat mistake-prone Venezuela 10-2 at Dodger Stadium.

Kim Tae-Kyun added a two-run homer off loser Carlos Silva in the second for South Korea, which meets the winner of tonight’s semifinal matchup between defending WBC champion Japan and the United States for the title on Monday night.

Miscellany

Nadal ousts Roddick

Rafael Nadal edged Andy Roddick 6-4, 7-6 (4) to move into the BNP Paribas final at Indian Wells, Calif.

The 22-year-old Spaniard next will play Andy Murray, who beat Roger Federer 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 for his fourth straight victory against the former world No. 1.

•Iowa wins NCAA wrestling title: Top-ranked Iowa relied on a deep roster to take its second straight NCAA wrestling title, sewing up its 22nd championship without winning a weight class and losing a point to penalty in St. Louis.

The premeet favorites did just enough scoring away from the spotlight to win even though 149-pound Brent Metcalf, the Hawkeyes’ lone finalist, had his 69-bout winning streak ended and then was whistled for unsportsmanlike conduct. Iowa built a 9.5-point lead earlier in the day and finished with 96.5 points, 4.5 points ahead of runner-up Ohio State.

•White injured, misses snowboarding championships: Olympic gold medalist Shaun White pulled out of the 27th U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships with a severely sprained left ankle, ending his attempt for a fourth straight halfpipe title at Stratton Mountain, Vt.

Danny Kass won the men’s halfpipe title and Torrah Bright won on the women’s side.

•Former NHL player dies: Former NHL player Walt Poddubny died after collapsing at his sister’s house in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He was 49. The cause of death wasn’t known.