In brief: Rory McIlroy, Billy Horschel tied for Tour Championship lead

Golf: Rory McIlroy made up a two-shot deficit on Billy Horschel on Saturday in the Tour Championship in Atlanta. They square off again Sunday with $10 million riding on the outcome.

McIlroy atoned for a pair of three-putt bogeys by rolling in a 25-foot eagle putt on the 15th hole. He closed with a superb par save from thick grass behind the 18th green for a 3-under 67.

Horschel led by as many as three shots during the third round until he started missing fairways and made two bogeys. He had a 69.

They were at 9-under 201.

Jim Furyk, still with a chance to win the FedEx Cup and its $10 million bonus, had a 67 and was two shots back. Rickie Fowler (67) and Justin Rose (66) were three behind.

• Kim leads Webb by 1 at Evian: Hyo-Joo Kim of South Korea goes into the final round of the Evian Championship with a one-shot lead over veteran Karrie Webb.

Contenders struggled for form in an error-strewn third round in Evian-Les-Bains, France, with Kim hitting four bogeys on the front nine before recovering for a 1-over 72. Her remarkable 61 on Thursday was the lowest score in major history.

Webb was somewhat more consistent, with four birdies and three bogeys in a 1-under 70, leaving the 39-year-old with a great chance of an eighth career major.

Mi-Jung Hur of South Korea is two behind Kim at 6 under.

• Sterne, Fathauer, Thomas share Web.com lead: South Africa’s Richard Sterne shot a 4-under 67 for a share of the lead with Derek Fathauer and Justin Thomas in the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship, the third of four events in the Web.com Tour Finals in Columbus, Ohio.

Spokane’s Alex Prugh shot a 4-over 75 for a 215 total. At 2-over overall, he is tied for 27th place.

Switzerland leads Italy in Davis Cup semifinal

Tennis: Roger Federer got the day off on Saturday, and now he needs to play today to help Switzerland advance to its first Davis Cup final in 22 years.

Without Federer, who was rested, Switzerland lost in doubles to Italy and had its lead cut to 2-1 in their semifinal in Geneva.

The Swiss paired Stan Wawrinka with Marco Chiudinelli instead, and they lost 7-5, 3-6, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 against Fabio Fognini and Simone Bolelli at Palexpo indoor arena.

• Bryan brothers clinch Davis Cup playoff for U.S.: Americans Bob and Mike Bryan routed Norbert Gombos and Lukas Lacko 6-1, 6-2, 6-1 in doubles in Hoffman Estates, Illinois to clinch the Davis Cup World Group playoff against Slovakia.

The U.S. secured its spot in the 2015 World Group as the Bryans’ lopsided victory followed singles wins Friday night by John Isner and Sam Querrey.

The Bryans capped a remarkable week of tennis. They captured the U.S. Open title last Sunday for their 100th career tournament win and then dominated Saturday’s match that lasted only 76 minutes.

• France qualifies for Davis Cup final: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Richard Gasquet put France back in the Davis Cup final by winning the doubles in Paris and ending the two-year reign of the Czech Republic.

Tsonga and Gasquet, who won their singles on Friday, gave Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek a rare doubles defeat in Davis Cup, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 7-6 (5), 6-1 at Roland Garros.

France made the final for the first time since 2010. It won the last of its nine cups in 2001.

• Knapp wins first career title at Tashkent Open: Karin Knapp of Italy won her first career WTA title in her 12th year as a pro when she won the Tashkent Open by beating defending champion Bojana Jovanovski of Serbia in the final in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Knapp saved nine break points, including all five in the first set, in prevailing 6-2, 7-6 (4).

The third-seeded Knapp reached only one previous final, six years ago in Antwerp, and lost to top seed Jovanovski in their only previous meeting just four months ago in Madrid.

France beats Lithuania to take bronze

Basketball: France came from behind in the final quarter to beat Lithuania 95-93 and win the bronze medal at the Basketball World Cup in Madrid.

Lithuania led by seven points entering the fourth period, and center Jonas Valanciunas scored five points to put Lithuania ahead 80-77 with three minutes to play.

But Boris Diaw drove twice to score contested lay-ups as France went ahead and held on.

The final minute became a parade of both teams exchanging free throw attempts, but France’s shooters didn’t waver. The final 16 seconds saw 11 fouls and 22 free-throw attempts as Lithuania wanted to stop the clock and recover possession, and France wanted to stop Lithuania from shooting from 3-point territory.

Nicolas Batum led France with a game-high 27 points, and Diaw scored eight of his 15 points in the fourth quarter to spur the comeback.

Valanciunas paced Lithuania with 25 points to go with nine rebounds.

• Hawks apologize for racially charged comments: The Atlanta Hawks released an open letter of apology to fans and city of Atlanta, saying the organization “did not do the right thing” to correct racially inflammatory words and innuendos “over a period of years.”

The apology, signed by CEO Steve Koonin, was released one day after the team announced general manager Danny Ferry was taking an indefinite leave of absence following his racially charged comments about Luol Deng.

Last Sunday, co-owner Bruce Levenson announced he’d sell his controlling share of the team following the release of his racially inflammatory comments in an email to Ferry and the team’s other owners.

Contador outlasts Froome to win stage

Miscellany: Alberto Contador surged past Chris Froome to win the mountainous 20th stage of the Spanish Vuelta and increase his lead of the grand tour heading into its final day.

Contador stayed close to Froome as the former Tour de France winners shed the rest of the field on the special-category ascent to the Puerto de Ancares summit in Spain.

The Tinkoff-Saxo rider then used a final push to power by Froome and win the demanding 115-mile ride starting in Santo Estevo de Ribas de Sil that included four category climbs.

• Ball Dancing wins Belmont’s Sands Point Stakes: Ball Dancing beat Xcellence by a half-length, giving trainer Chad Brown a 1-2 finish in the $500,000 Sands Point Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Belmont Park in New York.

The two Brown trainees rallied in tandem in the deep stretch, with Ball Dancing edging clear in the final strides in her U.S. debut. She had won two of five starts this year in France.

Joe Bravo was the rider as Ball Dancing ran the 1 1/8 miles in 1:50.18.