Akshay Bhatia holds the championship trophy after winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill golf tournament Sunday in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Bhatia wins

at Bay Hill

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Akshay Bhatia has lived up to Arnold Palmer’s famous quote that “you must play boldly to win.” He was every bit of that at Bay Hill.

The 24-year-old Bhatia rallied from five shots behind at the turn with four straight birdies and a 6-iron right at the pin to set up eagle. He shot 69 to force a playoff with Daniel Berger and beat him with a par on the first extra hole. Bhatia now has three PGA Tour titles and all of them have come in a playoff.

Berger made bogey in the playoff, three-putting from 106 feet.

Blaney ends

Reddick’s run

AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Ryan Blaney completed a Team Penske sweep at Phoenix Raceway by winning the Cup Series race on Sunday. The victory that denied Tyler Reddick a fourth consecutive win to start the NASCAR season. Blaney passed 49 cars to earn his 18th career victory and second at Phoenix.

The victory came during a weekend celebration of Team Penske’s 60th season of competition and during a “desert doubleheader” that bundled IndyCar and NASCAR together at Phoenix.

David Malukas won the IndyCar pole for Penske and then Josef Newgarden won Saturday’s race; Joey Logano won the pole for the Cup race and then Blaney completed the sweep.

NFL free

agency opens

(AP) — Ready, set, negotiate multi-million contracts. The NFL’s free agency period opens today with a 52-hour legal tampering period ahead of the official start of the new league year Wednesday.

Edge rusher Trey Hendrickson, six-time Pro Bowl wide receiver Mike Evans and Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker III head the list of high-profile players who will be free to sign a contract with a new team.

Quarterbacks Kirk Cousins and Kyler Murray also will be seeking new teams because they’re going to be released by their teams.

Shiffrin

widens lead

VAL DI FASSA, Italy (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin has moved closer to a sixth career World Cup overall title by scoring points in a rare start in super-G that close rival Emma Aicher did not finish. Shiffrin placed 23rd behind 35-year-old Elena Curtoni winning on home snow at Val di Fassa in Italy.

A stellar weekend for the home Italian team saw unheralded 29-year-old Asja Zenere race into third place. Curtoni was 0.26 faster than runner-up Kajsa Vickhoff Lie. Shiffrin earned eight World Cup points and extended her lead over Aicher to 125 with six races left.