Paul Azinger will not return as U.S. captain in the Ryder Cup after leading the Americans to their only victory this decade.

The PGA of America will announce the new captain Thursday, with all indications that it will be Corey Pavin.

"It ain't gonna be me," Azinger said. "I am not the captain."

American players lobbied for Azinger to return as captain in 2010 when the Ryder Cup is played in Wales, and the former PGA champion was said to be considering it.

Azinger was coy last week at the Father-Son Championship when asked whether he would like to return. Jack Nicklaus in 1983 was the most recent American to be captain more than once, and the Americans have not had a captain repeat since Ben Hogan in 1949.

Harrison Frazar finished a memorable week that included a 59 by reaching his ultimate goal yesterday, closing with a 5-under 67 at the PGA Tour Qualifying tournament at La Quinta, Calif., to lead 28 players who earned their cards for next season.

Frazar, who has played 300 times on the PGA Tour without winning, seized control of Q-school with a 59 in the fourth round. He built such a big lead that even with a double bogey on the final hole of the Nicklaus Tournament course at PGA West, he still won by eight shots.

Frazar, who played at Texas with Justin Leonard, finished at 32-under 400.

• Jose Maria Olazabal will replace fellow Spaniard Seve Ballesteros as captain of the Europe team that takes on Asian in the Ryder Cup-style Royal Trophy golf tournament next month. Ballesteros, who led Europe to victory in the two previous Royal Trophies, decided he did not have time to recover for the Jan. 9-11 tournament after undergoing the latest in a series of brain surgeries Dec. 2.

Sancho Lytle was the first player chosen in the WNBA's dispersal draft of Houston Comets players, going to the last-place Atlanta Dream. The Washington Mystics chose Matee Ajavon with the second pick and the Chicago Sky took Mistie Williams with the third selection during a conference call. Teams drafted in inverse order of their regular-season finish this past season. The Houston franchise, which won the first four WNBA championships, announced last week it would disband because the league-owned team could not find new ownership.

After a disappointing Beijing Olympics, USA Track & Field is setting its sights high by aiming for 30 medals at the 2012 London Games.

"We now will announce to the world that we are going to take our 'A game' to London in 2012. Our goal: 30 clean medals," USATF CEO Doug Logan said at the group's annual meeting.

The United States hasn't surpassed that total on the track at a non-boycotted Summer Games since winning 31 medals in 1956. The United States earned 23 track and field medals in Beijing this summer -- more than any other nation -- but the results were a letdown on many levels.

One example: The U.S. team went 0 for 6 in sprint events for the first time at a Summer Games. And American men took home four golds, their fewest from any Olympics.

Canadian Cindy Klassen, who won five speed skating medals at the 2006 Olympics, will sit out the season to give her knees more time to heal from surgery. She had arthroscopic procedures on both knees July 8. She hasn't put her skates back on since the surgery and will sit out the rest of the 2008-09 World Cup season.

Jan Kemp, a University of Georgia professor who was fired after publicly criticizing the university for allowing athletes who failed remedial classes to continue playing sports and stay in school, died Thursday at an Athens, Ga., nursing home of complications from Alzheimer's Disease. She was 59. Kemp's lawsuit to get reinstated led to sweeping reforms at Georgia and helped lead to tougher academic standards for athletes nationwide.