Roll of Dice by 76ers: Bradley Signs Contract

Shawn Bradley, Philadelphia’s first-round pick and the second pick overall in the NBA draft, signed a multiyear contract with the 76ers on Wednesday.

Terms were not disclosed, but 76er owner Harold Katz called the signing of the 7-foot-6 Bradley, who has not played in two years, “the biggest gamble I’ve ever taken by far.”

“By far it’s the most lucrative contract I’ve ever signed. Total dollars, it may be one of the highest in sports,” Katz said.

The deal, struck July 19 at Katz’s home, involves a base salary and incentives, the owner said.

The 76ers also waived veteran Armon Gilliam and renounced their options on Manute Bol, Charles Shackleford, Ron Anderson, Greg Grant, Mitchell Wiggins and Eddie Lee Wilkins.

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Terdema Ussery II is leaving his position as commissioner of the Continental Basketball Assn. to accept the newly created position of president of Nike Sports Management, the company’s division that provides marketing services and career management to professional athletes. Ussery will leave his CBA position in mid-August.

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A decision is not expected until fall in a six-year-old case involving alleged NCAA infractions in the Nevada Las Vegas basketball program.

The university is completing a final draft of a document that must be submitted to the NCAA Infractions Committee, and that document will not be ready in time for this weekend’s meeting of the committee in Seattle.

Golf

Ted Oh of Torrance shot a one-under-par 69 to win medalist honors by two strokes in the U.S. Junior Amateur Championships at Portland, Ore.

Oh completed two rounds over the 6,465-yard Waverley Country Club course in even-par 140. Two-time defending champion Tiger Woods of Cypress had a 74 for 143 and was among the 64 players that advanced into match play.

Baseball

Umpire Ivan Davis Mata is the latest member of the Cuban baseball program to leave the team.

Davis, chief of Cuban umpires, was traveling with the Cuban national team to a game against the U.S. national team in Wichita, Kan., when he left the delegation Tuesday during a stopover in Miami.

The Cubans played the United States on Wednesday and will begin a three-game series in Millington, Tenn., today through Saturday.

Three Cuban athletes--two baseball players and a fencer--defected at the World University Games in Buffalo, N.Y., earlier this month. Since October, 13 Cuban athletes or people associated with the country’s sports program have defected.

Track and Field

Colin Jackson of Wales set a European record in the 110-meter hurdles at a meet in Sestriere, Italy. Jackson’s time of 12.97 seconds was only 0.05 off the world record of 12.92 set by Roger Kingdom in 1989.

The victory bolstered Jackson’s status as favorite at next month’s World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.

Sergei Bubka won the pole vault, clearing 19-0 1/4; Kevin Young won the 400 hurdles in 48.20; Quincy Watts won the 400 in 44.13, and Larry Myricks won the men’s long jump in 27-5 1/2.

Names in the News

University of Louisville football Coach Howard Schnellenberger signed a six-year contract extension that will keep him with the Cardinals until the year 2000. Terms were not disclosed. . . . Mario Lemieux, bothered by recurring bouts of back pain last season, underwent exploratory surgery to repair a muscle hernia in his lower back. The team hasn’t said if it will delay Lemieux’s reporting to training camp. . . .Tracy Austin received a wild card into the Virginia Slims of Los Angeles, which begins Aug. 9 at Manhattan Country Club. . . .Felicia Ballanger of France broke her three-week-old world record in the 500 meters cycling on an indoor track at the French Championships at Bordeaux. Ballanger was timed in 35.190 seconds from a standing start to better her own mark of 35.811 set July 4 at Hyeres, France.