Ryder Cup Team Is Complete

Tom Watson, U.S. Ryder Cup captain, chose Raymond Floyd and Lanny Wadkins as the wild-card picks for his 12-man Ryder Cup team Monday.

Floyd is 9-15-3 in Ryder Cup matches dating to 1969. Wadkins first played on the Ryder Cup team in 1977 and is 18-10-2.

The selection of the two completed the team that will defend the Ryder Cup against the best European players in the biennial matches at the Belfry in Sutton Coldfield, England, Sept. 24-26.

The other 10 members came off a points list that closed Sunday with the conclusion of the PGA Championship.

They are PGA champion Paul Azinger, Fred Couples, Tom Kite, U.S. Open titleholder Lee Janzen, Corey Pavin, Payne Stewart, John Cook, Davis Love III, Chip Beck and Jim Gallagher.

Hockey

Paul Kariya, the Mighty Ducks’ No. 1 draft pick in June, has decided to return to the University of Maine for the fall semester and play for Canada in the Winter Olympics before beginning his professional career. General Manager Jack Ferreira has encouraged Kariya to play in the Olympics next year at Lillehammer, Norway, calling it a good developmental opportunity and an honor too rare to miss.

Denny Lambert, who played the last two seasons for the San Diego Gulls of the International Hockey League, has agreed to terms with the Mighty Ducks. A 5-foot-11, 200-pound left wing, Lambert, 23, had 30 points in 56 games last season.

Olympics

Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee, was heckled in Berlin by opponents of the city’s bid to stage the 2000 Summer Games.

Samaranch, who canceled a trip to the German capital in May fearing that anti-Olympic militants would stage violent protests, nonetheless described Berlin as “a dream city full of sports facilities.”

Four other cities are candidates for the Games that year: Sydney, Beijing, Istanbul and Manchester, England. Brasilia dropped out last week.

Thirty athletes from Bosnia-Herzegovina will come to the United States to train.

The Save the Athletes of Bosnia Project, a program announced by the U.S. Olympic Committee, is part of a worldwide call for help in preserving world-class sports in the former Yugoslav republic.

Soccer

World soccer’s governing body fined the Brazilian and Bolivian associations $6,000 each for allowing two players to drink a common tea with a coca-leaf base.

In a letter to all national associations, FIFA said team doctors should have prevented the players from drinking trimate, which is legal and frequently used both in Brazil and Bolivia to combat altitude sickness.

Auto Racing

A year before the first Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis, NASCAR’s top drivers are testing Indy’s track and tradition, and are impressed with both.

“This is a phenomenal happening,” Darrell Waltrip said after the first of two days of tests at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which next Aug. 6 will join the Winston Cup stock car series.

More than 50,000 watched the six-hour test session, which was marred only by a crash by rookie driver Kenny Wallace.

The top speeds were 165.624 m.p.h. by rookie Bobby Labonte, 165.256 by Geoff Bodine, 164.754 by Ken Schrader, 164.504 by rookie Jeff Gordon, 164.495 by Bobby Hillin Jr. and 164.105 by Mark Martin.

The Indy car record is 233.433 m.p.h. by Jim Crawford in 1992.

Wallace, whose best speed was 159.676 m.p.h., suffered bruises on his head and back, and was taken to Methodist Hospital. He was listed in good condition.

Pro Basketball

The Golden State Warriors signed forward Andre Spencer, a restricted free agent, to a one-year contract. . . . Joe Kleine, a 7-foot, 270-pound center who spent 4 1/2 seasons with the Boston Celtics, signed a contract with the Phoenix Suns.

The NBA’s special master held a three-hour hearing on whether contracts signed by three players--Chris Dudley, Toni Kukoc and Craig Ehlo--should be voided. Merrell Clark, the special master, met with league officials, the players’ union and representatives of the three players. Dudley signed with the Portland Trail Blazers, Kukoc with the Chicago Bulls and Ehlo with the Atlanta Hawks. Officials said there is no deadline for a decision.

The contracts allow the players to back out of the agreement after one season. The NBA contends such arrangements are attempts to circumvent the salary cap because the teams are allowed to exceed the cap to retain free agents, so they would be able to offer unlimited contracts next year.

Miscellany

Defending champion Long Beach will play San Ramon Valley of Danville, Calif., tonight at 8 in the Little League Western Regional tournament at San Bernardino. The winner advances to Thursday’s championship game. The regional champion will play Monday in the Little League World Series at Williamsport, Pa. . . . Al Scates, UCLA’s men’s volleyball coach, will be inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, Mass., on Oct. 22.