Bo Jackson Becomes Free Agent

Bo Jackson, whose comeback from hip replacement surgery was one of the top baseball stories last season, was one of four players filing for free agency Friday.

Jackson, who played part time with the Chicago White Sox after having been sidelined for all of 1992, batted .232 with 16 home runs and 45 runs batted in. The White Sox did not renew his option year at $1.62 million.

Also filing Friday were outfielder Kirk Gibson and pitcher Storm Davis of the Detroit Tigers and pitcher Ted Power of the Seattle Mariners.

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The Toronto Blue Jays released right-hander Jack Morris, 38, a three-time 20-game winner and the hero of the 1991 World Series with the Minnesota Twins. He was 7-12 with a 6.19 earned-run average this season. The Blue Jays also said that they had re-signed shortstop Dick Schofield to a one-year contract.

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Dodger backup catcher Carlos Hernandez will undergo arthroscopic surgery Monday to repair a partial tear in his right shoulder.

College Basketball

Nevada Las Vegas is reportedly on the verge of settling its six-year basketball infractions case with the NCAA. The Las Vegas Sun reported that the school is expected to make an announcement early next week on penalties in the case, which dates to the 1986 recruitment of Lloyd Daniels.

Tennis

Goran Ivanisevic defeated Pete Sampras in the quarterfinals of the Paris Open, 7-6 (7-3), 7-5. Unseeded Frenchman Arnaud Boetsch beat Boris Becker, a three-time Paris champion, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4), to gain a spot in the semifinals.

Stefan Edberg and Andrei Medvedev also had quarterfinal victories. Edberg beat Michael Stich, 6-2, 5-7, 6-2, and Medvedev beat Mark Woodforde, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4.

Edberg, seeded sixth, and Ivanisevic, seeded ninth, meet in one of Saturday’s semifinals. Medvedev, seeded eighth, takes on Boetsch in the other.

Lindsay Davenport won seven straight games in beating Carolina Kuhlman in the quarterfinals of the Bank of the West women’s tournament, 7-5, 6-2, at Oakland. Davenport, the fourth seed, will face top-seeded Martina Navratilova in one semifinal today. Sixth-seeded Lori McNeil bounced back from an opening-set loss to oust second-seeded Mary Joe Fernandez, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3. McNeil will face childhood friend Zina Garrison-Jackson, seeded third, in the other semifinal.

Golf

Mike Hulbert had five birdies on the back nine in a six-under round of 65 that gave him a one-shot lead after two rounds of the $1-million Kapalua International.

Hulbert, who won at Kapalua in 1991 and finished second last year, was at nine-under 135 after 36 holes. One stroke back after a 66 was Loren Roberts, and Fred Couples was at 137 after a 68.

Laura Davies and Deb Richard each birdied the final hole for a share of the first-round lead at 67 with Alison Nicholas and Japan’s Suzuko Maeda in the Japan Queens Cup at Yoshikawa, the final tournament of the LPGA season.

Hockey

The Toronto Maple Leafs traded right wing Mike Foligno to the Florida Panthers for future considerations. . . . Jamie Leach’s power-play goal with 3:12 remaining in the third period lifted the Panthers to a 4-4 exhibition tie with the U.S. national team in Rochester, N.Y.

Pokey Reddick set a record of 33 consecutive unbeaten games (32-0-1) by a professional goalie as the Cincinnati Cyclones beat the Cleveland Lumberjacks, 2-0, in the International Hockey League. Gerry Cheevers of the Boston Bruins had a 24-0-8 streak during the 1971-72 season.

Miscellany

Former U.S. figure skating champion Tonya Harding canceled an exhibition for today after an anonymous caller threatened her life if she took to the ice at the Northwest Pacific Championships in Portland, Ore.

Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, 1988 Olympic champions making their return to amateur competition, won the pairs’ free skate at Skate Canada in Ottawa. . . . Katsuya Onizuka of Japan scored a unanimous decision over Thailand’s Thanomsak Sithbaobay and retained his World Boxing Assn. junior-bantamweight title. . . . The U.S. Equestrian Team won a jumpoff with Canada in the Nations’ Cup competition at the National Horse Show in East Rutherford, N.J.