Judge: No Harding Hearing Before June 27

U.S. District Judge Owen Panner, who had issued a temporary restraining order, said Friday that the U.S. Figure Skating Assn. cannot hold a disciplinary hearing for Tonya Harding before June 27.

The organization wants to hear charges that she violated its code of ethics by her involvement in the attack on Nancy Kerrigan Jan. 6.

The hearing was to have begun Thursday in Colorado Springs, Colo., and Panner’s decision will allow Harding to skate at the World Championships in Chiba, Japan, starting March 20.

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In testimony in Rome, Pietro Pugliese, a former bodyguard of soccer star Diego Maradona, accused the Argentine player of smuggling cocaine and fixing matches to cause his Napoli team to lose the 1988 Italian League title to AC Milan for a Naples-based crime organization. Pugliese is a co-defendant with Maradona and his manager, Guillermo Coppola, on drug-possession charges.

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Former Louisville basketball player Troy Smith was indicted for felonious assault and involuntary manslaughter in the Feb. 18 death of his girlfriend at their Cincinnati home. . . . Arizona State’s former student health director, Dr. Laurie Vollen, has sued the school for $66.5 million, claiming Athletic Director Charles Harris undercut her authority in the treatment of athletes.

Tennis

Mats Wilander, the 1988 champion, dropped the first five games and lost to former NCAA champion Alex O’Brien, 6-3, 7-6 (7-3), in the first round of the Lipton Championships at Key Biscayne, Fla. Janet Lee of Palos Verdes, a 17-year-old qualifier, beat German Christine Singer, 7-5, 5-7, 7-5. Marcos Ondruska, a South African who beat Michael Chang and Michael Stich on his way to the semifinals a year ago, lost to Jamie Morgan 6-2, 6-3.

Yevgeny Kafelnikov withdrew from the Zaragoza Open in Spain because of a shoulder injury, leaving only one seeded player--No. 4 Magnus Larsson--in the semifinal round. Kafelnikov’s injury allowed Tomas Nydahl to move into the semifinals, where he will play Lahrs Rehmann. Larsson will face Anders Jarryd in the other semifinal.

College Basketball

California’s Jason Kidd, who has averaged 16.6 points, 6.8 rebounds and 9.3 assists, has been voted Pacific 10 player of the year. Kidd was the first sophomore to win player of the year since the award made its debut in 1976. The rest of the All-Pac-10 team, selected by a vote of coaches: Tyus Edney, UCLA; Ed O’Bannon, UCLA; Lorenzo Orr, USC; Mario Bennett, Arizona State; Lamond Murray, California; Khalid Reeves, Arizona; Stevin Smith, Arizona State; Damon Stoudamire, Arizona, and Orlando Williams, Oregon. Stanford guard Brevin Knight was voted freshman of the year and Arizona’s Lute Olson repeated as coach of the year.

The Ohio State basketball program has recommended it take one coach off recruiting for a year and give up one scholarship for next season in a report to the NCAA after admitting recruiting violations last year, WBNS-TV reported.

Drake fired a second assistant coach and admitted that its basketball program violated NCAA recruiting rules by providing meals and lodging to a prospective player, Stevie Johnson. Jason Levy, the Bulldogs’ restricted earnings coach, was fired. Felton Sealey, Coach Rudy Washington’s top assistant, was fired Feb. 11--two days after it was disclosed that Drake officials were investigating the basketball program.

Xavier probably will announce next week that it is moving from the Midwestern Collegiate Conference to the Atlantic 10. . . . The Big Eight Conference is on the verge of announcing a record five-year, $11.5-million basketball television contract, according to a report in the Kansas City Star.

Football

The Rams met with Houston offensive tackle Kevin Donnalley, who is a restricted free agent, and will open discussions Monday with his agent with the intent of signing Donnalley to an offer sheet.

San Diego State Coach Ted Tollner suspended offensive linemen Kyle Turley, Dan Nilsen and brothers Matt and Mark Roe after they allegedly attacked several fraternity members last weekend.

Veteran Pittsburgh Steeler fullback Merril Hoge has agreed to a three-year, $2.4-million contract with the Chicago Bears.

Track and Field

Britain’s Colin Jackson won the 60-meter dash in a meet-record 6.49 seconds at the European Indoor Championship at Paris, then said he would never run the event at a major meet again, preferring to concentrate on hurdling.

John Godina of UCLA, the NCAA outdoor shotput champion, won the event with a heave of 65 feet 8 3/4 inches in the NCAA indoor track and field championships at Indianapolis. Holli Hyche of Indiana State, the outdoor 100- and 200-meter champion, ran a meet-record 22.95 seconds in a women’s 200 meters semifinal.

Miscellany

Loy Allen Jr. won the top qualifying spot for Sunday’s Purolator 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway with a track record of 180.207 m.p.h. . . . Austrian skier Ulrike Maier did not hit a timing device when she was killed during a downhill race Jan. 29 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, a prosecutor said, contradicting television images of the incident. But the prosecutor did not say what caused Maier’s death.

The Chicago Blackhawks traded defenseman Frantisek Kucera and right wing Jocelyn Lemieux to Hartford for defenseman Gary Suter, left wing Randy Cunneyworth and an undisclosed draft choice. . . . Rick Mackey was the first musher in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to reach the Yukon River.