Guard Aaron Taylor, the Green Bay Packers’...

Guard Aaron Taylor, the Green Bay Packers’ No. 1 pick from Notre Dame, suffered a knee injury during mini-camp and will be sidelined for as long as six months. He is scheduled for surgery today.

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Wide receiver Webster Slaughter and the Houston Oilers have agreed to a three-year contract, KRIV-TV reported.

Basketball

A misdemeanor hit-and-run charge was filed against Jason Kidd in connection with a traffic accident last month.

The All-American point guard from California, also charged with speeding, was scheduled to be arraigned Friday in Oakland Municipal Court.

Kidd, 21, was driving his father’s vehicle when it collided with another and overturned at about 2:40 a.m. on May 22 on Interstate 80. Kidd has admitted leaving the scene of the accident before authorities arrived, although no one was injured.

Roy Tarpley, barred from the NBA three years ago for violating the league’s drug-abuse policy three times, has completed a substance-abuse program and applied for reinstatement.

But he told the Chicago Tribune he does not want to rejoin his former team, the Dallas Mavericks.

“It would be like stepping back into the fire to return to Dallas,” Tarpley said. “That’s where I failed. I don’t want to go back. The media (are) going to be waiting for me with all the harassment and bringing everything up again. I’m not saying the grass is greener on the other side, but I’m looking for a new start.”

Indiana Pacers coach Larry Brown will have hip replacement surgery today. Brown had his other hip replaced in 1988. The Pacers’ season ended Sunday.

Soccer

World Cup officials greatly overestimated the number of hotel rooms needed for the tournament this month, tourism officials said.

Soccer officials held 250,000 room nights in Washington but have dropped the total to 30,000, according to Cheryl Carey of the Washington Convention and Visitors Association.

Hotel room nights in Dallas have dropped from 304,000 to 65,000, according to Les Tanaka, executive vice president of the Hotel Assn. of Greater Dallas.

Sailing

The all-woman crew of the Heineken received another setback when its emergency rudder broke loose while the crew was struggling to complete the Whitbread Round the World race.

With the yacht 377 nautical miles from the finish in Southampton, England, the shaft between the rudder and the tiller snapped.

Names in the News

Fernando Valenzuela improved to 9-2 by pitching a five-hitter as the Jalisco Charros defeated Dos Laredos, 9-3, in a seven-inning Mexican League game at Guadalajara Sunday. . . . Karl Wendlinger, the Austrian Formula One driver critically injured in a practice crash at the Monaco Grand Prix, was flown home to Innsbruck.