Malone and 76ers Part Ways Again

Moses Malone’s second tour of duty with the Philadelphia 76ers is over.

Malone, 39, was waived Friday.

He had been acquired as a free agent last August to serve as a backup and mentor to the 76ers’ $44-million draft pick, Shawn Bradley. Malone averaged 5.3 points, 4.1 rebounds and 11.2 minutes a game last season.

His numbers were a lot more impressive in his previous stint with Philadelphia. He played there from 1982-86, leading the 76ers to the NBA championship in 1983. Malone, a three-time most valuable player, also has played for Buffalo, Houston, Washington, Atlanta and Milwaukee in 18 pro seasons, the second-longest career in the league’s history behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s, which lasted 20 seasons.

Malone is the only remaining NBA player to have played in the old American Basketball Assn.

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The Milwaukee Bucks have asked waivers on 14-year NBA veteran center Mike Gminski.

Hockey

Displaying the Stanley Cup that had eluded New York for 54 years, the Rangers gloried in cascades of paper and cheers in the city’s first ticker-tape parade for hockey champions, held three days after the team beat the Vancouver Canucks in the NHL finals. An estimated 1.5 million people watched.

Golf

Dave Stockton shot a course-record 62, 10 under par, for a one-stroke lead over Jim Dent after the opening round of the $1-million BellSouth Senior Classic in Nashville.

Betsy King shot a four-under 68 and took a one-stroke lead in the second round of the LPGA Rochester International.

Track and Field

Lance Deal shattered the American record in the men’s hammer throw by two feet, hurling the hammer 270 feet 8 inches in the USA-Mobil Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Knoxville, Tenn. The distance surpassed the previous record of 268-8 by Jud Logan on April 22, 1988.

Pro Football

The Washington Redskins acquired linebacker Tyronne Stowe in a trade with the Arizona Cardinals for a draft choice.

Tennis

In a match with no service breaks, second-seeded Patrick Rafter of Australia advanced to the final of the Manchester grass-court tournament with a 6-7 (7-5), 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (7-5) victory over unseeded Karel Novacek.

Rafter will meet top-seeded Wayne Ferreira, a 6-4, 6-4 winner over defending champion Jason Stoltenberg, in today’s final.

Yevgeny Kafelnikov of Russia, proving his power game is adaptable to grass, outslugged Jim Courier in the quarterfinals of the Halle Grand Prix in Germany, 6-1, 6-4.

Unseeded Meredith McGrath, who upset defending champion Martina Navratilova in the quarterfinals, defeated Yayuk Basuki of Indonesia, 6-0, 7-5, and advanced to the final of the Eastbourne grass-court tournament in England.

Miscellany

Twelve college teams and an eight-team high school league will be featured when the Say No Classic women’s summer basketball league begins at USC today. Games will be played at USC’s North Gym, today through Aug. 7.

A Louisiana lawmaker, U.S. Sen. John Breaux (D-La.), has asked the Justice Department to investigate the NBA’s rejection of the sale of the Minnesota Timberwolves to a group that planned to move the team to New Orleans.

Failure to maintain institutional control of a football program recently on probation is the most serious of 15 allegations against the University of Mississippi, according to an official NCAA inquiry made public.