Rangers Name Campbell to Replace Keenan

Colin Campbell, an assistant under former coach Mike Keenan, was named coach of the Stanley Cup champion New York Rangers.

Campbell, who ended an 11-year NHL playing career in 1985, joined the Rangers as an assistant under Roger Neilson in 1990. Before that, he had spent five years as an assistant in Detroit.

Keenan, citing breach of contract by the Rangers, took a job with the St. Louis Blues earlier this summer in a move that got him fined and suspended by the NHL.

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Jaromir Jagr, the Pittsburgh Penguins’ leading scorer last season, signed a five-year contract with the team worth slightly less than $20 million, newspaper reports said.

Golf

Jerry Courville Jr. of East Norwalk, Conn., shot rounds of 74 and 68 for a two-under-par 142 at Scarsdale, N.Y., to earn one of five berths in the U.S. Golf Assn. Amateur championship Aug. 22-28 at Sawgrass, Fla.

Lori Teague, a 31-year-old former college tennis player who didn’t begin playing competitive golf until four years ago, won a share of the qualifying medal in the U.S. Women’s Amateur at Hot Springs, Va.

Basketball

Avondre Jones, a 6-foot-11 center who was released in June from his scholarship at USC, is transferring to Chaffey, a community college in Rancho Cucamonga.

Jones, who averaged 3.8 points and 3.1 rebounds as a freshman last season, will be eligible to play this season, a deciding factor in his choice. He had considered Missouri, Michigan, Iowa and Louisville.

Dave Wohl, Clipper assistant coach, said he has been fired.

Miscellany

Greg Rusedski double-faulted on the match’s last two points, giving fourth-seeded Michael Chang a 6-3, 6-3 victory in the second round of the $1.72 million ATP Championship at Mason, Ohio.

Third-seeded Michael Stich of Germany defeated Aaron Krickstein, 6-2, 6-4, and sixth-seeded Todd Martin withdrew because of a groin injury.

Pat Murphy, who elevated the Notre Dame baseball program to national prominence, is expected to be named coach at Arizona State this week, the Phoenix Gazette reported.

Murphy, 35, will succeed Jim Brock, who died of liver cancer at 57 on June 12.

Murphy, who coached at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps for two seasons before moving to Notre Dame in 1988, is 318-116 with the Fighting Irish and led them to a regional final in each of the last three years.

The Grey Cup game will be played in Baltimore in 1997, making the city the first in the United States to hold the Canadian Football League’s championship game, the Baltimore Sun reported.

The San Diego City Council approved a redevelopment agency’s continued study of the feasibility of building a $156-million sports and entertainment arena downtown. The council, sitting as the city’s redevelopment board, also authorized the Arena 2000 development firm to continue negotiations to bring a professional hockey or basketball team to the city.

The family of Heather Farr, an LPGA golfer who died of cancer last year, filed suit in Phoenix against a golf club manufacturer, seeking to reclaim nearly $300,000 in medical expenses. According to the suit, the golfer was covered under the manufacturer’s health plan because she was married to a company employee.

Names in the News

Chris Burk, a reserve fullback at Fresno State, won’t be disciplined by the team for allegedly biting off part of a man’s lip in a fight outside a Fresno nightclub. . . . Svein Romstad, who coached the U.S. luge team in the 1984 Winter Olympics, has been elected general secretary of the International Luge Federation, the No. 2 position in the sport’s worldwide governing body.

Former baseball pitcher Vida Blue has been charged with battery and brandishing a firearm in a confrontation between two bicyclists near his home in Sonora, Calif. . . . Bobby Allison, whose NASCAR team failed to qualify for the inaugural Brickyard 400, said he has signed Derrike Cope to drive in this weekend’s race at Watkins Glen.

Spain, for many years not known as a track power, scored its first double in European Championship history as Fermin Cacho and Isaac Viciosa finished 1-2 in the men’s 1,500-meter final at Helsinki, Finland. . . . Sophomore running back Terrence Foy will miss the entire season for disciplinary reasons, Florida Coach Steve Spurrier said.