Hakeem Olajuwon, who led the Houston Rockets...

Hakeem Olajuwon, who led the Houston Rockets to their first NBA title and earned MVP honors for both the regular season and NBA finals, has been named an international spokesman for the league.

Colleges

Rollie Massimino said he intends to remain as UNLV’s basketball coach, despite being told again that he won’t be paid the remainder of nearly $2 million secretly promised by former school officials.

Massimino emerged from an hour-long meeting with UNLV interim president Kenny Guinn to say he believes he still will be paid the extra $375,000 a year called for in the secret supplemental contract.

Guinn, however, said he told Massimino that only his base salary of $511,000 a year would be paid.

Massimino said he believes the supplemental contract--signed with a private nonprofit group--is a legal and binding contract and that he will be paid.

Baseball

Darren Daulton had a cancerous mole removed from his stomach last week and doctors declared the Philadelphia Phillies’ catcher in good health.

The mole, which was in early cancer stages, was removed last Tuesday. Biopsy results became available later, Phillie spokesman Larry Shenk said.

“The surgery was a success. He’s 100% cured, 100% healthy. There’s no more tests, no more treatments, anything, for it,” Shenk said. “That’s kind of a common skin cancer that people have.”

Daulton is the second Phillie player to undergo a cancer operation this year. First baseman John Kruk had a cancerous testicle removed March 8 and underwent several weeks of low-dose radiation treatment.

Boxing

Odessa Lee Grady Clay, 77, the mother of former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, died Sunday in Louisville, Ky.

Clay, disabled by a stroke in February, died at a suburban Louisville nursing home.

Ali and his mother had not been able to talk in recent months because of her illness, said John Ramsey, a family friend and radio personality.

Her husband, Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., died in 1990.

The Danish Professional Boxing Federation said it is quitting the World Boxing Organization because of a series of scandals and encouraged other European nations to follow its lead.

Miscellany

A group of doctors in Ottawa has posted signs against smoking to protest a golf tournament sponsored by a tobacco firm. On major roads near the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club, physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada put up signs declaring “Cigarettes Kill Women.”