Investigation Is Ordered of Secret Massimino Deal

Outraged over a secret contract that gave Nevada Las Vegas basketball Coach Rollie Massimino an extra $375,000 a year, Nevada regents on Friday ordered an investigation of the deal.

Some regents hinted they might try to rescind Massimino’s contract to coach the Rebels altogether, saying they were duped when they hired him two years ago.

“I would like the opportunity to reverse my vote,” regent Jill Derby said.

The 11-member board voted unanimously to hire outside legal counsel to help unravel the circumstances and legality of a secret contract that guaranteed Massimino $375,000 a year above the $511,000-a-year, five-year contract approved by regents in April of 1992.

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Derek Anderson, a 6-foot-6 swingman who averaged 15 points last season at Ohio State, has enrolled at Kentucky.

Baseball

Angel second baseman Kevin Flora, in an attempt to revitalize his baseball career, has agreed to play in the Arizona Fall League. Flora, whose wife died in April of 1993, began this season with triple-A Vancouver, but took a two-month leave of absence in May and wondered aloud if he still wanted to play baseball. He has played only 12 games at Class-A Lake Elsinore and is batting .227.

The Las Vegas Stars, the top minor league affiliate of the San Diego Padres, have filed a notice with the National Assn. of Professional Baseball clubs that they intend to pursue a new major league affiliate. . . . Grand marshal Marge Schott, owner of the Cincinnati Reds, saluted the crowd at the Ohio Tobacco Festival in Ripley with a pack of cigarettes. In April, she defied Cincinnati’s stadium smoking ban by lighting up in her box seat.

Jim Gott, Mike Piazza, Eric Karros and Orel Hershiser are some of the Dodgers who will conduct a baseball clinic free to the public on Sunday from 3-5 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Park in City of Commerce. The event, organized by Jim and Cathy Gott, is being co-sponsored by the Hollenbeck Youth Center.

Tennis

Fifth-seeded Yevgeny Kafelnikov of Russia defeated third-seeded Michael Chang, 3-6, 7-6 (7-1), 6-4, in the quarterfinals of the Waldbaum’s Hamlet Cup at Commack, N.Y.

In today’s semifinals, Kafelnikov will face Richey Reneberg and Italy’s Renzo Furlan will meet France’s Cedric Pioline. Reneberg beat Karel Novacek of the Czech Republic, 6-3, 7-5; Furlan beat MaliVai Washington, 6-0, 6-3, and Pioline upset fourth-seeded Todd Martin, 7-6 (7-3), 6-4.

Chuck Adams beat defending champion Thomas Enqvist, 7-6 (7-2), 6-3, in the quarterfinals of the OTB International at Schenectady, N.Y. Adams will play Jonas Bjorkman of Sweden in today’s semifinals. Bjorkman beat Younes El Aynaoui of Morocco, 6-0, 6-1. Jacco Eltingh of the Netherlands will face Joern Renzenbrink of Germany in the other semifinal. Eltingh beat Jan Apell of Sweden 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (7-4), and Renzenbrink beat countryman Marc Goellner, 6-2, 6-4.

Alberto Berasategui of Spain, ranked 10th in the world, defeated Gabriel Markus of Austria, 6-3, 6-4, to gain a semifinal berth in the $400,000 Croatian Open at Umag.

Auto Racing

Harry Gant set a qualifying record, 124.186 m.p.h., in winning the pole position for tonight’s Goody’s 500 stock car race at Bristol, Tenn., in a Chevrolet Lumina.

Rubens Barrichello of Brazil averaged 113.052 m.p.h. in his Jordan Hart despite wet conditions and won the provisional pole for the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium.

Hockey

Left wing Phil Bourque of the Ottawa Senators probably will be sidelined at least two months after suffering facial fractures and two fractured neck vertebrae in a rock-climbing accident near the Grand Canyon in Arizona.

Paul Holmgren, coach of the Hartford Whalers, was ordered to undergo alcohol counseling and to perform 100 hours of community service for a drunk-driving conviction. . . . The Whalers acquired defenseman Glen Wesley from the Boston Bruins for first-round picks the next three years.

Miscellany

Dominique Dawes outpointed Shannon Miller, 78.00-77.76, to win her first all-around title, at the National Gymnastics Championships in Nashville, Tenn. . . . Hezekiel Sepeng became the first black South African to win a medal in a major international competition when he earned a silver in the 800 meters at the Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada. . . . Police in Victoria were looking for six Ghanaian track competitors and a Sri Lankan boxer who have been reported missing by their teams at the Commonwealth Games. . . . Hector Acero Sanchez knocked down Tracy Patterson with a left hook early in the second round and held on in the final rounds to win the World Boxing Council bantamweight title with a split decision at Atlantic City, N.J. . . . Bantamweight boxer Godson Sawah of Ghana was stripped of his Commonwealth Games bronze medal after testing positive for a banned drug, one used to lose weight. . . . Each of the top eight seeded teams advanced to the quarterfinals of the $1-million Miller Lite Championships pro beach volleyball tournament in Hermosa Beach. . . . The American Horse Shows Assn. suspended 22 riders, trainers, owners and others accused of killing horses for insurance money and selling horses at inflated prices. . . . Former North Carolina center Eric Montross, selected ninth overall in the NBA draft by the Boston Celtics, signed a contract reportedly worth up to $20 million over 11 years. . . . Daniel Passarella was hired as coach of Argentina’s national soccer team, replacing Alfio Basile.