Interrupted Game Will Be Completed

The Massachusetts-Rutgers men’s basketball game suspended because of a sit-in on the court to protest racially divisive remarks by the Rutgers University president will be played from the point of interruption next month.

Atlantic 10 Conference Commissioner Linda Bruno said Wednesday in Piscataway, N.J., that the game, halted Tuesday night at halftime with Rutgers leading, 31-29, will be resumed on March 2 at the Palestra in Philadelphia, two days after the conference’s regular season ends and two days before the league begins its postseason tournament at the Palestra.

Protests continued Wednesday on the Rutgers campus over a remark by university President Francis Lawrence regarding race and test scores with a rally by more than 700 students demanding Lawrence’s resignation.

Lawrence has been sharply criticized by some students, faculty and state legislators for a remark to faculty members last fall that “disadvantaged” students do not have “that genetic hereditary background to have a higher average” in standardized tests. He apologized last week after the comments were publicized, saying he never meant the remark and believes just the opposite.

Baseball

Chicago White Sox outfielder Darrin Jackson became the third prominent player to leave the major leagues for Japan when he signed a one-year contract with the Seibu Lions worth about $3.5 million. Jackson joins former teammate Julio Franco and Minnesota Twin outfielder Shane Mack, who also signed in Japan this off-season.

Juan Gonzalez and Ruben Sierra, former teammates in the Texas Ranger outfield, hit consecutive home runs, leading Puerto Rico to a 9-4 victory over Venezuela at the Caribbean World Series at San Juan. The victory sets up a final-game showdown with the Dominican Republic, which sent Mexico to its 11th consecutive Series defeat, 7-1.

Pro Football

A key prosecution witness in the federal drug-trafficking trial of Ram cornerback Darryl Henley admitted in court that she is hoping for a light sentence after she finishes testifying against Henley and four of his co-defendants.

Former Ram cheerleader Tracy Ann Donaho, 21, who has pleaded guilty to a drug conspiracy charge, also admitted under pointed questioning from defense attorneys that she lied to friends and family about her relationship with Henley in the months surrounding her July 1993 arrest.

Last month’s bone spur surgery for Cleveland Brown offensive tackle Tony Jones was called off when his heart stopped and had to be restarted with medication, his agent said.

A man surrendered to Chicago police in a shooting in which former Chicago Bear linebacker Otis Wilson was grazed with a bullet. Andre Simmons, 26, was charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm.

San Antonio city officials and the Sacramento Gold Miners have struck a deal in principle to bring the Canadian Football League team to San Antonio for the 1995 season, the San Antonio Express-News reported.

Tennis

Michael Chang, who won the San Jose Open in 1988 and 1992, used a strong serve to beat Jonathan Stark, 7-5, 6-4, and advance to the third round of the tournament. . . . Laurence Courtois, ranked 96th in the world, upset 17th-ranked Lori McNeil, 7-6 (7-1), 6-0, in the second round of the Ameritech Cup in Chicago.

Miscellany

Erick Walder, whose mark of 28 feet 8 1/4 inches was the best in the world in 1994, has been added to the long-jump field for the Sunkist Indoor track meet Saturday at the Sports Arena. . . . Michigan State Athletic Director Merrily Dean Baker resigned with two years left on her contract. . . . Administrative problems could force soccer’s world governing body to call off next month’s World Youth Championships in Nigeria, a FIFA spokesman said. . . . Tony Meola, U.S. World Cup goalie, signed with the Long Island Rough Riders of the U.S. Interregional Soccer League. . . . The NCAA football rules committee has recommended that a tiebreaker system be used in football bowl games beginning next season. . . . Swedish slalom skier Thomas Fogdo will be sidelined for the rest of the season and might have sustained permanent back damage from a fall during a training run in Aare, about 440 miles northwest of Stockholm. He underwent four hours of surgery.