Loughery Fired After 3 1/2 Years With Heat
Kevin Loughery was fired Tuesday after 3 1/2 years as coach of the Miami Heat and one day after the team’s new owners took over.
Assistant Alvin Gentry replaced Loughery on a day the owners also hired Dave Wohl as the team’s executive vice president of basketball operations.
Loughery, 55, who led the Heat to the playoffs two of the last three seasons, was offered a position as vice president for player personnel. It was not immediately known if he would stay with the team.
The shakeup came one day after the NBA approved the sale of the club to the family of Carnival Cruise Lines founder Ted Arison.
Wohl coached the New Jersey Nets from 1985-87.
Pro Football
Former Ram assistant Steve Shafer was named the Raiders’ secondary coach.
Shafer, who held the same position with the Rams for eight seasons and was defensive coordinator at San Diego State last year, replaces Jack Stanton, who was fired last month. Shafer, a Burbank native, has 11 years coaching experience in the NFL, including a three-year stint coaching defensive backs at Tampa Bay from 1991 to 1993.
The California Assembly spurned an attempt to ask NFL owners to reject the Rams’ move to St. Louis.
The resolution, previously approved by the Senate, received a 30-13 vote, 11 short of the majority needed. Backers asked for a second vote at a future session.
The non-binding resolution would urge the NFL owners to vote to keep the Rams in Anaheim.
University of Illinois offensive coordinator Greg Landry is close to taking a job as the quarterback coach with the Detroit Lions, according to newspaper reports.
College Football
UCLA has hired Terry Tumey, a former Bruin nose guard and three-time All-Pacific 10 player, as defensive line coach, replacing Wayne Nunnely, who resigned to take a job with the New Orleans Saints.
Tumey, 29, was a UCLA graduate assistant in 1992 and has been working for a management firm in Southern California.
Jack (Mad Dog) O’Billovich, an all-American linebacker who played for Oregon State’s last Rose Bowl team, died of heart disease in Portland at the age of 54.
Tennis
With top-seeded Steffi Graf and Mary Pierce receiving first-round byes, 14-year-old Martina Hingis stole the spotlight in the Paris Open, winning her French pro debut, 6-4, 6-4, over Katerina Maleeva.
Hingis, from Switzerland, has moved up to No. 68 in the world, and the rise will continue after her victory over the experienced Bulgarian, the No. 30 player.
Brad Gilbert, appalled at his play and annoyed with his opponent, beat Louis Gloria, 1-6, 6-4, 6-4, in the first round of the St. Jude International at St. Louis.
Gilbert, 33, is spending much of his time this year coaching Andre Agassi but remains active on the ATP Tour. Ranked 155th, Gilbert is playing in a tournament he won in 1989 when he was ranked No. 6 in the world.
Seventh-seeded Jason Stoltenberg of Australia lost, 6-2, 7-5, to Russia’s Alexander Volkov, and No. 8 Alex Corretja of Spain was knocked out by Frenchman Olivier Delaitre, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1, in the first round of the $678,900 Muratti Time indoor tournament at Milan, Italy.
Defending champion Todd Martin, his match delayed 2 1/2 hours after the first set because of a leaky roof, beat Alexander Mronz, 7-5, 6-4, in the second round at the St. Jude Indoor in Memphis.
Sailing
Opening races of the third round-robin of the America’s Cup trials were postponed because of winds of 25 knots and rough seas, and that led the defenders to modify rules for rescheduling abandoned races.
Bay Wolf, Kirk and Jocelyn Wilson’s Santa Cruz 50 from Cabrillo Beach Yacht Club, squeezed 123 miles out of dying winds to close on pacesetter Morning Glory while Mike Campbell’s Victoria, farther back with the late-starting ULDB 70s, dropped out with only 2 knots of wind in Del Rey Yacht Clubs’s Marina del Rey to Puerto Vallarta race.
Morning Glory was 417 miles from the finish, 131 miles ahead of three ULDB 70s--Mongoose, Holua and Grand Illusion--that were within three miles of one another. Bay Wolf was 18 miles behind Morning Glory but projected to place first on handicap.
Miscellany
American Allen Johnson won a rarely run indoor 110-meter hurdles race in a world-best time of 13.34 seconds at the Russian Winter competition track meet.
At the same Moscow meet, Russian Mikhail Shchennikov set a world indoor five-kilometers walk record of 18 minutes 7.08 seconds.
About 600 riot policemen will be on duty inside and outside Marassi stadium tonight when Genoa and AC Milan play the makeup match of the game suspended Jan. 29 after the stabbing death of a fan.
Although AC Milan’s supporters said they will not travel to the game in Genoa, the police chief set up unprecedented security.
Names in the News
Jimmy Powers, a former sports columnist and sports editor for the New York Daily News and colorful television commentator, is dead at age 92. . . . Champion Gaelforce Post Scrift, a Scottish Terrier, won the best-in-show trophy at the 119th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York.