FootballMichigan Coach Gary Moeller was suspended with...

Football

Michigan Coach Gary Moeller was suspended with pay while the university investigates his weekend fight in a suburban Detroit restaurant and scuffle with police. Joe Roberson, Michigan’s athletic director, said Moeller, 54, said he “just lost it.” Moeller was charged with disorderly conduct and assault and battery.

Police in Southfield, Mich., said Moeller had a dozen drinks at the restaurant before they escorted him to a cab. “He was singing, he was attempting to dance with a few patrons, he was monopolizing the time of the waitresses and overall being loud and obnoxious,” a detective told WJBK-TV. Moeller was staggering and swaying in the parking lot before he pushed and punched an officer, according to the detective.

Basketball

Terrance Roberson, a 6-foot-8, 230-pound forward from Saginaw, Mich., considered to be among the top high school prospects, signed a letter to attend Fresno State and play for Coach Jerry Tarkanian.

Freshman Tommie Davis, 5-8 starting point guard at Houston who played at Crenshaw High and Fremont High, will transfer to Long Beach State.

Steve Lavin, who completed his fourth season on the UCLA staff and third as the team’s restricted earnings coach, has been promoted to full-time status, replacing Mark Gottfried, new head coach at Murray State.

Miscellany

Former NHL defenseman John Van Boxmeer is expected to be named coach of the International Hockey League’s Los Angeles Icedogs today.

Tommy Morrison, former World Boxing Organization heavyweight champion, knocked out Terry Anderson in the seventh round with a left hook to the body, setting up a June 10 bout with Razor Ruddock.

Defense attorneys representing Rex Henley, who was convicted of cocaine trafficking along with his nephew, former Ram cornerback Darryl Henley, and three others, met in Santa Ana with U.S. District Judge Gary L. Taylor. The judge, who has initiated an investigation into alleged jury-tampering in the case, did not take any action or set a hearing in the matter.

Racing driver Fabrizzio Barbazza of Italy remained in a coma after his car was cut in half by another car during Sunday’s Grand Prix of Road Atlanta at Braselton, Ga. The other driver, Jeremy Dale of Toronto, was in intensive care following surgery for multiple fractures in his lower legs.

Lance Armstrong won the hilly 22.9-mile Roanoke Valley individual time trial in Virginia by eight seconds in a course-record 56 minutes 32.263 seconds and extended his overall Tour DuPont lead by 34 seconds to 2:43.

Freddie Spencer, riding a Ducati, won the American Motorcyclist Assn. Rotten Robbie Superbike race at Laguna Seca in Monterey by 3.028 seconds, averaging 75.725 m.p.h. over the 2.214-mile road course.

The Palm Desert City Council approved a marathon to be run in the city on Nov. 17, 1996.

Claire Rothman is leaving her job as president and general manager of the Forum to join Ticketmaster Corp. as general manager/vice president of the Western region. Her Forum duties will be assumed by Jeanie Buss and Rob Collins.

The Trustees Committee of the America’s Cup formally approved Dennis Conner’s sailing PACT 95’s Young America in the cup finals against Team New Zealand, which begin Saturday off San Diego.