Heckler, Bruguera Get to Agassi at German Open

Top-ranked Andre Agassi lost to Sergei Bruguera on Friday in the German Open tennis tournament, 6-3, 6-1, then left the clay court at Hamburg swearing at a heckler and asking him, “Are you gonna get a knife and (inaudible) me now?”

The comment recalled the stabbing of Monica Seles on the same court in 1993 by a spectator. Seles, then the world’s No. 1 woman player, has not been in a tournament since.

Officials said they were not planning any action.

Agassi received a warning for an obscene gesture in the last game of the match against Bruguera, ranked No. 12 and recovering from knee surgery. Agassi had six double-faults and 35 unforced errors.

No. 2 Pete Sampras advanced with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Wayne Ferreira and plays Andrei Medvedev in the semifinals. Bruguera plays Goran Ivanisevic.

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Conchita Martinez reached the semifinals of the Italian Open in Rome with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over sixth-seeded Mary Joe Fernandez. Top-seeded Arantxa Sanchez Vicario was leading Shaun Stafford, 5-1, when rain stopped play. Men’s play begins Monday, but third-ranked Boris Becker said he is withdrawing because of back pain.

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Top-seeded Julie Halard of France beat Sweden’s Asa Carlsson, 5-7, 6-2, 6-3, to reach the semifinals of the Prague Open clay court tournament. . . . Top-seeded Magnus Larsson survived three tiebreakers and two match points in a 6-7 (7-5), 7-6 (7-2), 7-6 (8-6) victory over Jared Palmer in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Clay Court Championships at Pinehurst, N.C.

Football

Raider spokesman Al LoCasale said team officials had spoken with representatives from Oakland, but branded a story in the San Francisco Chronicle about a possible deal to have the team move back “speculative.” The Raiders’ stadium situation, including a proposal to build a new facility at Hollywood Park, is scheduled to be discussed at the NFL owners’ meeting May 22-23 in Jacksonville, Fla.

The NCAA, with the help of college football players and coaches, is putting together a film to show what unsportsmanlike conduct looks like.

Wide receiver Tom Waddle, 28, who played five seasons with the Chicago Bears, retired. . . . David Baldwin has been hired as coach at Cal State Northridge.

Auto Racing

Jean Alesi led first-day qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix Formula One race at Barcelona with a 1 minute 23.104-second lap over the three-mile track, averaging 127.265 m.p.h. in a Ferrari.

Mike McLaughlin won a Busch Grand National pole for the first time, driving his Chevrolet a track-record 124.903 m.p.h. over the 1.058-mile New Hampshire International Speedway in Loudon.

Administration

Bill Moos, the athletic director at Montana for the last five years, was hired as head of the athletic department at Oregon. . . . Terry Holland, who coached Virginia’s basketball team for 16 seasons before becoming athletic director at Davidson, has returned to Virginia as athletic director.

Basketball

Owner George Shinn of the Charlotte Hornets said he hopes Allan Bristow, under fire over the team’s playoff performance, will return as coach next season.

Center Rashard Griffith confirmed that he will forgo his final two seasons of eligibility at Wisconsin and enter the NBA draft. . . . Tommy Prince, a 6-foot-5 swingman from Dominguez High in Compton, has signed a letter of intent to attend UCLA. . . . Denver Nugget forward LaPhonso Ellis, who had similar surgery last year on his right knee, underwent successful surgery to repair a cyst in his left knee. . . . Lithuanian Arvidas Sabonis, a 31-year-old center drafted by Portland in 1986, will leave the Real Madrid team that won the European Club championship and seek to join the Trail Blazers.

Miscellany

Former heavyweight boxing champions Michael Moorer and Lennox Lewis top a card in Sacramento’s Arco Arena tonight, fighting separate bouts in the first appearance for each since losing his title. Formerly the World Boxing Assn. and International Boxing Federation champion, Moorer (35-1, 30 knockouts) will fight Melvin Foster (19-1-1, 14 KOs) in a 10-round bout. Formerly the World Boxing Council titleholder, Lewis (25-1, 21 KOs) will fight Lionel Butler (23-10-1, 18 KOs) in a 12-round bout.

The United States clinched at least a silver medal when light heavyweight Antonio Tarver beat Vasily Yirov of Kazakhstan, 9-6, in the World Amateur Boxing Championships in Berlin. Super heavyweight Lawrence Clay-Bey won the United States’ only other medal, a bronze, in losing to Russian Alexei Lezin, 5-2.

Carlos Queiroz, the leading candidate to become coach of the U.S. national soccer team, said he will resign at the end of the season as coach of Sporting Lisbon in the Portuguese first division.

Jimmy Garcia was clinging to life in a Las Vegas hospital, still critical, unstable and unresponsive after being injured last Saturday in a WBC super-featherweight title fight with Gabriel Ruelas.

Arizona State’s Wendy Ward shot a one-under-par 71 for a three-shot lead after 36 holes of the NCAA Women’s West Region golf tournament in Tucson.

UCLA defeated Wake Forest in five consecutive singles matches and Pepperdine ousted first-time entrant Vanderbilt, 5-1, at the NCAA women’s tennis tournament at Pepperdine. UCLA, led by Jane Chi and Keri Phebus, next will play the winner of today’s Pepperdine-Stanford match on Sunday. Louisiana State, South Carolina and Duke also won.

Names in the News

Picabo Street, the first American to win a World Cup downhill title, received the Beck International Award, U.S. Skiing’s highest honor, in Park City, Utah. . . . Bernie Bukiet, one of the top table tennis players in the United States for about 30 years, has died at 77 in Hawthorne.