GolfPaul Goydos shot a seven-under-par 65 after...

Golf

Paul Goydos shot a seven-under-par 65 after a six-hour rain delay for a one-shot lead over Jeff Sluman and J.P. Hayes in the first round of the Buick Open at Grand Blanc, Mich.

For the first time in 12 years, fog forced postponement of a round in an LPGA tournament. The 72-hole McCall’s Classic at Stratton Mountain, Vt., will be cut to 54 holes.

Hockey

The Mighty Ducks and right wing Todd Ewen are scheduled for an arbitration hearing today to determine retroactively Ewen’s 1994-95 salary. The Ducks submitted a figure of $385,000, Ewen’s salary the previous season. Ewen asked for $525,000 after leading the team in penalty minutes and scoring a career-high 18 points in 1993-94.

Jurisprudence

Peter Graf, father of German tennis star Steffi Graf, was denied bail and held in a prison hospital at Frankfurt after being arrested for investigation of tax evasion in a probe that also targets the younger Graf. Steffi Graf “is still under investigation,” Mannheim prosecutor Peter Wechsung said.

Jeffrey Arenburg, 38, charged with first-degree murder in the death of former King and popular Canadian sportscaster Brian Smith, made an obscene gesture at journalists in Ottawa upon arriving for his first court appearance.

Former NFL defensive back Fulton Walker, who holds the Super Bowl record for the longest kickoff return, was charged with stalking a former girlfriend, police said in Martinsburg, W.Va.

Authorities issued an arrest warrant for Minnesota Timberwolf guard Isaiah Rider, accusing him of violating his probation stemming from a 1994 assault conviction.

Nebraska wingback Riley Washington was arraigned in Lancaster (Neb.) County Court on charges of attempted second-degree murder and using a gun to commit a felony in connection with a shooting outside a convenience store in Lincoln.

Miscellany

Mia Hamm scored two goals and set up two others, leading the United States past Australia, 4-2, at Piscataway, N.J., and setting up a Sunday showdown with world champion Norway for the U.S. Women’s Cup. . . . With evidence already published that smokeless tobacco causes oral-health problems in baseball players, a new study in the Journal of the American Dental Assn. showed that it also doesn’t help their performance on the field.

Names in the News

Penn State football Coach Joe Paterno, who once harshly criticized the Miami Hurricanes as “a sideshow of bully tactics, thuggery and goonery,” briefly considered becoming their coach when he was sought out in mid-January. “I slept on it because it was flattering,” Paterno said. . . . Former UCLA basketball coach Gary Cunningham, 55, athletic director at Fresno State since 1986, was introduced as the new athletic director at UC Santa Barbara. . . . The liver donor for baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle also donated organs to five other transplant patients and had saved a man from drowning shortly before dying of an aneurysm, according to the Dallas Morning News. . . . Harry Craft, whose 58-year baseball career included a stint as the first manager of the Houston Colt .45s, died after a long illness. He was 80.