Suspect in Murder of Basketball Star Surrenders

A Roxbury, Mass., man, accompanied by members of his family and a religious group, surrendered to police in Boston on Monday to face a murder charge in the stabbing death of Cleveland State basketball star Jamal Jackson.

Reginald Howard, 24, turned himself in after negotiations had been conducted between police and members of the Nation of Islam, police said.

Police refused to discuss a possible motive for the slaying but said Howard is the cousin of Traci Washington, 26, who was Jackson’s girlfriend and owns the business where Jackson was found early Friday with a stab wound to the chest.

Jackson, 22, a 6-foot-6 forward, had been taking summer classes at Cleveland State and was visiting Boston when he was killed.

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Tim Barnett, former wide receiver of the Kansas City Chiefs, was sentenced to three years in a Wisconsin prison for second-degree sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl.

Barnett will be eligible for parole in nine months, according to terms of the sentence handed down by Milwaukee Circuit Judge Stanley Miller. The charge carried a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Barnett was accused of grabbing the girl, a hotel maid, and exposing himself on June 14, 1994. He was released by the Chiefs last summer.

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A federal appeals court upheld the University of Tennessee’s 1992 decision to fire assistant football coach Robert Maddox after his arrest for drunken driving.

Soccer

Major League Soccer, scheduled to announce the names, logos and colors of its 10 teams next month, brought its roster of players under contract to 25 with the signing of Mexican striker Hugo Sanchez, 37, and two Los Angeles-area midfielders, Jorge Flores, 18, of Paramount and Felipe Rodriguez, 19, of El Monte.

Flores, a member of the U.S. under-17 national team that reached the second round of the 1993 world championships in Japan, will join the U.S. Olympic training camp in October. Rodriguez, an All-American at El Monte High, played a season with the Standard Liege reserve team in Belgium.

Miscellany

Bob Arum, promoter for George Foreman, proposed that Foreman and Mike Tyson meet in what he believes would be “the biggest fight by far of all time” with a neutral party handling the money. The winner, Arum said, could earn $80 million. But a news conference was scheduled for today at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas at which Don King was expected to announce that Tyson’s next opponent would be Buster Mathis Jr.

Triple jump champion Jonathan Edwards, making his first appearance at home since breaking the world record Aug. 7 in Sweden with a jump of 60 feet one-quarter inch, won at 57-4 3/4 at Gateshead, England, as Britain beat the United States in a dual meet, 203-182.

Engineers and officials are worried that repairs will not be able to be completed to the Georgia Dome roof before the Atlanta Falcons’ season opener Sept. 3. The dome was damaged by rain and wind Sunday.

Names in the News

Nick Bollettieri will no longer serve as Boris Becker’s day-to-day coach. Bollettieri said he can’t meet the time and travel demands of Becker’s schedule. . . . Luke Jensen and Kathy Rinaldi were among the tennis players awarded wild-card entries for the U.S. Open. . . . Dan Magill, who made Georgia a national collegiate tennis power during his 59-year association with the university, will retire Sept. 1. . . . Paul Azinger and teammate Payne Stewart combined for a 7-under-par 64 for a one-stroke lead in the Fred Meyer Challenge golf tournament in West Linn, Ore. . . . The New York Rangers agreed to terms on a four-year, $7-million contract with NHL defenseman Sergei Zubov. . . . Andrea Pfefer of Huntington Beach won the black belt grand championship for females 18-34 last weekend in Ed Parker’s International Karate Championships at the Long Beach Sports Arena. . . . Sally Bailie, one of the first women to successfully train thoroughbred race horses for major U.S. stakes races, died at 58 of cancer in Mineola, N.Y.