Barkley Named to Olympic Dream Team

Phoenix Sun forward and 1992 Barcelona veteran Charles Barkley and Sacramento King guard Mitch Richmond have been chosen to complete the 12-man Olympic basketball Dream Team roster.

The surprise selection of Barkley, who led the original Dream Team in scoring, makes it five members of the 1992 U.S. Olympic team invited to play in Atlanta.

USA Basketball did not confirm its picks, but sources told the Associated Press that the selection committee has invited Barkley and Richmond over Shawn Kemp and Jason Kidd.

Those invited earlier to play for Coach Lenny Wilkens of the Atlanta Hawks are Anfernee Hardaway, Grant Hill, Karl Malone, Reggie Miller, Hakeem Olajuwon, Shaquille O’Neal, Scottie Pippen, David Robinson, Glenn Robinson and John Stockton.

Tennis

Top-seeded Pete Sampras and two-time defending champion Michael Chang each had to go three sets to win quarterfinal matches in the Salem Open in Hong Kong.

Sampras came from behind for a 6-7 (7-2), 7-6 (7-3), 6-3 victory over over David Prinosil of Germany. Second-seeded Chang defeated Czech Martin Damm, 6-0, 3-6, 6-3.

Mary Pierce upset top-seeded and second-ranked Conchita Martinez of Spain to reach the semifinals of the Bausch & Lomb Championships in Amelia Island, Fla.

In other quarterfinals, No. 2 Arantxa Sanchez Vicario of Spain needed only 80 minutes to beat No. 13 Meredith McGrath. Sanchez Vicario will play No. 8 Irina Spirlea of Romania, who defeated unseeded Barbara Schett of Austria.

Top-ranked Thomas Muster recovered from early breaks in both sets to beat Spain’s Francisco Clavet and advance to today’s semifinals at the $625,000 Estoril Open in Estoril, Portugal.

Muster will play another Spaniard, Alex Corretja, who upset compatriot and sixth-seeded Carlos Costa in their quarterfinal match.

Fifth-seeded Paul Haarhuis of the Netherlands needed three sets to overcome Australia’s Richard Fromberg and Italy’s Andrea Guadenzi defeated Tomas Carbonell of Spain.

Jurisprudence

Mike Tyson has returned to Ohio while police investigate a woman’s complaint that he sexually assaulted her at a Chicago nightclub.

Tyson lawyer Alan Dershowitz said Friday that he believed Tyson was at his 66-acre estate about 45 miles southeast of Cleveland. The Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation also said Tyson was probably at the mansion, although he is free to go anywhere in the state.

Tyson, on probation for a 1992 rape conviction, was forced to return to Ohio on Tuesday after a Gary, Ind., woman made the allegations against him.

The judge in Michael Irvin’s drug possession case says the Dallas Cowboy receiver better be careful because he’s close to violating a gag order.

Judge Manny Alvarez said Irvin is “getting very close” to causing more trouble for himself by speaking generally about the case in several recent broadcast and print media interviews.

A federal appeals court rejected a defamation suit filed by the women’s basketball coach at the University of Kansas against a sports magazine that criticized her ability.

Marion Washington, the women’s coach at Kansas for more than two decades, lost her defamation suit in a lower court against Dick Vitale’s College Basketball Preview for writing about her: “The Jayhawks are loaded with talent. . . but coach Marian Washington usually finds a way to screw things up. This season will be no different.”

Rowing

After finishing second at the 1995 world championships, Melissa Schwen and Karen Kraft won the first women’s pair final by more than seven seconds at the U.S. Olympic rowing trials in Gainesville, Ga.

In other finals, defending national champion Cyrus Beasley of Newburyport, Mass., easily won the men’s single sculls, and Ruth Davidon of Arlington, Va., won the women’s single sculls.

Pro Football

Glyn Milburn, the Denver Broncos’ Pro Bowl return specialist, was traded to the Detroit Lions in exchange for second- and seventh-round selections in next week’s NFL player draft.