Barkley, Oakley Suspended for Participating in Fight

Charles Barkley’s regular-season debut for the Houston Rockets has been delayed.

Barkley was suspended for a game and fined $5,000 Monday for a fight with New York’s Charles Oakley in an exhibition game last Friday. Oakley, who started the fight by slamming Barkley to the floor, was set down for two games and fined $10,000.

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The Portland Trail Blazers suspended Isaiah Rider for their season opener Friday night for failing to show up for Sunday’s final exhibition game.

Tennis

Stefan Edberg, playing in his next-to-last pro tournament, beat Michael Stich in the first round of the Paris Open, 6-2, 6-4.

In other first-round matches, Alberto Bersategui beat Renzo Furlan, 6-2, 6-2.

Elena Likhotseva defeated Zina Garrison-Jackson in the opening round of the Ameritech Cup at Chicago, 6-4, 6-4. . . . Russia’s rising star, Anna Kurnikova, 15, defeated Germany’s Yelena Wagner, 6-0, 6-4, in the first round of the $400,000 Kremlin Cup tournament at Moscow.

Jurisprudence

A man accused of trying to set up a $1-million drug deal for former NFL defensive back Darryl Henley pleaded guilty to a narcotics charge in Los Angeles.

Jimmy Washington, 49, faces a minimum sentence of 10 years after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute narcotics. He will be sentenced Jan. 27.

Boxer Tommy Morrison pleaded guilty to transporting a loaded firearm at Jay, Okla. The plea bargain allowed Morrison to receive a six-month suspended sentence.

Names in the News

Craig Breedlove narrowly averted injury when his jet-powered car reached 675 mph, then tipped on its side and careened across the desert at Gerlach, Nev. The crash, however, ended Breedlove’s attempt to regain the land speed record this year. . . . Long Beach State basketball guard James Cotton broke a rib landing on a teammate’s foot in practice Sunday but said he will be ready to start the regular season. . . . Steve Pederson, associate athletic director at Nebraska, will succeed Oval Jaynes as Pittsburgh’s athletic director. . . . Promoter Peter Broudy will move his monthly boxing program from the Olympic Auditorium to the Reseda Country Club starting Nov. 21.