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Woods was in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Monday...

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Woods was in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Monday for the opening of a theme restaurant he owns with Andre Agassi, Wayne Gretzky, Ken Griffey Jr., Joe Montana, Shaquille O’Neal and Monica Seles, and Monday night he was in Atlantic City, N.J., for the opening of a similar restaurant.

“I’m still on Cloud 9,” he told a gathering of about 500 in Myrtle Beach. “The green jacket? I slept with it last night.”

College Football

USC linebacker Taso Papadakis suffered his third season-ending injury last Saturday when he tore tendons in his left knee during a scrimmage.

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Papadakis, a senior, missed most of the 1993 season because of a dislocated wrist and then the entire 1995 season after having ligament surgery on his right knee. He had been granted a rare sixth year of eligibility after the 1995 injury.

Pro Football

Having freed money under the salary cap by restructuring John Elway’s contract, the Denver Broncos signed five-time Pro Bowl defensive end Neil Smith to a one-year contract. Denver offered Smith, 31, a deal that reportedly will pay him between $1 million and $1.5 million in base salary, with incentives that could swell it to $3 million.

The San Francisco 49ers signed restricted free agent Jim Schwantz to an offer sheet, giving the Dallas Cowboys until Friday to match the offer to the linebacker. . . . The San Diego Chargers cut defensive end Chris Mims and replaced him with Pro Bowl player William Fuller, an unrestricted free agent from the Philadelphia Eagles.

Tennis

Sergi Bruguera, playing in his home city and on clay, his favorite surface, lost to Germany’s Marc Goellner, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2, on the first day of the Open Seat Godo tournament at Barcelona, Spain.

Boris Becker said the injured wrist the knocked him out of Wimbledon in 1996 and sidelined him for most of this year’s first 3 1/2 months is healed. Becker is in Tokyo for the Japan Open and plays today in a second-round match against Canada’s Sebastien Lareau today.

Miscellany

The American Basketball League will announce today that it is putting an expansion team in the Pyramid, Long Beach State’s 4,200-seat basketball arena.

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ABL sources also said the league wants to sign USC All-American Tina Thompson and assign her to the Long Beach team.

A World Cup sponsor since 1986, Budweiser may run into trouble in the 1998 World Cup because almost all forms of advertising for alcohol are illegal in France, the host country. Last week, an executive with Anheuser-Busch was in Paris trying to negotiate a solution. And a spokesman for the company said is pushing for an amendment to the law. . . . The AIFP international soccer union, supported by such stars as France’s Eric Cantona and Brazil’s Rai, said it will organize an international match against racism this fall. . . . Michelle Perry of Quartz Hill High, the defending Southern Section Division I champion in the 100-meter high hurdles and the 300 lows, has committed to UCLA.

Boston College football player Jermaine Monk, who was hospitalized last week because of a blood clot in the brain he suffered during practice, remains in serious, but stable condition after 4 1/2-hour emergency surgery to relieve pressure. . . . Swimming’s world governing body, FINA, announced it will expand its program to test swimmers for drug use, and that world championships will be held every two years instead of every four. . . . Courtney James, a starter on Minnesota’s basketball team, pleaded not guilty to a fifth-degree assault charge in Hennepin County District Court. He was arrested early Saturday after allegedly hitting his girlfriend with a phone book. . . . A runner who died during the London Marathon was identified as 44-year-old James Herbert, from Plymouth, England.

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