Cameron Dollar, UCLA’s point guard the past...

Cameron Dollar, UCLA’s point guard the past two seasons, has been hired as an assistant coach at UC Irvine, the school announced.

Dollar played four seasons at UCLA, including 1995 when the Bruins won the national championship. Dollar started the title game against Arkansas in place of the injured Tyus Edney.

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The NCAA will consider an experiment to play college basketball games in four 10-minute quarters.

The 13-member committees that set rules for both men’s and women’s basketball will discuss the idea in a conference call on Aug. 1, a spokesman said.

Jurisprudence

Richard Gnida, the limousine driver who crashed into a tree last month injuring two Detroit Red Wings and a team masseur, had no drugs in his bloodstream and probably will be charged with a misdemeanor, a prosecutor in Detroit said.

Gnida was driving with a suspended license.

New Orleans Saint running back Derek Brown, a former Servite High and Nebraska star, was arrested in Lincoln, Neb., on suspicion of violating a protection order given to Amy Trout of Lincoln, who has two children fathered by Brown.

But law enforcement officials said he won’t be charged because of lack of evidence.

Brown was charged with assault against Trout in January, but charges were dropped in February.

Former Indianapolis Colt and Ohio State quarterback Art Schlichter was sent back to prison after his fifth gambling-related conviction.

Schlichter, 37, was sentenced to 16 years, with six suspended and the final two to be spent at a day reporting program. He was convicted of two counts of forgery and one count of theft for stealing checks to pay off gambling debts.

Charges against junior-lightweight boxer Arturo Gatti, accused of drunken driving and assaulting a police officer in Union City, N.J., have been reduced to disorderly persons offenses.

College Football

A cancerous brain tumor has forced Purdue offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Larry Korpitz, 46, to resign.

Korpitz was the offensive coordinator at Wyoming the past six years and came to Purdue with new Coach Joe Tiller. Kopitz previously coached at Claremont College and Chaffey Junior College in Rancho Cucamonga.

Hockey

Preparing to join the NHL in 1998, the Nashville expansion team has hired David Poile as general manager. Poile was fired after last season as vice president and general manager of the Washington Capitals when the club failed to make the playoffs.

Free-agent defenseman Bill Houlder signed a four-year deal, reportedly worth $5.15 million, with the San Jose Sharks.

Tennis

Third-seeded Sergi Bruguera of Spain was eliminated from the $560,000 Swiss Open at Gstaad by countryman Javier Sanchez, 7-6 (7-3), 6-2, in a second-round match. A day earlier, in the first round, top-seeded Yevgeny Kafelnikov and defending champion Albert Costa were beaten.

College Sports

Texas El Paso has appealed to the NCAA to reduce its probation from five years to three and to restore nine scholarships, the El Paso Times reported.

Asking for more wouldn’t have been practical because UTEP already has admitted guilt to many of the violations that led to the punishment, said Athletic Director John Thompson.

A response from the NCAA is expected by July 21. The NCAA announced sanctions against Texas El Paso on May 1.

Azusa Pacific softball Coach Sharon Lehman as been named NAIA coach of the year.

Names in the News

Gail Devers won the women’s 100 in 11.06 seconds at the Zipfer Grand Prix meet in Linz, Austria, and U.S. 400-meter relay teams, one anchored by Dennis Mitchell and the other anchored by Carl Lewis, finished one-two. . . . Mountain biker Juliana Furtado, 30, a 1996 Olympian, announced that she has Lupus disease.