North Carolina Charlotte guard Sean Colson, the...

North Carolina Charlotte guard Sean Colson, the team’s leading returning scorer, has been suspended until Nov. 24 for violating team policy.

Baseball

The Cleveland Indians chose not to pick up a $4.8-million option on pitcher Jack McDowell and the New York Yankees decided not to exercise their $1.4-million option on second baseman Pat Kelly.

The New York Mets declined a $4.5-million 1999 option on second baseman Carlos Baerga, who will make $4.7 million next season.

The Dodgers have assigned the Savannah Sand Gnats, their Class-A minor league team in the South Atlantic League, to the Texas Rangers.

Tennis

Lindsay Davenport and French Open champion Iva Majoli of Croatia advanced to the quarterfinals of the Ameritech Cup in Chicago with victories in straight sets. . . . Boris Becker, chasing his fifth title in the Stockholm Open, beat third-seeded Carlos Moya of Spain, 6-4, 6-3, in an opening-round match. . . . Top-seeded Yevgeny Kafelnikov of Russia defeated American Jonathan Stark, 6-7 (5-7), 6-1, 6-3, in a first-round match of the $1,125,000 Kremlin Cup in Moscow.

Miscellany

Antun Josipovic, a former Yugoslav boxing champion who won a disputed gold medal in the 1984 Olympics against Evander Holyfield, was shot and seriously injured in a Bosnian Serb town.

Josipovic, a Bosnian Croat now living in Croatia, was awarded the gold for Yugoslavia in Los Angeles when Holyfield was disqualified in the semifinal round for a late hit.

Former heavyweight champion Oliver McCall, suspended and fined $250,000 for crying in the ring and refusing to fight Feb. 7 against Lennox Lewis in Las Vegas, returned to the ring with a technical knockout of Bryan Yates in the eighth round at Nashville.

The promoter for Pernell Whitaker said his fighter, who tested positive for cocaine before a fight last month, has been suspended for 30 days pending an appeal, but Whitaker is disputing the findings.

Mario Andretti’s wife has been charged with drunken driving after slamming into the back of a parked car two weeks ago. Dee Ann Andretti, 55, had a blood-alcohol level of .28, or nearly three times the legal limit, when she hit a car after midnight Oct. 25, Nazareth (Pa.) Township police said.

Voters in 11 southwestern Pennsylvania counties overwhelmingly rejected a proposed half-cent sales tax increase to finance two new stadiums, a renovated Pittsburgh convention center and other projects.

FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, said it “found no evidence to support the accusations” that Odai Hussein, Saddam’s son and the head of the Iraqi soccer federation, imprisoned and tortured players on the national team after its elimination from World Cup qualifying.

John Wooden will be the guest of honor for Casa Colina hospital’s Tribute to Courage dinner Nov. 12 at the Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel in Pasadena. The dinner, titled “An Evening with John Wooden and Some of the Greatest Basketball Players in the World,” will include appearances by national wheelchair basketball players Dave Kiley, Ruth Nunez, John Chambers and Jamie Danskin. Details: (909) 596-7723, Ext. 2204.

The PGA Tour team of Phil Mickelson, Tom Lehman and Fred Couples won the Three-Tour Challenge with 59 points over players from the LPGA and Senior PGA in Henderson, Nev.