NEWSWIRE

Training camp for referees and the rookie orientation program are the latest casualties of the NBA lockout. Both have been postponed indefinitely.

The referees’ camp was to begin Sept. 25; the four-day rookie program was to start Sept. 20.

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Hakeem Olajuwon of the Houston Rockets has turned to former Houston track coach Tom Tellez, best known for coaching Olympic great Carl Lewis, to help him recover from surgery on his left knee.

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Casey Jacobsen, a 6-foot-6 senior guard who averaged 32.0 points per game for Glendora High last season, has committed to Stanford.

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A girls’ basketball game between Brea Olinda High and Chino Hills Ayala, beginning at 4:30 p.m., has been added to the John Wooden Classic High School Invitational Dec. 4 at the Arrowhead Pond.

Names in the News

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan named three-time world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali a “messenger of peace” to help focus world attention on the work of the United Nations.

Olga Letyushova scored in the 82nd minute to help Russia tie Brazil, 2-2, at Oneonta, N.Y., in the Nike U.S. Cup women’s soccer series.

Top-seeded Yevgeny Kafelnikov of Russia easily advanced to the round of 16 at the $500,000 President’s Cup tennis tournament in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, defeating Martin Sinner of Germany, 6-4, 6-2. . . . Romanian Ion Moldovan upset seventh-seeded Mariano Puerta of Argentina, 6-4, 6-4, in the first round of the Romanian Open at Bucharest. . . . Spaniards Albert Costa and Felix Mantilla won opening-round matches in the Samsung Open at Bournemouth, England. Costa, seeded No. 2, defeated Marcello Craca of Germany, 6-3, 6-3, and third-seeded Mantilla beat Federico Browne of Argentina, 6-4, 6-2.

Miscellany

A daughter of Gone West sold for $1.45 million in Lexington, Ky., smashing the record price for a filly at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

Prince Ahmad Salman, owner of The Thoroughbred Corp., purchased the filly and also paid $1.3 million for a colt by Deputy Minister out of Double the Charm.

Only five yearlings have sold for $1 million or more.

The IOC will meet with international sports federations Oct. 27, seeking their endorsement of an Olympic agency that will combat drugs in sports.

Athletes using performance-enhancing drugs at the Sydney Olympics will face criminal fines, but will be jailed only if they are caught trafficking, Australian officials announced.

Before Tuesday’s decision, Australian Olympic officials were at odds with the IOC, which had opposed any criminal action against drug cheats.

A second person connected with Australia’s Commonwealth Games team has been hospitalized in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with symptoms of the most severe form of dengue fever, the team doctor said.