For UCLA, a Familiar Face to Coordinate the Defense

Longtime UCLA football assistant Bob Field was named defensive coordinator Tuesday, returning to the post he held for 14 years.

Field became the Bruins’ assistant head coach when Bob Toledo took over as coach. For the last three seasons, Field oversaw the outside linebackers, strong safeties and kickers.

He replaces Nick Aliotti, who resigned last week to become the defensive coordinator at Oregon.

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Offensive coordinator Chip Myers of the Minnesota Vikings, a longtime assistant who was promoted to his first coordinator’s job last month, died of a heart attack at his suburban Minneapolis home. He was 53. . . . The Baltimore Ravens will ask fans to select a new helmet logo, although they say they will continue to fight a jury’s verdict that found they stole the current design. . . . Kick returner and third-down specialist David Palmer has agreed to re-sign with the Vikings for four years. . . . The San Diego Chargers met with Jim Harbaugh as they continue their search for a veteran quarterback.

Soccer

Sunil Gulati, the deputy commissioner of Major League Soccer, was fired for his unilateral decision to renew the contract of midfielder Tab Ramos with the New York/New Jersey MetroStars. . . . The Galaxy’s season opener at the Rose Bowl has been rescheduled from March 21 to March 20 to avoid a conflict with the Academy Awards telecast. . . . Arsenal, which agreed to a replay even though it had won the original game, defeated Sheffield United, 2-1, at London, advancing to the quarterfinals of England’s Football Assn. Cup. United had protested that Arsenal’s go-ahead goal in the original game was unfair because Arsenal forward Nwankwo Kanu ignored or misunderstood an established procedure that follows when a player gets injured while the ball is in play.

Miscellany

Mike Tyson won’t have any handlers or lawyers to help him in his latest bout, a disciplinary hearing today at the Montgomery County jail in Rockville, Md.

The former heavyweight champion will have to defend himself against allegations that he threw a television set last Friday, after becoming angry when a guard hung up a telephone Tyson was using.

The guard allegedly was struck by shards of plastic from the TV. Tyson could lose some privileges and time served could be discounted.

Top-seeded Yevgeny Kafelnikov of Russia stayed on track to take over the No. 1 world tennis ranking with a 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 victory over Magnus Gustafsson of Sweden in the first round of the Guardian Direct indoor tournament at London. . . . Serena Williams routed Swedish qualifier Asa Carlsson, 6-1, 6-2, in the first round of the Gaz de France tournament at Paris. . . . Menno Oosting, 34, a pro tennis player from the Netherlands, was killed in a car accident Monday night in Belgium.

Former Cincinnati Bengal running back Stanley Wilson, a former two-time City player of the year from Wilmington Banning High, was convicted of stealing about $130,000 worth of jewelry, camera equipment and other valuables from a home last year. Because he has two previous burglary convictions, prosecutors will seek a sentence of 25 years to life in prison under California’s “three-strikes” law, Deputy District Attorney Suzanne Tragert said. . . . The Olympic village and five other Sydney building sites have been raided by Australian federal police and Australian Tax Office investigators because of an alleged $5.2-million tax fraud. . . . Sergio Santander, implicated in the widespread Olympic bribery scandal, resigned as president of Chile’s Olympic committee. He had announced earlier he would resign March 31.

Former U.S. Olympic freestyle ski team member Jim Moran showed improvement, three days after he suffered a severe head injury at Vail, Colo. . . . Spela Pretnar of Slovenia won a women’s World Cup slalom at Are, Sweden.