Stockton, Hornacek Agree to New Deals to Stay With Jazz

John Stockton and Jeff Hornacek have new contracts with the Utah Jazz, Kevin O’Connor, the team’s vice president for basketball operations, confirmed Thursday.

Stockton, 37, has agreed to a two-year deal worth $22 million, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.

Hornacek, 36, will have a one-year, $5.2-million contract, the paper said. He has played 13 years in the NBA, including the last 5 1/2 in Utah, and this will be his last season, he said last weekend.

O’Connor declined comment on contract terms but said Stockton and Hornacek had negotiated directly with owner Larry Miller.

Stockton and Hornacek both had surgery during the off-season. Stockton had an elbow problem repaired and Hornacek a chronically sore knee.

Karl Malone, who signed a four-year, $67-million deal with the Jazz in August, said he was “extremely happy” that the long-anticipated signing of Stockton and Hornacek has been completed.

“Those guys lay it on the line every night,” Malone said. “You know who they are. They deserve whatever they can get.”

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Detroit center Bison Dele reportedly has told the Pistons he plans to retire, although his agent said the decision could change after Dele returns to the United States in about 10 days. Dele has about $30 million and five years left on his seven-year contract. . . . Free-agent forward Chucky Brown has agreed to contract terms with the San Antonio Spurs.

Tennis

Andre Agassi made a quick exit from the most lucrative tournament in the world.

At least the world’s top-ranked player pocketed $425,000 to sweeten his 6-0, 6-7 (2-7), 6-4 loss to Tommy Haas, a 21-year-old German.

Haas upset the U.S. Open champion and moved into the semifinals of the $6.7-million Grand Slam Cup at Munich, Germany.

Agassi, who had a bye into the quarterfinals, had not played since winning the U.S. Open nearly three weeks ago.

In the women’s quarterfinals, defending champion Venus Williams beat Barbara Schett of Austria, 6-3, 6-4, and No. 2 Lindsay Davenport beat Mary Pierce of France, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4.

Top-seeded Tim Henman of Britain was ousted in the second round of the $400,000 Toulouse Open at Toulouse, France.

Henman was dominated by Frenchman Nicolas Escude, 6-4, 6-2.

Golf

Bob Friend made seven birdies on the way to a seven-under-par 65 and a two-stroke lead over Justin Leonard in the Buick Challenge at Pine Mountain, Ga.

Joining Leonard in the pack at 67 were Frank Lickliter, Frank Nobilo, Scott Gump, Harrison Frazar, Cameron Beck and Stephen Ames.

John Daly, in his first tournament since acknowledging that he has started drinking again, had a 72.

Sam Randolph and Craig Perks shot eight-under 64s to share the lead after the first round of the Nike Tour’s Inland Empire Open at Moreno Valley Ranch Golf Club.

Marco Dawson, Todd Demsey, Stan Utley, Scott Mendelsohn and Mike Meehan were two shots back at 66.

Kristal Parker-Gregory shot an eight-under 64 to take a three-stroke lead after the first round of the inaugural LPGA New Albany Golf Classic at New Albany, Ohio.

Jack Kiefer, a two-time winner on the Senior PGA Tour who was diagnosed last year with cancer in his spinal cord, has died at Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. He was 59.

Miscellany

Coach Walter Zenga was fired by the New England Revolution with two games left in Major League Soccer’s regular season. He was replaced by Steve Nicol, who coached the Boston Bulldogs of the A League in Framingham, Mass.

An academic counselor says former Minnesota basketball coach Clem Haskins asked him to write a paper for a player if it would keep the athlete academically eligible.

Counselor Rick Marsden wrote in the 1986 memo about “a disturbing interaction” he’d had with Haskins, who was hired that year.

Investigators are preparing a report, to be made public in November, on academic fraud in the basketball program.

Sean Stackhouse, Northern Iowa’s leading scorer last year, was dropped from the basketball team after being convicted on felony drug charges at Cedar Falls, Iowa.

The Arrowhead Pond lost $4.7 million in the last fiscal year, Ogden Corp. reported. The Pond has lost money in each of its six years of operation. Total losses stand at $29.4 million, according to reports filed with the city of Anaheim by Ogden, the New York company that manages the arena.

West Virginia will play every game of the 1999-2000 basketball season on the road while school administrators try to resolve potential problems with asbestos in their home arena.

Former Michigan State basketball star Antonio Smith was acquitted in East Lansing of charges he broke a cooler door lock and stole a 40-ounce bottle of beer from a convenience store.

U.S. men’s figure skating silver medalist Trifun Zivanovic will compete this weekend in the Goldenwest Competition at Culver Ice Arena at Culver City. Elite competition begins at 7:55 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.