Basketball

New Jersey Net center Jayson Williams, who is battling to return from a career-threatening leg injury, will have more surgery on his right knee today.

Williams broke his right leg and partially tore knee cartilage in a collision with teammate Stephon Marbury during a game against Atlanta on April 1. Williams underwent surgery the next day to repair the displaced fracture and remove the torn cartilage.

Charlotte Hornet owner George Shinn was in court in Columbia, S.C., for the start of a trial in which he is accused of sexually assaulting a woman at his home.

A jury of nine men and three women was selected for the civil trial, which Circuit Judge Costa Pleicones said could take more than a week.

Charles Hayward, billed in 1997 as the top basketball recruit ever at North Carolina Charlotte, died late Sunday of leukemia. He was 21.

Track and Field

The International Amateur Athletic Federation ratified American pole vaulter Stacy Dragila’s winning women’s vault of 15 feet 1 inch at last month’s World championships in Seville, Spain.

Dragila equaled the world mark set by Australia’s Emma George on Feb. 20.

Sprinter Gary Cadogan was cleared by Great Britain’s national federation of taking the controversial banned substance nandrolone.

Cadogan produced a positive urine sample in November 1998. The federation said Cadogan’s suspension was lifted and he was free to resume competition.

Auto racing

Ricky Rudd signed to join Robert Yates Racing next year, setting in motion the end of career as a owner-driver on NASCAR’s Winston Cup circuit.

Rudd said his decision was based on the strength of Yates’ two-car operation, combined with his own difficulties in trying to survive as an independent in a sport ruled by multi-car teams.

Defying a cold rain, thousands in Montevideo, Uruguay, said goodbye to compatriot Gonzalo Rodriguez, whose remains were flown home for burial. The promising 27-year-old race driver was killed in a crash Saturday at Laguna Seca Raceway.

Golf

Payne Stewart and Mark O’Meara will represent the three-time champion United States at the Alfred Dunhill Cup at St. Andrews, Scotland, Oct. 7-10. The third member of the team will be announced later.

Bob Estes, an alternate on the U.S. Ryder Cup team, played a practice round at the Country Club in Brookline, Mass. “I’m the first alternate and Davis Love is hurt,” said Estes, who missed making the U.S. team by one stroke in the PGA Championship. “Hopefully, he’ll be OK. But if for some reason he can’t play, I needed to come see the course just in case. . . . I’ll be preparing as if I’m going to be in there.”

Hockey

Buffalo Sabre goaltender Dominik Hasek, who announced that he would retire, was back on the ice at the team’s training camp in Amherst, N.Y., skating for the first time since last season ended with the Dallas Stars beating the Sabres in the Stanley Cup finals.

“We’re going to ease him in for two or three days,” Sabre Coach Lindy Ruff said. “I was over there watching him for awhile and it looked like it was going pretty good.”

Olympics

IOC Vice President Dick Pound said in Sydney, Australia, that the International Anti-Doping Agency would be operational by the end of the year.

Pound said the IOC remains committed to spending $25 million to set up the agency as promised at the worldwide sports drugs conference in February.

“I’m virtually certain it will be up well before the end of the year and very much operational in time for the Sydney Olympics,” Pound said.

Horse Racing

Seven yearlings sold for more than $1 million at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, led by an unbridled colt out of Missy’s Mirage that fetched $2 million. The colt was the third-highest priced yearling in the history of the sale. It was purchased by trainer Bob Hess and his son, Bob Hess Jr., for owner David J. Shimmon of Northern California.

Names in the News

Boxer Randie Carver underwent brain surgery and remained in critical condition after being knocked out by Kabary Salem in a fight at North Kansas City, Mo. . . . Former USC catcher Eric Munson is one of five finalists for the 1999 Golden Spikes Award, presented annually to the nation’s top college baseball player. The other finalists: Nebraska infielder Ken Harvey, a graduate of Beverly Hills High; Miami pitcher Bobby Hill, Baylor pitcher Jason Jennings, and Florida State infielder Marshall MacDougall. . . . Family and friends gathered at a Catholic church in Reseda to pay their respects to jockey J.C. Gonzalez, who was killed in a spill last week at Fairplex Park. Following the funeral mass, the body of Gonzalez, a native of Jalisco, Mexico, was to be flown to his home country for burial.