Allen, Donahue to Join Hall

Marcus Allen, John Elway and Terry Donahue are among the 14 players and two coaches selected by the National Football Foundation for enshrinement into the College Football Hall of Fame.

The honorees will be inducted at the foundation’s awards dinner in New York City on Dec. 12.

Allen won the Heisman Trophy in 1981, rushing for 2,342 yards as a senior at USC. After rushing for 4,810 yards in college, he went on to star for the Los Angeles Raiders and Kansas City Chiefs from 1982-97.

Elway passed for 9,349 yards and 77 touchdowns at Stanford from 1979-82 and was second in the Heisman Trophy voting behind Herschel Walker in his senior season. He played for the Denver Broncos from 1983-98, leading the team to five Super Bowl appearances and two titles.

Donahue is the winningest coach in UCLA history with a record of 151-74-8 from 1976-95. His teams played in the Rose Bowl four times, winning three.

The other players selected are Dan Dierdorf, Kurt Barris, Bob Dove, Michael Haynes, Terry Hoage, Stan Jones, Johnny Musso, Johnny Rodgers, Joe Schmidt, Harley Sewell, Billy Ray Smith and Eddie Talboom.

The other coach is Forest Evashevski, who compiled a 68-35-6 record at Hamilton, Washington State and Iowa from 1941-1960.

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Auburn tight end Lorenzo Diamond was in serious but stable condition in Auburn, Ala., after undergoing surgery for at least one gunshot wound to the abdomen. Circumstances of the shooting were unknown.

Pro Football

Cornerback Dale Carter of the Denver Broncos has been suspended by the NFL for one year for violating the league’s substance-abuse policy. The NFL handed down its ruling after rejecting Carter’s appeal, which was made at a lengthy hearing April 5. . . . Cornerback Antonio Langham has signed a two-year, incentive-filled contract with the New England Patriots. . . . The Tennessee Titans have released starting middle linebacker Barron Wortham, who has two years left on his four-year, $8.4-million contract, Wortham’s agent said.

Miscellany

Las Vegas police arrested sports agent Robert J. Walsh and Nate Cebrun, a self-described “middle man” for agents, on charges of providing $2,500 to former Auburn basketball player Chris Porter. . . . Cynthia Spataro-Walker, whose nose was broken by NFL wide receiver Leslie Shepherd, dropped a $6-million lawsuit against him in favor of binding arbitration.

Pepperdine and four other teams that played in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament last season--Duke, Temple, Texas and Indiana--lead the field for the 2000 Preseason NIT. . . . Ohio State junior swingman Michael Redd, disdaining a chance to become the Buckeyes’ all-time scoring leader, said he will skip his senior season to make himself available for the NBA draft. . . . Zamiro Bennem, who started 10 of 24 games for UC Irvine as a sophomore last season, has been granted a release from his scholarship and plans to transfer.

Two more suspects--Yilmaz Tutas and Zafer Yildirim--have been arrested in Istanbul in the murder of two British soccer fans before a UEFA Cup match. They were charged in connection with the deaths of two Leeds United fans April 5. . . . Sebastien Vorbe, a midfielder on the Haitian national team, signed with the Galaxy. . . . An NCAA panel reprimanded star Indiana defender Nick Garcia for head-butting a Santa Clara player in the national championship game won by Indiana last Dec. 12. The Division I men’s soccer committee ordered Indiana to forfeit Garcia’s transportation and per-diem reimbursement for the game.

Martina Navratilova, retired since November 1994, will enter the women’s doubles draw at Wimbledon, her spokeswoman said. Navratilova, 43, will play with Mariaan de Swardt of South Africa. . . . Spanish tennis authorities called on the International Tennis Federation to reconsider its rejection of Santander as the site for July’s Davis Cup semifinal between Spain and the United States. . . . Carlos Moya of Spain defeated Arnaud Clement of France, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, and Marcelo Rios of Chile beat Andrei Pavel of Romania, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (1), in the Seat-Godo Open at Barcelona.

C. Douglas Beavers, longtime chairman of the International Boxing Federation ratings committee, described a system that helped or penalized boxers based on payoffs from promoters and managers during testimony at a trial in Newark, N.J. He said during the trial of IBF founder Robert W. Lee on racketeering charges that his panel was a sham because only he and Lee did the rankings, and that Lee had the final say and often ignored the sanctioning body’s written criteria.

World swimming’s governing body appears ready to lift the four-year suspensions given to two swimmers who tested positive for nandrolone. FINA said it had received evidence that the steroid could have been present in meat consumed by David Mecca-Medina of Spain and Igor Majcen of Slovenia.

The Senior PGA Tour announced a four-year deal with business cable network CNBC in which 33 tournaments will be shown in an early evening time slot so they won’t overlap with the PGA Tour. . . . Donka Mincheva of Bulgaria and Halil Mutlu of Turkey set world records in the European Weightlifting Championships at Sofia, Bulgaria. Mincheva lifted 187 1/2 pounds in the snatch and Mutlu lifted 366 1/4 pounds in the clean-and-jerk. . . . U.S. gymnasts won one gold and three silver medals on the final day of competition in the Senior Pacific Alliance, an Olympic tuneup at Christchurch, New Zealand.

Ice Dog winger Nils Ekman was named International Hockey League rookie of the year.