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Tony DiCicco, who coached the U.S. women’s soccer team to a World Cup title, will be the commissioner of the Women’s United Soccer Assn., the eight-team league scheduled to start next April. All 20 members of the World Cup team, which also won the Olympic gold in 1996, have committed to play.
Pro Football
Cleveland offensive tackle Orlando Brown, struck in the right eye by an official’s weighted penalty flag last season, has hired Johnnie Cochran as his attorney in a possible lawsuit against the NFL.
Receiver Peter Warrick is expected for the Cincinnati Bengals’ weekend minicamp, even though he’s in the process of changing agents, after severing tied with SFX Sports. In other Bengal news, linebacker Tom Tumulty, 27, who sat out most of the last two seasons because of a severe knee injury, told the team he is retiring.
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Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner John Swofford will be the coordinator for the Bowl Championship Series this season, replacing Southeastern Conference Commissioner Roy Kramer, who has served as coordinator since the BCS began in 1998.
Florida freshman center Donnell Harvey said he will explore his options for the upcoming NBA draft, possibly joining sophomore teammate Mike Miller, who last week announced he was leaving school to make himself eligible for the draft.
As long as Harvey doesn’t hire an agent, he could return to school. He has until a week before the June 28 draft to make a decision.
Former NFL wide receiver Rae Carruth, accused of masterminding the murder of his girlfriend, Cherica Adams, and trying to kill his unborn son, should not be allowed visitation rights, the child’s grandmother says.
Carruth’s request “is no more than a desperate attempt on his part to appear to be human and to avoid death row using the very child he has been charged with trying to destroy,” Billie Ellerbe, an attorney for the grandmother, said.
Auburn tight end Lorenzo Diamond, hospitalized in fair condition after being shot in the abdomen, told police he was accidentally shot by his wife, Delphine, as they were driving on the university campus.
Miscellany
Top-seeded Yevgeny Kafelnikov flew in hours before his opening match at the Barcelona Open and was eliminated by Carlos Moya, 6-2, 7-6 (4). Moya reached the third round, as did two-time French Open champion Sergi Bruguera, a 6-3, 6-3 winner over Sargis Sargsian; Nicolas Lapentti, who defeated Felix Mantilla, 6-3, 6-0; and Gaston Gaudio, a 0-6, 6-3, 6-3 winner over Alex Corretja.
Jason Blake, who plays for the Kings, scored one of three third-period goals as the U.S. hockey team defeated Finland, 3-1, at Helsinki in a tuneup for the World Championships, beginning Saturday in Russia.
Arizona State’s Paul Casey finished with a 23-under-par 265 and broke Tiger Woods’ Pacific 10 Conference tournament record by five shots at Tempe, Ariz., repeating as the conference medalist for an unprecedented third consecutive year and leading the Sun Devils to the team title. . . . In the women’s Pac-10 golf tournament at Eugene, Ore., Arizona won its third championship in four years, and USC freshman Candie Kung won medalist honors when teammate Mikaela Parmlid signed an incorrect scorecard. Kung and Parmlid tied at two-over 218.
The Insight.com Bowl, played in Tucson the last 11 years, is moving to Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix in December.
