Marion Jones and Boldon Win 100-Meter Titles at Stockholm

Marion Jones continues to pile up victories in the women’s sprints and, with Maurice Greene sidelined because of the hamstring injury suffered at the U.S. Olympic trials, Ato Boldon has been dominating the men’s sprints.

Jones, beginning her European tuneup for the Sydney Olympics, ran a wind-aided 10.68-second 100 meters for a victory Tuesday at the DN-Galan track meet at Stockholm.

Boldon, a Trinidad native and former UCLA sprinter, won the 100 in 10.01 in a race marred by three false starts.

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European 200-meter champion Doug Walker will not be going to the Sydney Games after deciding he was not in good enough shape to compete in the British Olympic trials.

Golf

Mark James resigned as European Ryder Cup vice captain amid fallout from his book, “Into the Bear Pit,” in which he criticized Nick Faldo, Tony Jacklin and the behavior of U.S. team.

James made his decision in response to a Ryder Cup committee meeting in England with Sam Torrance, who will captain the 2001 Ryder team and had appointed James and Ian Woosnam as his assistants. Torrance told James by phone the committee wanted him to resign. James was captain of the Europeans in the 1999 competition won by the United States.

Tennis

Pete Sampras was a winner and Andre Agassi a loser in the first round of the Tennis Masters Series at Toronto. The second-seeded Sampras, playing his first match since winning Wimbledon, recovered from a shaky start to beat Michael Llodra of France, 5-7, 6-2, 7-6 (4), and the top-seeded Agassi, playing for the first time since injuring his back in an automobile accident, lost, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (6) to Jerome Golmard of France.

College Basketball

Former Minnesota coach Clem Haskins has acknowledged giving $3,000 to former tutor Jan Gangelhoff after she had been ordered to stay away from the program, according to Mark Rotenberg, an attorney for the school. Haskins had earlier denied such a payment to Gangelhoff for doing schoolwork for as many as 20 players.

Rotenberg said Haskins’ personal financial records, turned over to the NCAA, showed the payment was made and that the university may look into trying to reclaim the $1.5-million buyout given to Haskins.

Kentucky has reported a possible secondary violation involving Coach Tubby Smith and a recruit. Smith talked with Bowling Green High standout Josh Carrier and his parents after watching the 6-foot-6 guard work out in the high school’s gym July 11. The conversation occurred during an evaluation period, when the NCAA allows coaches to observe players but not participate in workouts with them or have off-campus contact with them or their families.

Hockey

Center Ian Laperriere signed a new four-year contract with the Kings, avoiding an arbitration hearing Thursday in Toronto.

The club did not release salary figures. Laperriere, who had nine goals, 22 points and a career-high 185 penalty minutes last season, made $750,000 in 1999-2000.

General Manager Dave Taylor now has only center Jozef Stumpel to re-sign. Center Bryan Smolinski has an arbitration hearing scheduled and his case will be resolved by Aug. 15. Right wing Pavel Rosa did not accept the Kings’ one-season qualifying contract offer Monday and became a free agent.

Also Tuesday, Taylor signed defenseman Philippe Boucher and centers Eric Belanger and Jason Podollan to one-year contracts.

Roger Neilson, diagnosed with cancer last year while coaching the Philadelphia Flyers, has joined the Ottawa Senators as an assistant coach.

“After last season, I couldn’t be happier to get back in like this with a contending team,” said Neilson, 66.

Neilson had to leave his job with the Flyers last season because of bone marrow cancer, but didn’t get his job back after receiving treatment. Interim coach Craig Ramsay was named coach in July.

Don Hay was hired as coach of the Calgary Flames, rejoining a team that has not made the playoffs since he left as an assistant after the 1995-96 season. Hay replaces Brian Sutter, who was fired at the end of last season. Hay left the Flames to coach the Phoenix Coyotes for one season and after that was an assistant coach for the Mighty Ducks. He spent the last two seasons in the Western Hockey League.

Eric Lindros, as expected, turned down the Philadelphia Flyers’ $8.5-million qualifying offer and became a restricted free agent. The Flyers retained the right to match any offer.

Jurisprudence

Rae Carruth’s infant son may visit him in jail, where the former NFL player is being held on charges of masterminding the shooting death of the child’s pregnant mother. A judge in Charlotte ruled a relative could bring 8-month-old Chancellor Adams to jail to see Carruth through the glass partition separating inmates from visitors. Carruth will not be able to hold the baby.

The ruling was made a day after accused shooter Van Brett Watkins pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, intent to kill an unborn child and shooting into occupied property.

Miscellany

Two-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong was named to the five-member U.S. Olympic road-cycling team to compete at Sydney. Also named were Antonio Cruz of Long Beach; George Hincapie of Greenville, S.C.; Tyler Hamilton of Boulder, Colo.; and Fred Rodriguez of Piedmont, Calif. Armstrong will be trying to win his first Olympic medal.

Bill Martin, Michigan’s interim athletic director since Tom Goss resigned under pressure in March, was given the job permanently. Martin says he will donate his first-year salary of $250,000 to a special fund to benefit the athletic department.