Arnett Is Named to Hall of Fame

Fifteen players and three coaches--including defensive back Terry Kinard, tight end Keith Jackson, former USC halfback Jon Arnett and coach Barry Switzer--were added to the College Football Hall of Fame on Thursday.

Kinard, Jackson and Switzer were winners of championships in college and the NFL.

Jackson and Switzer won their college crowns at Oklahoma in 1985, four years after Kinard was an integral part of Clemson’s championship.

“It was a great season when everything came together,” Kinard said. “As we kept winning, we kept moving up in polls and we began to get a feeling that this was a special season.”

Others added to the Hall of Fame were kicker Kevin Butler of Georgia, wide receiver Anthony Carter of Michigan, end Dick Duden of Navy, defensive tackle Tim Green of Syracuse, quarterback Ralph Guglielmi of Notre Dame, tackle John Hicks of Ohio State and linebacker D.D. Lewis of Mississippi State.

Also, running back Don McCauley of North Carolina, tackle John Outland of Kansas and Penn, lineman Glenn Ressler of Penn State, defensive back Brad Van Pelt of Michigan State, quarterback Steve Young of Brigham Young, coach Grant Teaff of McMurry, Angelo State and Baylor, and coach Bill Yeoman of Houston.

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Six Memphis football players will sit out their team’s opening game Sept. 3 at Mississippi State because of academic irregularities. Two of the players, defensive starters Andre Arnold and Derrick Ballard, also will sit out the second game, Sept. 8 against Cincinnati, Coach Tommy West said. The other players are Antonie Harden, Garfield Garth, Henry Washington and Elijah Bell. The university declined to provide specifics on the academic infractions it says were committed, citing confidentiality requirements.

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Roy “Cowboy” Petsch, who quarterbacked Nebraska to its only Rose Bowl appearance in 1940, died April 11 in Phoenix. He was 82. . . . The Mid-American Conference will send a team to the GMAC Bowl in Mobile, Ala., to play an opponent from Conference USA.

Tennis

Top-seeded Martina Hingis and No. 7 Amelie Mauresmo extended winning streaks--Hingis with her 12th consecutive victory in the Family Circle at Charleston, S.C., and Mauresmo with her 16th victory in a row overall.

Hingis, who won this title the last two times she entered, in 1997 and 1999, overcame a slow start to stop Iva Majoli, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3. Mauresmo defeated No. 11 Lisa Raymond, 7-5, 7-5, and will face Hingis in the quarterfinals.

One player who won’t be in the quarterfinals is defending champion Mary Pierce. The Frenchwoman, seeded sixth, lost to No. 10 Amy Frazier, 7-5, 6-7, 6-4.

Britain’s Tim Henman rallied to beat Spanish clay-court specialist Albert Costa in three sets and advance to the quarterfinals of the Masters Series Monte Carlo at Monaco.

The 2-6, 7-6 (6), 6-1 victory gave Henman one of the best clay-court results of his career. The $2.95-million tournament is the first major event of the season on the surface.

Also advancing was second-seeded Gustavo Kuerten of Brazil, who overcame Tommy Haas of Germany, 6-7 (8), 6-3, 6-3.

Top-seeded Magdalena Maleeva of Bulgaria needed less than an hour to beat Adriana Gersi of the Czech Republic, 6-1, 6-1, and reach the quarterfinals of the Budapest Open in Hungary.

Pro Football

The Detroit Lions signed former New York Jet long snapper Brad Banta to a five-year contract. The 30-year-old Banta, who played at USC, was a fourth-round draft pick for the Indianapolis Colts in 1994.

The Denver Broncos signed free-agent cornerback Darryll Lewis to a one-year contract for $477,000, the minimum veterans salary. . . . The Miami Dolphins signed former Buffalo tackle Marcus Spriggs to a two-year contract.

Galen Hall of the Orlando Rage was chosen as the XFL’s inaugural coach of the year.

Miscellany

Racing fans at this weekend’s Talladega 500 in Alabama have been warned against buying counterfeit Dale Earnhardt souvenirs. Private detectives will be watching the purchases.

Since his death, sales of Earnhardt souvenirs have soared in legal and illegal markets.

But any memorabilia that focuses on memorializing Earnhardt, or carry the “1951-2001” script, are unlicensed, Joe Hedrick, director of licensing at Dale Earnhardt Inc., said.

Veteran Joe Nemechek, racing at the 2.66-mile Talladega Superspeedway for the 10th time, took the pole for Saturday’s Subway 300 Busch Series race. It was the fourth pole for a Busch event for Nemechek, who drove his Pontiac to a lap of 189.729 mph. He has taken the pole four times in his last six races at the Alabama racetrack.

Stan Heath, who helped Michigan State win a national title and reach the Final Four the last three years as an assistant--was hired as men’s basketball coach at Kent State. . . . Texas Tech women’s basketball Coach Marsha Sharp has received a five-year contract extension that matches the length and salary of Bob Knight, who received a five-year deal worth $4.5 million.

Brothers Troy and Justin Dumais of Ventura won the men’s synchronized platform competition at the U.S. National Indoor Diving Championships at Midland, Texas. They earned a spot on the national team with the win.

San Diego goalie Trevor Koenig stopped 21 shots as the Gulls defeated the Long Beach Ice Dogs, 3-0, in the opener of the West Coast Hockey League Southern Division finals before 3,155 at the San Diego Sports Arena.