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Second-seeded Yevgeny Kafelnikov of Russia needed three sets and two hours to defeat qualifier Jeff Tarango, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2, in the first round of the Milan Indoors tournament in Italy. . . . Juan Albert Viloca pulled off the biggest upset of the $350,000 Colombia Open when he shocked top-seeded Albert Costa, 2-6, 7-6 (4), 7-5, at Bogota in a first-round match of Spaniards.

Jurisprudence

The teenager who says former Green Bay Packer tight end Mark Chmura sexually assaulted her insisted she was not fabricating her accusations.

Under intense cross-examination in Waukesha, Wis., the girl repeated her claims that the football player pulled her into a bathroom at a drunken prom party last April and forced her to have sex.

Chmura, 31, faces up to 40 years in prison and $20,000 in fines if convicted of third-degree sexual assault and child enticement, both felonies.

Former NFL receiver Rae Carruth has been transferred to a new prison to serve more than 18 years for conspiring to murder his pregnant girlfriend. Carruth, who had been held at Central Prison in Raleigh, N.C., since he was sentenced by a Mecklenburg County judge last week, was transferred Monday to Nash Correctional Institution near Rocky Mount, N.C.

Billy Sims, the 1978 Heisman Trophy winner from Oklahoma, was ordered to appear in court March 21 in Tulsa, Okla., concerning accusations he owes more than $14,000 from a 1997 child-support conviction. . . . Steve Ennis, a sophomore running back on the Purdue football team, was charged with battery and criminal recklessness Monday in West Lafayette, Ind., in an October attack that left a classmate with a fractured skull and eye socket. . . . Eric Austin, who played two games with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1996, was sentenced in Mobile, Ala., to 20 years in prison for his conviction as part of a drug smuggling operation. . . . Police in Rio de Janeiro said they would charge Vasco da Gama officials with criminal negligence in connection with a stadium accident that left 168 fans injured in a Dec. 30 accident.

Miscellany

Twenty-nine years after swimmer Rick DeMont was stripped of an Olympic gold medal for using an asthma medication containing a banned substance, the U.S. Olympic Committee will clear his name, said his lawyer, David Ulich.

DeMont, 44, won the 400-meter freestyle as a 16-year-old at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany, but his gold medal was taken away when traces of the banned substance ephedrine showed up in a routine post-race urine test.

Choi Yo-sam of South Korea retained his World Boxing Council light flyweight title, knocking out his No. 1 challenger, Saman Sor Jaturong of Thailand, in the seventh round at Seoul. . . . Paul Ingle, who needed brain surgery after losing his featherweight title bout Dec. 16, has been moved to a rehabilitation unit closer to his home in Sheffield, England. Doctors at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital said the boxer, 28, is making good progress. He will be treated at a rehab center dealing with head injuries.

Germany’s Olympic committee plans to fight the overturned suspension of Alexander Leipold, a freestyle wrestler stripped of his Sydney gold medal for a positive drug test. Leipold was cleared Friday of a two-year ban on competing nationally by a legal panel of the German wrestling federation, which ruled the organization acted too late in suspending him Oct. 18.

Opposing Japanese organizers, soccer’s governing body insisted that Korea be listed before Japan on tickets for the 2002 World Cup. . . . Chilean defender Pablo Contreras was suspended for two months and his former team, AS Monaco, was penalized two points in the standings by French soccer officials. Contreras, who allegedly used a fake Italian passport, was placed under formal investigation for using false documents. . . . Vasco defender Junior Baiano tested positive for cocaine in a drug test after the national championships, the Brazilian Soccer Confederation said. . . . Celtic defender Alan Stubbs has been cleared to resume playing after winning his second battle against cancer.

Catcher Henry Blanco and the Milwaukee Brewers agreed to a two-year contract worth $2,225,000.

The baseball commissioner’s office voided the contracts of two Dominican players because they used false birth certificates, and said major league teams can’t sign them before July 1.

Jose Ramon Canela Marte, a 19-year-old left-hander, signed a minor-league contract with the Colorado Rockies under the name Wellington De Paula, using a birth certificate that stated he was 16.

Junior Alexander Felix Medina, a 23-year-old right-hander, signed a minor-league contract with the Atlanta Braves, also using the name and birth certificate of Wellington De Paula.

Salt Lake City Olympic officials are working on security preparations for President Bush to attend the opening of the 2002 Winter Olympics. The White House has not confirmed Bush will make the trip, but the Secret Service and the Utah Olympic Public Safety Command already are working on plans to deal with crowds, traffic and protests.

Led by rounds of 68 and 67 by senior and individual winner Alex Kuyumjian, the USC men’s golf team won the Ping-Arizona team title at Tucson.