Penguins Offer Up Jagr

The Pittsburgh Penguins are listening to offers for five-time scoring champion Jaromir Jagr, team owner Mario Lemieux said Wednesday.

The Penguins are expected to trade Jagr in the coming weeks, perhaps by the June 23-24 NHL draft. The New York Islanders and New York Rangers are believed to be interested in Jagr.

Jagr has said several times he expects to play for a new team next season, and Lemieux said, “It’s probably time for a change.”

Jagr will make $20.7 million over the next two seasons, or about one-third of the Penguin payroll.

The thousands who cheered wildly as Ray Bourque raised the trophy in Boston’s City Hall Plaza cared little that it was on loan from the champion Colorado Avalanche, Bourque’s new team.

“This is home for me and my family. I had some great years with the Bruins, but I’d never come really close to Stanley, my friend,” the 40-year-old Bourque told the crowd, pointing to the trophy. “But to touch this, we felt there was a move that had to be made.”

The Philadelphia Flyers have signed John LeClair to a multiyear deal worth more than $8 million per year, an NHL source said.

Tennis

Anna Kournikova, who hasn’t played since suffering a stress fracture in her left foot in March, is in danger of missing Wimbledon after pulling out of next week’s grass-court tournament at Eastbourne, England. Kournikova has entered the Aug. 5-12 estyle.com Classic at Manhattan Beach.

Pete Sampras easily defeated Belgium’s Olivier Rochus 6-1, 6-2, at the Queen’s Club tournament in London. . . . French Open runner-up Alex Corretja of Spain lost to France’s Jerome Golmard, 6-0, 6-2, in the Gerry Weber Open at Halle, Germany.

Jurisprudence

Defense lawyers for indicted Olympic bid executives Tom Welch and Dave Johnson have demanded 15 years of corporate and bank records from an Olympic sponsor that is refusing to cooperate. In papers filed in a Salt Lake City courtroom, Jet Set Sports asked a federal magistrate to quash subpoenas that could reveal its most confidential dealings with the world’s Olympic organizations.

Olympic champion archer Justin Huish was sentenced to four months in jail for selling marijuana from his Simi Valley home.

Miscellany

A limping and apologetic Corey Moore finally arrived at the Buffalo Bills’ minicamp, nearly two weeks after the linebacker was shot in the leg in Brownsville, Tenn. Moore upset Coach Gregg Williams last week when he failed to show at camp or return calls. . . . Chicago Bear defensive end Joel Smeenge retired, a month after he signed as a free agent. . . . Avenger kicker Brian Reaves was put on injured reserve and will sit out at least two games because of a hip injury.

A letter purportedly from a radical Tibetan group threatening International Olympic Committee members who vote for Beijing as the host city of the 2008 Olympics has been turned over to Swiss police.

The National Assn. of College Directors of Athletics issued a statement expressing “strong philosophical concerns” with a recent NCAA action that allowed television broadcasts of Friday night college football games. . . . Florida hired former Mississippi State coach Pat McMahon as its baseball coach, replacing Andy Lopez.