Miscellany

Jason Collins, Stanford’s second-leading scorer and leading rebounder, made himself available for the NBA draft. He has until June 20 to withdraw his name.

The Philadelphia Eagles fired Tom Modrak, their director of football operations since 1998. Mike McCartney, director of pro personnel, also lost his job in the front-office shake-up.

The Baltimore Ravens re-signed safety Rod Woodson to a five-year contract.

Car owner Chip Ganassi, who won last year’s Indianapolis 500 with Juan Montoya, replaced two rookies with Tony Stewart and Jimmy Vasser as his drivers in this year’s race. It will make for an interesting turnaround for Stewart, who, as he did in 1999, plans to fly immediately afterward to Charlotte, N.C., to race in NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600. Ganassi had originally entered Bruno Junqueira and Nicolas Minassian.

One person was killed and 39 injured when fighting broke out between fans of two of Ivory Coast’s leading soccer teams during a game at Abidjan. . . . Alexi Lalas, who ended a 1 1/2-year retirement to play for the Galaxy, will be sidelined indefinitely because of a left knee injury. . . . Milovan Djoric was fired after failing to win in three games as Yugoslavia’s national soccer coach.

Michael Johnson can’t run at the World Track and Field Championships in August if he doesn’t compete first at the USA Championships. Johnson, running only relays in his final year of competition, had hoped to run on the U.S. 1,600-meter team in Edmonton, Canada, this summer, but the USA Track and Field board of directors decided not to waive a rule requiring participation in the national meet. . . . Olympian Hazel Clark, America’s top 800-meter runner at the 2000 Summer Games, has been sanctioned for taking cold medicine that contained a prohibited substance, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency announced.

Pete Sampras had his match against Harel Levy of Israel suspended until today in the rain-interrupted Italian Open tennis tournament at Rome. Levy led, 7-5, 1-3, when play was halted. . . . Bart McGuire is resigning as chief executive officer of the WTA tour, the second top executive to leave the tennis organization in a month. . . . The U.S.-India relegation-round Davis Cup match will be played Sept. 21-23 at Winston-Salem, N.C.

Passings

Jo-Jo Moore, a star outfielder in the 1930s who played in three World Series for the New York Giants, died April 1. He was 92. (Story, B10). . . . Zoltan Nemere, an epee fencer who won Olympic and world titles for Hungary, was killed when his car smashed into a tree Sunday near Csongrad, Hungary, 75 miles from Budapest. He was 59.