Gamez Moves Into Share of Lead With Calcavecchia

Robert Gamez, who won twice on the PGA Tour in 1990 to earn rookie-of-the-year honors but hasn’t had a top-10 finish in five years, shot his second consecutive 67 Friday for a share of the lead with Mark Calcavecchia in the Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic in North Carolina.

The 33-year-old Gamez made the field at Forest Oaks Country Club as the seventh alternate and he’s tied for 201st on the tour money list with $9,190 in three events.

But Gamez is at 10 under par after carding birdies on Nos. 13-16 and then saving par on No. 17 by holing a 30-foot putt for his second consecutive five-under round.

Gamez and Calcavecchia, who followed his first-round 65 with a 69, were one shot ahead of Phil Tataurangi and Rocco Mediate, who both shot 67s.

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Bob Gilder, Bob Eastwood and Jim Thorpe share the lead in the Countrywide Tradition at Superstition Mountain, Ariz., as gusty wind turned what had been a been a predictable course into a guessing game.

Eastwood (66), Gilder (68), Thorpe (70) were at seven-under 137 through 36 holes in the first major of the year on the Senior PGA Tour. Tour rookie Fuzzy Zoeller (70) was one shot back at 138.

Tennis

Second-seeded Andre Agassi needed only 65 minutes to defeat Kristian Pless of Denmark, 6-3, 6-3, in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championships at Houston.

Fourth-seeded Pete Sampras beat Davis Cup teammate Todd Martin, 6-2, 7-6 (3), and will play Agassi in today’s semifinals. Sampras leads the series, 18-14, but Agassi has a 3-1 edge on clay.

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Australia’s Lleyton Hewitt rolled to victory in the quarterfinals of the Open Seat Godo clay-court tournament, defeating Moroccan Younes El Aynaoui, 6-4, 6-2, at Barcelona.

Hewill will next face Argentina’s Gaston Gaudio, a 6-2, 6-4 winner over Spain’s Alberto Martin.

The other semifinal will match Argentina’s Guillermo Canas against Spain’s Albert Costa. Canas defeated France’s Cedric Pioline, 7-6 (6), 6-3, and Costa defeated countryman Alex Corretja, 5-7, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (4).

Pro Football

Edgerrin James, who sat out 10 games last year because of a season-ending knee injury, skipped the Indianapolis Colts’ mandatory mini-camp in an apparent contract dispute.

Colt President Bill Polian said James’ agent had repeatedly asked for a renegotiation of the six-year contract the running back signed after the team drafted him in 1999.

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Running back Correll Buckhalter, who was expected to play a bigger role in Philadelphia’s offense this year, is probably gone for the season because of a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, suffered in the Eagles’ first off-season mini-camp....Miami Dolphin guard James Wagstaff was upgraded to good condition, one day after he severely injured his left hand when his sport utility vehicle flipped repeatedly near the team’s camp.

Jurisprudence

Prosecutors in Boulder, Colo., will not file charges in an alleged rape at a party attended by University of Colorado football players and recruits.

District Attorney Mary Keenan said her decision reflected “the many difficulties frequently encountered in prosecutions of acquaintance rape.”

Miscellany

The NCAA has set a date of Nov. 1 to select a successor to President Cedric Dempsey, who will retire at the end of the year, and also announced that Cal State Fullerton President Milton Gordon has been added to the search committee.

Robert Lawless, chairman of the NCAA executive committee and president of the University of Tulsa, said Gordon, an African-American, was added to “increase the ethnic diversity” of the previously all-white search committee of two men and two women.

Dempsey, 70, has headed the organization since 1994.

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Steve Merfeld resigned as men’s basketball coach at Hampton to take the same position at Evansville. Merfeld replaces Jim Crews, who resigned last month to become the head coach at Army.... Mike Sutton was hired as basketball coach by Tennessee Tech. Sutton, an assistant coach at Kentucky for five years, replaces Jeff Lebo, who took the Chattanooga job earlier this month.... Duke’s Carlos Boozer has signed with sports agent Arn Tellem, meaning the junior center definitely will not return to the Blue Devils.

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Kenny Bernstein led top-fuel qualifying in the Mac Tools Thunder Valley NHRA Nationals at Bristol, Tenn., with a quarter-mile run of 4.599 seconds at a track-record 323.27 mph.