Eagles Fail to Keep Barber, Mitchell

The Philadelphia Eagles could find it a lot more difficult to defend their NFC East Division title next season.

The Eagles lost two free agents Monday -- linebacker Shawn Barber to Kansas City and Brian Mitchell to the New York Giants.

Barber signed a seven-year deal with the Chiefs, who finished 8-8 last season, excelling on offense but giving up the most yards in the league.

Mitchell, 34, averaged 12.3 yards on punt returns last year and 27 on kickoffs. His 21,987 yards combined is second only to Jerry Rice on the NFL’s career list.

The Eagles acquired linebacker Mark Simoneau from Atlanta for a sixth-round draft choice this year and a fourth-round pick in 2004.

Marty Mornhinweg, fired Jan. 27 as coach of the Detroit Lions, was hired by the Eagles as senior assistant coach.

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Tennessee re-signed guard Zach Piller. The Titans did not release contract terms, but Piller’s agent, Drew Rosenhaus, said it was a seven-year, $21.2-million deal.... Atlanta signed former Cincinnati safety Cory Hall.... The New York Jets re-signed fullback Gerald Sowell. ... Punter Toby Gowin, sixth in the NFC with the New Orleans Saints last season, signed with the Dallas Cowboys.

Tennis

Defending champion Andre Agassi was upset by wild-card entry Thomas Enqvist, 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-1, in the first round of the Franklin Templeton Tennis Classic at Scottsdale, Ariz. The defeat ended Agassi’s 12-0 start this year after winning the Australian Open and a tournament in San Jose.

The oft-injured Monica Seles withdrew from the Pacific Life Open, which starts Wednesday at Indian Wells. Seles, who would have been seeded seventh, injured her left foot at home in Sarasota, Fla., during practice last weekend, according to a statement.

Sarah Taylor moves into the main draw of the tournament. The top five seeded players are Kim Clijsters of Belgium, Jennifer Capriati, defending champion Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia, Lindsay Davenport and Amelie Mauresmo of France.

Olympics

Sports or countries that fail to comply with global drug rules should be excluded from the Olympics, International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said at Copenhagen.

Opening a three-day summit on drugs in sports, Rogge said countries refusing to fall into line should be barred from playing host or even bidding for the Olympics.

Rogge wants sports bodies and governments to adopt the World Anti-Doping Agency’s uniform code, with sanctions applied across all sports and countries. His intervention seemed to have an effect: Later in the day, FIFA, soccer’s governing body, settled its differences with WADA over two-year suspensions. The international cycling federation also signaled its intent to back the code despite continuing to criticize the sanctions and exemptions of U.S. pro leagues.

Fred Wohlschlaeger became the second top official at the U.S. Olympic Committee to resign in three days, stepping down as chief operating officer. On Saturday, USOC chief executive Lloyd Ward resigned after three months of turmoil that started with conflict-of-interest charges against him.

Golf

Phil Mickelson withdrew from the Ford Championship at Doral in Miami because his wife is getting closer to having their third child. Ford is in its first year as title sponsor of the PGA Tour event, and it signed Mickelson to a major endorsement in September.

Miscellany

Earl Lloyd, the first black player in the NBA, college coach Forrest Anderson and sporting goods executive Grady Lewis were nominated for induction into the basketball Hall of Fame at Springfield, Mass., by the veterans committee. The induction ceremony will be in September.

Lloyd scored six points for the Washington Capitols against the Rochester Royals in his first NBA game Oct. 31, 1950. In 1968, he became the first black assistant coach in the league, working with the Detroit Pistons, who in 1971 hired him as their coach. Anderson, who died in 1999, coached Bradley to the NIT and NCAA finals in 1950. Lewis is credited with developing the low-cut canvas basketball shoe.

HBO will replay Saturday night’s pay-per-view fight between Roy Jones Jr. and John Ruiz on Saturday at 9:45 p.m. as part of a boxing telecast featuring heavyweights Wladimir Klitchko and Corrie Sanders fighting at Hannover, Germany. HBO2 will replay the two-fight telecast Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., and on March 11 at 11:30 p.m.

Nevada Las Vegas football Coach John Robinson was treated for a blocked artery. He is expected to be out of the hospital in two to three days.

U.S. skier Caroline Lalive was released from a hospital at Innsbruck, Austria, one day after breaking two ribs and injuring ligaments in her right knee during a crash in a World Cup downhill.

Iran’s national wrestling team is considering a boycott of the world freestyle championships in New York’s Madison Square Garden on Sept. 12-14 because of a U.S. Defense Department decision to fingerprint all participants.