Saints’ Worker Dies in Accident

The New Orleans Saints’ grounds superintendent was electrocuted Tuesday when a goal post he was moving hit a power line at the team’s training facility in suburban New Orleans.

Tim Fletcher, 42, was married and had a son, team owner Tom Benson said.

Neither the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office nor the Saints would comment on the accident.

Fletcher started working for the Saints in 1999. Benson described Fletcher as enthusiastic and friendly.

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The infant son of Tampa Bay receiver Joe Jurevicius has died nearly 10 weeks after being born prematurely during the Buccaneers’ run to the Super Bowl.

Michael William Jurevicius, born Jan. 14, died Monday night at a hospital in St. Louis.

The receiver’s wife, Meagan, gave birth to the couple’s first child five days before the NFC championship game. Jurevicius missed three days of practice after the baby’s birth, then flew to Philadelphia to help the Buccaneers defeat the Eagles, 27-10.

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Jacksonville signed safety Donovin Darius to one-year, $3-million contract.... Tight end Marco Battaglia signed a one-year contract with Miami.... Cornerback Kevin House will remain with San Diego after signing a one-year contract.... Detroit re-signed linebacker Donte Curry and guard Josh Lovelady, and signed free-agent quarterback Jonathan Beasley.

Tennis

Andre Agassi shook off a slow start and an upset bid by Mark Philippoussis to win, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, in the fourth round of the Nasdaq-100 Open at Key Biscayne, Fla.

Also reaching the quarterfinals was American Robby Ginepri, who defeated Hyung-Taik Lee, 6-3, 6-2.

In other matches, fifth-seeded Carlos Moya beat Nicolas Escude, 6-4, 7-6 (8), fourth-seeded Roger Federer defeated No. 14 Sjeng Schalken, 6-3, 6-2 and Todd Martin eliminated Radek Stepanek, 6-3, 6-2.

On the women’s side, top-seeded defending champion Serena Williams and third-seeded Kim Clijsters easily advanced to a showdown in Thursday’s semifinals.

Williams lost her serve three times but still beat French qualifier Marion Bartoli, 6-1, 6-2. Clijsters routed No. 9 Jelena Dokic, 6-2, 6-0.

Meghann Shaughnessy and Alexandra Stevenson will join Serena and Venus Williams on the U.S. team in the first round of the Fed Cup against the Czech Republic next month in Lowell, Mass.

Miscellany

USC cornerback Marcell Allmond, the only returning starter in the Trojan secondary, will sit out the final two weeks of spring practice because of a stress fracture in his right fibula, the smaller bone in his lower leg, Coach Pete Carroll said.

Cornerback Kevin Arbet also will miss the remainder of spring practice because of pain in his right foot, Carroll said. Arbet, a senior, red-shirted last season after breaking a bone in his foot during training camp.

Julia Mancuso overcame a half-second deficit and won the giant slalom on the final day of the U.S. Alpine Championships at Lake Placid, N.Y.

NASCAR suspended Trucks Series crew chief John Monsam for two months and fined him $1,500 for using an illegal spring at Mesa Marin Raceway.

Martha Burk plans to expand her campaign against Augusta National and CBS by contending that televising the event from an all-male golf club “is an insult to the nearly quarter-million women in the U.S. armed forces.”

Olympic speedskater Shani Davis sued the city of Chicago, contending he was stopped by police without legal cause.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed the suit on behalf of Davis and two other black men. It says officers detained and searched the defendants without justification.

The Pond of Anaheim will bid to play host to the 2004 U.S. Olympic gymnastic trials, which were given up by Boston’s FleetCenter because of a scheduling conflict with the Democratic National Convention.