Colorado’s Bloom Loses Last Appeal

Jeremy Bloom’s college football career is officially over.

The junior receiver lost a last-ditch effort to keep his college eligibility Tuesday when an NCAA panel turned down his appeal to be allowed to receive endorsements as a professional skier and still play football for Colorado.

Bloom, the reigning world champion in freestyle moguls and a 2002 Olympian, has been battling the NCAA for two years.

Tennis

Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova was upset in three sets, 6-3, 2-6, 6-2, by wild card Mashona Washington in the Pilot Pen tournament at New Haven, Conn.

Third-seeded Jennifer Capriati beat Tatiana Golovin, 6-3, 6-2.

Serena Williams was seeded third behind Justine Henin-Hardenne and Amelie Mauresmo for the U.S. Open, which starts Monday in New York. Venus Williams was seeded 11th. Ranked 12th, she jumped one slot because 2003 runner-up Kim Clijsters is out after wrist surgery. The men’s seedings match the rankings, with No. 1 Roger Federer leading the way.

Lleyton Hewitt defeated Olivier Mutis, 7-6 (3), 6-1, in the opening round of the TD Waterhouse Cup at Commack, N.Y.

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Pro Basketball

The Dallas Mavericks got a big man, completing an eight-player deal that will bring Erick Dampier from Golden State.

Dallas sent Christian Laettner, Eduardo Najera, two future first-round draft picks and the draft rights to guards Luis Flores and Mladen Sekularac to the Warriors for Dampier, Dan Dickau, Evan Eschmeyer and the draft rights to Steve Logan.

The Lakers signed undrafted guard Nate Johnson, who averaged 9.5 points and 2.2 assists for the Lakers’ summer pro-league team. Johnson averaged a team-high 13 points last season at Nebraska.

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Miscellany

As expected, USC basketball guard Rodrick Stewart is academically ineligible for the first semester and the sophomore will miss six games. Stewart, who averaged 4.4 points and 2.1 assists, could return by the Trojans’ home game against Western Michigan on Dec. 18.

Also, the Trojan coaching staff has undergone some tweaking with Clay McKnight, a staff member at Oregon State and Syracuse the previous two seasons, replacing Tim Farmer as USC’s director of basketball operations, and Winston Neal, an administrative assistant at Loyola Marymount the last two years, taking a similar job at USC. He replaces Brian Davis, who had replaced the promoted Bob Cantu earlier this summer but gave up the position.

The fifth biannual gathering of former UCLA basketball players, coaches and team managers will be held Saturday at the Radisson Hotel in Culver City. John Wooden and Ben Howland are expected to attend. Information: 562-921-5209.

Quarterback Quincy Carter signed a one-year deal with the New York Jets, three weeks after his surprising release by Dallas.... Buffalo rookie backup quarterback J.P. Losman broke his left leg during practice and will be out at least eight weeks.

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Passings

Hank Borowy, who helped pitch the New York Yankees to the 1943 World Series title and two years later lost Game 7 with the Chicago Cubs, died Monday at Brick, N.J. He was 88.