Bucks Sign Top Selection Bogut to Multiyear Deal

The Milwaukee Bucks signed Andrew Bogut, the No. 1 overall pick in the NBA draft, to a multiyear contract Friday.

The 20-year-old Australian, who earned college-player-of-the-year awards at Utah, will participate in the Bucks’ summer camp workouts and play in the Minnesota summer league from July 15 to 19, General Manager Larry Harris said.

“This is a dream come true for me,” Bogut said. “I’ve worked extremely hard to get to this point and I’m honored to be a member of the Milwaukee Bucks organization.”

Terms of the contract weren’t disclosed, but Bogut’s agent, David Bauman, previously said he expected the 7-foot center to get about $4.2 million in his first year.

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The Houston Rockets signed Luther Head, their first-round draft choice.

The 6-foot-3 guard averaged 15.2 points, four rebounds and 3.8 assists to help Illinois, the top-ranked team for much of last season, to a 37-2 record.

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The Minnesota Timberwolves signed General Manager Jim Stack to a contract extension. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Stack, whose contract expired Thursday, joined the club in July 2004.

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Motor Racing

Tony Stewart won the pole for today’s NASCAR Nextel Cup Series Pepsi 400, two days after an altercation with a fan at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla.

He downplayed the incident after qualifying.

“It’s a pretty petty deal,” Stewart said. “It’s not something that we’re even worried about. We’ve discarded it already.”

Stewart covered the 2 1/2 -mile tri-oval at 185.582 mph, slightly faster than Scott Riggs (185.418) and Jimmie Johnson (185.273).

Boris Said (185.204) and Joe Nemechek (184.904), both teammates with Riggs, completed a top-five sweep for Chevrolet.

Elliott Sadler was sixth-fastest in a Ford, followed by the Chevrolets of Kevin Harvick and Jason Leffler and Rusty Wallace’s Dodge.

Kerry Earnhardt’s fast lap gave Chevrolet eight of the top 10 spots in the field of 43.

Martin Truex Jr., driving a Chevrolet, passed Kevin Harvick with four laps remaining and held on after a late restart to win the NASCAR Busch Series Winn-Dixie 250 at Daytona International Speedway.

Truex, who led a race-high 67 laps, got his first victory at Daytona and extended his lead in the series standings to 71 points over Clint Bowyer, who finished fifth.

Bill Lester won the pole for today’s NASCAR Craftsman Trucks Series O’Reilly Auto Parts 250 with a track-record 173.633 mph in his Toyota on the 1 1/2 -mile tri-oval at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan.

Lester’s teammate, Mike Skinner, qualified second with a lap of 173.138 in his Toyota. Todd Kluever will start third in a Ford, with David Reutimann’s Toyota on the outside of the second row.

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Olympics

Triathlete Brigitte McMahon, who won Switzerland’s only gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, tested positive for EPO last month.

The test was done at her home on June 6 and the banned performance-enhancing hormone was detected in her initial sample, the Swiss Olympic Assn. said.

McMahon, who finished 10th in the Athens Olympics, said she started taking small amounts of EPO in May because she was getting divorced and caring for her three small children.

Werner Bhend, president of the Swiss Olympic Assn., said her punishment would be decided by next week but that she was being kicked off the national triathlon team.

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Track and Field

Ladji Doucoure of France thrilled the home crowd with a win in the 110-meter hurdles at the Gaz de France meet in Saint-Denis, beating four-time world champion Allen Johnson and Chinese star Liu Xiang.

Doucoure won in 13.02 seconds, edging Johnson by 0.02. Liu, who shares the world record of 12.91 with Britain’s Colin Jackson, was third in 13.06.

In the 100, Aziz Zakari of Ghana beat Francis Obikwelu of Portugal, winning in 10.04. Obikwelu ran 10.05. Dwight Thomas of Jamaica was third in 10.11.

In the women’s 100, Christine Arron of France won in 11.03. Chandra Sturrup of the Bahamas was second in 11.05, and Olympic silver medalist Lauryn Williams was third in 11.16.

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Jurisprudence

A Manhattan jury awarded the family of award-winning sports journalist Dick Schaap $1.95 million after finding that he died as a result of medical negligence after he underwent hip replacement surgery at a New York City hospital.

The jurors found that three doctors were negligent in treating Schaap at Lenox Hill Hospital, where he died at 67 on Dec. 21, 2001, but they found that the negligence of only one, Dr. Neil L. Coplan, led to Schaap’s death.

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Surfing

Mick Fanning defeated Phil Macdonald to win an all-Australian final in the Rip Curl Search, a World Championship Tour surfing event at Reunion Island off southern Africa. The victory moves Fanning into third place on the WCT, behind points leader Kelly Slater and Trent Munro.

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Baseball

Nebraska third baseman Alex Gordon won the Brooks Wallace Award as the nation’s top college player, completing a sweep of the top individual honors this season.

Gordon, who won the Golden Spikes Award last week, was the second overall pick by the Kansas City Royals in the amateur draft last month. The junior led the Cornhuskers to the College World Series this season.

USC sophomore right-hander Ian Kennedy and Cal State Fullerton sophomore shortstop Blake Davis were named to the U.S. national team, which will compete in Japan and Taiwan this summer. Kennedy and Davis earned spots on the 22-man roster after four days of tryouts at North Carolina State.

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High Schools

Ray Hall, a 6-foot-9 center from Denver Mullen High who is being recruited by UCLA, USC and Georgia Tech, among others, has enrolled at Lakewood Artesia for his senior season.

Mike Penner is on vacation.