Redd Decides It’s Best to Re-Sign With Bucks

Free agent Michael Redd agreed Thursday to re-sign with the Milwaukee Bucks and play alongside No. 1 draft pick Andrew Bogut rather than return to his home state of Ohio to play with LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Redd accepted Milwaukee’s six-year offer of $90-$96 million, his agent, Kevin Poston, told Associated Press. The Cavaliers offered $70 million over five years, the most they could offer.

The 6-foot-6 shooting guard from Ohio State averaged a career-high 23 points last season and has averaged 17.7 points since Milwaukee drafted him in the second round in 2000.

Redd, who became a free agent July 1, cannot sign the deal until the free-agent signing period begins July 22.

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Former North Carolina teammates Raymond Felton and Sean May signed with the Charlotte Bobcats. They were selected in the first round of the NBA draft after helping the Tar Heels win the NCAA title. Felton, a point guard, was the fifth overall pick. May, a 6-9 forward, was the 13th overall pick.

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The Golden State Warriors signed their first-round selection, 6-8 forward Ike Diogu of Arizona State. Diogu, the ninth overall pick, led the Pacific 10 Conference in scoring with 22.6 points a game.

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Shameka Christon scored eight consecutive points, including the go-ahead three-pointer with 1:47 left, and the New York Liberty closed with a 26-9 run to defeat the first-place Connecticut Sun, 89-79, in a WNBA game at Madison Square Garden.

Janeth Arcain scored the winning basket with 2.7 seconds left at Indianapolis as the Houston Comets won their sixth in a row, beating the Indiana Fever, 65-63.... The Detroit Shock closed the game with a 17-9 run to beat the Washington Mystics, 76-62, at Washington....Allison Feaster scored 19 points at Charlotte, N.C., including five three-point baskets, to help the Charlotte Sting defeat the Minnesota Lynx, 66-58.

Jurisprudence

Dallas Maverick free agent Alan Henderson was arrested and charged with carrying a gun in his luggage while trying to board a flight over the weekend in New York.

Henderson was released without bail Sunday, a day after his arrest at John F. Kennedy International Airport, a spokesman for the Queens County Criminal Court said.

Free agent Eddie Griffin, who played last season for Minnesota, was in jail for violating his probation. Griffin, on probation after pleading guilty in a 2003 assault case, was listed as a witness in a disturbance at a club in Houston, state district court coordinator Virginia Cerda said.

Tennis

Top-seeded Rafael Nadal and fifth-seeded Juan Carlos Ferrero won second-round matches at the Swedish Open in Bastad, setting up a quarterfinal between the Spaniards. Nadal, the French Open champion, beat Alberto Martin, 6-2, 6-4. Ferrero defeated Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, 6-3, 6-4.

Frantisek Cermak upset third-seeded Radek Stepanek, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-4, in cold, wet conditions to reach the quarterfinals of the Swiss Open at Gstaad. He will play Stanislas Wawrinka, who saved three match points to defeat Fernando Verdasco, 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (8).

Second-seeded Vince Spadea took an early lead and overcame unusually windy conditions to defeat Dusan Vemic, 6-3, 6-4, and advance to the semifinals of the Hall of Fame Championships at Newport, R.I. Spadea will play seventh-seeded Paul Goldstein, who beat Alexander Waske, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (5).

Olympics

The International Olympic Committee contends that too many Olympians are falsely depicting themselves as asthmatic, and has outlined tough screening procedures to prevent them from qualifying for otherwise banned medication.

Arne Ljungqvist, the IOC’s medical commission chairman, said tests at the 2004 Athens Olympics revealed that 45 athletes who described themselves as asthmatic did not have the condition -- 10% of the total that sought permission to take anti-asthma medication during the Games.

Ljungqvist said such testing would continue at the 2006 Winter Games in Turin, Italy.

Bulgaria’s Ivan Slavkov was ousted from the IOC, the third delegate to resign or be expelled in ethics cases in the last year.

Slavkov was implicated in a BBC television documentary last year on alleged Olympic corruption.

Pro Hockey

Trent Yawney was hired as coach of the Chicago Blackhawks, replacing Brian Sutter, whose contract was not renewed.

Yawney, 39, coached the Blackhawks’ American Hockey League affiliate in Norfolk, Va., the last five seasons.

High Schools

An all-star football game matching recently graduated high school seniors from the San Fernando Valley against their counterparts from the San Gabriel Valley will be played at 3 p.m. Saturday at Brentwood High.

Beach Volleyball

The 12th Amateur Athletic Union Junior Beach Volleyball National Championships will be played Saturday and Sunday for girls and July 17 for boys at Hermosa Beach Pier.

Competition is open to boys’ and girls’ two-person teams, ages 9-18. The top four teams in the under-14 and under-17 divisions qualify for the AAU Junior Olympic Games, which take place July 31-Aug. 2 in New Orleans. Details: aaubeach.org.

Miscellany

Figure skater Angela Nikodinov of San Pedro will skip the 2005-06 season while she continues her recovery from injuries she suffered in the car accident in which her mother, Dolores, was killed in January. Nikodinov plans to undergo surgery and skin grafts on her right hand.

Former USC defensive lineman Manuel Wright, who left school in May and declared for the NFL’s supplemental draft, is scheduled to work out for pro scouts today at USC.

Wright met Thursday with representatives from more than a dozen NFL teams, his agent said. The supplemental draft will be held July 14, the agent said.