Golf
CITY PARKS: Utah's top professionals will be chasing a $4,000 first prize when the FM-100 City Parks Open will be played today at Wingpointe GC and Sunday at Bonneville GC. Ryan Rhees is the defending champion.
Soccer
ROMARIO: Chalk up another win for Romario.
The feud between Brazil's World Cup star and Flamengo coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo ended Thursday night when the Rio de Janeiro team fired the coach.
The official reason was Flamengo's five-game losing streak. But the underlying motive was Romario's demands for special treatment.
Claiming he lacked motivation, Romario had listed his conditions to keep playing: replacement of the coaching staff, exemption from some practices and exhibition games, workouts limited to the goal area and the right to take private bodyguards on team trips.
2000 EURO: Belgium and the Netherlands were selected Friday as the hosts of the 2000 European Championship, the first time two countries will jointly stage the quadrennial soccer tournament.
Hockey
CAPITALS: The Washington Capitals acquired goaltender Mike Torchia from the Dallas Stars on Friday for future considerations.
STARS: Right wing Dan Kesa and defenseman Sergei Gusev have signed multi-year contracts with the Dallas Stars. No other terms of the deals were disclosed.
PENGUINS: The Pittsburgh Penguins signed Russian center Oleg Belov and defensemen Alexei Krivchenkov and Sergei Voronov on Friday.
BLUES: The St. Louis Blues continued their July spending spree Friday, signing unrestricted free agent left wing Geoff Courtnall to a three-year, $6.6 million deal.
Earlier in the week, the Blues signed two other unrestricted free agents, goalie Grant Fuhr and right wing Brian Noonan. On draft day last Saturday, they signed Buffalo center Dale Hawerchuk.
RED WINGS: The Detroit Red Wings signed defenseman Vladimir Konstantinov to a four-year contract Friday and agreed to three-year deals with right wing Doug Brown and center Tim Taylor. The Red Wings did not disclose financial details of the contracts.
Basketball
BONUS: New Mexico State basketball coach Neil McCarthy said he doesn't want to be considered for a $50,000 annual bonus tied to his team's grade point average, the university said Friday.
A school news release said the university administration is in the process of granting McCarthy's request.
As part of a contract amendment signed in 1994, McCarthy was to be considered for an annual bonus "in recognition of the improvement" to basketball program, according to the release.
The release said the amendment included a stipulation about the team needing to make a cumulative 2.0 GPA. McCarthy said that clause created misunderstandings. He said he does not want to be considered for the bonus this year or in future years.
JUNIOR WORLD: Georgia Tech-signee Stephon Marbury scored 29 points Friday to lead the United States to a 75-61 victory over Italy and a quarterfinal berth in the Junior World Championships in Greece.
Marbury was 11-for-16 from the field, including 5-for-6 from 3-point range, as the defending champions advanced with a 2-1 record. The United States will play France (3-0) on Monday in its first quarterfinal-round game followed by meetings with Greece on Tuesday and Croatia on Wednesday.
The semifinals and final are July 21 and 22.
Tremaine Fowlkes, a sophomore at California, had 18 points for the United States, which shot 45 percent (28-for-62), while Samaki Walker, a rising sophomore at Louisville, had 11 points and 17 rebounds.
Volleyball
BEACH: The two groups feuding over the new Olympic sport of beach volleyball - the men's pro tour in the United States and the international organization for volleyball - momentarily have stopped kicking sand at each other.
The U.S. players, who gave birth to the sport and have seen it grow both in recognition and sponsorship through their Association of Volleyball Professionals, don't like the Federation Internationale de Volleyball dictating the Olympic qualifying procedure for the Americans as beach volleyball makes its debut at the 1996 Atlanta Games.
However, Ruben Acosta of Mexico, the FIVB's president, said Friday officials of the two groups met the previous day and agreed to iron out differences in the future.
Track and field
LEWIS: Carl Lewis will compete in the long jump in the U.S. Olympic Festival, executive director Jack McDonald said Friday.
Lewis, who turned 34 on July 1, is one of 24 Olympians scheduled to appear in the July 21-30 competition in Denver. He won the long jump, 100 meters and was a member of the winning 400 relay team in the 1984 and 1988 Olympics and also won the 200 in 1984.
Other Olympians include 1992 champions Kevin Young (400 hurdles), Quincy Watts (400 and 1,600 relay) and Andrew Valmon (1,600 relay). Dave Johnson, a bronze medalist in the decathlon, also will compete.
TESTED: Two representatives of the governing body of international track and field made an unannounced visit to the Ohio home of track star Butch Reynolds to request a urine sample, according to a broadcast report.
On Friday, WCMH-TV in Columbus said Reynolds gave the sample Thursday to the representatives from the International Amateur Athletic Federation at his home in Westerville, then went to a local hospital for an independent urinalysis.
Reynolds, 30, a gold and silver medalist in the 1988 Olympics, has held the world record of 43.29 seconds in the 400 meters since 1988, when he set it in Zurich, Switzerland.
The former Ohio State athlete has been in a legal battle with the IAAF since it suspended him in 1990 for nearly 21/2 years after he allegedly tested positive for steroids. He denies ever taking steroids and is continuing to compete.
Boxing
NUNN: Former two-time world champion Michael Nunn stopped replacement Terry Bee in the third round of their scheduled 10-round cruiserweight fight Friday night.
Nunn ended it at 1:41 of the third round with a barrage of blows to the head. Nunn knocked down Bee in the second with a left to the head.
Bee, who was selected as a substitute for Warren Williams on Friday morning, didn't arrive in Las Vegas from Houston until 31/2 hours before he was scheduled to fight at Arizona Charlie's hotel.