Basketball
SCOTT RETURNS TO L.A.: Byron Scott, a free-agent guard who spent the first 10 years of his NBA career with the Los Angeles Lakers, signed a contract with the team. Terms were not disclosed.
Scott, 35, who played for Vancouver last season, averaged 16.0 points for the Lakers, helping them win NBA titles in 1985, 1987 and 1988.
KEMP SKIPS MEDIA DAY: Four-time All-Star Shawn Kemp will be fined for skipping media day, but the Seattle SuperSonics are confident he'll show up for the beginning of preseason workouts.
Wally Walker, Sonics president and general manager, would not discuss the amount of the fine Kemp will face for skipping Monday's mandatory interview session.
Kemp, speaking through representatives last week, indicated he was upset with the size of his contract - $3.75 million in the coming season - in relation to that of former Washington Bullets backup center Jim McIlvaine. The 7-foot-1, 265-pound McIlvaine was signed in the offseason to a five-year contract worth $35 million.
Hockey
NHL WAIVER DRAFT: Rob DiMaio, a right wing who had 17 goals and 61 points last season for Philadelphia, ended up with Boston after going to San Jose as the first player selected in the NHL waiver draft.
Ottawa passed on the first pick, then the Sharks took DiMaio and traded him to the Bruins for a fifth-round pick next year. The New York Islanders, selecting third, took center Jim Dowd from Vancouver.
After nine teams passed, the Islanders took defenseman Corey Foster from Pittsburgh. The Penguins also lost defenseman Chris Joseph to Vancouver.
Vancouver also picked up center Alexander Semak from the Islanders and lost defenseman Dean Malkoc to Boston. Center Bob Corkum went from Philadelphia to Phoenix, goalie Craig Billington was taken by Colorado from Florida, and center Ralph Intranuova was claimed by Toronto from Edmonton.
PENS SIGN TAMER: The Pittsburgh Penguins signed defenseman Chris Tamer to a multiyear contract, leaving forwards Petr Nedved and Bryan Smolinski as their only unsigned restricted free agents.
Tennis
MUSTER TO ARGUE CASE: Thomas Muster, who stomped off court during a Davis Cup match with Brazil and called the fans "animals," will argue his case before the International Tennis Federation next week in London.
Muster, the world's No. 3 player, left the court when he and his doubles partner trailed 0-2, 15-30 in the fifth set two weeks ago in Sao Paulo. Austria forfeited the match and the series when it refused to play the remaining two singles, losing 4-1.
SINGAPORE OPEN: Michael Chang had no problem winning his opening-round match at the Singapore Open indoor today.
He started with an ace and proceeded to demolish Dennis Van Scheppingen of the Netherlands 6-0, 6-3. In between, he had eight more aces.
Third-seeded Paul Haarhuis, also of the Netherlands, found that honeymooning hasn't been good for his tennis.
Fully expecting to reach the semifinals, he lost to unseeded Patrik Fredriksson of Sweden 6-3, 6-2.
LEIPZIG OPEN: Steffi Graf needed just 40 minutes to rout American Kimberly Po 6-0, 6-1 today in the second round of the Leipzig Open, her first match in Germany since her father went on trial for tax evasion.
Graf yielded a mere five points on her powerful serve in reaching the quarterfinals of the tournament, which boasts five of the world's top seven players.
Anke Huber, the fourth-seeded German, easily beat Romania's Ruxandra Dragomir 6-1, 6-2 in their second-round match, while Silvia Frania of Italy ousted Karin Kschwendt of Austria, 7-5, 6-2.