Basketball
KIDD TO PLAY BASEBALL: Dallas Mavericks guard Jason Kidd reportedly has acted on his expressed wish to play professional baseball.
Kidd said Tuesday that he has reached a verbal agreement to play this summer for a Class A farm team of the San Francisco Giants.
Kidd said the Giants invited him to workouts during talks several days ago with his agent, Aaron Goodwin.
TSN ANNUAL AWARDS: Top-ranked Massachusetts swept The Sporting News' college basketball awards Tuesday, with center Marcus Camby selected player of the year and John Calipari coach of the year.
In voting by coaches, Camby easily beat out Wake Forest's Tim Duncan and Connecticut's Ray Allen. Coaches selected Calipari ahead of Penn State's Jerry Dunn and Virginia's Bill Foster.
Camby was joined the first team by Duncan, Allen, Villanova's Kerry Kittles and Georgetown's Allen Iverson. The second team consists of Keith Van Horn of Utah, John Wallace of Syracuse, Danny Fortson of Cincinnati, Jacque Vaughn of Kansas and Tony Delk of Kentucky.
AIR HONORED: Michael Jordan, who scored an NBA season-high 53 points Thursday night against Detroit, was selected the player of the week Tuesday.
The Chicago Bulls star averaged 39.3 points, nine rebounds, three assists and three steals in three games last week.
NBA CITES AGENTS: The NBA took legal action against several agents and attorneys for the players' union, accusing them of trying to interfere with the new collective bargaining agreement.
The league filed an unfair labor practice charge against the union with the New York regional office of the National Labor Relations Board and a federal lawsuit against the union and the agents in U.S. District Court in New Jersey. Among the agents cited were Frank Catapano, David Falk, Marc Fleisher and Ron Grinker.
TURK RESIGNS: M.K. Turk resigned as Southern Mississippi coach after going 12-15 in his 20th season at the school. Turk, 53, who had two years left on his contract, has a career record of 300-266.
CARMODY PROMOTED: Bill Carmody, a longtime assistant basketball coach at Princeton, will succeed retiring Pete Carril as coach of the Tigers. Carril said Saturday that he would step down after the NCAA tournament.
Tennis
NEWSWEEK CHAMPIONS CUP: Spain's Carlos Costa upset Boris Becker 6-3, 7-5 in the second round of the Newsweek Champions Cup in Indian Wells, Calif.
German compatriot Steffi Graf had no such problem in earning a semifinal berth in the Evert Cup, beating Amanda Coetzer of South Africa 6-4, 6-1. In a third-round match, Chanda Rubin beat Jennifer Capriati 6-3, 6-3.
TENNIS STARS GO TO COURT: Mats Wilander and Karel Novacek asked a London court to stop the International Tennis Federation from continuing an investigation into alleged cocaine use by the two.
The players want the ITF's proceedings against them to be postponed until a court can rule on the validity of the testing procedures. They allegedly tested positive for cocaine during last year's French Open.
Baseball
EXPOS AGREE WITH WHITE: The Montreal Expos, who rarely offer multiyear contracts, agreed to a five-year deal with outfielder Rondell White for $10.3 million.
PINIELLA'S PACT EXTENDED: Lou Piniella, last season's AL Manager of the Year, agreed to a four-year contract extension with the Seattle Mariners. Financial terms were not disclosed.
BOSTON WAIVES ALICEA: The Boston Red Sox waived second baseman Luis Alicea, saving more than $1 million. Another team could claim Alicea in the next three days, but would have to pay his entire $1.5 million salary.
Swimming
SALMEEN WINS BUTTERFLY: UCLA's Annette Salmeen, already on the Olympic team in the 800 freestyle relay, won the 200 butterfly in 2 minutes, 12.39 seconds on the final day of the U.S. trials in Indianapolis.
Jean Ellis Todisco took the second spot on the U.S. team, while 1992 Olympic champion Summer Sanders was last in the eight-woman final. Amy Van Dyken made the team in her third event, winning the 50 free.
In men's races, Brad Bridgewater won the 200 back and Carlton Bruner took the 1,500 free.
Wrestling
NO DEATH PENALTY FOR DU PONT: John E. du Pont will not face the death penalty when the multimillionaire goes on trial in the slaying of an Olympic wrestler, Delaware County District Attorney Patrick Meehan said. Du Pont, 57, is charged with shooting Dave Schultz to death on Jan. 26.
Hockey
BLUES ACQUIRE ANDERSON: The St. Louis Blues acquired right wing Glenn Anderson off waivers from Edmonton on Tuesday and traded center Dave Roberts to the Oilers for future considerations.
HABS' BANNER BOUGHT: Marc Cooper paid over $31,000 for the Stanley Cup banner marking the Montreal Canadiens' first NHL championship in 1924 during an auction Tuesday of some of the Forum's fixtures.
"No matter how many times they won it later, they only won it once for the first time," said Cooper of Manalapan, N.J., who shelled out another $40,000 for lockers and other items. "My kids always bug me for some lockers and I told them I would get something special."
Golf
SPENCER-DEVLIN COMES OUT: Muffin Spencer-Devlin reveals she is a lesbian in the new issue of Sports Illustrated, becoming the first player in the 46-year history of the LPGA tour to publicly declare her homosexuality.
"Coming out is like an incredibly huge weight being lifted from my shoulders," she said. "No more living in the shadows. No more lies."
Spencer-Devlin, 42, who has three victories in 18 years on the tour, said she plans to "exchange vows" in May with musician-composer Lynda Roth. They live together in Laguna Beach, Calif.
LPGA commissioner Jim Ritts said he wasn't worried about the reaction to Spencer-Devlin's announcement.
Boxing
BUSTER'S BACK: Former heavyweight champion Buster Douglas will return to the ring this spring, a television station reported.
WBNS-TV said Tuesday night that Douglas, who will turn 36 on April 7, will meet Tony LaRosa on May 18 in Miami on the undercard of the Hector Comacho-Roberto Duran fight.