Baseball
TRADE: The Cleveland Indians acquired Mark Carreon from the San Francisco Giants for reliever Jim Poole and a player to be named.
Carreon, 33, is batting .260 with nine home runs and 51 RBIs. He is a .273 hitter in 10 seasons with the Mets, Tigers and Giants. Poole, a left-hander, is 4-0 with a 3.04 ERA in 32 appearances.
Basketball
COACH GETS TRANSPLANT: Morgan Wootten, one of only five high school basketball coach to win 1,000 games, received a liver transplant today.
Wootten, coach at DeMatha High in suburban Washington for 40 years, had been diagnosed several years ago with primary biliary cirrhosis, an autoimmune disease extremely rare in men.
He was brought to Johns Hopkins in critical condition on Sunday. Doctors said he had only two weeks to live if he did not receive a new liver.
Gymnastics
GOLDEN DEBUT: None other than reigning Olympic all-around gold medal-winning gymnast Tatiana Gutsu was on hand for the Sports Academy & Racquet Club's grand opening in North Logan.
Gutsu, a Ukrainian who won gymnastics' premier award at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, performed Monday afternoon and evening along with several local tumbling athletes for the opening of the gym.
Hockey
GRIZZLIES TRADE IGNATJEV: The two-time defending Turner Cup champion Utah Grizzlies have sent defenseman Viktor Ignatjev to the Long Beach Ice Dogs to complete a late-season trade.
The trade, which took place on March 20, sent winger Viktor Gordiouk to Utah from the then-Los Angeles based club for future considerations.
Ignatjev, who played for the Grizz in Denver, netted nine goals and 29 assists in 73 games this season. He scored 11 points in the playoffs, including an assist on Marc Rodgers' game-winning goal in Game 4 of the Turner Cup Finals.
ROADRUNNERS COACH: Los Angeles Kings assistant coach John Perpich was selected head coach Tuesday of the Phoenix Roadrunners. Perpich is the Roadrunners' sixth head coach since the franchise joined the IHL in 1989.
Football
IRVIN TRIAL: Evidence could have been contaminated by police during the raid on Michael Irvin's motel room, an officer said in the Dallas Cowboys star's felony drug possession trial.
The testimony from Brian Crum came as defense attorneys tried to further their contention that police made a "comedy of errors." Defense attorney Royce West hammered on Crum about why officers handled the evidence and didn't call a crime-scene technician.
NFL RELEASES: The Baltimore Ravens released veteran receiver Andre Rison and linebacker Pepper Johnson to make room under the NFL's salary cap.
Rison signed a five-year, $17 million contract with the Cleveland Browns before the 1994 season, including a $5 million signing bonus, making him the NFL's highest-paid receiver. He had a career-low 47 catches for 701 yards and three touchdowns last season.
- The Pittsburgh Steelers released running back Bam Morris, nearly two weeks after he struck a plea bargain with Texas prosecutors on drug possession charges.
Morris, 24, pleaded guilty June 26 to a felony marijuana charge. In return, prosecutors will recommend he not be imprisoned and will not pursue a felony cocaine possession charge.
- Eric Green, a former Pro Bowl tight end whose work habits and weight problem annoyed coach Jimmy Johnson, was released by the Miami Dolphins.
Johnson terminated the six-year, $12 million contract Green signed before last season. Green will try to collect his $1.5 million salary this year in a grievance with the NFL Players Association.
Golf
ERNST CHAMPIONSHIP: Phil Mickelson eagled the first playoff hole against tournament host Fred Couples to win the Ernst Championship and $130,000.
Mickelson closed the two-day tournament with a 6-under-par 65 and Couples shot a 69 for 9-under 133 totals. Couples, who made $65,000, had a triple-bogey on No. 7.
Olympics
CUBAN DEFECTION: The star pitcher for the champion Cuban baseball team defected to the United States, escaping from the team's hotel in Georgia and heading to this Cuban-exile haven with a sports agent.
Rolando Arrojo, who led Cuba over the U.S. Olympic team in a June exhibition game, was in Miami with agent Joe Cubas after escaping.
Arrojo, 32, is the third Cuban Olympian to desert recently. Two boxers slipped away from their team in Mexico and are seeking political asylum in the U.S.
CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENT: A construction worker died and another was injured after copper tubing they were handling touched a power line on the roof of a building under renovation for use during the Olympics.
Scott Dawson, 30, died at Grady Memorial Hospital, and Emory Brown, 52, was in stable condition at Grady's burn unit.
Tennis
SWEDISH OPEN: Top-seeded Stefan Edberg, playing his last Swedish Open, led qualifier Jack Waite 6-2, 4-2 when the first-round match was suspended by rain.