Basketball
BARKLEY SAYS JORDAN'S DONE: Charles Barkley said Michael Jordan will retire from pro basketball and that he may not be far behind.
Barkley was a guest of San Diego Padres owner John Moores during Game 3 of the National League Championship Series at Qualcomm Stadium. The Padres beat the Atlanta Braves 4-1 to take a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven series.
It's the second weekend in a row Barkley has attended a Padres playoff game. Barkley and Jordan are both free agents without contracts as the National Basketball Association lockout of players continues.
"He's done," Barkley said about Jordan, the Chicago Bulls' star who has won six NBA titles in the last eight seasons. "He's very frustrated with the whole Bulls organization. I've talked with him a lot about this and I just don't see him coming back."
Barkley, who played last season for the Houston Rockets, said he hasn't made a decision about his own active status.
"There are some teams I can help. I'll be in the top five in rebounding and I'll score my 15 to 20 points," he said. "But there's no sense in coming back just to play."
Baseball
DODGERS WANT ALOU: The managerial job of the Los Angeles Dodgers is there for the taking for Felipe Alou.
Dodgers general manager Kevin Malone said Saturday night he hopes to find out in the next day or two whether Alou would become the team's next manager.
Malone spent three days in the Dominican Republic discussing the managerial job with Alou before returning to Los Angeles late Friday.
Alou, 63, has managed the Montreal Expos since May 1992 and has one year remaining on his contract. The Expos gave the Dodgers permission to speak with Alou last Monday but have made it clear they hope to keep him.
Auto racing
LAS VEGAS 500K: Billy Boat did his job as Kenny Brack's teammate by taking the pole in the Las Vegas 500K.
Now he has a second job on Sunday - to try to win the race and keep anyone from catching Brack for the Indy Racing League season points title.
"Hopefully we can run up front all day, and Kenny Brack and A.J. Foyt Racing can win a points championship," Boat said.
Football
SURGERY FOR DOLPHIN: Miami Dolphins wide receiver Charles Jordan underwent surgery Saturday to repair a tear of the attachment of a tendon in his left groin.
Dolphins team physician Dr. John Uribe performed the surgery.
Team officials said Jordan was placed on injured reserved Thursday and will miss the remainder of the 1998 season.
Boxing
MITCHELL WINS TITLE: American Sharmba Mitchell won the WBA super lightweight title Saturday in Paris, outpointing Khalid Rahilou of France after knocking the defending champion down four times.
In his first shot at a world title, Mitchell, a 28-year-old southpaw from Washington, D.C., dominated from the start and won on a unanimous decision.
PAGE KO'S PESTRAYEV: James Page, in a fight which was in the courts until the day before, won the vacant WBA welterweight crown Saturday with a second-round knockout of former European champion Andrey Pestrayev.
The 27-year-old Page, in his first world title fight, hit Pestrayev with a right hand to the chin and followed that with two punches that finished off the Russian.
Horse racing
GOLD CUP: Wagon Limit won his second race in 10 starts this year Saturday in New York, preventing Skip Away from winning his 10th straight race and reaching $10 million in earnings.
The 34-1 shot lagged behind as Skip Away and Gentlemen dueled through the first mile. Gentlemen began to draw away from Skip Away at that point and looked like the upset winner.
Then Wagon Limit stole the spotlight, charging down the Belmont Park on a sloppy track to beat Gentlemen by 51/2 lengths with Skip Away another 43/4 back.
Skip Away would have become the first racehorse ever to earn $10 million if he had gotten the $600,000 first prize from the $1 million purse. Instead he settled for $110,000, boosting his bankroll to $9,616,360.