Basketball
JORDAN EYES HORNETS: Charlotte Hornets and NBA officials confirmed Michael Jordan spoke with team owner George Shinn earlier this month about buying a 50 percent share of the franchise.Hornets officials said that no firm dates had been set for the two sides to meet again but that both parties had agreed to stay in touch.
UTAH TIP OFF CLUB HONORS PAIR: Basketball coaches Carolyn Peck of Purdue and Cliff Ellis of Auburn have been selected as the 1999 winners of the John and Nellie Wooden Award by the Utah Tip Off Club.
Peck's Lady Boilermakers beat Duke Sunday for the NCAA women's championship, while Ellis' Tigers were a No. 1 seed in the NCAA men's tournament and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen before falling to Ohio State.
The Utah Tip Off Club and Wooden will present the awards to the two Saturday, April 10 at a noon banquet at the Salt Lake City Marriott Hotel.
With the honor in its third year, past winners include Clem Haskins of Minnesota, Rick Majerus of Utah, Jody Conradt of Texas and Pat Summit of Tennessee.
Hockey
LINDROS SUSPENDED: Philadelphia Flyers center Eric Lindros was suspended for two games by the NHL for high-sticking and cutting Petr Nedved of the New York Rangers.
Nedved had three facial cuts after being hit by Lindros' stick during Philadelphia's victory on Saturday. Lindros was given a double-minor penalty. The suspension will cost Lindros $86,458.33 in salary.
Soccer
U.S. WOMEN DOWN MEXICO: If this is what the U.S. team can expect from the competition at the Women's World Cup, get ready for some lopsided games.
Maybe the scores won't show it, but only because an opposing goalkeeper makes like Mexico's Linnea Quinones.
Kristine Lilly scored twice in the final six minutes as the United States overcame a strong effort by Quinones for a 3-0 victory Sunday at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.
The Americans had an enormous 42-1 edge in shots and 20-1 in shots on goal, but were stymied by Quinones for most of the match. Quinones, an 18-year old San Diego resident who plays for San Diego State, made 16 saves in her sixth international match.
Auto racing
PRIMESTAR 500: Terry Labonte passed Dale Jarrett with 12 laps to go and pulled away to win the Primestar 500. Labonte crossed the finish line under the eighth caution flag of the day, brought out when Jimmy Spencer crashed four laps from the end of the 334-lap event.
It was Labonte's 21st career victory. Rusty Wallace was fourth, followed by Jeremy Mayfield, rookie Tony Stewart and Jeff Burton, who won the inaugural Texas race in 1997.
Running
WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIP: When four-time winner Paul Tergat surveyed the course, his hopes sank -- right along with his cleats -- into the kind of mud he had never encountered on the Kenyan savannah.
But at the end of the World Cross Country Championship's flagship 12,000-meter (7 1/2-mile) senior men's race Sunday in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the 29-year-old star was punching the dank Belfast air in celebration of his record-setting fifth straight gold in the competition.
"When I saw the conditions, I really didn't think I would win -- not in all that mud. It was incredible," said Tergat, who beat the record set by fellow Kenyan John Ngugi in 1989 with by finishing in 38 minutes, 28 seconds -- four seconds ahead of his unheralded teammate Patrick Uviru.
European runners had hoped that the crummy weather, particularly on Sunday, would help narrow the gap between them and the dominant African nations, since they were more used to training in it. But Kenya and Ethiopia between them shared the individual golds from all six races.
On an overcast but dry Saturday, Benjamin Limo beat several of his Kenyan teammates to win the 4,200-meter (2.6-mile) senior men's short course in 12:28, while Ethiopia's Geta Wami won the senior women's 8,000-meter (5-mile) course in exactly 28 minutes, 12 seconds ahead of her teammate Merima Denboba and Britain's Paula Radcliffe, the crowd favorite.