Football
JOHNSON IN TAMPA BAY: Keyshawn Johnson joined the Buccaneers after agreeing to an eight-year deal worth nearly $7 million a season, with a signing bonus of about $13 million.The two-time Pro Bowl receiver was traded by the Jets for two first-round draft picks, the 13th and 27th. New York also has No. 16 and No. 18.
In four NFL seasons, Johnson caught 305 passes for 4,108 yards and 31 touchdowns.
DRAFT DEAL: Baltimore traded the Nos. 15 and 45 picks in the NFL draft to the Denver Broncos for the No. 10 selection. The Ravens also have the No. 5 pick in Saturday's draft.
CHIEF MOON: Warren Moon, one of the most prolific passers in NFL history, signed a renegotiated contract with a $500,000 bonus that will probably keep him in Kansas City the duration of his career.
Third-string quarterback Todd Collins had two additional years added to his current deal, stretching it through the 2002 season.
Basketball
RECKER ELIGIBLE EARLIER: Luke Recker, injured in a car accident last July, can officially start his Iowa career in October instead of waiting until the second semester of the 2000-01 season.
Iowa officials received verbal confirmation from the NCAA that Recker's request to play at the beginning of the season was approved.
Recker played for Indiana for two seasons before transferring to Arizona last summer. After the accident that killed one person and injured three, including Recker, his girlfriend and her brother, he transferred to Iowa, enrolling last semester.
Under NCAA rules, the 6-foot-6 guard would have to sit out a year. But he appealed and will be able to compete immediately.
MUSSELMAN HAS CANCER: Portland Trail Blazers assistant Bill Musselman was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, the same form of cancer that struck Yankees pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre and Flyers coach Roger Neilson, the Star Tribune reported.
Musselman, 59, former coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Cleveland Cavaliers, had a stroke Oct. 28, and since learned it could have been triggered by myeloma, or cancer of the bone marrow.
Musselman compiled a career record of 233-84 as a college coach at Ashland, Minnesota and South Alabama. He is 603-426 in the pros, including four consecutive CBA championships.
HALL OF FAME NOMINATIONS: Isiah Thomas and James Worthy were among 10 players and coaches nominated for the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Worthy was among three former North Carolina players nominated, along with Bobby Jones and Bob McAdoo.
Sidney Moncrief also was proposed as a player, while Lute Olsen of Arizona, Morgan Wootten of DeMatha High School and Jim Phelan of Mount St. Mary's were nominated as coaches.
Kentucky athletic director C.M. Newton and the late Junius Kellogg, a wheelchair basketball pioneer, were nominated as contributors.
To be elected, a nominee needs 18 votes from the 24-member Honors Committee.
WNBA PLAYER AND COACH: Dawn Staley, who will play in the WNBA and on the U.S. Olympic team this summer, was introduced as Temple's women's basketball coach.
Staley, 29, was a member of the United States' 1996 gold medal-winning team. She played at the University of Virginia and was selected MVP of the 1991 Final Four.
Hockey
YASHIN SUSPENSION: Suspended Senators center Alexei Yashin will not be eligible to play for Russia in the World Championships this month.
NHL spokesman Frank Brown said an agreement between the league and International Ice Hockey Federation prohibits suspended NHL players from playing in the championships.
Yashin was suspended last fall after refusing to report to the team unless his contract was renegotiated.
Baseball
DEVIL RAYS FIRE COACH: The struggling Tampa Bay Devil Rays, who allowed 50 runs in four games, fired pitching coach Rick Williams and replaced him with Bill Fischer.
Fischer, a 53-year baseball veteran, was pitching coach for Atlanta's Triple-A team at Richmond.
Tennis
WILLIAMS WITHDRAWS: Serena Williams withdrew from the Family Circle Cup, the biggest sports name to back NAACP's boycott of South Carolina for flying the Confederate flag.
Williams, the sixth-ranked women's player in the world, was the first to commit in January to the clay-court tournament at Sea Pines Racquet Club. But she rethought the decision last month when told of the flag controversy.
SELES WINS: Third-seeded Monica Seles began her Bausch & Lomb title defense with a 7-6 (0), 6-0 victory over Anna Smashnova.
In other second-round matches, top-seeded Mary Pierce overpowered Tracy Singian 6-1, 6-3; 14th-seeded Silvija Talaja overcame Alexandra Stevenson 4-6, 6-2, 6-2; 10th-seeded Amanda Coetzer defeated Magui Serna 6-4, 6-4; 15th-seeded Chanda Rubin outlasted Anastasia Myskina 6-1, 3-6, 6-4; and sixth-seeded Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario downed Tara Snyder 6-4, 0-6, 6-4.
Patty Schnyder upset fifth-seeded Sandrine Testud 7-6 (4), 7-6 (0), Nicole Pratt ousted 11th-seeded Ai Sugiyama 6-1, 7-5, and 16th-seeded Lisa Raymond fell to Sonya Jeyaseelan 6-4, 6-4.
Boxing
LEWIS DECISION: Heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis was ordered to give up his WBA belt if he fights Michael Grant on April 29, something he said he will do while appealing a ruling he called "dead wrong."
A judge said fighting Grant would cause Lewis to breach a contract he signed for a fight against Evander Holyfield.