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BASKETBALL: SPRINGFIELD, USA: Former NBA player Drazen Petrovic, Italian star Dino Meneghin and Spanish League coach Pedro Ferrandiz have been proposed for election to the Basketball Hall of Fame by its international committee. Petrovic, who played for the New Jersey Nets and Portland Trailblazers, was killed at age 28 in a 1993 car crash. He was a member of Yugoslav and Croatian teams that won silver medals in the 1988 and 1992 Olympics and led his Real Madrid team to the European Cup in 1989. Meneghin, one of Italy's greatest players, played on four Italian Olympic teams from 1976 through 1984. He led his Italian club teams to seven championships and four Intercontinental Cup championships. Ferrandiz, who brought the fast-break to European basketball, compiled a 427-90 record during his 15-year coaching career with Real Madrid, Hesperia and the Spanish national team, leading Real Madrid to 12 Spanish league titles and four European Cups. BOXING: New York: The International Boxing Federation has rejected a bid by its top-ranked contender Chris Byrd to have Lennox Lewis stripped of the heavyweight crown. The announcement, made by Lewis promoters' Main Events, means the British champion will fight for the IBF and World Boxing Council titles when he faces Mike Tyson on June 8 in Memphis, Tennessee. The IBF executive committee made the decision after a three-hour appeal from Byrd, who argued that Lewis should forfeit the crown for taking a big-money fight against the WBC's top-rated challenger rather than face him. The IBF's original ruling in the matter stands, which is that the winner of the June 8 bout will negotiate to fight Byrd next and that the American fighter is allowed to have a tune-up bout because of the delay. CRICKET: PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Wicketkeeper Ridley Jacobs will lead a Busta XI side to play India in a three-day tour game starting in St. Lucia on April 26, a West Indies Cricket Board official said. Jacobs, who has played 37 Tests, was replaced with Junior Murray for the ongoing Test series against India after a lacklustre performance in Sharjah against Pakistan earlier this year. The 12-member squad also includes former Test players Wavell Hinds, Daren Ganga, Dinanath Ramnarine and Ryan Hinds. The third India-West Indies Test will be played in Barbados from May 2-6. Busta XI squad: Ridley Jacobs (captain), Devon Smith, Daren Ganga, Wavell Hinds, Ryan Hinds, Tino Best, Kerry Jeremy, Dinanath Ramnarine, Darren Powell, Gareth Breese, Pedro Collins and Runako Morton. FOOTBALL: PARIS: Retired soccer star Michel Platini said he will quit as an adviser to Sepp Blatter, president of world soccer governing body FIFA, after elections for its executive committee next month. In a newspaper interview, Platini announced his plan to resign as Blatter's adviser at a time when the FIFA chief faces a tough re-election bid on May 29 against African soccer federation chief Issa Hayatou. Critics say Blatter tried to cover up FIFA's financial losses after the $ 300 million collapse of ISL/ISMM, which held the marketing rights for the 2002 and 2006 World Cups. Late last year, Platini said he would remain an adviser to Blatter through the World Cup, which runs from May 31-June 30 in South Korea and Japan. He started advising the Swiss-born FIFA president in 1998. The former French captain is running for a seat on the executive committees of both FIFA and UEFA, Europe's soccer governing body. He is one of 14 candidates in Thursday's UEFA election in Stockholm, Sweden. LONDON: It started on Friday with an item in the gossip pages of a tabloid newspaper. By Monday, the love life of England soccer coach Sven-Goran Eriksson had turned into a full-blown media circus in three countries. Eriksson, a soft-spoken, mild-mannered Swede, faced a grilling from nearly 100 reporters as he tried to cope with the frenzy over his reported romance with a Swedish-born British television celebrity. Eriksson, who is single but lives with an Italian woman, broke his four-day silence about the alleged relationship — a story that has dominated British newspaper and television coverage and also made headlines in Sweden and Italy. He appeared at a news conference to unveil the suit England players will wear at the World Cup. But the event was taken up almost entirely by questions about his private life. The first question went right to the point: Who was his ``first-choice selection'' — his live-in partner of three years, Nancy Dell'Olio, or Ulrika Jonsson, a glamorous, blonde TV personality whom he met in December. ``That's a question which is private,'' Eriksson replied after a slight pause. ``The England squad is not private — you will know on May 7 who is going to be picked or not picked — but my private life I prefer to have that private. It's not easy, as I have seen in the last three or four days, but I never had any intention of commenting on my private life. I won't do it today or any other day.'' Eriksson denied reports he would quit or that the scandal would affect his work. ``I will get on with my job as usual — even if I almost have to more or less use violence to get in my car in the morning,'' he said. GOLF: FAR HILLS, USA: Nancy Lopez, who announced last month that this will be her last full season on the LPGA Tour, accepted a special exemption to play in the 2002 U.S. Women's Open. The Women's Committee of the U.S. Golf Association extended the invitation for Lopez, who has never won an Open, to compete July 4-7 at Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kansas. It will be the 25th Open for Lopez, 45, who played on a special exemption in 1999 and 2000. ``I am thrilled to have another chance to win the Women's Open, a championship that means so much to me,'' Lopez said. She was a four-time runner-up (1975, '77, '89, '97) in the Open and is the only player in tournament history to shoot four rounds in the 60s, which she did in 1997 at Pumpkin Ridge. She finished at 9 under par, one stroke behind Alison Nicholas. Lopez has won 48 titles since she joining the tour in July 1977.
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