Sports briefs 7/13/05

Basketball

The Milwaukee Bucks are spending the big bucks this summer.

Dan Gadzuric's agent said the 6-foot-11 center will sign a six-year, $36 million contract to stay with the Bucks once the league-wide moratorium on player movement ends later this month.

That means the Bucks have committed some $200 million in player contracts since July 2.

The Bucks confirmed that they plan to sign Gadzuric.

After signing No. 1 overall draft pick Andrew Bogut to a $26 million deal on July 2, the Bucks' spending spree began in earnest when they agreed to terms with unrestricted free agent Michael Redd for between $90 million and $96 million, pending final wording in the new collective bargaining agreement.

Then, they lured Los Angeles Clippers swingman Bobby Simmons, the league's reigning Most Improved Player, for $47 million over five years.

Football

* Chiefs cornerback Eric Warfield, a repeat drunken driving offender, has been suspended for the first four games of the 2005 season for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy.

Warfield pleaded no contest in January to a felony charge of driving under the influence, his third DUI in as many years. He was sentenced to 10 days in jail and 80 days of house arrest.

Golf

* Mari Chun, a 17-year-old from Hawaii, and Angela Park, a 16-year-old from Torrance, Calif., finished with 6-under 136s on Tuesday and were co-medalists after two rounds of stroke play in the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links.

Park had a 70 in the morning at Swope Memorial Golf Course and then Chun had a 69 in the afternoon to tie her.

The field of 144 was trimmed to 64 with the first round of match play beginning Wednesday.

Ya-Ni Tseng, a 16-year-old from Taiwan who defeated Michelle Wie in the finals last year, beat the 153 cutoff by one stroke.

Soccer

Greg Andrulis was fired on Tuesday as coach of the Columbus Crew, who have the worst record in Major League Soccer's Eastern Conference a year after winning the conference title.

Assistant Robert Warzycha will lead the team on an interim basis. The Crew are 4-10-2 and have scored just 13 goals, tied with the expansion Real Salt Lake for fewest goals.

Andrulis has been with the team eight years and took over as coach during the 2001 season after Tom Fitzgerald was fired. Andrulis' record is 49-43-32.

After going 12-5-13 last year, including an 18-game regular-season unbeaten streak, the Crew lost in the first round of the playoffs.

-- From wire reports