Rose Is Leaving for NBA Draft

The Fab Five was reduced to two Tuesday as Jalen Rose, following in the footsteps of Chris Webber and Juwan Howard, announced that he, too, will leave Michigan early to try the NBA draft.

That leaves Jimmy King and Ray Jackson from the talented freshman class recruited three years ago. Webber is finishing his rookie season with the Golden State Warriors, and Howard announced Monday he was turning pro.

The Fab Five went to the NCAA final game in 1992 before losing to Duke. In 1993, the team played again for the national championship, but lost to North Carolina. This season, without Webber, the Wolverines lost to Arkansas in the Midwest Regional final.

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A charity women’s basketball game featuring many of the nation’s top former college players will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday at USC’s Lyons Center. The game is part of a fund-raiser for Compton Centennial, Fremont and Washington high school girls’ basketball programs. A free basketball clinic for Los Angeles-area girls will be held from noon to 2 p.m. at the Lyons Center. Details: (818) 377-4056.

Football

Linebacker Ken Norton of the Cowboys told Dallas television station KDFW that he has agreed to a five-year, $8.5-million deal with the San Francisco 49ers. Meanwhile, the Pittsburgh Steelers, unable to sign the Cowboys’ Alvin Harper to a free-agent contract, are trying to trade their first-round pick in the draft for the wide receiver. And the 49ers traded Ted Washington, a starting nose guard and former first-round draft choice, to the Denver Broncos for a fifth-round pick in Sunday’s draft.

The Philadelphia Eagles will receive an extra pick between the first and second rounds of Sunday’s draft as final compensation for losing free agent defensive end Reggie White last year, the NFL Management Council’s executive committee said. The Arizona Cardinals will also get an extra pick--the 69th overall--as final compensation for losing free agent safety Tim McDonald last year.

NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue will toss a coin that will determine the 1995 No. 1 pick between expansion franchises Jacksonville and Carolina during this year’s draft.

Mark Duper, a 12-year veteran receiver who was cut last season by Miami, Cincinnati and Philadelphia, signed to play for the Canadian Football League’s Shreveport Pirates.

Soccer

Dener, 23, a standout midfielder with the club Vasco da Gama, died in a car crash in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Police said that Dener was sleeping in the passenger seat and had his seat belt on when the crash occurred. The driver, Otto Gomes, suffered broken legs. He told police that he had fallen asleep at the wheel.

The U.S. national team (1-2-7) hopes to improve on its 1-1 draw against Moldova last Saturday as the teams play again today at Davidson College in North Carolina.

Midfielder Claudio Reyna, the U.S.’s youngest player, will get his first start. Tony Meola will be in goal.

Miscellany

The NCAA said it will not penalize Notre Dame in the case of two former football players living at an off-campus condominium paid for by an alumnus. The university had reported that arrangement to the NCAA. The players, Jeff Burris and Bryant Young, are expected to be picked in Sunday’s NFL draft.

Yamaha opened up a lead of 210 nautical miles over its nearest Whitbread 60 rival on the fifth leg of the Whitbread Round the World Race.

Kong Zheng Li, a four-time Chinese Olympian in his first performance as an American citizen, qualified for the men’s 10-meter platform finals in the U.S. Indoor Diving Championships in Minneapolis. An infrequent competitor while concentrating on coaching the last six years, Li also had two pupils--Bryan Gillooly and Mark Ruiz--reach the finals.

David Pichler of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., seeking the first platform title of his 10-year career, had 541.59 points to lead qualifying for Saturday’s finals.

Former Milwaukee Brewer slugger Gorman Thomas, 43, was sentenced to 15 days in Waukesha, Wis., jail after pleading no contest to drunken driving and bail jumping.