Brown Joins Raiders; Cox to Become Bear

Cornerback Larry Brown, whose value on the free-agent market soared after he was named the Super Bowl’s most valuable player, said Tuesday he is leaving the Dallas Cowboys to sign a multiyear contract with the Oakland Raiders.

“There’s a point in your life when you have to realize it’s time to move on. I think I came to that page,” said Brown, who had two interceptions in the Cowboys’ 27-17 Super Bowl victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. He did not reveal terms.

Meanwhile, Bryan Cox, a three-time Pro Bowl linebacker known for his emotional outbursts during a five-year career with the Miami Dolphins, agreed to four-year deal with the Chicago Bears and is expected to sign a contract today that will pay him more than $3 million per year.

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The Carolina Panthers signed tight end Wesley Walls, an unrestricted free agent who had been with the New Orleans Saints. Terms were not disclosed. . . . The Atlanta Falcons re-signed starting center Roman Fortin to a four-year contract. . . . Running back Russell White, a former Los Angeles Ram and Green Bay Packer, was selected by the London Monarchs with the third pick in the World League’s 1996 draft. Former Ram Gaston Green was chosen by the Monarchs in the 19th round. . . . A jury will decide if the Super Bowl champion Dallas Cowboys violated NFL marketing contracts by promoting companies on their own. In a victory for the league, U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin rejected the motion to dismiss by Cowboy owner Jerry Jones and ruled in New York that the suit by NFL Properties can proceed. No trial date was set.

Tennis

Stefan Edberg of Sweden will not travel to India for the Davis Cup quarterfinals.

“I dare not go, I’m simply scared of catching some serious disease,” Edberg told the daily Svenska Dagbladet. “Although I’ve heard that things have improved, there is still a risk going there. It is possible I’m being too cautious, but I don’t want to risk it.”

Winter Sports

Austria’s Mario Reiter led after the slalom portion of the men’s combined slalom at the World Alpine Skiing Championships at Sierra Nevada, Spain, followed by Luxembourg’s Marc Girardelli and Rene Mlekuz of Slovenia.

Boxing

Four-time world champion Roberto Duran, 44, enhanced his chances of one final major fight before retiring when he won a unanimous decision over Ray Domenge at Miami. The victory improves Duran’s record to 97-11. Domenge, 30, of Omaha, Neb., is 19-7.

Heavyweight Joe Bugner has been turned down for a second time in his bid to fight in Britain.

The British Boxing Board of Control rejected a second application for the former British heavyweight champion to fight Scott Welch in Glasgow, Scotland, on March 16, three days after Bugner’s 46th birthday.

Citing unspecified financial questions, U.S. Amateur Boxing Inc. officials say they will not renew the contract of Bruce Mathis as executive director.

Jurisprudence

Prosecutors at Richmond, Texas, rested their assault case against Warren Moon after the quarterback’s wife acknowledged she passed up several chances to tell her side of the story. Felicia Moon has wanted the case dropped.

Four Clemson freshmen football players have been arrested in connection with the Feb. 15 rape of a female student in an all-male dormitory on campus, police and university officials said.

The four, Adrian Kennell Dingle, 18, Christopher Rice, 19, Eric Bernard Williams, 18, and Bennie Zeigler, 18, face charges of first-degree criminal sexual assault and conspiracy to commit sexual assault. They have been suspended indefinitely from the team by Coach Tommy West and were being held in the city jail pending a bond hearing today.

College Football

Players who wear cleats longer than one-half inch long will be suspended by the NCAA for one game, according to a recommendation by the NCAA Football Rules Committee.

Miscellany

International Equestrian Federation officials in Brussels said they have given up trying to convince U.S. authorities to allow European horses infected by a tick-borne disease to take part in the Olympic three-day competition.