Sports Brief for June 26, 2003

Thursday, June 26, 2003 | 10:02 a.m.

Rebels sign New Zealand star

The UNLV men's golf team has signed New Zealand standout golfer Sam Hunt to a national letter of intent, head coach Dwaine Knight announced Wednesday.

Hunt, 18, of Rotorua, New Zealand, joins Matt Edwards of Henderson and Andy Leadbetter of Orlando, Fla., in completing the Rebels' 2003 recruiting class.

Hunt won the New Zealand Amateur last year and was both the New Zealand stroke playchamp and under-19 champ in 2001. He finished fifth at the Toyota Junior Golf World Cup in Japan earlier this year.

Tarpley wants to return to the NBA

Former Dallas Mavericks forward Roy Tarpley, banned from the NBA in 1995 for violating the league's substance-abuse policy, has applied for reinstatement to the league.

Tarpley, 37, told Houston television station KRIV that he hopes to revive his NBA career soon.

An NBA spokesman declined to comment, citing the terms of the league's drug policy.

Yankees hire Sojo

The New York Yankees hired Luis Sojo as a special assignment instructor.

Sojo played in parts of six seasons with the Yankees from 1996-2001, and was a member of four World Series championship teams.

Ex-Washington RB dies

Charles O. "Chuck" Carroll, an All-American running back at the University of Washington and a prosecutor in Seattle's King County -- whose 22-year tenure ended in the taint of a corruption scandal -- is dead at 96.

Carroll, whose single-game scoring record still stands, was one of three players whose numbers have been retired by the Huskies. He died Monday at Swedish Hospital, his son Chuck Carroll Jr. told the Seattle Times.