Seahawks Have Deal With Anaheim to Practice

Anaheim officials said Saturday the city has reached a one-year lease agreement, with options to extend up to three years, with the Seahawks to use the former Rams Park as their practice facility and offices.

The Seahawks are expected to begin off-season training at the newly named Anaheim Training Facility on Monday.

“This agreement means that our team’s off-season conditioning program can officially proceed as planned, and that the site will serve as our Southern California headquarters,” said John Lohr, representative of Seahawks owner Ken Behring.

The one-year lease agreement with options to extend for up to three years, is expected to be formally approved by the Anaheim City Council at its next meeting March 26.

“Naturally, we’re happy that all the details could be worked out to everyone’s satisfaction,” said Anaheim City Manager James D. Ruth. “We are excited that Anaheim will be home, at least on an interim basis, to the franchise.”

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The Denver Broncos have signed free agent defensive back Erik McMillan, 29, who is trying to make a comeback after two seasons out of football. . . . The Indianapolis Colts signed free agent offensive guard Doug Widell, who played at Detroit last season.

Golf

A soft course and a still day led to low scores in the third round of the Bay Hill Invitational, in which Guy Boros shot a six-under-par 66 for a share of the lead with Patrick Burke.

Boros birdied four of the last five holes at the Orlando, Fla., course to get to 10-under 206 and into a tie with Burke, who shot a 69. Jeff Maggert was a stroke behind.

Jeff Sluman, two shots behind as play began, determined that he had taken an improper drop on No. 17 after hitting his tee shot in the water in the second round and disqualified himself for having signed an incorrect scorecard.

Danielle Ammaccapane had three birdies in the last four holes and shot a six-under-par 66 for a two-stroke lead over Cathy Johnston-Forbe in the LPGA Ping-Welch’s Championship at Tucson. Ammaccapane is at 12-under-par 204. . . . Miguel Angel Jimenez of Spain recovered from a double bogey at the 13th hole to shoot a two-under 70 for a 15-under 201 and a one-shot lead over Colin Montgomerie after the third round of the Desert Classic at Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Motor Sports

Wayne Taylor, Jim Pace and Eric Van de Poele combined to drive an Oldsmobile Aurora-R&S; Mk3 to victory in the 12 Hours of Sebring at Florida.

The victory was the manufacturer’s first at Sebring, and the first by an American car since 1969 in the nation’s oldest sports car race.

Blaine Johnson led top fuel qualifying, Al Hofmann funny cars and Warren Johnson pro stock for today’s finals in the NHRA Gatornationals at Gainesville, Fla.

Miguel Duhamel held off Scott Russell by less than a wheel length to win the Daytona 200 motorcycle race in Florida.

Winter Sports

Manuela di Centa of Italy won her second World Cup cross-country ski title by finishing fifth in the women’s 30-kilometer season finale in Oslo. . . . Annamarie Thomas of the Netherlands was timed in 1 minute 21.01 seconds and edged Christine Witty of West Allis, Wis., by 0.24 seconds to win the women’s 1,000 meters at the World Single-Distance Speedskating Championships at Hamar, Norway. . . . Eric Bergoust of Missoula, Mont., had the best second jump at Altenmarkt, Austria, to lead Americans into the top four spots in a World Cup aerials meet.

Names in the News

Joe Bugner, 46, ended his comeback after Scott Welch’s right hook broke one of his ribs and the referee stopped the World Boxing Organization Inter-Continental heavyweight title fight at 2:48 of the second round in Berlin. . . . Kermit Davis, 36, will return to Idaho as men’s basketball coach, a position he left in 1990 to go to Texas A&M.; . . . Kenneth Carlsen beat Johan van Herck, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3, to become the first Danish finalist in the Copenhagen Open. Carlsen will meet Cedric Pioline, a 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 winner over Tim Henman.

Walter Ray Williams Jr. had three strikes in the final frame to defeat Brian LeClair, 258-257, in the finals of the Pro Bowlers Assn. Showboat Invitational in Las Vegas. . . . Goals by Tiffeny Milbrett and Kristine Lilly gave the U.S. women’s national team a 2-0 soccer victory over Germany at Davidson, N.C. . . . A.J. Wood scored for the U.S. Under-23 national men’s soccer team in a 1-1 tie against the third-division Cascade Surge at Salem, Ore. . . . New Zealand’s Gavin Brady came from behind in the last race at Long Beach to beat France’s Thierry Peponnet by 24 seconds and win sailing’s 32nd Congressional Cup. . . . Mark Lenzi broke Greg Louganis’ 13-year-old world mark in his final 11 dives as he rallied to win the three-meter springboard championship at the HTH Diving Classic at Rockville, Md.