Baseball

Angels: Exercised $1.6 million option on RHP Omar Olivares.

Blue Jays: Exercised $4.5 million on IF Tony Fernandez. Declined to exercise $3.5 million option on C Benito Santiago.

Red Sox: Exercised $750,000 option on P Jim Corsi. Declined to exercise $3.25 million option on IF Tim Naehring.

Rockies: P Kevin Ritz exercised $3 million option.

Basketball

Bulls: Re-signed assistant coach Tex Winter.

College

Cal Poly: Dropped the SLO from school name.

UMBC: G Ricardo Dalmau withdrew from school.

Nevada: Reinstated QB David Neill after one-game suspension.

North Carolina: Suspended Chad Priest, David Flowers and Steve Echeverri from wrestling team for violating team rules.

Football

Patriots: Waived CB Steve Lofton. Signed WR Tony Gaiter.

Hockey

Avalanche: Recalled D Ted Crowley from AHL Hershey. Reassigned D Dan Smith to Hershey.

Blackhawks: Signed RW-D Dennis Bonvie to one-year contract; assigned him to AHL Portland for conditioning.

Blues: Signed F Pavol Demitra and F Pascal Rheaume to contract extensions.

Coyotes: Recalled F Brad Isbister from IHL Las Vegas.

Devils: Lent LW Scott Daniels to AHL Albany.

Kings: Assigned G Alexey Volkov to QMJHL Halifax.

Oilers: Lent LW Daniel Lacroix to AHL Hamilton.

Predators: Assigned F Brad Symth to IHL Milwaukee. Recalled F Jeff Daniels and F Doug Friedman from Milwuakee.

Rangers: Recalled D Jeff Finley from AHL Hartford.

Red Wings: Traded G Ryan Bach to Kings for conditional 2000 draft selection.

Sabres: Assigned D Jason Holland to AHL Rochester.

Stars: Activated C Joe Nieuwendyk and C Brian Skrudland from injury list. Placed F Brent Severyn on injured list, retroactive to Oct. 14.

Soccer

NPSL: Wichita will be host of 1999 All-Star Game.

Cleveland (NPSL): Signed F Goran Vasic, F Lester Felician, F Kirk Dietrich, M Omar Dalombo, M Adam Cornett and G Nick DeCello.

Pub Date: 10/23/98