AGASSI OUT OF FRENCH; GRAF SEEMS IMPROVED.

If Andre Agassi hopes to put his tennis game back on course, it won't be at the French Open.

Agassi, a two-time French Open finalist who has played sparingly this year, withdrew from the clay-court major because of an injured right wrist. It is the same injury that forced him from the German Open two weeks ago.

The French Open, the only Grand Slam tournament Agassi has never won, begins Monday.

Steffi Graf, honing her game for the French, rebounded from the worst loss of her career with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Canada's Patricia Hy-Boulais at the Strasbourg Open. ``I am feeling better now,'' Graf said. ``I was a lot less nervous than I was last week in Berlin.'' Amanda Coetzer of South Africa beat her 6-0, 6-1 in the quarterfinals at the German Open.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Jim Harrick Jr. will remain as an assistant coach at Valparaiso University and won't join his father's staff at Rhode Island. Jim Harrick Sr., who led UCLA to a national championship in 1995, is in the process of interviewing candidates for his staff and was considering his 31-year-old son, who is entering his first season as an assistant at Valparaiso.

``He asked me and we talked about it,'' the younger Harrick said. ``I don't think it's the best situation for the both of us right now.''

COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Kennedy Pola, an assistant at San Diego State, has been selected to coach running backs at Colorado, head coach Rick Neuheisel announced. Pola, 33, will succeed Ben Gregory, who died of a heart attack April 10.

Pola had been running-backs coach at SDSU since the 1994 season after two years as a graduate assistant at UCLA, where both he and Neuheisel coached under Terry Donahue. Pola played at USC.

BOXING: Nine years later and there's no gold medal for Roy Jones Jr. The International Olympic Committee upheld the result of the American boxer's disputed loss at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Jones, who went on to become a world champion as a professional, lost the 156-pound light middleweight final in a 3-2 decision to South Korea's Park Si-Hun.

SOCCER: Former Cal State Northridge player Thor Lee, a defenseman, was picked by Anaheim in the first round of the Continental Indoor Soccer League dispersal draft.