BRIEFLY: ROSE BOWL ADDS 2006 TITLE GAME.

Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services

The Rose Bowl, which will host its first national championship football game for the Bowl Championship Series in 2002, will also have the contest in 2006 as part of a $122-million television package extension, officials said Friday.

The current deal, which guaranteed about $19 million to the Pacific-10 and Big Ten conferences, would have expired in 2002.

The BCS promises to match the No. 1 and No. 2 college football teams in the country in a national championship game. The game rotates each year between the Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Ariz.; the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans; the Orange Bowl in Miami and the Rose Bowl.

The 2001 game will be held in Miami.

- Frank C. Girardot 

BASKETBALL: Grant Hill has told the Detroit Pistons that he will sign with the Orlando Magic next week, according to team executive Joe Dumars..

The Magic offered the free agent $67.5 million for six years, the most allowed under the collective bargaining agreement.

The decision came amid a heightened courtship of Hill, in which the New York Knicks flew their management team to Detroit to meet with him and the Pistons urged him to re-sign.

Dumars said he met with Hill two days after the five-time All-Star returned from house-hunting in Florida, and Hill said he will sign a contract with the Magic.

--Denny Price, coach of the USBL's Oklahoma Storms and father of former NBA star Mark Price and Vancouver's Brent Price, died of a heart attack after becoming ill during a coaching clinic in Enid, Okla. He was 62.

--The Dallas Mavericks and Milwaukee Bucks were fined $50,000 each for violating league rules concerning tryouts of prospective draft choices.

NBA rules prohibit teams from having more than four draft-eligible players on the court at the same time and from having the players compete against veteran NBA players.

NHL: Alexei Yashin's agent denies a report that the star center will sit out another season.

``Alexei never spoke to any journalist whatsoever anywhere in the world,'' agent Mark Gandler said. ``He hasn't spoken to a single person with a pen.''

Yashin, who sat out last season with the Ottawa Senators, was quoted by a Russian journalist in a story published on the hockey Web site Faceoff.com.

--Kevin Stevens, facing felony drug possession charges, signed as a free agent with Philadelphia.

SOCCER: Goalkeeper Briana Scurry, defender Carla Overbeck and midfielder Michelle Akers have recovered from injuries and were among 20 players selected for the U.S. women's team on a three-week pre-Olympic tour of Europe.