BRIEFLY : EDDIE JORDAN OUSTED AS SACRAMENTO COACH.

Byline: Daily News Wire Services

The Sacramento Kings removed former Lakers player Eddie Jordan as head coach Tuesday and announced the launch of a search for a replacement.

Jordan, 43, compiled a 33-64 record after replacing Garry St. Jean in the final weeks of the 1996-97 season. Sacramento finished 27-55 under Jordan in 1997-98, his only full season as head coach.

TENNIS: Bob Bryan the tour rookie from Camarillo, found out why Marcelo Rios is the world's top-ranked player in the RCA Championships at Indianapolis. Rios fought off Bryan's upset bid to win 6-4, 6-4 and advance to the round of 16.

``I wasn't going out in awe today,'' Bryan said. ``I was actually giving it a good effort to win that match, so that's why I'm a little disappointed. But he's No. 1 in the world and I can't hang my head too much.''

Bryan received a wild-card entry to the U.S. Open, which will begin Aug. 31 in New York. Among other players receiving wild cards were Jennifer Capriati and Patrick McEnroe.

Steffi Graf, hampered by injuries in the last year, showed flashes of brilliance in her second-round match against Spain's Virginia Ruano-Pascual, needing only 41 minutes for 6-0, 6-1 victory at the du Maurier Canadian Open in Montreal.

GOLF: John Daly says it might be time for him to walk away from golf until he can get his game straightened out. ``I've had it with this,'' he said in the wake of a 2-over 74 that left him 13 strokes back in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. ``It ain't worth it.''

Frustrated by working harder than he ever has but getting nothing in return, Daly planned to withdraw from this week's Sprint International in Colorado and won't play another PGA Tour event this year. ``Only the fun events,'' he said, mentioning the Fred Meyer Challenge, the Shark Shootout and the J.C. Penney Classic.

The PGA Tour cannot bar disabled golfer Casey Martin from using a golf cart, the Justice Department argued in legal papers supporting the player's case as a test of the federal Americans With Disabilities Act. Martin sued the tour and won the right to use a golf cart in February. The PGA appealed, claiming it is not covered by some ADA rules and that using a cart removed the element of fatigue from the game.

COLLEGES: USC announced the extension of contracts for three of its coaches. Men's tennis coach Dick Leach and women's tennis coach Richard Gallien were extended through 2003, track coach Ron Allice through 2004.

OLYMPICS: The number of banned substances may be increased for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia, even though there has been a call to cut the list, IOC member Phil Coles said. Coles, also a member of the Australian Olympic Committee, said the current list of banned substances was too long but was only likely to grow before the next Olympics.

In Berlin, five former sports officials admitted they had had systematically administered performance-enhancing drugs to East German female swimmers, but they insisted they were unaware of any damaging side-effects. Dr. Ulrich Suender's testimony opened the second trial now under way in Germany involving the dispensing of banned substances by sports officials.