BRIEFLY : LIMO DRIVER IN RED WINGS CRASH GETS JAIL.

The limousine driver whose wreck left two Detroit Red Wings comatose was sentenced Friday to nine months in jail in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service at a facility for head-injury patients.

Richard Gnida's jail term will be followed by 15 months' probation. It was his second conviction of driving with a suspended license.

The judge also ordered Gnida to get drug and alcohol counseling and attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings four times weekly when he gets out of jail.

The June 13 crash left Red Wings defenseman Vladimir Konstantinov and team masseur Sergei Mnatsakanov in comas for several weeks. Gnida and Red Wings defenseman Vyacheslav Fetisov suffered minor injuries.

GOLF: It was Bob Duval's PGA Tour son who got him to rejoin the competitive game, and now Duval is following in his son's footsteps, shooting a 66 to tie Hale Irwin and Gil Morgan for the halfway lead of the Senior Tour Championship in Myrtle Beach, S.C. If Duval, a club pro two years ago, can keep it up through the weekend, he will join son David with a win in his tour's season-ending event.

Mark Calcavecchia, who managed to get in only eight holes in Thursday's rain-delayed first round, played 28 on Friday. He wound up with a tournament-record 62 in the opening round. After a 20-minute break, he played the second round and shot a 67 for a 129 total, 15-under-par and a commanding 7-stroke lead at the halfway mark of the $2 million Sarazen World Open in Braselton, Ga.

Screaming ``Woods-san'' and ``Tiger!'' thousands of fans in Hanno, Japan, ignored their local hero and a collection of celebrities to follow Tiger Woods' every move in a pro-am event. Woods shot a 1-under-par 69 at the course outside Tokyo.

TENNIS: Top-seeded Yevgeny Kafelnikov defeated his former teammate on the Soviet junior team, Sargis Sargsian of Armenia 6-1, 6-2 to reach the semifinals of the $1,125,000 Kremlin Cup. Qualifier Daniel Nestor of Canada, ranked 148th in the world, defeated Martin Damm of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-4. The other semifinal today will pit second-seeded Petr Korda of the Czech Republic against Wayne Black of Zimbabwe.

Top-seeded Pat Rafter beat Tim Henman 6-3, 6-3 in quarterfinals for his third consecutive straight-set victory in the Stockholm Open. The U.S. Open champion struggled with his serve early, facing break points in his first three service games against the eighth-seeded Briton.

In Chicago, Nathalie Tauziat used her touch at the net and precise passing shots to upset top-seeded and defending champion Jana Novotna 7-5, 6-3 and reach the semifinals of the Ameritech Cup. Iva Majoli, struggling to regain the form she showed at the French Open five months ago, rallied to beat Yayuk Basuki 4-6, 7-5, 6-4.

MOTOR SPORTS: Dover Downs Entertainment Inc. has acquired Nashville Speedway USA, and plans to build a 50,000-seat complex in hopes of attracting a Winston Cup race. Dover Downs, which operates Dover Downs International Speedway in Delaware, is partnered with Gaylord Entertainment Co., owner of the Grand Ole Opry, in the project.

Mike McLaughlin edged rookie Steve Park to win the pole for NASCAR's Jiffy Lube 300 Busch Series race. McLaughlin toured the revamped, 1.5-mile Metro-Dade Homestead (Fla.) Motorsports Complex in his Chevrolet at 147.771 mph.

Larry Dixon (top fuel), Chuck Etchells (funny car), Warren Johnson (pro stock) and Matt Hines (motorcycle) were the No. 1 qualifiers after the second day of qualifying in the NHRA Winston Finals at Pomona Raceway.

ETC.: Wojciechowiez S. Wojtkiewiez, better known as ``Bow Wow,'' the unofficial field manager for UCLA football coaches going back to the Red Sanders regime in the 1950s, died Friday morning at the UCLA Medical Center of a massive stroke.

``Bow Wow'' grew especially close to Dick Vermeil in the 1970s and departed UCLA for a while to volunteer for Vermeil during the latter's first go-round as a pro coach.

According to ex-UCLA athletic director Bob Fischer, ``Bow Wow'' was ``one of the great characters, a mystery man - he really belonged to the Damon Runyon days.'' Fischer said the volunteer aide's age and profession were a ``mystery,'' but that he once was married to Hollywood writer Sheila Graham.

Services will be Wednesday, 10 a.m., at St. Paul the Apostle Church in Westwood.

The UCLA women's softball team will be barred from the 1998 NCAA tournament after losing its appeal of sanctions handed down for violations involving its 1994 and 1995 teams. UCLA was to have been barred from the 1997 tournament but appealed. Because there wasn't enough time to consider the appeal, UCLA was allowed to play, losing to Arizona in the title game.

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