BRIEFLY HEART ATTACK PUTS HUGGINS IN HOSPITAL.

Byline: - Daily News Staff and Wire Services

Cincinnati basketball coach Bob Huggins had a heart attack Saturday at Pittsburgh International Airport during a recruiting trip, a hospital official said.

Huggins, 49, was in serious but stable condition at Medical Center, Beaver, about 24 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, hospital official Scott Monit said at a briefing Saturday.

Huggins had chest pains at the airport, about 11 miles west of Pittsburgh, and was taken to a nearby hospital before he was transferred to the Medical Center, where he had surgery to implant a stent Saturday morning, Monit said.

--Police in Papeete, Tahiti, want to see documents left with a lawyer by Miles Dabord, the late brother of former NBA player Bison Dele and a key witness in Dele's disappearance.

Dabord, 35, died Friday night in Chula Vista, where he was hospitalized Sept. 14.

HOCKEY: Steve Heinze, Erik Rasmussen and Ziggy Palffy scored second-period goals as the L.A. Kings earned a 5-4 exhibition victory over the host San Jose Sharks.

BOXING: Former IBF featherweight champion Jorge Paez of Mexico stopped countryman Juan Macias in the eighth round of a scheduled 10-round lightweight bout at the Pond in Anaheim.

GOLF: A small group of Augusta National Golf Club members plan to seek an internal compromise to end a conflict with women's groups critical of the club's all-male membership. About a dozen of the roughly 300 members of the club, which hosts the Masters, said they were concerned club chairman Hootie Johnson had not taken the right approach. They said they would seek to have Augusta National admit at least one female member within the next six months or so.

FOOTBALL: A 16-year-old high school football player in Tennessee died after collapsing during pregame warmups. Chad Franklin, a junior tight end, collapsed Friday while catching passes from the team's quarterback and coach, principal Mike Bishop said.

--Former Cal State Northridge quarterback Marcus Brady was traded from the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to the Toronto Argonauts in the Canadian Football League.

Brady originally signed with Winnipeg but then signed as a free agent with the Green Bay Packers. Brady was released by Green Bay before the NFL regular season.

TENNIS: Serena Williams moved within a victory of her sixth title in seven tournaments by beating Justine Henin 6-4, 6-2 in the $585,000 Sparkassen Cup semifinals in Leipzig, Germany.