Healy Signs With N.Y. Rangers

Former King goaltender Glenn Healy, the star of the New York Islanders’ surprising playoff success last spring, signed with the New York Rangers on Tuesday.

After leading the Islanders to the Wales Conference final, Healy was left unprotected in the expansion draft and selected by the Mighty Ducks. The next day, though, Tampa Bay took him in the second phase of the expansion draft.

The Lightning traded Healy’s rights to the Rangers for a third-round pick.

Healy, 31, is entering his seventh NHL season. He played two seasons for the Kings before signing with the Islanders in 1989 as a free agent.

Last season, Healy was 22-20-6 with a 3.30 goals-against average, then was sensational in the playoffs. He started all 18 games and posted a 3.19 average and an .887 save percentage.

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The Edmonton Oilers traded goaltender Peter Ing to the Detroit Red Wings for future considerations.

Ing, 24, came to Edmonton as part of a trade with the Toronto Maple Leafs in September of 1991 that also saw Vincent Damphousse, Scott Thornton and Luke Richardson become Oilers in exchange for Grant Fuhr, Glenn Anderson and Craig Berube.

Horse racing

Julie Krone, the most successful female jockey in history, is expected to resume riding in six months after breaking an ankle in a spill at Saratoga Race Course.

Krone, who is not expected to be able to walk for three months, was thrown from her mount in Monday’s third race.

Soccer

Ernie Stewart scored with three minutes left to give the U.S. soccer team a 1-0 victory over Iceland at Reykjavik.

Stewart took a feed from Alexi Lalas and drove the ball into the net from 10 yards out. It was Stewart’s second goal in his last two games with the United States, which is 7-9-10 this year.

France might be suspended from international competition because of a bribery scandal, the head of world soccer’s governing body said.

FIFA president Joao Havelange postponed questioning of players and officials until Saturday after six of the eight scheduled to appear asked for a delay.

Marseille’s former general manager, Jean-Pierre Bernes, and a player, Jean-Jacques Eydelie, face charges they bribed two players from the team Valenciennes to play badly in a league match this season.

Basketball

Illinois guard Rennie Clemons has been declared academically ineligible for the fall semester but may return in mid-January if his grades improve. Clemons averaged 10.7 points in 18 Big Ten games.

Miscellany

Paul Azinger, Fred Couples and John Daly will try to end the two-year reign of Payne Stewart as champion of the $540,000 Skins Game Nov. 27-28 at Bighorn Golf Club in Palm Desert. . . . Wally Groff, a part of the Texas A&M; athletic administration since 1966, became athletic director, replacing John David Crow, who resigned in May amid an NCAA investigation. . . . Billy Knight, the Indiana Pacers’ all-time scoring leader, was promoted from assistant coach to director of player personnel. . . . The Anaheim Bullfrogs defeated the Los Angeles Blades, 13-4, at the Anaheim Arena to advance to the final round of the Roller Hockey International League.