Brunell Agrees to New Deal With Jaguars

The Jacksonville Jaguars agreed to terms with quarterback Mark Brunell on a four-year, $30-million contract on Friday, agent Leigh Steinberg said. The team confirmed the signing, though declined to comment on financial terms.

Brunell, 30, completed 311 of 512 passes for 3,640 yards and 20 touchdowns last season.

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The Cleveland Browns agreed to terms on a three-year contract with former Oakland Raider tight end Rickey Dudley and re-signed kicker Phil Dawson to a one-year contract. . . . The New England Patriots signed free-agent wide receiver Bert Emanuel to a one-year, $500,000 contract and, according to the Boston Globe, agreed to terms with Damon Huard. The former Miami Dolphin quarterback’s three-year, $3-million deal includes a $375,000 signing bonus. . . . Linebacker Mark Fields, a Pro Bowl selection last season, was cut by the New Orleans Saints.

Motor Sports

The Orlando Sentinel and the Sun-Sentinel of South Florida sued Joshua A. Perper, medical examiner for Broward County, and Michael J. Satz, the county’s state attorney, one day after Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed into law a measure restricting the release of autopsy photographs.

The case has taken on widespread interest because the push to keep the photos private was made by the widow of NASCAR race driver Dale Earnhardt, who died Feb. 18 in a final-lap crash at the Daytona 500.

The suit alleges the law violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution as well as the open government provision of the Florida Constitution.

David Coulthard and his McLaren posted the fastest lap in practice for the Brazilian Grand Prix at Sao Paulo in 1 minute 15.220 seconds. . . . Jaguar Racing team manager Bobby Rahal escaped severe injury when a camera and its support structure crashed in the team’s garage at the Brazilian Grand Prix. The heavy metal scaffolding, which took four men to cart away, runs above all the Formula One team garages and missed Rahal by about a foot as it fell to the floor. . . . Three Formula One teams were victims of violence or robbery in Sao Paulo. Minardi team manager Tony Lees, was held up at gunpoint by two assailants after leaving a bank with close to $8,000 to cover the weekend expenses. The assailants took about 50 English pounds and a wristwatch, but did not see the expense money. Later, seven tires were stolen from Minardi. Six engineers of the Williams team escaped harm from an attempted holdup by a gunman. Wednesday the Jaguar team had seven laptops stolen from the team’s garage.

Miscellany

Michael Phelps, 15, became the youngest U.S. male swimmer to set a world record, winning the 200-meter butterfly in the USA Swimming Championships at Austin, Texas, in 1 minute, 54.92 seconds.

Paulie Ayala unanimously outpointed little-known Mexican challenger Hugo Dianzo to retain his World Boxing Assn. bantamweight crown, but had to fight off his extremely tough opponent the entire bout in Fort Worth. Ayala (32-1) was even knocked down near the end of the fourth round, but he shook it off.

On the opening day of testimony in Miami, police Sgt. Eric Rossman testified that stalking suspect Dubravko Rajcevic, 46, was deranged and delusional. Rajcevic is accused of stalking Martina Hingis, who is expected to testify Monday.

World indoor 200-meter champion Shawn Crawford (10.25 seconds) defeated Olympic 100-meter silver medalist Ato Boldon, in the 100 meters in the final track meet of the Engen Summer Series at Stellenbosch, South Africa. Boldon, of Trinidad & Tobago, finished fourth at 10.41. Crawford also won the 200 at 20.10.

Stanford handed the UCLA women’s softball team its first defeat, 1-0, as the Bruins fell to 35-1. . . . The UCLA men’s and women’s track teams face Azusa Pacific, Cal State Los Angeles and UC Irvine today at Drake Stadium in a quadrangular meet beginning at 9:30 a.m.

Passings

George Connor, the last surviving driver who competed in the Indianapolis 500 before World War II, died Thursday in Hesperia. He was 94. . . . Jim Benton, a member of Arkansas’ All-Century team who played on two NFL championship teams--Chicago Bears and Cleveland Rams, died of cancer at Pine Bluff, Ark. He was 84.