*BASKETBALL: Trail Blazers center Raef LaFrentz will have shoulder surgery later this month. The surgery to repair a tear in the labrum of his right shoulder will be performed Sept. 26. … The Cavs signed restricted free-agent guard Delonte West to a two-year contract Friday, a deal that includes a third-year club option for 2011-12.
*COLLEGE FOOTBALL: West Virginia football coach Bill Stewart has signed a six-year contract that will pay him $800,000 this year with an annual increase of $50,000.
*CYCLING: Boy Van Poppel of the Netherlands earned the first win of his pro career and Lemont’s Christian Vande Velde retained his race lead for the third consecutive day Friday in the fifth stage of the Tour of Missouri.
*GOLF: Cristie Kerr shot a 6-under 66 to take a two-shot lead over Angela Stanford in the Bell Micro LPGA Classic in Mobile, Ala. … Defending champion R.W. Eaks shot an 11-under 61 on Friday in the Greater Hickory Classic in Conover, N.C., missing a chance for the first 59 in Champions Tour history when he parred the final three holes. Eaks has a three-shot lead over Tom Jenkins.
*SOCCER: Ethiopia was thrown out of the qualifying rounds for the 2010 World Cup because of an unresolved dispute over its soccer federation leadership. All four games played by Ethiopia in Africa’s Group 8 have been wiped from the record, FIFA said Friday.
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EDITED BY BOB FOLTMAN FROM TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICES
