Guards Mike Gansey and Chris Quinn signed contracts with the Miami Heat yesterday and will be with the team when it opens Pro Summer League play next week in Orlando, Fla.

Gansey averaged 14.4 points, 5.4 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.75 steals in 68 games the past two seasons at West Virginia. Quinn, a three-year starter at Notre Dame, averaged 14.6 points, 3.5 assists, 2.7 rebounds and 1.27 steals in 122 games in his four-year career, including a team-best 17.7 points this past season.

More basketball

The Mavericks plan to trade Marquis Daniels to the Pacers for Austin Croshere. The deal cannot become official until Wednesday, when teams can complete trades and sign free agents.

Adam Morrison, the No. 3 overall pick in last month's draft, signed with the Bobcats. Morrison will be paid about $3 million in the first year of the deal and nearly $3.25 million in the second year under terms of the rookie pay scale. The team has the option to renew the contract in the third and fourth years.

The Maryland judge who last month ruled Steve Belkin is entitled to buy the Atlanta Hawks and Atlanta Thrashers from his former co-owners added a new twist to the ongoing feud. Montgomery County (Md.) Circuit Court Judge Eric Johnson ruled the current ownership and management team should retain control while the appeals are heard.

The Celtics exercised the options on point guard Sebastian Telfair and three others, then signed undrafted free agent Allan Ray of Villanova. Telfair, along with forward Al Jefferson and guards Delonte West and Gerald Green, will remain under contract through the 2007-08 season.

Cappie Pondexter scored a league rookie-record 35 points to lead the visiting Phoenix Mercury (7-9) to a 91-76 win against the Detroit Shock (11-6) in the WNBA. ... Lindsay Whalen scored 20 points and made all 12 of her free throws to lead the host Connecticut Sun (13-5) to a 76-71 win against the Charlotte Sting (3-14). ... Erin Buescher scored 19 points on 8-for-10 shooting from the field as the defending champion Sacramento Monarchs (10-8) routed the host New York Liberty (4-12), 79-58.

Wild Things

Washington (19-20) starter Patrick Stanley pitched seven shutout innings, striking out four on his way to his third win of the season in a 4-1 victory against the visiting Kalamazoo Kings (24-17).

Football

Ben Roethlisberger will receive the NFL Quarterback of the Year award at the 21st National Quarterback Club Awards Dinner July 22 in Washington. Jerome Bettis will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award and head coach Bill Cowher will receive the NFL Coach of the Year award.

Prosecutors offered Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer a plea deal to settle charges in an alleged road rage incident. Another pretrial talk in the case was scheduled for Aug. 3.

Swimming

Kaitlyn Orstein, a Mt. Lebanon graduate and a junior at Washington and Jefferson College won a gold medal in the 200 individual medley and the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke at the Maccabi International Games in Australia.

Cycling

Lance Armstrong dropped defamation lawsuits in France after winning three legal battles elsewhere over doping accusations. That means a trial set to start in October against the authors of the book "LA Confidential: The Secrets of Lance Armstrong" will not proceed.

Hockey

Mark Johnson, who scored two goals in the "Miracle on Ice" victory at the 1980 Olympics, was hired as coach of the U.S. women's national team.

Tennis

Jill Craybas, Jamea Jackson, Vania King and Mashona Washington will play for the United States against Belgium in the Fed Cup semifinals next Saturday and Sunday at Ostend, Belgium.

College football

Carnegie Mellon defensive back Aaron Lewis was selected for the Division III Preseaon All-America team by Street & Smith's in their 2006 College Football Yearbook.

Duquesne senior safety Michael Hill, and junior defensive tackle Lou Levine, Franklin Regional graduate, were named to The Sports Network's 2006 Division I-AA Mid-Major preseason All-America team.

Sailing

Bruno Peyron and his crew shattered Steve Fossett's record (4 days, 17 hours, 28 minutes and 6 seconds) by sailing from New York to The Lizard on the southwest British coast in 4 days, 8 hours, 23 minutes and 54 seconds.