Skier Bill Johnson Breaks Hip in Fall

Olympic downhill gold medalist Bill Johnson, who suffered a severe brain injury during an attempted comeback nearly two years ago, broke his left hip in a skiing accident over the weekend.

He was in fair condition Wednesday, said a nursing supervisor at St. Anthony’s Central Hospital in Denver.

Johnson, 43, fell while skiing on an intermediate run at Breckenridge, Colo. He was at the resort participating in the Hartford Ski Spectacular.

Johnson won the downhill at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics, the first downhill gold for an American.

On March 22, 2001, he fell during a training run at Montana’s Big Mountain resort while trying to qualify for the 2002 Games. He spent three weeks in a coma.

Golf

Tiger Woods, who is recovering from knee surgery, probably won’t return until the Buick Invitational in mid-February at Torrey Pines.

“I really don’t have an exact timetable for returning to competition,” he said.

Woods had surgery last week in Park City, Utah, to remove fluid around ligaments in his left knee and to remove a benign cyst.

Woods had a benign tumor removed from the same knee in 1994.

College Football

Safety Donte Nicholson of Mount San Antonio College has signed with Oklahoma, breaking a previous commitment he made to Arizona State.

Former Long Beach Poly coach Jerry Jaso has been selected to take over at Long Beach City College.

Miscellany

Vernon Forrest (35-0, 26 knockouts) will fight Nicaragua’s Ricardo Mayorga (24-3-1, 22 KOs) in a 12-round welterweight unification title bout Jan. 25 at Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula.

Former Charlotte Sting and ABL coach Anne Donovan signed a multiyear contract to coach the WNBA’s Seattle Storm.

Terms were not disclosed.

Amelie Mauresmo of France, the 1999 Australian Open women’s runner-up, won’t play in the Open in January because she’s recovering from a knee injury.

Passings

Bill Bundy, a halfback at USC from 1939-41, died Friday at Rancho Mirage. He was 82.

His mother, May Sutton, was Wimbledon women’s champion in 1905 and 1907, the first American to accomplish the feat. His father, Thomas C. Bundy, was a three-time U.S. Open doubles champion.

Lisle Lloyd, former women’s softball coach at Chapman, has died. He was 79.

Lloyd had suffered a stroke in 1998. He won 529 games in 16 seasons at Chapman, which won the Division III national title in 1995.