Sports People

Deuce Ford, LSU’s leading returning scorer, has been suspended for the entire 1996-97 season for a violation of team rules … . Junior center Zendon Hamilton, last season’s top scorer for St. John’s basketball team, will be out for six weeks after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his left knee… . Kansas City Chiefs kicker Pete Stoyanovich pleaded no contest to a drunken-driving charge stemming from a July 1994 run-in with the Florida Highway Patrol in Fort Lauderdale… . The Miami Dolphins and St. Louis Rams both sought to rectify glaring weaknesses with the Rams acquiring offensive lineman Bill Milner in exchange for tight end Troy Drayton.