Barkley, Dumars, Wilkins inducted

Charles Barkley loves watching films of himself playing basketball.

He said it’s not narcissistic. It’s about seeing basketball played hard, with players giving 100 percent and the game coming before the individual.

“I always tried as hard as I possibly could,” Barkley said Friday before his induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. “I like seeing that on tape. Today, they want to be stars. They don’t want to be great players. We wanted to be great players.”

Two other greats from Barkley’s era, Dominique Wilkins and Joe Dumars, also were inducted as part of a hall of fame class that also includes former Big East commissioner Dave Gavitt, Connecticut women’s coach Geno Auriemma and Italian coach Sandro Gamba.

•The Philadelphia 76ers added depth to their front court by signing 11-year veteran Alan Henderson.

•Henry Charles James, 41, who played with a half dozen NBA teams during the 1990s, was charged in Fort Wayne, Ind., with dealing cocaine while his six young children were there.

•Memphis Grizzlies forward Pau Gasol will be sidelined for four months after surgery to repair a broken bone in his left foot. He broke the bone last week playing in the world championships.

•The Denver Nuggets re-signed forward Reggie Evans to a multiyear contract. Terms were not released.

Football

Former coach dies

Erk Russell, who led Georgia’s “Junkyard Dawg” defense under Vince Dooley and then built a small-college powerhouse of his own at Georgia Southern, died after a single-car accident in Statesboro, Ga. He was 80.

Russell was brought by ambulance to a hospital and pronounced dead on arrival. Hospital officials said Russell’s death was not from injuries related to what was described as a minor crash, adding the examination is not complete. Russell’s SUV swerved off the road and struck a light pole.

•A mental health evaluation of former Ohio State star Maurice Clarett found he is competent to stand trial on robbery charges, his attorney said.

Miscellany

Gymnast files lawsuit

A teenage girl in Texas contends her former coach at an elite gymnastics academy sexually assaulted her repeatedly and encouraged her to use cocaine to lose weight.

Her lawsuit accuses the owners of the World Olympic Gymnastics Academy – known for producing Olympic gold medalist Carly Patterson and U.S. champion Nastia Liukin – of failing to screen and supervise the coach. The former instructor, Christopher Wagoner, 33, has pleaded not guilty to four counts of sexual assault of a child and faces trial Sept. 18 in Dallas County. The girl was 14 when the assaults allegedly began.

•The NHL’s Buffalo Sabres re-signed their No. 1 goalie, Ryan Miller, to a three-year deal.

•Eddie Reese, the longtime coach at Texas, and Jack Bauerle, who built a powerhouse at Georgia, were named head coaches of the U.S. swimming team for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.