NEW YORK - Vin Baker won his arbitration case against the NBA Thursday, freeing him to sign with the team of his choice: New York or Miami.

In Baker's grievance against the NBA, which was argued Monday, arbitrator Roger Kaplan invalidated a league memo barring all 29 teams from signing Baker until his other grievance - against the Boston Celtics - is settled.

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. - Carl Pettersson shot a 9-under 63 Thursday, giving him a two-stroke lead and leaving everyone else thankful that PGA Tour officials went easy on them with the setup on the Sunrise Course at Mirasol.Mark Hensby, who faced slightly stronger breezes late in the afternoon, shot a 65. Steve Flesch, Jesper Parnevik and Rory Sabbatini were another stroke back.Sunrise wasn't the pushover that the adjacent Sunset Course was last year, when the cut was a record 6 under and 13 players finished at 20 under or better.TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Jung Yeon Lee matched the second-lowest round in LPGA Tour history, carding a 10-under 60 to take a three-shot lead in the season-opening Welch's/Fry's Championship.The 25-year-old South Korean player, unaware that she had a chance to match Annika Sorenstam's historic 59, missed a 20-foot birdie putt from the fringe on No. 17 and a 10-footer on the 18th.Sorenstam's 13-under, second-round tour de force at Phoenix's Moon Valley Country Club in 2001 remains the LPGA standard for raw score and score in relation to par. Meg Mallon had a 60 in Tucson last year, the first for the event on the cozy Dell Urich Course.Karen Stupples opened with a 63, England's Laura Davies and South Korea's Seol-An Jeon shot 65s.DOHA, Qatar (AP) - England's Matthew Blackey and Paul Broadhurst and Sweden's Pierre Fulke shot 4-under 68s for a share of the first-round lead in the Qatar Masters.Scotland's Andrew Oldcorn, Japan's Nobuhito Sato and Austria's Martin Wiegele also opened with 68s.BOXINGGLEN BURNIE, Md. (AP) - Hasim Rahman won by unanimous decision over Al "Ice" Cole, a victory he hopes can kick-start his dormant boxing career.Winless since he earned the heavyweight crown with a stunning knockout of Lennox Lewis on April 22, 2001, Rahman (36-5-1) thrilled a capacity crowd of 1,800 at Michael's Eighth Avenue, a ballroom located about 30 miles from his hometown of Baltimore.Rahman dominated the latter stages of the 10-round bout, and nearly floored Cole (34-13-3) with a flurry of punches in the final round. But Cole refused to buckle, and "The Rock" had to settle for a close decision.Judges John Gradowski, Bill Holmes and Don Risher all had Rahman winning 96-94.FOOTBALLIRVING, Texas (AP) - Marcellus Wiley singed a $16 million, four-year deal with Dallas that includes a $4.5 million signing bonus.Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and coach Bill Parcells are thrilled to have Wiley, too. He gives them the pass-rushing end that was missing from a defense that ranked No. 1 in the NFL anyway.NEW YORK (AP) - Phil Jackson and the Los Angeles Lakers' organization were fined $50,000 each by the NBA for comments the coach made about officiating following a loss to the Utah Jazz.Jackson accused referee Bob Delaney of being prejudiced against Shaquille O'Neal following the 88-83 loss Monday night.COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - Duke coach Gail Goestenkors and Rutgers coach C. Vivian Stringer were selected as assistants for the U.S. Olympic women's basketball team.The selections, made by the USA Basketball women's senior national team committee, are subject to approval by the U.S. Olympic Committee. Van Chancellor of the WNBA's Houston Comets is the head coach, and three-time Olympian Anne Donovan already was picked to be an assistant.TENNISINDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) - Jamea Jackson was taken off the court in a wheelchair after being overcome by heat, and temperatures of nearly 100 degrees made for tough conditions during the first round of the Pacific Life Open.Jackson, 17, of Bradenton, Fla., asked for a medical timeout after the first game of the third set in her match against Marissa Irvin. She couldn't return because of heat illness.Irvin advanced to the second round. She was leading 2-6, 7-6 (4), 1-0 when Jackson retired.Joining Irvin in the second round were Jill Craybas, Shenay Perry and Samantha Reeves of the U.S., Silvija Talaja of Croatia, Barbara Schett of Austria, Martina Sucha of Slovakia, Alina Jidkova of Russia, Marta Marrero and Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain, Gisela Dulko of Argentina, Italians Flavia Pennetta and Antonella Serra Zanetti, Angelika Roesch and Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany.COLLEGE SPORTSWASHINGTON (AP) - Reports of sex and alcohol-fueled parties to entice high school players show that colleges have not done enough to police themselves, a representative told Congress.Dave Berst, chairman of an NCAA task force reviewing recruiting rules, said the group is ready to address the problem.Options include shortening campus visits from 48 hours to 24 hours; prohibiting off-campus entertainment; reducing from five to three or four the number of visits a student can take; capping university spending on travel, meals and lodging; and requiring athletes to cover the costs for any visits.