On television and in familiar form again, Bob Knight had more harsh words for Indiana University in the latest broadcast interview to follow his firing.

During a one-hour interview Wednesday night on Larry King Live, the former men's basketball coach criticized the way Indiana's administration, particularly school president Myles Brand, handled his dismissal, saying he should have left sooner.

"I'm disappointed that I stayed at Indiana for five years under a president like Brand," Knight said.

Brand fired Knight on Sept. 10, saying the coach violated a "zero-tolerance" policy that had been in place since May. Knight, as he did in an interview on ESPN two weeks ago, said terms of that agreement weren't made clear.

MORE COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Rolando Howell, South Carolina's top recruit, asked prosecutors to let him enter a program that will allow him to wipe his record clean of forgery and conspiracy charges. Howell is charged with cashing $1,560 in fake money orders in early August. He has applied for the Pretrial Intervention Program, which allows first-time non-violent offenders to perform community service and repay their debt. ... Magic forward and former Blue Devil Grant Hill will give Duke University $1-million to establish a scholarship.

TENNIS: Top-seeded Mariano Puerta quit during his second-round match because of an injured wrist and withdrew from the $375,000 ATP tournament in Palermo, Sicily. He lost the first set 6-2 to David Sanchez. ... Anna Kournikova advanced at the Seat Open in Luxembourg, losing the first set 6-1 but gaining the quarterfinals when Nadeja Petrova quit in the third set with a thigh injury. Kournikova won the second set 7-5 and was up 4-1 in the third set when the match ended. No. 3 Jennifer Capriati downed Maria Sanchez Lorenzo 6-2, 7-5 and face Anne-Gaelle Sidot in the quarters.

BOXING: Shane Mosley, in the first defense of his WBC welterweight title, will fight Antonio Diaz on Nov. 4 at Madison Square Garden. If all goes as expected, Jacqui Frazier-Lyde and Laila Ali, the daughters of Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali, will fight March 8, the 30th anniversary of their fathers' famous first confrontation. "The fight is on. We just need to make it official," said Peter Lyde, husband-manager of Frazier-Lyde. Lyde said "it's possible" his wife, who is 4-0 with four knockouts, and Ali, 7-0 with seven KOs, each would receive the same $2.5-million purse their fathers received in 1971, which was then a record. "It'd be a celebrity, star-studded affair with Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali at ringside, watching their daughters get it on," Lyde said.

HORSE RACING: Key Oui edged Eze by a neck in the $48,000 feature race for fillies and mares at Belmont Park.

COLLEGES: Anchorage, Alaska, has been selected as the site of the 2002 NCAA skiing championships.

OBITUARY: Bob Hurt, the driver who became a paraplegic when he broke his neck trying to qualify for the 1968 Indianapolis 500, died in his sleep Saturday. He was 61. Hurt died at a hotel in Toronto where he was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.

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