College Basketball

Ken Turner, Ohio State assistant coach,suffered from a heart attack while jogging and was in critical condition at Grant Medical Center in Columbus. He was stricken while running near his home in suburban Westerville. . . . Shareef Abdur-Rahim of Wheeler High School in Atlanta, one of the nation’s top college prospects, said he will attend California. The 6-foot-10 center, a Muslim, said that he chose Cal over Georgia Tech, Georgetown and Arkansas largely because he felt comfortable with the large Islamic population there.

Hockey

Contract negotiations between Mark Messier and the New York Rangers have been muddled by the restructuring of the top echelon at Madison Square Garden in which Bob Gutkowski left as president under fire.