Pro Basketball

Authorities filed drunk-driving charges against Dallas Maverick star Roy Tarpley. The Dallas district attorney’s office also said it will ask that Tarpley’s probation for a 1989 DWI conviction be revoked.

The 7-foot, 250-pound center, who has twice violated the NBA’s anti-drug policy, was arrested early Saturday on suspicion of driving while intoxicated after he was clocked at 28 m.p.h. over the speed limit in a 35-m.p.h. zone.

The Nov. 15, 1989 DWI arrest was complicated by a battle in which it took six policemen to subdue him and take him to jail.

Last September, in granting Tarpley a probated sentence, County Criminal Court Judge Mike Schwille warned that if Tarpley failed to meet the terms of his probation, he would send him to jail for one year.