The Angels jumped into the replacement-player frenzy...

The Angels jumped into the replacement-player frenzy by announcing tryout camps the next two weeks and then conceded that they’re not looking forward to fielding a strike-replacement team.

“I don’t think you’ll have a lack of intensity, but you’ll definitely have a lack of ability,” Bavasi said.

The camps will begin Jan. 20 at Cal State Fullerton. Details: 1-800-514-1068.

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Acting Commissioner Bud Selig and Colorado Rocky chairman Jerry McMorris met for nearly an hour with Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), the new chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in their effort to prevent lawmakers from eliminating the sport’s antitrust exemption.

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All front-office personnel with the Toronto Blue Jays, from secretaries to President Paul Beeston, have accepted pay cuts to avert layoffs.

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Faced with the possibility of losing the Seattle Mariners after the team’s Kingdome lease runs out in 1996, a task force recommended a baseball-only, retractable-roof stadium be built by King County at a cost of $261 million.

Tennis

Andre Agassi lost to Australian Patrick Rafter, 6-3, 6-2, in the opening round of the Adelaide International exhibition tournament in Australia.

Agassi is playing in the Australian Open for the first time, starting Monday. Ranked No. 2 in the world, he received a soft draw. He starts against a qualifier in the first round, then would play the winner of a match between two qualifiers.

Jan Siemerink of the Netherlands upset top-seeded Wayne Ferreira of South Africa, 2-6, 7-5, 6-3, in the New Zealand Open at Auckland.

Football

Branndon Stewart, who lost out to fellow freshman Payton Manning in a duel for Tennessee’s quarterback job, said that he is transferring to Texas A&M.;

Colorado junior defensive tackle Shannon Clavelle said he will make himself available for the NFL draft in April.

Tom Osborne added another honor to Nebraska’s national championship season when he was named 1994 NCAA Division I-A coach of the year at the American Football Coaches Assn. convention in Dallas.

A Canadian Football League franchise has been awarded to Birmingham, Ala.

Miscellany

A Marion (Ind.) County judge issued an arrest warrant for former Indianapolis Colt quarterback Art Schlichter on felony bank fraud charges.

Schlichter, already awaiting sentencing on federal bank fraud charges in Las Vegas, allegedly opened bank accounts, deposited money and bad checks, and then withdrew cash last October, Marion County Prosecutor Scott Newman said.

Newman said Schlichter would then open other accounts and repeat the process.

Aham Okeke of Norway, one of Europe’s top sprinters, tested positive for steroids in the United States last month and could be banned from track and field for life.

Norwegian news agency NTB said that the Nigerian-born sprinter, a sophomore at Abilene Christian, was subjected to an out-of-competition test Dec. 5. The “A sample” showed high levels of testosterone, a male hormone that acts as a steroid in building muscle mass.

Jerry Yeagley of Indiana was voted the top NCAA Division I men’s coach and Chris Petrucelli of Notre Dame was selected the top women’s coach by the National Soccer Coaches Assn. of America.

Parimutuel betting on horse races in Japan reached a record $38.07 billion in 1994, up 1.6% from a year earlier, Japanese officials said.

Todd Lodwick and Ryan Heckmann gave the United States its best finish in 11 years in an individual Nordic combined event by placing sixth and 10th in a World Cup meet at Predazzo, Italy.