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The ATP has fined Boris Becker $20,000 for insinuating after a defeat in the Monte Carlo Open final that winner Thomas Muster had taken drugs… . Mark Gerberich, deputy commissioner of operations for the Professional Bowlers Association, will become its executive director beginning Jan. 1… . Former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson was nominated by the governor of New York to be chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission… . Guard Mike Williams, kicked off the University of Massachusetts basketball team in February for rules violations, now faces charges of passing a bad check for $4,000. … Ickey Woods, the onetime star running back and acclaimed endzone dancer of the Cincinnati Bengals, was released by the CFL’s Birmingham Barracudas.