A roundup of the week May 24-30

PRO BASKETBALL—With a 110-94 win on Sunday, the Philadelphia 76ers tied their best-of-seven NBA championship series with the Los Angeles Lakers at one victory apiece. L.A. had won Game 1 by a score of 124-117 (page 36).

BOWLING—MIKE DURBIN beat Nelson Burton Jr. 212-207 to win the $95,000 Tucson Open.

BOXING—RAFAEL LIMON knocked out Rolando Navarette in the 12th round in Las Vegas to regain the WBC junior lightweight championship.

GOLF—RAYMOND FLOYD fired a seven-under-par 281 to win the $350,000 Memorial Tournament at the Muirfield Village course in Dublin, Ohio by two strokes over four other players (page 73).

Sandra Spuzich beat Patty Sheehan on the 1st hole of sudden death to win the $125,000 Corning (N.Y.) Classic after both finished regulation at eight-under-par 280s. At 45, Spuzich is the oldest player to win an LPGA event.

Houston won the men's NCAA Division I championship, beating runner-up Oklahoma State 1,141 strokes to 1,151 at Pinehurst, N.C. Cougar freshman BILLY RAY BROWN fired an eight-under-par 280 to defeat Andy Dillard of Oklahoma State by two shots for the individual title. In the women's championships at Stanford, Calif., TULSA defeated runner-up Texas Christian, 1,191 strokes to 1,227. Tulsa's KATHY BAKER shot a three-over-par 295 to win the individual title by one stroke over teammate Jody Rosenthal.

GYMNASTICS—TRACEE TALAVERA successfully defended the women's national title, edging Julianne McNamara 75.95-75.65 in the all-around at the USGF championships in Salt Lake City.

HORSE RACING—HIGHLAND BLADE ($6.80), ridden by Jacinto Vasquez, beat Dom Menotti by three quarters of a length to win the $115,000 Red Smith Handicap at Belmont Park. The 4-year-old colt ran the 1¼ miles on the turf in 206[2/5].

Chicks Etta Wind ($11.60), Rudy Bustamante up, beat Call Me Favorite by 1¼ lengths to win the $768,040 Kansas Futurity for quarter horses at Ruidoso Downs. The 2-year-old filly ran the 350 yards in 18.22 seconds.

LACROSSE—NORTH CAROLINA defeated Johns Hopkins 7-5 to win its second consecutive NCAA championship, in Charlottesville, Va.

MOTOR SPORTS—GORDON JOHNCOCK, driving a Wildcat-Cosworth, beat Rick Mears, in a Penske-Ford, by a car length to win the 66th Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Speedway. Johncock averaged 162.029 mph over 200 laps of the 2.5-mile circuit (page 28).

Neil Bonnett averaged 130.058 mph around the 1½-mile track in his Ford to win the $455,000 NASCAR World 600 at the Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway by a car length over Bill Elliott in a Ford.

SOCCER—Sparked by the goaltending of Mike Hewitt, who turned away 14 shots in two games, San Jose shut out Portland and San Diego by 1-0 scores and shot past the Sockers into first place in the NASL's Western Division. Against Portland, Earthquake Wing Godfrey Ingram had the only goal, unassisted, at 55:27. In the victory over San Diego, the 'Quakes' sixth in their last seven games, the winner was scored on a volley shot by Midfielder Gary Etherington, one of the 12 U.S. players on the San Jose roster. At 13:36, Etherington intercepted a defensive clearing attempt on the fly and, without trapping the ball, booted it home from 18 yards out. Fort Lauderdale beat Edmonton 2-1 and Tulsa 4-2 on a pair of game-winning goals by another U.S. player, former Indiana University All-America Robert Meschbach. The victories increased the Striker Southern Division lead to 34 points over second-place Tampa Bay. Meanwhile, Tatu, the sensational 21-year-old Brazilian wing, made his outdoor debut with Tampa Bay against Edmonton and got two goals in a 4-1 Rowdie triumph. In that game Rowdie Forward Luis Fernando also scored two goals, boosting his season total to 10, which tied him in the individual goal-scoring race with Jacksonville's Ricardo Alonso and Giorgio Chinaglia of the Cosmos. Alonso was shut out as Jacksonville was beaten 2-0 by Seattle; Chinaglia and the Eastern Division-leading Cosmos had no NASL games.

INDOOR SOCCER—The New York Arrows won their fourth consecutive MISL title, beating St. Louis 8-6 in the decisive fifth game of their championship playoff series. With the score tied 5-5 in the fourth period, the Arrows got a pair of goals from forwards Stan Karasi and Franz St-Lot to take a 7-5 lead with 2:44 to play. A Greg Villa goal brought St. Louis to within a goal only 10 seconds later, but New York's Steve Zungul iced the game with a shorthanded score at 14:06. It was Zungul's fourth goal of the game and a record 24th of the playoffs.

TENNIS—RICHMOND defeated William and Mary 69-61 to win the AIAW Division II championship title at Greeley, Colo. CHERI DOW of William and Mary won the No. 1 singles title 6-1, 6-4 over Suzanne Kuhlman of Georgetown. Richmond's SHARON DUNSING and MARTHA PURYEAR won the doubles title 6-3, 6-3 over runners-up Mary Pat Dougherty and Sharon Swanbery of Stetson.

MILEPOSTS—SIGNED: By the U.S. Football League and ABC, a two-year, $22 million television contract. The network plans to televise 20 games during the USFL's inaugural season.

SOLD: By owner Peter Gilbert for an estimated $9 million, the COLORADO ROCKIES, to a group that is headed by John McMullen, a shipbuilder and the principal owner of the Houston Astros. McMullen will move the team from Denver to the Byrne Meadowlands Arena in New Jersey, which is his home state.

TRADED: By the Baltimore Colts, Defensive Back BRUCE LAIRD, 32, to the San Diego Chargers for a future draft choice; by the New England Patriots, Defensive End JOHN LEE, 29, to the Chicago Bears for a future draft pick; by the Minnesota Vikings, Linebacker JEFF SIEMON, 32, to San Diego for a future draft choice.

DIED: JOHN NELSON, 51, NASCAR driver from Walnut Cove, N.C.; of a heart attack suffered during a practice run on the Bowman Gray Stadium track in Winston-Salem, N.C.