UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, May 5, 1997
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Golfer ends drought, wears the Sprint jacket
Tammie Green wins $180,000
The Associated Press
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Tammie Green picked an appropriate tournament to end her three-year victory drought, winning the green jacket at the Sprint Titleholders Championship with a remarkable performance on the greens.
Green shot a pat 72 yesterday, a score that could have been much higher without a smooth, confident putting stroke that saved several crucial pars while some of the game's best players tried to catch her.
She hit a wedge within 2 feet for birdie at the 18th for a 14-under 274 and a two-stroke victory over twotime U.S. Open champion Annika Sorenstam, who closed with a 66.
"It was difficult out there," said Green, who led after all four rounds and won $180,000 from the $1.2 million purse. "I knew I had to grind it
out. I looked up at the leader board a few times and saw Annika and Karrie coming up after me."
Green, who has a major championship among her five victories, had not won since the Youngstown-Warren LPGA Classic in her native Ohio in 1994. She had always been known as one of the LPGA Tour's steadiest players, finishing in the top 10 at all four majors in 1995.
But she had surgery last year to remove an ovarian cyst and felt she tried to return too quickly. She finished 38th on the money list last year, her worst mistake since being Rookie of the Year in 1987.
Green returned to the windswept LPGA International Course early yesterday to complete the third round, which had been delayed by storms and suspended by darkness.
And she didn't make it look easy.
She boyeyed the first hole by blasting a buken shot 20 feet past the hole, then had another awkward buken shot at the second hole, blasting to 15 feet.
But she saved par and might have saved her round.
Green one-putted the next four holes for par, including a 10-footer at the fifth hole. She didn't hit a green in regulation until the seventh hole, where she sank a 15-footer for birdie.
When she made the turn, she had hit only two greens but was at par for nine holes and had a four-stroke lead.
Sorenset, who started the day eight strokes back, two-putted for birdie from the fringe at the 18th, getting within one stroke.
A bogey at the 11th hole dropped a her lead to two strokes over Webb, who had birdied the ninth and 10th. Then Sorenstam, already a three-time winner this year, nearly aced the 14th with an 8-iron to get to 11 under.
"I didn't think I had a chance, but after nine holes, I thought it might," Sorenstam said. "I played a little more aggressively on the back nine."
Sorenstam waited in the television booth to see if Green would falter, and it looked like she might when she left her approach to the 15th hole about 20 yards short. She chipped to 8 feet above the hole and rolled it in for a big par save.
Dooley signs MLS contract
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Thomas Dooley, a key member of the U.S. national team since 1992, has signed to play in Major League Soccer through the 1999 season. He expects to make his debut for Columbus on June 7 against Tampa Bay.
"For me, it will be a new experience, a new starting position in my soccer career," Dooley said Saturday from his home in Gelsinker Germany.
Dooley has been negotiating with MLS for several weeks, but the deal finally cleared its last major hurdle when his German club, Schalke 04, agreed Wednesday not to pick up the option on the final year of his contract.
never knew, Dooley made his debut with the U.S. national team on May 30, 1992, against Ireland. In five
The son of an American soldier he
years, he has accumulated 66 caps, scoring seven goals. He has been a critical component of the American mid field, helping them into the second round at the 1994 World Cup and a fourth-place finish at the 1995 Copa America.
MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER
Dooley will replace former U.S. national team defender Paul Caligiuri, who won a breach of contract suit against MLS earlier this year and was transferred to the Los
Angeles Galaxy.
"Thomas is exactly the kind of player we need," Crew general manager Jamey Rootes said. "He'll make an immediate impact not only with his ability but his leadership."
Dooley still has unfinned business in Europe, where Schalke 04 will play in the first leg of the UEFA Cup final Wednesday against the Internazionale of Milan.
The signing of Dooley is a major coup for MLS, which now has all but one regular starter from the 1994 World Cup team.
"We're very pleased," MLS deputy commissioner Sunil Gulati said. "There aren't too many Americans that have had the experience overseas that Thomas has had."
The following are comments received by the Kansan sports desk via e-mail. Comments and questions will no longer be taken because this is the final paper of the semester. Thank you to all of those who contributed this semester to the Talk Back section. You made it a great addition to the sports page.
point guard Baron Davis and his bad attitude:
The following are responses to Dave Breitenstein's column on
I am a 1990 Jawhawk grad now living in that college basketball wasteland known as Texas. On Monday night, I happened to stumble across Davis' announcement on Fox Sports Southwest. I was not impressed by his self-coronation. Your column hit the nail right on the head.
Baron Davis needs to reevaluate his life. No one should put on such a show just to announce where he or she is going to school. He might as well go ahead and announce himself eligible for the NBA. He
already has the right attitude.
Don't knock Baron Davis. If he had come to Kansas, you wouldn't say anything bad about him. You would be happy that he was here, and you would cheer him every time he played on the court. You need to think twice before you write stuff like that.
Baron Davis is the best young point guard in the country. He may have a bad attitude, but he is young and will learn. Everyone should be sad to think that Davis is going to play against and not for Kansas next year.
Johnson retires after 10 seasons with Suns
SEATTLE — Kevin Johnson, who helped lead the Phoenix Suns into the NBA Finals in 1993, is retiring.
The Associated Press
"If God changes my heart, I'll change my mind," the 31-year-old point guard said Saturday after the Suns were eliminated from the playoffs by the Seattle SuperSonics. "But I don't see that happening. God gave me 10 great years. I have no regrets, only highlights."
In the finale of a NBA career that began in Cleveland in 1987, Johnson scored 20 points but shot only 8-for-27 as the Suns were ousted in the opening round of the playoffs for the second straight year.
Johnson, who was traded by the Cavaliers to Phoenix during his rookie season for Larry Nance and a first-round draft pick, said he planned to sit down and talk to Suns owner Jerry Colangelo.
"But I'm not going to change my mind," he said.
In his 10 seasons in Phoenix, Johnson helped the Suns get into the playoffs nine times. The highlight came in '93 when the Suns lost to Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls in six games.
Johnson averaged 16 points but shot just 29 percent in the Seattle series after averaging 20.1 points and shooting 50 percent in 70 regular-season games. He was named NBA Player of the Month in April when he averaged 23.2 points.
In a game against Seattle on March 26, Johnson hit a career-high six 3-point shots.
It was difficult for him to leave the court for the last time. The Suns' alltime leading playoff scorer received a pat on the head from Seattle's Gary Pavton with 2:25 to go.
His mother Georgia West cheered wildly for her son in his final game at the Key Arena. He scored a dozen of his points in the third quarter when the Suns came back twice to cut a 22-point halftime deficit to six.
"In the last few minutes, this crossed my mind that this was my final NBA game," Johnson said. "And that was pretty emotional."
Johnson scored 12,611 regula.-season points in 679 games and I,942 points in 92 playoff games. He was a three-time All-Star and one of six players to surpass 11,500 points, 6,000 assists, 2,000 rebounds and 1,000 steals.
Johnson was hampered by injuries during the last half of his career. He missed the first 11 games of the season while recovering from hernia surgery but was relatively healthy after that, giving the Suns hope that he would change his mind and return in 1997-98.
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