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>rotest^° men s soccer l ea § ue
sets teams for 8 cities
d—said it would cancel®
owned by Italian utilK .
mpanyBechtelEnteipnse- Ml W YORK (AP) — Parlaying deep-
oral wealthy Bolivian (audited investors, a strong television presence
• suspension of Bolivia's ;.d the popularity of the World Cup champi-
uarantees called by Presi(BS,*i women’s professional soccer league
w as die seventh timefe ans to begin play next spring.
nc> has been imposed sine;; Tlie Women’s United Soccer Association
umed to Bolivia in 19ft!.'id Monday it approved teams for eight cities:
ever, quiet returns wife danta, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Or-
ndo-Tampa, San Diego, San Francisco and
—Jashmgton.
Listed as alternates were: Chicago,
brazil r-oUjinbus, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami,
jortland, Raleigh-Durham and St. Louis,
ny of those cities might be selected if one
fthe original eight drops out. Also under
nfcderation are Milwaukee, Denver and
oil; ion.
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in pay
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holic drinks in a pub.
ny drinkers said cheers,
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• British Institute oflnnis:
5 licensees,
nd pub keepers expectes
lined to the centers ofk
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p.m. and 3 a.m.
irs across Britain were ah
the clock on New Year ■
aeefully, encouraging Stf
:al overhaul.
Tect 140,000pubs, restau
England and Wales.
! that alcohol abuse conti
crime, 78 percent of a*,
i/ damage cases.
deiSter l^he league begins in April 2001 andhaslet-
percent r: rs of intent to play from all 20 members of the
B U.S. world championship team.
R HWc w ant the focus entirely on the women’s
6011 ame,” said Julie Foudy, co-captain of the 1999
f.S. team. “We all know how difficult it is to
et a league off the ground.
^■With all the resources these companies
p A c. aye and all the promotion you can have, we
_ cel you need that directed focus and energy
vat is solely behind the women’s game. We are
totally committed to playing for just the
WUSA and hoping that is the league that gets
sanctioned.”
WUSA envisions stadiums with capacities
of6,500 to 10,000 for an 80-game schedule, far
smaller than Major League Soccer sites. It
might not find those venues immediately, and
could temporarily emulate the MLS, which has
many teams playing in NFL stadiums.
“ We need to get one season behind us so we
know our exact venue needs,” said John Hen
dricks, chainnan and CEO of Discovery Com
munications and WUSA’s board chairman.
The keys to success are signing the best
players and hooking up with television. TV cov
erage would be on TNT and CNNSI, mostly on
weekend afternoons.
The U.S. Soccer Federation set a May 1
deadline to submit business plans. The WUSA,
with a four-year TV contract with Turner
Broadcasting and such heavy corporate back
ers as Time-Warner, Comcast and Cox Com
munications, already has met that deadline.
“The official U.S. Soccer standards require
each team with a minimum salary level of
$400,000,” Hendricks said. “From the investor
side, to get the absolute top players involved,
we needed to double that budget.
drinJ^if ingh uses advice for win
' H AUGUSTA, Ga. ! The key advice for the Masters had as
SINGH
AUGUSTA, Ga.
(AP) — Without clubs
handed down by his fa
ther, Vijay Singh would
never have learned to
play golf in Fiji, a tiny
South Pacific country
with about 12 golf cours
es - and now, one Mas
ters champion.
I Without some putting advice from his
wife, he might never have won a major.
I Three years ago, while teaching his
young son how to putt, Ardena Singh noticed
a much smoother stroke from her husband
when he used a crosshanded grip.
I He made the change, and a couple of
months later won the PGA Championship at
.Sahalee in Redmond, Wash.
The key advice for the Masters had as
much to do with his head as his stroke.
Singh required 124 putts over four days
on the contoured, concrete-like greens of Au
gusta National, the highest number by a win
ner since officials began counting.
He also had four three-putts, disrupting
the trend of recent winners who had no more
than one.
He showed as much fear over his putts as
when Tiger Woods, David Duval and Ernie
Els all made their run at him during the week
end — none.
“ 1 missed the cut here two years and I was
really disappointed,” Singh said. “I talked to
people about it, especially my wife. She said,
’You cannot come over here thinking you
will putt bad. You’ve got to come here very
positive with what you’re going to do.”
Aggie football team
for final scrimmage
preparing
of spring
BY JASON LINCOLN
The Battalion
Day 14 — that is what the
Texas A&M football team faces
next in spring training.
The Aggies will conclude their
last spring practice in pads with a
scrimmage on Kyle Field at 4:30
p.m. Tuesday.
After that the team will have a
brief practice in shorts on Wednesday
and then it is all over until August.
“There is a challenge any time
you get towards the end to not coast
through the last day,” A&M football
coach R.C. Slocum said. “We’ll be
competing with the other teams to
see that our 14th day is better than
theirs.”
The A&M coaching staff will
have to wait and hope that their fif
teen days of spring practice were
more effective than the other 100-
plus Division I programs.
“It’s really not much time,”
Slocum said about the spring
training program. “Colleges are
the worst-coached athletes in the
country because of the limited
time the coaches get to spend with
the guys. 15 days all spring is re
ally not enough.”
Spring has not been kind to
A&M, healthwise. Nine players
are currently injured, including
four offensive tackles and a pair of
tight ends.
“Practice is going well except
that we’ve had quite a number of
injuries,” Slocum said. “That goes
hand in hand with spring training
though because of the condensed
time period and the fact that your
beating on each other every day.”
Tuesday is the last chance for
quarterback hopefuls Vance
Smith, Mark Farris and Colby
Freeman to put in their bid for the
starting position before August.
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# Name Pos.Injury
Michael Mahan
OL
shoulder
87- Michael DeLaTorre
TE
back
89- J.P. LeCompte
TE
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SI-Taylor Whitley
OL
ankle
68-Britt Lively
OL
ankle
73-Alan Reuber
OL
broken tibia & fibula
5 -Ja'Mar Toombs
RB
hamstring
9 • Bethel Johnson
WR
ankle
29- Maurice Harris
RB
hip pointer
ERIC ANDRAOS/The Battalion
PHOTOS BY SALLIE TURNER/The Battalion
ABOVE: Sophomore
running back Joe
Weber carries the
ball during the Ag
gies’ scrimmage
March 25 at Kyle
Field. A&M has its
last scrimmage of
the spring Tuesday
at 4:30 at Kyle Field.
LEFT: Freshman
quarterback Colby
Freeman gets under
center during the Ag
gies’ scrimage. Free
man is battling for
the starting position
with sophomores
Mark Farris and
Vance Smith.
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