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Show Inside Today Bruce Summerhays and Hale Irwin prepare for the U.S. Senior Open. B3 B4 Baseball Scoreboard B5 t$ 'Race results Weather B6 B8 SPORTS If f EDITOR: TAD WALCH THE DAILY HERALD 0 WEDNESDAY, McGwire, Sosa team as NL appearance and first start for Mark NEW YORK (AP) McGwire and Sammy Sosa, who led baseball's resurgence 1 Sosa. The second-yea- r Arizona Diamondbacks were the only team to place two players race last with their home-rusummer, will be starting game together in the for the first time. McGwire, who hit a record 70 home runs last year, and Sosa, who leads the major leagues with 32, were elected Tuesday to start for the National League at Boston's Fenway Park on July 13. It will be the 11th appearance and seventh start for McGwire, and the third n All-St- Tad Walch Mountain West officials crafting new power rating This Mountain West Conference is risky business. At least the presidents who created it realize that. BYU prez Merrill Bateman says in today's Cougar Nation he's comfortable with the idea that the Mountain West is a presidents conference. So much is at stake, however, that the presidents want to keep an eye on each other. A good rep is everything in college sports today. BYU has it, the Mountain West doesn't. in the starting lineup: Matt Williams won at third base and Jay Tony Gwynn were elected to join Sosa in the outfield. Gwynn, elected to his 15th r game and 11th starting spot, won't play because of a calf injury that has put him on the disabled list for the second time this season. But he will make the trip to Boston. "I really wanted a chance to play in Fenway, but being on the DL, I can't," he said. "It's not right." Sosa, one of the few bright spots in the Chicago Cubs' All-Sta- Kim Bell overtook Houston's Craig Biggio in the final week to win at second. Mike Piazza of the New York Mets will start at catcher for the sixth straight sea- - g? San Diego's son and make his seventh appearance overall. "I never get tired of going there," Piazza said. "As long as I am elected or selected, I will feel honored to go. It is probably the most fun you can have as a player, hanging out with the rest of the guys." Cincinnati's Barry Larkin held off the Mets' Rey Ordonez at shortstop, and Colorado's Larrv Walker and OF COURSE, the athletic-relateissues of the scorecard are just as crucial. One question might be "How many stadiums in the conference have lights to provide the capacity for night games as well as day games?" The lack of lights at Wyoming is painful when it comes to accommodating the Mountain West's TV deal with ABC and its countless ESPN offshoots. But if you're a fan, the biggest issue on the scorecard is scheduling. Power ratings are in large measure dependent on strength of schedule and opponents' strength of schedule. BYU's been getting killed for years because its conference foes play weak schedules. If the presidents and commissioner Craig Thompson can force Wyoming and Utah to play someone better than Northeast Louisiana, or make UNLV replace North Texas on its slate, the evaluation process will be a resoundd ing success. N And when that one magical season happens for any of the eight teams, Mountain West, team will be jT'uJ " Sated high enough to muscle its way to the Bowl Championship Series. There's the recipe for instant respect. Tfie Daily Herald's 9ports editor. He can be reached via at twalch&ieraldextra.com. & tint- t.i: Va ,H ."- r ! Sec Nl,. IH American team plays to sellouts, enthused fans "The commissioner will monitor it," Skousen said. "If we find somebody at the bottom of that, finishing eighth every year, the commissioner would have some teeth to do something about it." 0 vote-gette- fiW!? ranked. other facilities. Or trying to boost their graduation rates. Or spending more on scholarships. These are very real factors in determining the sports reputation of a college or university. In a world where the presidents run the conferences and now the NCAA, ingratiating yourself with the big whigs can be determined by whether your school's an academic powerhouse. Just ask BYU, which is sniffed at schools for being an by many Pac-1undergraduate institution instead of having a postgraduate, or research, emphasis. It's been used as an excuse to keep the Cougs out of discussions for membership in the Pac-1- dismal season, was the Nl.'s with leading 2,315,204, finishing third overall in the voting. Seattle outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. (2,918,055) led all for the fourth players straight year and fifth tiiin1 overall and was followed by Cleveland second basem;' n Roberto Alomar (2,793,89 ). 2i whose McGwire, homers for St. Louis tied him for second in the league goiir-into Tuesday night's game. CLAREMONT, PRESUMABLY, that school could find itself replaced by, say, Fresno State. If the success matrix becomes a reality, Mountain West schools will find themselves scrambling to improve their football stadiums or JULY 7, All-Sta- rs Not yet. All the better reason for the Cougars to back a conference proposal to keep track of each school's performance in myriad areas. "It's a balanced scorecard," BYU vice president Fred Skousen said. "In business, we'd call it an internal evaluative mechanism." Everything will be weighed and Tad Walch is Bl I te:: . V 'A. ti I Calif. (AP) Soccermania has hit the United States. In the midst of one of its count less bus rides during the Women's World Cup, the U.S. team was told that Saturday's final against China was sold out. The Rose Bowl will be filled, just as it was for the men's championship five years ago. "We all kind of jumped out of our seats and were pumping our fists ami Brandi yelling and cheering," Chastain said Tuesday. "What a great tribute," Cindy Parlow added. "I think the fans appreciate how much we appreciate; their coming to the games and coming out to see us." The Women's World Cup has become a phenomenon in this country. sport Sure, soccer isn't a in America and the MLS is struggling to draw fans and television ratings. But the American women have captured the imagination of the nation with their forthrightness, friendliness and accessibility. "It's something we want to do," Tiffeny Milbrett said. "We'll stay and sign autographs and we'll talk to the fans because we want to do it, not because someone tells us we should. It's important to them and it's important to us." y . fit, CHRIS PIZZELLO Run ladies, run: Members of the U.S. soccer team jog on a trail near Pomona Pitzer College on Tuesday Saturday's final match against China in the Women's World Cup. Once America gets underway today at an unusual site. The Utah State Amateur will run for the 101st straight year at Hill Air Force Base's Hubbard Memorial Golf Course, a course open only to grind-it-ou- g S 104-9- 4 h See CUP, B3 HILL AIR FORCE BASE The longest continuously running golf tournament in the Utah Starzz learn that double-digi- t leads are a good thing, life will be much easier. Until then, they'll gladly t the take as a vicso long approach tory is waiting at the end. On Tuesday it was, as the second-hal- f Starzz blew a lead, then survived a pair buzzer beaters of to knock off the Detroit Shock can get it three overtimes, four overtimes. As long as we end up in the win column," said Utah guard Adrienne Goodson, who finished with a 25 points. season-hig"It was just one of those games. We just kept letting them get back in it." "Those games" are starting to become a staple of Starzz Press preparation for The Daily Herald The Daily Herald in a double-overtim- e thriller at the Delta Center. "We'll take it any way we he Associated By SCOTT BELL By SCOTT TITTRINGTON game-tyin- I. Utah State Am set for 101st year Starzz finally get it straight SALT LAKE CITY in I I V ill STEVE C. WILSONThc Associated Press Where are you? Utah guard Debbie Black swats at Detroit's Sandy Brondello on Tuesday at the Delta Center. season Utah ) has run out to big leads, only to find itself tussles that in resulted in a pair of losses. (4-6- last-minut- Detroit Brondello Sandy guard almost bumped that number to three. single-handedl- y e See STARZZ, B2 (1972, 1977). Two BYU golfers will try their hands in the State Am. Jose Garrido tees off from No. 1 at 8:33 a.m., while team- mate Billy Harvey begins the first tee in the next at 8:42 a.m. federpairing and members military Today and Thursday will al employees. be stoke play, with the 31 Usually the tournament is low qualifiers along with held at private courses, with to Overson 1996 in advancing an exception coming when it was held at match play Friday through Sunday. Springville's Hobble Creek. Memorial is Hubbard Darrin Overson is the defending champion. He 6,946 yards long from the will tee off from the No. 10 championship tees the comtee today at 8:42 a.m. with petitors will drive from. It is most known for it's Doug Bybee, a three-timwon who in and difficult greens. last large champion Those greens will determine 1996. Todd Barker, the 1997 winwhether scores are high or ner, will start from No. 10 at not since water never realjy 1:06 p.m. comes into play on the Other past champions course. e life when playing at home. 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