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Show TheSalt LakeTribune INS SPORTS “SIBUSINESS Cart May Become Super Marketing Tool/ D-6 TUESDAY AUGUST3, 1999 I AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL D-2 ™@ WNBA ROUNDUP D-3 BASEBALL D-4 Vaughn Hopes Jazz Get the Point - “This season was such an awful, drastic changefor me. I'm indecisive, but thefirst thing I haveto dois take care of Cindy. I want to be happy and comfortable again and get my old confidence back.” Seldom-used guard shines at Revue; no word yet on Anderson’s contract BYSTEVE LUHM THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Cindy Brown Utah Starzz Player a and, according to a The Jazz promised Jacque Vaughn plenty of opportunity during the Rocky ‘Veteran Brown Born Too Soon Mountain Revue. Theyliveduptotheir word, Vaughnplayed 35 minutes per gamein the annual summerleague, which concluded Monday night at the Delta Center. Even thoughheonly scoredtwopoints in Monday’s 95-75 loss to the Mavericks, he still averaged 14 points and seven assis S tant coach Kenny Natt, “Hedid a wonderful job... . Weare really encouraged by the way Jacque played. Vaughn was the Ja: first-round draft pick in 1997 but, as the team’s No. 3 d, his minutes duringthelast ms have been almost nonexistent. The lockoutcanceledlast year’s Rocky Mountain Revue, wiping out an other chance for Vaughnto gain some experience. This summer, gottenbig-time minute “He has showed us a lot ofpoise, an ability to run the ballclub, i to take over downthestretel Vaughnalso seemedplea! play. “] showedI'm in shape andI'maper: son who prepares himselfto do the right thing,” he said. “And there has always been a question about my abilityto stick the perimeter shot I showed I can do that.” Vaughn has finally @ understand her place in women’s bas- ketball history. Thatis a shame.It is oneof the injustices that comes from having a % women’s proleaguethatis only three yearsold insteadof15 or even 10 years THE SALT LAKETRIBI Sue Nyhusis worrying about everybodyelse’s golf then, but it would have given more Americans a chance to appreciate Brown's game. gameabout as muchas her ownin the Women’sState Amateur. She happens to hold a one-stroke Jead over Julie McMullin and Sally Bingham after shooting a 3under-par 69 in Monday's opening roundat Bountiful Brown, whosuits up in a Utah uni- form for the second time tonight when the Starzentertain New York,is one Ridge Golf Course. But a Utah women’s golf advocate, she enjoyed theplay ofthe70-shooters, too. Nyhus remembers the mid-'80s, when she was a af the game's great players. If she were a college senior, she would have com- | peted with Chamique Holdsclaw for BYUgolfer and had to look hard for summer competi- endorsements and mediaattention. tion in Utah. “It’s not going to be that way anymore,” shesaid. “It’s great to all these young players coming up and olderplayers getting their games together. Instead, the 34-year-old cameof age when women’s college basketball was Still being ignored by the media. She spent another 10 yearsin relative obscurity playing overseas, waiting for America to have a pro league. It's fun.” Bingham and MceMullin combinetofit * Now that sheis here, respect her. those descriptions, as they Brown,broughtto Utah along with _ guard Korie Hledein a trade with Detroit for Wendy Palmer and Olympia Scott-Richardson, brings a long and chase Nyhusin today’s second roundofthe 54hole,stroke: play event. Bingham impressivelist of credentials. A 1987 graduate of Long Beach State, Brown holds the NCAA Divi- sion I record for most points scored in grew upina a gamewith 60 and holds the NCAA Spanish Fork record with most points scored in a season, scoring974 in 1986-87. golf family and plays for Weber Holdsclaw’s season high was 915 State after her junior year. starting her college career A memberof the 1988 gold medal- winning Olympic team, Brown still at MesaState in Colorado. McMullin, 31 is a busine andgolfsuc: holds Long BeachState career records in rebounds, blocked shots andsteals. Brown signed with the American Basketball League in 1996 and was named an All-Star averaging 17.5 points and 8.3 rebounds. cess story, hav. ing moved from St. Loui: y in the early ‘90s for the sake of skiing, mostly. Fiveyears after taking upthe game, she’s a low-handicap golfer, having Brown joined the WNBA last sea- son and wasassigned to the Shock. She averaged 11.8 points andl0 rebounds, second in the league. She matched Lisa Leslie's WNBA record for most reboundsin a game, nabbing 21 against Utah. Despite the success, Brown didn’t exactly have tea with Detroit Coach Nancy Lieberman-Cline and her Michael J. Miller/The Salt Lake Tribune Juneto win the Tenille Howetries to coax her putt in MickRiley Me- during thefirst round of the Utah State morial tourna: Women's Amateur at Bountiful Ridge mentat Mead. coaching staff every afternoon. Inter- viewed Monday by the Detroit Free | Press, Brown andHledecalled their and Weir Built Game From the Ground Up “The only reason we'reletting people know the truth about Nancyis because she’s BY GORDON MONSON himself. He wouldsleep on a stack THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE ofpapers down at thetrain station. His family had nothing. A perfect golf swing doesn't mean you'rego- DRAPER trying to destroy us.” * Thedifferences in opinion cameto Hecan't fully ex plain his connectionto the Ben Hogan, a man henever met, but, be a head this year when Brown spent half the gameonthebench, although she started every game, and averaged ing to win. Ben was a tough com: petitor because of a hardened it spiritual, mental, physical, meta. physical, philosophical, cosmologi cal, or just flat out pipe dreaming, MikeWeir feels it 69 points and 5.4 rebounds. The 6- foot-2 Brown still has bitter feelings towardDetroit “Wehadalotof internal problems that weren't being addressed,” Brown said. “I was a captain and I had to MONSON’S life. He had to UTAHNS fight and scrap. And, sometimes, he plays Hog Sometimes, he looks likethe mirror todoit. I would love to have those image of the diminutive, gritty wasn't there. But when bad things happened, it was all pushed on me.” Oneof the low points in the season master. Flip-flopped. Playing from theleft side. Bearing down on the courselike a mongrel on apieceof meat, the five fundamentals puls ing through his veins, barely leav Weir ing timeandspacefor pleasantries came when Brownwasinvolved in a brawl with Cleveland. She was fined for or even acknowledgmentof those against whom he competes. $750for swinging an elbow at the back “A lot of people think Hogan was agreat golfer becauseofhis swing,” r says. “But they forget about of the neck of Cleveland's Tracy Henderson. See BROWN, Page D-3 the otherstuff. Like that, when he was a kid, he saw his dad shoot Cleveland 7, Boston 5 Chicago 6, Detroit 2 New York 3, Toronto 1 Texas 5, Minnesota4 Kansas City 12, Anaheim 4 Jakland 7, Baltimore1 eattle 4, Tampa Bay 0 Montreal 5, Chicago 1 NewYork 7, Milwaukee 2 an Diego5 , San Francisco 6 | characteris: tics.” Does being a former hockey player count? A dirty one who routinely changed his jersey number before junior games be e his reputation for pumping fists and elbows and knees into larger, AECCBSCORE,LAN, National League No one expected him to win, he just willed himself an’s game like hefeels it, too. shoulder more than my share. When good things happened, it seemedlikeI American League shota 67 in Al Hartmann/The Sait Lake Tribune PGA and former BYU golfer Mike Weir relaxesat home with his wife Bricia and 1Y-year-old daughter, Elle. “There's one thing that Nancy has going for her: She really knows how to manipulate people and turn things around to make herself look good,” Brownsaidin the Free Press Sce VAUGHN, Page D-4 BY KURT KRAGTHORPE, Granted, the public wasn’t ready to support a women’s pro league back manipulative ball. | was able to showease thuse things Pace in UtahState Women’s Amateur fans know who Cindy Brown is and coach ability to “handle and the distribute the and, hopefully, restore some confidence in ourcoaches. If they forgot what I can do, hopefully Tshowed them some ofthe NyhusSets Early BY LYA WODRASKA ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE former Daniels (San Antonio), William Avery (Minnesota) and Bryce Drew (Houston). Against that level of competition, Vaugin believes he demonstrated an As the Jazz's quarterback in the Only diehard women’s basketball abusive. ed with his 11-team Rocky Mountain Revue, Vaughn played against the likes of Antonio. supposedly opponents preceded him? “I was a little guy,” says Weir . Thad to." Hoganesque enough. “[ loved playing hockey, it's what I dreamedof doing whenI was a kid,” he says. “I liked the compet itive nature ofit. | lovedthehitting and banging. It was apassion.” But the hockey gods grew Weir to a mere5-foot-9, 155 pounds. So, like Hogan, although undervastly different circumstances, in a dif ferent country, evel he was adopted by the golf gods, and set looseto do his damagewith a small frame, with extraordinarily strong hands gripping woods and irons, diggingit, as Hogansaid, out of the dirt And though Weir has yet to win on the PGA Tour in his second year aboard he did, however, win Four-time winner Terry Hansen, a former BYU teammateof Nyhus who only recently has returnedto State Amplay, joined defending champion Lachell Poflenberger and Cougar golfer Carrie Summerhays at 73. They all will have to scramble to stay with Nyhus, whose summeralready was made whenshe reached the finals of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links Championshipin late June. Asked about sustained highs or letdowns after that experience, she said, “I've hadboth.” Nyhus, a BYU assistant coach who lives in West Valley City, also has good memories and increased confidence after just missing becoming one of the year’s great stories in United States Golf Association championship play. Well, maybe not on the Payne Stewart-Juli Inkster scale, but intriguing just the same. As a 36-year-old motherof three, she trying tobeat all thecollegegolfers and become the first Pub- lic Links winnerolder than22. Having provided Utah women’s golf with major credibility, she’s actually hoping that otherplayers do See AMATEUR,Page D-5 monthand recentlyfinished with a furryon treacherous Carnoustie at stronger, Sce WEIR,Page D-5 col couse on Monday, Course, the day after winning the Ogden City Amateur nearly $500,000 in one week last @ BOOTH LEADS UTAH OPEN QUALIFIERS DS A quick look at keyfinal results in the world of sports WNBA PCL Baseball Charlotte 62, Cleveland 56 Vancouver4, Salt Lake 3 Washington7: Detroit 70 Minnesota Gwbresk Goll hoenix 56 Houston75, Sacramento 70 Pioneer League Baseball IdahoFalls 4, Ogden 3(14 inn.) Woods Takes Prime Time Win Over Duval Tiger Woods went prime time Monday night, winning his show down over David Duval, under floodlights at Sherwood Country Club and the spotlight of a na. tional television audience. Fittingly, Woods closed out a 2&1 victory on the par-3 17th with a two-putt par, He won the first four par-as to take a commanding lead, and hung on when Duval made one mistake too many. With a sun tucked behind the foothills, Duval conceded the match as the floodlights cast long shadows across the green. See details, DS, |
