J une 25, 1997 • T he P ortland O bserver
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TIGER TAKES TIME OFF HOLYFIELD - TYSON FIGHT WARMS UP
Prost looking Trulli
good for grand prix
The Pro st G rand Prix a n ­
nounced M onday that Italian
driver JarnoTrulli would take over
for in ju red O liv ie r Pan is in
Sunday’s French Grand Prix and
remain with the team until the
Frenchman is able to return.
New programming
alliance formed
F o x /L ib erty N etw orks and
C ab lev isio n ’s Rainbow M edia
Holdings. Inc. Monday announced
the formation of a national sports
programming venture that hopes
to compete with ESPN. Fox/Lib­
erty Networks, a joint venture of
Tele-Communications. Inc. and
Rupert M urdoch’s News Corpo­
ration. will pay $850 million for a
40 percent equity interest in a
joint venture in which it will own
Rainbow M edia’s regional sports
network currently operating un­
d e r the bran d
nam e o f
SportsChannel.
Tiger Woods says he has sought
opinions on how to deal with the
crush of crowds and media attention
he encounters, but is having trouble
getting useful advice.
“ It’s hard because no one's really
dealt with the magnitude o f this,"
Woods said after Sunday’s final
round of the Buick Classic at the
Westchester Country Club
“Arnold (Palmer) has given me
some advice, but he’s never deal,
with the volume o f people that I have
to deal with." Woods said. “ Plus the
generations have changed, too.
People are not as courteous as they
used to be.”
Woods' golfing buddy Michael
Jordan has also made some sugges­
tions, but Woods said that when Jor­
dan is at a basketball venue, he can
more easily stay away from crowds
than Woods can on a golf course.
“ People have a direct effect on
how I play,” Woods said. “They can
and sometimes they do It’s a little
more difficult. It’s a little more with
the public. Then again, it gives you
the personal touch as well. There are
both positives and negatives.”
“They can be a little difficult,”
Woods said “ I think a lot o f it has to
do with the fact that, one, it’s hot.
And, two, they’re selling alcohol.
That’s not a good combo. When you
ge, that combination, it can be a
little tough on us as players.”
Woods noted that organizers o f
the Byron Nelson Classic in Texas,
where the weather often is as ho, and
humid as it was at the Buick Classic
Saturday and Sunday, don’, serve
alcohol for fear o f contributing to
the rowdiness o f some fans.
Woods said the more boisterous
crowds he attracts reflects changes
in society and sports as a whole since
the days when Palmer and Jack
Nicklaus were young golfing phe­
nomenons.
Woods said Sunday he’s going
home to Florida to fish, rest and get
away from golf for a while.
“ I’m going to be relaxing,” he
said. “ I’m not going to pick up aclub
fo ra while. I’ve had enough golffor
a bit. And I'm going to ge, my mind
squared away and get my focus back.”
Woods plans to play at the Western
Open near Chicago starting July 3.
Evander Holyfield sees it as a
chance to put an exclamation point
on his first-fight victory.
“ I want to give Mike an opportu­
nity to let him know it wasn’t a
fluke, that I can do it again," the
heavyweight champion said o f his
rematch with Mike Tyson Saturday
ALLEN MAKES BID FOR SEATTLLE STADIUM
Supporters o f a financing plan
for a new football-soccer stadium
held a lead Friday on vote count­
ing on the statew ide ballot m ea­
sure.
T he latest vo te to ta ls from
T uesday’s election - w hich was
conducted by mail only in most
counties - showed 795,564 votes
(51 percent) in favor o f the plan,
and 761,571 (49 percent) against.
Elections officials said about 97
percent o f the votes had been
WNBA ANHAUGURAL SEASON
Celtics-Sixers deal
may be voided if
Radja fails to report
Put last Friday’s trade between
the Boston Celtics and Philadel­
phia 76ers on hold. The Celtics
sent forward Dino Radja to Phila­
delphia for forwards Clarence
W eatherspoon and Michael Cage,
but Radja has yet to report to the
Sixers for a physical If he does
not report to Philadelphia by 5
p in. EDTTuesday, then the Sixers
will likely void the trade.
The W omen’s National Basket­
ball Association tipped off its eight-
team, 10-week, 28-game season with
three contests Saturday.
The marquee matchup was be­
tween the new league's top two mar­
kets and featured two o f its biggest
stars.
U.S. O lym pic gold m edallists
Rebecca Lobo and Lisa Leslie each
scored 16 points but Lobo scored I I
o f hers in the second half as her New
York Liberty scored a 67-57 victory
over Leslie’s Los Angeles Sparks
before 14,284 fans at The Forum.
“ It wasn’t the prettiest o f basket-
Women’s NBA draws
high ratings
The W om en’s National Bas­
ketball Association began this past
weekend with large crowds and
better television ratings than pro­
jected. The opener of the WNBA
season between the New York Lib­
erty and Los Angeles Sparks on
NBC topped all Saturday after­
noon sports shows with a 3.8 over­
night national television rating.
Each ratin g poin t re p re se n ts
972,(XX) homes. Sunday’s game
between the Charlotte Sting and
Phoenix M ercury drew 16,102
fans to America West Arena, a
women’s pro record
ball gamess, but I think we showed
a little bit o f what we can do,” said
Lobo after a game that got o ff to a
slow start on poor shooting. “ We got
a great crowd out here and it can
only get better"
Cynthia Cooper scored 25 points
as the visiting Houston Comets beat
the Cleveland Rockers 76-56 before
a crowd o f 11,455 at Gund Arena.
The Comets played without star for­
ward Sheryl Swoopes, who is await­
ing birth o f her child.
The Utah Starzz were hosting the
Sacramento Monarchs in Saturday’s
third game.
Colbert undergoes
prostate surgery
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Jim Colbert, the Senior Tour
Player of the Year in 1995 and
1996, underwent surgery for pros­
tate cancer Monday. The Senior
PGA Tour announced that Colbert
u n d e rw e n t the p ro c e d u re at
Scripps Hospital in La Jolla, Cali­
fornia. The surgery “went well",
but no additional details on the
golfer were released. Colbert has
withdrawn from the U S. Senior
Open scheduled for this weekend
in Olympia Fields, Illinois. The
56-year-old Colbert won four Se­
nior PGA Tour events in 1995 and
five in 1996, but is winless so far
this year.
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