In brief
Wie takes early lead over peers
Compiled from Times wires
© St. Petersburg Times
published July 22, 2003
FAIRFIELD, Conn. - Michelle Wie can outshoot players closer to her age, too.
The big-hitting 13-year-old shot 2-under 69 Monday to share the lead in the first round of the USGA Girls' Junior Championship.
Last month she won the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links title, then competed in the U.S. Open. Now she is in a field of 156 girls, all 18 or younger.
Paula Creamer, 16, among the country's top-ranked juniors, had five birdies that left her tied with Wie. Defending champion In-Bee Park of Eustis and Sukjin-Lee Wuestoff shot 70.
Wie's caddie is Gary Gilchrist, her swing coach. He replaced B.J. Wie, who carried his daughter's bag at the Publinx and for three rounds of the Open. B.J. Wie removed himself as her caddie after a flap over an etiquette breach between his daughter and Daniel Ammaccapane.
Wie became the youngest to win a USGA adult title at the Publinx. A victory this week would give her another piece of history - no player has won the public links and girls' junior in the same year.
PAYOUTS: England's Mark Roe and Sweden's Jesper Parnevik, disqualified Saturday at the British Open, each will get $13,200 because their mistakes were clerical. Roe and Parnevik failed to exchange their scoring cards on the opening tee.
RATINGS: The British Open's final-round overnight TV ratings dropped 4 percent. ABC's telecast of Ben Curtis' victory drew a 4.7, down from 4.9 when Ernie Els won a four-way playoff. Overnights measure the 55 largest U.S. TV markets. Each rating point represents about 735,000 TV homes.
HORSES: Seabiscuit's saddle sells
A battered kangaroo leather saddle trimmed in lizard skin and worn by Seabiscuit more than half a century ago was bought after an auction of racing memorabilia at the I.M. Chait Gallery in Beverly Hills, Calif. It was sold to a buyer from Virginia who requested anonymity, said James M. Goodman, a gallery associate. Goodman did not disclose the saddle's reserve, but the gallery had put an estimate of $150,000 to $250,000 on it. Auction lots totaled more than $188,000, not including the saddle.
NHL: Report: Yzerman, Wings deal
ESPN analyst Darren Pang reported Steve Yzerman and the Red Wings agreed to a one-year, $6-million deal. If incentives are reached, the contract would equal the $8-million Yzerman, 38, made last season when offseason knee surgery limited him to 16 games. Yzerman has spent his 20-year career with Detroit, scoring 660 goals in leading the team to three Stanley Cups.
BODY FOUND: The body of Duncan McPherson, a former first-round draft pick who disappeared in Austria almost 14 years ago, was found frozen in the Alps. MacPherson, selected 20th overall by the Islanders in 1984, was last seen Aug. 9, 1989, while snowboarding. His body was discovered last week by an employee operating a snow-grooming machine at a summer ski resort in Neustift. McPherson played three seasons in AHL.
RECORDS: Streeter free dives to 400 feet
Champion free diver Tanya Streeter set a world record, descending on a single breath to 400 feet off the Turks and Caicos islands. Using a weighted sled, she descended along a line dangled from a boat and swam to the surface using fins. She surfaced after 3 minutes, 58 seconds. Streeter, 30, who has broken eight world records, topped the 312 feet of Cuban Deborah Andollo.
SWIMMING: Matthew Welsh, Kosuke Kitajima and Leisel Jones set world records at the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Welsh won the 50-meter butterfly in 23.43, shaving .01 off the 2001 mark of fellow Aussie Geoff Huegill. Japan's Kitajima (59.78) took gold in the 100 breaststroke, eclipsing Russian Roman Sloudnov's 2001 mark of 59.94. Aussie Jones finished a semifinal heat of the 100 breaststroke in 1:06.37, topping Penelope Heyn's 1:06.52 in 1999.
ET CETERA
RUNNING: Usain Bolt, 16, tied the world junior mark for 200 meters (20.13) at the Pan American Championships in Bridgetown, Barbados. The Jamaican matched American Roy Martin's 1985 time.
SOCCER: Lindsay Tarpley scored in the 86th minute, leading the U.S. women's under-21 team 1-0 over host Denmark in the opener of the Open Nordic Cup.
SURFING: Kelly Slater topped fellow Floridian Damien Hobgood to win the the $250,000 Billabong Pro, his 25th major title, in Jeffreys Bay, South Africa. Shea Lopez of Indian Rocks Beach tied for fifth.
Baseball
AL: Surging Twins back at .500
Lowell cancer scare has a happy ending
NL: Giants rally to pad West lead
Prosecution testimony helps Canseco
College footballACC: Bowden regains composure after rough season
Rivals nip at Seminoles' heels
Waiting is over for USF football
CollegesMissing Baylor player's roommate is arrested
CyclingCrash revitalizes a lagging Armstrong
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NFLFalcons nose tackle will come to training camp after all
OutdoorsOwls, birds, gators and teenagers, oh my
Daily fishing report
PrepsFrom state runner-up to European champ
RaysOnly streak is on the field for Rays
Top pick unlikely to play this season
BucsA couple of champions
Sapp's wife says marriage is 'irretrievably broken'
Lugo inks his thanks to jurors
Bachelor
Sideline
The first practice in pads is a hard-hitting reality check
