Basketball
FRANK LAYDEN AWARDS: Lee Brower, president of the Utah Tip Off Club, announced the winners of the 1998 Frank Layden Player of the Year Awards for Utah's prep athletes. Tony Brown of Mountain Crest High School was named the state's top male athlete, while Lisa Osguthorpe of Mountain View High School was named the top female.
The top 12 male basketball players are: Spencer Abney, Orem; Spencer Allred, Grantsville; Braden Cooper, Lehi; Tony Giovacchini, Judge; Scott Henry, Mountain View; John Hille, Olympus; Ted Hollist, Davis; Eric Jackson, Provo; Hala Kaufusi, Provo; Matt Mark, Layton; Cheyenne Rushton, West Jordan; Jeremy Stringham, Tabiona.
The top female basketball players are: Adrianne Bradley, Emery; Casey Cooke, Parowan; Kristi Fehr, Olympus; Camille Freeze, Timpview; Angie Hawkins, North Sevier; Caroline Heaton, Valley; Stacy Jensen, West Jordan; Megan Lofthouse, Bingham; Chanelle Rose, Snow Canyon; Tonya Smart, Logan; Carrie Summerhays, Wasatch; Erin Thorn, Mountain View.
Football
USU RECEIVER CHARGED: A Utah State football player was bound over Wednesday for trial on charges of burglary and theft.
Rebecca Lorenz said she and her roommate were going up the stairs to their apartment on June 30 when they passed receiver Ricky Brumfield carrying a boom box.
Lorenz said she thought the boom box was hers, so she ran upstairs to her apartment. As she approached the door another man quickly left the apartment. Lorenz found her boom box, television, videocassette recorder and wallet were missing.
Lorenz could only identify Brumfield, but said the other man and several others that appeared to be acting as lookouts outside the building were all USU football players. She said a lot of them live at that apartment complex.
Lorenz's roommate, Shannon Sargent, stopped Brumfield, and he put the boom box down.
Logan detective Rod Peterson testified in the 1st District Court hearing that he asked Brumfield to return the property, but Brumfield told him he didn't know where it was. Three hours later he brought it to the police station saying he found it under a bush a block from the apartment.
ALLEN TO RETIRE: Marcus Allen, who holds the NFL career record with 123 rushing touchdowns, will announce his retirement today and move into the broadcast booth, according to reports.
Allen, 38, will leave the Kansas City Chiefs and take a job as an analyst with CBS Sports, KCTV and The Kansas City Star reported. The Chiefs scheduled a news conference for 4 p.m. EDT today.
Baseball
PIAZZA BREAKS OFF TALKS: Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Mike Piazza broke off contract negotiations with the team, three days after turning down a six-year contract extension worth about $80 million.
ROYALS TRADE MACFARLANE: The Kansas City Royals traded catcher Mike Macfarlane and an undisclosed amount of cash to the Oakland Athletics for outfielder Shane Mack and a player to be named.
Tennis
BAUSCH & LOMB: At Amelia Island, Fla., Tara Snyder beat seventh-seeded Irina Spirlea of Romania 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, one of the few matches to be played in the Bausch & Lomb championships before rain suspended second-round play.
Hockey
GRETZKY WON'T PLAY: New York Rangers star Wayne Gretzky confirmed that he will not play for Canada in the world championships May 1-17 at Zurich, Switzerland. He has 22 goals and 64 assists in 78 games this season.
Golf
SNEAD RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL: Sam Snead was released from University Hospital in Augusta, Ga., weakened by stroke symptoms that turned out to be mere fatigue.
Skiing
STREET UNDERGOES SURGERY: Olympic gold medalist Picabo Street, who fractured her left leg in four places last month in a racing crash, underwent surgery to repair her injured right knee. Street, the super-G champion in the Nagano Olympics, had major injuries to her left knee in 1989 and 1996.