Baseball
NEW U. BASEBALL FIELD? University of Utah baseball players would get a new home under a proposed agreement with the Salt Lake County Commission.
The commission is considering an agreement with the university to pay $2.5 million for the use of various campus recreational facilities. A portion of the money would be used to construct a new baseball diamond for the Utes on Guardsman Way, just south of Steiner Aquatic Center.
Ute Field, the primary practice field and occasional home diamond for the team, will be replaced with university dormitories, part of the Olympic Village for athletes during the 2002 Winter Games. The Utes play most of their home games at Franklin Quest Field and will continue to do so.
Golf
RAIN POSTPONES TOURNEYS: It's rare for a golf tournament to be postponed because of weather and it's almost unheard of in June.
However, at least two tournaments were wiped out because of Wednesday's unseasonal weather.
The first round of the Women's City Parks Open at Mountain Dell was canceled because of rain and cold, turning the tournament into a 18-hole affair to be played Thursday.
At Wasatch Mountain State Park Golf Course, snow prevented the South Region State Amateur qualifying tournament from being played. It has been rescheduled for Tuesday.
JR. GOLF WINNERS: Pete Stone and Angela Bradford were the low finishers at the Salt Lake City Junior last week and topped a group of 16 golfers who qualified for the Junior World Championships in San Diego next month.
Other qualifiers for Junior World include Andrew Zim-mer-man, Daniel Summerhays, Tommy Sharp, Jake Ellison, Charlie Christensen, Greg Buckway, Ryan Fox, Nathan Herr, Jake Turley, Nicole Newren, Annie Thurman, Mary Summerhays, Natalie Newren and Darci Dehlin. Clay Bingham is already exempt for the tournament.
Baseball
YANKS' STANTON SUSPENDED: Yankees reliever Mike Stanton was suspended five games by AL president Gene Budig for hitting Baltimore's Eric Davis in the back with a pitch immediately after serving up a home run to Rafael Palmeiro on Monday.
Hockey
PENGUINS-FLAMES TRADE: The Pittsburgh Penguins traded backup goalie Ken Wregget and left wing Dave Roche to the Calgary Flames for centers German Titov and Todd Hlushko.
Basketball
PENDERS TO COACH GWU: Barring any last-minute hitches, Tom Penders will be introduced today as George Washington University's men's basketball coach.
TCU' NAILON STAYING IN SCHOOL: Texas Christian center Lee Nailon, the nation's third-leading scorer last season at almost 25 points a game, is withdrawing from the NBA draft and will return to school for his senior year.
Tennis
HEINEKEN OPEN: At Rosmalen, Netherlands, second-seeded Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov, seventh-seeded at Wimbledon, was ousted from the Heineken Open grass-court 7-5, 6-2 by Steve Campbell.
Top-seeded Australian Patrick Rafter overcame Czech Daniel Vacek, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, while sixth-seeded Brazilian Gustavo Kuerten outlasted Dutchman Dennis van Scheppingen, 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-2).
In women's second-round play, Kimberly Po upset top-seeded South African Amanda Coetzer 6-4, 6-2; second-seeded Sandrine Testud of France topped Italian Laura Golarsa, 6-3, 6-4; and seventh-seeded Corina Moriariu was ousted by Dutchwoman Kristie Boogert, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5.
NOTTINGHAM OPEN: At Nottingham, England, Cedric Pioline, runner-up at Wimbledon last year, was kicked out of the Nottingham Open for cursing chair umpire Pedro Bravo.
The Frenchman was trailing Australia's Scott Draper 6-3, 1-1, 0-40 in the third game of the second set when he was ejected for "verbal abuse."
EASTBOURNE TOURNEY: At Eastbourne, England, Natasha Zvereva spoiled fourth-seeded Venus Williams' 18th birthday, routing her 6-2, 6-1 at the Eastbourne grass-courts.
In other second-round play, top-seeded Jana Novotna defeated French qualifier Nathalie Dechy 6-2, 6-2; second-seeded Steffi Graf topped Britain's Samantha Smith 6-1, 6-2; and sixth-seeded Anna Kournikova ousted South African Mariaan De Swardt 6-4, 6-1.
Williams' younger sister, Serena, reached the quarterfinals by beating eighth-seeded Ai Sugiyama of Japan 6-2, 7-5; third-seeded Arantxa Sanchez Vicario downed Thailand's Tamarine Tan-a-su-garn 6-2, 7-5; and seventh-seeded Nathalie Tauziat of France was ousted 6-2, 4-6, 8-6 by Russia's Elena Likhovtseva. Likhovtseva was later beaten 6-4, 7-5 by Spain's Magui Serna.
Land speed racing
BREEDLOVE ABORTS ATTEMPT: Land speed racer Craig Breedlove, still recovering from the financial crunch of a desert crash two years ago, on Wednesday said he will not attempt a record run this year in Nevada's Black Rock Desert.
"The decision basically was made for us," Breedlove said Wednesday from his home in Rio Vista, Calif. "We just weren't able to get enough funding to come up and run."
Softball
MILLER TOYOTA TO PLAY: Larry H. Miller Toyota men's major softball team is hoping to break the Tampa Bay Smokers' six-game winning streak Friday and Saturday at Bombers Park in Clearwater, Fla.
Miller Toyota (25-6), ranked No. 4 by the International Softball Congress website, will be facing the Smokers, the No. 2-rated team, in a four-game series, with two games Friday and two on Saturday.
Tampa Bay, which defeated Miller Toyota once this year in the Kimberly Tournament semi-finals, is one of only four teams to defeat the Salt Lake team this year.