Fanfare 7/22/02

Briefly

Basketball

Milwaukee Bucks forward Glenn Robinson was released on $5,000 bail Sunday after being arrested on charges of domestic battery, assault and illegal possession of a firearm, his attorney said.

Robinson was arrested Saturday after an incident at his ex-fiancee's house.

Robinson had a firearm when he was arrested, but did not have a valid Illinois Firearm Owner's Identification card.

Football

A trial date has been set in the wrongful-death lawsuit filed against General Motors Corp. by the mother of the late Kansas City Chief Derrick Thomas and the mothers of his children.

Gary C. Robb, the attorney for Thomas' family, said lawyers in the case agreed Friday to set July 7, 2003, as the trial date.

Thomas died in February 2000 of complications after being injured in a traffic accident that left him partially paralyzed.

Thomas' mother, Edith Morgan, and the mothers of Thomas' seven children sued General Motors and a suburban Kansas City auto dealership in October 2000, claiming the faulty design of Thomas' 1999 Chevrolet Suburban contributed to the fatal rollover crash.

Golf

South Korea's Mi Hyun Kim hit a 7-wood to 4 feet on the 17th hole and made the birdie putt to edge Kelly Robbins by a stroke in the Giant Eagle LPGA Classic.

Kim finished with a 3-under-par 69 for a 14-under 202 total.

Two-time defending champion Dorothy Delasin and Grace Park closed with 67s to tie for third at 205.

Spike McRoy made up a seven-stroke deficit over a faltering Shaun Micheel to win the B.C. Open for his first PGA Tour title.

McRoy closed with a 7-under 65 on the En-Joie course for a 19-under 269 total, and a one-stroke victory over Fred Funk (67). McRoy earned $378,000 and a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour.

Micheel, who also was seeking his first PGA Tour win, bogeyed the last two holes to fall out of a tie with McRoy and into a five-way tie for third at 17 under.

Bob Gilder won the SBC Senior Open when Hale Irwin struggled on the first playoff hole, nearly whiffing a shot in the high grass and hitting another into the water.

Gilder closed with a 1-under 71, and Irwin, a three-time winner in the event, had a 66 for 12-under 204 totals.

Motorsports

Ward Burton, stuck in a miserable slump since winning the Daytona 500, overcame hazardous track conditions and a late caution to win the New England 300.

Burton, who had just two other top-10 finishes since winning the season-opening race, passed Matt Kenseth for the lead with 10 laps to go then held off Jeff Green by 3.230 seconds at New Hampshire International Speedway.

Dale Jarrett finished third, followed by Rusty Wallace, rookie Ryan Newman, Todd Bodine, Robby Gordon, Kurt Busch, Kevin Harvick and Elliott Sadler.

Tennis

Monica Seles overwhelmed Anna Smashnova 6-4, 6-0 to put the United States back into the Fed Cup's 16-nation World Group on Sunday.

Seles' victory also gave the Americans a 3-0 lead in the best-of-five match against Israel.

After Seles won a close first set, Smashnova seemed to wilt in the 90-degree heat and under pressure of her opponent's unrelenting ground strokes.

The U.S. team took a 2-0 lead Saturday when Seles beat Tzipi Obziler 6-4, 6-2, and Lindsay Davenport, in her first competition since knee surgery in January, defeated Smashnova 6-3, 6-3.

Verbatim

Air Force Coach Fisher DeBerry, to reporters after Falcon kickers missed five field-goal attempts in the spring football game: "Can any of you guys out there kick field goals? We'll give you a free education, we'll give you an F-16 or even an F-22."

From Jeff Gordon of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "After watching video of Allen Iverson's mom dressing down a pushy reporter, don't you wonder why she never got into coaching? I mean, wouldn't she spur the (Golden State) Warriors to get the lead out?"

-- From wire reports