FanFare 7/30/02

Briefly

Baseball

The Rockies acquired Sandy Alomar Jr. from the White Sox for minor league pitcher Enemencio Pachero on Monday. The former Gold Glove winner is hitting .287 with seven homers in 51 games.

Giants manager Dusty Baker says Barry Bonds is not expected to return to the lineup until the team arrives in Pittsburgh for a series that starts Friday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Bonds, who is nursing a strained right hamstring, will have missed 12 starts by that point.

Brewers pitching coach Dave Stewart resigned, saying he planned to care for his mother and spend more time with family.

Basketball

Utah Starzz center Margo Dydek was suspended by the WNBA for one game after exceeding the maximum allowable four flagrant foul penalty points this season.

Colleges

Vince Darnell has been appointed soccer coach at the University of Missouri-Rolla. Darnell replaces Dawson Driscoll, who resigned earlier this month to become coach at Tampa.

Panhandle State University of Goodwell, Okla., has been accepted into the Heartland Conference, effective immediately. Among the eight members of the league are Missouri schools Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Lincoln University in Jefferson City and Drury University in Springfield.

Wichita State cross-country coach Wayne Angel has resigned to take a job at the University of Iowa.

Olympics

Marty Mankamyer, a U.S. Olympic Committee vice president who has been interim president since May, was nominated to become the permanent president by the USOC's Executive Committee.

Swimming

Germany broke the world record in the women's 400-meter freestyle relay, finishing in 3 minutes, 36 seconds at the European Swimming Championships. The team bettered the mark of 3:36.61 set by the United States at the Sydney Olympics.

People

The bug stops here

Darrell Green has played for five head coaches and seen more than a dozen starting quarterbacks come and go since he began playing cornerback for the Washington Redskins in 1983.

But the one near-constant in Green's NFL career has been the Volkswagen bug he's driven to training camp each year. His 1966 blue bug made its 15th consecutive appearance when camp opened last week. Its predecessor lasted five years before conking out.

"This one has put its time in," the ageless Green told the Hampton Roads (Va.) Daily Press. "It's kind of like me. It's old and has some rough spots, but it's still going."

Verbatim

From Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: "If you just awoke from a long coma this morning, we have good news for you. Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France yesterday. Larry Holmes won a fight and retired from boxing the night before. And Randy Johnson complained he gets no respect. In other words, welcome back. Not much has changed."

-- From wire reports