A SIDEWAYS GLANCE : A YEAR IN REVIEW: WHAT L.A. HAD TO OFFER.According to the Los Angeles Sports Council, these are the area's top 10 sports moments for 1997, listed in chronological order and without the implication that some events are bigger than others: Peter O'Malley announces the Dodgers are for sale (January). Tiger Woods (of Cypress) wins golf's Masters by a record 12 strokes (April). The Mighty Ducks make the NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there playoffs for the first time (April). The inaugural WNBA WNBA Women's National Basketball Association WNBA World Ninepin Bowling Association WNBA Wannabe Nasty Boys Association WNBA Women's National Book Association, Inc. WNBA Warszawski Nurt Basketu Amatorskiego game draws 14,000 to see the L.A. Sparks play the New York Liberty The New York Liberty is a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in New York City. They are one of the eight original WNBA teams that began to see action in 1997, as well one of the most successful teams in WNBA history. at the Forum (June). Oval track auto racing returns to Southern California with the opening of the California Speedway; a sellout crowd of more than 83,000 attends the California 500 NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. race (June). Marion Jones (of Thousand Oaks) becomes the world's fastest woman by winning the 100-meter dash at the World Championships in Athens. (August). Anita DeFrantz, president of the Amateur Athletic Foundation, is elected IOC IOC abbr. International Olympic Committee IOC n abbr (= International Olympic Committee) → COI m IOC n abbr (= vice president (September). Venus Williams (of Compton), age 17, reaches the U.S. Open tennis finals (September). A new $300 million downtown sports arena is approved by the L.A. City Council (October). UCLA's football team wins nine straight games to finish ranked No. 5, its highest regular-season ranking since 1982 (November). Take into account the L.A. Sports Council is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to attract world-class sporting events to Southern California. Even they can't put a positive spin on something like USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. firing John Robinson - which came after its list was issued. TAKE ONE DOWN, PASS IT AROUND There's a vodka company whose name we really shouldn't disclose - just say it rhymes with ``Zmirnoff'' - that asked its loyal consumers to help calculate its ``Get Real Index'' for 1997. That is, let's pick the most pretentious people in entertainment, media and sports from the past year. For sports, ear-splitting boxer Mike Tyson (21 percent) won it over golfer Tiger Woods (16 percent). For media, ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. Sports' Frank Gifford (16 percent) edged out TV homemaker Martha Stewart (13 percent) and former ``Today'' show host Bryant Gumbel (11 percent). |
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