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Sports News
| Steve Young Retires |
| NFL star and LDS Church member Steve Young will
reportedly announce today that he is retiring from football. The news leaked
to several news organizations on Thursday, and San Francisco 49ers general
manager Bill Walsh confirmed the decision on Thursday. Young i the top-rated
passer in NFL history and a two-time league MVP. |
| New MWC Schedule Has BYU Playing Mondays |
| The league voted and now BYU will play basketball
on Monday nights. Breaking a long-standing aversion, the university
will participate in the Mountain West Conference's schedule, which
will shift next season from a mainly Thursday-Saturday format to a
Saturday-Monday format. The Conference announced the change Tuesday,
saying that the change was meant to accommodate ESPN's nationally
televised Big Monday late game and address problems with the schedule
that many coaches called unfair. |
| Father's Confidence Helps Stephenson Make Majors |
| When LDS Church member Garrett Stephenson was 16, his
father went shopping for a new high school for his son, looking for one with
a good baseball coach. Landing in the office of Fred Krieger of Boonsboro
High School near Hagerstown, Maryland, Rich Stephenson tried to find out if
Boonsboro could help his son make the major leagues. "This boy is going to
pitch in the major leagues some day," he told Krieger. |
| BYU FB Player Will Miss Season |
| BYU football player Jernaro Gilford has been accused
of stealing athletic clothing and equipment from the school and will
sit out next season as a result. The school resolved the honor code
violation by allowing Gilford to continue as a |
| Two Wyoming Basketball All-Stars Plan Missions |
| Two LDS High School Students on the Wyoming 2000
Basketball All-Stars plan to serve LDS missions. Ryan Taylor of Star
Valley High School and P.J. Shumway of Laramie High School were both
named to the alll-Wyoming boy's team. |
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