Norman, Price Share Lead After Opening-Round 66s

Greg Norman had five birdies on the back nine for a 66, five under par, and a share of the first-round lead Thursday with Nick Price in the Kemper Open golf tournament at Potomac, Md.

Price, also playing a late-afternoon round after the sun had dried the course from weekend rains, had five birdies as well on the back nine in his bogey-free round.

Jeff Sluman, Paul Stankowski and Kelly Gibson were a stroke behind at 67, and Tom Lehman and Ben Crenshaw topped a six-player group at 68.

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Kate Golden, non-exempt after a dismal 1996 season, shot a six-under-par 66 to take the first-round lead in the LPGA Oldsmobile Classic at East Lansing, Mich.

Golden, who tied for fourth this year in the National Pro-Am in West Palm Beach, Fla., matched her career-best round for a two-stroke advantage over eight players.

Track and Field

UCLA’s Seilala Sua finished third in the shotput and her teammate, Nada Kawar, was fourth, giving the Bruins 11 points in the event and 33 after three events, enough to keep UCLA in the lead of the women’s team title race of the NCAA championships at Bloomington, Ind.

The Bruins, however, did suffer a setback when Joanna Hayes, who qualified for today’s final in the 400 hurdles and was on the Bruins’ 400-meter relay team that also reached the final, injured her right knee and did not start in Thursday’s 100 hurdles trials.

Ivan Wagner won the high jump at 7 feet 6 1/2 inches to help Texas move into the men’s team lead with 23 1/2 points after five events. Arkansas is second with 16, one point ahead of UCLA.

Running in a heavy downpour, Wilson Kipketer clocked 1 minute 43.54 seconds over 800 meters for a season best at the IAAF Golden Gala Grand Prix meet in Rome.

Michael Johnson, the world and Olympic champion in the 200 and 400 meters, will not compete in next week’s U.S. national championships at Indianapolis because of a left thigh injury suffered during his 150-meter match race against Donovan Bailey last Sunday.

Jurisprudence

Sportscaster Marv Albert agreed to provide authorities in Arlington, Va. hair and blood samples as they investigate charges that he bit a woman and sexually assaulted her in his hotel room in February.

Former tennis star Roscoe Tanner has pleaded guilty to charges of failing to pay child support in Somerville, N.J., but maintains that he is not the father of the child in question.

A Phoenix grand jury refused to indict boxer Michael Carbajal on felony charges for a street fight with an off-duty police officer, but the 1988 Olympic silver medalist still could face misdemeanor charges in the case.

Pro Football

The Green Bay Packers traded safety Chris Hayes to the New York Jets for cornerback Carl Greenwood.

Willie “Flipper” Anderson, a free agent receiver from UCLA who spent last season with the Washington Redskins, signed with the Denver Broncos.

Skiing

Luc Alphand, this year’s overall World Cup Alpine ski winner and a three-time season downhill champion, is retiring. Alphand, 31, became the first downhiller, and the first Frenchman in nearly three decades, to win the overall World Cup title.

His retirement means Alphand will miss February’s Winter Olympics at Nagano, Japan.

Soccer

The Galaxy added forward Jose Botello from Major League Soccer’s Project-40 development program to its roster and also recalled goalkeeper David Kramer from waivers.

Botello, 21, has been playing with the A-League’s Orange County Zodiac. He set a California community college record by scoring 27 goals for East Los Angeles College in 1995.

Kramer had been waived Saturday to make room for Jorge Campos, but Campos was red-carded in his first game back and will miss the Galaxy’s game in New England on Sunday.

Kuwait clinched a spot in the second round of Asian World Cup qualifying, beating Singapore, 4-0, to join Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates in the 10-nation second round later this year.

Names in the News

Olympic softball standout Lisa Fernandez, who helped lead the United States to a gold medal, was selected female recipient of the Henry Iba Citizen Athlete Award. She is the first softball player to win the award.