Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, August 17, 1993 TAG: 9308170060
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B3 EDITION: METRO
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Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated for Kids, Time International and Southern Living signed agreements with the International Olympic Committee. Under the sponsorship deals, the magazines will have the right to use official Olympic logos and symbols for promotions and advertising.
\ Thirty athletes from Bosnia and Herzegovina will come to the United States to train for the next Olympics. The Save the Athletes of Bosnia Project, a U.S. Olympic Committee program, is part of a worldwide call for help in preserving world-class sports in the former Yugoslav republic, which is being ripped apart by civil war.
The initial phase of the USOC project will involve 16 tennis players, 13 swimmers and one speedskater.
\ Five men's seeds were beaten while all of the women's seeds won on the opening day of the U.S. National Amateur Championships in Kiamesha Lake, N.Y.
Top-seeded Kara Schertzer of Chesapeake, Va., who plays for Arizona State, scored a second-round victory over Marilyn Baker of Baldwin, N.Y., 6-0, 6-1, and paced the women's field into the quarterfinals. Stanford's Wendy Sacks of Memphis, the No. 2 seed, No. 3 Lauren Gavaris of Potomac, Md., ousted Lindsey Ghriskey of Grenwich, Conn., 6-2, 6-2, while No. 4 Patty Murren, Newtown, Conn., edged Eiko Skamoto of Japan, 6-3, 7-6 (7-3).
Chris Robinson of Richmond, Va., the men's top seed, and No. 2 Tad Berkowitz of Wesley Chapel, Fla., drew first-round byes and then scored straight-set, second-round victories.
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