Stroke

PGA TourSprint InternationalSite: Castle Rock, Colo.Schedule: Today-Sunday.Course: Castle Pines Golf Club (7,559 yards, par 72).Purse: $2.6 million.Winner's share: $468,000.TV: USA (today-tomorrow, 4-6 p.m.) and CBS (Saturday, 4-6 p.m.; Sunday, 3-6 p.m.)Last year: Vijay Singh won, finishing with 47 points under the modified Stableford system.Last week: Tiger Woods won his second major, the PGA Championship in Medinah, Ill. Woods held on for a one-stroke victory over Sergio Garcia. Mike Weir, who started the final round tied with Woods, shot an 80 and finished eight strokes back.

Arthur Kopit's "Wings" might not seem like musical theater material. But then, this story of a stroke victim, told from her point of view, probably didn't sound like it would make much of a play, either.Fell's Point Corner Theatre's production, however, under the stage direction of Bill Kamberger and musical direction of Steven Zumbrun, ranks among the very finest community theater productions.Much of the credit belongs to Nancy Kelso, in the lead role of Emily Stilson, a former aviator and wing-walker felled by a stroke.

PGA TourAir Canada ChampionshipSite: Surrey, British Columbia.Schedule: Today-Sunday.Course: Northview Golf & Country Club (6,817 yards, par 71).Purse: $2.5 million (winner's share: $450,000).TV: ESPN (Today-tomorrow, 3-6 p.m.; Saturday, 4: 30-6 p.m.) and ESPN2 (Sunday, 3-6 p.m.)Last year: Brandel Chamblee won when the event was called the Greater Vancouver Open, finishing with a 19-under 265 for a three-stroke victory over Payne Stewart.Last week: Tiger Woods won the World Golf Championships NEC Invitational in Akron, Ohio, by one stroke over Phil Mickelson.

PGA TourMemorial TournamentSite: Dublin, Ohio.Schedule: Today-Sunday.Course: Muirfield Village GC (7,163 yards, par 72).Purse: $2.55 million (winner receives $459,000).TV: USA (Today, 3-6 p.m.; tomorrow, 4-6 p.m.) and CBS (Saturday, 3-6 p.m.; Sunday, 2-6 p.m.).Last year: Fred Couples finished with a 17-under 271 total for a four-stroke victory over Andrew Magee.Last week: Rich Beem beat Bradley Hughes and Bill Glasson by one stroke to win the Kemper Open in Potomac, his first PGA Tour victory.

COLLEGE PARK -- For her 15th birthday yesterday, Callie Vance had one request."I told my mom that I wanted a state championship," said Vance, a sophomore at Arundel High in Gambrills. "She said she couldn't give it to me and that I had to get it myself."And so she did, beating 12 rivals for the girls title of the 1999 Maryland Public Schools Scholastic Athletic Association state golf tournament at the University of Maryland golf course.The top two among 132 competitors for the boys title came from Montgomery County -- Watkins Mill senior John Scott Rattan outlasting Charles Hong, a senior from Whitman, in a tense, five-hole playoff.

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- He was back where he always ends up at twilight on Sunday, in the interview room after another near-miss, answering questions about what went wrong and how it feels not to win.This time, Greg Norman had finished third at the Masters, three strokes behind the winner, Jose Maria Olazabal, after briefly holding the lead with five holes to go. It was Norman's fifth top-five finish at Augusta National, a fine record few golfers can match....

This appears to be the year "Wings" took flight in Baltimore. Arthur Kopit's insightful play about a stroke patient made its local debut at Center Stage 16 years ago and, to my knowledge, hasn't been seen again on a Baltimore stage until this season.Then in March, Fell's Point Corner Theatre presented the musical version. And now Towson University's graduate theater program has staged the original, in partnership with AXIS Theatre.Told from the viewpoint of the stroke patient, a former aviator, "Wings" has always been a challenging work for both audience and cast -- especially for the performer who plays the lead.

PGA TourCompaq ClassicSite: New Orleans.Schedule: Today-Sunday.Course: English Turn Golf & Country Club (7,106 yards, par 72).Purse: $2.6 million.TV: ESPN (today-tomorrow, 4-6 p.m.); ABC (Saturday, 4-6 p.m.; Sunday, 3-6 p.m.).Last year: England's Lee Westwood closed with a 3-under 69 for a three-stroke victory over Steve Flesch.Last week: Stuart Appleby beat John Cook and Hal Sutton by one stroke to win the Houston Open.Note: The tournament was previously known as the Freeport-McDermott Classic at New Orleans and was played the week before the Masters last year.

Geoff Lawson, 54, the chief designer for Jaguar Cars Ltd. who had a major role in the British automaker's recent turnaround, died Thursday of a stroke in London.Jiri Pelikan, 76, a former communist who was stripped of his citizenship by Czechoslovakia after a failed attempt at sweeping government reform in 1968, died Saturday in a Rome hospital.Pub Date: 6/28/99

Stanley G. Mortimer Jr.,86, an advertising executive and member of an illustrious American family, died Wednesday at his home in Harriman, N.Y., after a long illness. He was a descendant of John Jay, the first chief justice of the United States and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.Philip Klutznick,92, a millionaire Chicago real estate developer who built housing for the poor and for defense workers during World War II, and raised millions for Israel, died Saturday, his friends said.

Mark McEwen, the affable television weatherman who had 16 years with the CBS morning show and who once was listed among the 10 most trusted people in the industry by TV Guide, was twice a contestant on "Celebrity Jeopardy." He won it both times, too - an impressive accomplishment even if Cheech Marin and Rob Schneider were among Mr. McEwen's opponents. So, the other night, while we're talking on the phone about the stroke that ended Mr. McEwen's television career, he asks if I like trivia.

Cephas Thomas didn't know whether he'd laugh, cry or give a speech when "Paddy" Culbert finally returned to town. He knew it would be a moment he'd never forget. Two years ago, Thomas, security director at the Renaissance Harborplace, was at work in the lobby when Culbert, a New Hampshire businessman, happened to be driving by. The New Englander had been working crazy hours and was tired. He didn't realize he was about to have a stroke. What Thomas did over the next 30 minutes might have saved Culbert's life.

The doctor who saw me in the ER wrote in her report: "nice 67 y.o. male, flat affect, awake, alert and appropriate." I had appeared with slurred speech and a balloon in my head, had driven myself to United Hospital in St. Paul, parked in No Parking, walked in and was triaged right in to a neurologist who trundled me into the MRI Space-Time Cyclotron for 50 minutes of banging and whanging which produced a picture of the stroke in the front of my brain, so...

ROME - -The Great Stroke Experiment is over. By mutual decision, Michael Phelps and his coach, Bob Bowman, are putting that relatively new windmill, straight-arm stroke - designed for sprinting - right back on the shelf. "It actually was [mutual]. It's funny, as often happens, he came out and said the same thing," Bowman said this morning at the world championships. "He said, 'I don't think this is working.' I said, 'You're right.' Experiment failed. Next." The Baltimore swimmer told Bowman that on Sunday night, almost immediately after his opening leg in the winning 400-meter freestyle relay.

Golf Baloga three strokes ahead at Md. Amateur Stroke Play Defending champion Chris Baloga blistered the Mount Pleasant Golf Course layout for a 5-under-par 66, good for a 36-hole total of 138, and took a three-stroke lead in the 42nd Maryland Amateur Stroke Play championship Saturday. Perennial contender Phil Fairbanks of Hobbit's Glen GC in Columbia followed at 70-71-141, trailed by John Moheyer, 71-71-142. John Howson, one of three at 143, was the low Senior. The original field of 117 was pared to 61 players at 155 and better who will play the final round today, beginning at 7 a.m. Pro soccer Moreno's goal in 59th minute gives Crew 1-1 tie with United Alejandro Moreno scored the tying goal in the 59th minute and the host Columbus Crew pushed its home unbeaten streak to 17 games with a 1-1 draw with D.C. United in Major League Soccer.

An undrafted rookie who doesn't even have his name on the back of his jersey yet, Robby Felix understands his chances of making the Ravens this season. But beating those odds doesn't worry the team's newest center. Just six months ago, Felix suffered a stroke, a frightening medical ordeal that changed the 22-year-old's life forever. "I think about it a lot," Felix said Wednesday after his second NFL practice. "I'm scared of having another stroke. But I have to fight through it and go on with my life."

More than 140,000 people in the U.S. die each year from stroke, making it the country's second leading cause of death for women, and the third for men. About 795,000 strokes occur each year. At least one-quarter occur in people younger than 65 years, making it a health subject important to all age groups. Dr. Marian LaMonte, neurology chief at St. Agnes Hospital, presents a free talk on strokes at 6 p.m. May 12 at the hospital. She offers these tips: 1 Know the warning signs of stroke.

After Norris Turner's stroke a decade ago, he would tuck his right arm into his pocket to get the nearly useless limb out of the way. Now the 68-year-old grandfather from Columbia can use the arm to play catch with his grandson and hit a golf ball nearly 100 feet. Turner's progress has made him something of a poster child for a machine called the Tailwind. It's licensed and for sale by researchers from the University of Maryland who invented it and a local entrepreneur who believed it could help patients like Turner.

Doctor: Olson had stroke in the past year COL. BASKETBALL Lute Olson's doctor said yesterday that the former Arizona men's basketball coach had had a stroke within the past year and he had advised him to retire. The comments by Dr. Steven Knope at a news conference called by Olson's family offer the first explanation for Olson's sudden retirement last week, two days after he appeared at the Wildcats' media day. Olson, 74, said at the time he was energized and looking forward to his 25th season with Arizona.

In wire-to-wire fashion, Turnesa wins Vegas event golf Marc Turnesa completed a wire-to-wire victory for his first PGA Tour title, closing with a 4-under-par 68 yesterday to hold off Matt Kuchar by a stroke in the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas. The fourth rookie to win on the tour this season, Turnesa, a former North Carolina State star, opened with rounds of 62, 64 and 69 at TPC Summerlin en route to a 24-under 263 total. Turnesa, 30, birdied Nos. 9, 11, 12 and 14. Kuchar finished with a 64. Kapalua LPGA Classic:: Morgan Pressel birdied the final hole in the inaugural tournament in Hawaii for her first victory of the season.