Miscellany

The NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee recommended San Jose, Calif., as the site of the 1999 women’s Final Four and Philadelphia for 2000.

The recommendations must be approved by the NCAA Executive Committee at its Aug. 2-4 meeting.

The committee also chose regional sites for 1998 and 1999.

Vanderbilt, Dayton, Texas Tech and California-Berkeley are to host the 1998 regionals, scheduled March 21-23. The 1999 regionals were awarded to the Greensboro (N.C.) Coliseum Complex, the University of Cincinnati, Illinois State and Southern California. The regionals are scheduled for March 20-22.

Uruguay, which failed to qualify for last year’s World Cup, opened the America Cup tournament in Montevideo, Uruguay, with a 4-1 rout of Venezuela.

Japan took a 20-16 lead over the United States with one round to play in their annual Collegiate Golf Championship at Ichihara, Japan.