News from July 11.

Rudy Tomjanovich reduced Team USA's roster down to 16 players.  The roster
is expected to be reduced to the required 12 players on Tuesday.  The 13
players cut were David Booth, Chucky Atkins, Acie Earl, Richard Hamilton
(who broke his right foot on Wednesday), Bernard Hopkins, Troy Hudson, 
Nate Huffman, Tim Kempton, Randy Livingston, Gerald Madkins, Richard 
Manning, Mike McDonald, and Larry Stewart.  The current roster for Team 
USA, which will play in the World Championship starting July 29, is:

    Player                  Pos  Ht  Wt    B-day   College
    Wendell Alexis ........  F  6-9  220  7/31/64  Syracuse'86
    Ashraf Amaya .......... F-C 6-8  250 11/23/71  Southern Illinois'93
    Earl Boykins ..........  G  5-5  135   6/2/76  Eastern Michigan'98
    Tim Breaux ............  F  6-7  215  9/19/70  Wyoming'92
    Mateen Cleaves ........  G  6-2  195   9/7/77  Michigan State'00
    Bill Edwards ..........  F  6-8  220  8/22/71  Wright State'93
    Kiwane Garris .........  G  6-2  183  9/24/74  Illinois'97
    Michael Hawkins .......  G  6-0  178 10/28/72  Xavier'95
    Warren Kidd ........... F-C 6-10 220   9/9/70  Middle Tennessee State'93
    Gerard King ...........  F  6-9  230 11/25/72  Nichols State'96
    Jimmy King ............  G  6-5  210   8/9/73  Michigan'95
    Trajan Langdon ........  G  6-3  195  5/13/76  Duke'99
    Brad Miller ...........  C  6-11 240  4/12/76  Purdue'98
    Jimmy Oliver ..........  G  6-6  208  7/12/69  Purdue'91
    Jason Sasser ..........  F  6-7  210  1/13/74  Texas Tech'96
    David Wood ............  F  6-9  230 11/30/64  Nevada-Reno'87

Head Coach: Rudy Tomjanovich (Hou) (Michigan'70)
Assistants: Del Harris (LAL) (Milligan College'59)
            Mike Jarvis (St. John's)
            Lon Keuger (University of Illinois)