Sport: Wrong League

Ann Meyers signs with the pros

She was an All-America basketball player at U.C.L.A. for four straight years, the only woman ever so honored. As a senior, she led the Bruins to their first women's national championship. A star of the 1976 U.S. Olympic team, she can shoot and rebound well, but she excels as a playmaker. She sharpened her skills in pickup games against the guys — and the guys were the N.B.A. playmates of her big brother Dave, a U.C.L.A. All-America and now a power forward for the Milwaukee Bucks. At the...

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