SERENA WILLIAMS, on SI alluding to "family tension"
between her and sister VENUS following Serena's U.S. Open
win: "I don't see any tension between the both of us" (SAN
JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 9/17)....Comets G JEN RIZZOTTI was named
coach of the Univ. of Hartford's women's basketball team
today. In Hartford, Schubert & Riley note "it would be
nearly impossible to be a college head coach and WNBA player
at the same time" (HARTFORD COURANT, 9/17)....GEORGE
magazine lists MIA HAMM among its 20 Most Fascinating Women
in Politics and writes, "It took a self-effacing Air Force
brat to beat men at their own game." Hamm is a "new kind of
athlete, a product of Title IX" (GEORGE, 9/99 issue)....SMI
President HUMPY WHEELER will receive the Charlotte Chamber's
'99 Chairmen's Entrepreneur Award (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER,
9/11)....BROOKE SHIELDS was a guest on the "Tonight Show"
last night. Shields, on her divorce from ANDRE AGASSI: "The
one thing that I did stipulate in the whole divorce was that
he still had to watch `Suddenly Susan'" (NBC, 9/16).