SPORTS BRIEF: Thursday, June 4, 1998

Rage players help U.S. team at World Champs Two Rage players, Dawn Staley and Taj McWilliams, are currently in Germany as members of the U.S. national team. Staley and McWilliams, who are joined on the team by assistant coach and newly-appointed Rage head coach Anne Donovan, have helped the U.S. team to a 6-0 record thus far. The U.S. will face Slovakia in a quarterfinal round game today. --Rick Haggerty