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Byline: Linda Robertson
When Ann Meyers was invited to try out for the Indiana Pacers basketball team in 1979, she was given no chance of making the roster. To everybody except Meyers, the whole gender-bending exercise was merely a publicity stunt.
Nearly a quarter century later, Annika Sorenstam has accepted her own invitation to play against men. When the world's most dominant female golfer tees it up in the PGA Tour's Colonial event, she'll be given no chance of winning. But unlike Meyers, Sorenstam has as many supporters as skeptics. To her, it's not about crowd-arousing gimmickry but about personal goals. It's not a battle of the sexes, as was ...