Sp Che Salt Lake Tribune MONDAY,January 29, 1996 NBA BASKETBALL Page C-3 SECTIONC orts WEATHER Page C-8 S Steal Steelers’ Shot KURT KRAGTHORPE Interceptions Earn Dallas Another Title iu Utah Pro Golfers Hopeto Kick Off A Super Season By Don Pierson TEMPE ball and } Panburg . history hit the 5 § i in their puffed- out chests Sunday and they didn’t drop ei The Dallas Cowboysof the ‘90s? Just the model for what Bruce Summerhays wants to do in “96. ther They didn’t win this 27-17 Super Bowl as much as the Summerhays starts his secondfull Senior PGA Tour season this week in Florida, and he’s not talking about winning his first tournament. He’s thinking three or fourvictories Pittsburgh Steelerslost it. but history doesn't make that z kindof distinction Two second-half intercep tions by unsung cornerback Multiple wins — if there's anygoal that would beit.” he said beforeleaving his Heber City home. “I need to win threeorfourtimes Super Bowl Week hit home for membersof two of Utah's best-known golf families. For Summerhays. it Condy Larry Brown both glaring communication mistakes in betweenSteelers qu rlerback Neil O'Donnell andhis receiv- ers, set up two short touch downs by Emmitt Smith that kept the Steelers frompulling meant the tour is about tostart again a huge upset For Sandy's Steve Schneiter. the weekend offered a glimpseof the PGA Tour — not far from Sun Devil S Schneiter missedthe & PASSING prevailed in a tumultuous season of great expectations and great adversity It was tough; it was repre emption as the 95 national PGA club pro champion. He might haveshot 77 RECEIVING sentative of the kind of season we had owner Jerry Jones and 75, but heleft feeling he belonged back Troy Aikman said said It’s a feeling more of relief I don't think it's all as big a deal as it's cracked uptobe,” he said. “It’s all We did it our way See COWBOY than anything else quarter in your mind, what you build it up to INDIVIDUAL LEADERS RUSHING The struggle surprised none of the Cowboys. who the Phoenix Open, thefirst of three tour events in whichhe’s using anex- be.” Unlike Schneiter, Ariz. — The foot- Dallas Cowboys squarely baby faced with the pressure of knowing he has only a few chances on the tour, Summerhays knows he’s ticketed for nearly 40 events. His onlytrouble is trying to re- produce his marvelous rookie season — leading the tour inbirdies and winning more than $700,000 Summerhays is more confident partly because the courses are no longer strange. Saving the hour or two he spent scouting the layouts on practice days last season will mean more rest more time to work onhis short game andbetter course management Replaying ‘95? “That's not going to worry me, the expectation thing.” said. I knowit’s there. he Amy Suncetta The Associated Press Pittsburgh running back Bam Morris is surrounded and hauled downby a slew of Cowboys during the Super Bowl. Morris and the Steelers made a game ofit, but Dallas won 27-17 Nothing Came Easy For Cowboys Besides, he’s creating his own stan- By Randy Galloway DALLAS MORNING NEWS dards. Only a Summerhays couldcal culate things to this degree: He figures if he can genuinelycontendin 22 tournaments, he'll win his three or four Schneiter just wishes he could play in 22 tournaments. These few exemptions arenice; it’s just that playing in the Rose Park Open will neverbe the sameafter the tour's courtesy cars and locker-room spreads. Everything else is a letdown,” the ear-old Schneiter, “This is where I t to be. That's also keeping Schneiter from just having fun in these tour appear ances. Instead of just thinking how cool it is to hang aroundSteve Elkington, Curtis Strange and Payne Stewart in the locker room, he’s convincedhe’s supposedto beat them. The week in the land of the Super Bowl told himthat thoseguys are really playing the same game. The grand son of George Schneiter who di rected the forerunner of the PGA Tour in the “40s, is hardly awedby thebig TEMPE, Ariz. — It was Bowl that ended, finally pected gas wise ones, had expected of players. Meaning a team with bardi Trophy acceptance speech exactly what has come easy for the Cowboys this season? the character and poise to withstand what the surprising Pitts- burghSteelers dealt them Sunday night The answer, of course, is noth- ing That trendcertainly continued against the supposedly out- And when Super Bowl XXX Barry Switzer’s post- Utah Ski Racer Mulls Hard Choice: Rededicate or Retire what she thought would be a two-week rest It never entered my mind By Wina Sturgeon PECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE PARK CITY — For the first time in her life, ski racer Heidi He'll try againat the Hawaiian Open in two weeks, then target the Western Voelker can takeit easy. She the summer They introduced himas the club pro spend hours watching televi- Phoenix, and he responded by ripping liar; Open and the PGA Championshipin that it could be worse,” sion An injured athlete is pecu bothdrives. The rest of the round was tougher. I guess it’s good experience,” he said, sighing unable to train or play, no longer a competitor yet not a nine months of rehabilitation an end to her season. civilian, either Until the day before Thanksgiving, Voelker was charmed She was one of two never-in jured racers on the U.S. Ski Team. Then, in the first race of Last season, Summerhays proved that reaching the Senior PGA Tour was thereal challengeandthe rest was Whentoldofthetest results. 1 broke down and wailed. Voelker remembers t sounded like a wolf had been shot in my house the season. she fell and ripped her knee apart at Lake Louise Su per Bowl Sunday means the'96 launch time is approaching, and he confirms I'mready At 26, Voelker is approach. ing a ski racers last years. She thought this year would be her Alberta At first, the injury didn’t best. a grandfinale to her 13 seem serious. It was diagnosed as a mild sprain, and Voelker years on the U.S. flew home to Park City for team. She See SKIER, Page C-3 thereis not nearly satisfying enough. Super Bowl XXX #5 Cincinnati 85, USC 5 #22 Io nee6MI agen n6 # NBA Chicago 93,; Phoenix ae82 WAC Basketball NHL Was r aateaIB late Top 25 Basketball Kansas 88, Nebraska Connecticut 76, \ 73 nia 46 a Deion or any other memberof the Cowboys who by paycheck alone support theflat tax movement. It also was not de- terminedby the Cowboys’ heavy weights in the offensiveline. who were supposedtolay the beefto a smallerSteelers defense Emmmit with 26 final 17 carries (he h first run), is the most graphic exampleof why something rare hap pened here Sunday night —anex @ See DALLAS, Page C-4 d Raha 1 | In Action Tonight NBA Basketball. the Delta Center. College Basketball; f Utah State L OPY IX | New Mexico State. 10 p.m., ESPN Foes Complain, But Sloan, Players Say They’re Clean By Steve Luhm HE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE | CESPN) 5:30 p.m. — College Bas| ketball, Villanova at S CESPN ketball ESPN) 10 p.m. — ( Utah State Two weeks ago, Orlando’s Penny Hardaway accusedthe Jazz's John Stocktonofplaying out se kind ofthings are said. it usually I'msorry I played Stockton deniedit, saying hard After Friday night's 94-93 loss at Seattle, how ever, the Jazz heard Hardaway’s accusations. Nate s 1 and added uess when you re 1 Orlando], you can McMillan repeat They look like a bunch of schoolboys Mc Millan said. “But they don’t play likethat That's a team that likes to take cheap shots They re going to hit you and they're going to try andfrustrate you According to MeMillan, the Jazz's Adam Keefe is ‘one of the biggest cheap-shot artists in the game. Stockton is definitely the worst. but he knows what he’s doing The Jazz (27-14) start the secondhalf oftheir Statistically azz rank 24th > 29 team NBA in personal fouls. They average 26.2 per game. fewer than only Miami. Indiana and Boston Significantly, however. the Jazz ted just one gran ul this season, Said Keefe inst De: 14 a Leafs, Stars Deal Toronto Maple Leafs a er pr Dave Gagner f Stars on Sunday f enoit Hogue and left wing commit Karlé Maa nst the Lakers on Nov lone was callec | | | sSu don't like facing an aggres likes to compete, a never age | at A Super Dispute | Just h urs bef say the recent charges of dirty 21 19). T play are unfounded and won't affect them Referring to MeMillan’s comments. Coach Jer Sloan said, “That's too bad they have that ttitude But that’s usually the case when you've 1ys who like to play without anybody guard Thecharge: Dirty play The plea: Innocent side the rules, C3 portedly Signs With Lak troit per Bowl between Dallas and Pitts irgh, NFL co sted bi ster || TV Sports tT) Hans Deryk The Associated Press Pittsburgh defender Willie Williams hauls down Deion Sanders after a first-quarter catch in the Super Bowl Do Jazz Play Hard or Dirty? season tonight at the Delta Center Dallas 27, Pittsburgh 17 San Diego State at Hawaii, chael, she says But when the knee seemed unstable a few days later, she underwent more tests. The ver dict: a torn anterior crucia ligament — meaning surgery" can dawdle over breakfast or champ whenheteed off each day in i Steelers, he discovered that just beingg But as Jerry Jones pointed out in a remarkably humble Lom- by basically the samefoundation who missedthe cut by 10 shots. Schneiter’s initial tour experience was less than Super. though. Like the cided by a Troy, an Emmitt. a Mi- disposing of the Steelers did not come in the dominant fashion most of the football world, andcertainly the Las Ve- Meaning dynastystatus in the they are thanks to his preparation. But the final outcome, andDallas’ ultimatesurvival, was not de- 90s. Meaning three world championships in the past four seasons And this is coming from a player gravy, No, this kind of status. great, but Devil Stadium roaring loudly for a massive upset. You can bet the TV sets fromcoast to coast a giddy, “We didit Anddid it the Cowbe final scoreof 27-17 alone obviously doesn’t produce was over. mannedSteelers, who had a proPittsburgh crowdof 76,347 at Sun samesentiment existedin front of longed again to the best collection of talent in the NFL, but talent it's so hardto get out here’ and‘these I mean, @X- The world championship be- we paint a picture of guys are so great.’ as The Lombardi Trophy was de: livered into the proper hands. boys Sometimes, @ Surrise, Cowboys Are Modest C: Browns Earns MVP Honors C @Play-Calling Costs Steelers C- a Super I'd like te know whoho I cheap. ; JAZZ, ; Page C-3 : @ See