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Show dir. vhMlitMniiri) Thursday , Also in this section: Lifestyle D5-- 8 Spouts SOUTH -- BEND, Ind. (AP) Notre Dame's Raghib "Rocket" Ismail wielded 1,736 yards and six touchdowns to beat a brace of quarterbacks and capture the 1990 Walter Camp player of the year trophy. "It's a tremendous honor, and I feel very privileged," Ismail said Wednesday as he accepted the se welcome relief to get away from -the pressures." Coach Lou Holts on the pressure of coaching football at Notre Dame. Track and Field News has named Brandon Ehoads of Timpview as a 1990 The magazine, prep bible of the the sport, listed Rhoads as the top prepster at 5,000 meters and no. 3 at 10,000 meters. Rhoads' best, last year was 14:27.55 in the shorter distance. The magazine did not list ALL-AMERICA- N: honor. ... , ' Karl Malone gets 31 in 103-9- 2 win NCAA CAGE PICKS: The at Salt Palace er NCAA Division I d Executive Committee for and regional games of the 1994 tournament. Recommended as regional sites on Wednesday are Miami Arena; Thompson-Bolin- g Arena in Knoxville, Tenn.; Reunion Arena in Dallas, and the Sports Arena in Los Angeles. The first- - and second-roun- d arenas would be Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y., and the Capital Centre in Landover, Md., in the East; ftupp Arena in Lexington, Ky., and the Suncoast Dome in St. Petersburg, Fla., in the Southeast; Kansas Coliseum in Wichita, Kan., and The Myriad in Oklahoma City in the Midwest; and Dee Events Center in Ogden, Utah, and Arco Arena in Sacramento, Calif., in the West. The NCAA Executive Committee will act on the recommendations at a meeting on Monday. first-roun- - - OLYMPIC TRIALS SITE: The Athletics Congress has selected New Orleans as the site of the 1992 U.S. Olympic track and field trials. "We picked New Orleans because we felt their site would truly be a facility," said Pat Rico of N.Y., chairwoman of trials-sit- e TACs selection committee. The trials will be held at 29,000-seTad Gormley Stadium, which is undergoing $3.5 million in renovations. The stadium is now used for high school football games. state-of-the-a- rt Croton-on-Hudso- n, nine-memb- er at REEVES TOPS: Former BYU and Utah Valley Community College eager David Reeves scored ii in points to lead scoring Wednesday night. However, the Seasiders were no match for Washington State as they lost 112-8- 26 BYU-Hawa- 1. AKERS OUT: Purdue football coach Fred Akers, whose record in will not four seasons is return next season, according to published reports today. The Lafayette Journal and Courier quoted "a source within the Purdue athletic department" as saying Akers would be replaced. In New York, the National Sports Daily said Akers refused to resign Wednesday and told his coaching staff he expected to be fired as early as today. It said Akers called his assistants, who were on the road recruiting, to return to the campus and advised them to start looking for other jobs. Akers had been a head coach at Wyoming and Texas before taking over at Purdue. RETAINS TITLE: Luisito Espinosa of the Philippines retained his World Boxing Association bantamweight crown today with a unanimous decision oyer challenger Taloengsak Sitbobey of Thailand. By RAY SCHWARTZ Herald Correspondent SALT LAKE CITY Karl Malone scored 31 points to pace Utah to a 103-9- 2 NBA win over Houston Wednesday. The win was the Jazz' fourth straight and enabled them to move into second place in the Midwest Division. But the win may have been costly to the Jazz because Blue Edwards suffered a broken nose in a fourth quarter collision. Edwards may have surgery to repair the COLUOES WITH MOST OTIVI PLAYERS IN THI NBA I 10 player North Carolina 2. UCLA player player Michigan Minnesota player 6. HMnot player ( 7 player 5. Arkansas 7 player 7. 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I-- A Quarterback Ty Detmer of Brigham Young and Colorado running back Eric Bieniemy finished third and fourth, ahead of quarterbacks Craig &ricfcson of Miami and David Klingler of Houston. "He's the most exciting player we have seen play in many, many years," said Kevin O'Brien, president of the Walter Camp Football Foundation In New Haven, Conn., during the presentation. Ismail "has demonstrated that he is a dedicated competitor who has made effective use of his athletic talent to enhance the great American game of college football," O'Brien said. "He is an outstanding young man." Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz said Ismail's talents as a return specialist, receiver and tailback are unquestionable. romombors '89 debacle in Islands By DICK HARMON Herald Sports Editor HONOLULU Micah Matsuzaki was the first high school player in Hawaii to ever be - r A o j to the Best of the West list published by the Long Beach Telegram. As a senior at Honol- w St. Louis High, he was named the 1989 Hawaii offensive ulu's ('M.f It '' Mlcah Matsuzald Player of the Year in 1989. This week in Honolulu, Micah's homecoming, his return to the Islands with fourth-ranke- d BYU has been trumpeted by the media. Tuesday Matsuzaki was featured as the main story on both the n. Honolulu Advertiser and the - Star-Bulleti- : .1 if v. damage Friday. Before leaving the game with 4:29 left to play, Edwards, a er at small forward, scored 13 points. "We needed a win like that," Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said. "To hang in there was good because it NX VV.J ( But the stories were more about what happened last year than what is expected Saturday in Aloha Stadium. When Matsuzaki walked into Aloha Stadium a year ago he was booed. Hawaii fans yelled insults at him, saying things that shocked BYU coach LaVell Edwards and even Matsuzaki's St. Louis High coach Cai Lee, who was in the stands. The insults left Matsuzaki in tears. It wasn't bad enough the Cougars were getting their heads handed to them by Hawaii in Edwards' worst WAC loss ever, a 4 drubbing. But here was a home-grow- n boy getting dumped on big time by a town he loved. who decid"He was a ed to go somewhere else for an education and people treated him like he'd done something wrong. That wasn't fair," said coach Lee. 86-1- was a game that could have slipped away. But give them credit. They did a lot of things we had not seen until tonight. We worked on some of that this morning, but for the first three or four plays of the game it probabi didn't seem like we were ready for them. "That's when we got a little discombobulated," Sloan said. sf (See MICAH, Page Sloan praised reserve point guard Delaney Rudd, who scored 11 points in 12 minutes, including 7 in the last half of the third quarter when the Jazz broke the game open. "Delaney did so well that I didn't put John (Stockton) back in towards the end of the period as I usually do," Sloan said. Because the Jazz were having difficulties in the early going, the Rockets took a 15-- 5 lead and Rockets led 0 at the end of the first period. Utah shot its way back into a 28--24 lead at the start of the second period and never trailed again. However, the Rockets did tie the game at 36 with four minutes to play in the quarter. The Jazz had six players in double figures. After Karl Malone's 31 came John Stockton with 15. Jeff Malone had 14 and Thurl Bailey added 13. D-- i) CBS going live with 3 phone lines for Heisman By DICK HARMON Herald Sports Editor CBS-THONOLULU network executives ordered three business 24-2- - lNkA - lines installed V the Sheraton In Princess Kaiulani Hotel this week-ento complement the satellite d hookup with New York City Saturday. That's when the Heisman Trophy ceremonies will air at 4:30 p.m. (MST). For the hotel, which is near Waikiki Beach, it is high tech time. "I don't know what's going to happen; we've never done this before," said the hotel's chief telephone operator. It will be interesting. Here at the Princess Kaiulani, which is mostly occupied by Japanese tourists, all the hoopla should draw quite a scene. Some tourists may mistake Ty Detmer for Tom Selleck and riot. there could be a One person who is leary of Sat-urday, not for the Heisman satelii lite linkup but for the football game is Rainbow Coach Bob Wagner. Hell leave technical details up to CBS. He's worried about Detmer who hell get on the Aloha Stadium carpet six hours -- Buck Johnson led the Rockets with 22 points. Kenny Smith added 20. Akeem Olajuwon had 19 and Vernon Maxwell added 10. Houston coach Don Chaney said poor shooting proved to be his team's downfall. "We just couldn't find the basket," he said. "We shot 35 percent in the first half and never could get on the right track." Olajuwon gave a lot of credit for the Rockets' poor shooting to the Utah defense. Fuji-Kod- BYU-Hawa- "They were double and triple-teamidown under the basket and were really helping each other out," Olajuwon said. Olajuwon also said Mark Eaton did "a fantastic job of fouling. He gets away with a lot in this build- ng . ing." However, Olajuwon forgot to mention that he also was slapped with five personals during the game. (See JAZZ, Page 1. The junior from Pa., outpolled Virginia quarter- MotouzoM named time. Rhoads is his 10,000-metnow a freshman at BYU. He was one of the Cougars' top seven most of the season. M men's basketball committee announced the sites it will recommend to the NCAA D, apSiires Wnfeir Camp NOTACLE QUOTES: "Frank Leahy was here three years and went to war. I think sometimes that wouid be a Nov. 29, 1990 D-- 2) n Ay O Qr J Herald PhotoOVent Nelson Utah's Blue Edwards jams the ball over Houston's Akeem Olajuwon Wednesday night. The Jazz Edwards later left the game with a broken nose. whipped the Rockets, 103-9- later. "He's a winner," said Wagner of Detmer. Meanwhile, the debate on who will win the Heisman continues. Will it be Notre Dame's Raghib Ismail or Ty Detmer? 2. (See HAWAII, Page D-- z Phone talk leaves me wondering; Matt Bellini is back I'm sure that most people back East don't think all Utahns are backward and are just a bunch of Rod Collett country bumpkins. Associate Sports Editor However, after a conversation Wednesday with a person from CBS Television Sports, I'm not so sure. She called to give The Daily Herald some information on CBS' Heisman Trophy program this Saturday, times, about satellite feeds, live interviews, etc. In the course of the conversation, she said part of the live program from New York will be a hookup "with Ty Detmer's father Sonny Detmer live from Texas Ail where he's a college coach involved In a game this weekend." I corrected her saying that Sonny Detmer is a high school coach, not on the college level and that he coaches at Mission High School in Mission, Texas. Then you could hear this CBS person shuffling through some newspapers and then she said: "Are you sure about that? That's not what is says here," referring to some biographical information the network has obviously poorly researched. Finally, I told her I knew Sonny Detmer a little, had played golf with him this past summer and that the game at Texas A&I was a playoff game. high school "Oh," she muttered. "Imagine somebody from Provo having that information." While I appreciated her phone call about Saturday's Heisman program, it makes me wonder. No wonder most people out here 5-- A think stacked press. the Heisman voting is in favor of the Eastern FOR THE RECORD, the first of two specials on the Heisman unfolds Saturday afternoon at half-tim- e of the Auburn-Alabam- a game where a profile of Ty Detmer is to be aired. CBS sports correspondent James Brown will host that segment. The actual Heisman Trophy Show begins at 4:30 p.m. on Chan- nel 5 locally or right after the college football game. It is 30 minutes long. Andrea Joyce will be host of the show with James Brown live via satellite with Ty Detmer from Honolulu. Also live on satellite will be Sonny Detmer from Texas Aid and Houston's David Klingler live from Tokyo where the No. 11 Cougars are playing Arizona State. While Detmer is In Hawaii and Klingler in Tokyo, Notre Dame's Rocket Ismail and Colorado's Eric Bieniemy will be the only players of note at New York's Downtown Athletic Club on hand for the occasion. BYU's representative is Val Hale, the assistant to the athletic director for media and public relations. If Ty wins the award, he will fly back next week for a black tie affair at New York's Marriott Marquee Hotel for the official presentation. ago in the first quarter of the Utah game. All this comes after team orthopedic doctors recommended surgery on Bellini. Doctors originally, said he tore the "anterior talk) fibular ligament and the anterior medial deltoid ligament" the main stabilizing support for the front of the foot. . However, Bellini decided to Ignore the call for surgery and rehabilitate the ankle with the BYU training staff which has done its HE'S BAAACK...Cougar halfback Matt Bellini, responsible for much of the BYU offensive threat throughout the season, has been cleared to play at Hawaii this weekend and will make the trip with the team, according to head trainer George Curtis. Bellini said last week he desperately wanted to play in that last game, referring to the Holiday Bowl on Dec. 29. "We have made a special custom brace for his right ankle," said Curtis. "We had him run a mile, some sprints, a figure eight and do some Jumping and he's been been cleared to play." . Bellini injured the ankle 12 days Now, through some hard work tin his own and with the training staff, headed by Curtis, he'll be back one month early. I'm sure Bellini and a few other thousand fans are glad he ignored the doctors. job. : . |