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Show Waltrip andtherest of the Winston Cup competitors are in Tennessee for Sunday's Food City 500 onthe fast high-banked, half-mile oval at Bristol Motor Speedway ‘The 52-year-old Waltrip, a three-timeseries champion won seven straight races on thetoughlittle track from 1981 through 1984. But there have been somechanges since then — among them a changeof surface from as phalt to concreteon the mile bowl and a jumpfrom 36to 43 starters ‘They ruinedthe racing at this place when they started running 43 cars,” Waltrip said. “I looked at some old tapes of Bristol through the week and theystarted 36 cars here and the racing was great. There was alot of racing. there weren't alot of cautions. There were some,like any Bristol race, but not one right after another. There weren't thosebig old multi car crashes and the leader lappingcarsall thetime. It was moreof a race. He noted that with 43 cars spread aroundthetrack, the leader is heading into turn oneandthe last-placestarter is in the middle of the back- ae when the green flag “in ‘20 laps, the leader is lapping the back of the field,” he said good racing More Bristol ‘Twoother uniquefeatures at Bristol Motor Speedway arethe noise generatedby the powerful stock carsinside thehigh-rise grandstands and the difficulty the nearly constant traffic presents to each team’s spotter. season The folks at General Motors were hoping it wouldget into competition as early as the Coca-Cola 600 on May 30 en, with NASCARholding ack on approving its aerody age, the target was the Brickyard 400 at In dianapolis Motor Speedway on Aug. 7 But wordis that Chevy whichis expected to make an announcement next week, has gone back to the drawing board on its front end config uration after extensive wind tunnel testing and some on: ting of a prototype “Richard Childress Racing Wallace Wins Bristol Pole Winningpoles for the Food City 500 is no prot Rusty Wallace that success to the races where he’s had trouble Wallace guided his Ford Taurus to a fast lap of 125.142 mphFriday to edge Jeff Gordonfor the top start ing spot in Sunday's raceat Bristol Motor Speedway It was Wallace's third con secutive poleon the .533. mile, high-bankedoval, his fourth in the past five Win ston Cup races at Bristol and his sixth overall at thetrack De Ferran Earns Pole Gil de Ferran was confi dent he could winthe Fire hawk 500 and provedit by setting a course recordin qualifying to earn the pole position for today's CART Indy-car race. The Brazilian covered the 1,549-mile Twin Ring Motegi oval at an average speed of 219.000 mph, winninghis fifth pole ' CBS ) WOMEN’S TENNIS Bausch & Lomb Championships 1:30 p.m. CESPN TENNIS AUTO RACING Moore's Snacks 25 Dodge California Truck Stop 300 luegrass Stakes Arkansas Derby 11:00 a.m. ESPN 5:30 p.m ESPN 3pm ABC) 4pm (ESPN. Andre Agassi, whowas a wild card entry, and Boris Becker. whois semi-retired, scored straight-set victories in the quarterfinals of the Salem Openin Hong Kong. Agassi, the No. 3 seed, reached the semifinals with a 6-2, 6-2 triumph over Germany's Nicholas Kiefer. Becker beat Italy's Laurence Tieleman 7-6 (73), 7-6 (7-3). Qo GYMNASTICS Olympic champion Dominique Moceanu and her BOXING Hamedvs. Ingle 9:15 p.m IHL HOCKEY Grizzlies at Blades 6:30 p.m parents have reacheda financial settlementthat ends a HBO KFNZ-AM(1320) TODAY Utah ValleyState College's bas- Aggies Face Uphill Climb at Regionals The Dogswill be without one of their finest gymnasts, THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE LOGAN — Utah State Coach Ray Cornis not willing to concede another failed attempt to reach the NCAA Championships, just bylooking at the lineup for to- Corn remains unswayed how ever, noting the points that separates the regional qualifying scores of the five teams orgia — No. 10 Florida 3 Denver, No. 16 IowaState. No 17 USU and No. 19 Minneso ta — competing tonight (6 p.m.) along with six individual all arounders from BYU and South ern Uta I don’t think anybodyc al ly come close to Georgia; that's a given,” said Corn. “But after that I really do believeit’s the closest contest among any of theother regions Georgiais easily the favorite to repeat as national champions Coach Suzanne Yoculan’s Gym Dogs are undefeated, own the highest scores in the nation this season on vault (49.55), bars 25) and floor (49.675), and beaten their last 47 oppo nents. They have won four straight Southeastern Conference champion: and have not lost since the 1997 NCAA Champion ships Sam Muhle- man, who hadbeen scheduled to competein the all-around. Thesenior fractured herneck last we whenherhand slipped on a practice vault and she landed on her head But Georgia is plenty deep to absorb the loss. Behind seniors Karen Lichey, Jenni Beathard and Stacey Galloway, they set a meet record with a 197.475 at the SEC¢ npionships the dayafter Muhlemanwashurt Noother teamin the regionalis that good, whichis part ofthe reason Corn is so hopeful Onemistakeseparatestherest of the field,” hesaid Theother side is the Ags are peaking themselves, having scoreda season-highroad mark of 195.20 at the Big West Conference championshipslast weekend and watching senior Amber Ja mison andjunior Christy Denson havethe meets oftheir lives. Ja mison set a school record with a 9.975 on the bars andhada ca: reer-high 39.275 in the all- around, while Denson set a school record in winning theall-around with a 39.40. Even though the Ags lost the leaguetitle to Boise State, “we did not allow ourselves to stop ourselves,” and clared a legal adult Oct. 29, won a one-year court order in December that kepther fatherat least 500 feet away from her. She sought the order after police said they wereinvestigating accusations that Dumitru Moceanu, 44. tried to have twoof his daughter’sfriends slain. He has denied the accusation. HOCKEY The doctor who removed a hardened blood clot from Eric Lindros’ chestpredicted that the Philadelphia Flyers’ captain would make a complete recovery. Lindros underwent the 90-minute procedure after a setback in his recovery from a collapsed lung. “We found exactly what we thought we would find,”said Larry Kaiser, a chest surgeon who performedthe surgery. “We wereableto totally remove it and his lung is now completely re-expanded. He'll find his breathing is significantly better, easier.” o SOCCER Rupert Murdoch’s sports empirewill not extend to Manchester United. The media magnate wasdeniedin his attempt to buy the famed Londonsoccer club for $1 billion, which would have been the most expensive price for any teamin the world. The British governmentblockedthe deal, contending BSkyb media company would be hurting competition in the broadcast industry and the quality of soccer. QO BASKETBALL IllinoisState hired Tom Richardson,an assistant for six years,as coach of the men’s program. It will be the first college coaching job for Richardson, who was selected eight daysafter the man who hired him an as assistant, Kevin Stallings, left Illinois State for Van- derbilt. UVSC Hoop Program Signs Ex-Cougar Sonnenberg Bi Softball: Suu at Y oungstown State (2) Men’s Volleyball: BYU at UC Santa Barbara SUNDAY Baseball: Utah at TCU BY MICHAEL C. LEWIS when their intentions are good,” Moceanusaid. “This I hope that we can now begin to move forward in support of oneanother.” The 17-year-old gymnast, de- A Regional, Logan, 6 p.m est Regional, Provo, 7 p.m Women’ protective orderagainst the gymnast’s father. ‘I certainlyrealize that people can make mistakes even has been an extremely difficult time for myfamily THIS WEEK'S CAMPUS CALENDAR 983 eeoecceseeseeecececece MonteCarlo is going to be putoff until thestart of next 1:30 p.m Schnyder, the No. 6 seed from on jitzerland, said the weakeffort believed to date to Kournikova’s6-1 victory over her in AmeliaIsland lastyear. After that match, Schnyder accused Kournikova of stalling tactics that made her “so upset, I couldn't think of anything, my gameor mytactics.” oO WGN GOLF The Masters precisely the case Amelia Island, Fla. KTKK(AM-630) 6:30 p.m For 40 embarrassing minutes, Patty Schnyder lolled around, playing asif she didn’t wantto be there. As soon as the match was done, she admitted that was She rolled overin the quarterfinals of the Bausch & Lomb Championships, more or less handing No. 9 Anna Kournikovaa 6-0, 6-2 victory Friday at (WGN FXO TBS 5 pm ished higher thanfifth placesince eeeceesece It appears that the racing NBA BASKETBALL Heatat Bulls 11:30 a.m. 2pm. meets, either; they have not fin SCHOSCSH SSeS ESET EEHESEEHHEEESESEBESEOEES Chevy Delay Cubsat Pirates Redsat Cardinals Diamondbacks at Braves PCL: lowaat Buzz (2) at the Spectrum But his optimism might be mis placed. Afterall, to advanceto nationals for thefirst timein nine years, the Aggies must finishfirst or sec ondinthesix-teamfield that in cludes defending champion and No.1 Georgia, as well as three other higher-ranked teams. And the Ags don't exactly have an un blemished history in regional a debut of the 2000 Chevrolet Mime SEWSeoRadio, te night’s regional gymnastics meet ‘That's not ‘Thenoiseis deafening at Bristol. Your ears ring all the next day,” formerBristol winner Derrike Copesaid Youcatch yourself yelling Youcan't hear yourself think and you can't hear your crew hardly. It gets ugly = said Corn, “It’s lead: ing to one thing, and that’s this weekend This tea fident as I've ever s ketball program hassigned former BYU point guard Scott Sonnenberg and Utah high school products Mare Roberts of Timpview Jackson Brown of Jordan, Chris Hunter of Mountain View and Robbie Warren of Springville. Sonnenberg has re- turned from a church mission, after playing at BYUas a freshman. Warrenwenton a mission immediatelyafter high school. In addition, UVSC has added Jim Hanchett of PeachtreeCity, Ga., and Paul Hanare of NewZealand. @ IdahoState signed Tim Erickson, a guardfromSalt Lake Community College. Erickson averaged 17 points for the Bruins be competing for two individual Youngstown State was suspended team beat Valparaiso 5-0 and lost to Western Illinois 4-0 in Mid-Continent Conference matches. Q FOOTBALL Former Weber State player Scott Shields has pleaded guilty to disorderly conductforhispart in a @ Southern Utah’s women’s SOFTBALL Utah's three-game series with New Mexico was postponeduntil April 27-28 at Ute Field. ™@ UtahState'sseries with Sacra- mento State in Logan was post- poned. No makeupdates have been set. ™@ Southern Utah’s game at becauseofrain, with the teamstied 1-1 in thesecondinning fight with another student last month. Prosecutors droppeda second chargeof jul lass B mit demeanor,in exchange for the Division I-AA All-America safety’s plea to the class C misdemeanor. Shields was fined $100. Utah’s women’s team lost 6-1 to GOLF WORLD USA f GRAND OPENING! —£ gh UPTO °o All In Stock % With This Ad 3394 W. 3500 S. 968-5727 CABIN Cometest drive the completely redesigned Volkswagen Jetta GL — new shape, chassis and more standard features,including: DOWN/CAP RED. 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TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Event ON A Il OR i a al ForBristol e2eeoeosenesces SRM Cars Too Many KournikovaRips Past Lolly-Gagging Schnyder eco Afterall.He my a LARRY H.mMmiLlLEeR <u Waltrip: 43 1999 inet—> 4 &| YAU mses)FC 264-3600 oe TODAY: AUTO RACING The Associated Press SOSHSHSHSHHOHSEHESEEHEEHEHEESEHEOHOHOHSOEEHEHEHSHESHHHHHHET HEHEHE EHEEEEHEOEE The SaltLake Tribune SPORTS Saturday, April 10, |