SATURDAY, January2 , 1996 SECTIOND HOCKEY COREBOARD Page D-8 Page D-10 | Malone Miss GORDON MONSON ~Means Loss To Seattle A Day When Life’s Lived in The Slow Lane By Steve Luhm SEATTLE — The Jazz played ay night Kev Arena You want to know howhuge the Su per Bowl is? Howfirmits grip is not only on America’s football fans, America’s psych but and | missed | aga The 47ing five p Stand on the yellowlines that wind MurphyRoad is a four-lane highway — locatedin the area whereI grew up the in Delaware — that bisects quiet woodedneigborhoods, linking two ma- | jor thoroughfares. It is the devil's own driveway. It makes Ss Foothill Drive, the | ‘ red Orlando, To say it is crowdedis to say Jerry 18-foot Son i@ague Bangerter Highway, I-15 look like quaint, lonely back-country lanes. Jones has aslight ego problem. To say an jumper at the t downthe middle of Murphy Road ainst p powers Chicag Houston, Sa Thi drivers navigate its tight confines recklessly is to say Deion Sandersis sort of a jerk. To say the 45-mphspeed limit is usually ignored is to say Charles Haley is a little crazy Step off the curb and watchthe hood ornament on the next Mercedes gouge your mid-section. My friend. driving his family’s Buick, wasflippedover by a speeding dump truck on that stretch of pavement. My sister, who once attempted to cross the artery on foot missed being thumped by a Pontiac Bonneville by a whisker. Speaking of whiskers, my dog, Trissie, met her unfortunate demiseinthefast lane of the east-boundside. May she rest in peace You didn't, and you don’t, mess with Murphy Road Except, that is, for one three-hour period on Super Bowl Sunday. During the game. a strange thing happens — the Murph goes still, Like Pebble 3each without rain, hail and typhoon- Utah's Alysa Frenz is momentarily airborne during her oalance beam routine in Friday's meet Utes’ Northrop Makes Herself at Home like winds, it is a beast turned babe toothless and tranquil Not a careening Chevy van or a screaming Harley hog insight The Super Bowl has that kind of truck Sunday afternoon, when Dallas meets Pittsburgh in Super Bowl XXX — wow, how many games boast Roman numerals? — 136 million peoplewill waich on TV. That's half the population of the United States, all doing the same thing. Munching unhealthful food andbooing Barry Switzer. Seven of the 10 most-watched TV shows ever were Super Bowls. NBC sold 58 commercial slots for Sunday's game to advertisers for $1.2 million per 30 seconds Ticket scalpers in Phoenix are get ting as much as $4,000 a pop in Sun By Michael C. Lewis restricted to a 9.5 Sarah Northrop’s grandparents drove more tation from an Achilles tendor plenty for the two of them than I had three ankle sur said Sarah, ‘so a lot of 1.400 miles from Illinois to watch her compete in her first home gymnastics meet for the University of Uta on Friday night. They camethrough the fiercest bliz zard they had ever seen and made it just in time, despite like she was doing to Sarah Northrop didn't quit mer's stunning Utah-debt getting snowed in at a hotel in Wyoming but not even Sommer herself more had to settle f til ‘alk about pressure. Next to that, 9.696 screaming fans at the Huntsman Center must seem like a cocktail party Yet to her surprise, Northrop responded. The 4-foot ing bounded to Stocktor Malone, The sopho drove nearly t 50 last week at Utah State I guess I Just knew And how about Sandy Wool aroundto leadthe No. 6 Utes to their kazillionth ictor over rival BYU, 195.825 to 193.2 I was nervous,” Northrop said As if you could tell. Both Northrop and twin sister have the kind of faces that make | ) of last season. competition,” she said 11 freshman scored a 38.975 in her first collegiate all Molly her Traci Som- bars and 9.90 on bear about a 1012 come reg I'msurprised at how wel > I finally you think figured @ See JAZZ, Page D-5 have been this confi they're holding a pair of threes and not a royal flush And though Molly's first Huntsman performance was Devil Stadium Last year, an estimated $4 billion was bet on the Super Bow! This year, bets are being taken on everything imaginable: who will score more points, Dallas or Michael Jordan (the Bulls play Sunday, too); the num. ber ofreceptions Yancey Thigpenwill get; whether Leon Lett will fumble: whether Emotional Seles Wins Aussie Open Crown Kordell Stewart will either E throw or catch a touchdown pass. The Super Bowl is so enormous it transcends sports Take, for instance. the market indieator, a weird trend on Wall Street that has sent the stock market up whenever the NFC wins and down when the AFC wins. The indicator has beenvalid in 26 of the first 29 games. And, theinterest in this year’s Super MELBOURNE, ASS t Australia — moment ers, modulators, satellite dishes, TVs cent of the troops — like you — will sit and veg and watch the American tradition. No matter that manyof them are in camps that don’t even have showers. For three hours on Sunday, America, land of thefree, will be capturedby football, gathering to drink 6-4, 6-1 over Germany's Anke Seles had to overcome a plethora of recent injuries and left from the knife attack in Hamburg, Germany It’s that big. At the half. you can even play touch football — I know because I have — on Murphy Road Right there in the fast lane, where Trissie met her unfortunate demise. memo the 22-year-old Seles said, recalli whenshe played herfinest tennis. yming back here in passedin therapy, Chicago 102, Miami 80 hiladelph' Phoenix 107. Milwaukee 97 San Antonio 87, Portland 83 Golden State 124, Sacramento 118 B 1 he about returning i hs to Ham OUTTA MY WAY burg. Then the memories flooded back, along with the tears, and she had trouble going on talki It’s very hard to go back and feel safe e said not been fair Whatever happened there h add nthe fountain View's slams a dunk home laced KA Jared Messerly the fact that her assailant served no time in $ Women’s Basketball; Souther vs St 30 am, rthrid 1 Edmonton4, N.Y. 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Orlando 84 AF( E 1996 and doing so well in this first try has been very emotional for me Seattle 94, Utah 93¢ New Jersey t “In 1993, I left this tournament with such a sy NBA Indiana 107, Boston 90 on April Australian Open beer or diet Coke and eat chips and dip SUPER Three years after she won her last Grand Slam title on the same Center Court, Seles claimed her ninth major championship Saturday, Huber. illnesses as well as the physical and psychological scars and miles of cable. but at least 80 per- 1 Australian Open as she thought nearly ended her career 30, 1993 — a few months after taking her third straight getting the game to thefoot soldiers Mike I erving the next. a still-fragile Monica Seles broke down after winning her fourth back to the stabbing that 30wl among thetroops in Bosnia. 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