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Show Tuesday, July NOTABLE QUOTE By MICHAEL HOLLEY "I'm not in tune with pro football much at all. I am a college football fan. I knew I liked college football last year when, I think it was a Colorado-Stanfor- d game came on ESPN at midnight and I watched the whole thing." former NFL and University of Texas star Earl Campbell TRACK & FIELD O James Cook of Kennebunk, Maine, won the discus Sunday on the way to his first high school decathlon victory in the Dan O'Brien National Invitational Decathlon Championships at Klamath Falls, Ore. Cook compiled 7,038 points through 10 events in the two-da- y meet, which featured 14 top high school decathletes from across the country. Nathan Boyd of Chelan, Wash., was second with 6,934 points, while Collin Kinsey of Wellsville, Ohio, was third with 6,673. Jared Scott of Spanish Fork placed 3th in the field with "somewhere around 5,800 points." Scott said, "I fouled on all my discus throws. That kind of blew it for me. If I could have gotten an average throw, I probably would have placed about 1 r newspapers Basketball never had the reputation as a stodgy game. That was baseball. In the NBA, life was always more free and open. Loose. Flexible. Some would even say far too liberal. If any sport was going to shuffle its feet all the way to the cutting edge, it was going to be pro basketball. Those were the good days, right? Julius Erving had a skyscraping Afro, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson made stunning k passes in halfcourt sets, and a guard the Knight-Ridde- made you fall in love with this game, but the sport as we know it eventually will be rocked ou; of its stand-sti- ll foundation. "I'm not saying things have to be changed immedia'ely," said Layden, the president of the Utah Jazz. "I think if you give some fans no-loo- size of Mike Fratello Spud Webb won the dunk contest. But now the roles have changed. The sacred sport of baseball actually went to radical realignment while NBA teams found that they needed to be spiritually in tune with the memory of James Naismith to score 100 points. That may be a problem. Yet Frank Layden has a solution: Revolutionize basketball. You will still be able to cherish the things that too much, they can't handie it. Some are very fixed and narrow-minde- d. How long has the designated hitter been around in baseball? Some people still aren't comfortable with that." So let's assume we give it to them slowly. What are we going to give them? Try a wider lane, a shot clock, taking the ball out on the sidelines rather than baselines and getting rid of the illegal defenses. Especially, Layden says, the illegal defenses. "First of all, I hate the term: That means illegal. dishonesty, cheating," Layden said. "Most people don't understand what an illegal defense is, anyway. And if they really did, the officials would be in trouble because you would be able to see how often they don't call it when it exists. But officials don't call it because they don't like to call it. I say we should play zone." But zone is supposed to be the enemy. It was supposed to be the one artificial tool that kept Patrick Ewing from being an explosive offensive player in college. The ban on the zone is supposed to be one of the attractive elements of the NBA game. How often do you hear this: "(Insert name) will flourish in the NBA because he won't face all the double- - and s there. Guys won't be able to stop him triple-team- one-on-on- That sentence is officially a cliche. But the Zone vs. No-Zotheories do not represent the differences between low- - and players and teams. ne high-scori- "Many things have happened," Layden said. "First of all, a lot of players just don't know how to shoot. They don't do things as well as they used to. It's not just basketball, either. I watch AAA baseball CYCLING D Miguel Indurain took a big into the overall lead with a victory over chief rival Tony Rominger in an individual time trial. Indurain's lead over Rominger was 2 minutes, 28 seconds, after the leg from to Indurain Perigueux Bergerac. was timed in 1:15:58 for the ninth stage. "I would have preferred 10 minutes, but two minutes is an 40-mi- le i M two-minu- te i ? I Q 1 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Mike Tyson sent a letter to the judge who presided over his 1992 rape trial asking her to reconsider her decision last month not to grant him an early release from prison. In the letter Monday to Marion Superior Court Judge Patricia Gif-for- o d, the former heavyweight champion said he has apologized to Desiree Washington, the woman he was convicted of raping, but still denied committing any crime. important advantage," Indurain said. "For me it is most important "I know you don't want me to admit my conduct was criminal or for me to say something I didn't do," Tyson wrote. "But I want you to know, and I want the Wash-ingto- to keep the lead in the mountains . " Tuesday's 10th stage from Bergerac to Cahors is 100 miles. It is the last mostly flat stage before the steep climbs start with a trip up ns and the prosecutor to know, that my conduct was inex- Mount Hautacam, 5,363 feet, Wednesday in the Pyrenees. cusable. BASEBALL D Mike Durant cracked a three-rudouble and Juan DeLaRosa "I should not have expected a woman to come to my room late at night, not knowing her, and to expect her to have sex with me." n n added a single as Salt Lake scored five runs in the sixth inning and held on for a 8 Pacific Coast League victory over Calgary Monday night. It was the Buzz's second straight win after losing six e home straight in their stand. The Buzz will play at Tacoma Thursday night, and will return to Franklin Quest Field Monday night against Tucson. D Chicago's Frank Thomas, who hit .433 with three homers and 14 RBIs last week, is the American League player of the week for the two-ru- Tyson was sentenced in March years in prison after a jury convicted him of rape. He's scheduled to be released next May. Gifford refused to grant Tyson early release after a three-hou- r hearing June 13, saying he had not 12-- 1992 to six eight-gam- Ex-cha- MADISON, second time this season. BASKETBALL SOCCER D FIFA went to the videotape and suspension slapped an eight-gam- e on Italy's Mauro Tassotti for an elbow that broke a Spanish player's nose during a World Cup quarterfinal Saturday. FIFA's disciplinary committee said Tassotti's action against Luis Enrique in Italy's 1 victory was "intentional serious violent conduct." He also was fined $16,000. 2-- TENNIS d D Wally Masur of Australia beat D.J. Bosse of South 4 in the first round of Africa the U.S. Pro Championships. Fifth-seede- 6-- GOLF Edward Fryatt of Las Vegas, a former BYU golfer who later transferred to UNLV, shot a 66 to take a lead over Matt Gogel of Lawrence, Kan., and Tom KroII of San Marcos, Calif., after Monday's opening round of the U.S. Amateur Public Links in Bigfork, Mont. one-stro- PBA Hilton I Hotel tr a p.m. BaMball, maor laagua gam (KUTV. channal 2) (ESPN) J p.m. Motorcycl racing d racing (ESPN) p.m. 10 p.m. Triathlon, St. Croln kxamaiional (PSN) 11 p.m. voBayoaii (tsrnj a 14 a m DnIUr hnffcm rFfiPNt 1 p.m. Cycling, Tour 6a Franca (ESPN) 1M p.m. Soocar. World Cup aamfflnala Maty vs. Bulgaria (ESPN) 4 p.m. Watar polo, Alamo Cup (PSN) - 1 ; Journal-Constituti- Miss. (AP) 18th-plac- 1 D Southern Cal coach George Raveling turned down an offer to replace P.J. Carlesimo at Seton Hall. Carlesimo left the school to coach the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers. O The Atlanta Hawks offered unrestricted free agent Danny Manning a multiyear contract worth more than $4 million a season, The Atlanta said today. it would take a lot of responsibility away from the officials and bring out the imaginations and ingenuity of the coaches." You could say that Layden is biased because he is a former coach. And you could alio add an America-firs- t sentiment: The United States laughed all the way to the gold medal in 1992, so why did, change? When the Canadas and Angolas start doing Dream Team damage on the United States, then there's a problem. True? No, says Layden. You always have to be ahead of potential problems. "Our athletes got meaner, fast- er, stronger. And guess what happened?" Layden asked. "Nothing. I agree with Wilt (Chamberlain). We are bulking up and having less injuries, but we are losing the touch and finesse that our athletes used to have." The kind of basketball Layden describes is fashionable in Europe. And snippets of it could be found in the Houston Rockets' game plan. - ti& V ? Herald PhotoPatrick J. Krohn completed the necessary education requirements. Tyson's appeal for early release was based on his educational achievements. Though he failed the general equivalency exam by one point, Tyson asked Gifford to consider the other educational progress he has made. His latest petition included an affidavit. from Muhammad mid-199- 2. Sid-dee- "seldom, if even" seen anyone with Tyson's educational background make so much progress. Tyson went from a fourth-grad- e e level reading level to a while he was being tutored, Siddeeq said. 12th-grad- "In evaluating Mr. Tyson's educational progress it is important that we remember how far Mike had to come and the amount of time, study and effort it took him to get where he is," Siddeeq said. Prisoners can have time taken off their sentences if they pass the GED, and state law also allows courts to consider "whether an educational program qualifies under the statute and whether it is satis'' factorily completed . -- won and now we are playing for $700,000," said the Nevil, who is preparing for the PGA Senior Tour. "I have not been playing a lot for the last 10 years. My game is pretty good. I need another two or three months of good competition, and this is where I'm starting." ld World Cup fever comes to Utah County soccer tournament. The Chilean team won the The tournament will continue for the game, next several weeks. Christian Casrera of the Chilean team looks for a way past Cesar Valtizan and goalie Tati Ojeda of the Peruvian team during an annual adult 5-- 2. Kerrigan attacker sent to prison for 1 8 months ham said. "There are adjectives that can be added to your name, By BOB BAUM AP Sports Writer Even the PORTLAND, Ore. Eckardt "stucalled Shawn judge pid." Eckardt, perhaps the most pooned member of the infamous gang that engineered the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, is finally behind bars for his role in the crime. With his head nearly shaved, the would-b- e 310-poubodyguard to Tonya Harding stood before a judge to hear his sentence Monday. He did not go quietly. The sentence, 18 months in prison, was worked out as part of Eck-ardt- 's agreement to plead guilty to racketeering more than two months lam- ago. But Eckardt, who turns 27 next Monday, wanted to put on witnesses to testify in his behalf any way. He wanted the sentencing put off for two weeks until his psychologist returned to Portland. He wanted to hear from the FBI, the Multnomah County sheriffs office and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. When his lawyer was reluctant to do so, Eckardt fired him. Circuit Judge Philip Abraham watched and listened, then wondered if Eckardt understood the seriousness of his crime. "Mr. Eckardt, you have become n a very person." Abra- well-know- something like infamous, notorious, greedy, dishonest, even stu- pid." pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit PROTECTION YOUR INSURANCE FOR A BUMPER CROP Now is the time to protect your The case will finally come to a conclusion Wednesday when Gillooly is sentenced. He has pleaded guilty to racketeering in exchange for a two-yeprison sentence and a SI 00.000 fine. But Gillooly 's attorney has indicated that sentence might change. Abraham said "a terrible, terrible event certainly in the history of sports and the history of this state is coming to a close." peach trees. ar Eckardt entered his plea on May 3. the same day Shane Stant and Derrick Smith second-degre- assault. e They and Harding's Jeff Gillooly, have admitted they conspired to injure Kerrigan to knock her out of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit. The plan was to clear the way for Harding to win the championship and make the Olympic team. Eckardt told his cohorts he intended to make big money running a bodyguard service for skaters worried about their safety. Kerrigan was struck above the right knee with a police baton on Jan. 6 in Detroit. Two days later, with Kerrigan out of the competition, Harding won the title and went on to finish eighth in the Olympics. Two weeks ago, Harding was stripped of her title by the U.S. Figure Skating Association. Sunt, the hit man, and Smith, his uncle who drove the getaway car, bfgan their th prison sentences immediately after entering their pleas. Abraham rejected Eckardt's motion to delay sentencing and luctantly allowed him to switch reat- torneys, then let the defendant make a statement. Eckardt didn't mention Kerrigan. Instead, he turned his wrath on Norm Frink, who negotiated a deal that allowed Harding to stay out of jail in exchange for a guilty plea to conspiracy to hinder prosecution. 3 applications needed July - August - September WINDSHIELD! That's right...for a limited time GLASS ACT will pay your insurance deductible up to $1 00. Approved by all Insurance companies. Fast, Free mobile service from Ooden to Provo. 3 Glass Act 392-107- 2 q, who has .tutored him since Siddeeq said he has seeks tournament riches mp When Dwight Nevil won the Magnolia State Classic in 1973 and 1974, he earned a total of 510,500. e monThat would be PGA in Tour the week this ey event now known as the Deposit Guaranty Golf Classic. "We played for $35,000 when I Cincinnati's Ha! Morris, who hit .444 with 1 RBIs, was honored in theNL. owmss- - every night, and a lot of these players can't bunt. They can't bunt! "Our whole society is being affected. Our music isn't as good as it used to be. Our books are not, and our movies are not. Orchestra and piano don't even have the truth they used to have." And, of course, the offenses have had a weight attached to them. If you put an extra six seconds on the shot clock, move the line in a few feet and take the ball out on the side thus making it closer to the basket the offenses and coaches can be a part of this game again. At least that's Lay-den- 's view. With more time on the shot clock, coaches could actually design an offense. They wouldn't be at the whims of a ref playing "Should I or shouldn't I?" when it comes to calling the vague illegal defense. And with the wider lane, cutting and slashing to the basket would be a part of the game again. "The rest of the world is playing our game this way, and we are not," Layden said. "I think if we - step toward his fourth straight Tour de France title Monday, moving D.m. Bowling. (ESPN) Page B7 to reconsider decision the decathlon at BYU following an LDS Church mission. I:M Clmtc - Ring champ asks judge fifth." 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