Show Section REST AVAILABLE COP’ Sunday June 27 2004 Pagel The Herald Journal m Jacobs has eye on ArenaBowl title Inside By Shawn Harrison 1 sports editor ' Si V' - : top-seed- ed si Legions bike to support fight B2 Sports briefs I ' - White-coach- : So the former Utah State defensive lineman doesn’t think' it will be like ArenaBowl XVI in 2002 where the SaberCats trounced the Rattlers 52-1- 4 ’ 1 ed This was his 10th season in the league He spent two years with ihc Charlotte Rage four years at Albany and the past four with the SaberCats Jacobs won his first title with the V ' Albany firebirds in 1999 and was named to the Football League for the third straight ' year Hemadc the second team in 2000 his first year with San Jose ' Jacobs is the AFL’s career leader ' ' in tackles for loss with 33 and ranks sixth in sacks with 315 In the semi- -' finals two weeks ago he had25 sacks againsf Chicago He called the SaberCats pass rush first-tea- ’ execution and not turning the ball over' But in this game you are never out of it There can be some " really weird bounces of the ball” X Stingers beat Tucson — TUCSON Ariz (AP) Steve Green struck out a season-hig- h eight batters and limited Tucson to three singles over seven shutout innings in Salt Lake’s 2 win Saturday nightat Tucson Electric Park X Green (5-had been winless in his prevjoussix starts including a June 21 loss to theSidewinders in which he allowed six ruhs in 3 23 innings high-scori- ng ng two-wa- X against MS When ArenaBowl XVIII kicks off ' today in Phoenix a former Aggie : Arenwill be trying to win his third ' aBowl ring y starter for Joe Jacobs is a the San Jose SaberCats who entered the playoffs as the second seed' An- They will face the zona Rattlers The game can be seen locally on KSL Channel 5 at 2 pm “I think our chances are great” said Jacobs Thursday during a telephone interview after his' team had practiced “It will be one' of those games where it will come down to ' “They (Rattlers) didn't score until ’ the fourth quarter in that game” JacobiTsaid “I don’t think this will ' be a game probably — the high 30s to 35 to low 40s They (Rattlers) like to " " slow things down” ' Jacobs who starts on the offen-- " sive and defensive line for San Jose V also said he and his teammates need to be ready for anything against " Arizona The ' Danny former Dallas Cowboy is known for calling fake field goals and fake onside kickoffs ' “Like I said earlier we’ve got to ” execute Jacobs said ' And he knows from experience- - m ' All-Aren- a- See EYE on B4 Boys of Summer Tournament 4-- xe I 7) V is1 ! v t i A i : : i Saturday's scores Interleague NY Mats 9 NY nkeesi Philadelphia 9 Boston 2 Toronto 10 Montreal 5 tfhg'fy- White Sox 6 Cubs 3 X T t ::K‘ Hexas 8 Houston 7 Kfe-Anahej7 Los Angeles 5 Atlanta 5 Baltimore 0 lM4Tampa Bay6 Florida 4 Detroit 7rizona 6 t Ctevelarid 4r Cotorado (12)V: ' Milwaukee 7 Mihnesota2: 3 Kansas City tJ10) Oakland 8 San Francisco 7 (10) r? - '‘jv v 0$ lllll fi f ! ¥aLouis I - ' PCL: i ® t - f si'4 osmwwwwt Pioneer League rain Provo 3 Idaho Falls 2 OgdsnCasperppd On television ARENA FOOTBALL 'T 'fi-rfl- v t vat r CBS —American Lexington Ohio Lei ' Mans Series V'-'''':- : -- pm‘ r NASCAR - " Nextel Clip DodgeSaVe Mart 350 at Sonoma FOX !v: — 'calf y : 7 pm ' j ' ESPN2 — NHRA Sears Craftsman Nationals final round at Madison III (same-da- y tape) COLLEGE BASEBALL ' ' ' - : Mustang baserunner Kramer Young is tagged put at home by Box Elder's Khord Mehl Saturday Eli LuceraHerajd Journal The Mustangs defeated the Bees in Smithfield 5-- : 1 ' - pm' : X ESPN — NCAA Division I World Series Championship Series Game ' 2 Texas vs Cal Stats Fullerton at ' Omaha Neb-- ' GOLF 10:30am 'TGC — Nationwide Tour Lake : Erie 'Charity Classic final round atFindley Lake NY 1 - pm ABC — PGA Tour' Booz Allen Clas- sic final round at Potomac Md ' TGC — PGA of America PGA Club Pro Championship final round at Nashport Ohio 2 pm ESPN2 — LPGA Rochester LPGA final round at Pittsford NY (same- day tape) MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 11:30 am TBS —Atlanta at Baltimore 1 pm WGN — Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox 6 pm ESPN — NY Mets at NY Yankees MOTORSPORTS 1 The rest of the AMERICAN Mustangs soon LEGION joined Barker and the team proceed- Mustangs 5 ed to party as if it Bees 4 had just captured a state championship ' The Mustangs didn't do that Instead they held off the Box Elder Bees 4 in a thrilling championship game of the Cache Valley Electric Boys of Summer Tournament at Richard V Hansen Park “It was a fun game” Mustangs P-- SPEED —AM A Supersport at Brainerd Minn (same-da- y tape) 2 pm SPEED — AMA Superbike at Brainerd Minn (same-da- y tape) UB OLYMPIC TRIALS 5 pm NBC — Gymnastics women's final at Anaheim Calif TENNIS 8 am ESPN2 — Wimbledon Championships early round at London falls short By Wade Denniston ' sports writer r 5-- SMITHFIELD — Andrew Barker flung the ball high into the Saturday night sky ripped off his catcher's mask and jumped in celebration line along the first-bas- e coach Stephen Hansen said “Plus the experience we gained there you can't ask for more experience than that It's ' something you can't practice or any- thing and that goes a long ways'’ In other tournament games Satur- day Smithfield defeated Riverton on 5-- 2 while Logan had no trouble : with Preston cruising The Mustangs led 0 before the Bees rallied for four runs in the but- tom of the sixth Things got real interesting in the bottom of the seventh when Hansen brought in Riley Parkinson to close it put 10-- 0 5-- Is USADA playing fair? By Jim Litke AP Sports Columnist Commentary track and field athletes were using Let's say a sprinter who loses to the same opponent over and over suspects his competitor is using performance-enhancin- g drugs So instead of training harder and smarter he decides to go on the juice himself to make up the difference That would be cheating Everybody is clear about that Less clear is whether the US Agency is applying the same standards of fairness it expects athletes to meet USADA officials have believed for some time that a number of American Anti-Dopi- perfor- and yet managing somehow to avoid detection through mance-enhancers drug tests Unable to complete the tough expen- work required to sive better a testing system the develop agency instead was able to adopt a lower standard of proof just in time to make use of evidence that came in through the door as a result of the federal investigation into BALCO The timing looks suspicious but it's time-consumi- ng See FAIR on B4 Parkinson struck out the first bat- ter he faced on three pitches but then walked the next two batters — Justin Burr and Colton Simmons—: despite getting ahead in the count both times' However Parkinson returned ib form and fanned the final two Bees — Dave Jones being the final out with Burr and Simmons both’in scoring position alter a double steal — to end it prompting the wild celebration “It's always good to beat Box See HANG on B4 Rain spoils day at Wimbledon again WIMBLEDON England (AP) — With time to fill during rainouts that forced two y Wimbledon's third People's Sunday in 127 years the BBC showed old matches from such rivalries as John McEnroe vs Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert vs Martina Navratilova If as planned the All England Club has a roof in place over Centre Court in 2009 the network w ill be able to broad all-da- cast live tennis when the inevitable showers come And that means future generations probably won't get to see archived tapes of matches between two players who could be the sport's next all-tigreats two players whose contrasting styles and personalities appear to set the stage for a carcerrdefining series of show See RAIN on B6 sassssaa s |