| Show o The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday February 2 1988—7 There will be changes in the Bronco barn beat like this you know something has to be done some- Say it ain’t so Joe but D was a dog where" Reeves intends to answer the questions with action In seven months you may not recognize this team There will be new players new strategies maybe even new coaches "We’ve got to do something" the coach said Monday "if we want to win a world championship one of these times” All eyes are cast on the defense Say what you want about Joe Collier — his experience his success his genius — but any coordinator whose unit allows 35 points in a quarter is subject to fair scrutiny Tne issue has become this: Does the problem involve lier's philosophy a lack of talent or both? In fairness to Collier the Broncos haven't d used a draft choice on a defensive player in seven years What the masterminds must do is find better players How about reducing the Three Amigos to two for a defensive back? How about trading up to land a fine pass rusher in the draft? Clearly the defense won't improve with the current personnel The secondary has the necessary talent but does it have the proper attitude? All you see are sulking faces slow gaits signs of apathy Is Coach Charlie West acting in the team’s best interests by encouraging his players to avoid tne media act so re-UPI bellious? If not he should go more friends back in Denver where 15000 What happened to Denver's vaunted Many players wanted to skip the preReeves seems a bit fed up with Three Amigos in San Diego? Judging greeted them Approximately 150000 arranged celebration but Coach Dan the attitude problem When took part in a similar homecoming 0 Reeves insisted they attend from the score maybe we're told of Dennis Smith's opinion welcome for the Broncos a year ago looking at them The Broncs found a few that the line needs more bulk Reeves shot back: "You’ve got to cover some people in the A week will pass perhaps Dan Reeves said in announcing before the comma and pected Rarely has a team secondary too Those four long protocol during the scene was a sad and brutally two But from that point on be entered a title game in such have don’t touchdown Sarade “But passes they've taken the harsh reminder of how easily a ' prepared for an offseason of order and left in such disarray to the do with people anything time to do it and we’rc going to town can turn on a team even change In 13 gruesome The Denver franchise gained up front" cooperate the best we can So when the town is Denver rnd minutes Sunday night the nothing from this title game It The offensive line is falling let’s be proud today” Broncos did more than lose only has regressed fallen to the team is the Broncos The apart game as e their second straight Super the point where the future is usual needsrunning After a few oblig reinforcements The parade predictably was and dark muddled Bowl and pl All over the depth chart there reminiscent of a funeral pro- players thanked the crowd themselves on the world’s o us sets "This back” are questions about the Denver cession Fifty-twMondays then left the scene reboarded stage really Clarence Kay said in a candid Broncos earlier more than 100000 fans the orange buses and disapNext year's Super Bowl is in 0 loss to had shown to salute their team peared for a bitter despondent They exposed more flaws moment after the Miami For now don’t worry Redskins to the here Giants the after the loss “Coming Introspective and turbulent and deficiencies than even about reservations in two a row and Now there was one fewer zero winter years getting their harshest critics had sus By Jay Mariotti Scripps Howard News Service If memories of a dark dreadful evening couldn't be purged it somehow was easy enough to push them into the closet with skeletons of seasons past Jazz in their ears veal scallopini on their laps the 1 Denver Broncos were loose chatty and remarkably relaxed Monday as their 727 whizzed across the desert sky to a cold gray dispirited clime Vance Johnson first-roun- turned around in his seat and tickled Gary Kubiak’s baby boy on the cheek Mark Haynes clad in suspenders giggled it up (yes the man giggles) with Bruce Plummer Mike Horan walked through the aisles with a Super Bowl XXII poster asking teammates to sign Steve Watson held a balloon from the San Diego Zoo with a on the front KHOW Banda bear Tony Lamonica setting back the journalism industry a century or two donned an apron and helped the attendants serve ice cream For a flight maybe for a day the numbness was gone and the smiles were back The Broncos accompanied by loved ones who don’t boo or razz or demand trades were relieved to depart the scene of their worst nightmare and return home So what if the fans were burning shirts playing taps making plans to stay far away homecom- from an 42-1- te ed re-th- embarrass tackle the ceremony with heads high and fists thrust "I know this is something we all aren’t excited about" coach 42-1- Scoreboard Basketball NCAA TOP 20 NEW YORK (UPIJ The Uflltad Pres International Board of Coaches' 20 Top collage basketball ratings with first-plac- e votes and record In parentheses total points (based on 15 points - tor first place 14 for second last week's ranking: 1 Arizona ) (31) 2 Brigham Young (4) ) 3 Nevada-La- s ) Vegas (1) ) 4 Temple etc) (20-1- (15-0- (19-1- (16-1- 5 Duke (13-2- ) 6 Purdue (17-2- ) 7 North Carolina I Oklahoma (18-2- 9 Pittsburgh Kentucky II Michigan 12 Syracuse 13 Georgetown 14 15 16 17 18 19 ) (14-3- Iowa (15-5- ) ) (15-2- 10 (15-3- ) (17-3- ) (15-5- ) (14-4- ) ) Carolina 409 6 397 4 356 2 333 3 259 10 255 11 203 9 164 8 Illinois (14-6- ) St John's (14-3- z z 2314 19 ) Paso z 1816 (17-4- ) Southern Mississippi Villanova Wyom- ing 1 36 Merrimack 87 Quinnipiac 75 Miami 79 Marist 76 (OT) Millersville 103 Mt St Mary 82 Navy 63 Delaware 60 Pace 82 Mercy 70 Phila Textile 86 Bloomsburg 80 Randolph Macon 76 Kutztown 71 Scranton 65 Drew 51 Springfield 75 Stonehill 74 (OT) St Joseph's (Vt) 99 Lyndon St 84 St Thomas Aquinas 105 York (NY) 14 12 ) Southern Methodist 425 7 427 5 51 (15-5- Others receiving votes: Arkansas Boise State Colorado State Georgia Tech Indiana Iowa State Kansas State Missouri New Mexico North Carolina State Rhode Island South 58 18 (13-4- (13-2- ) Texas-E- 540 Florida 20 5213 6815 ) Vanderbilt Bradley I and i 48 NCAA BASKETBALL MONDAY Stony Brook 77 William Paterson Trenton St 114MedgarEvers42 Ursinus 64 Moravian 55 Utica Tech 80 Cortland St 53 Villanova 64 Georgetown 58 W Conn State 94 Yeshiva 87 Waynesburg 86 St Vincent 69 York College 79 Mary Mount 71 South East Assumption 80 Bryant 63 Bates 85 Southern Maine 84 Bentley 114 St Anselm 101 Brandeis 77 Suffolk 55 Cheyney 73 Widener 72 Delaware Valley 80 Spring Garden 74 Dickinson 74 Susquehanna 72 E Stroudsburg 81 N J Tech 69 Elizabethtown 82 Messiah 61 Fordham 83 Marquette 63 Haverford 74 Beaver 51 Juniata 79 Gettysburg 68 Lowell 80 Sacred Heart 78 MIT 69 Salve Regina 65 Manhaftanville 97 Hunter 85 Massachusetts 60 St Bonaventure56 70 VMI 68 a 61 77 Jacksonville 52 Wheeling 94 West Liberty 76 Winston-Sale76 Virginia State 68 Wlnthrop 74 Coastal Carolina 58 Tennessee-Chattanoog- Virginia Seattle Utah 29 23 23 2524 30 - 25--100 26-- 105 goals — Ellis 2 Fouled ou- t- none Total fouls --Seattle 31 Utah 22 Rebounds-Seat- tle 41 (Ellis 0) Utah Assists-Sea- ttle 36 (Malone 11) 25 (McMillan 10) Utah 27 (Stockton 15) Three-poin- t A— 12212 Midwest LEADERS (Through Sunday's Games) Albion 91 Concordia 75 Austin Peay 78 Youngstown State 68 Chicago St 81 Central St 63 Cincinnati 81 Northern Illinois 60 Cleveland St 74 Wis Green Bay 68 Detroit 65 St Louis 59 Loyola (III) 80 Evansville 74 Mt Senario 88 No Cent Bible 81 Northwood 106 Aquinas 86 103 Cardinal Stritch 78 Valparaiso 63 Eastern Illinois 59 Wayne State 86 St Mary's 77 121 MSOE 72 SlU-Ed- Concord 78 Campbell 77 East Carolina 50 Central Florida 77 Flagler 70 East Tennessee State 97 Citadel 90 Eastern Kentucky 88 Middle Tenn Fairmont 66 Glenville61 Furman 90 Davidson 80 Lee College 102 Shorter 89 Louisville 107 Virginia Tech 99 Marshall 103 Western Carolina 74 NC Charlotte 85 NC Wilmington 75 New Orleans 64 Samford 47 Shepherd 89 W Virginia State 80 Southwest 70 Austin Coll 100 McMurry 98 Cameron 74 West Texas St 55 New Mexico 60 Colorado St 51 Northwestern State 92 Nicholls65 Pan American 74 Oral Roberts 72 Bluff 93 Southern 129 Arkansas-PinTexas Lutheran Coll 99 Schriner 83 Texas Southern 71 SE Louisiana 67 Wyoming 107 Rockford 99 Tuesday's Games Charleston at Albany Topeka at Mississippi Rapid City at La Crosse Rockford at Wyoming Wednesday's Games Albany at Pensacola Topeka at Mississippi Quad City at Savannah e (OT) West New Mexico 60 Colorado St 51 Southern Cal 67 Washington 65 Hoiis you’re a hit NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSN Eastern Conference Atlantic Division ByJohnCrumpacker San Francisco Examiner Thanks Pookie Iliya and Aswan You too Drederick Guido and Fitzhugh Love ya Olaf Dajuann and Silk You guys were good but the Team of college standards for The basketball are very high So high that d lads like Rick Fluckey Mario Credit and Broderick President couldn’t even crack the third team Nicknames like Pookey Wigineton of Seton Hall Silk Owens of Rhode Island and Snoopy Graham of Ohio U don’t count for much A great surname like Laughinghouse more than negates an ordinary first name like Scott Drederick Irving doesn’t quite measure up Occupational names like Gres Housekeeper Nick Nurse and Chancellor Nichols score high Names that combine two cultures such as Ulya McGee Spious Kilpatrick and Rasheem Livingston also rate consideration Here without apology are the best names in college basketball: All-Na- well-name- First team: Forwards Fennis Dembo Wyoming Gore Pitt Center Alaa Abdelnaby ff Hawaii Theodore Lightbourne Florida A&M Off the bench: Wayne Tinkle Montana table team: Darrin (Hold The) Alabama State Jonathan Duck Iona Mayo Tim Trut and Jimmy Apple William and Mary Calvin Lamb Long Island Nevio Dunatov St Francis All-traini- All-alie- n: g offdef tot 42163 388 551 Oakley Chi 40 198 300 498 Cage LAC 33 144 265 409 Williams NJ 40 160 296 456 Olaiuwon Hou 39 176 267 443 Barkley Phil 38 93 329 422 Laimbeer Det 40 172 267 439 MMalone Wash 41 149 296 445 Malone Utah 39 158 241 399 Tarpley Dal 40 104 293 397 Gminskl Phil Field goals fgm fga 241 McHale Bos W7 256 443 Parish Bos 162 285 Rodman Det 369 651 Barkley Phi 159 M2 Levingston Atl 271 486 Berry SA 4M 290 374 480 ffa 199 224 124 145 106 124 69 IX 308 116 Three-poin- Monday's Results Cleveland 94 Detroit 83 Indiana 90 Golden State 88 New Jersey 108 Dallas 103 Utah 105 Seattle 100 Sacramento 97 Chicago 95 Tuesday's Games Washington at New York 6 pm Detroit at Milwaukee 6:X pm Phoenix at Houston 6: X pm New Jersey at San Antonio 6:X us Duke Guards — Scott Laughinghouse Vanderbilt Nick Nurse Northern Iowa Off the bench: LaVar (Air) Ball Washington State Second team: Forwards OJ Gumbs Delaware Bebe Bocachica Richmond Center Bonzie Colson Rhode Island Guards Bimbo Coles Rhode Island Spious Kilpatrick Brooklyn Off the bench: Tim Jumper Ole Miss Third team: Forwards Chancellor Nichols Mississippi State Blue Edwards East Carolina Center Greg Housekeeper Utah State Guards Moritz Klelne-Brockho- Western Conference Reboundii Greg Houskeeper Rahim Huland-E- l third team Chicago at LA Lakers 8:X pm Atlanta at Portland 8:X pm All-Na- Abdul Vermont Providence Olufemi Akinola Indiana State Osei Appiah Santa Clara There were other nominees for Team status There was Oregon’s Greg Senior who’s a junior Indiana Stale has a Bird (Eddie) and a Bush (Larry) There’s Paris Dennis of Georgia State and Paris McCurdy of Arkansas-LitU- e Rock How about this pair? Aswan Wainwright of Radford and Marcus Hamwright of Loyola Paul Newman plays for Delaware State It was hard to just say no to Lennon Mings of VMI Maggi Belli of Long Island Bill Crotty of Dayton and Bo Cucuz of Northwestern Shamsid-Dee- n Wednesday's Games Indiana at Boston Golden State at Philadelphia Cleveland at Washington Dallas at Denver Sacramento at Utah All-Na- i UTAH 105 SEATTLE IX Monday at Salt Lake City SEATTLE (100) Chambers 4 14 7 8 15 McDaniel 5 6 15 Johnson 0 1 00 0 Ellis 17 31 4 4 40 McMillan 0 0 2 2 2 Lister 0 0 C O 0 7 Schoene 2 5 Vincent 2 5 0 0 4 McKey 24 68 10 Polynice 00 12 1 Young 01 0 0 0 Williams 3 4 00 6 Totals 35 SO X 34 IN UTAH (105) Malone Eaton 3 8 14 9 16 25 lavaronl 2 7 3 3 7 3 2 4 8 Tripucka 46 00 8 Stockton 4 14 9 9 17 Bailey 13 19 6 8 32 Green 0 1 2 2 2 Hansen 2 4 2 2 6 Turpin 0 1000 Totals 36 69 33 44105 Price Clev Davis Dali Henderson Phi Hodges Mil Tripucka Utah Alnge Bos t field goals fgm fga 37 15 30 49 21 81 EhloClev 14 58 40 14 Ellis Sea WoodSA Hansen Utah 65 124 114 114 110 109 102 607 578 568 567 564 558 550 548 545 544 PCf 955 915 911 910 896 887 884 883 880 879 569 5N X 35 4N ast avg 117 X 43 3X 81 41 37 40 41 Patrick Division W L T PIS Washington NY g Stl 42 39 151 Lver 41 121 107 Den Stockton Utah JcksonNY DrexlerPort Cheeks Phi Porter Port HarPer-Dal- 41 1 40 121 101 94 87 79 blk Ea°n Utoh Ewing NY I 155 134 Islanders New Jersey Pittsburgh NY Rangers X X 22 21 24 23 25 6 6 5 5 9 6 X2 10 5 9 68 63 55 Harttord 7 51 Quebec 21 3 45 181 162 IX 197 212 193 21 23 25 IX 176 160 175 168 171 2N 168 185 Campbell Conference Norris Division W L T Pis GF GA 8 56 24 19 XI 173 St LOUIS Chicago 24 23 16 15 Minnesota Toronto 23 27 X X 5 3 8 9 53 49 40 39 181 189 166 195 179 214 224 224 266 234 186 198 180 194 178 193 243 Calgary Edmonton 32 15 6 X X 7 65 Winnipeg Los Angeles 22 7 5 51 18 16 17 22 31 41 X 7 X M3 Monday's Results St Louis 5 Toronto 4 Montreal 5 Hartford 4 Chicago 5 Boston 3 New Jersey 5 Calgary 4 Tuesday's Games Buffalo at Quebec 5: 35 pm Washington at Pittsburgh 5:35 pm NY Rangers at NY Islanders 6:05 Vancouver pm SB 86 84 82 Los at Vancouver Angeles 8:35 Wednesday's Games Montreal at Hartford New Jersey at Edmonton Detroit at Chicago St Louis at Minnesota Calgary at Winnipeg Vancouver at Los Angeles avg 360 310 295 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE East W M Ikegon Fll Wayne Kl smaioo Flint Saginaw 198 avg 378 319 IX 15 pm 255 253 229 218 46 X 101 261 51 29 23 22 Detroit GF GA 176 176 195 183 206 X 112 109 89 58 54 53 53 Adams Division Montreal Boston Buffalo Stoats Jordan Chi Robertson SA 26 24 24 24 21 Philadelphia Smythe Division pet 478 459 434 423 366 324 345 344 311 42 Wales Conference pet 492 462 457 426 424 423 404 137 NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE 99 X IX X Hockey 111 41 2 Jackson R Ivers A! 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