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Show Page B2 ww.heraliWxtra.com), Provo, Utah, Thursday, November THE DAILY HERALD, 1 8, 1999 crWm rORmNQ r BRIEFING 5 5 No more; apologies for Spree; j Notable Quote "The only thing I know is that players play, people come to watch players, they don't ' come to watch me manage." Red Sox manager Jimy Williams, after being named AL manager of the year. Football The Philadelphia Eagles 'claimed High tight end Chad Lewis off waivers from the St. Louis Rams on Wednesday. Lewis rejoins the team as a rookie free , agent in 1997. The former BYU walk-oyarned a spot on the Eagles .roster in 1997 and played in . all 16 games. He had 12 ... receptions for 94 yards, n including four touchdowns. n i No. Dixie College and No. Butler County Community College from Kansas will square off in the Rotary Bowl, Pec. 4 in St. George, to determine the junior college national championship. The ) Grizzlies wound up r-season play with a win over Garden City last Sunday. Garden City handed Butler its only loss of the season in overtime earlier in the year. Dixie was the winner of the WSFL title and gave up only 16 TDs all year. Butler averages 46.1 points per game, while the Rebels give up an average of just 18.1 points, d (10-1- regula- 37-3- 4 i i tennis t ' Hampered by a strained left hamstring and bedeviled at first by her opponent, hard-hittin- second-seede- g d Lindsay Davenport ed out a pound- victory over Amelie Mauresmo on Wednesday night to move into the quarterfinals of the Chase Championships in New York. In the final first-roun- d 6-- 2 6-- 3-- By The Associated Press AUBURN HILLS, Mich. In a matchup of struggling teams, the Detroit Pistons struggled a little less than the New Jersey Nets. Grant Hill scored 32 points, and Christian Laettner had 20 6-- and 10 rebounds as the Pistons beat the Nets Wednesday night. The Pistons improved to while the Nets lost their fourth straight to fall to Detroit rebounded after blowr lead the ing a previous night in Toronto. "That's as important a game as we will have all year," said Pistons coach Alvin Gentry. "We had a tough loss last night in Toronto, the worst of the year, and I was concerned how 3-- fourth-quarte- well we would bounce back. But we played hard, and we made plays down the stretch." Laettner entered the game averaging just 12.3 points and rebounds. "When Christian is playing that well, it is a big plus for us," Gentry said. "When we can 4.5 keep him out of foul trouble, we can do a lot of things with him." Stephon Marbury led the Nets with 35 points, and Keith Van Horn had 30. "We played hard tonight, but until we win some games, I don't think we are close to where we want to be," Marbury said. "All we can do is just keep playing hard." Detroit's Jerry Stackhouse missed a baseline jumper with 8 seconds left, and the Nets got the ball with a chance to tie or win. Marbury drove past Lindsey Hunter, but his pullup jumper over Laettner bounced off the rim. Jamie Feick's tip also KEarlier Wednesday, ' the tournament's first upset saw Germany's Anke Huber oust No. 8 Julie of France Halard-Decug- 6-- T A r OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Sprewell can't hide his anger or bitterness. P.J. Carle8imo just wanta'to move on, and the Golden State Warriors' coach even hopes to talk to his onetime star when they meet on the court for the first time since Sprewell choired him nearly two years ago. "If we get a chance to talk, Til want to talk" certainly Carlesimo said during a conference call from Seattle, where the Warriors played the SuperSonics Wednesday. "But whatever I want to express; express to Spree, not the c media." Snrewell returns tn Oalrlatart uu kjaiurunv Willi CELTICS 114 CAVALIERS 103 BOSTON Paul Pierce scored 30 points, including 23 in the second half, as the Boston Celtics rallied to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers. Pierce also had 1 1 rebounds and four assists for the Celtics, who trailed by 15 points in the t first half and seven at the end of the third quarter before outscoring the Cavaliers in the fourth period. 38-2- 0 AMm ETlie Associated Press Harpring sandwich: Orlando's Matt Harpring, center, is squeezed between Portland's Detlef Schrempf, left, who grabs the rebound, and Arvydas Sabonis, right. SCOTT and improve the NBAs best record to January 1992 8-- HORNETS 104 MAVERICKS 99 7-- nine-gam- e Eddie CHARLOTTE, N.C. Jones had 24 points, nine assists and six rebounds, and the Charlotte Hornets held off a late Dallas rally. Jones, who came in averagt 2.8 steals, ing an added four more as the Hornets, winless in four games on the road this season, TRAIL BLAZERS 81 MAGIC 79 improved to 5-- 0 at home. CLIPPERS 89 TIMBERWOLVES 85 MINNEAPOLIS Lamar Odom scored 12 of his 22 points in the fourth quarter as the Los Angeles Clippers ral 23-capped a run by the Clippers, who losing snapped a streak. SUPERSONICS 111 WARRIORS 108 game-endin- g 8 four-gam- e SEATTLE -- Vin Baker scored 23 points and Gary Payton added 21 as the Seattle SuperSonics held off a late Golden State surge. The Sonics committed two violations in the final 90 seconds and nearly lead squandered a down the stretch. shot-cloc- k Box scores, B8 "' bushel v second Holyfield-MikTyson fight on June 28, 1997. e Correction Josh Roberts, who was $ne of three SUU football players to earn GTE Academic VIII honors, football at prep played View High. fountain release from SUU $sted Roberts as being from Payson. i Basketball Kobe Bryant, who was hopeful of returning to the Los yngeles Lakers lineup before Thanksgiving, will miss 4t least five more games. Bryant broke his hand in preseason play. II1N 1 1 during practice. i :j 11 :e i kJlCVYGll Dam IX lie 1 ill l .1 . ' lulls . 11 111 l L1, nanus. T..i. anu bubac Dill n through apologizing. l "ix Liium x j UVK tc aLruiuieu " be said and ovpr npain . O He has put his career backpn track, helping the Knicks rea'ch the NBA finals and signing'' a $61.8 million contract before this season. Sprewell insists ne was mistreated by Carlesimo and Warriors management, and he has made clear he'll do everything he can to get back "at them. t "I just want to go in there and crush them," he said in Denver on Tuesday night, when the Knicks beat the Nuggets 102-9Td just love it if we just I 1 1 t, 1 ' : 7 ' killed them." ' "Bitterness, hatred, whatever you want to call it, it's there," Sprewell said. "I think they "' could've handled it better." Is for the Milwaukee (5-3- . yrtr.. i ZzxL Stop right there: Vancouver goalie Kevin Weekes makes a save on a shot from Detroit's Brendan Shanahan (14) as Canucks defenseman Murray Baron (23) moves in. Capitals rally to tie Stars, By The Associated Press i . filfL rMlfNfti!? ' i WASHINGTON Richard Zednik scored his second goal with 9:11 remaining Wednesday night to give the tie Washington Capitals a with the Dallas Stars. Zednik, who had only one goal on the season coming into the game, put in his own rebound after his first attempt was stopped by goaltender Manny Fernandez. Zednik received the puck when Jan Bulis threaded a perfect pass from the right 2-- 2 point-blan- k wing. RALEIGH, N.C Bates Battaglia and Robert Kron scored and Arturs Irbe lost a shutout in the final minute to lead Carolina. 5 h Irbe, who has struggled this camseason after an paign last year, lost his shutout with 48 seconds left when Shawn McEachern netted his sixth of the season on a all-st- deflection. 2-- 2 with the Bruins, veteran Joe Murphy scored on a bizarre backhander from the corner with 4:31 to play to rally Boston to a tie with New Jersey. Mikko Eloranta also scored in the third period as the Bruins continued a hot streak that has seen them lose only once in 10 games ). BLUES 3 MAPLE LEAFS 2 TORONTO Terry Yake scored with 59.2 seconds left to give St. Louis a victory over THRASHERS LIGHTNING ATLANTA 5 4 Andrew Toronto. Brunette and Matt Johnson Pierre Turgeon, who set up Yake's goal on a had three assists to give him seven points in his last three games. scored 10 seconds apart early in the third period as Atlanta e ended a losing streak. two-on-on- e, HURRICANES 2 SENATORS 1 Mi 3 ''y .... CHUCK STOODYThe Associated Press record of $14.3 million for the . H iiistui lUllUWllll iun199,7 flHRmilt. nn Pnrlooimr. Bucks. The Bucks ) are leading the NBA in scoring, averaging 108.8 points per game after win over the Tuesday's 101-9Los Angeles Clippers. Glenn Robinson, Ray Allen and Sam Cassell have combined for 67.1 of those points, making them Boxing Helped by 4,272 tickets sold nnt in o his closest competitor. at $2,000 each, the Saturday night bout broke the previous - happy. To solve it, Karl installed the league's most potent, offense, which has generated shots to spare and points by the Gary Tan and $cott Randall, both freshBYU's fight. the 1VJ1 enough shots to keep three proven scorers productive and set a boxing record with $16.9 million in gate receipts. However, the sales fell short of the first alter serving MILWAUKEE (AP) George Karl has a problem few coaches face in the watered-dow- n NBA. He has to find is Evander Holyfield rematch mv , 6-- men, were honored as the MWC male swimmer and diver of the week Wednesday. ' Tan, a Singapore native, won the 200 back and 200 IM. Randall won the event against UNLV, scoring 260.45, 20 points higher than iL i mi 1 Scorers find enough shots in Karl's offense i.lU Swimming j lied to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves. Odom, who played all 48 minutes, sealed the game with a running hook shot with 16 seconds left. The basket NBA-bes- Rasheed ORLANDO, Fla. Wallace hit a turnaround jumper with 1.3 seconds left, then stole an inbounds pass on Orlando's final possession. Wallace had 13 points and 11 center rebounds, and Arvydas Sabonis hit a crucial down the stretch to help the Blazers win at Orlando Arena for the first time since - 1 longest susDension c u J i' UlUgS lUUUUllg a Philadelphia. The Heat recovered from Tuesday night's loss to Portland and improved to start in the best franchise history. Allen Iverson failed to score 30 points for the first time in six games for Philadelphia, finishing with 24. a , I vnn i.itii imi i Warriors Alonzo PHILADELPHIA Mourning had 27 points and 1 i rebounds despite foul trouble to lead Miami over V U i i rr i HEAT 98 76ERS 93 v 5-- start 2 missed, and Perry couldn't get a shot off before the buzzer. match, Venus Williams barely escaped an upset, edging Conchita Martinez 7-- NBA ROUNDUP 109-10- 7 the Eagles rfter originally signing with second-ranke- Heat down Sixers for DEVILS 2 BRUINS 2 four-gam- The Thrashers, who had lost six of eight, came back from a 2-- - EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. Playing in his first game 0 deficit to win their second consecutive game against the Lightning. Results, B8 the highest-scorin- g trio in the league. "I'm coaching a little more freely than I've ever coached before, but it's fun, and it's been successful for us," Karl said. "We're loose out there on the court, and the guys aren't afraid to let it fly." Karl's three superstars are loving their freedom. All three are among the league's top 14 scorers. "Oh yeah, this is a lot of fun," said a grinning Robinson, who's averaging 21.8 points per game. "It may look like we're just taking a lot of shots, but there's strategy and discipline behind it. We're not just throwing it up. We're getting good shots, and we're not missing a lot of shots." The Bucks' feat is even more remarkable given their lack of a post-uthreat. Almost all of their points are scored on jump shots and drives. That also means the Bucks aren't getting many extra free throws from the league's new heightened foul rules, even though they lead the league in free throw shooting (82 percent) after hitting all 13 attempts against the Clippers. Two- - or three-pas- s posses- p ED BETZThe Associated less Another shot: Milwaukee for- ward Glenn Robinson (13) shoots over New York's LatreH Sprewell (8). j sions are frequent for Hie Bucks, with Cassell and Allen creating the play almost every time down the floor. Cassettes third in the league with $5 assists per game, and supporting players like Robert Traylbr and Dale Ellis also are lighting it up on occasion! They're not sloppy, either. The Bucks' 12.9 turnovers per a game are the NBA's fewest." In particular, the offehle seems built for the slashing, crashing Cassell, who has been close to unguardable at tinres in the season's first eight games. The NBA's first Plalfer of the Week this season.e looks even better than the player that averaged 19.6 points the New Jersey Nets two sea- ir sons ago. g "George lets me exprefS myself, just like Ray and Ge$n express themselves," CassaU said. "We've got a lot of firepojr-e- r over here, and people are starting to realize they'd better when they play D-u- p Bucks." |