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Show WASATCH COUNTY COURS 22, 2000 etto. Superstars — and the old green uni’s. There were the Jazz Brothers, which JON LAMOREAUX EDITOR included the likes of Thurl Bailey, Carrey Scurry and Ricky Green, among others, singing a couple of disposable ditties on a tape that » you lately what my clan can do? | _ “Cos Lown your arse now. By. rights we got family.” Embrace -“One Big Family” ife is never better than when the Jazz are on the tube. | funk soul brothers My inject me with the adrenaline shot I need to make it through the winter doldrums. — Damn them for making me spend so much time glued to the T-V. though. I have always felt, and the women will hate me for saying this, that if I were married and my wife were to dance naked in front of the television — screen during a game, I would shoo her away so as not to impair my vision. She would have to be content to get her needs met during halftime or after — the post-game wrap-up. It needs to be ~ understood that the Jazz come first in ~ our penn Les, and Marc Iaveroni, throwaways that have never been heard from since. There was the old Jazz band that used to play each game in the Salt Palace with the funny, lanky, Tuba player that also sang the national anthem from time to time. And don’t get me started on Adrian _ Dantley. There was also the time, just _afew years back, that the Jazz boasted. four white guys in the starting line-up! _ That’s more than you'll see in entire Being a Jazz fan is a little like befriending Charlie Brown. You gotta why we love him. Grandpa is still alive (Hot Rod Hundley) and though the - love the guy, but do things ever go his. way? The Jazz in the playoffs are like — Sally and the dreaded football. The prize will be yanked away every time, and we all know it, even if Chuck’s determination is admirable. Plus, ~ good intentions will lead us all down to hell. A Jazz squad has exe been about role playing and filling niches. motor skills are down, the mind is still alert. His poker buddy (Ron Boone) is getting better. Like a senile old man, the brain is full of stories that the mouth finds hard to tell. At least we are no longer subject to the juvenile philosophies of his childhood (i.e. “You know, Hot Rod, sometimes it just comes down to the team that scores the most points, wins the game.” Brilliant. What else you got in there, We are not a crew of original gangstas, willing to gun down the person. step- divisions most of the time. Utahns are very protective of their guys. They don’t just need to perform; they need to be as proud to perform in ping on their territory. Since Stockton and Malone have been in the picture, players have needed to understand Utah as the rest of us are. That is why what they are expected to do. Good dissenters like Shandon Anderson and -Howard Eisley are not tolerated. That players like Chris Morris didn’t under- is also why it is amazing that the Jazz. have so many fresh faces this year and they aren’t rejects from other teams, and they aren’t Utah natives (Pace eee Tom ee and Andy _ ly less street sensibility before now. There were the dubious players like Ben Poquette, Tom Boswell, Jim even _ > Booner, a pet rock?). Come June we may just be thie guys coming out on top. If not, losing | befits a Utahn. We have been doing it for many years, we can always-do it again. It happens whether you’re cheering for the Utes, the Cougars, or Donny Osmond. Maybe Jazz is a more fitting name for the team than first considered. Just like the music, , you either get it or you don’ t. stand this concept and have since. been shipped off to a deserted island with a hoop and no ball. In other words, a living hell. Given that Starks is responsible for filling the largest pair of Nikes in team | F I shown of - ketball views and got with the showtime. Winning titles takes cock, pomp, | and strut. The Jazz have had decided- sold for $5. “Have the -poble eae ~ Danny Manning, the youthful exuberance of Donyell Marshall, and the junkyard dawg growl of John Starks, modern Mennonite, Larry Miller has actually tossed his conservative bas- Tre inne “J.J.” Anderson, for all. Between ies those of Jeff Hornacek, he has actually. performed about as well as he was brought here to. He has always been streaky, but he does what he | does best and is doing it well. Manning is similar, only Marshall has failed to have a breakout game to justify his existence (and lose the cornrows, Buddy). In other words, the family doesn’ t appear to be too dysfunctional. The children appear to be playing together nicely, Daddy (Sloan) is hard to please, but that never changes and it’s ne Tooleson anyone?). They are superlative players with pungent power that _may put the Jazz over the top once and The Jaz azz are like family to anyone in Utah that has been here long - enough to remember their adolescence in the Salt Palace, Sam -Battistone, their first playoff appear‘ance, Dr. Dunkenstein and Mitchell ny mT _Lyricall MANAGING B9 TN NOVEMBER e l ra) Hunters Bring Nontradieoeat _ Fare to Thanksgiving Table | BY EDUARDO MONTES ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER hanksgiving dinner doesn't get morning hunt was feasible. It was an easy transition for Clarno, a longtime hunter who said he hasn't had to buy meat in a store for more than 18 any fresher than what you find years. | on Jerry Clarno's _ table each _ Corky Richardson, a hunting guide ~ November. from the Phoenix area, said hunting for For the past seven years, Clarno and_ Thanksgiving has been a long-standing his two sons have made a tradition of tradition in his family. “It really has been combing the ponds around his home since I can remember,” he said. - near Benson on Thanksgiving morning Some years, he said, someone will to shoot ducks — one apiece — for their shoot a spring turkey and save it for holiday meal. November. The. family's usual meal, Clarno said they weren't consciously however, generally involves elk, deer or looking for an alternative to the usual antelope killed in the weeks before. dinner with astore-bought turkey but The’ Richardson household expects simply thought it would be fun to try _to be filling up this year on an elk that his hunting for their supper one year. 17-year-old son, | Russell, and The practice stuck. 7 Richardson's father killed in September “Tt. didn't really strike us until we near the Grand Canyon. started having our dinner that 'Wow, this © Richardson said a number of things is neat,” he said. “Just looking back at drive his family's tradition. One is the the old paintings of Thanksgiving with responsibility hunters have to eat what the pilgrims and their muskets and their they kill. Another is the fact they really turkeys, that's just the way it ought to like game meat. But there's also the joy his family gets out of being together on | And while it's not typical, Clarno and the hunt and reminiscing afterward. his sons, 16-year-old Shawn and 14-year_ “You sit there and you eat and you old Justin, aren't the only Arizonans who talk about it,” he said. “It's our eee will be stalking their Thanksgiving meal. That's what we like to do.” “It's actually fairly popular even Clarno said his sons also look forthough we're getting to be a more urban-. ward to their holiday outing. Saidey Beench b e. 9 do city-like things other than outdoor them about it and they think it's kind of hunting and gathering,” said Rory weird,” he said. “For us, it's expected. Aikens, a spokesman for the Arizona We. know what we're going to do Game and Fish Department. | Thanksgiving morning.” Aikens said participants tend to be © Others are approaching the nontradipeople who just enjoy the outdoors and tional fare more slowly. Kris Williams of get satisfaction from “putting food on the Phoenix said she expects to serve some table that does not come from the gro- cery store.” Clarno said he'd had a traditional Thanksgiving until he left Tucson, - where he still works as a taxidermist, and moved to an area where a holiday elk and maybe some javelina for the first time this year, courtesy of her 13-yearold son, who just recently started hunt- Hee fe “It's kind of.fun,” she said. “It's just a little bit of a twist on a tradition.” - eb Roasted | Gales oon rt ry . Entrees Pig - ry - | Prime " Hethed Gites: Side Dishes Grilled Asparagus & Vegetable Platter - Spinach Salad Fresh Fruit - Waffles and Omelettes made to order Salads . Smoked Salmon . 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