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Show JANUARY WASATCH 17, 2001 COUNTY _ Organizers Move To Dress Up Games © Pies of exes: Budget oe A13 COURIER - Miners Bury Wasps RUSS RIGGS SPORTS EDITOR. Over ‘ing to give Park City a commanding 60-41 lead. From there, Park City emptied their bench and the Wasps were able to mount a late run—but it was much to late as Park City picked up the ee espite a nice effort by guard PAUL FOY ASSOCIATED SAIT PRESS LAKE | WRITER . CITY (AP) — Olympic trustees agreed for the first _time to dip into a cash reserve in a_ sign of growing confidence that the © 2002 Winter Games won’t lose money. The trustees heed S4 realli. in _ part to relieve Olympic volunteers of some thankless jobs, like overnight security and scrubbing portable toilets. The board’s vote came after Mitt Romney, president of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, detailed an. effort to restore some of the glitz and frills cut from the games’ budget in 1999, after the Salt Lake bid scandal chilled fund- -raising and left a growing budget deficit. The former frugality cut everything from street decor to fleets of golf carts for Olympic VIPs at indoor ven- ues. Instead sines, of chauffeured International limou- | Olympic Committee delegates will get driven in donated Chevy Blazers. The budget cuts seemed to ae a desperate note in early 1999 when organizers said: volunteers would have to pack their own lunches. Now, tickets are selling briskly, federal government support is growing, - financial risks. are subsiding and SLOC’s budget shortfall has shrunk to less than half the size of a $140 million cash reserve. When the bid scandal began to clear, corporate sponsors got on _board, contributing tens of millions of dollars in cash, products and services. Romney has less than $65 million to raise for the $1.3 billion games. _ However, the final millions are proving the hardest to realize, since corporate sponsors have already locked : up the most Eppular and traditional deals. Still, things are looking good | enough that Romney no longer frets. over belt-tightening. Now he wants to hold great games, an upgrade from Romney’s previous ambition for good games. He even aspires to earn the best-ever games’ blessing that. IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch | sometimes bestows - on _ Olympic g men’s cities. City 66-56 last Friday night. | ~ So Romney began fctiag possible budget restorations Thursday ranging from dressing up city streets to designing a more lavish gas cauldron for the Olympic flame. Romney said he would try to 1 fad | the restorations by hitting up corpo- rate sponsors and wealthy donors for additional contributions, leaving the budget intact. ‘Romney’s detail man was more restrained Thursday. “T’m still afraid of eccuie: chief operating officer Fraser Bullock told his board. “But I'm less nervous than I was a year ago.” Bullock seemed more ee sive about daunting logistics than the - games’ finances. Showing a 37-event schedule of World Cup and other com- petitions this winter, Bullock Tad Tuttle, ‘the Wasatch victory. basketball team Tuttle including finished key lost to Park with shots | 15 | points, down the stretch—but couldn’t get much help from any of his teammates—finishing as the only Wasp in double figures. “He can do a lot of good things,” Wasatch coach Greg Stanfield said. “If he would step up; he could be a good. leader.” Although Wasatch played great team defense in the halfcourt setting, the Wasps were burned again and again by the Miners transition game— something Park City coach “At times we played well, but we waited until the fourth quarter to make a run. We need to put a whole game together,” Stanfield said. On Wednesday, the Wasps traveled to Uintah to take on one of the best 3A teams in the state. This combined with sickness and a very. poor performance by Wasatch resulted in a 101-53 loss, the worst suffered by the Wasps this year. The Wasps were without ‘Matt § | John Benson emphasizes | “We stress the transition game — we like to do that,” he said. said, After a low scoring first “We are just flat-out going as fast as we 1) quarter, can.” As Romney gets doe. to his goal of showcasing a financially successful games, he also seems more preoccu-_ pied with the image Utah is showing the world. Romney used part of his manage- ment report to the board to criticize media coverage that he says has paid too much attention to Utah’s - peculiar liquor laws and Mormon influence. : projects. — 2, Slide: titled, “Clarification of media and community misperceptions,” Romney took issue with reports that SLOC had to be prodded to make Utah’s light beer available at some Olympic venues. He also insisted Temple Square, the. stately headquarters of. the -Mormon church that will serve as the the Wasps were § held scoreless for nearly ™@ half of the second quarter, until Darin Restad’s bucket at the 2:34 mark broke the drought. a Even still, the Wasps went into the locker room with a 28-15 deficit. And, according to Benson, this was one of the worst halves his team has played all year. | “We didn’ t play well, and we made a lot of mistakes—but Wasatch is rebuilding,” he said. Larsen and Tony Dillingham, The second half was nothing to gawk at—with both teams missing shots and committing plenty of Lee and Tad Tuttle also were bothered become more aggressive in dressing down reporters whose reporting jars by sickness, but pees through their _ pains. Wade Price led Wasatch with 16 turnovers. The Miners surged ahead points, and —— Restad finished with to a 40-22 lead midway through the third quarter thanks to a couple buck- - 212. “We didn't play well at all, ae felt | ets and free throws by Miner Jeff they ran the score up on us. They realBarnes, and entered the final es ly jumped on us from the start,” with a 44-27 lead. Stanfield said. “They’re the best team In the fourth quarter, c uttle came we've played. All five of their starters alive and tried to pull his team closer are seniors, and a re big, physical with six straight points for the chief executive. Wasatch—in fact Tuttle scored 11 of specimens.” backdrop for the medals plaza,. never was intended to be an exclusive visual | icon for the games. Romney did not name any offending news organizations, but his com- munications chief, Caroline Shaw, has | the Wasps first 13 points in the final TORO quarter... and plays again at home against Uintah on Friday. ‘Both games will begin at 7:00 p.m. : } and receive a FREE sandwich item. - Arby 5 fe ek ee ee i Cee eee eee , However, Miner Joey Judkins, rela: tive of BYU coach Jeff Judkins, hit back-to back shots with 4:30 remain- AWasaiclics now faces Union at home tonight in another tough region battle, Bring in your questions to Arby’s 1245 a Main ia ETSI PN : Penge ony AF ‘ a ‘ Heber City, UT (435) 654-6444 who both sat out with viral infections. Jeff rnament t@ 2 00 D. m. eciay January 23rd asketball at Duchesne @ 7:00 p.m. |