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Show THE PARK RECORD www.newschoice.com SATURDAY, JANUARY 3 1 , 1 998 B-7 SPORTS EDITOR Dave Fields 649-90 1 4 ext 1 1 0 & -:t4fc SlDOrtS. Field notes. . vll; :;'r" L J by Dave Fields Journalistic decision Last Wednesday's (Jan. 21) Park Record sports section featured fea-tured a photograph of an 8-foot mountain lion "harvested" by an Oakley man and his son. Over the last week we have received several phone calls and Letters to the Editor about the decision to run the photograph in the newspaper. One caller felt the newspaper was supporting mountain lion hunting by running the photograph. photo-graph. A letter to the editor from Suzanne Pretorius said "I was deeply saddened to open up my Park Record this past Wednesday and see the picture of the beautiful mountain lion which had been killed by two hunters." Pretorius then asked why The Park Record would run such a photo. - The reason the paper ran this photo and another photo like it last year is simple. It's news from a member of our community. Regardless of many staff members' mem-bers' feelings about killing mountain moun-tain lions or the prevailing sentiment senti-ment of our community, hunting is considered a sport and the mountain moun-tain lion in the picture was reportedly report-edly the second largest ever killed in the world. I couldn't tell this person "No, I won't run your story," just because I felt hunting was unpopular among our readers and I might get an angry phone call. Just as I welcome wel-come stories from ice skaters and soccer players, I will welcome a newsworthy -story about hunting. Unlike the long lengths I will go to to cover kids' sports or local activities, activi-ties, I will not turn the sports pages into a hunter's showcase. But because a particular photograph photo-graph or sport is not popular does not mean it's not newsworthy or deserving of coverage. As far as the complaint that we are supporting mountain lion hunting by featuring a photograph, I totally disagree. Did the photograph photo-graph make you want to kill a mountain lion? It made me sick, not hungry, to think of killing an animal I've never even seen in the wild. Pages could be spent arguing the philosophical issues at hand but what one caller considers supporting, sup-porting, I consider informing. At the very least, this brings the "sport" of killing mountain lions to the front of people's minds. An abnormally large percentage of the mountain lion population in Utah is "harvested" each season. These hunters are not breaking the law, only hunting what is permitted per-mitted by the state. Personally, I felt it was disgusting to hear the details of how a mountain lion is chased by four dogs, treed and then shot out of the tree with a bow and arrow. Yet, as a journalist and section editor, I felt just as strongly about this man's right to have space in the newspaper. 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"I went out there and kept my head focused and treated it really seriously and came out on top," said Smith. "I was psyched." psy-ched." Smith performed a double-twister-spread on his first jump and a daffy-twister-spread on his second air last weekend. week-end. Todd Schirman, 23, a former Deer Valley Elite Freestyle Ski Team skier who also turned pro after the Gold Cup, placed seventh in his first professional event at Lake Tahoe. Smith was hoping to compete in his second Winter Olympics this month but was beat out by Johnny Moseley and Alex Wilson. He said turning pro was a "career decision" he had considered for some time before the Gold Cup. "I've been looking forward to going pro for a long time," Smith said. Smith placed 13th in the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway. "That was definitely a lifetime goal making it to the Olympics," Smith added. The freedom of the pro tour is a welcome wel-come change for Smith after seven years NSF Biathletes medal at North American A team of nine junior National Sports Foundation biathletes made their debut at the North American Championships in Canmore, Alberta, Jan. 24 and 25. ' National Sports Foundation (NSF) coach Joan Guetschow felt her team would gain valuable e'xp'eriencjp by com-peting'at com-peting'at theirrtenVatiqnal lejel at-tfhe world-class, 1988 Olympic facility. L Guetschow couldn't have Been nitre elated when one girl medaled and the boys took six of the top-10 places in both Saturday and Sunday events. Leading the NSF team was Kate Barinova who took home the gold in the individual event (7.5K) and a bronze in the sprint (5K). Barinova is an exchange student from Russia who is commuting daily from Bountiful to train with the NSF in Park City. In the boys 14-16-year-old age group, Park City's Travis Walters, 15, and Ian Odell, 13, led the Americans by capturing captur-ing fourth-place finishes in the sprint (7.5K) and individual (10K) events respectively. Drew Shepherd named to Utah Winter Games Local athletes named as all stars in many of the Utah Winter Games categories recently released by Dave Fields OF THE RECORD STAFF Drew Shepherd scored 13 goals and had 11 assists in four games on the Utah Winter Games Jerry Seiner GMC hockey hock-ey team. , Shepherd received the Squirt (10-11) tournament MVP award for his contributions contri-butions to the games and as a result was named a Utah Winter Games All Star. automatic, Where are we? of Volvo Cars of North America, Inc. Always Web site at httpynnvw.volvocars.corn. wins pro mogul event If o. Smith used a daffy-twister-spread like of long European World Cup tours and a training regimen limited his free skiing time here in Park City. Since turning pro, Smith has skied some "epic powder days" with his friends and taken an internship with KSL. He was a guest host on KSL's Ski Utah pro- Both Walters and Odell were selected select-ed for a U.S. Development Camp last summer. Other NSF biathletes placing in the top-10 included: Ian Odell, 5th; Nick Francis, 7th; Scott Wohlford, 8th, Aaron Dettman, 9th; Brody Froelich, 10th. In Sunday's individual (10K) race, Canadians agaTnj"placed lstSr2nd, 3r.d, with Odell 4th, Froelich, 5th, Walters 6th, Wohlford 7th, Canadian Tetrault 8th, Aaron Dettman 9th and Ben Klingenstein 10th. , According to Guetschow, race organization orga-nization and coaching was world class, snow and track conditions were perfect and the surrounding mountain peaks were breathtaking. The race distances and shooting were the most difficult the team has encountered. encoun-tered. The biathletes shot twice in Saturday's race and three times (15 rounds) in Sunday's event - 100 percent prone on prone (meaning smaller targets tar-gets equal greater challenge). "It's kinda' special," said Shepherd. "You're the MVP of the tournament and it's just kinda' fun." The 11-year-old played center in the Utah Winter Games, the same position he plays on his Utah Grizzlies travel team that plays against teams throughout through-out the western United States. Shepherd practices and plays hockey five days a week, seven months a year. Like all Utah hockey players, Shepherd has to travel (with help from father Mike WcuMe foozle Starters Baked Artichoke Casserole $6.95 Asian Spinach Salad $6.75 : Fresh Greens $4.95 . Clam Chowder $5.95 Ginger Calamari $7.95 E ntrees Accompanied by our warm rolls and whipped butter Vegetable medley & garlic mashed potatoes or fresh shoestring fries 18 oz. 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During the recent Utah Winter Games All-Star Banquet, Shepherd received some loot to go with his title. "They gave me a backpack and some socks and a mug and stuff like that," Shepherd said. Although he's received tournament MVP honors four other times, this was the first Utah Winter Games All-Star honor bestowed on the McPolin Elementary School 5th-grader. Utah Winter Games All Stars: Alpine skiing: FIS Elizabeth Sherry ill? Are you shopping for an Adjustable Rate Mortgage (ARM)? You can get a measure of protection against interest rate increases by insisting that your loan contract has a limit on your future liability. Some ARMs cap the amount by which your interest rate can rise; others put a cap on any increases in your payment. With a cap on the interest rate, you can rest assured that your monthly payment will rise no higher than the amount required by the maximum rate permitted by your contract. 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Each (ampanyirtdeperiotoitry owned and operated. Officiating the Super Bowl Doug Toole works his first Bowl, throws a flag Doug Toole was the No. 1-ranked side judge during the NFL regular season. sea-son. His reward: the Super Bowl. Toole, 56, was one of the side judges in last Sunday's Super Bowl between the Denver Broncos and Green Bay Packers. The side judge is positioned 20 yards down field from the line of scrimmage scrim-mage and watches for pass interference, holding and catching along the sidelines. The one yellow flag Toole threw in his first Super Bowl was against Denver's Shannon Sharpe - holding. Toole, who lives in Jeremy Ranch with wife Saundra, also said a pass interference interfer-ence call was wrong on another play and the flag was picked up. "You get yelled at in those games all the time," said Toole. "It was a tense game." Between the pre-, regular- and postseason, post-season, Toole worked 20 games. 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