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Show The Drily Utah Oroide, Friday, December 7, Page 154 Twenty-On- e SPORTS Utes seek revenge on Aggies c Ute contests It's revenge time for the Runnin Utes. the last seven meetings between the two On Saturday night at the Spectrum in teams, with Utah's last victory coming in Logan, the Utes will attempt to pay back 1980. w Utah State for a 93-9-2 loss at the Special We need to improve our Events Center Nov. 24. In that game, Ute shooting and work on stopping our guard Kelvin Upshaw scored a career-hig- h opponents from getting easy shots," 41 points and Jerry Stroman added 24, Archibald said. The Utes hit only half of only to see victory slip away in the final their shots from the line against the seconds of the contest. For the Aggies, Wildcats. Vincc Washington had 33 points while The Utes will finally be healthy for 23. added Grant Greg Saturday's contest. Gale Gondrezick It's a cinch both teams will be watching sprained an ankle at Texas Tech, and Dean those four players very closely. Since the Raymond missed all but the Cal Utes and the Aggies played each other only game at the beginning of the free-thro- IT o - ; State-Korthrid- ge weeks ago, both should be fairly familiar with the other. "They're an experienced team with excellent shooters," Ute Coach Lynn o n h i Archibald said. They have played well on the road the last three games and should be excited about playing at home again." The Aggies have compiled a 1 record, with their only loss coming to Weber State. Utah is 3 coming off a 9 victory over the Wildcats on Tuesday. "I felt a special reason to win that game (on Tuesday). Weber State is an te rival, and they beat Utah State, so we wanted to beat them to prove we can beat Utah State too," Stroman said. The Aggies have been giving the Utes s the past few years. Utah State has won 3-- 65-5- 3-- in-sta- Utc guard Kelvin Upshaw (11) plays some tough defense while Tim McLaughlin assists in recent action at the Special Events Center. The Utes travel to Logan to play Utah State on Saturday night. season with a knee injury. "This will be the first time that we have had our players healthy since the first game," Archibald said. Rebounding has been another sore spot for the Utes, and hopefully with the addition of Raymond back into the lineup Utah will be able to control the boards a little more. The game, which is the 186th meeting of the two teams, will begin at 7:30 p.m. The contest will be broadcast live over KALL show Radio (910 AM), with the beginning at 6 p.m. Utah will then return home for games Nevada-Ren- o against Alabama (Dec. 17) and (Dec. 20). t-7 pre-ga- me Men's and women's basketball will make up a majority of the university's athletic schedule during the two-we- ek Christmas holidays. The lone exception to that will be men's swimming: Men's basketball-D- ec. 8, Utah at Utah State, 7:35 p.m.; Dec. 17, Alabama at Utah, 7:35 p.m.; Dec. 20, Nevada-Ren- o at Utah, 7:35 p.m.; Dec. 22, Utah at South- ern California, 7:35 p.m.; Dec. 28, Utah Classic (Eastern Kentucky, Ohio, San Jose State), 6 and 8 p.m.; Dec. 29, Utah Classic, 6 and 8 p.m. Women's basketba- llDec. 8, Northern Arizona at Utah, 7:30 p.m.; Dec. 15, Idaho State at Utah, 7:30 p.m.; Dec. 20, Utah Pomona, 7:30 at Cal-Po- ly p.m.; Dec. 21, Utah at Fullcrton, 7:30 Cal-Sta- te p.m.; Dec. 22. Men's swimmin- gDec. 14, Utah at Hawaii, 2 p.m. Saal lucky with picks Football progimosltDcatoirs beware of injustice For those of you that would dare to be football prognosticators beware, for the prediction business is plagued with injustice. For evidence I present Chronicle sports editor Mark Saal. Now Mark is a likeable enough guy and knows his way around almost any sport, especially college athletics. But after discovering his methods of selecting NFL teams for the Chronicle's weekly "pigskin picks," I now have new prospectives on how unfair life can be. You see, Saal (90-5- 0 for the year) is comfortably ahead of me and all other staff "experts." But while the others and I seriously contemplate our weekly picks, Mark snatches his from thin air, or they come to him in a dream or he gets an "inside tip" from someone that knows even less than he about what's going on (such a tip helped him to be the lone staff member to correctly pick the BillsColts game last week). Well, enough is enough. This week instead of mulling over NFL statistics, team depth charts and past winloss records against the spread, I am going to try something new. I am adopting the Mark Saal approach to football forecasting. This approach might entail the selection of all home teams, or maybe all the favorites or perhaps I'll stumble on to my own "inside tip." Maybe I'll just select the teams whose colors I like best or whose mascot is most appealing. Bears to squeak by the Pack and the Dolphins to unload on the Colts. The New England Patriots (8-- had a severe blow to their playoff hopes delivered last week by losing to the Cardinals. Now the only way the Pats can clinch a wild card spot is to win their two remaining games while the are losing theirs. This Lbs Angeles Raiders (10-the beat should Patriots the weekend Philadelphia Eagles but to no avail, as the Raiders pound the Detroit on Monday night. Lions The bell is about to toll for teams in the NFC East. The four teams that are still in the hunt for the NFC East title all play divisional games this Sunday. The N.Y. Giants and the (9-are at the St. Louis Cardinals (8-take on the in Dallas to are (9-Washington Redskins 6) 4) (5-8-- 1), (4-9-- 1) 6) 5) 5) Saal Games Whatever I end up trying, it can only improve my mediocre season record. On to the picks: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers Atlanta Falcons at Los Angeles and the Houston Oilers of the NFC's two feature Rams ). These games Bubs' premier backs, the Rams' Eric Dickerson and the James Wilder. Although both are having great years, Dickerson's has been extra special. He needs only 224 rushing yards to break O.J. Simpson's single-seasrecord. Look for both Wilder and Dickerson to have big days as the Rams and Bucs triumph. have been playing with The Pittsburgh Steelers (7-fire all year, but in losing last week to the Oilers, they may (3-1- 1) (3-1- 1) (4-1- 0) (9-5- Youngren 2) 8) will set the stage for next week s showdown in the Kingdome. Finally, week 15 will get started a little early when the battle the N.Y. Jets (6-- 8) and the Buffalo Bills (2-1- 2) (3-1take on the San Francisco Minnesota Vikings 49ers (13-- 1) in a couple of Saturday afternoon games. In games that mean nothing to the playoff picture, Hike the Jets and 49ers to prevail. 1) Behle have finally gotten burned. The loss allowed the Cincinnati Bengals (6-- to crawl back into the race for (4-1- 0) (6-8- 5) 2) want to host any playoff games. This weekend the and the the Indianapolis Colts Dolphins play Bears take on the Green Bay Packers hsUXlf2H!tI!J2IIiasasi2255!5335StiS2Eti (4-1- 0) (6-8- ). like the (8S-5- S) Woodruff (82-5- 8) Jets Jets Jets Jew Jets Vikings at 49ers 49ers 49ers 49ers 49ers 49ers Steelers Steelers Steelers Steelers Steelers Bucs Falcons Bucs Bucs Bucs Dolphins Dolphins Dolphins Dolphins Dolphins at Colts Dolphins Bengals at Saints Saints Saints Saints Bengals Bengals Giants at Cards Cards Giants Cards Cards Cards Packers at Bears Packers Packers Bears Packers Bears Seahawks Seahawks Chiefs Seahawks Seahawks Patriots at Eagles Pate Pats Pate Pats Pats Oilers at Rams Rams Rams Rams Rams Rams Skins at Cowboys Skins Cowboys Cowboys Skins Skins Chargers at Broncos Broncos Broncos Broncos Broncos Broncos Raiders at Lions Raiders Raiders Raiders Raiders Raiders Seahawks at Chiefs I 8) the AFC Central title. This week the Steelers entertain the and the Bengals travel to New Cleveland Browns The AFC Central still Orleans to play the Saints ). won't have a clear champion after week 15 as the Steelers and Bengals pick up wins on Sunday. and the Miami Dolphins The Chicago Bears (9-(12-are both teams that locked up divisional titles a long time ago. Still, it is vital that both keep winning if they Arlington at Jets BiUs on 7) 3) (7-7- (83-5- 7) (86-5- 4) (90-5- 0) Falcons at Bucs Scott Woodruff (9-5- Pigskin Picks for Pizza at The Pie Browns at Steelers NFL PICKS Cowboys ). In a couple of close games, I like the Cards and Redskins to come up with crucial victories. There's still a showdown brewing in the AFC West. But it's not this weekend, it's next. That's when the Seattle will and the Denver Broncos (11-Seahawks (12-the to West of AFC wear the who settle matter finally gets crown. This Sunday the Seahawks are in Kansas City to and the Broncos host the San play the Chiefs (6-Diego Chargers ). Both Seahawk and Bronco wins Phone No: Name: Your Pick Points: Paul Mohammed is the winner of last week's Pigskin Picks for Pizza at The Pie. Paul correctly selected 12 of the 14 winners of last weekend's NFL contests, to be the victor, uh, uncontested. As far as 5 last week to our stafT experts go, Sports Editor Mark Saal has just about sewn up the title, going NFL games this blaze out a commanding 0 record. Now it's your turn in the last week of regular NFL contests by filling out the last column with your quarter. Choose the winners of this weekend's choices and then predicting not only the winner but also the total number of points scored in Monday correctly wins a 14" pizza with choice of game. Whoever picks the most games night's 1320 E. 200 South (ties will be broken by the toppings, courtesy of the Chronicle and The Pie Pizzaria,will be : held). closest point prediction; if points are the same, a drawing 9-- 90-5- Lions-Raide- rs I |
