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Show II - ran-- , no can't stop Warriors, lose 116-11- 3 Jazz, O- a Malone has off night and takes blame Orlando 123, : . . Gw&bad ICS, LA Clippers CS Atlanta 101, New Jewey S3 New York lCS.Charlorta S5 ICS, Philadelphia 103 Milwaukee 119, Boston .107 G 113, IftxSi 113 San Antonio 117, Dallas 92 " Houston 122, Sacramento 101 Seattle 114, Portland WO LA Lakers 91, Minnesota 89 , -- For four Bye Only: Cheryl Miller, already sharp-shootin- guard Jeff Hornacek, rattled off ten wins in a row over the toughest competition in the league both on the road and in the Delta Center and were looking like a team that would threaten the best of the west for a spot in the NBA finals. After falling to the Golden State Warriors 116-11- 3 Tuesday night in the Delta Center, the Jazz now bear the appearance of a team that has spent everything it had, and the way things are going, could realistically end up as the seventh seed in the Western Conference when the playoffs begin. "We got off to a terrible start," said Jazz coach Jerry Sloan. "We took some horrendous shots. We among the mcfet disliked basketball coaches for taking the USC women's job, has now been accused of purioinicg'maiL Apparently a scouting report on Miller's USC women's basketball team toll info the wrong hands last week. Miller's. Here's how It happened: Debbie Ayres, the women's coach at Cal State Fullarton, was asked by her former boss, Tennessee Coach Pat Summltt, to scout USCs fust two NCAA tournament games in " Los Angeles, against Portland and George .. Washington. e a five-paAyres report on Miller's team and took it with her to FaycSeville, Ark,, site , of last week's Mideast NCAA regional tournament. Apparently believing thai Tennessee was staying ; at the Fayetteville Hilton it was really USC's hotel Ayres put Suramin's name on an envelope, hand-wrot- ge put her report in it and handed it unsealed, the story goes, to a Hilton desk dark for delivery to . . Suramin. , , , Must be for Cheryl Millar, the clerk Enured and eventually handed it to her. ' Milleisread it with growing interest xcerrts:t were playing right into their hands from the beginning of the game until we finally realized' that if we were going to have a chance to win, we've got to play with a little bit more intelli- sonnel-wis- e gence." The lack of intelligence that Sloan may have been talking about was the Jazz' desperate attempt at running at the or coecf.Ir." , ;, , . "Cheryl works ithe crowd end the cCcbls--ta- e, men (USC assistants Fred Williams and Prank , Scott) make the adjustments,' , That was personal mail and it was unethical for she said "I have no other ' Cheryl to have read comment.'' Miller was unavailable for comment Monday, but Summitt had plenty to say "Vm very disappointed that Cheryl Miller would letter addressed to me," Summitt said. t open a am upset, Cheryl Miller should be calling Pat Summitt and explaining why she opened my mail; It doesn't matter what was in it It's called keeping ' your nose out of other people's business." Co3 hha Hkh: Oscar De La Hoya is known as th Golden Boy," but Los Angeles original '."Golden Boy" was Ait Aragon, who fought here in it Warriors, taking quick shots, and not getting back on defense fast enough to stop Golden Staters furious fast breaks. As a result, the Jazz trailed the compact Warriors for most of the game, turning the ball over and , CHRONICLE PHOTOPurRinafi Karl Malone made just eight out of his 29 field goal attempts in the Jazz 116-11- 3 loss to Golden State in the Delta Center Tuesday night Jazz have lost eight out of their last ten ' games and stand 2 games behind Houston and San Antonio in the Midwest division. lie 1 the 1950s. 6-1- " Gridders open feud is over: Jimmy-Jerr- y practice Sat. Jimmy resigns as coach The snit heard 'round Texas claimed half of the Cowboy hierarchy when Coach Jimmy Johnson, architect of DALLAS consecutive Super Bowl championships, walked away from the job and his old college roommate, team owner Jerry Jones. Jones has now fired Tom Landry and lost Johnson, the local equivalent of pulling two heads off of Mount Rushmore. Johnson was was given a fat settlementreportedly $3.9 million and can coach another team, all concessions from Jones. Johnson's contract, which had five years left, called for no compensation if he quit and barred him from working , . ' 7-- Dallas. ;' ' . Lance Scott, tackle Anthony Brown and J guard Roy Ma'afala. The only skill positions in which head coach Roil McBride must deal with in finding replacements are at running back and tight end. The defense should be among the WAC's best, if they can stay away from the that hampered them last year, ' ' injuries especially in the secondary. Along with ." The publication of Skip Bayless "The 'Boys'" last summer let the secret out. Jones, who had given himself the title of :V.V. center all-WA- C 7 - Johnson then appeared at a news confer? , ence with Jones to assert that their most general manager, wanted to be accepted as recent rift and Jones' barroom derision of a football man. Johnson didn't want to give his coach last week hadn't broken them him any credit as such; or yield any control. Jones claimed he had pulled the trigup, all of which produced laughter. "There shouldn't be any blame," ger on the Charles Haley deal. Johnson Johnson said. "I mean, why should you be said Jones wouldn't know Charles Haley , see "Johnson" on page thirteen blaming when you've got two Super Bowl 6 line, which includes their rift had become an open secret in else-wher- e. Quarterback Mike McCoy and defensive 15 returning starters that will participate in spring football drills that start on Saturday, April 2. . The 15 starters are part of a crew that' consists of 36 returning lettermen from a team that finished the 1993 season with a record of and a berth in the Freedom Bowl. The bowl game was the second consecutive bid for the Utes, a first for the team. The Utes return most of their offensive - end Luther Elliss are among championships in the last two years? Why should you be blaming when you've got the best football team in the NFL? "You should be very appreciative of where you are and look forward to the success of the ' coming year. There's no blame. It's just a matter of, we've gone through a little transition here." The room erupted in Unighter. "Maybe it's a big transition," Johnson said, smiling. When Jones bought the team and sacked Landry in 1989, he presented Johnson, his teammate on Arkansas' 1964 national championship team, as his old friend and college roommate. By the 1992 season, ; when they won their first Super Bowl, : BY MARK HEISLER Los Angeles Times . DK&l23,is2iil1$ en l3 tjtio and-a-ha- lf ,. v Vhinon 101 Quca Gc!a f Just a little more than two weeks ago, the Utah Jazz were sporting a 42-1- 9 record, trailed San the Midwest Division-leadin- g Antonio Spurs by one g games, had just acquired . 1 NO A BY MATT OTT Chronicle Sports Editor surrendering layup after layup through the first three quarters. Guard Latrell Sprewell did most of the damage, scoring 35 see "Jazz" on page thirteen - Elliss, end Bronzell Miller, Mark Rexford g 112 tackles) and Derrick (a team-leadin- ; Stapley will help in forming a formidable front seven. The secondary returns Ernest Boyd (a g six interceptions), Harold Lusk, Marcus Woods and Kareem Leary, who started in 1992, but redshirted last year due to injury. Patrick Sheltra . y WAC-leadin- ; ' - Aragon isn't upset that De La Hoys has used his mckname. Said Aragonr "With all the money he's making, they can call him anything he wants." AtUAtegom Aragon said that he made $120,000 when he fought Carmen Basilio on Sept 5, 1958, adding, "It cost me $140,000 to get out of the hospi- tal." Basilio won on a TKO in the eighth round. Earlier, between rounds, Aragon 's manager had said, "Art if yon don't start fighting this guy. Tin , ' Renliwi Arann "Whv wRtt" Tkivia team Which was the last Pacific 10 school to advance to the Final Pour, other than UCLA and Arizona? PrGadaet, promises: First baseman Kent Hrbek of the Minnesota Twins, arguing a call with umpire g Vic VdB$a during a game: "Come on, I'm head of the chapel service this season. I'm not going to cheat." OseL': Reader George Kiseda oEass, this: "1 Just found out how Tonya, Harding wiU do her 500 spring-ttainin- hours of community service. She'll be teaching Rohhit torn Mike LopresU of USA Today on Lute Olson, Arizona's basketball coach: "judging from (Olson's recent artillery shot? at the media, he has a chip on his shouldar the size of Flagstaff. "Maybe he has a right to it Arizona has won an awful tot of games to be the target of so many pot shots from east of the Continental Divide.' Adaptable: Connecticut Coach Jim Calhoun, whose team lost to Florida in.the NCAA East Regional semifinals on Friday, says of the Gators, "They're the most pragmatic team I've seen. "They'll play you any way you want fast or see "wire en fourteen ps .S3l:1.3h;:n.in |