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Show SECTION JDa wmt crotft 2008 MONDAY, APRIL 7, SPORTS EDITOR I Darnell Dickson ddicksonheraldextra.com 344-255- 5 2008 MEN'S NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP Memphis, Kansas one win away from 'one shining moment' Eddie Pells Calipari calls it "Princeton fense is to keep the middle on steroids," a bow to the clear, give the ball to constant-motion- , on the perimeter SAN ANTONIO offense perfected and let them penetratfc. for Every year, sorhe sharp basketball by Pete CarriL layups OTakick out' to guys coach wins a national title. He calls it "dribble-driv- e who come open. How often, though, does It is controlled chaos, inmotion," in part because it a coach truly change the sounds good, and also as a deed, but it takes the effort nod to the idea it does not of a good coach one who game? John Calipari could be one rely on and post does the bulk of his job in of those rare coaches. men who clog up the paint the practice gym, not callmoThe "dribble-driv- e and sometimes stifle ing plays from the bench on tion" offense he uses is offense. gameday. "Sometimes I think we Some say it's an extension among the hottest things of the penetrate-and-pas- s overcoach with certain going in hoops these days, and Memphis puts it on schemes so commonly seen things we do," said Vance in Europe, where big centers Walberg, the longtime high display for the final time this season in tonight's with strong post games are school and juco coach who championship game against few and far between. The essence of the of- Kansas. See NCAA, B5 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS play-make- rs pick-sette- rs free-flowi- ERIC GAYAssociated Press Memphis head coach John Calipari, left, and Kansas head coach Bill Self wait to do an interview on Sunday. Memphis plays Kansas in the NCAA men's championship game today. 1 20C3 Men's NCAA Championship (1) KANSAS VS. (1) MEMPHIS Today, 7 p.m. San Antonio, TX 1 . v I TV: 'ifN vll ffclfxJ CBS Record Avg. Pts. 36-- 3 38-- 80.7 80.2 .467 .351 .613 6.6 4.1 8.4 6.2 .508 .399 .698 FG Pet. mFGPct. FT Pet. Rebound Margin 7l8- - TODiff. 2,5 Avg 8.8 6.0 Steals Avg Blocks NASCAR NBA Yii(0eit wm U nMstir' I B With Dallas'win over Phoenix, Jazz in fight for home-cou- rt ' Bob Baum THE ASSOCIATED SHARON M. STEINMANF.W. Carl Edwards celebrates winning the Samsung 500 NASCAR PRESS Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday. A hobbled Dirk Nowitzki brought the offense. Jason Kidd triggered the defense. The result was a fourth-quarte- r rally that may have saved the season for the Dallas Mavericks. Nowitzki scored 32 points and the Mavericks rallied from a 13 points down early in the fourth to stun the Phoenix Suns 105-9- 8 on Sunday. Dallas outscored PHOENIX See Edwards earns tliinhidoiyoi Jenna Fryer THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS, B4 A FORT WORTH, Texas his interim crew chief headed toward inspection, Carl Edwards offered to lend him cash to bribe NASCAR's officials. Of course, Edwards was joking. But in making light of the severe 'penalties his team drew when its g car failed inspection . tf the N3A playoffs started today - The Jazz would be the No. 4 seed and would race-winnin- play fifth seed t Houston in the first round. last month, Edwards showed his Roush Fenway Racing team has solidly bounced back from the Las Vegas disaster. Edwards raced to his series-bethird win of the season Sunday, holding off Jimmie Johnson on a two-la- p overtime sprint to the finish at Texas Motor Speedway. It backed Edwards' declaration four weeks ago that his team would survive the 100- - point deduction and e suspension to crew chief Bob Osborne that stemmed from a missing lid on the oil tank after the Vegas victory. "It doesn't matter if we get penalized.' We might get a penalty for something today," Edwards said. "It's not going to change what I do. I'm just going to do the best I can and our cars are really good. It does feel good to look in there and see the oil tank cover on the car, that's good. st & season record? Tied, 1-- 1 f V I Jazz record: 51-26-', First in Northwest Djvision, &game lead on Denver ' . I Jazz remaining games: Two home, three away six-rac- UPCOMING GAMES: Tuesday, at New Orleans Thursday, at Dallas . Saturday, vs. Denver PAUL CONNORSAP 100-poi- a -v Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki screams in Celebration x after making a field goal against the Phoenix Suns on Sunday. See NASCAR, B2 2008 WOMEN'S NCAA BASKETBALL FINAL FOUR Seeing red: Stanford advances to women's NCAA title game tip-i- n Last-seco- nd Doug Feinberg Huskies (36-2- ) and advanced to TuesTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS day night's title game, where theyH winning streak on the put a e TAMPA Fla. Candke Wiggins line against Tennessee, which beat LSU in the other semifinal. refused to let Stanford Wiggins typically leads lose to UCona Not again. the Cardinal through . The Cardinal star conemotional, loud pregame tinued her electrifying huddles. Her message NCAA the run through this time focused on her tournament, scoring 25 teammates' smarts and points and grabbing 13 how far they had come rebounds while getting first meeting some timely help from STANFORD 82. since the the teams. between 73 UC0NN Kayla Pederson and "We failed the mid JJ Hones as Stanford OERRY BROOME AP in Sun term, but we're going to take this 3 shocked Connecticut Candice Stanford's Wiggins leaps final," guard Rosalyn day night's national semifinals. into the arms of Kayla Pedersen recalled first the saying. for Wiggins Final Four in Back the (14) after Stanford beat UConn, time in 11 years, the Cardinal (353) on Sunday. STANFORD, B4 82-7See the to loss season an eary avenged ; FredGoodall VLJ 82-7- Gold-On-wu- lifts Lady Vols ff THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 's Alexis TAMPA, Fla. only basket of the game Horn-buckle- was enough to get Tennessee back in the championship game. Hornbuckle's putback with seven-tenth- TENNESSEE 47 LSU 46 of s a second left lifted the Lady Vols to a victory over 47-4- 6 LSU in Sunday night's national semif inaL It was the lowest scoring game in Final AMY SANCETTAAP Tennessee's Alberta August t, left, Can dace Parker (3) and Shannon Bobbin celebrate Tennessee's 47-4- 6 See VOLS, B4 win over LSU on Sunday. |