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Show Page 6 - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Thursday. March 22. 1984 A full Sports report and commentary on winners, losers and coming events Bob A 'Starr in Teaching Youth Basketball f The Utah Jazz MURRAY have been on the move in recent oSi 6 J--3 months and the movement hasn't been confined to the upward thrust of the team in the NBA's Midwest Division. The front office has moved its headquarters from the Salt Palace to the second floor of an office building in the Sports Mall Plaza at 5505 S. 9th E. in this neat suburb of Salt Lake City. And the Jazz have been on the f -- y Marion Dunn tA SPORTS EDITOR move bringing basketball to youth in the area through the medium of 20 free clinics with Coca Cola. The clinics are of special interest because the young man the NBA entry from Utah hired to conduct them is well known in Utah Valley. His name is Bob Starr. He came to Utah in 1982 by way of Houston via Europe, Argentina and Iceland. In Texas, Starr became involved in basketball serving as a scout for European teams looking for American players. "One day I just decided that if I was going to be in the business I was going to be a coach. So I became a coach," Starr said in his office on the east side of the Jazz' suite. Starr's story has been chronicled on the pages of The Daily Herald before so the above is simply background. He came to Provo after joining the LDS Church and settled here as a I I applaud the Jazz and Coca Cola for sponsoring the clinics. I think it is a sign the Jazz want to give something back to the community and this is one of the ways to accomplish it. But my reason for mentioning the Jazz, the clinics and Starr today is simply to point out that the day when an individual can set what might seem to be impossible goals and then reach them hasn't vanished from the face of this nation. By his own admission, Starr started on his quest to become a j recognized S Bob Starr likes to work in developing and coaching young basketball talent. teacher of private basketball classes. It was in this capacity that he attracted the attention of Jazz coach Frank Layden. And when the Jazz decided to a series of clinics for young players, Starr was hired to conduct the program. The clinics were for boys and girls 8 to 18 and instructional groups were small and personalized. According to the participants, the drills were fun and rewards were great. in Norway, Germany, Bulgaria, Mexico, Argentina and Iceland. Then, just as he walked away Owners Wiffoin Dallas to Cut Agree TD Upmanship - from his life in Houston to make a new start in foreign lands, he left that life and returned to the United States, landing in Provo to start all over again. This time Starr hoped to work with young people and help them develop the skills that could enable them to play on a high school, college or professional level. He grew up in the ghettos of Houston. He watched and played with black and white players on the playgrounds of the city so he was familiar with the things they could do with a basketball and he noted the way they developed their skills. What he has done is transport the learning of those skills from the big city playgrounds to the boys club and other public gymnasiums of Utah. He is good at his job or he wouldn't be with the Jazz today. Edge At,anta By DAVE RAFFO UPI Sports Writer If the fans voted for NBA Coach of the Year, Atlanta's Mike Fra-tell- o would probably win for giving them their money's worth. Unfortunately The NFL HONOLULU (UPI) owners Wednesday took away Mark Gastineau's dance card for the 1984 season and told the "Fun Bunch" to keep their celebrations to themselves next year. NFL owners banned all forms of taunting for next year, and that signals the end to the celebrated sack dances by Gastineau, the o defensive end. It Jets' also means you won't be seeing Charlie Brown and the rest of the All-Pr- Redskins' receivers performing exhibi" their leaping tions after touchdowns. "high-five- In another decision, the league next season will research the feasibility of using instant replays to override calls by officials. The new rule on taunting passed with only two dissenting votes and Jets coach Joe Walton said he was in favor of it even though it would prohibit Gastineau from jumping around. . "I like Mark's enthusiasm but it may have gone a little too far," Walton said. "Something should be done." The new rule prohibits "antics such as unrestrained dances, wild flailing of arms and legs, simucirlated dice games, high-fiv- e cles in the end zone, imitations of gun fighters and similar behavior deemed to be contrived exhibitionism that has no place in the sport." Washington coach Joe Gibbs proposed the league begin using instant replays. "I feel like our game right now is being hurt by what's happening on TV. If they get a wrong call, they come back to it over and over again and say, 'look, they blew this one,'" Gibbs said. The league last conducted an instant replay experiment during the 1978 exhibition season and made a report at the 1979 meetings that it was not feasible. But the Gibbs proposal is slightly different than the last study five years ago. Witt Agaimi old Takes (UPI) Olympic champion Katarina Witt of East Germany delivered a compelling performance Wednesday night to win the women's gold medal at the 1984 World Figure Skating Championships. winner in both Witt, a clear-cu- t the compulsories and short program, completed her sweep of the three disciplines with an enchanting freestyle routine highlighted by her perfect execution of an extremely difficult double lutz, triple toe loop combination. The earned four marks of 5.9 for artistic interpretation to go along with five of 5.8. The world title was the first for the two-tim-e European champion, who placed fourth at last year's global event and was runner-u- p the year before. Anna Kondrashova of the Soviet Union took advantage of the void created by the retirement of Olympic silver medalist Rosalynn Sumners of the United States and a sub-pa- r showing by coutry-woma- n Ira Kiranova to move up to the second rung on the medal podium. Former world champion Elaine Zayak of the United States unleashed a program packed with triple jumps to claim the bronze medal. Kondrashova, the Soviet champion who finished fifth at the Olympics, earned marks ranging from 5.3 to 5.7 for technical merit and 5.4 to 5.8 for artistic impression, ratings the capacity crowd of 10,000 at the Civic Centre felt were too high and were roundly booed. Zayak, the 1982 world champion who finished a disappointing sixth at the Olympics, pulled up from sixth overall after the short program by placing runnerup to Witt in the long portion. The from Paramus, N.J., presented an intricately woven routine, bolstered by a triple toe, double loop combination was likely her in what last amateur event. Manuela Ruben of West Ger- many dropped to sixth from fourth because of her eighth-plac- e finish in the long program Cougar Goiters Third - The No. 1 HOUSTON, Texas ranked BYU golf team trails tourney-leading Olkahpma by nine shots after the first round of the Intercollegiate Tournament in Texas. Oklahoma shot a coach dentials. He worked as an irregular scout for European teams so he went there to get his start. He served as player, agent, technical advisor and coach for teams sflr' NFL OTTAWA basketball with no experience and few cre- t 280, Texas A&M is second at 289. Rick at 288 and BYU is Fehr and Robert Meyer both shot 71 for BYU. mm:-- 1 Ed-uar- of Jazz I 1 I for Fratello's Hawks, most of the thrills have ended in disappointing losses lately. Rolando Blackman's jump shot rattled around the rim before dropping with two seconds left Wednesday e, 10-fo- ot night, giving the host Mavericks a 1 victory. "It was a good game for the people in the stands (a sellout crowd of 17,007)," Fratello said of the Hawks' 12th loss in 14 games. "This was a tough game to lose. And to be exact, it's 22 tough losses in 27 games. But we have good character on this team. We keep fighting back and we will 102-10- recover." The Hawks had fallen to San Antonio in triple overtime Tuesday night. "Atlanta should have won the game," said Dallas' Mark Aguirre, who scored 27 points to 30. "They back Blackman's played aggressively and hard all night long." "It was an ugly win," said Dallas coach Dick Motta. "But we have lost a lot of heartbreak-er- s this year so I guess we were due to win one." Dan Roundfield had 27 points and 13 rebounds for the Hawks and Dominique Wilkins added 20 points. Bucks 102, Nets 95 At East Rutherford, N.J., Marques Johnson scored 23 points, including consecutive baskets to snap a tie in the final four minutes, to spark Milwaukee. New Jersey's Micheal Ray Richardson scored 19 of his 23 points in the second half. season-hig- h Cavaliers 100, Knicks M At Richfield, Ohio, World B. Frees with five seconds left broke a four-gam- e Cleveland losing streak and prevented New York from clinching a playoff spot. Free scored the Cavs last 10 points. Lakers 123, Kings IK At Kansas City, Mo., Kareem Abdul-Jabascored 24 points and Magic Johnson added 22 points and 19 assists to spark Los Angeles. The triumph was the fifth straight for the Lakers and came before 17,164 fans, the largest crowd to see a game in Kansas City's Kemper Arena. The Kings' Reggie 36 points Theus scored 17 of his season-hig- h in the fourth quarter as the Kings cut a deficit to 3. Nuggets 134, Rockets 12$ At Denver, Dan Issel and Kiki Vandew-egh- e scored 30 points each to lead the Nuggets, who broke open a close game with 12 straight points early in the fourth quarter. SuperSonlcs 104, Sum 102 At Seattle, Gus Williams scored 22 points and Jack Sikma added 20 to lead the Somes. The Suns Walter Davis missed a attempt at the buzzer. Larry Nance led Phoenix with 25. Pistons 132, Clippers 123 At San Diego, Bill Laimbeer scored 24 Kent Benson added 23 to help and points Detroit snap a four-gam- e losing streak and Milwaustay within one game of first-plac- e kee in the Central Division. BYU ... Batters Belt Santa Barbara, Mike Dunleavy of the Milwaukee Bucks gets tangled in the Nets' 5 to Wednesday. The Bucks went on to defeat New Jersey the Eastern Conference Central Division. 102-9- frBtfRNfi The ar RYII v header today. The Washington VMM ,w Patif baseball team is one step closer state game win oe Droancast at to defending its Best of the West about 5 p.m. on KFTN 1400. Tournament title after downing "Wednesday's game went only seven innings because of a tour-- , Wednesing Santa Barbara, day. The Cougars are 0 in the ney rule on time length for' tourney and face Oregon State games. and Washington State in a double- The Cats jumped to a quick 12-- 4, Other Cougar scores were: Herrera and Rick Gibson, 75, Keith Goyen, 76. 1 Vi . lead, then watched the close that to 2 in the top of the fourth. But BYU came back with , four runs of its own in the bottom of the fourth to keep control. 3-- 2-- 3-- 0 Junior shortstop led the Cory Snyder Cougars with a nJZlZZ notion 1 2-- 4 Performance. inolnHins a tunwrtin homer. BYU improved its record to while UCSB is now 30-- m JCSBMtMt VU 4 11 MfMUtut SrS?'.5?,ei,nd , Frx. Comely, Mey- - |