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Show a -- t ft TODAY BRIEFC NBA J at Utah Trail Blazers 7 p.m. KJZZ. 1320 AM Brett Favre has scheduled a news conference this morning, where he is expected to announce whether he'll return to play for the Green Bay Packers this season. Becky Stuart, a personal assistant to the Favre family, confirmed that the new s conference would be held at Favre's charity golf tournament in Tunica, Miss. Favre In a story in Friday's Green Bay said that be told general manager Ted Thompson and Television Nextel Cup practice Busch, FOX 6 p.m. Beach ESPN2 SPD 7 p.m. the Masters ESPN 1:30 p.m. CBS SWIMMING ABC Lochte sets world swim mark TBS CBS ESPN Philadelphia at Chicago 6:30 p.m. WGN Trail Blazers at Utah 7 p.m. KJZZ NHL St. Louis at Colorado High School Basketball Nike Hoop Summit Noon NBC 2 p.m. FSN MLS, Chivas USA Radio at D.C. 2 p.m. ESPN2 11a.m. high-profi- 6-- BYUatUNLV Noon 960 AM 7 p.m. 1320 AM NBA himaroundfortheweekend.it would have been enough to make most players smile. Not the enigma in the wraparounds. He turned his back on reporters wondering why, opened a clubhouse door for his wife and headed for a locker room he may not see again for quite some time. Duval didn't want to talk about the double bogey on the first hole, "or the 10 on the second that tied the Masters record for highest score on the hole. He didn't want to explain how he could follow that with a back nine 32 that was so good it could have easily been a 28 or 29. Maybe it's because he doesn't ' understand it himself. No one else seems to, either. Not even Phil Mickelson, who usually understands everything. "It's just hard for me to visualize him at anything but his best," Mickelson said. "I can't understand what's going on because he has a lot of game." That game was nowhere to be seen Thursday when Duval shot a 84 in a first round that included four double bogeys. And he looked like a weekend hacker who " somehow got lucky enough to play hit National he when trees, Augusta penalty stakes, a bunker and other assorted objects on the second hole before making a quintuple bogey. For those keeping score at home, that's 19 over in 20 holes. For those rooting at home, Duval played the last 16 holes in . 7-- 7-- at Utah 7-- 6 0-- 6-- marathon opening match. Massu and Gonzalez, the 2004 Olympic doubles champions, are slated to team against twins Bob and Mike Bryan in today's lone match. , Trail Blazers At Amelia Island, Nadia Petrova easily advanced to the I Petrova advances, Schnyder wanted Friday, and Davis got the unconditional embrace from fans he craved but never truly received at Indiana. It was, he said, "a great fit." Davis returns to his home state to lead a program that's made three consecutive NCAA tournaments, nonconference schedule pledging an attention-grabbinthat will help fill Bartow Arena and raise the Blazers' d carpet for the profile. UAB laid out the and native former Alabama player who was Fayette r deal pays never loved by the Indiana fans. His $600,000 a year in guaranteed salary with incentives that could push it up to about $1 million. Fla., d falls: ' semifinals of the Bausch & Lomb Championships pn Patty Schnyder dropped out Friday, while second-seedeof the event Petrova, No. 7 in the world, beat d 60, and Spain's Virginia Ruano Pascual SverJana Kuznetsova of Russia routed Schnyder 63, d clay-cou- rt fifth-seede- 6-- 6-- g BASEBALT. green-and-gol- Indians send Brandon Phillips to Reds Infielder Brandon Phillips, a fulfilled expectations in Cleveland, was traded by the Indians on Friday to the Cincinnati Reds for a player to be named or cash. CLEVELAND e one-tim- I Army women's basketball coach dead at 28: A month ago, Army coach Maggie Dixon left the starter who never So how could a player once considered the best in the world be so bad, then so good? How could the man who finished second here four years ago miss the cut by 11 shots? How could the former No. 1 be the current No. 437? With Duval not talking, let's check in with his dad. "He was ready to play and, just had a train wreck," said Bob Duval, who sometimes plays the senior tour when not walking with his son. "I think he was working on something the first two holes." Nice try, but swing changes alone can't explain this. Maybe it's time somebody called a shrink. Wolverine softball, baseball fall to Utes team tops Ute pitcher of the game, faced four UVSC hitters in the bottom of the fifth, walking one and striking out Brian Hassler . " Chieo State HERALD CORRESPONDENT When the game was over, three to secure the victory. Utah had four unearned runs. Each team committed Utah's came in two errors the first inning, which gave UVSC it's only baserunner of the game until that eighth-innin- g walk. UVSC softball coach Todd Fairbourne described his teams play in two words. "No show," said following UVSC's g no-hloss to the Utes in Orem on Friday Phillip Morgan Fair-bour- herald correspondent .i 2i rt BYU's Alipate Tuilevuka (1 2) scores rugby playoff at BYU on Friday. 8-- 0 Heading into the round of 16, there are a few questions that need to be asked. First, who will the Cougars face? "We don't know," Smyth said. "It makes it tough to prepare, but we will be more physical in practice to stay in shape." How far can this Cougar team go, a year after reaching the Final Four last year and losing in the semifinals? "We will go all the way," Sika said. "If we play the way we did in the second half, we can beat anybody." powered BYU in its second straight win against UNLV, 14-Picking up his second win of d the season was starter Jesse Craig (2-- 3.65) who went 5 j innings, allowing six earned runs on 10 hits while striking out four and walking none. Nine different Cougar had at least one RBI in the game and all BYU starters also got at least one hit as the bats continued to be hot against UNLV pitching. The Cougars (13-1- 7 overall, 3 MWQ jumped out to an early lead and wasted no time in getting to UNLV starter Matt Luca. Kasey Ko's triple helped BYU score four runs in the first inning. Ko was with two RBI in the game. The Rebels (15-124) climbed back into the game in the bottom of the fourth, scoring three runs on five base hits. BYU was up 3 after the top of the sixth, and hung on for the win. The two teams play again today at 2 p.m. 29-3- 30-2- 30-2- 30-2- 4 28-3- 31-2- at the Walter Pyra-miBYU is now 18-- 6 overall and in the Mountain Pacif27-3- 24-3- 0 14-- 6 Sports Federation while the . 49ers are 19-- overall, "They served harder and more consistently than us," said BYU coach Tom Peterson. "They performed better under pressure and made the right plays at the right time. They out played us tonight." Victor Batista led the Cou-- ; gars with 14 kills and added five blocks. Yosleyder Cala had 12 kills for BYU. Russell Holmes had a match-hig- h eight blocks as the Cougars recorded 16.0 compared to 9.5 for the 49ers. As a team, BYU hit .243 and had 47 digs, led by Brian Rowley, who had nine. Robert Tarr had a match-hig- h 21 kills for Long Beach and Norm' Hutton added 20. ic 9 12-8- "I'm glad I came out here at 7 a.m. and busted my 'A' to get the field ready and my team comes out and just mails it in." UVSC (10-2- hit-te- out-scor- I Baseball: At Las Vegas, a seven-run fifth inning and another exceptional night at the plate by Jeff Hiestand, who went with three doubles and three , 5-- 2-- 6-- 6, BYU hosts New Mexico today at 1 1 am at the Outdoor Courts. Between the doubles and singles matches, BYU will honor former coach and ITA Hall of Fame Inductee Ann Valentine. X In the first game, both teams were scoreless until the fourth when Utah's barrage of home runs began. After Jay Brossman tripled and scored on a ground out, John Welsh hit his sixth home run of the season. A sacrifice fly by Chris Benson and an RBI double from Canyon Vance helped UVSC tie the game at 2 in the bottom of the frame. The Utes then scored 16 straight runs, with three homers in the fifth, one in the sixth and five in the seventh. Erich Kemp and Welsh had two each in the game, and Tyler Kmetko had a grand run-rule- ' 7-- 0 8-- 0 lead. Meghan Dyer, the third The second game began the way the first ended for both teams as Utah put five runs on the board in the top of the first, capped by a two-ru- n home run by Joe Moze-lesk- i. UVSC got an RBI single from Benson in the bottom of the first, but Utah responded in the top of the second with "a homer from Ryan Khoury. The Wolverines cut the Utes's lead to 3 after a two-run second but would get no closer. The two teams play today vat 1 p.m. at Wolverine 6-- -- It hasn't, and now time is beginning to run out He's dealt with back problems and vertigo, and took long stretches away from golf to work on his swing. He got married, became a father, stopped trying to become a bodybuilder, and kept trying to find a swing. Mostly, though, he's kept hitting the ball sideways. He did it again Friday, hitting it in the, left trees off the tee on the first hole, and again on the second. Then, inexplicably, Duval started hitting' it down the middle and close to the pin and didn't stop until he put a short iron 10 feet from the cup on the 18th hole. Through it all, the good and the bad, his expression never s changed. If Duval cared, it didn't show. If he was simply going through the motions, that didn't show, either. "He would be a very good poker player," playing partner Larry slam. " Duval has always been a brooding, moody player, even in his prime when he won nine tournaments in two y ears and edged ahead of Woods in the world rankings. He could get away with it in good times, not when the going got tough. Duval hasn!t won since he shed the label of best player not to win a major by winning the 2001 British Open, a victory that earned him a five-yeexemption on the PGA Tour and into the Masters that few thought he would ever need. "I don't know if I can savor this any more than I do now," he said at the time. "I imagine what it would do is intensify my desire to doit again." 2-- 4-- 0 2-- I Women's tennis: At Provo, the No. 26 Cougars (14-started strong, winning the doubles point, but couldn't hold on, losing 1 to No. 25 TCU (13-at the BYU Outdoor Courts. Utah. 0 11-- (9-1- and Utah ; were close for the first three innings of play, with neither team scoring and UVSC pitcher Jackie Roberts scattering four hits and keeping the Utes off the board. But a key error in the fourth inning changed UVSC's fortunes. Following a Sharee Fonoti single to open up the fourth inning for Utah, Andrea RBI Hoffman's two-ou- t lead. single gave Utah a Roberts forced Meghan Crouse to hit a ground ball, but ah error kept the inning alive for Utah and the Utes scored three more runs on a Jackie Wong two-ru-n triple and a Diana Phillips RBI lead. single for a "Some of these errors were just the routine kind of plays," Fairbourne said. d "And then we get because of it. We're not talented enough to overcome those mistakes." Utah's offense continued to beat up UVSC's pitching in the fifth inning, as the Utes got an RBI double from Ivette Hernandez and an RBI triple from HoffUte lead. The man for a eighth run scored on another fielding error on a routine ground ball to give Utah an (21-1- . I Men's tennis: At Albuquer-- , que, N.M., the BYU men's tennis team earned its second straight conference victory, this one a 2 victory over Air Force, to remain unbeaten in conference play. Fair-bourn- e. ," right-hande- . 2-- noon. "It was a complete and said total 3-- I Men's volleyball: At Long Beach; Calif., the Cougars fell to Long Beach State. I Baseball: At Orem, University of Utah swept a double-heade- r from UVSC, 18-- 5 and on Friday . Utah hit 11 home runs during the day, including rune in the first game as UVSC was unable to cooloff the Utes at the plate. The nine home runs sets a record for most home runs allowed in a game by the Wolverines and ties a record for home runs in a game by -- , RBI, . five-innin- it afternoon. The game was called after five innings on the eight run rule. game against the University of Utah on Friday after- JEREMY HARMONDaily Herald agains t Chico State in a n high-pitche- d The mystery deepened Friday. A throwaway round began disastrously, yet somehow ended magnificently. Not enough to keep -- BYU rugby With the victory Friday night, BYLTs club team was awarded the No. 2 seed in the upconvng USA Rugby round of 16 to be held in Berkeley. Calf . "The first half was a challenge for us," Smyth said. "I think that the three or four weeks off took a bigger toll on us than I thought and we came1 out slow. But in fairness, Chico State was ready, they were well prepared and they put us on the back foot for awhile there in the first half." Indeed, Chico State came out ready and played "one of the best halves of rugby" it has played all year, according to Chico coach BeauMcswain. The Wildcats controlled the tempo of the game early as Mike Junk scored the first try (worth five points), the rugby equivalent of a football touchdown. After the conversion kick by Chico State's Derrick Brown sailed through the uprights, the Cougars finally woke up and started to turn the game around. Center Salesi Sika took over the rest of the half , scoring seven points on his own when he kicked two penalty kicks (the rugby term for a field goal) and the conversion kick on Jeff Hullinger's try to end the half. Smyth's hatftime talk was more of a yelling session and the words "utter garbage" were used to describe the Cougars' play. "We got ourselves a little talking to," Sika said. "It was all and everything not very pleasant." The pep talk worked as the Chico State Cougars 38-- 0 in the second half. In the second half, the 240 pound Sika pounded in two long runs to extend the Cougar lead to 32-- 7 and then 39-- David RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. Andy Roddick beat Nicolas Massu in straight sets Friday to even the United States' Davis Cup quarterfinal against Chile at Roddick beat Massu (5), 6 (5) to square the best-o- f five competition in Rancho Mirage, Calif ., after Chile's Fernando Gonzalez outlasted James Blake 7 (5), (2), 64, 10-- 8 in a ESPN2 five-yea- I Davis gets warm reception at UAB: At Birmingham, Ala., Mike Davis was greeted with a lengthy standing ovation from UAB fans and even got generous applause when his big salary was announced. , coach they The Blazers landed the AUGUSTA, Ga. Duval is an enigma , in wraparounds. can't figure golf out. No one in golf can figure him out. Roddick evens Davis Cup quarterfinal - College Baseball . WRAPAROUNDS TENNIS Soccer lis! ENIGMA IN third day of short course competition. Lochte finished in 1 minute, 53.31 seconds to break the mark of 1:53.46 set by Laszlo Cseh of Hungary at the European Short Course Swimming ships last Dee. 8 in Trieste, Italy. The Australian team of Tayliah Zimmer, Jade Edminstone, Jessicah Schipper and Lisbeth Lenton powered in at 3:51.84 to knock more than three seconds off the old mark of 3:54.95 set by an Australian team at the World Championships on Oct. 9, 2004, in Indianapolis. NBA Gonzalez realizes dream 80-6- 9 ,WGN Men's College Hockey Div. I championship game 5 p.m. Tennis Bausch&Lomb got what he wanted: a chance to coach in the Big East. Gonzalez was introduced as head coach of Seton Hall pn Fridayfulfilling a dream he had since he was 18 of taking over a team in the power conference. "I came up through the ranks. I've paid my dues and I feel like I belong here and I'm ready," Gonzalez said at a news conference. "It took me 25 years to get here, and you can believe I'm not going to take it lightly." GonIn seven years at Manhattan, the zalez transformed that program from a doormat into a powerhouse in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. He succeeds Louis Orr, who was fired last mont'i with two years left on his contract. in five seasons and led the Pirates Orr was to the NCAA tournament twice and the NIT in 2003, when He was named Big East coach of the year. Noon 2 p.m. M DUVAt:AN American Ryan Lochte set a SHANGHAI, China individual medworld record in the men's ley Friday at the F1NA World Championships, while the Australian women smashed the old mark in the 4x100 medley relay. Australia and the U.S. remained tied for first in the medal count with 14 after the v NBC Men's College Basketball Noon Wooden Award show College Basketball It was in the first half of BYlTs 51-- 7 victory over the University of California Chico State Wildcats that illustrated BYU coach David Smyth's contention that "playoff rugby is different than just regular-seasorugby." I 200-met- Major League Baseball ChiSox at Kansas City Atlanta at San Francisco NEW YORK Shaquille O'Neal was fined S 15,000 Friday for criticizing referees and an NBA senior vice president after the Miami center was for called for five fouls in the Heat's loss to New Jersey. "That was the most ridiculous game I've ever been part of," O'Neal said after the 90-7-8 loss Sunday. "When you got a guy like Stu Jackson at the top, it shows why referees are the way they are. It starts at the top. "There was a lot of flopping today and they just fell for it. They make these rules up and they don't follow them. We all know there's a double standard. I just wish they wouldn't make it so obvious." O'Neal was called for two offensive fouls in the first half, one for elbowing New Jersey's Jason Collins in the jaw. He picked up three more fouls in the third quarter, including two fouls in a span of 11 seconds. .' Dahlberg 1p.m.DH Horse Racing Wood Memorial, Bay Shore 2 p.m. 3 p.m. Santa Anita Derby Sh'aq fined for criticizing officials ; TltSJ f: f Tim College Softball Utah at BYU Golf '.. Bobby Gonzalez finally FX ' College Softball Oklahoma at Texas A&M10 a.m. head coach Mike McCarthy earlier this week that he may have a decision by the weekend or early next week. "I want to do what's best, obviously, for me and my family," he said. "But regardless of what people might think, I don't want to jeopardize the future of the team. I don't want to do that. I think that the people that know me, including those in the organization, know that." SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. Noon 1 p.m. 300 NHRA qualifying RSCS. GP of Long Press-Gazett- NBA O'Reilly Cm Christl Arena court on the shoulders of jubilant cadets after leading the women's basketball team to its first NCAA tournament berth. On Friday, Dixon was mourned in a chapel across -the U.S. Military Academy's campus in West Point, N.Y., a day after she died following a sudden episode of irregular heartbeat. Dixon died Thursday night at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla N.Y., academy spokesman I Col. Kent Cassella said. An autopsy conducted Friday found that Dixon had an enlarged heart and a problem with a heart valve, according to the Westchester County Medical Examiner's office. The valve problem could have caused her heart to beat irregularly and ultimately stop. Oil THE MR MILWAUKEE PAGE TODAY . NFL Favre to announce plans this morning Saturday. AprilJ, 2006 HERALD DAILY ' Mize said. Duval should have the wherewithal to pursue that career if he wants. He's made more than $ 16 million on the golf course, and millions more from endorsement deals signed when he was in his prime. At the age of 34 he surely has years of golf left, but he's missed See DAHLBERG, C4 |