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Show MM lillM SO orts Also in this section: Classified Ads, D4-D- 8 NOTABLE QUOTES: "I've been working on a (touchdown) dance for 10 years. It's just a matter of when I'm going to get to use it." Former BYU wide receiver and current Chicago Bear Glen Kozlowski, who hasn't caught a pass for the Chicago Bears for several weeks, upon learning he might be used as a punt returner. CONTEST WINNER: Bert Opheikens of Provo was the clear cut winner in the Daily Herald football contest last week, picking all the winners correctly. He wins a gift certificate from Washburn Motors and two tickets to a BYU basketball game. He also qualifies for the finals and a chance to win a trip for two to San Diego and tickets to the BYU-Pen- n State Holiday Bowl game. The final contest of the year appeared Sunday in the Daily Herald. CNN cable news named BYU quarterback Ty Detmer the national player of the week Monday for his efforts against San Diego State. In addition this past weekend's Sports Illustrated pointed out Detmer and New Mexico's Terance Mathis were deserving but overlooked Heisman Trophy candidates. In a Nov. 22 column Big 10 beat writer Rich Long at the Detroit Free Press announced his Heisman ballot read: 1. Indiana tailback Anthony Thompson, 2. Notre Dame's Tony Rice and 3. BYU quarterback Ty Detmer. Monday Detmer was interviewed by his hometown newspaper The San Antonio Light. Detmer broke nearly all the city records owned by Tommy Kramer as a prepster. BYU N: offensive lineman Mohammed Elewonibi was narked first-teaby the Football Writers Association of America. Elewonibi and New Mexico wide receiver Terance Mathis were the only WAC players named. m CAMPBELL RESIGNS: Atlanta Falcons head coach Marion Campbell announced his retirement today, saying he e wanted to give the team a chance "to get on with the last-plac- future." Pacers Jazz hold Nets to By RAY SCHWARTZ Herald Correspondent SALT LAKE CITY John Stockton is back and you had better believe Utah Jazz fans are grateful. After missing two games because of a badly sprained ankle, Stockton, ll the guy, returned to the starting lineup. And, as usual, set the Jazz attack on fire as he sparked the team to a 105-6- 8 victory over New Jersey Monday night in the Salt Palace. Stockton came up with three steals to help out with a stingy Jazz defense that set team records for fewest points scored and fewest 25 field goals allowed an opponent. So what if it was against the Nets, a team with a 9 record second-worin the NBA? The Jazz will still take the win. Handling the Jazz offense in his - Of CLIMBING: BYU moved up to 18th in the Associated Press football po" id to 15th in the United Pi v International poll after beating San Diego State last Saturday. The Cougars are also 18th in the CNN-USToday poll. Meanwhile, Colorado took over the top spot in both polls for the first time in school history, while Alabama jumped to second. Anthony Thompson, who set three NCAA rushing and scoring records this season for Indiana, was named as the Walter Camp Player of the Year. Thompson won a plurality of the votes cast by coaches and sports Division information directors. GOLFERS FIFTH: BYU's Eddie Heinen shot a 71 and is in and tie for third, two shots off the lead, after the first round of the Rebel Classic in Las Vegas Monday. Heinen shot 71 on Monday to lead BYU's golfers. The Cougar team shot a 295 and is tied for fifth. Oklahoma leads at 291. Other BYU scores: Ramon Brobio 73; Eddie Fryatt 75; Michael Weir 76; Ryan Rhees 77. AOCt 1 2 1 4 9 t7 or T GREAT SACKS AT RETIREMENT - John Riygine age 36 Franco Harris age 34 aoa 33 Watte Peyton 0 J Simmon age 32 Jim Taylor age 32 tart Campbell ag 30 Jmii ftrown age 29 aeurce: Sports Mkietfetee: - Sports Feelurea tynexcate wm Bar SS far row Hal H RubUahoSI. Son Mats to Sports loaturoa, P.O. Sol MO, Map Sua, Mt. tnctwo name, eoeveee, N.J. prtorta pwmosr ana ftourco. Tuoasloy t 30 a n tannla. Natxaco Matters (CSPN) NBA Heat at Magic (TNT) 4pm 30 p m apoflecenual (KSL 1 10 AMI 7 30 p m College basketball Webei St at TU (KSl Channel K.SL 1 160 AM) 7 30 p m UVCC baaaatbaH at Western t Wyoming (K.FMV MO AM) T 30 BVembte p.m. toning vs Johnson (fSPN) 10 30 p m College basketball TUHepeO KBru Channel Weber I'l 1pm Tennn Nabtece Masiert (li"N St at "You hany around, hang around, hang around and try to steal one." Indiana coach Dick Versace said. "I like my team's ability to take a bad game and turn it into a good one." Milwaukee coach Del Harris said the Bucks aren't comfortable playing with a lead. "We can't shoot it fast enough," Ls.2 WftfK h at' 1 r Harris said sarcastically. "You can't be blazing away." Knicks 119. Hornets 108 Johnny Newman scored 12 of his 23 points in a decisive surge as New York improved its record to 0 at Madison Square Garden. The Knicks led at halftime but outscored the Hornets in the third quarter. New York started the second h;ilf with a 2 run for a advantage. Later in the third period Newman scored eight points dtrmu a 4 surge that made it 9 v.,th 4:02 left in the quarter. Patrick Ewing added 23 points for the Knicks. Charlotte's Hex Chap38. man scored a career-hig- h "At halftime, I told them to start putting it together or we're looking at a disappointment," Knicks coach Stu Jackson said. "But they had already made the decision on their own to play better. That really impressed me." STAR OF THE WEEK Portland guard Clyde Drexler was named the league's Player of the Week after averaging 24.7 points, nine assists and 5.7 rebounds in three victories last week. The Trail Blazers beat Chicago, New Jersey and defending champion Detroit to improve to 10-third-quart- 38-2- 3 time. 9-- "It felt real good," Stockton said in the dressing room after the game. "It gave me no problems." The Jazz had seven players score in double figures. Karl Malone led the way with 22 points while Thurl Bailey added 16. Darrell Griffith had 12, Blue Edwards and Mike Brown had 11 each and Delaney Rudd, like Stockton, had 10. Joe Barry Carroll led the Nets with 15 points while Sam Bowie had If. h ZfV'i ft Marer , v p Stockton stoking the Jazz offense and pleasing the crowd with his clever court capers, Utah shot to an early 15-- 6 lead and never looked back. The Jazz were ahead 6 after one quarter, 0 at the 3 at the end of three half, quarters and 7 with 5:47 left in the game. In other NBA games, it was Indiana 101, Milwaukee 97; and New York 119, Charlotte 108. 74-5- 92-5- TIME: 7:30 p.m. PLACE: Marriott Center RADIO: KSL, 1160 AM TV: KSiyrV, channel 5 BYU is RECORDS: Stat is 0, y-- j i'SfJ '""'", w - I, " T , , ' K ' l f - , "' yT """ u I V.tj. -Jf msmmmma... - :s-- sr- i .v STARS. Michael Cstlund and thony McGowan each scored 19 in Weber State's opener. Marty Haws is averaging 29 and Andy Toolson is averaging 22.5 after two games. BYU is at Utah NEXT GAMEState Thursday at 7:30 p.m. An- - w t I ' 105-6- Herald Photo B.mnic Kllis Utah's John Stockton scored only points Monday night, but his presence New Jersey's Lester Conner, made the Jazz fast break work to perfection. 10 Against Eastern By EOB HUDSON Weber ' on the Assistant Sports Editor BYU's basketball team begins a busy week tonight when it entertains Weber State. Tipoff is at 7:30 Channel 5, will telep.m. KSL-TV- , vise the game live. The Cougars are fresh from a pair of victories over the weekend. Marty Haws scored 40 points to lead BYU to a victory over Siena Friday. The next night Andy 4 Toolson scored 32 to pace a win over Eastern Washington. 83-6- 2 96-8- Washington. Haws and Todd Crow added 18 points apiece. Kevin Santiago had 16 and Steve Schreiner had 11. court, here against phasizing. Weber State is following a win over Southern Colorado 69-6- and Michael Ostlund and Jason Joe. both at the guards. BYU will probably counter with Haws and Santiago at the guards. Crow at center, and Toolson and Schreiner at the forwards. A pair of Utah Valley freshmen, Mark Dur-raof Provo and Todd Gentry of Mountain View, are the top reserves. Thursday BYU will travel to for a meeting with Utah State. Saturday the Cougars will be at Penn State. The Wildcats have never won in the Marriott Center. They are against the Cougars there and overall. Reid, a Weber State graduate, would prefer that they remain winless at least one more game there. Last season Weber State took an 8 victory over BYU in a game played in Ogden. Weber's probable starting lineup includes Anthony McGowan and 64 Kevin Williams at the forwards, Jerry Mcintosh at center 6-- 0-- 9 1 8 Cougars 2-- 0 0-- Following the win over EWU, BYU coach Roger Reid said he was pleased with his team's balance and said that's the type of thing he and his assistants have been em- 89-6- SWINGS New Jersey was just 25 of 93 from the field a league season-lo.255 but made all 17 of its loss at Utah free throws in a on Monday. The previous low was .309 also by New Jersey against Miami on Nov. 7. SEASON'S New Jersey's 68 points Monday was the lowest total in franchise history and the lowest in the league this season. The Nets previous low was 73 against Indiana in 1977, their first year in the NBA. Dallas had just 70 points in a loss to Seattle on Saturdav. - Three games this week for mmmm i j i 50-4- 25-1- 70-5- 9 17-- 10. Although Malone led the Jazz in scoring and grabbed 17 rebounds, he also had the dubious honor of having 10 .of his team's 29 turnovers. Those mistakes cost the Jazz 15 points and were a big concern for coach Jerry Sloan. "When you make that many turnovers, you better have a lot of steals to compensate for it," Sloan said. "You might be able to get away with it at home where you have the crowd back of you, but it's likely to be a different story on the er 61-5- 7 tionable until just before game nt 80-7- 6-- 6 Elewonibi's abilities startle even hardened scouts The Football Writers Association M team today. Elewonibi could be the best offensive lineman in college ball. He certainly was the best kept secret for much of the current season. The reason for that is simple: Until he started to play in the game with New Mexico in Albuquerque last Sept. 2, even LaVell Edwards and the rest of the BYU coaching staff weren't sure how good he would be. So there was no 290 hype on the pound senior who was born in Nigeria, spent his first 11 years there, then moved to Canada where he didn't play high school football. In fact, he got into football by accident. 6-- 5, some friends who had played football at Snow College came home for the summer. They told Mo about their experience at Snow, including the fact one could get a college education by playing football. The result: Mo wound up at Snow where he had to start from scratch learning to play. In 1987, his second year, he was and named and was placed on the J.C. Gridiron i "For example, take that quick forward thrust with both hands that teams this year be- offensive linemen use to knock decause no one knew anything about fensive players off balance or out of him going into the season. He was the way. 1 call it, a 'strong jab." He a well kept secret. But let me tell does that better than any big man you that he is the finest offensive in college ball. And he does it so lineman in college football this quicklv and so well. Just beautiful." year. This was at halftime and the "I was sitting in a room with several other scouts. We were scout added: "I think I'll be leaving watching videos. We happened to pretty soon. I don't think rny man will play much in the second half." on. I was sitting have BYU-Nav- y Then he said he would prefer rny and there about a lot of other things. quoting him as a scout instead of "Suddenly, I sat straight up. I using his name, then laughed and added: "But it shouldn't make 3ny was looking at something very special. This big guy for BYU was difference. Elewonibi isn't a secret putting on a real show. He was any more. All the scouts him now." that doing things technique-wis- e John Ralston, who coached the were simply phenomenal for a big Utah State team of the Merlin man. "I couldn't take my eyes off him. Olsen period, then took Stanford to It was unreal. Then I thought, the Rose Bowl and really built the maybe this is just because he's Denver Broncos into an NFL powplaying Navy, a poor team. I got up er, is now scouting for the Seattle and changed tapes, one with BYU Seahawks. Ralston watched BYU beat CSU and he told me this about playing a good, solid team. "This guy did the same things the BYU "I happened to be in Denver that against good players that he did against Navy. It didn't make any day so I drove to Fort Collins to watch BYU. I was very impressed difference to him. "I knew I was onto something with Elewonibi. His potential is really good and, more than that, unlimited. In fact, all his career is something not many other people in front of him. He is just learning to play the game. He has some were aware of. "He is so quick and so strong and things to loarn and he'll learn uses such good techniques that he them. When he does, it isn't imposis unbelievable. sible to think that he could be one opinion of Elewonibi. "He might net make a lot of the of America might have scooped the rest of the nation when it named BYU offensive guard Mohammed Thomas David Elewonibi to its 1989 After graduating from high school, Moe was working when 'mm 96-9- manner, Stockton also managed to score 10 points and hand out 10 assists in only 29 minutes of playing time. That's considerably less time than he usually spends on the court. Stockton said his left ankle, which he sprained against Minnesota last Tuesday, held up real well Monday night. He had been listed as ques- pre-seas- on - J,"Pr' 9'i-8- usual methodical, synchronized A THOMPSON TOPS: 99-9- 7 " e 3-- With University of Utah tight end Dennis Smith, who tied his own school record with four touchdown passes in a game against Air Force Saturday, was named national Player of the Week by the Sporting News. J 'f 101. Uu- - ks 97 Vern jp.d Deth f Fleming Schrempf each score'; 21 points, including 13 and 10. respectively, in the decisive fourth quarter. play with 22 Schrernpf's three-puir- .t seconds left gave Irhana a lead and Chuck Ft ; ki added two free throws 19 seconds later Rik Smits scored 2C points for the Pacers, while Ricky Pierce led the Bucks with 22 and Jay Humphries the Pacers had 17. Trailing outscored the Bucks and look their first lead of the .second half. with 1:04 to play. Fleming had five points and Schrempf four in the run. record 68 points road." SMITH HONORED: lui'sd.iy itockfon back as Jazz carv a up Nets st TY FOCUS: ilj Mtti MllH Marion Dunn SPORTS COLUMNIST second team. letter of intent with the spring of '88 injured his shoulder and during the fall started only one game, against NJCAA He signed a BYU, but in CSU. he missed practice last spring with shoulder problems and didn't take part in heavy contact practice this fall. 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Com imj-- Soi'i C'imt loOd Lyqi Ho'-- MVho,.m Coo'l0O of the all-tim- e reat offensive linemen in the NFL." By earning a berth on the FWAA team, Klewonibi became a candidate for this year's Outland Trophy. The writers will vote on the downlmemen on their team and three fin;hsLs will be selected. The names of the Outland Trophy final-Lst- s will be released Friday. The final trio will go to New York City next week where the 1S9 Outland Trophy winner will be introduced live on ESPN at 10 a.m. Mountain Time, Dec. 6. |