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Show a Friday June is, 1990 Sports gate i "When they asked her (Penn State women's basketball coach Rene Portland) how she felt about joining the Big Ten, she said, 'It's like getting a new job without having to move.' That's the way I feel," said Penn State football coach and athletic director Joe Paterno. Bill Ore. (AP) PORTLAND, Laimbeer clutched the championship trophy like a crucial rebound. He refused to let go. "It's mine," he shouted as he carried his prize through a champag- locker room. ne-soaked "It's mine." Johnson's voice boomed through the celebration after his shooting spree soared over the heads of helpless Portland defenders. "We ended the '80s," he roared. "We started the '90s." In the last two minutes, Laimbeer got all the rebounds, Johnson made all his shots, and the Detroit Pistons sneered at a 3 deficit and 0 stormed off with a victory over the Trail Blazers. That final flurry Thursday night gave the Pistons their second consecutive NBA title just when it looked like they would be returning to Auburn Hills, Mich., for a sixth game Sunday. Instead, they'll go home for a parade. "We never talked about it all Vinnie title-clinchi- NEUMANN LEADS: Liselotte Neumann shot a 66 to take a lead over Nancy Lopez and Dale Eggeling after the first round of the LPGA's $300,000 Atlantic City Classic. Neumann had seven birdies and three bogeys on the 6,015-yarSands Country par-7- 0 Club course. Mitzi Edge and Sherri Steinhauer are two strokes one-stro- 90-8- 92-9- d, back at Pis4iriis retain NBA title - NOTABLE QUOTES: 68. LEWIS READY: Carl Lewis sped to victory in his preliminary and finished second in his semifinal at the Mobil Outdoor Championships, then said he would run in the final. The world record-holde and Olympic gold medalist had indicated earlier that d he might just compete in the heat and skip the remainder of the competition. One race was all he needed to be eligible for next month's Goodwill Games at Seattle, according to the rules of The Athletics Congress. In the first race, Lewis finished in a wind-aide- d 10.06 seconds. He slowed to 10.20 in the semifinal. In the only final, Colette Murphy registered the fastest time of the year by an American in winning the women's er er six-tim- first-roun- season," Former BYU athlete Julie Jenkins advanced to today's semifinals of the run at the Mobil Outdoor track and field Championships at Norwalk, Calif. Thursday. The Plain City woman won her heat in 2:06.44. 800-met- er COLLEGE RODEO: Some Utah Valley Community College cowboys are continuing to do well at the College Finals Rodeo in Bozeman, Mont. Shane Thacker is 10th in steer wrestling (5.6 seconds), ninth in calf roping (11.5) and ninth (with Brian Roundy) in team roping (8.2) He is during the second also 10th in average in steer wrestling with 13.7. Chad Drake and Brian Winn are seventh in team roping average with 19.7. playoff most valuable player Isiah Thomas said, "but for the past four to five years we felt like we were one of the best teams in the history of basketball. "We wanted to repeat as champions, but not so much to prove it to anybody else. We wanted to do it for ourselves." The Pistons did it the hard way. They split the first two games at home, then faced three in Portland, where they had lost 20 consecutive You don't al(AP) to have slay the master to ways prove you no longer are the student. The United States team at the World Cup, a group of college making America's first appearance in 40 years among the elite of soccer, belongs. That didn't seem true after it was routed by Czechoslovakia in its first game. It was more apparent Thursday, when the Americans stayed right with powerful Italy in a 0 defeat. "We obviously felt badly about how we fared against Czechoslovakia and we had to set things right. I think we did that," Coach Bob Gansler said. "We had a lot to prove to people in this game, and I think we did prove we belong here," goalie Tony Meola added. "We took a lot of heat after losing but we showed just what this team is capable of." The United States is capable of staying close to one of the World Cup favorites. Only once, in the 70th minute, did the Americans ROME all-sta- rs 5-- 1, TRADE DENIED: The Los Angeles Lakers have a new coach, but Houston Rockets owner Charlie Thomas says they won't have a new center. According to Thomas, Rockets center Akeem Olajuwon, the focal point of recent trade rumors, will not be traded to the Lakers. "I'm not looking at any trade concerning Akeem and the Lakers," Thomas told The Houston Post on Wednesday. "If he ever did get traded, he's going East, not West. Akeem and I are very close friends, and the value I would put on the guy is something I don't think anybody could meet. I can assure you there's no trade working." NEW IHL TEAM: San Diego was awarded an International Hockey League franchise Thursday, and will begin play in the expanded league in the fall. IHL officials, in Vancouver, B.C., Canada for the NHL's annual meetings and draft, said the vote was unanimous to bring professional hockey back to San Diego. The IHL also includes Phoenix; Salt Lake City; Kansas City, Mo.; Peoria, 111; Milwaukee; Indianapolis; Fort Wayne; Ind; and three franchises in Michigan Muskegon, Kalamazoo and Flint. m 1 MOIT CAREER HOME RUNS, ALL GAMES x 1. Hank Aaron 763 HRi 2. Bab Ruth 730 HRl 3. Willie Maya 664 HR 4. Frank Robinaon 596 MR 5. Reggie Jackaon S60 HRa 6. Harmon Killebrew $79 HRa 7. Mickey Mantle 556 HRa a. Mike Schmidt $53 HRa - Regular eeaton, league playotta. All- Star gamea and World Senea Source: SpoMa Featurea Syndic at Sporti Featurea Syndicate will pay S5 lor your llat If published. Send Hats to Spona featurea. P.O. Boa 660. Maple Shade, N.J. 08052. Include nam, phone number and aourc. FrMay . 5 30 p.m. Baaeball, Cub at Philliea (WON) 6 30 p.m. Sportecentral (KSL 1160 AM) 6:30 p.m. Utah Summer Game, Wee-alc(KUTV Front A Northern regional Channel 2) 6 30 p.m. Baaeball (ESPN) I 30 p m. Baaeball, Brave at Glanll (TBS) ( pm. College football. 19(0 Holiday Bowl BYU SMU (KBYU Channel 11) 9 p m. Baaeball (ESPN) 11 05 p m. U.S. Open goN highlight (ABC Channel 4) v. games since 1974. They won all three. They challenged the NBA's best rebounding team and won the battle of the boards in four of the five games. They trailed the fourth game by one point with 31 seconds left but won 112-10- 9. They trailed Thursday night by seven and called timeout with 2:02 left. "I thought we were going to win," Portland center Kevin Duckworth said. There was little talk in the Detroit huddle, Laimbeer said. "Oh, coach didn't diagram any plays. The players didn't say anything," Laimbeer said. "All that was said is, 'This game's not over.'" With 1:50 left, Johnson hits a ot jumper, gets fouled and sinks the shot, making the score 90-8- 6. Duckworth misses an with 1:32 to go and Laimbeer gets the rebound. With 1:20 remaining, Johnson makes a The lead is down to 90-8- 8. With 1:01 remaining, Duckworth misses again, this time a hook. Laimbeer rebounds again, his 17th of the game. Thomas caps his performance with an jumper, tying the game with 36 seconds to play. With 20 seconds remaining, Portland's Terry Porter makes a bad pass, giving Detroit the ball. nt ot "All series long we have been leaving it open for Detroit," Portland's Buck Williams said. Thomas dribbles the clock down, then feeds Johnson with about four seconds left. A head fake gets Jerome Kersey off his feet and Johnson connects for the last of his 16 points. "It felt good when it left my hand," Johnson said, "but I can't say I knew it was going in. "I was kind of down on myself in the first half," when he was scoreless and missed all three shots. "Bill (Laimbeer) kept me in the game. He said the second half was going to be my half and he told me I would hit the big shot down the stretch." of a secOnly ond remained in Portland's season. Porter took the inbounds pass, missed but his desperation seven-hundredt- at the buzzer. I "It felt pretty good when I let it go," he said. "It was just a little off." tk V "I had two great chances to score, but they both rattled in and out," Duckworth said. "Then their guns started firing." Duckworth and Porter led the Blazers with 21 points each. But champions make shots when they have to. "I don't want this to sound immodest," Thomas said, "but we were the better basketball team." No one disagreed. really come close to scoring, but they rarely had to retreat, either. "We showed people we have grown up a bit," Gansler said. "We showed we are psychologically tougher than people have given us credit for. "We took a giant step tonight." It wasn't the biggest step taken Thursday. Cameroon's "Indomitable Lions" made that leap, right past Romania 1 and into the second round, the first team to advance. Italy was the second. Cameroon pulled off the first big upset of what has been an upside-dow- n tournament thus far when it stunned defending champion Argentina 0 in the opener. Now the African champions can think about doing further damage and keeping their spotless World the Came-rooniaCup record intact are the only team never to have lost in the championships, with a record. They had three ties in 1982, but did not advance on tiebreakers. "I think it is extraordinary for me and my teammates, and also for the whole of Cameroon," said Roger Milla, who scored twice 2-- ns Simpsons, Sluman share Open lead - The MEDINAH, 111. (AP) ground got wet, the golfers got well, and nearly every Simpson but Bart shared the U.S. Open lead. Tough old Medinah turned a gentle face to the rain Thursday as a of record 39 golfers, or the field, broke par in the first round of the Open. "Medinah was there to take advantage of today," said Curtis Strange, but it wasn't there for him, not even as he began his campaign for a third straight U.S. Open victory. 73 and Strange shot was seven shots off the lead. Tim and Scott Simpson, who are no more related to each other than they are to the irreverant TV cartoon character Bart Simpson, were tied with Jeff Sluman for the lead at 66, a course record. "I sure hope people don't think I one-quart- er really watch that show," Scott Simpson said, laughing. "I guess it's OK, though, as long as my kids don't watch it." To which Bart would reply: "Don't have a cow, Dad." The most subpar scores in any previous Open round was 24 on the second day in 1985 at Oakland Hills in Birmingham, Mich. The record for the first round had been 21 last year at Oak Hill in Rochester, N.Y. "Medinah Strange said. was defenseless," NCAA Pistons beat Portland 92-9- 0 takes a champagne shower after his to retain NBA title Thursday. 0. brilliant combination passing from Andrea Carnavale to Nicola Berti to Roberto Donadoni to Giuseppe Giannini after GianLuca Vialli let the ball roll by. Donadoni jumped over defender Michael Windischmann and put a shot past Meola. That almost wasn't enough. With 20 minutes to go, goalie Walter Zenga had make two diving saves, first on Bruce Murray off a free kick and then on Peter Vermes' rebound. Finally, defender Riccardo Ferri cleared the ball, off the goal line. "They said we were 50-- 1 underdogs for this game," U.S. midfielder Tab Ramos said. "The last 15 minutes, it didn't look that way." The Americans also were inspired when Vialli missed a penalty kick, hitting the lower left post as Meola dived the other way. Still, Italy held on. Just forcing the Italians to do so meant an immeasurable lift for the U.S. squad that seemed ready to flunk out of the World Cup. "We've had so much adversity to deal with," said Meola, whose parents were born in Italy and who had been looking forward to this night for months. J four-roun- 34-3- 2. shorter. "We got a nice break with the weather last night," said Tim Simpson, a winner of just three events in 14 years on the PGA Tour and never better than 11th in 11 previous Opens. shine at rodeo By BOB HUDSON Assistant Sports Editor HEBER CITY By the time the dust had settled Thursday, six local cowboys and cowgirls had won the at the Utah High first School State Rodeo Finals. The rodeo is at the Wasatch County Fairgrounds. Two of those tied with an Ogden cowboy for one title. Melissa Ashley of Lehi won the competition with a good run of 20.565 seconds. Roy Brown of the South Utah County club won the calf roping with a 12.46 second clocking while Cody Dahl of the Spikers was second at 12.57. Matt Allred of Wasatch used a ride to win the bareback competition. He was well ahead of Tim Zampedri of the Spikers, who finished second with 61 points. Such wasn't the case in bull riding where Rusty Allen of Lehi scored 69 to nip Rusty Thompson of Wasatch, who had 68. Larry Webb and Doug Scow, both of Lehi, tied the Spikers' Doug Madsen in boys' cow cutting. All three scored 140 23 points. Karen Bywater of Bear River took the goat tying title with a 9.13 second run. Tracy Bennett of the Spikers won breakaway roping with a 3.63. Donalee Holt of Enterprise claimed the barrel racing title with a 16.654 second run while Amy Allen of Lehi was second at 17.015. Cody Jensen of Emery was the top saddle bronc rider with a 62. Derrick Goodwin of Wasatch was close behind at 61. Kirt Monson of Carbon took the - pole-bendi- nt crown as he dropped his animal in 4.89 seconds. Brett Bowcutt and Jeff Clark won the team roping crown with a 9.69 second run. As the second started, the young cowboys and cowgirls had a bit of trouble. None of the five saddle bronc riders who competed Thursday night was able to score. Several of the pole benders picked up penalty points for knocking poles down. And most of the calf ropers had a tough time getting their calves down and tied quickly. Some had excellent runs that will be tough to match, however. Emily Hannum of the Spikers sparkled with a 2.70 second run in breakaway roping. Shawn Anderson of Tooele did likewise in calf roping as he recorded a 10.24. His closest competitor was at 13.52. And the winner of the first had a 33-3- 3. hole Locals steer wrestling 12.46. AP Scott Simpson gives thumbs up sign as he watches drive on no. 17 during U.S. Open play Thursday. He shot 66 to share lead. looking for new ways to split - left-foot- d, .A full night of rain was the culprit that disarmed Medinah. At 7,195 yards, it is the longest U.S. Open course ever, and in previous Opens in 1949 and '75 had not d score of par or yielded a better. Hitting onto its greens usually is about like dropping a golf ball into a frying pan. On Thursday, Strange described it as more like throwing darts at a cork board. While the forecast called for occasional showers through Saturday, no one doubted that if the wind blows, or the greens dry up, or a few more wild tee shots get tangled in the thick woods, Medinah will rise in anger. "I still haven't lost," Strange said. "Medinah isn't through with us yet." Sluman and Tim Simpson had sides of very similar bogey-fre- e Scott Simpson, who won the Open in 1987, had All three bettered the course record of 67 set last year in the U.S. Senior Open by Chi Chi Rodriguez and Gary Player. And those scores came over a course that played at 6,800 yards, or about one WASHINGTON (AP) The money based on more lh;m simply tried an experiment in de- which schools qualify and advance. mocracy Thursday, asking memPredictably, there was quibbling bers at three national sites to com- among schools and conferences ment on a plan aimed at dividing over exactly how to spread the television revenues more equitably money. than they are now. Similar meetings were held in What the association got, at least Chicago and San Francisco. at its East Coast meeting, was There was enough disagreement praise for the broad goal of distrib- here that Southeastern Conference uting NCAA basketball tournament commissioner Koy Kramer said af NCAA against the Romanians, who had a valid excuse for losing, if they wanted to use it. Back home in Bucharest, police and military units were involved in confrontations with dissidents that erupted in gunfire. "The television was broadcasting reports and this had its impact on the players," Romanian coach Emerich Jenei said. In Thursday's other game, Yugoslavia beat Colombia Italy was pleased to have advanced, but it also learned a lesson against the United States: never take anyone for granted. "The Americans played a very solid game defensively," Italian coach Azeglio Vicini said. "The players who were out here tonight were not the same as the players against Czechoslovakia." The Italians weren't nearly as sharp on this night as in their 0 victory over Austria last Saturday. But their goal came on a i AP Laserphoto A happy Bill Laimbeer U.S. proves it belongs at World Cup - 10,000 in 32:21.01. JENKINS ADVANCES: B7 ter the meeting that the NCAA will have a hard time assembling all of the opinions. "It's going to be tough from here on in," he said. At issue is how to divide up $1 contract billion from a seven-yea- r ll with CBS to broadcast college and other championships. However, the bulk of the money is from the three-week, m TV NCAA money men's basketball tourna- Stacey James of the South Utah County club turned in an 8.99 second run in goat tying that will be hard to beat, too. Although she rocked several poles, Tawhnye Coombs of Juab escaped without a penalty and took lead with a the early 20.093 second run. pole-bendi- ment. Brian Kirkham's 58 was tops in bareback riding and Tressa Simpson's 17.137 led the barrel racing. Kirkham is from South Summit while Simpson's from Dixie. Cody Bethcrs of Wasatch had a 64 in bull riding while Darccy Campe bell of the Spikers and Mike of Bear River recorded an This time, the NCAA has some 8.53 in team roping. new ideas. Past payments to schools have been based on how far they advanced in the tournament, a system that led to complaints that the traditional basketball powers got richer at the expense of others. Mac-farlan- |
