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Show Also in this section: O Comics C4 Theater Sports C5-- 6 !&J Chris Smith NOTABLE QUOTES: 'It's the greatest seventh-plac- e victory you can imagine. It's as great as winning the championship to us. It's great to have that weight lifted off of us." Texas Tech basketball coach Gerald Myers, talking about Tech's 9 victory over Nevada for seventh place in the Great Alaska Shootout. The win broke Tech's losing streak, which was the longest in Div. I. 81-6- 20-ga- A VOTE? NO-DETM- Dale Bublitz, a sports writer at the is one Ogden Standard-Examine- r, of 11 Heisman Trophy voters in Utah. In his column in that paper Sunday, Bublitz said he named a quarterback, a running back and a wide receiver on his ballot, but declined to name names or say in what order he put the players. Scuttlebutt around Ogden since then, however, is that Bublitz did not put BYU quarterback Ty Detmer in the top spot on his in fact, maybe didn't put ballot a rumor him on the ballot at all that has drawn the ire of many BYU fans in the state, who figured Detmer to at least get the first place votes from his own state. Unless Bublitz chooses to make an statement about it, it's nothing but rumor, of course. And it is also true that everyone is entitled to his own opinion. But stilL..isn't there a saying somewhere about a prophet having no honor in his own country? Maybe the same is true for a quarterback. GOLFERS UP ONE: byu's team moved from 11th into a tie for 10th Tuesday at the men's golf second round of the Rebel Golf Classic in Las Vegas. Leader total Arizona State has a two-da- y of 596. The Cougars are 31 strokes back at 627. Oklahoma State's Kevin Wentworth and UNLV's Warren Schutte are tied for the individual lead at one over 145. Joe Summerhays is the low Cougar at 155. Other Cougar scores include Jeff Kraemer at 156 and Ryan Rhees and Mike Weir at 160. BICKNELL FIRED: Jack Bicknell, who coached Boston College to four bowl games in his first six seasons but had losing records in his last four, was fired after 10 years in the job. No replacement was named for Bicknell, who departs after a 7 season in which the Eagles lost their last four games. His record is 4-- ar 1. SUSPENDED: The Italian basketball federation suspended Micheal Ray Richardson for five games for starting a brawl that led to the record ejection of 19 players and team officials. Three other players, Americans Clemon Johnson and Frank Johnson and Italian Stefano Rusconi, were each suspended for two games for their ll in part in last Sunday's the closing minutes of a game between Knorr Bologna and Ranger Varese. After riot police restored order, referees ejected 12 players and seven team officials. 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(AP) judge has ruled that the Boxing Council cannot strip weight champion Evander Holy-fiel- d of his title for fighting former champion George Foreman pending arbitration. Acting Tuesday on a suit filed by Main Events-MonitProduction, Inc., and Holyfield, State Superior Court Judge Amos Saunders ordered the WBC to show cause why it should not submit to arbitration with the plaintiffs "in accordance with the plaintiffs' demands for arbitration filed with the American Arbitration Association." Saunders also enjoined the WBC A World heavy- or ' "I didn't want to stay in California (he's from La Canada) but I didn't want to go to BYU because I had all my older brothers there," a Smith said. "I wanted some more independence. "Plus," he added, "they (Arizona) were the only one who offered me a scholarship." - Following his freshman year in Tucson, Smith left to serve an LDS mission. During his absence, coach Larry Smith moved from Arizona to the University of Southern Cali fornia. Smith the player wanted to follow. OfJ JJr L "I tried to transfer to USC," he said. "But things didn't work out. I was offered a scholarship at the University of Utah, but I didn't want to go there. I was just very lucky to have an opportunity to play for BYU." fit 1. , . t - t- . J r -t - ' w i!,r-'- ! lift .S.;2 5 J1 fill ?i - , f tf . ' . -r wl- ' i - I" J s Player Relations Committee, said the figures showed that baseball "on an overall basis Pboto eourteny of BYUMark Philbrick BYU's Chris Smith slips away from Wyoming's Jarod Thiele (98) while Willie Wright also gives chase during the Nov. 10 contest between the two teams. lustrated made a big deal of Smith's decision to stay in college. Some observers felt he could make a bundle of money by making himself available for the pro foot- - ball draft. "Education was important," that choice. "I want Smith said of to get my degree. Plus, it wasn't my time to leave. I made a com- - mitment to the other players and to BYU... If I was to just get up and leave, I would let a lot of other people down." Detmer, a junior, is likely to face from withdrawing championship recognition from Holyfield "pend ing completion and resolution of the aforesaid arbitration proceeding." Holyfield knocked out James "Buster" Douglas in Las Vegas last month to take the title and signed a contract to defend the title against former champion George Foreman on April 19. The WBC had threatened to strip Holyfield of his WBC title if he does not defend it first against Mike Tyson, who lost to Douglas last Feb. 11. The World Boxing Association and International Boxing Federation also had ordered that the gars. "He's There's was doing quite welL" "The difficulty with it," he said Tuesday, "is that you have to get below the aggregate figures to determine the level of health of the individual parts that make up the the 26 clubs. game "There, there's a different story. You can't look at the overall industry profits and say, Therefore, my team in Pittsburgh is in great shape' or 'My team in Kansas City is in great shape."' Donald Fehr, the head of the Major League Baseball Players Association, said O'Connor's argument was only partly right. "As a matter of semantics, that's accurate," Fehr said, "But it also says that even on their figures and the way they calculate it, they're getting to very big profit num- bers." O'Connor said that four clubs lost money in 1989 but that the figure winner of the Holyfield-Dougla- s fight to first defend the title against Tyson. However, the WBA and IBF now have sanctioned the Holyfield-Forema- n fight, with the winner to then fight the highest available contender at the time. That currently is Tyson, who is scheduled to fight Alex Stewart Dec. 8 in Atlantic City, N J. "Well be happy to go to arbitration," said Dan Duva, who is the head of Main Events-Monito- r, representing Holyfield in the matter. The WBC sent a telex to The would become nine based on an apportioned share of the tentative $280 million collusion settlement. "For 1989 operating profits, going to be a lot more than $100 million even after the collusion is added on for that year," Fehr there's said. The financial figures were obtained by the AP from two baseball sources on the condition they not be identified. It was the sixth consecutive season baseball teams increased their operating profits. Because of the accounting practices of the various teams, financial figures for 1990 will not be available until next year. Baseball has boomed since the According to figures released by the commissioner's office in the past, the 26 teams lost $06.6 million in 1983 on revenues of $521.6 million, then cut the losses to $41 million in 1984 and $7.1 million mid-1980- s. Cougars play Weber Thursday in Ogden and on ger doing the KSL Radio 1160 AM. Like Utah State, Weber State has e capability. The Aggies stayed close (BYU eventually won play-by-pl- long-rang- 98-9- going to change the game. no question about that," said Weber State coach Dnny ton. Hus- in the Dee Event Center in Ogden at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. The game will be broadcast live on KXTV Channel 34 with Terry Shellenber- - "And I would have to give the coaches credit for how and what they taught me. And thirdly the credteam as a whole (desei-veit)," Smith added. from its Mexico City offices Tuesday saying it had informed representees of Holyfield Monday that under a WBC rule they can request arbitration on the matter. The WBC said it will abide by whatever decision is rendered by the American Arbitration Association and that it expects Holyfield do to likewise. "They're acting after the fact," Duva said. The promoter also said that the WBC cannot act against Holyfield until the outcome of arbitration even if arbitration doesn't occur before the Holyfield-Forema- n fight. Holyfield-Fore-man-Tys- because Jay Goodman shots. Wecanned nine three-poiber State has a similar capability. s Tony Nicholas hit seven nt three-pointer- as the Wildcats beat Southern Utah 8 Monday. "There are some areas where we need to improve," said BYU coach Roger Reid. "like defending the perimeter shooting." You can bet the Cougars havtj 92-8- been working hard on that aspect of their defense. They don't have to pretend they are defending against e shooters, either. good Mark Heslop and Nathan Call can both hit the trey with consistency. So can Scott Moon. But, ideally, Reid wants his team to get the ball into the paint where Bradley, 8 Kenneth Roberts, 8 Jared Miller and 7 Steve Schrei-ne- r can work with it. long-rang- 1986, the season after they began shunning free agents. Two arbitrators found the conspiracy depressed player salaries and the profit soared to $103.3 million in 1987. the the conspiracy, the teams made a total operating profit of $450.9 million. In the four years following of However, as part of the tentative settlement of the collusion cases, owners have agreed to give the Major League Baseball Players Association a payment that would amount to $280 million as of Jan. 2. Interest would be added if the payment is made after that date. One source said that approximately 50 percent of the 1989 revenues came from tickets sales, parking and concessions. 6-- 6-- 6-- The Wildcats feature four seniors who played a lot last year. They include Nicholas, who is Aaron Bell, Anthony McGowan, and Jason Joe, Mike Pomeroy is but hasn't been much of a scoring threat. David Baldwin is 6-6-- 6-- 6-- 6-- Just as Utah State did, Weber State has the edge in experience. Schreiner is BYU's only returning Following Thursday's game in the Cougars will prepare for a rematch with Utah State. That game will be played in Ixian at 7 D.m. Saturdav. )gden, $72,500 - BOSTON (AP) Lisa Olson and the New England Patriots finally found something to agree on: now that the NFL has spoken, let's close the book on her alleged sexual harassment by several players. NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue on Tuesday fined three Patriot players a total of $22,500 and the team $50,000 in the wake of a locker-rooincident involving Olson, a Boston Herald reporter. Tagliabue levied the fines, but issued no suspensions after studying special counsel rePhilip Heymann's port of the Sept. 17 incident and its aftermath. Zeke Mow-at- t, who earlier had been fined $2,000 by the team, was fined $12,500, and Michael Timpson and Robert Perry-ma- n were fined $5,000 each. The report, released Tuesday, cited discrepancies between the accounts given by Olson and several players of the events allegedly involving naked players and suggestive remarks. But both sides indicated they were willing to go along with Tagliabue's request that the furor be left behind. "I reiterate my strong belief," the commissioner wrote in a letter to Patriots owner Victor Kiam, "that the Pa- triots' organization and its starter. He and Moon are the only seniors on the team. BYU, meanwhile, has the edge in size, even with Bradley taking a break. That's when Gary Trost comes in for his minutes. 6-- fines Patriots m in 1985. The teams made $11.5 million in start Smith said the lack of touchdown passes (he didn't get his first until Nov. 10 against Wyoming) wasn't a concern. "It really didn't bother me," Smith said. "It probably would liave if we were losing games. But we're not. We're a very powerful offensive football team." NFL Associated Press in New York Shawn Bradley's threat pushes ball outside Assistant Sports Editor At BYU freshman center Shawn Bradley owns the area inside the paint. As a result, opposing teams have no choice but to use the long-ranshot in an effort to beat the Cou- The keys to his success at BYU are many, Smith said. "Probably one of the major keys is the constant support of my wife (Sarah)," he said. "Whenever I get down on myself, she'll be the first one to say 'c'mon, Chris, you're doing fine... s Baseball owners made record profits - ar C, J kr-r- Arizona. - for now title world Molyvield - keeps The Cougars and Wildcats tangle (tap Jrli I By BOB HUDSON mm it I'. V a similar decision. "This summer, when we went to a lot of speaking engagements together, Ty told me he had made a commitment and 'I'm going to play my four years," Smith noted. Smith will likely get an opportunity to play pro football next season. But, he isn't banking on it. "Is it for sure? No!" Smith said of the possibility of being drafted. "But hopefully something will come out of the draft." Smith has been at BYU for the past four seasons. But, he didn't start his collegiate career in Provo. He began at the University of pv 1 end)." Asked about his strengths, Smith replied, "I catch the ball well and I can run with it afterwards." He said he couldn't think of any major weaknesses. That's something one would expect of an at any position. Following last season, Sports D-- I V 28, 1990 to gamer honors i By BOB HUDSON Assistant Sports Editor is a title Consensus with a nice ring to it But, according to Chris Smith, BYU's tight end who has earned that label this season, it's not an individual honor. it "If you have an shows the team is playing well," Smith said. Both he and Cougar quarterback Ty Detmer are consensus this year. Various organizations which select teams have listed the two among their first team choices. Smith has made five such lists. Detmer has made four. "It's pretty cool," Smith said of the honor during a Tuesday interview. "It's just one of those things I was fortunate to get." Fortunate? Well, maybe. But one has to do some things on the field to be considered. Smith has done so. With one game to go in this, his senior season, he has 133 career catches for 2,222 yards and eight touchdowns. Last year he caught 60 passes for 1,060 yards and five scores. He received some recognition but it wasn't of the consensus variety. That only comes when your name appears on every one (or nearly every one) of the lists. This year Smith has 64 catches for 1,101 yards and two touchdowns. He needs 21 more yards to establish an NCAA record for tight ends and four more catches to eclipse the school record for that position. "I just wanted to have 60 balls and over 1,000 yards again," he said of his goals entering this season. "Now I have an opportunity to break Gordon Hudson's school record 'of 67 catches by a tight li5,. Dam Mow a liartr receiving records management's HOW KMOOLS WTTH HtrSMAN WtttMCM HAVE MMS rattinues close to major M best-dress- t-- end - Mike Dunleavy has succeeded Pat Riley as the Los Angeles Lakers coach and as the NBA's coach, according to the December issue of Gentleman's Quarterly. Dunleavy is pictured in the December issue of the magazine wearing several suits and a sport coat and tie ensemble. 1 BYU tight NEW YORK (AP) Baseball owners are making money faster than they're spending it. The 26 clubs increased their operating profits by 73 percent in 1989 to a record $214.5 million, according to financial figures obtained by The Associated Press. The teams teams took in a record JU41.059.000 in 1989, a 23 percent increase from the previous season. Their operating expenses were $1,026,550,000, a 16 percent increase from 1988. That left them with a pretax operating profit of 1214,509,000, or an average of i&2 million per team. The previous record profit of 1121.6 million was set in 1988 on earnings of $1,007,519,000, baseball's first billion-dollseason. Chuck O'Connor, the head of BEST DRESSED: Wednesday NOV. players have learned a hard lesson from this episode and that everyone involved will best be served if this controversy now comes to an end without further recrimination." In a prepared statement she read at a news conference, Olson, who now covers the Boston Celtics, said, "it is time to move on. Perhaps the greatest lesson of sport is perseverance." Kiam also issued a prepared statement, saying, "Th decision has been rendered. Now it's time to get on with playing football." |