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Show c, Comics C5 Li The Daily Herald mm a Imi to I NOTABLE QUOTES: VWith our luck, when we . By DICK HARMON Herald Sports Editor make our first stop, we'll be greeted by Francisco Cabrera. If I see him, I'll probably just go overboard." Pittsburgh Pirates coach Rich Donnelly, on the postseason cruise he and his wife were taking with ' Pirates manager Jim Ley land and hfswife. '' INJURED RESERVE: Atlanta Falcons quarterback Chris Miller has been placed on injured Reserve after undergoing surgery bh his left knee. Miller suffered a t6rn ligament during the third quarter of Sunday's game against the Los Angeles Rams. Backup quarterback Billy Joe Tolliver directed the Falcons to a comeback 8 victory. To fill Miller's spot on the roster, the team activated safety Joe Fishback. 30-2- .GOLFERS 10TH: High winds and some faulty club 'selections contributed to BYU's drop from ninth to place to a tie for 10th in the second round of the women's UCLA Pioneer-Dese- rt Tuesday. The Cougars, thwarted by raging winds throughout the day, shot a 335. Flevertheless, Cougar Lisa Christie is among the leaders in a tie for fourth with a total of 0 '133. Other BYU scores are: Kara 1 160 (22nd), Anna Sralla Weitz 83- - 83 166 (49th tie), Eve Sutter 84- -' 91 175 (84th tie) and Robin Ziola, a 2 181 (89th tie). Texas' Charlotta Sorenstam leads the individual race with a 6 147, and the Longhorns totaled 614 to field. Other top lead the teams are ASU 631, Oregon 636, Stanford 642, Tulsa 643, Oklahoma '645 UCLA and Tennessee 649, TCU 653 and BYU and LSU 654. ra i PROVO With three games remaining on the Cougar schedule, fullback Kalin Hall has already surpassed the season mark Peter Tuipulotu tallied a year ago as BYU's top rusher. In 12 games a year ago, Tuipo-lut- u rushed for 619 yards on 125 carries for a 5.0 average. So far in nine games, Hall has gained 686 yards on 1 15 carries, an average of 6.0 yards per tote. Halfback Jamal Willis, who - Wednesday, November 4, 1992 The effort Ux)k more than schetouchdowns. Hall's season total is notable be- matic changes on the part of the cause the 686 yards marks the most Cougar offense which had gained any BYU back has gained since just 13 at Notre Dame the week d 1986 in a full season. Hall's before, according to running back rushing performance against coach Lance Reynolds. s Penn State was his fourth "There are always schematic effort of the season (Utah. SDSU things you work on before and durand Fresno State) ing a game. But our guys were Lakei Heimuli is BYU's career ready to play. It was nice to have rusher with 2,710 yards from 1983 them meet the challenge after through 1986. spending the week talking about This past week Hall, Willis and running the ball." Hema Heimuli combined to lead Reynolds said there is a lot more the Cougars to a 241 yard day to being a BYU running back than it appears. "We expect the whole against Penn State. package. We expect a guy to come in and block well, not only in passing situations, but block for the other runners. At first, backs don't understand that, and think everything else is a day in the park. It ' 117-yar- 1 ; 100-p!u- i w f afc. 4.. iww Jamal Willis Kalin Hall gained 520 yards a year ago on 142 carries, has 561 yards. The two combined have rushed for nine -- WAG's freshman of year has high hopes this season H" By DICK HARMON Herald Sports Editor wiJ.nnmMiiniuiuini in wbi.iii I..JJIHIII i n.,..ni n, .j,i ... in iijiyi,, i.. isn't." 73-8- le 79-8- 89-9- non-counti- 71-7- m MORE FILINGS: Eric Davis, who missed much of last season because of injuries, filed for free agency along with suspended pitcher Pascual Perez. Fourteen players filed, increasing the record total to 129. As many as 27 potentially are eligible to file by Sunday's deadline. Davis, 30, came to Los Angeles from Cincinnati in a Nov. 27, 1991 trade and hit .228 with five homers and 32 RBIs in 76 ' right-'handgames. Perez, a with the New York Yankees, was suspended for one year by Fay Vincent on March 6 following a positive test for cocaine. He must apply to the executive council for reinstatement. Also filing were California catcher Mike Fitzgerald, Detroit pitcher Frank Tanana, Kansas City shortstop Curtis Wilkerson, Milwaukee second baseman Jim Gantner, Minnesota ' outfielder Chili Davis, Yankees ' 'pitcher Tim Burke, Seattle catcher i Lance Parrish, Atlanta pitcher Alejandro Pena, Dodgers pitcher John Candelaria, New York Mets I .outfielder Kevin Bass and Pittsburgh pitcher Danny Cox. er '. I YANKEES TRADE: The New York Yankees traded outfielder Roberto Kelly to Cincinnati for outfielder Paul O'Neill and first baseman Joe DeBerry. Kelly, 28, hit .272 with 10 , hpmers and 66 RBIs and had 28 ; stolen bases last season. O'Neill, ,29, hit .246 with 14 homers and 66 RBIs. DeBerry, 22, hit .240 with 15 homers and 68 RBIs for Cedar ' 'Rapids (Class A Midwest League). All-St- BENDING RULES: The . International Olympic Committee 'is willing to bend its rules to include golf as a medal sport in the "1996 Games in Atlanta, IOC sports t - "director Gilbert Felli said. Atlanta 'organizers announced plans last -- month to stage men's and women's golf competitions at Augusta If the proposal is '. National. approved by the IOC, golf would be . jon the Olympic program for the 'first; time since 1904. .' BIO NAMES FROM SMALL SCHOOLS 1. Scottli Pippin, Bull O. of Cant. Irk. 2. Dennit Rodman, Pistons SE Oklahoma Chadron St., 3. Don Beeba, Bills Neb. III. 4. Jack Bucks Slkma, . Wasleyan 5. Christian Okoyt, Chiafa Azusa Pacific, Cal. - Source: tough: Larson is BYU's ace in the hole on a front line expected to be the strength of the defending Western Athletic Conference champions this season. BYU began basketball practice Monday in the Marriott Center. Larson, used extensively as a reserve center, reserve forward, or starter if needed, was named the WAC freshman of the year in flSil. ') I .... j ' I i ( I f 1992. He runs 200 meters in 23 seconds that's as fast as the ; $m' : and can bounce guards do around the rim as well as any player in the West. One NBA scout in Los Angeles calls Larson the WAC's best athlete. Larson begins 1992 with high hopes for his teammates and sees the Cougars better than a year "f 4 regarded before Johnson's as not much more than a n collection of whispers and reservations had swelled to a roar immediately after it. "Again, the Magic is Gone; Pressured by Teammates and Opponents, Johnson Retires 'For Good' " read the headline in one y newspaper. "Mass Hysteria Shuts the Door" was the banner on another, suggesting the players had fled from Johnson, en masse, as from a leper. "Frankly, that puzzled me," Charles Grantham, head of the NBA Players Association, started off a telephone conversation Tuesday. "Up until the moment he left, it was clear there was a majority of players who had accepted the fact of competing against an individual half-spoke- big-cit- 0 fr.K weight room in the My strength has gone up quite a bit. But I haven't gained any weight. Actually I weigh the same as I did last year. I believe my skills have improved. In playing during the summer I believe I've improved my shooting and free throws. I'm less rough around the edges, I guess." Larson, who weighs 215 pounds, said he will continue to work on gaining weight, his admitted biggest weakness. Larson averaged 9.9 points and 5.1 rebounds per game last season. The sophomore sees BYU ahead of last year entering this first week of camp. A year ago BYU had Jared Miller injured (knee) and there was uncertainty about roles up front with newcomer Kevin Nixon and rookie center Gary Trost. BYU ended up one game away from breaking the school record for wins last season. "I see we are better at this point than last year. There was an uncertainty and questions. Now many of us know what our roles will be and we really get along with each other. We are all about the same age. We play hard together and there is a good chemistry. I see us just getting better this year." Larson said he would be disappointed if the Cougars keep getting injuries like last year with Miller and Trost. "I'd be disappointed if we didn't come together and play like we know we can. This year we have great potential. Whether that turns out to be off-seaso- n. who was ' - " ..mnnwni.i Herald PhotoJennifer Grigg BYU forward Russell Larson looks inside for an open man during practice Tuesday. The sophomore will have an important role for the Cougars again this season. WAC championship and NCAA appearance, remains to be seen. But the ability is there. I haven't seen many teams that have this much talent and gel so well . I'm excited. We can't wait to get out there and play." Larson noted that last year's team, the one which was 25-- 7 a year ago, had only two major contributing seniors in Nathan Call and Mark Heslop. A third senior, Mark Santiago, did see some key acjion as a limited reserve. "This year we have five seniors to lead us and I believe that is an important factor. This is their final year. We expect them to play hard, work hard and lead the rest of this team," said Larson. Those seniors include 8 Miller, 0 Trost, 8 Nixon, 4 Nick Sanderson and 9 David Astle. a 6-- 6-- 6-- 6-- - Page, an assistant attorney gen- He won easily over Hennepin County prosecutor Kevin Johnson in an election forced by Page's own legal challenge. It was the first race since 1966 for an open seat on the seven-membcourt. er , A defensive terror in his grid- eral, made history Tuesday by iron days, Page won a reputation Saluta to Larry TKura Amtt 3:30 p.m. English league soccer (PSN) 4 p.m. Sportscantral (KSL 1160 AM) It is comforting to blame the players for running Magic Johnson out of the game. It is comforting to think that he took a vote, found his constituency numbered just one, and finding so little support among his peers, became convinced the time had come to move on. Comforting, but wrong. Sift through the accounts of his sudden exit from basketball Monday and you find that the blame falls squarely, almost uniformly, on the shoulders of the very same people that Magic Johnson helped make rich. Somehow, what was full-throat- ed ago. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Four years after his induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Alan Page will be inducted into another elite group in an altogether different arena. Wednesday Bird (ESPN) By JIM LITKE AP Sports Writer ; Having that much experience in knowing the offense and defense is a big boost," said Larson. Notes The new NCAA rule which restricts teams from beginning practice until two weeks later than they did in 1991 has had little effect. The rule was enacted to prevent loss of time from the classroom by athletes. But in most cases, athletes have spent all that time in the gym anyway because their class schedules are plugged in to have the time off. All schools were forced to cut back two games. Apparently all that has done is take away revenue. BYU coach Roger Reid has spent the past two weeks chomping at the bit. "I've been nervous and bored to death." Former gridder makes Minnesota history 8:30 p.m. Bowling (ESPN) 6 p.m. The King and I sport talk (KQOL 106.5 FM) 6:30 p.m. Colltg volleyball, Baylor at Rlce(PSN) 9 p.m. Sport Byline USA (KQOL 106.S p.m. Sportscenter, V. HIV-positiv- e. And there were other people, clearly a minority, who had voiced some concerns. The same kind of concerns, I suspect, that most people have. "But if you go back and look at what they said publicly, none of them said they wouldn't play And I against him. None won't pretend to know what it was that made Earvin too uncomfortable to go ahead with this. He pointed out those concerns were one reason for his decision, but he also made clear there were others. " In his written statement, Johnson said, "It has become obvious that various controversies surrounding my return are taking away from both basketball as a sport and the larger issue of living with HIV for me and the many people affected." There is a need for scapegoats at J winning a seat on the Minnesota Supreme Court, becoming the first black ever to sit on an appellate court in the state. (See COUGARS, Page C3) for his fierceness and drive with the Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears. He played in nine consecutive Pro Bowl games, from 1968-7and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1988. 6, "I think the Hall of Fame and this are right up there together," Page said of his victory. "They both have significance in their owns ways, and they're both important in their own ways. " In a broader sense, he said, his historical election as a person of color was "tremendously disturbing moments like this one. but it hardly advances the "larger issue" referred to above to try and close the circle around only the NBA players. What Magic likely feared at least as much as the concerns of his opponents and ever, some of the would people on his own bench voice were the questions the rest of us would demand be answered at every turn. The lingering doubts about his sexuality, his health and his very private fears. About whether a small cut or scrape at the start of a game was the reason he played so miserably afterward or why the bodies in the lane parted so conveniently on this or that late drive to the basket. As composed as he has always appeared, it is difficult to imagine Magic losing his cool. But it be- comes less difficult to imagine when you consider how the barrage of speculation over the past two days would have worn on him during the course of an entire season. "I think maybe he heard the rumblings and looked at all the garbage he was going to have to put up with and just thought. 'To hell with that,' " said one NBA executive who asked that his name not be used. "He strikes me as a guy with After the very high All-Stin he the way performed Game and especially during the Olympics, he was front-pag- e around the world for almost two self-estee- ar weeks. "But I think he realizes now that those were exhibitions, that a lot of the good feelings that surrounded those games weren't going to be challenged. And I think he realized that when the regular season started here, the gloves are going to come off." It might have been naive on Magic's part to think otherwise. Or to think that the infrequent grumbling that he heard would get quieter instead of louder, less frequent rather than more so. The reaction to his announcement proved that much. The sad thing is that when Magic was ready to make an experiment of himself, we were not. That when he was willing, we were not. That when he was able, we were not. Dodgers' Karros wins rookie of year honors - Eric LOS ANGELES (AP) Karros doesn't intend to dwell on his National League Rookie of the Year award. Karros, barely considered a elude name, addreaa, phone number and source. fi ' NAIA World Features Syndicate will pay SS for your Nat H published. Send list to (ports features, P.O. Vol 660, Maple Shade, N.J. OSOS2. Ire This week against 6 New Mexico, the Lobos rank fifth in the . 6-- in the Reynolds said the most pleasing aspect of Saturday's win over Penn State was how hard the backs ran. "They played intense(ly) and hard the entire game. They could have complained about this or that, but they came out and played. It was nice to see that kind of response. The big key is to do that every week the remainder of the season," said Reynolds. Players don't deserve blame for Magic decision PROVO The first thing you notice about Russell Larson when he starts playing basketball is he doesn't play like a guy. Larson plays like a 4 guy trapped in the body of a giant. And that's what makes him "I worked hard day." 2-- Reynolds said BYU's backfield is getting to the point where its members are playing all phases of Golf-Clas- sic . the game together. "Il has been the mistakes that have hurt earlier in the season. It is not a matter of them not playing hard. We have been up and down. We've plavcd well, then had an interception that killed a drive, or a penalty that took away a drive. Those kinds of mistakes kill you. We didn't do a lot of that Satur- keeper by the Los Angeles Dodgers heading into spring training, eventually won the first base job and went on to have an outstanding year, hitting .257 with 20 homers and 88 RBIs. He says all that's nice, but one season isn't a career. "It keeps you going, knowing guys come and go in this game. The trick is not getting there, but staying, having some longevity. I've only played one year and my goal is to play a number of years. "What I did last year doesn't matter now; it's what I do in 1993," Karros said Tuesday in a conference call from Japan, where he is touring with a major league all-st- ar team. Karros was named first on 22 of the 24 ballots and received 116 points overall from the Baseball Writers Association of America. Montreal outfielder Moiscs Alou was second with 30 points, followed by Pittsburgh knuckleballcr e Tim Wakefield with two votes and 29 points. Karros had been considered the favorite for the rookie honor. first-plac- "I wasn't surprised but I'm definitely happy." he said. "It's been something that's been talked about the last few months and it's finally done. It reflects the season 1 had, but I'd exchange it for our club to have been in a pennant race." |