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Show m """ NBA Roundup Baseball Scoreboard Weather B2 The San Francisco Giants B3 lost outfielder Barry Bonds for 10 weeks after surgery Tuesday. B3 B5, 6 B8 k F.DITOR: STFVE CAMERON j-- ;irrriiiiiiiiii SPURS 83, JAZZ 69 j ij f . - g- gSSSBSSgffin 1 1 ri " HE ALSO blocked seven shots most of them coming against Utah's platoon of centers, who between them take longer to get off d the ground than your typical space shuttle launch. also freely substiGreg Ostertag tute the names of Todd Fuller and Greg Foster here gets another feed under the basket. Loudspeaker: Commence 9, 8, 7...3, 2, l...shot blocked by Duncan. The Jazz and Spurs came into this Midwest matchup as the two hottest teams in the NBA. San Antonio was a 22-league-bes- t since March 1, while in April. was Utah and Something had to give here's the Jazz's take: "We were soft and we came in overconfident," said Foster. "It's quite simple. They wanted it more than we did." n count-down..,1- 4 0 THE JAZZ may have been on a pretty great run, but don't bother suggesting to Karl Malone the team was ready for a snooze. this locker-roo- m doesn't say we were due (for a loss)," Malone said. "That's a crock. "I don't like that excuse, 'We were due.' I don't believe in that." Besides giving the Spurs a mental boost in the D.C., the Jazz wasted the opportunity to bury their prime competition in the Midwest Division. A Utah win would have left San Antonio five games behind with only nine to play and increased the Jazz's stranglehold on the NBAs best record. Now, should the Jazz stumble tonight at Phoenix, they would be in a much more precarious situation Friday against Portland. None of this was lost on Malone. "Sometimes you need a reality check and maybe that's what this is," he said. "In this business, you win together and you lose together." Let's hope now that the Jazz all wake up together. En at least on the court. much-neede- d Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Then maybe we could turn that blasted alarm off. Rockies, Nuggets sit out :...x-;.- e Doug Fox is a sports writer for The Daily Herald. silence as details emerged about a deadly shooting at a Denver-arehigh school. McElroy was no longer a major league relief pitcher. He was simply an emotional father of two. "I had tears in my eyes;" McElroy said before the Rockies postponed Tuesday between night's game Colorado and the Montreal Expos. "I told the bullpen, 'You think you're pitching bad, just turn on the TV " The shooting at Columbine High School in suburban Littleton also prompted the Denver Nuggets to postpone their game against the Portland Trail Blazers. General manager Dan Issel said the game likely will be rescheduled, probably on either April 27 or May 2. The Montreal-Coloradgame will be made up as part, of a split doubleheader when the Expos return to Colorado for a series Aug. a u."' iff Mil Wl jt. Lfm-:-,- .r. v ... ..,rw.,-r- , It's mine: Utah's Howard Eisley, left, and San Antonio's Tim Duncan night at the Delta Center. The Spurs moved within three games of the x Jb-'- Ji. : ,.., . No, AlJL. -- f o JASON OLSON The Daily Herald fight for a loose ball in the paint during the first half Tuesday e Jazz in the Midwest Division with an 83-6win. first-plac- a little to do with it, By DARNELL DICKSON The Daily Herald SALT LAKE CITY In all the talk about who deserves the NBA's MVP this year, one name has gotten a little lost in the hoopla. The short list of Karl Malone, Alonzo Mourning and Allen Iverson had better include San Antonio's Tim Duncan. Duncan's scintillating performance in San Antonio's win over the Utah Jazz Tuesday night reminded everyone around the league that the kid can play a little. Duncan's 10 36 points, line rebounds, and 7 blocked was only part of the shots reason San Antonio stopped Utah's winning streak. The fact the Jazz put together one of their worst performances of the year had 83-6- 9 MVP-worth- y e "You too. n See JAZZ, B2 start thinking about life," Rockies first baseman Todd Helton said. "Players in here are sort of in our own little world, and this sort of opens your eyes a little bit to how important life is and "Obviously, Duncan had a tremendous game," Utah coach Jerry Sloan said. "We couldn't do anything with him. "Everybody wants to try and come up with a big shot or something like that.. Sometimes that works. But tonight we didn't seem to have any toughness to come away with anything." San Antonio came out with toughness to spare. On Utah's first offensive Avery opportunity, Johnson took a hard foul on Karl Malone to save an easy basket. Clearly, San Antonio came in with playoff intensity. The Delta Center crowd officiatbooed the three-maing crew of Jack Nies, Greg Willard and Bill Spooner unmercifully after several questionable calls. three-game- s 13-1- "I couldn't have played," Expos third baseman Shane Andrews said. "I had a hard time just being on the field. Thinking about it makes me sick." Rockies owner Jerry McMorris talked to baseball commissioner Bud Selig before deciding to postpone the game as horrifying details emerged about the shootin- g- Spurs terminate Utah's 11 -- game win streak J? 13. jurvl If--" L"3 I I lit' 'j 5J I' M JASON OLSONThc Daily Herald Wraparound: Utah's Shandon Anderson slips a shot around San Antonio David Robinson Tuesday night for a layin. how important kids are: That's the thing those are just kids in there." McMorris, clearly troublsd by the shooting, said he did not know if any Rockies employees had children who were killed or injured when the gunmen started opening fire at about 11:30 a.m. MOT: "It's not right for usHfl play," McMorris said. "Otrf players don't want to play, and nobody in the organizai tion wants to play. Our hearts and prayers go out to thB families in that community." Montreal manager Felipe Alou, who managed the Denver Bears in Triple-1981, supported the decision to postpone the game. "We can't play," he said. We can't even play carda '.!Tt tonight." Charlie Whittingham dies at 86 able to go to the races on Sunday, when he had two Mrs. horses running," doctwice a and said. "The oughbred racing Whittingham winner of the Kentucky tor told me that sometimes Derby, died Tuesday of when you get an infection like leukemia. He was 86. leukemia, the system just The three-timEclipse can't fight it. He was having Award winner was taken from trouble breathing this mornhis home in Sierra Madre by ing and I called the Sierra ambulance to Saint Luke Madre ambulance people." Medical Center in Pasadena A crusty with a at 6:30 a.m. He died about quick wit and sharp tongue, 8:30 a.m., said his wife, Peggy. Whittingham had a "We had a birthday party career as a trainer. He prefor him last week. And he was pared more than 2,500 win LOS ANGELES (AP) Charb'e Whittingham, one of the greatest trainers in thor- e 62-ye- I COPY Lit 9 "I hope everybody in IW DENVER (AP) Like of his Colorado Rockies teammates, Chuck McElroy could only watch in Bzzzzzzzzz... Antonio's on Tuesday. There was whoopin' and hollerin', and a whole lot of raucous laughter. "(Utah's) the best team in the NBA, this was a big win," San Antonio's Mario Elie said. "This is a terrific team and they're tough in this building. We're very fortunate to come in here and win." They're also very fortunate to have Tim Duncan on their roster. The second-year forward from Wake Forest dominated the game from both ends of the court. When he wasn't powering his way inside, Duncan was floating silky jumpers over sagging defenders en route to 36 points. 11-- APRIL 21, after shooting -' 9 ' xs.ixr That's the sound of the alarm going off on the Jazz's wakeup call. Have you ever been out on the road with a group of friends, staying at the same hotel, and snuck into their room unawares, dialed the operator and ordered up an unbelievably early wakeup call? Well, you probably haven't, but that's exactly what San Antonio did in Tuesday's mugging of the Jazz. The Spurs marched into the Delta Center where they had not won a and game in more than three years browbeat the slumbering Jazz before partying as if the win came in May. Championship teams have had less jubilant lockerrooms than San wide-ope- iv WEDNESDAY, several operator calling' lead-foote- f: s: 'Morning, Utah, this is your hotel 83-6- Wail ' Doug Fox SALT LAKE CITY j mi---" J jr. Bl mPr THE DAILY HF.RALD 3 --7 1 Today 1 ners, with two of the biggest winners being Derby Ferdinand and (1986) Silence (1989). Sunday Ferdinand made him, at 73, the oldest trainer to win the Derby. He was oldest again 11' at 76 when Patrick Valenzuela rode Sunday Silence, who also won the 1989 Preakness. Sunday Silence was a distant second to Easy Goer in the Belmont Stakes, bidding for racing's Triple Crown. See TRAINER, B2 AL BEHRMANThc Associated tnm Hall of Famer: Charlie Whittingham, who died Tuesday, tends to Ferdinand, one of two Kentucky Derby winners he trained, in this April 27, 1986 file photo. |