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Show Inside Today Valley Prep Spotlight .. B3 Baseball B4 Scoreboard .... B6 B8 Weather Timpview quarterback Dan Southwick is being count- ed on to have year. B3 SPORTS EDITOR: TAD WALCH THE DAILY HERALD 0 FhoDDw Dcsswdgd N.C. (AP) The Hornets on Wednesday signed hometown favorite Todd Fuller to a contract, providing an additional center on their roster with Elden Campbell and Brad Miller. The Hornets did not disclose contract terms for the CHARLOTTE, : Charlotte 1 Tad Walch EAgent needs to wake up and smell rthe contract offer This was the summer when the Utah Jazz were supposed to find help Jfor center Greg Ostertag, whose play Jshould have made a recent Sports Illustrated article on roller coasters. Now that Todd Fuller has signed ;with the Charlotte Hornets, Ostertag is the only center on Utah's roster. at Golden State before being traded to Utah in February. The Fuller averaged 3.4 points and 2.4 rebounds game in 42 games with the Jazz. "He's a young player that fits the exact need we wanted to complete our roster," said Bob Bass, the Hornets' executive vice president of basketball operations. This gives us our fifth inside player and third center." Fuller averaged 20.9 points and 9.9 rebounds in his senior season at N.C. sons 255-poun- d r8 Fuller, who free-age- g tod played at Charlotte Christian High School and later was an all- Atlantic Coast Conference selection at North Carolina State in Raleigh. Fuller played more than two sea s big senior THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1995 ln(QG'DDtt State. He was taken 11th overall by the Warriors in the 1996 NBA draft. Fuller has career averages of 3.9 points and 3.1 rebounds. "I'm still working on all areas of my game," Fuller said before the signing was announced. "Ixx)king back on my first three years, they haven't lived up to what I would have liked. But there's nothing I can do about that now. I think 1 can offer a team Li some things." Signing Fuller brings the Hornets' contracts to 12 and makes it highly forward unlikely the team will Brown. Chucky a-i- ml JASON OLSON ihc Daily Htraid Southern cookin': Todd Fuller has decided to go back to his North Carolina roots, signing with the Charlotte Hornets. n Boys of Summer turn out to bid Reese goodbye ttoop away ;: Ouch. the Jazz have hosted free jagents Will Perdue and Olden Polynice this week. They've also spoken with Bill Wennington. That trio is not Otis Thorpe or Charles Barkley, the prize free agents - most Utah fans hoped would come to Salt Lake City. - Of course, those fans must be " smoking the same stuff Shandon Anderson uses. Whatever it is, it keeps people far "from the harsh realities of the NBA. 2 And no one should be hallucinating ."when trying to deal with the league's Tnew collective bargaining agreement. I Scott Layden told me this summer he'd let me watch the instructional .videos, and he was only Yes, LOUISVILLE, (AP) Brooklyn Dodger teammates attending Pee Wee Reese's funeral Wednesday remembered the Hall of Fame shortstop as a man among the Boys of Summer. "He was the tradition, he was the greatest Dodger of them all," center fielder Duke Snider said. Snider recalled a trip to Hawaii with Reese and Don Zimrner to attend the baseball winter meetings. "They had a big chair there that wis called the 'Kahuna chair,' " he said. "Zimmer said to him, 'Captain, thai? s " your chair.' Some 2,000 people attended Reese's . -- I funeral half-kiddin- THE BOTTOM line is that the I NBA owners made out like bandits. J They no longer have to worry" I about overspending for players, which I is what Anderson's lunatic agent, 'Donald Fagan, expects someone to do for his client. Jr Fagan' continues to claim that Anderson is worth $9 million a year. J Hmmm. Teams have been able to sign free agents since Aug. 1. If Anderson is worth $9 million a year, someone J;could have offered him that by now. I-No one's offered half that. f The Jazz would love to pay the guard nearly $4 million a year, but Fagan has only threatened them by saying Anderson would rather sign with Indiana for $2 million. $ To be a backup to Reggie Miller. Let's get this straight. J? Jazz owner Larry Miller has offered deal worth $15 Anderson a four-yea- r Cmillion, plus Jeff Hornacek's starting job. fi Anderson would rather sign for one ;year and $2 million to play fewer minutes than he did with the Jazz past season. HOW SMART do you have to be to faook at those options and tell your agent to move to Turkey? Maybe an earthquake will get him. y If Fagan were my agent, he'd be ptelling me to hold The Daily Herald Jlhostage with an offer to work for tips as a busboy at an elementary school .cafeteria. T. Fagan needs those instructional vtapes Layden mentioned, fc The world is a different place these tdays. Agents can't use teams against teach other the way they used to. Z With the solidified salary cap, have been saved from themselves. JThey can only spend so much. That means they can't blow big dollars on a talented player who still Wasn't proved he can be excellent on a knightly basis. I" This would be why Fagan's telling r iAnderson to take the deal, but it's hard to prove you're consistent when you play minutes. I If Anderson emerged as a star while T starting for the Jazz, he'd be a major player in the marketplace four years Z from now, when hell still be a young 29. This is so obvious, any of us could I handle Anderson's negotiations. And t we'd work for less than Fagan. own-tier- s ' one-yea- 10-1- 5 Tad Walch is The Daily Herald's 1 at sports editor. Reach him via ' twalchheraldextra.com. -- Southeast Christian Church. The eight-tim- e who played on seven pennant winners arid one World Series champion in Brooklyn, died Saturday at age 81 after a two-yea- r fight with lung cancfc Among the mourners were nearly all the surviving regulars from the Brooklyn glory years of the 1940s aijd '50s: Snider; Zimmer (who took a temporary leave from his post as bench coach of the New York Yankees); Joe Black; Don Newcombe; Carl Erskine; even Ralph Branca; Clyde King the deeply private Sandy Koufax. "He was a team mate for four year, All-Sta- r, S&Srt .fit n J- - t at Ky. ROBERT JOHNSON The Daily Herald BYU's Ford Poston (left) works on his blocking skills during Wednesday's afternoon football practice. For a complete look Wednesday's two workouts, see Camp Cougar on B2. at See REESE, B Change in the air at Provo Henderson's return to sideline simply a passing fancy By SCOTT BELL The Daily Herald PROVO The old Arby's would work perfectly slogan for the Provo football team this year. "Different is good." There are a whole lot of changes in the Provo football program in 1999. And after winning one game over the past two seasons, any changes are probably wel- come. Provo has a new coach, a new offense and quite a few new players. Frank Henderson is back at the helm after sitting out the last seven years. Henderson coached Provo from 1979-9compiling an record, winning six region titles and a state championship in 1982. Henderson is bringing his attack with him. time away from his During he coaching, West Coast "Football's Offense" in 1997 with Mel 89-3- 9 pro-styl- e Olson. So it's a good bet Provo will be winging it quite a bit this season. "The kids have responded really well," Henderson said. "It's a challenge to install the system, get them believing and being competitive. "That's quite a challenge because football in Utah Valley has become very good. You look at the state's sports programs and look how Utah Valley schools do. There are some very good teams around here." Henderson had tons of See PROVO, B3 iJS. fx y. p I KOBtKT JOHNSON The Oaiiy Hcinid Get out of here: Provo's Casey Ashton (74) powers into a pair of teammates during practice on Wednesday. Utah's Hlede nothing but a quote waiting to happeri Aug. 7, following a effort in Utah's victory over There's only one thing we sports writers like better t than an athlete who can Minnesota. flat-ou- play: talk. One who can flat-ou- t And believe me, Utah Starzz fans if Korie Hlede's play durin g her short stint in Salt Lake City registers a hefty 9.5 (my grade, with slight deductions for a high number of turnovers), locker room her post-gam- e chats are a perfect 10. Just look at two of the samples our staff has culled from Utah's new media dar- - SCOTT TlTTRINGTON ling: "I don't care if we win in Utah. Detroit or Mars." "If I was a guy I would have dunked it. But I have no hops." Aug. 9 , after her breakaway layup sealed the deal against Charlotte. Superb soundbites, both of them. And not exactly what I expected out of the latest edition to our local version of the United Nations. AFTER ALL, when Margo Dydek speaks, it's slow and simple. When Krystyna Lara speaks, it's Polish. And Elena Baranova well, she just doesn't speak. But Hlede is cut from a different cloth. Perhaps it has something to do with those English culture lessons she was taking back in Croatia provided by none other than Roseanne Barr and her dysfunctional television family. before comThat's right ing to this side of the Atlantic for college, Hlede formed a great deal of her J opinions on our fine nation , by watching "Roseanne." Well, after six years in tlfe States, she's aDDarentlv r i nVi nrl tVo Kril scratching. nVn" r rr onl ' ' f THANKFULLY, SHE'S maintained the ability to speak her mind. And she does so like mos foreigners who come to U.Si drive fast, and all over tS place. See HLEDE, B5 |
