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Show Page B2 - THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah. Friday, March 20, 1998 t mm 3 Last "I'm not talking to anyNew body about selling." York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, responding to a report in Newsday that his Fla. (AP) Ending the era of family ownership, baseball owners Thursday overwhelmingly approved the sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers from Peter O'Malley to Rupert Murdoch's family-owne- d and the Chicago White Sox. The New York Mets abstained. "Since Fox entered sports, we the have been amongst and believers supstrongest porters of major league baseball," Murdoch said in a stateFox Group. ment. "As owners of the In approving the record sale Dodgers, we will work for a sports franchise, valued at with the other owners to about $350 million, owners dis- further assure the long-terof and success regarded the opposition of growth Murdoch's archenemy, Ted America's pastime." Turner, vice chairman of Acting commissioner Bud Inc., the Atlanta Selig said Fox brings expertise Braves' owner. as baseball's TV partner and in "Fox will be a great contribumarketing. "I believe the synergism all tor to the baseball industry," said O'Malley, who will remain the way around is very useful," as chairman of the board. "I'm Selig said. "They've been good partners very proud they have agreed to step in and take the leadership with baseball, and I think that of the Dodgers." relationship spoke well of them The vote by National League as a potential partner, and I with one think that's what carried the teams was 14-in the day," said Texas Rangers presiabstention, and 13-American League, according to dent Tom Schieffer. The sale had been criticized sources close to the team and Fox. The votes against the sale because Fox, a division of were cast by Turner's Braves Murdoch's News Corp., has ST. PETERSBURG, hand-in-han- Swimming Time-Warn- er IM at the NCAA the Swimming and Diving' Championships in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Thursday. 200-yar- d McKeever's time of 2:04.94 was her best of this season, but was well off her pace of 2:01.88 set last year and more than six seconds off that of SMlTs school-recor- d Martina Moravcova, who had the fastest time in the 1 1 morning qualifying heats. The top 16 advanced to championship and consolation races. has two more McKeever chances to pick up more accolades when she swims in the 100 butterfly today and the 200 fly on Saturday. SCRIMMAGE tracts with baseball and has full or partial local rights to games involving 22 of the 30 teams. "They answered our questions about having the financial interest in 21 other clubs. That was our biggest concern," said Peter Magowan of the San Francisco Giants. O'Malley's family had controlled the Dodgers since Oct. 26, 1950, when the team was still in Brooklyn. O'Malley's father, Walter, moved the franchise to Los Angeles after the 1957 season, making major league baseball a sport. The sale includes the team, Dodger Stadium, 300 acres surrounding the ballpark in downtown Los Angeles and training complexes in Vero Beach, Fla., and the Dominican Republic. O'Malley was the last of the family owners who dominated baseball during an era before it became a business. coast-to-coa- a 9-- 7 the same things. He'll probably be our nickel back and he has a good head for what we're doing there." "We're basically doing ; 3 at 126. In consolation rounds, Jose Enriquez (126), Brent Gappmayer (158) and Chris Miller (275) also lost. BYU's Baseball Individual game tickets for the Salt Lake Buzz go on sale Monday at the Franklin Quest Field ticket office and Smith's Tix locations, or by a Tickets calling are available for all regular season home games including opening day, holidays and firework shows. " Football The NFL cleared the way today for novelist Tom Clancy to become owner of the Minnesota Vikings. The sale still must be approved by 23 of the 30 NFL owners. The NFL meets next week in Orlando, Fla., but the matter will not be discussed then. More likely, the vote on the sale will take place in May or June. Golf con- Figg-Currie- r Continued from B Foreman played nickel back as a true freshman early last season, but received a medical redshirt from the NCAA after shattering a hand in a car accident in late September. Another cornerback will play today, but not next fall. Elan Edwards, the transfer from Colorado, is in spring he's No. 27 despite camp the fact NCAA regulations won't allow him to compete for BYU until 1999. "This is a good chance for fans to see Elan play," Mitchell said. "He'll stay with me in the faft he won't go d jwn with the scout team." Another cornei to watch is Rob Warcup, who want through spring drills with the Cougars last year, then played for Ricks College in the fall. "He has a lot of ability," Mitchell said. ability was the biggest Cougar question mark after the spring's first scrimRun-blockin- g mage. "We'll be working on our techniques run-blocki- (today)," offensive line coach Roger French said. "We really hope to see if we can knock some people off the line." French said he won't pick a starting five until fall camp, but this scrimmage is a good chance for players "to solidify themselves starters." as potential tinued her strong 1998 start 67 with a Thursday to open a lead after the first round of the Standard Register Fing in Phoenix. Her score put her two shots up on a group of seven golfers, including Helen Alfred sson, be broadcast on KSRR 1400 AM. homer Ryan Pond's two-ru- n in the bottom of the seventh helped BYU regain a lead it had surrendered in the top of the inning. Then, in the bottom of the eighth, Troy McNaughton took a pitch on the foot with the bases loaded to drive in what turned out to be the winning run. Freshman Jeremy Guthrie pretty well baffled TCU for six innings, giving up just five hits and four runs, two of those coming on wild pitches and one on a solo homer by Chris Connally. The Cougars, meanwhile, staked Guthrie to a lead, reaching TCU starter Heath with a Collins, who was 3.40 ERA coming in, for 13 hits and seven earned runs in the first six innings. "This was one of our better offensive efforts, not because we scored vll runs, but because we Pullins had some good said. "We didn't go down easy. e We had some big there." battled we hits, up But TCU reached Guthrie in the top of the sixth. With two out and the bases empty, Guthrie issues just his second walk of the game to Sam right-hand- 7-- 5-- er 4 0 ," two-strik- Lunsford. Make Silva followed with a single, then Connally and Ryan Huffman both homered. Will Waldrip came on to stifle the rally, but TCU had an 7 lead. BYU got the lead back quickly. David Decker singled and came home one out later on 40-fo- ot Virginia closed Utah's lead to 63-6- 2 when Brent Solheim, a 58 shooter, hit percent four straight, the last two with 1:50 left. free-thro- w After Utah guard Drew Hansen missed two free throws, West missed a three at the other end. That gave Utah the ball with a lead with at-bat- s, back-to-bac- k tory. "This is a big one for us," Pullins said. "TCU is a very good team, and it's a conference game. It's big." Guthrie struck out six, and Waldrip fanned two in picking up the win. Kenner got his first save. Howes and Pond both went Farnsworth was TCU vu Ml 010 212 oio 402 u Shaddu and Troy - 13 10 0 io 11 i (81 and Silva Gulhrie. Collins. Woitham (8) Waldrip 17). Kenner (91 and Johinaon WP Waldnp. 2 0 LPCoH.ni. 51 ?B TCU Huffman. Wallaca. BYU. Pond. McNauohton 2 Ooorn HR TCU. Connally 2. Huffman 2. Wallace. BYU. McNaughlon. Pond A 448 shooter. free-thro- 5 9 2 6 8 Ptedgaf 4 8 4 WfHiamt 0 2 KaaiM 14 12 002 UTAH (21 3) Moltola 240-- 4. 25. Miller 2, McTevish 7, Aflhoff HaHtime Utah . C24 ) Solheim 6 9 4 4 16 Lawm 4 6 0 0 9. Weat 413 II. Gorae I 3 0 Scoll 0 0 0 0 0. 0 Jonea 0 4 Tolala 25 57 I0 !662 ! I I 3. Doleac 6 II Hansen 2 5 0 2 5. Jackson 5. Johnsen 0. Caton 2 5 22 27 65. 0 Tolalt Jensen 14. Utah 34. West Virginia 28 goals-W- est Jones 0 2) (West 21 Kearse Vgrw 313 (Miner 12. Caton 12. Hansen 14 Moltola . Fouled None out Althoff 0 ?) Jensen Rebounds West Virginia 33 (Owens 9) Utah 29 (Dolear 9) Assists West Wgua 15 (Omens 5) Utah 2 Utah 7 4 (M4ter 8) Total fouls West Virgin West Vryrue bench A NA Technicals one-poi- just over 36 seconds left. West 1 ' I V fS KEVORK DJANSE7.IAN The Amki3IcJ 1'ros To the hoop: Arizona's Mike Bibby (10) moves around several Maryland defenders on his way to the basket. J mmmmi SALTfLAKE the 11-- 8 Ononi Virginia had to foul, but didn't do it right away, even when Utah passed the ball to freshman Britton Johnsen, a 48 per r CITY i ARIZONA 87 MARYLAND 79 S-- fh I l : . - l.i r l I i. .atlffla-it- j . '1, iniMriMni- BILL JANSCHAThc Associaled rfiibl Rebound power: Dallas forward A.C. Green, front, grabs a rebound- "Hi away from Golden State's Donyell Marshall. Portland can't gsvej this game away The NEW YORK (AP) Trail Blazers played like they wanted to give this game away. The Knicks reacted like unwilling recipients. Arvydas Sabonis and Brian Grant scored 21 points each and Portland, despite making several late mistakes and generating almost no offense in the final 4 minutes, beat New York Thursday night. Portland did not score from the field in the final 4:16, missed a pair of free throws, committed stupid fouls and repeatedly turned the ball over. But no mistake was bigger than the one the Knicks made with 7.4 seconds left a violation on Charles Oakley. 82-7- 7 PACERS 95 WIZARDS 91 WASHINGTON Reggie Miller scored 20 points, including two free throws with 13.4 seconds left, as the Indiana Pacers survived Washington's fourth-quart- rally. er Miller scored eight points in e run that put a Indiana up by 13 late in the third quarter. three-minut- 5 BOX SCORES. CS ' . MAVERICKS 88 WARRIORS 82 ...a "4. "T DALLAS Shawn Bradle1 had 18 points and 10 rebounds? and Eric Riley scored a career, 4 high 16 points for Dallas. Michael Finley had 14 points for the Mavs, who recovered overtime after blowing a c-- rf lead in the final 2:46 of regulation --A NETS 93 MAGIC 87 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. Kendall Gill hit a jumper with 1:54 left and them New Jersey Nets went on "fcr defeat the Orlando Magic to bolster their playoff chances. Keith Van Horn led the Nets$ with 19 points. tk HAWKS 84 BUCKS 81 a ATLANTA Steve SmitftJ sank a bank shot andu Eldridge Recasner hit a pair ,oi free throws with 4.3 seconds left as Atlanta handed Milwaukee its eighth straight loss. Hawks center Dikembe Mutombo had 18 points, 15 rebounds and tied his season-j- j high with eight blocked shotsryj: : M RAPTORS 104 NUGGETS 103 TORONTO Chauncey Billups, held scoreless in the first three quarters, scored 12 points in the fourth quarter and sue in overtime as the Toronto Raptors beat the Denver Nuggets. Billups made four free throws in the last 25.8 seconds of overtime as the Raptors cooled off the Nuggets. spurts. Playing their closest game yet in the NCAA tournament, Wildcats turned the their scoring on and off at will, getting a flurry of points when they needed them. And they did against Maryland. Mike Bibby scored 18 of his 26 points in the first half as defending champion Arizona defeated the fourth-seede9 to advance to Terrapins the West Regional final. were The Terrapins the only team in the field to beat two of the top seeds during the regular season, but victories over North Carolina and Kansas top-seed- d 87-7- ROCKETS 105 CELTICS 96 J;tr. HOUSTON Hakeem Olajuwon scored 15 of his 33"f points in the fourth quarter aai the Houston Rockets won their fifth straight game. couldn't prepare them for Arizona's lethal transition game.,j After trailing by 14 early the second half, Maryland closed within one with 10:32 remain-n- t ing. Arizona simply kicked in its. speedy offensive game, reeling off nine straight points to put down the Terps' threat. fj (21 ID MARYLAND Profit 8 21 J. 2 3 16. Eke 7. Kovar Jasikevicius 2. 7 Mardesich 3 8. Morns Cephas II Totals 23 78 79 Stokes 2 19. Eou6-1- 00 4400 ARIZONA (30-4- 1 Davison 6 7 6 Btey 0 ! 2 2 2. Terw 24 31 87 n. 16. 06 Dickerson 4 7 9 26 Simon 6 0 edgeison 12 Bramlelt 44 18 Hsrr 2 2 2 Totals 14 4 (21-1- There's ANAHEIM, Calif. no stopping Arizona's scoring Jf -- ff ,'l.'i "'ol. Harftime Arizona 42. Mi 33 3 Po.n!ooals Maryland II 27 (Morns 3 Elkott Arizona Jasikew.iS (Bibby Srmon 2 5. Terry 0 2 Dickerson 0 3) Fouled out . Elkott Ekez Maidesich 49 'Pro 10) Arsona 39 (Dawson. Smon 7) Aseisis Maryland 19 (Stokes 7), Arizona 18 (Simon 6) Total' lours Maryland 24. Arizona 14 A 7 838 ' '; 1, CO ,.,.1,, 00000 TOO fll 0 (KEN GARFF JAGUAR 1 and bases, McNaughton, who had doubled twice and homered in the game, was hit on the foot and drove what proved to be a needed lead. insurance run for an "Well, I like the ball on the outside part of the plate, and for three that's where they put it," McNaughton said three-RB- I of his day. Huffman and David Wallace solo shots had with two out to close the gap to one in the top of the ninth. "Jeremy did a good job before he kind of ran out of gas, and Will was there to do what we needed from him," Pullins said. "And after that second homer, Mark (Kenner) was in the dugout next to me, and he said, 'Coach, I can get this next guy out. I can. And he did, getting Matt Howe to ground to third for the final out and the big WAC vicloaded WIIT VIRGINIA Continued from Bl Neumann and Patty Sheehan. 570-yar- two-strik- cent UTES Jane Geddes, Liselotte Rain turned the fast, firm greens at the Bay Hill Invitational into target practice, and Robert Damron took advantage on his home 65 course for a before the first round was suspended Thursday in Orlando, Fla. The storm interrupted another solid round by Tiger he missed Woods. At only one of 12 greens and had putt for eagle at the d 12th hole when the sirens sounded. Wortham walked the only two Cougars he faced, and Brent Howes made TCU pay with a e single off JeffShaddix that scored one. Another walk 8-- two-sh- James reliever as eighth, 1 I st lead. ' W con- Pond's homer, which gave BYU BASEBALL Continued from Bl BYU wrestlers suffered losses in the first day of the $CAA wrestling championships in Cleveland. BYU's John Kelly lost 20-(technical fall) to Wisconsin's Eric Jelton in the championship bracket second round M national TV and cable BYU added to that lead in the Wrestling Cindy d m BYU junior Sarah McKeever finished 39th in uyu franchise purchased by Rupert Murdoch r recent discussions with Cablevision were about selling the team. M VlVUvl. 1 f V j I U'l ' il I l I nARCH27&23,1SS3 Friday Night - JAZZ BEAR! Ssiurd3y - Finsl Four Broadcast Ths party Is Frea for Everyone! minimum Jem entry ft U (50 CsM H a rll id Todty to Register Your Tacm. Cat lb AfcowT Otr MtKf Gntt SummtrCttw uS hi POOR |