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Show .. "Scoreboard ......... B4 '...US Ckssified EDITOR: STEVE CAMERON THE DAILY HERALD 344-25- MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1998 r Tad Walch Stockton sets Jazz pace with controlled feistiness If this is what a Hernia does to you, Can I order one? Call me crazy, but can somebody tell me how to get a hernia? ...Better yet, how do I pick up the dreaded "sports hernia? ..'Aging golfers, Softball players and ec league basketball warriors should im 'on the phone this morning, asking doctors for this new miracle affliction. " And the outpatient surgery which repairs it. - Maybe I can shoot a 88. Maybe I can raise my batting average over .600. 'V Maybe I can score 30, even against iXt McDonald's team with Michael ISarrett, Shane and Nate Knight, Craig Wilcox, Tom Gneiting and Mark BWrant on it. Heck, once I get my hernia and ggcover from it, I might become the $6 Sgrilion man. inat might be a piddling sum m Garnett era. I'll it. take Xput "&o, if you see me trying to lift my k Chrysler LeBaron, youH k&ow I'm just trying to make an hon- and DOUG FOX The Daily Herald SALT LAKE CITY Looking for a common denominator for victories in the first two games of the series? Jazz-Rocke- o JASON OLSONThs est buck. Maybe I should hoist Greg Qetertag. Then he might actually be worth a little something. 1 After the past few days, I'm willing to try anything to suffer one of these aweet little injuries. LAST WEEKEND was a good one fcf hernia sufferers. I First, Charles Earkley complained about his hernia, It might even keep him from playing in Game 1 of d Houston's playoff" series with Utah, he said. In fact, it's not just a hernia, he moaned, it's a sports hernia. first-roun- - Yikeai Utah's John Stockton (12) during a screen Saturday night. 0 0 most-youn- dough. Just ask OHtortag, who does less. s AFTEK SPENDING a few with the American Medical Association's Home Medical Encyclopedic, I think I know whore Barkley got his hernia. The painful little buggers can appear following surgery, after lifting heavy objects, and because of (substantial weight gain or persistent coughing, girth Boosting his into the air for jump shots and rebounds at least 100,000 times on hie way to the Hall of Fame, the ffi&md Mound of Rebound had to IfJ&w this was coming. CZTkit there's hope for skinny guys, too. BYU outfielder Spencer Obom had his hernia surgically repaired last min-eto- Summer. On Friday, Obora hit for the cycle - picking up a single, double, tripla aud home run in the same game 4tich in supposed to be a rare feat, rlkii, there Obom was on Saturday, rwng it again ifl the first yume of a llWleheader. In the second game, he a triple short of a third consecu 've cycle. Either there's something in Utah's and I'm not drinking enough wiitcr it or it's the hernias. ; "Hello, doc. I was just wondering,,," that is. It was the Jazz who were a passively flat in Game 1 103-9setback on Thursday. The Jazz set the tone early in Saturday's Game 2, however, with point guard John Stockton immediately giving the team a kick in the shorts. Houston's Charles Barkley made the mistake of overpraising teammate Matt Maloney after the first game See NOTES, B2 play do talking Lakers take 0 lead in series with Blazers 2-- INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) ' pi ' Ji y K -E- ddie Jones answered his critics most notably Isaiah Rider with his play, not his mouth. And now, according to Rider, the Portland Trail Blazers need a miracle. The Jones, accused of disappearing in the playoffs, scored a 21 points Sunday playoff career-hig- h as the Los Angeles Lakers beat the for a lead in the Blazers 108-9bost-of-- 5 series, which resumes Tuosday night in Portland. Rider said before the playoffs that ho would gut the better of Jones in their matchup, and he was correct in tho oponcr, outscoring Jonea 4 although Jones blocked six shots as the Lakers won In Game 2, Rider led the Blazers with 24 point, but most of them came after the Lakers had taken command. And at one point in the third quarter, Jone had outscored Rider 20-"The guys saw I was active, going to the basket a lot," Jones said. "They n 2-- 9 JUMP 0 first-roun- d i L L 25-1- Sotfi In sight: Los Angeles' Kobe Bryant (8) soars to the basket Sunday over Portland's Arvydas Ssbonls. 104-10- 0. gave me tho ball. I just need to tuke my shots when I get them. H was important for me to be aggressive,1 When asked about his critics, Joma replied, "I could ears less what pec pie think. My whole life, people have stud Eddie can't a lot of negative things do this, Eddie cant do that. r .1 A "I know how to pluy this game, I hnva a hell of a lot of pride, I thought I played a great buxketball game (in Game 1), I thought I did a groat job defensively. I can't get down on myself if the shotN aren't fulling," ' Rick Fox led the Lakers with a 24 points, playoff career-hig- h LOUISVILLE, Ky. Trick, the 1997 Horr.e of the Year, his first loss in a starts. Tha win by a head over Hanuman Road, with Favorite Trick head back, another made Victory Gallop a Kentucky Derby contender after just two races this year. "I think he has a shot as things aro going," Canadian-bre- d Gallop, celt, w&s the Queen's Plate, Canada's most presti- i gious race, "That's changed a lit- tle bit," Walden said Sunday. It changed in the Arkansas Derby on the Kentucky Derby, WsJden wanted his colt to win or run a good second to Favorite Trick. That he did, winning with a big utreteh run April 1 MM IWIIliB III, II Ml l. III, Mil tours the HopefuJ! ChUito, wsth extrelsa rider William Goodwin abosrd, Churchill Downs track diwrtg hi6 morning exerciso Seturday. Psr?y s. . t : 1h fv fi that handed Favorite Trainer Elliott (AP) Waldon's main goal for Victory r 11111 Shaquille O'NV.l had 19 points and nine rebounds and Robert Horry added 15 points, "My guys made me look good," O'Neal said. "Eddie and Elden (Campbell) played great." See LAKERS, B2 Victory Gallop hopes to take one Saturday : Tbii Watch is a Daily Herald ttporis Writer, Try aggressiveness. Controlled aggressiveness against Stockton. Long-tim- e Jazz watchers knew that was tantamount to pulling the mask off the Lone Ranger. Stockton had a hand in each of Utah's first 11 points Saturday night scoring two of the first three baskets and assisting on three others. He was indirectly responsible for a technical free throw by Jeff Hornacek after Houston coach Rudy Tomjanovich was hit with a T" when Maloney was whistled for clubbing Stockton on a pick. " "We wanted to play," said Utah's Bryon Russell. "We came out and played hard. We came out and wanted it and we got it." ones lets soft-spoke- Then Barkloy went out Thursday and scored 12 points in the Rockets' 103-9upset of the Jau. - On Saturday night, when Utah struck back with a 105-9victory to even the eerier, Barkley had just eight points. But he did block a breakaway layup attempt by Karl Malone In a move kangaroos won't try. Eight points and athletic blocked shot will make a man a lot of NBA Daily Herald suppose you r wondering.. .Led by Houston's Kevin Willis, center, a plethora of players want a word with referee Ronnie Nunn after a foul was called on Matt Maloney, right, for busting I n Biece-of-jun- ts 0 . post-Kevi- for his combative style of play By STEVE CAMERON IkV 11. To go to 10 Walden Duid. If the colt doesn't win the Derby on Saturday at Churchill Downs, however, he won't be going to Baltimore fbr the north haps Flat but Preaknena, to Toronto, perfor the Queen's on Woodbine. June 20 at "The Queen's Plate is still being considered Walden said. Victory Gallop, who will be ridden by Alex Solia, worked of a mile in 10 seconds Saturday. HanuTho Irish-breman Highway worked of a mile five-eight- d three-quarte- rs Sunday In 1:12 3-- 5. FavoriU Trick Is expect- Sc DERBY, HI |