| Show STANDARD-EXAMINE- i OBITUARIES CLASSIFIEDS R TUESDAY MARCH 28 1995 0 SPORTS EDITOR: 625-426- Jazz shed taedoes I Hot shooting Jazz not quite enough to please Sloan Seven Utah players reach double figures in second half Spencer reinjures 128 Bullets 102 By TOM McEACHiN bJaooaf 2 f a"1 s’jh SALT LAKE C IT1 — In ihe gospel according to Jcrrv Sloan — vshkh he's been preaching now for how mans vears? — it doesn't matter how much sou score it's how much xou defend that counis Take Mondas's Parable of the Tuxedo at the IXTia tenter The I tah Jj had their most explosive first quarter of the season and scored 64 points in the first half but n wasn't until thex started defending in the second half that thex were able to pull awav from the lowlv Washington Bullets fora 2 victors "Exersbodx likes to see us run and shoot but that's usuallx when we lose" Sloan said "When sou go out and lr to outseore teams sou don't make a statement to them that we're going to be here to pla xou Then it becomes kind of a pickup game" Offense certainlv wasn't the problem for the Ja on Mondax Thex shot over bl) percent for the night and tame within a point of their highest-scorin- g game of the xcar Thex even scored 34 points in their best first quarter of the scar — but thex were soft and in ntanx bas-kctb- 128-10- Achilles tendon undergoes surgery stretches the Bullets matched them basket for basket That’s whx L'lah led just 64-5- 4 at halftime The Jazz scored 64 more points in the second half but thex held the Bullets to 43 points in the final two quarters and that’s how the Ja took over the game W hieh brings us to the part about playing in tuxedoes which is Moan-spea- k for "plaving on the perimeter all the time and xou don't make anx stands inside as to who xou Standard stitl SALT LAKE C ITY — Utah his torn Achilles tendon in a home accident Spencer was moving an ice a message Sloan has always See JAZZ on 2C The Associated Press 128-10- 2 SPORTS SHORTS mid-Octob- er 1445 PARK CITY — Rising star Kristina "the Koz" Komek aced out some of skiing's biggest names including detending champion Kristi Terian with a stellar performance to win Ihe women's slalom Mondav at the Subaru US Alpine Skiing Champion ships Komek 14 learned to ski at Buck's Hill in Minnesota which has only a 300-foot vertical drop She has been nipping at the heels Konitk trounced several US slalom including champion gi- Heidi it agonizing that this proposal is much less than the clubs hoped to achieve" acting commissioner Bud Sclig said “But the clubs recognize that wc arc at the point in this dispute where both side must swallow COPY mediator WJ Usery made Feb 7 also offered to either keep the current system of salary arbitration and free agency or to eliminate arbitration and lower the threshold for unrestricted free agency from six years to four If arbitration is kept they proposed having a panel of three arbitrators hear each case instead of one In their last offer owners wanted to eliminate arbitration in exchange tor restricted free agency for those with four to six years of service Fla — Dibble was suspended indefinitely Sunday “for conduct unbecoming to a White Sox player” Schueler said adding that Dibble “criticized our major league players” Dibble was quoted in Saturday’s Chicago Tribune as saying replacement players were “going to be labeled like child molesters for the rest of their lives You're never going to get rid of that label" also referred to Dibble replacement baseball as a “beer league” and said could Chicago’s minor-leaguebeat the replacement players This was Dibble s ninth rs suspension TAKE A TICKET Prep girls softball: “The economics are changing and getting more negative on a daily basis" Selig said at a news conference “And that's why wc strained to make this offer But after the season starts — Sunday night — wc can't any more calculate what's going to happen So this offer has got to be accepted by this weekend" The union's last proposal was for a lax of 25 percent on the portions of payrolls above 133 percent of the average or $541 million Union officials didn't hold a news conference However some on the players' side were disappointed Selig said during the meeting the offer was as far as management could move Others thought that was just a normal bargaining posture “I'll get back to Bud tomorrow" union head Donald Fehr said late Monday night While the owners' previous tax threshold would have affected 15 late-nig- ommendations e His agent Dennis Gilbert said the relationship between White Sox general manager Ron Schueler and Dibble was fine and the pitcher would return to camp today Players owners talk while judge looms in background or 54-ho- le I Ko-mc- hard to make an agreement" Starting next year under the plan the portions of payrolls above $44 million or 108 percent of the average would be subject to a 50 percent luxury tax That threshold where the tax would begin is $33 million or 8 percent more than the owners' previous proposal Owners using many of the rec- will compete in the Rainbow Wahine Golf Tournament Wednesday through Friday The tournament is hosted by the University of Hawaii and will be played at the Kaneohe Klipper Golf Course on Oahu's east shore-Thcourse is a par 72 5937-yar- d course with a course rating of 742 Eighteen holes will be played each day Weber State competed in the tournament last year but heavy rains caused cancellation of the tournament after the first round of play WSU golfers making the trip include freshmen Aimee Aardema and Valerie Barber junior Danna Dehlin sophomore Carlie Andrews and freshman Tori Fishburn Other teams competing in the field include Colorado Hawaii Illinois Miami Montana State Oklahoma San Diego State UTEP Georgia Idaho Long Beach State Mississippi Nebraska Oklahoma State Pepperdine San Francisco Texas-Pa- n Am and Osaka Gakuin University of Japan on it” Christina Channel BASEBALL STRIKE The Weber Suspended White Sox reliever Rob Dibble has apologized for criticizing replacement players and was free to rejoin Chicago's minor leaguers today he and his agent said “I've always been known for having a big mouth” Dibble said “Guess have to put a lid her mother Janie said The warm sunny day turned cold and snowy as the women bepast several gan their second run The soft Knee years course turned firm IT last CkiBpliixklps surgery Monday's men’s and women's year kept her Siiwkisli Saiwllrf slalom competition was the conoff skis most of Pirl City clusion of six days of non-sto- p the season but Marct freestyle and alpine competition she bolted back into action just in time to place that brought the country's best athletes to Utah and showcased fourth at nationals the stale as a ready contender for k The young and aggressive the 2002 Winter Olympics catapulted into this year's inDownhill slalom giant slalom ternational competitions where she gained a strong foothold She ballet mogul upright aerial and finished sixth in the national inverted aerial competitions have championship giant slalom on been staged at Snowbasin SnowSunday also held at the Park City bird Park City Ski Area and the Utah Winter Sports Park in Park Ski Area City Konick's time over two runs After the dust settled from all was 1:3936 Carrie Shcinberg Kozmck's the races officials tally results from the downhill super G giant close friend who took fourth in giant slalom the day before took slalom and slalom and award the second in the slalom with a time combined titles Those who earn of 1:3491 Edith Rozsa of Canada it max not be the fastest in any was third at 1:4238 Reciprocal one sport but they are dexterous agreements allow foreign athletes and they achieve well in both to compete in US national comspeed and technical events Because of heavy snow at Snowbapetitions The combined alpine winner sin the Super G was canceled this was Shcinberg followed by Ex a year and results were calculated Twardokens and Kathleen Mona- - without it NEW YORK AP) — After three weeks of quiet the baseball talks sprung to life just hours after a federal judge scheduled a hearing for Friday that could lead to the end of the strike US District Judge Sonia Solo-maywho was assigned the case Monday could issue a preliminary injunction that would end the 7’ month strike mere hours before the season is set to start Sunday night with replacement players A few hours after Sotomayor’s scheduling session players and owners relurned to the bargaining table for the first time since March 4 Management took a step toward players proposing to play 1945 under the old business rules "I would say to you after a lot of OAHU Hawaii State women's golf team SARASOTA Komek even beat Sheinbcrg who had the second run's fastest time "The first couple of gates threw me The course was pretty rough and thoppy I couldn't gel close to the gates I was hanging in all the way just to be sure I'd make it It wasn't beautiful skiing I just wanted to get down" Konick said Before the race Konick told her mother that she was nervous it" skiing's biggest names oxer the to play golf in— Hawaii for ‘big mouth’ Monique Pelletier Olympian WSU women Dibble apologizes oclker Twardokens the second place giant slalom finisher and "Channel of SLALOM: Grosjean 2C luin ant By HARRIET WALL IS Standafd E xammof stat 2C weight unevenly to his left foot The weight on the left foot caused a partial tear to the same tendon he injured in a game on Jan 13 which ended his season Spencer recently had a hard cast removed from his foot and was in a soft cast at the time of the injury Ja orthopedic surgeon Ur Lyle Mason who performed Monday's surgery said the reinjury will put the 0 Spencer about 10 weeks behind in his scheduled rehabilitation He originally was scheduled to in return to the Ja wins title with fast 2nd run Ski Team veterans 3C Talk of town NBA wipes out some big names MEN’S schools NCAA Final Four boast rich history Utah 128 Washington 102 San Antonio 114 Detroit 93 Indiana 98 New Jersey 87 Denver 113 LA Clippers 101 ‘Koz’ Women’s slalom winner bounces back after surgery faces Familiar bucket 7-- Bullets center Gheorghe Muresan makes a dunk after avoiding a block attempt by Utah's David Benoit The Jazz had little trouble win with the Bullets though in taking a Jazz hope to even season series with Phoenix Suns 2C- - Mike Tyson making news 3C without doing anything in his home when the contents shifted forcing him to distribute his win fense" Ja surgery on Monday after reinjuring were tins Sloan thought the Ja soft and too interested in taking shots earlx in the game “When xou want to plax the game in a tuxedo" Sloan said "it becomes a little difficult for xou to preached but one that his players seem to have trouble remembering at times T hat's what Sloan tried to remind 'hem at halftime "W hen we forget it we're not going to win" he said “Telling and screaming doesn't always do it It has to be a commitment on our players' part to realize if we're going to win wc have to play de- kammet center Telton Spencer underwent are" It's E showdown NBA 1 ht Judge Sonia Sotomayor She may issue an injunction to end the strike before the season begins teams in 1994 the new plan would have affected II The Detroit Tigers who would have paid a high tax of $8 million in 1994 under the last plan would have paid $64 million under this plan The total raised by the tax under the new plan was about $33 million a drop of about $22 million from the previous proposal Under the union's last plan Detroit would have been the only team to pay a tax last year and would have paid just $660000 At the courthouse earlier in the day Sotomayor asked owners for a brief by Wednesday and asked the National Labor Relations Board for a response by the following day Players say they would end their strike if Sotomayor issues the injunction and the union's executive board is scheduled to convene Wednesday in New York to formally pass a resolution stating that Many owners are in favor of locking out players if the union ends the strike without an agreement But it is unclear if they can get the 21 votes among the 28 teams needed to start a lockout Daniel Silverman the New York regional director of the National Labor Relations Board asked Sotomayor to proceed quickly hoping players would return if the judge “leveled the playing field" The NLRB asked for a preliminary in- See BASEBALL on 2C (Wednesday) Bonneville at Layton Sky View at Ben Lomond Box Elder at Mountain Crest Ogden at Logan 3:30 pm Prep boys hockey: Utah High School Hockey Inc playoff games at The Ice Sheet Fremont vs Judge Memorial 6:15 pm Brighton vs Highland 8 pm ON THE AIR NHL hockey: Philadelphia vs Boston ESPN 5:30 pm NBA basketball: Utah vs Phoenix KJZZ 7 pm Chicago vs New York TNT 6 pm Sports Fact Another record Turner Sports' telecast on TNT of the Orlando-Chicag- o game last Friday night was seen in an estimated 2044 million homes tying TNT's regular-seaso- n NBA record TNT received a 33 AC Nielsen cable rating for the telecast of Michael Jordan's first game in Chicago since his comeback The only previous time a TNT NBA broadcast reached that many homes was March 30 1993 for a Phoemx-Chicag- — game o staff and wire services Standard-Examin- er |
