| Show er Taking it back Scoreboard Stars grab home-cou- C Classified advantage rt away from Avalanche 3C Standard-Examin- Thursday May 27 1 999 er Best calls itei century There tar I 63-1- er re Icngth-of-the-cou- 51-5- See MEDIA5C 3C Getting along IRL CART What others are saying about the series 2C appear closer Standard Examiner staff PORTLAND Ore - The Jazz aren't planning to rest on their laurels but they have been getting plenty to rest After playing three games of their playoff series with the Portland Trail Blazers m a span of four days - and losing all three of them - Jazz coach Jerry Sloan gave his players the day off on Monday “The coach said hey clear your minds and when you come back on Tuesday it’s all or nothing” Bryon Russell said The results were so impressive the next night when the Jazz showed more life and energy in their easy 1 victory at the Delta Center he 88-7- them gave Wednesday off as well “We executed a little bit better and put more energy into trying to have something happen” Sloan said With another must-wi- n game again tonight this time at Portland’s Rose Garden the Jazz hope to come out with the same energy they showed on Tuesday TheyTl need it The Trail Blazers hold a three games-to-tw- o lead in the best-of-- 7 series and they can end Utah’s season with a victory tonight The best the Jazz can hope for is to send the series back to Utah for a decisive Game 7 Saturday afternoon at the Delta Center “We feel if we just play we can win” Jazz guard Jeff Homacek said “And if we do that we go to Game 7 and we’ll take our chances there” The rested Jazz showed plenty of new life on Tuesday especially at forward where Russell and Malone combined to score more than half of Utah's 88 points in the game Malone got off to a quick start making five of his first six shots and scoring 10 of 23 points in the first 5:16 of his game-hig- h the game “I was able to clear my head” Malone said “I just kind of kicked back and did nothing I’m glad we got (Wednesday) off too” TIM HOW HIGH CAN THEY GO? Utah SCHOONStandard-Examine- Russell scored 22 points on the game shots hitting Utah figures it will be the Trail Blazers r center Greg Ostertag goes up for a dunk on Tuesday night while and Blazers resume action tonight in Portland Portland’s Brian Grant watches from below The Jazz See JAZZ2C Portland is no bed of roses for Jazz you thought Tuesday’s was tough now comes most difficult challenge of all - winning a playoff game in Portland If After all that’s something the Utah Jazz haven’t been able to do since 1988 That year Utah d won Game 2 of its matchup against the Trail on its way to a Blazers 1 1 series triumph Who would’ve ever thought that 1 1 years and four postseason series later the Jazz 1 overall in their would be playoff appearances at Portland and would still be looking for their first playoff win there since first-roun- 14-1- 3-- 1- -1 1988? Heck since then the Jazz have won playoff games virtually everywhere else in the Western Conference -Houston San Antonio Seattle Los Angeles Phoenix Denver - and they even won an NBA Finals game in Chicago il But since that day in of ’88 the Jazz have played 10 late-Apr- playoff games in the City of Roses - and it’s been anything but a Rose Garden for the guys from Utah Spanning a d matchup two Western Conference semifinal series and a Western Conference championship showdown the Jazz have lost 10 straight playoff games to the Blazers in Portland Some of them have been close: 1 in 1991 6 in overtime in ’92 94-9- 1 in overtime in 1996 and 5 last weekend Some of them have not: 117-9- 7 in ’91 113-8- 8 and 2 in ’92 and 97-8- 7 last Saturday Trailing 1 and faced with the first-roun- 127-12- 118-11- 81-7- 119-10- grim possibility of postseason elimination the Jazz responded with a gritty 1 win on Tuesday night in Salt Lake City win kept Utah That alive and narrowed its deficit in this Western Conference semifinal series to 88-7- ie 2 But as big a challenge as that win was in retrospect it was the easy part compared to the monumental task that stands before them tonight Despite their past playoff failures at Portland however the Jazz seem to feel that they’re up to that task See HOLUS2C 3-- Top seed’s duel with crowd favorite Mauresmo fizzles in 6--3 6--3 victory The Associated Press PARIS - On a day when the men’s player showed why he shouldn’t be No 1 the top-rank- ed women’s proved decisively top-rank- player she why should Martina Hingis may not al- ways be the most tactful person The jokes she made about the openly gay player Amelie sexual orientation - calling her “half a man” in January -show that But Hingis also showed Wednesday that she knew how to put the controversy behind her: how to face Mauresmo and a hostile French public and simply get on with the business of smart Mau-resmo- KwlMM ’s savvy tennis In fact if anybody seemed affected by crowd pressure during the second-roun- d match on center court it was Mauresmo not Hingis Knowing how strongly the crowd was rooting for her seemed to make her tighten up and against Hingis that is tantamount to surrender That this wasn’t just another match was clear from the crowd’s reaction the moment the players started warming up As Hingis described it later “It was like ‘Allez boo allez at N - f- See FRENCH3C National League Chicago 6 Florida 4 Montreal 5 Philadelphia 2 New York 5 Pittsburgh 2 Los Angeles 9 Cincinnati 3 Atlanta 3 Milwaukee 2 (10) Houston 3 Colorado 2 San Francisco 7 St Louis 6 Arizona 3 San Diego 2 (1 1) Sports Shorts Trappers double up on Buzz EDMONTON Alberta Molina and Keith Johns - Ben homered in Edmonton's six-ru- n fifth inning as the Trappers beat the Salt Lake Buzz 1 2-- 6 in Pacific Coast League baseball Wednesday night Molina who hit his fifth homer drove in three runs for Edmonton Johns who hit his first homer had two RBIs David Ortiz hit a solo homer his ninth and scored two runs for Salt Lake Jacque Jones added two hits drove in two runs and scored once Ed Williams ) took the loss in relief of starter Shane Bowers Williams gave up the homer by Johns as Edmonton rallied from a deficit (0-1- 6-- 2 San Diego gets Super Bowl in 2003 ATLANTA - San Diego which played host to Super Bowls in 1988 and 1998 was voted the 2003 Super Bowl Wednesday by NFL owners The only other contender was South Florida where this year’s Super Bowl was held San Diego replaces San Francisco which was awarded Local sports: See complete schedule on Scoreboard 5C ON THE Air - NHL playoffs: 5:30 pm Toronto at Buffalo ESPN 7pm- - NBA basketball: Utah at Portland TNT KJZZ 730 pm - MLS soccer: San Jose at Colorado ESPN2 8pm- - MLB baseball: Baltimore at Anaheim FSRM (Friday) 11am- - Tennis: French Open USA Sports Quote 'v s boo’” But Hingis went about her business moving well as she always does keeping Mauresmo on the run and most of all changing tactics when an approach wasn’t working After a sluggish start Hingis 1 Take A Ticket best-of-sev- 3-- American League New York 8 Boston 3 Seattle 1 1 Minnesota 3 Texas 8 Tampa Bay 6 Cleveland 6 Chicago 2 Toronto 9 Detroit 5 Oakland 3 Kansas City Baltimore 3 Anaheim 2 the game but will not have a new stadium ready Next January’s game will be in Atlanta with the 2001 game set for Tampa and the 2002 game in New Orleans Hingis takes grudge match with French star )OR COPY h"' d NBA Rookie of the Year By TOM McEACHIN 103-10- game for its national broadcast as the Cougars were 10-- 0 at the time and word was starting to filter out about the Cougars’ passing prowess and its hopeful quarterback Marc Wilson Wilson annihilated the Aztecs with three very quick TD passes prompting A1 Michaels to say “Wilson may be on his way to the greatest day in quarterbacking history” BYU won the game 4 1998 NBA Finals Game 6: The Jazz came up short in this game to decide the NBA title when Michael Jordan hit for his the game-winnAimess’ sixth NBA title and -unless he come back - the final basket of his career The game gave NBCs Bob Costas a Kodak moment of calling what was “possibly the last shot of Jordan’s career” 1999 North Carolina-Webe- r State NCAA Tournament game: The Wildcats behind Harold Arccneaux caught the nation’s attention by upsetting the Tar Heels in the first round 76-7- 4 Weber State broadcaster Carl Arky’s nickname of Arceneaux “The Show” was picked up in broadcasts and headlines across the country Dame 1981 BYU-NotNCAA Tournament game: Current Phoenix Suns coach Danny Aingc’s rt drive to upset the Fighting Irish 0 actually had veteran basketball analyst A1 McGuire doing the color commentating with KSL's Paul James for the final minutes of the game McGuire told the audience the best thing for BYU to do was get the ball to Aingc and let him Carter clear choice as INSIDE: 45-2- Saturday-after-Thanksgivi- 1 Raptor rookie Days of rest help Jazz prepare for biggest games of NBA playoffs Utah-Portlan- 625-426- Side Lines Tonight: Utah at Portland 7 pm KJZZ TNT of the are all kinds of lists out with the new millennium and a new century Who were the 10 greatest coaches of the century? Which were the greatest dynasties? Which were the greatest teams? Who were the greatest athletes? Who were the greatest caddies? It goes on and on So I'm going to jump on the bandwagon -like so many Denver Broncos fans - and create a list of my - Tom own: Christensen Here are the 10 greatest Armchair broadcast Quarterback moments of Utah sports They don’t come in any particular order so feel free to disagree The 1980 Holiday Bowl: Back then coverage of the smaller college bowl games was done by minor sports networks like Mizlou and Mutual Radio This game in San Diego was pretty humdrum for most of it as Southern Methodist’s Eric Dickerson and Craig James ran the Mustangs to a 5 lead with just over two minutes left But then Jim McMahon led a furious BYU comeback ending with a Hail Mary pass of 46 yards to Clay Brown for a 46-4- 5 Cougar win Tony Roberts who now does a lot of Notre Dame radio work exclaimed something like this after the game: “I see it but I don’t believe it” 1997 Western Conference Finals: John Stockton’s final shot of Game 6 between the Houston Rockets and the 0 win Utah Jazz for a and a berth in the team’s first NBA Finals is another unforgettable video moment from NBC From an ‘uh-obroadcaster Bill Walton to Greg Gumbel’s exclamation: “John Stockton sends the Utah Jazz to the NBA Finals” 1979 BYU-Sa- n Diego State football game: ABC picked up this Executive Sports Editor: Both a challenge San Antonio Spurs fans likely have been wanting a contest with Utah because of the long rivalry between the two teams Will Perdue said But he added that the players who earned a spot in the Western Conference finals by sweeping the LA Lakers were prepared for the Jazz or the Trail Blazers “Those teams are basically mirror images of each other" Perdue said "They both play physical They both have good guys coming off the bench So it s going to be a challenge" - Standard Examiner staff and wire services UTAH LIONEL CIRONNLAU "The AhwokiteO Press reacts after defeating Amelie Mauresmo dunng Wednesday's French Open action at Roland Garros TOP SEED: Martina Hingis ONLINE wwwttsndsrdn0t: |
