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Big hole forKnicks Center Patrick Ewing out with Achilles tendon injury 3B Standard-Examin- Thursday June 3 er i 1 Executive Sports Editor: 999 menace i Mays Esig 2002 The Associated Press &P TV work ar gets most or the when it comes to coverage But the American netwoik is only a piece of the pie when it comes to broadcasting the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City International Sports Broadcasting has already set up office m Salt Lake Its role as host broadcaster is to put the whole pie together - providing feeds to everyone from NBC to TV2 of Norway NBC DOUGLAS PIZACThe Associated Press Southern Methodist’s Florence Ezah won the women’s hammer throw on Wednesday at the NCAA Track and Field Championships in Boise KAIUNS A WIN: er 7-- together” ISB and SLOC are also in constant contact “We are working with SLOC (the Salt Lake Olympic Committee) on where we need to put trucks catering cameras and technical areas” Parkman said “It will take quite a bit of time to know where to put all that between now and the time of the Games If we don’t do it now we won’t be able to catch up If we don’t three billion people will know we haven’t done our job” By the time the flame is lit the campany will have 1300-160- 0 MEDIA3B LINES Freezing players Utah s indoor soccer roster 6B taking shape Baseball 2b American League Texas 7 Kansas City 4 Tampa Bay 7 Oakland 6 Detroit 4 Boston 2 Toronto 9 Chicago 7 Cleveland 10 New York 7 Anaheim 2 Minnesota 1 Seattle 4 Baltimore 2 National League Chicago 9 San Diego 8 Anzona 15 Montreal 2 Florida 10 St Louis 2 Pittsburgh 8 Los Angeles 4 Philly 7 San Francisco 6 Cincinnati 8 New York 7 Colorado 3 Atlanta 2 (1 1) Houston 9 Milwaukee 1 It’s official: Malone named MVP today SALT LAKE CITY -- After several weeks of speculation Utah Jazz forward Karl Malone was officially named the NBA s 1999 Most Valuable Player today The NBA made the formal announcement this morning and Malone was scheduled to meet with the media this afternoon at the Delta Center Malone who won the MVP award for the first time in 1997 will be formally presented with the trophy from NBA commissioner David Stern on Saturday at New York City BYU at tied for third NCAA tourney CHASKA Minn -- The Bngham Young University men s golf team was in third place Wednesday after the first round of the NCAA men’s Division I golf championships being played at the Hazeltine National Golf Club The Cougars were tied for third with Clemson at 293 behind Oklahoma State the d leader at 289 Georgia was second at 292 North Carolina was fifth at 294 one shot ahead of UNLV at 295 Chris Wisler of East Tennessee State is the individual leader at par 68 BYU was led by Scott Miller 72 followed by at even-pa- r teammates Andy Miller and 73 Manuel Merizalde at first-roun- AMANDA SASLOWStandard-Examine- r Starzz taking shape for WNBA season Utah Starzz assistant coach Richard Smith guards Debbie Black dunng a layup dnll dunng practice on Wednesday night The Starzz play their final preseason game on Saturday at the Delta Center at 7 p m against the Washington Mystics They open the regular season the following Saturday at home against Orlando PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE Buzz rained out again in Calgary CALGARY Rays make prep player No Outfielder leads amateur draft selections for major league baseball d selections and players selected from Utah4B INSIDE: Tlie Associated Press taken by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays with Wednesday’s first pick in baseball’s amateur draft Hamilton from Athens Drive High School in North Carolina became the first high school 1 1 Right-hand- First-roun- NEW YORK - High school outfielder Josh Hamilton was me” Hamilton said “But there’s and I’m prestige going No I certainly happy to be No want to play ball ” just Hamilton Josh Beckett is an was taken by Florida with the outstanding hitter projected to second pick Beckett from be a nght fieldSpring High School in Texas player selected first since the Seattle Manners chose Alex Rodn-gue- z in 1993 pick overall 1 er er even though he has a 94 mph fastball He hit 514 with 13 homers and 36 RBIs this season and is also regarded as a sound defensive player was the first high school nghty taken as high as second since Bill Gullickson in 1979 He was 13-- 2 with an 039 ERA and 178 strikeouts in 89 innings this season “I guess not going No has imBeckett also pressed scouts with a fastball 1 wouldn’t have totally destroyed 6-- 4 consistentthat hits the mid-90- s ly and a lively curveball d pick in “Being a the draft is the main thing That’s always been my dream” Beckett said “It’s not about being the first or even the second d It’s about being a first-roun- first-roun- Detroit then chose Southern California catcher Enc Munson Munson who will be playmg in the NCAA’s super regionals against Stanford starting Friday is hitting 338 with 14 homers See DRAFT4B Local sports: See complete schedule on Scoreboard 5B ON THE AIR - MLB baseball St 5pm Louis at Florida FSRM Sports Quote Dodger dig Ron Cook of the Pittsburgh with some glee on the Pirates’ 4 win over Post-Gazet- horse 2-- 1 The Associated Press NEW YORK - Charismatic proved a good traveler on a stormy trip Wednesday from Louisville to Belmont Park where the colt will try to become a Triple Crown champion by winning the Belmont Stakes Also on the flight was Silverbulletday who will be making her debut against males in quest of a 12th victory in 13 starts “We had bad weather and were delayed leaving Louisville - high storms and crackling lightning” said D Wayne Lukas Charismatic’s trainer who was on the plane “All the horses traveled just great except Silvcr-bullctda- and Preakness winner Charismatic is led from a cargo jet at Kennedy International Airport in New York on Wednesday Charismatic will try for the Tnple Crown on Saturday at the Belmont Stakes Lukas looked at trainer who arrived day night He then was reluctant to get Bob Buffert the filly’s in New York on Tueslaughed and said “She on She protested every - Rain TAKE A TICKET - favorite at Belmont to win Triple Crown Lukas-traine- d Alberta washed out a scheduled doubleheader on Wednesday between the Salt Lake Buzz and the Calgary Cannons The Buzz who were also rained out Tuesday will hope for better luck tonight at 7 at Franklin Covey Field against Edmonton Rain is in the forecast for Salt Lake City pick” Charismatic storms into NY HORSE FLY: Kentucky Derby 1 Sports Shorts is provide audio and video signals from the venues and send them to the broadcast center at the Salt Palace to various studios for editing” said Mark Parkman the information and venue manager for ISB “We provide unbiased coverage and capture the event and how it comes across” It is then left up to NBC the studio from Luxemburg or whomever to put their own spin on the event for their needs For example NBC may add a supplemental camera to a ski race to make sure they get a shot of Picabo Street’s parents Currently ISB is working on bids for a construction contractor who will be willing to work with over 3000 square feet at the Salt Palace to provide individual studios for the global networks For example if Norway’s network wanted the in tenor of a ski chalet with a fire in the background for its studio they could build it They are also beginning preliminary work at the venues For example Bnan Douglas the head of TV production will be walking the courses at Snowbasin soon with one of the designers He says ISB will use World Cup events at the venues as test events to some extent but “we will also use every avenue and piece of information to get this See reand Chcnelle Marshall in the lay semifinals went awry and so did the Tigers’ hope of taking back the title from Texas The Longhorns who ended LSU’s reign last year had no difficulty with their handoffs and won their heat in 43 20 seconds a record for Boise State University’s Bronco Stadium In breaking LSU’s 1994 record of 43 26 Texas the defending champion in the relay led the way into Friday's final While the relay turned out to be the pivotal event of the competition four finals also were contested 400-met- er has left the gate “Our job to basically - For the want of a baton the chance of LSU regaining the women’s NCAA outdoor track and field championship went tumbling Wednesday The first exchange between Joce Bates BOISE 625-426- Side in the men’s Stanford which went 10000 last year repeated again with Nathan Nutter winning at 29 II 96 followed by Jason Balkman at 29 1291 and Brent Hauser at 29 14 07 Pittsburgh’s Trccia Smith the 1997 long jump champion and 1998 triple jump winner earned her second outdoor long jump title leaping 21 feet 8 14 inches I reshman Gabor Mate from Hungary became Auburn’s first men’s throwing champion since 1951 winning the discus at 202-- 1 and SMU sophomore Florence Ezch took the women's hammer throw at 207-- 2 Tennessee’s Tom Pappas the collegiate record-holdin the decathlon led after the first five events with 4265 points - 78 Attila Zsivoczky points ahead of runner-u- p of Kansas State Pappas finished first in the shot put with a throw of 50-- 5 12 and won the high jump at 0 14 The final five events - the 110 hurdles discus pole vault javelin and 1500 meters - will be contested today women’s title hopes sink with botched baton exchange LSU SALT LAKE Scoreboard step of the way” The strapping chestnut colt and the bay e race filly are a story in a Charismatic who ran for a $62500 claiming tag Feb 1 1 will be trying to become the 12th horse to sweep the Kentucky Derby Preakness and Belmont Stakes and the first since Affirmed in 1978 two-hors- See BELMONT3B - 5-- the Dodgers recently “The Dodgers with their n the payroll Dodgers of Manager Davey Johnson who looked down his nose after the (Kevin) Brown signing and said ‘Parity is not the American way The American way is to dominate somebody else’ “The Rupert Murdoch Dodgers Gosh they’re an easy team to despise The Dallas Cowboys have nothing on that organization" - Standard Examiner staff and wire services I |
