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Show FRIDAY, February 14, 1997 ports Che SaltLake Tribune BUSINESS 7 Utes Cream Southern Methodist Despite Lack of Enthusiasm DICK ROSETTA BY PATRICK KINAHAN @ Cougars Give TCU a RunBefore Losing E-2 to withinsevenpoints, but Utah (18-3, 10. Koneak could have 1 WAC) scoredvirtu: And the Utes knew it ers and the band — knewthe No. 5 Utes an 11-2 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE All those honor students who double as Utah basketball players sensed fromthe Politics Pollute Athletics Like An Ugly Cancer Glen Tuckett, whojust retired from a 45-year career in intercollegiateath. leties, cut to the chase Thursday during a Hinckley Institute of Politics forumat the University of Utah. “I look weresupposedto cream SMU, whichthey start the feeling that permeated the Huntsman Center crowd Thursday night Thefirst clu me during pregameintroductions. The announced crowd of 13,063 sat hushed as if the Utes were run to start the second half About the only personin the building worried was Utah Coach Rick Majerus, who tippedhis players to the crowd’s lack of enthusiasm. The Utes took heed to his declaration to play hard Th y needed just seven minutestoget a double-digit lead. ‘he Mustangsgo t back made a differenc They could not just show uf few baskets were required Keith Van Horn and Mike Doleae r I've always believed the score starts out even,” Majerussaid. “I don't know if there's any gameyou should win. There's a lot of games people think you should win and you lose ery team can beat you No doubt he sat in the front row in the Coaching 101 class Not evenlegendary SML uate Jon did 84-63 playing golf insteadof Southern Methodi Everybody — fromthe fans to the play- at will, Utah put the Ponies (13-9, 5-7) out to pasture with sure that the freshmen got plenty of plz ing time. The big men combined for points and 20 rebounds. Andre Miller ha 11 assists, nine points, four steals and only two turnovers A routine night against inferior compe See UTES, Page E-2 Jazz Starters Bash Portland back at the records of the coaches who wereso great here — Tommy Fitzpatrick, Ike Armstrong and Jack Curtice Utah Extends Midwest Lead Over Rockets They wouldn't makeit. They'd get fired oN HinckleyInstitute director Ted Wil- son wanted a discussion ofpolitics in college sports. And in calling a panel of former BYU athletic director Tuckett, current Ute athletic director Chris Hill and U. historyprofessor and WAC faculty representative Larry Gerlach hegot it in an extraordinarily enlight- BY STEVE LUHM THE ening and refreshing 50 minutes. Not that this will come as a huge surprise, wouldbethefirst to agree Utah's starters outscored the Cougars’ recent dismissal of successful — at least in terms of wins and losses — basketball coach Roger Reid 86for their fourth str ght 12th in 14 games. Now 35 moved two games ahez d of whenwaxing nostalgic over those ex- Ute football coaches. While he claims to see nothing wrong withbankers, at Houston in the Midwest D. Karl Malone finished torneys and CPAs taking overas athletic directors, he perceives them havandits players needed in the f And focus on the age-old bottomline John Stocktor and 13assists as t rorized Po make money. The egos of conference nine straight regular commissioners drive them to make in Utah, 1993 Bowl Alliance pacts. Many DivisionI members havetheir handstied, all in dating back eal, Gerlach, er in this loss to the years old then Oh, this goes way beyond football the consummate historian wrings his hands with glee about the Gerlachpoints to an on-goingTitle “The number of women coach women, but women cannot coach men? Menaredoing too much coaching — and governing — everywhere. Ger lach’s statistic that there are only 15 Wallace added some ter. when whe: uarter, Rick Eyan/The Salt Lake T John Stockton keepsthe ball away from Portland's Rasheed Wallace during the Jazz's 110-86 victory, their fourthstraight To Utah’s Pro Basketball Scene Division J schools is repugnantto any THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE missioner Roy Kramer, one of the architects of the Bow! Alliance, was once a coach in the Mid-American Confer ence. “Now, he thinks he runs the world,” says Tuckett | Utah's original pro basketbal name is back, only with the sud denly mandatory double-z ending Here come the “Utah Starzz”’ of The bigger problemis that college | | | the Women’s NBA The Starzz's name and logo re ceived a mild welcome when re esidents — not conference commis. ers — ought to be runningtheir vealed on the Delta Center score related and started with just one Tuckett, “that no wonder the ship ran aground, there was no one at the helm.” Echoed Hill, “Nobody is in charge {of the bowls or a champion ship playoff]. The presidents have board between the first and second quarters of Thursday's Jazz-Portland game Jazz officials, who will operate the women's team inthe summer, before some hises: The copper chai What we needis an Alexander Haig in the NCAA. Where is Walter Byers when we need him? By this time, you fore learning that they would have a franchise. The name comes from the Utah Stars, who won an American Basketball Association the league ame colors as the corresponding NBA teams. The NBA designed the Starzz’s logo, with only one host and quintessential politician, Wil son, was thinking, He had already been folded, “We thought it was a nice blend of some basketball heritage more copper here, announced name been reluctant to say they are in trumped once by Tuckett. “The big Nixoniancue. Just quit NBA Utab 110, Portland 86 New York 107, Philadelphia 92 | BY KURT KRAGTHORPE suprememale commanders. SEC com question in lifeis not how you get into politics, but how the hell you get out said Wilson, Responded Tuckett: “One way is to get beat." Touche, Glen Oneway the nation’s collegiate ath letic system will win, or at least im prove, is for Kramer andhis ilk to get beaten, or beset down, Or by taking a binson w Wallace and Re ed with two tec See JAZZ, Page E-6 WNBA Decides to Return ‘Starz’ | Everything’s Easy for Eldredge Title IX intent Politics have yet to unseat any of the have to wonder what our honorable spi the 5-point lead and were coz female athletic directors at some 300 Someone once said, hov saiah Rider played his floor by m 10 of hots and bein Jeff Hornacek pr participating in intercollegiate athlet ics is staggering.” But there's a star tling decrease in female coaches. “In percent. Don't you findit interesting naturity, those Blazers of academicprogress comesat a price. 1972. 90 percent of coaches for wom: en's sports were female, Today it's 47 be Jz the The priceof politi world, probably the Blazers’ Speaking of exciting academic times that his archivist fraternity is experiencing. But the contempor: unqualified success to Prep-to-prorookie Jerr the name of politics.” like I do, that for some reason men can rn points an rebounds. For the ond consecutive game he eww ing a lack of “reverence” for the game X dilemma. P: 1 to begin the secondhalf. That combined 46-11 and, essential that was the story of a first-cla blowout at the Delta Center The Jazz crushed the Blazers cer Tuckett may have been drawing on “Wearebeing turned into a first r land 23-10to open the game and embellishment of the spreading can- Conferences are driven to 1 Thosewild and crazy Trail Blaz politics. That was a given, going into the Orson Spencer Hall forum. Tuckett, Hill and Gerlach merelyoffered us business. LAKE Thursday night butcollegeathletics are polluted with irks Hill. SALT The Jazz's first unit conceived of the name long be- championship in 1971 and later and bringing it into the '9¢ with the z's,” said Jazz General Manager Tim Howells, himself a big Stars fan, “We also wanted to build a championship feeling by borrowingalittle of the admira tion for the Utah Stars Actually, the double-z idea came after the initial suggestion ee _ | | ’ | York Liberty, Houston Comets, Phoenix Mercury and Cleveland Rockers. That leaves Chariotte, Los Angeles and Sacramento So far, the Starzz have rece two players from the WBNA, for ward-center Elena Baranova and guard Lady Hardmon | | | | J r State 78, Idaho State 69 Montana State 92, Southern Utah 69 Sacramento 105, L.A. Clippers 98 WAC Men | Top 25 Men pees #8 Cincinnati 69, Saint ars Re — #13 New Mexico 81, Rive 64 Big 5 Men #5 Utah 64, SMU 6 TCU 92, BYU BO | #22 Hawaii 70, Wyoming 68(OT Colorado State 87, San Diego St. 4 Ala-Birminghat 64, 4 a iu 4 | #25 Charleston 85, Florida Int | i 4 UCLA 66, #11 Arizona 64 Stanford 87, Oregon State 54 The world champio: tional title, hit everything fourthnart 7 fc day night in the U.S. Figure Sk pionships. It almo nlike performance, yet was done a level none of his competitors could che lenge pe Eldredge, 25, of Chatham, Mass., was the only skater to do a triple-triple combination nailing a smooth triple axel-triple toe routine, but her hus! ner hand. lite d her feet. en, with the ec particularly a segment of four different sp: done in quick succession, were superb Not that it wasn't expected, Eldredge b been in a groove since the fall of 1994 missed u i ! of is eft h n. never b n four nationa But he didn't m. ing Th His footwork was | suggestedrevision from the Jazz Miami 106, indiana 90 Golden State 107, Dallas 99 L.A. Lakers 182, Denver 117 74 | new scheme | San Jone State 88, Air Force 77 Tulsa 90, UTEP 57 HE A TED PRE NASHVILLLE, Tenn. It's almost sinfu how easy Todd Eldredge can make even the mostdifficult routine look | evolving into a matchfor of Utah's other pro fran Jazz, Buzz and Grizzlies purple, green, blue and colors match the Jazz Big 5 Women Utah 80, SMU 73 73, VEL During Men’s Short Program masterful and hi: I skated pretty well. I felt comfortable ¢ ) Eldredge raised his eyebrows when asked much more confident,” Coach Richard Call | Georgia Tech 72. #9 Virginia 60 #10 Florida Kentucky 6 #13 LSU 04, Southern 49 #24 G. Washington 84, Xavier ¢ | NHL 81 | New Jersey 4, Hartford Philadeyphia 4, Ottaw ( | Chica an Jone nix In Action in Action on = Tonight Tonig TAL Hockey: Utah at Pb “ f es 1 f I ma: It was a little bit difficult. Th yming back was slow , if he hadn't needed to go all out Holding back?” he said triple axel-tr ple toe, 1 don't know ut holding back He received all 5.88 and 5.9s for his work A Walk on the Wild Side He is skating with lot more confidence Getting that world title has made him seer | Top 25 Women | #1 Connecticut 102, Georgetown 6 #3 Stanford 79, Ore tate ¢ lost f ; t riple axel-double toe was there,” he said, “I was just happy to get with a'good sho: er per Saaahals Wie tat * nent reparation to get read vote cott Da ke Aller he comeba as third. If for touching b m triple the 1993-04 on might have been second davis, H wa fying, part r y after he slipped to fourth in last vear’s na nails and left his longtime Kathy Ca sey, to work with Russian Galina Zmievsk TV Highlights ESPN ” “ty — , sat THT) Be pea = Gen 6 p.m. NBA Hank Hawk TIM) 6 pm. Figure Skating Keeeinniminde ain (Laped ’ |
