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Show Ghe Salt Lake Tribune et. @ BASEBALL/C.2. 10 PREP FOOTBALL/C3 BBG 5 FOOTBALL/C5 MGOLF ROUNDUP/C.9 @ AUTO RACING/C Mark McGwire 54 > homers Samp ry Sosa +. mk Ken Cirtffey Jr. 53 — Health Expert BY MARIAN UBLMAN ; thorou b work-up. of exams aries the Can VStand For Virtue and Victory at BYU? College Football: The Money Zone? ice OD Sports-talk radio BYU compete at the Administrators Utah pledge their upport to gridiron i Saacee with teams 0: vegone athletes who di in pre-marital sex, drugs BY MICHAEL C. # More Foothm LEWIS, JOK BAURD and LAURENCE MIEDEMA ew — all verboten by the r scant clean bving to ever he Boy ? What of virtue’ ? What The issues, stirred this past week oy thelatest head-on between a Cougar athlete and the moral/beha- am-by-tean jules, sce the package vioral rules by which each BYU stu- dent is supposed to. bye — basketball player Mekeli Wesley sit out until winter semester 2 Of an unspecified infraction are compelling because they in- will aban jake them money chade a mix of the three most im. portant facetsoflife in Utah: reli travel costs and that them as they neax gion, football and basketball They persist because BYU has had a run of high-profile cases of trouble of late. Three ofthe Selleaze, Michael Gart Wesley, who may have pushed ward 20 wins in 1998-99 erative TV racts. and Dow!-game Cor more money th Athletic Director C Hill knows all football, but not ) play th ve ‘had enough bad hack this. > last a long time,” says BYU ondo Fehiberg. “It’s almost as. we've been snakebit i What's more. sack who struggled with s rules, Brigh am Young menational prog ram that cai See FOOTBALL. Page C-2 Univers: was forced out and t Utah State, said this he never felt comfortable Honor Code, that it was and that “it’s hard to e youget there. too strict Some say his words so thoroughly eflect the opinion of young otherle athletes, including YU will never again e pinnacle of college sports. ‘an, selectis too limited. n't get enough s,” of those kinds the coach said Iberg disagrees. Clean-livers who would thrive in Provoare all h ice. “Some of themare vford, some at Texas AXM Utah,” he says. “We just get more of them here. Not just Mormons, Fehlberg adds l the recent code viola: of which were perpetrat xi by LDS athletes, some by non LDS. hesays heis encouraged by he successes & outsidethefaith, outside the culture, and points at the ig ranked ‘96 football team, a relatively diverse group, as a model We'll continueto recruit kids who show commitment to what we standfor,” Fehlberg says. “Some- Houston's Tina Thompson tries to drive right between Phoenix defenders Michelle 9 in OT | | Comets, Cooper Work Overtime, Even WNBAFinals With Phoenix WNBAFINALS | | | BY MICHAEL GRACZYK LHR ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON — The Houston Comets were |} hopesof repeating as WNBAchampions fad ing. They refusedto fold the expectations they havefor them. their best shot Cynthia Cooper said after she led the Comets from the double-digit deficit to selves or that we have for them. That doesn’t meanthe standards a 74-69 overtime victory over the Phoenix Mercury on Saturday to even the best-of-3 should change, it means we should just help them We cansucceedat the highest levels and maintain the WNBA Finals. Cooper, the WNBA’s MVP in both its sea: sons, had27 points, six assists threesteals highest standards. We'vedoneit be: would say, Tuesday — Phoenix at Houston, 6 p.m. (ESPN) Wejust said that they just hadgiven us times those athletes don’t live up to fore and we'll doit again So, maybevirtue can kick butt 1 wanna shout. Give me an amen. brother That's what William Bennett (Series tied 4-4) Game 4 — Phoenix 54, Houston 54 Game 2 — Houston 74, Phoenix oF (Ol) down12 pointslate in the game andsaw their | Her four points in overtime accountedfor half | “Amen of the Comets’ total Overtime showed what we were madeof Cooper said than Phoenix The only peo of Colorado Michigan $ e's Sedrick Irvin eludes the gra State defende Nate Kvamme in college action on Se turday CSU Makes the WAC Look Good, Scoring Win Over Michigan ‘state who believed we would is out was ourselves andthe fans,” add: ed Sheryl Swoopes, who finished with 14 z the other four in overtime whereC ch for Mic poneats since “Let's see how they react It showed we wanted it more victory vet Michigan Sta m the Bl ack es Association ( : . The Rams, who once 0, increased their w 10 games. Michigan Sta’ ¢ 10of its last 12 against 1 1.000-vard running backs. It was The victory set up a final game Tuesday night i Houston Now both of us are under pressure,” Coo per said, on for a 23-16 Phe EAST LANSING Mich. game was billed as a battle of No. Coa and is 7-34 in s 1988. See CSU. 1 COMETS, Page C-9 THE BOTTOM LINE Top 25 Football #4 Nebraska 56, Louisiana Tech 27 Cleveland 6 #15 CSU 23, #23 MichiganState 16 Texas 5, WNBAPlayoffs New York 11, Seattle 6 Tampa Bay 10, Detroit 6 Detroit 8, Tampa Bay 2 Houston 74, Phoenix 69 (OT) PCL Baseball Omaha 6, | American League Oakland 11, Salt Lake 4 Pioneer League Baseball idaho Falls 22, Ogden 6 < COPY ' Chicago 3 San Francisco 10, Philadelphia 3 New York 4, Los Angeles 3 Cincinnati 7 Florida 5 Houston 6, Pittsburgh 3 Colorado7, Chicago 3 Montreal 3, San Diego | Toronto 14, Minnesota 7 Arizona 4, Milwaukee 3 Boston 6. Anaheim 1 Kansas City 2 Baltimore1 NFL Exhibitions Tennessee 16, National League Atlanta 4, St. Louis 3 Denver 13 Arizona21, Oakland 14 | New England | Pittsburgh 38, 24, Philadelphia Carolina 24 In Action Today | Paciite Coast League Baseball: Salt | Lakeat Omaha, 12:30 p.m Pioneer League Baseball: Ogden at | IdahoFalls, 7 p.m | | TV Highlights TNN) 11 am, 4 2:30 p.m. 5) Swimming. AutoRacing Aid CMT 300 College Foot ESPN) 12:30 p.m | Bank Boston KUNB WGN A South Purd 12:30 p.m. Championships | NASCAR Farm ball, ESPN) US Senior Gowr, Basebal) Atlan || Bucks HireKKarl Classi ‘ 1 p.m, World Series 5) 6 p.m ta at Cardinals Golf, US. 2 p.m. Horse SPa 3 pot Iselin Handicap Amateur racing, redthe form er Se attle SuperSonics ¢ eh on Satur day to replace Chris Ford aiid owner Herb Kohl confirmed the | deal was for approximately 320 | milhon over four years. Deta'ls, C-2 |