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Show The Salt Lake Tribune SPORTS" Tuesday, December 1, 1998 Irish Will Play Georgia Tech in Gator Bowl TODAY:HOCKEY By Brett Prettyman TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Event Time TV COLLEGE BASKETBALL UConn vs. Washington 5:30 p.m. Denver at Brigham Young 7 p.m. Despite Influx OfHelp, Grizz Are Dragging Tp. 10. many players from the San geles Kings of the NHL, picked up five San Antonio players. Perhapstheplayers have broughtlast year’s losing ways with them. Whatelse can be the an- swer to Utah's worst-ever start (7-12-2)? To be fair, ex- Dragon John Purves leads chibald has becomean in- spired leaderof the checking line, Micah Aivazoffis his usual pesky self and Rene Chapdelaineis out with a gest difference never even Shankfailed to pass his physical after attending trainng camp with the Buffalo Sabres and Goring wouldn't sign him, About now, mired r the bottom of the Inter1ational Hockey League the Dragonslast year with 39 goals and 43assists. QO "enter crowd. Theyalso served as a present to his daughter, Meg, who turned 3 that day. Meg Sharples has a WeberState's Scott Shields received Division I-AA’s Special ‘Turner Cupfor a picture er. with her father after Utah A two-time All-American, won the IHL championshipin . as Achievement Award forhis versatile play as a safety, punter and place-kick- history with the Grizzlies. At 7-months-old, she sat in the B i SSUMIWENGN Shields was honored Monday as o part of the Walter Payton Award presentation in New York Stop the Music Utah’s demented gameof musical goalies has spilled aged 41.9 yards perpunt. gamesin, and the Grizzlies top player — once given to WSU into this season. Twenty have alreadybid adieu to the two netminders whostarted the season with them. Ryan Bach was traded to the Los Angeles Kings by the Detroit Red Wings, whoheld his rights, and Petr Franek has been reassigned to the Las Vegas Thunder by the Phoenix Coyotes. Losing Bach hurt; saying goodbye to Franek was overdue. a All-Star Tickets Tickets are available for the 1999 THL All-Star game, Jan. 17 at the Crown in Cin- cinnati, The gameis being held on the Sundaynight before the Martin Luther King Jr. holidayin hopes of allow- ing more fans to attend Ticket prices are $15 and Shields set a Big Sky Conference record with 23 career intercep- tions, scored 322 points and averThe Payton Award for I-AA’s quarterback Jamie Martin — went rowtransplantto return to he tied a franchise record with seven points, he is hanging up his skates to become an assistant with the Tampa Bay Lightning of the NHL. o Grizz This Week Wednesday at Kansas City: Teams which played each other in last year’s playoffs alreadyare fighting to stay alive for this season’s version. Friday and Saturday vs. Michigan: Oneof the best teams in the Eastern Conference puts pressure on the Grizzlies to win at home 7. Utah ts a seven-game homestant dayat 7 p.m. BASEBALL The University of Utah has an- nounced the early signing of two wonthe Buck Buchanan Award as the best defensive player, and Georgia Southern’s Paul Johnson took the Eddie Robinson Award as coachofthe year. FOOTBALL WScott Uliger, who managed the Salt Lake Buzz during their inagural 1994 season, has been named the Minnesota Twins’ hitting coach. Uliger’s third base coaching job Oo Dixie College and Snow College will meetin Saturday's Dixie Rota- ty Bowl, a rematch of a Nov. 14 with the Twinswill be filled by Ron Gardenhire. oO MARTIAL ARTS gamethat Dixie rallied to win, 4645. Kickoff is at noon at Hansen of the year by Black Belt Maga- 1 Ricks Collegewill play No. 2 But- zine and the star of such action films as “The Perfect Weapon”, Stadium in St. George. Friday, No ler (Kan.) Community College for the national championship at Pocatello, Idaho. QO nent Conference women'splayer of John Cullen survived chemotherapyand a bone-mar- Provo: Kansas State will play Georgetown at 5 p.m., followed by BYU vs. Coastal Carolina at 7:30 p.m. The winners will meet Satur- pitchers for the 1999-2000 season. Jason Wileyis a right-hander from Bingham High. Jeremy Webster is a left-hander from Dixie College Both are from South Joran. $20. For moreinformation, hockey. Butafter just six games with the Cleveland Lumberjacks, one in which Times are set for Friday’sfirstround matches in the NCAA Tour- nament at Smith Fieldhouse in Southern Utah forward Sarah Pratt was named the Mid-Conti- the week. She scored 29 points and had 20 rebounds against Wichita State and Loyola of Chicago. SUU forward Kenyatta Clyde was named the MCC men’s player of the week after averaging 20.3 points in three Great Alaska Shootout losses. Jeff Speakman, voted instructor “Street Knight” and “The Expert” will be the featured guest at a martial arts seminar on Fridayat the Ballet School, 1326 S. 2100 East, sponsored by Rocky Mountain Kenpo Karate. A white- and green- belt seminarwill be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and a black- and brown-belt seminar will be from 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Speakmanwill be avail- able for autographs and photos after each session. ™ Correction: Panguitch’s Ca- mille Christensen was left off the only winning seasonof the decade,was fired with four years remaining on his contract. GOLF lane’s TommyBowden,whotoured the university with his familyfor six hours Monday,sources havetold The Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player — arecollaborating{ ™ Clemsonhas offeredits head coaching job to Tu- State newspaper. Bowden, head coach of unbeaten and ninth-ranked Tulane, told his Green Waveassistant coaches during an early Monday meeting that he was taking his family to Clemson to ponder an offer leans, quoting an unnamed source, was to report in today's editions that the Tigers originally offered Bowden $750,000 a year but have raised their offer to $830,000 after Tulane agreed to match Clemsonif the coach would stay. Tulane also has agreed to build a newpractice facility in New Orleans. @ Texas running back Ricky Williams received the Playerof the Year award from the Walter CampFootball Foundation. Williamsis the first University of Texasplayer to win the award, which was first presented in 1967. l™ The Holiday Bowl’s team selection committee voted to invite Oregon as the Pacific-10 Conference representative to Dec. 30 game. The Ducks’ probable opponent will be No. 13 Nebraska, which would be playing in a non-New Year's Day bowlforthefirst time since 1980. @ West Virginia has accepted an at-large bid to the Insight.com Bowl Dec. 26 in Tucson, Ariz. Bowl officials said West Virginia (8-3) will play a team from the Big 12 Conference, either Missouri, Nebraska, Texas Tech or Colorado. @ Oklahoma will name Bob Stoopsits new coach, that Stoops, the defensive coordinator at Florida, has agreed to take the OU job. Later, KOCO and KWTV also reported that Stoops had been chosen. @ Northeast Louisiana, which went 20-36 the past five seasons playing suchnational powers as Colorado, Georgia, Auburn, UCLA,Arkansas, Florida and Arizo- na,fired Coach Ed Zaunbrecher. Four days after the Pittsburgh Steelers blamed a signed forward Marvale Washing- ton from Chaffey JC and forward Curtis Bobb from the College of Southern Idaho. Bobb 6-6, 200, av- require the visiting captain to call heads ortails before ManSays He WasAskedto Bug Logan Coach eraged 13 points and 4 rebounds per game as a freshman last year. Healso added 2.5 assists per game for CSI, which went 27-3 last year. Washington, 6-8, 230, played one year at Kings River Junior College in Reedley, Calif. and is playing this season at Chaffey lege. Last year he av Junior Col12 day amid speculation the international race series would return to the United States for the first time since 1991 surgery to repair an injured right forearm. a na. . ‘t miss the magic! Call 355-ARTStoday! ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ballet West's aun The Nutcracker December 11-30 ~ LOGAN — private investigator was asked to bug the Logan Recreation Center last fall to record the suspected useof foul language by Logan High Schoolfoot- ball coaches, a newspaper Nuttcracker/Cinderella Sift packagesalso available! For informationcall 323-6966 ee reported Monday. Perry Christensen was dis- missed as Logan High football coach for allegedly using foul lan- guage FM100 On Monday, The Herald Journal reported that a private investigator confirmed that a manapproached him about bugging the locker room. The investigator confirmed that he was approached and said it would be a “safe assumption” to assume it wasthe father of one of the play- ers, but he declinedto install the device. “It's anillegal act and I told the guy so,” said the unidentified investigator, who had no knowledge of whether the locker room was ever successfully bugged. Both the investigator and Christensen said they first thought the proposition wasa joke. TINTING™ upholstery DbaReed AUTO RACING ‘The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, oncethe excl sive domain of the Indianapolis 500,is expectedto add a Formula Oneracein 2000. Speedway president ‘Tony George has scheduled a news conference for Wedues Maurico Martinez of Panama retained his NA} bantamweight title by stopping Edgar Jasso of Las Angeles at the endof the 10th round at Anaheim A‘ Block heat & UV rays that your skin or GIFT CERTIFICATES ruling that the umps werenotentitled to be paid that year’s playoffs and World Series. QO BOXING more, was anall-state selection last Utah State Coach Stew Morrill has announced the signing of two n. @ Major league baseball, worried about uncertain’ in the Florida Marlins franchise, has taken the 2) All-Star game away from Miami and awardedit \ Atlanta’s TurnerField. ™@ Major league umpireslost their longshot suit t collect $1.4 million in extra pay for the strike-short ened 1994 season. The Supreme Court, without mz ing a comment, decided to let stand an arbitrator disputed coin flip in overtimefor their Thanksgiving Tribune. Christensen, a 5-7 sopho- players for next season. The Aggies BASEBALL Joe DiMaggio hadanother“serious setback” in his slowrecovery from lung cancer surgery — an infectio that doctors believe they had brought under control The 84-year-old Hall of Famer developed the Jung infection on Friday, but after a weekend of intensiy treatment, his temperature and white blood cell coun were back to normal Monday morning, said Dr. Lar changesin the coin toss rulesin 22 years. The changes, which take effect for Thursday’s Eagles-Rams game, ers to watch in Monday's Salt Lake season, Golf's Big Three of the 1960s — Arnold Palmer build a 27-hole golf course, appropriately called Big Three Club, in Augusta, Ga. Thelocation will be go» a newreal estate development, the Riverwood Planta, tion, a short distance from Augusta National,site « the Masters. In their first architectural venture, cact golfer will design nine holes. oO BASKETBALL ColoradoState center Shannon Randles underwerit Qo PRO FOOTBALL = list of Class 1-A top five girls play- @ Speculation over Mike Holmgren’s future appar ently has gotten to the Green Bay Packers’ coach, who apologized for cursing at a fan who derided him at halftime Sunday. a QO loss to the Detroit Lions, the NFL announced thefirst VOLLEYBALL to New Hampshire running back call the Cincinnati Cyclones ticket office at (513) 4217825, Cullen Retires les. The Aggies are expected to announce one more signing this week. tor of football operations for the Cleveland Browns, team. Fred Goldsmith, who in 1994 coached Duketoits KFOR-TV saidit had confirmed with several sources points and eight rebounds per game. He played high school bas- for violating his probation,will play an aging superstar year’s season openerandis 26-4-1 against the Yellow three Oklahoma City television stations reported. ketball at Crenshaw in Los Ange- 2,195 yards and 23 touchdowns. In other I-AA honors, Western Illinois linebacker James Milton Jerry Azumah, who rushed for BASKETBALL Qo CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY? — College Majors of 8 Active NBA Players-* M Terry Dehere — criminaljustice (SetonHail) & Lionel Simmons — criminaljustice (LaSalle) @ George McCloud — criminaljustice (Fla.St.) § Doug Edwards — criminaljustice (Fla. St.) Ben Wallace — criminaljustice (Va. Union) ™ Dean Garett — criminal justice (indiana) Johnny Newman — criminaljustice (Richi Pervis Ellison — criminal justice (Louisville) Active at endoflast season Weber State’s Shields Receives I-AA Special Achievement Award ‘The two goals Jeff Shar- ples scoredtolift the GrizzHoustonAeros last Wednesday did morethan incite the who will rejoin the league next season as an expansion star is still in a drug rehabilitation center. Taylor, who entered the rehab center Oct. 26 to avoid goingto jail No. 16 Irish,pitting them against the No. 12 Yellow from the Tigers. The Times-Picayune of New Or- standings, the Grizzlies could lies to a 5-3 win over the @ Ina move rumoredfor months andfinalized Mon. day, Dwight Clark was namedvicepresidentand diree. Jackets. Notre Dame beat Georgia Tech 17-13 in last COLLEGE FOOTBALL surely use the man wholed Meg's Present in the film “Any Given Sunday.” Men’s Basketball: WeberState vs. Rice, San Francisco, 6:30 p.m. MST; Eastern Utah at SLCC, 7:30 p.m. Women’s Basketball: Eastern Utah at SLCC. 5:30 p.m. SATURDAY College Football: WAC Championship, BYUvs. Air Force, 11 a.m. MST Men’s Basketball: Utah at Long BeachState, 8 p.m. MST; Colorado State at Utah State, 7 p.m.; BYU at Oregon, 8 p.m. MST; Weber State in San Francisco tournament; Colorado NW at SLCC 7:30 p.m. Women’s Basketball: BYUat Santa Clara, 8 P.m.; Colorado State at Weber State, 7 p.m.; St. Mary’s at Utah, 3 P.m.; Oakland at Southern Utah, 7:30 p.m.; Colorado NW at SLCC, 5:30 p.m. eevevesccce wore a Utah jersey. Dan Notre Damespokesman John Heisler said athletic director Mike Wadsworth spoke with BCS officials for more than an hourthis morning before the school was told it would notbeoneofthe eight teams in the BCS. Gator Bowlofficials then extended their bid to the Jackets. “He's just like his brother, Ty. Gooly. But you know what? He's a'good guy. He played well and I'm happy for him. Ty's oneof mybestfiends, and watching Koy out there, it’s just like watching Ty. Helooks just like him.” — Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre, on Philadelphia quarterback Koy Detmer, who cel two touchdown passes Sunday with @ variety of moves, including a sword-siashing pantomime. knee injury. The one player who may have madethe big- : Miser ‘Taylor was offered a role in an upcom. ingfilm byOliver Stone even though the former NFI, State at Utah, 7 p.m.; Youngstown State at Southern Utah, 5:15 p.m FRIDAY Quotable the Grizzlies in points (eight goals, six assists), Dave Ar- 1996. Boise State at Weber State, WEDNESDAY Men's Basketball: Utah vs. Rhode Island. Chicago, 5:30 p.m. MST THURSDAY Men’s Basketball: Youngstown State at Southern Utah, 7:30 p.m. Women’s B: ‘thall: BYU at UC Santa Barbara, 8 p.m. MST: Colorado Antonio Dragons. The Drag- weapon. for the $1.4 million from the Gator Bowl, which will be played in Jacksonville, Fla. TODAY Men's Basketball: Denver at BYU, 7 p.m.; ons finished 25-49-8 last season and ceased operations. Goring,looking tofill gaps created when the team lost affiliations with the New York Islanders and Los An- released on his own recognizanceafter entering the plea to counts of menacing and criminal possession of regular season game to Southern California on Saturday to finish 9-2, They haveto settle BoiseSt. Butch Goring broughtin too aaniuien linebacker Antwaune Ponds pleaded innocent to misdemeanor charges he held a knife to the throat of a woman during an argument. 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