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Show Suns Are Still In The Dark Over Gugliotta Thesigning of Antonio McDyess was expected to un- leash a dominoeffect, but Tom Gugliotta didn’t fall into place. McDyess, the player con- sidered the top free agent on the market, finally made up his mind Friday and signed with the Denver Nuggets despite a last-minute lobbying effort by three members of the Phoenix Suns Gugliotta then left Phoenix without signing a contract and headed to Minnesota to meet with Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor. No one was certain what Gugliotta’s next move would be, from resigning with Minnesota to signing with Phoenix to being involved in a sign-and-trade deal that could send him somewhereelse. Two other premier free agents signed with new teams, Vlade Divac moving to the Sacramento Kings and Joe Smith going to the Tim- berwolves, and nowit looks like the Suns could be the biggest losers of the post- lockott frenzy if they wind up losing Gugliotta, too. Strickland remained a no-show Friday as the Washington Wizardsstarted threea-day workouts. The pace of player movementstayed steady, with three more trades and dozens ofsignings. 1 Although it took over 24 hours longer thananticipated, the Houston Rockets finally got Scottie Pippen’s nameon five-year, $67.2 million contract. After getting Pippen’s sig- nature, the Rockets also signed Matt Bullard, Othella Harrington, Matt Maloney, Eddie Johnson and Anthony Miller. @ Atlanta re-signed Chris- tian Laettner and dealt him to Detroit for Scott Pollard anda draft pick. @ Chicago re-signed Steve Kerr and traded him to San Antonio for Chuck Person and a conditional first-round pick. @ Detroit traded the draft rights to Bonzi Wells to the Portland Trail Blazers for a future first-roundpick A few teams, such as Sacramentoand Detroit, made all their major movespractically at once, while other teams filled out their training camprosters or added an extra part hereor there. Smith, whoreportedly turned down $80 million from GoldenStatelast s before he was dealt to Philadelphia, signed a one-year deal with Minnesota for $1.75 million Detroit re-signed tw own free agents, Jer house and Joe Dui added free agents Loy Vaught and Jud Buechler. Sacramento gave Divac $62.5 million, welcomed Chris Webber to campand found a wayto re-sign Corliss Williamson, ‘The Indiana Pacers re signed Rik Smits, giving him a contract that will a aa reported $14 million, the Dallas Mavericks signed Suns free agent center Hot Rod Williams and the Milwaukee Bucks signed the last mem. ber ofthe original Charlotte Hornets, Dell Curry. In other free agent moves, Seattle signed free agent for. ward Billy Owens, San Antonio signed forwards Mario Elie and Jerome Kersey, the ‘Trail Blazers signed point guard.Greg Anthony, Minne. sota ed guard Malik ly, thesKnicks signed for Kurt Thomas and Vancouver signed center Cherokee Par! ks. In New York, Latrell Sprewell met with Commis sioner David stern and was reinstated, He was expected to begin practicing with the Knicks tonight. “I'msorry. We all make mistakes. | made one, | said I'm sorry about that and I'm asking for a second chance, Sprewell said. “I'm not the to ce T've been portrayed ’ ESESHEHESESESEEEEEEESESESESEEEEEOEE The Associated Press SOSH TODAY:NBA SSHHSSHSHSHSEHSHSSHSHEHSTSSSHEHSSHESESHEHESHSOHSHOHSHSHOHHOHSHOHSOHOHSHOHSHOHSSHSOHEEHHHODRDOTOEHOCOSEHHOSEOCO OOOOH OEOOOOHETESESEEEE The Salt Lake Tribune SPORTS Saturday, January 23, 1999 Kansas City Tabs Cunningham as Head Coach ed to head coach. Cunningham replaces Marty Schottenheimer, who won 101 games in 10 years with Kansas City but resigned unexpectedly UCLA at Louisville winningthe two-leg Streif sprint downhill in 2 minutes, 14.13 seconds. World on Jan. 11 following a troubled Providence at Arkansas BASKETBALL SUMMARY diangosed with mononucleosis and may haveto stay on “Gunther has an unbelievable work ethic,” Chiefs KVNU-AM (610) KWLW-AM (700) rther1 KXO! COLLEGE FOOTBALL and missed Thursday's ene against Virginia. Senior Bowl 12:30 p.m. NHL HOCKEY All-Star Saturday 5:30 p.m. IHL HOCKEY Manitoba at Utah 7 p.m. GOLF PGA Bob HopeClassic MasterCard Championship _ ESPN 1) a practice facility, though he and team President Michael McCaskeyplan to talk again, spokesman Bryan creator and part ownerof the Edmonton Oilers might be the mystery buyer of Mark McGwire’s 70th home- run ball. Todd McFarlane, 37, whose Spawn comic hooks, action figures and TV series have earned him an international cult following, already owns thefirst home-runball McGwire hit during the 1998 season. @ TheIndians avoided salary arbitration with lefthander Ron Viilone, agreeing to a one-year contract worth $462,500.Villone, who had a 6.00 ERA last year in 25 games for the Indians, was seeking $500,000, tiations had broken down. McGinnis left the Bears’ Harlansi “The matterhas not been resolved,”H: lan said. “Therewill not be an announcementtoday oO WINTER SPORTS Norway's Lasse Kjus sped to his fourth downhill 1 p.m. 3pm. more than double his $240,000 salary last year. ‘The Indianshad offered $425,000. if Infielder Mariano Duncan agreed to a minor leaguecontract with the New York Mets and wasinvit- victory of the season in Kitzbuehel, Austria, while Hermann Maiercrashed, tightening the race between the THIS WEEKEND'S CAMPUS CALENDAR two in the overall World Cupstandings. After master- TODAY Men’s Basketball: Utah vs. San Jose State, 7:30 p.m.: Utah State at Idaho, 8 p. m. MST;Fresno State at BYU, 7 m.; Weber State at Northern Arizona, 8:30 p.m.; Southern Utah at Oral Roberts, 6 p.m. MST Women’s Basketball: BYU at Fresno State, 8 p.m. MST; Southern Utah at Oral Roberts, 1 p.m. MST; CS Nort thridge at WeberState, 7 p.m Women’s Gymnastics: Utah at Minnesota, 6 p.m. MST Swimming: Colorado State at BYU, 6 p.m Wrestling: Fresno State at BYU, noon; ; Western State at BYU, 4 p.m Women’s Tennis: Wisconsin at BYU, noon. Men’s Volleyball: Stanford at BYU SUNDAY Women’s Basketball: Utah at Fresno State, 1 p.m. MST Kournikova Tames Wild Serve, Powersto Australian Open Win THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FOOTBALE Ae KTKK-AM(630) KFNZ-AM (1320) BASEBALL Josh Booty, the Florida Marlin’s first-round draft pick in 1994, is being allowed to skip the final year of his baseball contract to pay football at LouisianaState, BA formerresident of Calgary whois a comic book o Ignore that announcement about Dave McGinnis being the Chicago Bears’ newcoach.Insteadof introducing the Arizona Cardinals defensive coordinator as their 12th head coach, the Bears announced that nego- (1660) within a game of winning at 5-4 in o the sidelines for a month. Capel, who started all 18 gamesheplayed this year, had not practiced this week President-General Manager Carl Peterson said at a news conference. “Gunther is a player’s coach, they listen to him and they respect him.” Utah St. at Idaho . North Carolina freshman starter Jason Capel was 7-9 campaign, his first losing season in 15 years as a head coach. Michigan at Purdue ArizonaSt. at Oregon FresnoSt. at BYU Utahvs. e Oklahoma St. Texas WeberSt. at ing the World Cupcircuit's longest course last weekat Wengen, Switzerland, Kjus tamed the most dangerous, Gunther Cunningham,the defensive coordinator behind KansasCity’s usually tough defense, was promot- TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Event Time TV Radio MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL UMass at Temple 10 am ed to spring training as a nonroster player. Park City’s Wagner 2nd in Cross Country Event Wendy Wagner of Park City came in second in the national cross country inaugural sprint championship imi 1 in Rumford, ‘wf Maine. Alaskan iJ ‘alll Nina Kemppel edged Wagner et OIEand for the women’s title. Jen Douglas of Ketchum,Idaho wasthird. midwayinto the race when University of Utah skier Pat Casey of Hailey, Idaho, the early leader, tired. Washington 136-101 aud the Cou- o style (1:40.61) and 200 backstroke (1:49.26). WRESTLING Iowa State’s No. 5-ranked Cole Sanderson, from HeberCity, upset No. 3 Reggie Wright of Oklahoma State 5-4 at 149 pounds in a dual meet. Sanderson’s brother Cael wonhis match at 184 pounds,while Codylost at 133. OSU, ranked No. Marcus Nash, who grew up racing on the Nordic trails at Black Mountain, was the men’s overall 1, won the meet 24-14. oO SWIMMING BYU's women’s team defeated gar men won 131-74. BYU's Arunas Savickas won the 200 free- GOLF The Utah Golf Associationis accepting entries for the Winter- champs tournament, March 20-21 in St. George. Call 299-UGA1. @ The Jererny Golf & Country Club is taking corporate reservations for 1999. Call 531-9000. @ Provo's East Bay Golf Course MELBOURNE, Australia — Eschewing power for powder- the fourth set before the No. 53 Pavel clawed back. Spadea scored a 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 won again despite double-digit double faults, and American upstart Vince Spadea barreled triumph over Czech Martin Ute Gymnasts to Get First Road Test at Minnesota Andre Agassi. Spadea is hardly threatened by that prospectafter beating Agassi in Cincinnati last August. Two days after spraying 31 jumped to No. 2 in the national double faults, Kournikova tamed nastics team will test itself on the herwild servea bit and registered road tonight. ny’s Andrea Glass. coached by former Ute assistant Jim Stephenson and his wife, Meg, puff serves, Anna Kournikova aheadin the shredded men’s draw of the Australian Open Two-time champion Jim Couri- er suffered a groin injury and had to quit whiletrailing 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 3-0 against No. 10 YevgenyKafelnikov of Russia, one of onlyfive seeded menle “All of a sudden he couldn't move, not even astep,” Kafelnikovsaid It was a pull in the groin of my left leg.” Courier said. “I did it earlyin thethird set, stretching to get out to a forehand. It got worse, to the point that I couldn't contin- ue. It's not mynatureto stop.” Kafelnikov next plays in the round-of-16 against Romanian Damm andcould next meet No. 5 6, 6-2, 6-3 victory over Germa- Kournikova tapped her first serve in at an average speed of 77 mph, and her second serve at 69 mph, yetstill couldn't avoid 14 double faults. She did manage, however, to drop her double faults set byset, going from 10in thefirst to three in the secondand just onein the third. “Myserve was much, muchbetter,” said the 17-year-old Ru: Andrei Pavel. who struggled to knock off American newcomer Paul Goldstein, 3-6, 6-3, 2-6, 7-5, sian, who is seeded No. 12. “So whobeat eighth seeded Greg Ru- mancetoday. I've improved with each match. I’m playing better 6-3. The 187th-ranked Goldstein, sedski in the second round, came I'm very happy with myperfor- andbetter.” AUSTRALIAN OPEN TENNIS bine Appelmans. Belgium 63 64 7 6164.62 Saturday's Matcha det Wed Lak MAA Mes SugeMatches 4 wena hom 64 tra Thint Raund afelak ssa, def do Pr Friday's Matches Men's Sages Third Reund 26: Mark Phiippowss M4), Australia. det Jaa Kronlak, Slovak 36.63. 646 del Daniel New and, det Tin Heo 63,75. 4 4 ban Uihrach, Coch Repub def Women's Stages fel Tarango, Manhattan Beach, Calf. 16 Third Rowad ‘ 3 France, def Tat Gran Nicolas Lapeniti. undo. det Mia Sweden, 44.7.4 (1 .91, 24, dae Tlstrom, Ot Thomas Ronis. Sweden de Pal Raft det Je) Auman 4 44,04. 64 1998 Plymo uth winner. Nash surged to the front MINNEAPOLIS — Having rankings after one home meet, the University of Utah women’s gym- The Utes visit Minnesota, once a volunieer consultant to the Utes. After scoring 196.050 in last week's season-opening win over Stanford, Utah ranks behind only Georgia (196.450) in the final poll of the year that's based on high will be based on averagescore. Thanksto their performancesin that meet, three Ute all-arounders are ranked in the national top 10: Freshman Theresa Kulikowski is third (39.40), Theresa Wolf ninth (39.125) and Angie Leonard 10th (39.075). “T couldn't be more pleased with job. The only problem for meis it makes my decision for who competes to count difficult.” Minnesota upset No. 5 Michigan on the road last week, scoring 193.550 to earn a No. 9 ranking. The Gophers had scored 192.40 at home to defeat three in-state schoolsin their first meet. “Minnesota always starts the the waythe team started,” said Ute season strong,” Marsdensuid. “The Coach Greg Marsden. “It confirmed my feelings that we're stronger and much deeper than we havebeenin recent memory. Even the exhibition people did a great last time we were there [1997], we eked outof a win by only five onehundredthsof a point, and I know Jim and Megwill have their team ready to beat their old employer.” USU Strolls to Pair of Opening-Night Gymnastics Wins LOGAN — Utah State opened the women’s gymnastics season Friday by scoring 191.025 to defeat fort on floor. Southern Utah and Sacramento VOLLEYBALL Ossie Antonetti recorded 20 kills State at the Spectrum. and Ryan Millar added 18 as the SUU totaled 189.70 and the Hor- nets scored 187.125. Aggie junior Christy Denson won theall-aroundtitle at 39.125, 15 Pacific in four games Friday before 3,500 fans at Smith Fieldhouse. ‘The Cougars won 7-15, 15-2, 159, 15-11 BYU(5-0)will play No. 8 Stan- No. 4-ranked Brigham Young men's volleyball team defeated No. ford tonight. with a 9.675 on vault, a 9.850 on bars, a 9.80 on beam and a 9.80 on he ~ csar wert Bete floor. The teamscore was the Aggies’ best everfor an opening meet. “We hadsomefirst-meetjitters, but we made the necessary adjustments to get the win,” said USU Coach Ray Corn, whose team plays host to California next Friday. Southern Utah's Suzi Clark finished secondin the all-around at 38.225, highlighted by a 9.725 ef- Nokia 2180 Dual Mode Digital Phone ro) Loaded, 5-Doors, Rear Air, SunscreenGlass, Tilt, Cruise, Low Miles, Full Power Equipment Grand Vo ca $19 95* MCI WorldCom Digitai 450 Plan * 45 20 TO colag score. As of Tuesday, the rankings is open. Call 373-6262. Digital Anytime Minutes for only $49.95 per month* MCI WorldCom Digital 600 Plan i 600%". $3995 300 Peak/300 Off Peak per month* nd lease. $1,999total due at signing, Payment plus tax 12,000 mite: s per year. OAC LA RRY H. MILLER Afterall...you knowthis guy. CHRYSLER/PLYMOUTH/JEEP 553-5900 1090!5 S AUTOMALL DRIVE aa Sit AUTO MALL ; eaereine MCIWORLDCOM PAT ST aI) LP Gites TEL aaa a a CoCr a a) |
