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Show Top 25 Basketballcs UTES’ SMITH SHINES IN EAST-WEST SHRINE GAME C-2 m UTE GYMNASTS EDGE MINNESOTA C-11 JANUARY14, 2001 JAZZ 111, LAKERS 103 Jazz Torch Lakers Balanced effort lifts Utah over L.A. BY STEVE LUHM THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Olden: Polynice rumbled with Shaquille O'Neal, Jazz owner Larry Miller offered the referees a little unwelcome advice, Coach Jerry apareGee and Ostertag ex- a a Utah 111, LA. Lakers 103 Fast Fact: FourJazz players score 18 or Het: MendHouselUsk 7p, FR — again — and the PaesShaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant coexisted through another 48 minutes. Let's see. pearing else happened Saturday pet at the Delta Center, didn’ti rebounds weren't enough. Not when Utah’s starters combined for 98 points. Not when the Jazz committed only seven turnovers. Not when they shot 40-for-76 Oh, oe The Jazz defeated the from thefield, or 52.6 percent. Lakers,111-103. In a game that was heated and Damny La/The Salt Lake Tribune Utah’s Chris Burgess slams one down after a breakaway. U. Pulls Awayin. 2nd Half 2412, it was another night when O'Neal and Bryant pushed aside help defeat the Jazz. But their combined behavior might be hurled about: like post-nappy-time Pokemonshaped macaroni and cheese at dinner. Welooked closely, 19,911 Dr. Spocks,to see if two of the best basketball players on the planet Danny La/The Salt Lake Tribune John Stockton twists and tums as he fights for a rebound with Horace Grant, left, during the second half at the Delta Center. Stockton finished with 21 points and 11 assists. Italians’ Pace Too Much ForField in Nordic Relay ‘The Mountain West Conference is sees tata aen oo tenet faecae ate en ("Awelling eppoval): LocaTion 2000 PAYOUT BY BRIAN MAFFLY and JAKE WHARTON eae 4 ites succeeded and es it was fore,” said Bel- PeoRy LAS VEGAS BOWL Las Vegas $200,000 HBr hg iCneon MIDWAY— Anchoring the Canadian women’s relay team, cross Italian's string 21 World Cup individual wins began CLASSIC 200,000 ronnie found herself in the most daunting Sea Nordic eeee ee _time World Cup visited MOBILEALABAMABOWL Moto, $750,000 Gs Abs tty haeloabeensWiCwane mises sated ber 5x. lg in nel Tae anaes re ‘They got the tag from J.eir resame time, setting the stage for an excit- ALOHABOWL S the United States. rs, lumped fresh snow on Soldier Belmondo, on her 32nd birth- day, skied the fastest leg ofanyone in the nine-team field score Italian gold in 1 hour, 20.5 seconds. master, might hold both over for detentionin the postgame. Maybe spit balls would fly. Perhaps one would wipe a boo- ger on the other. Howaboutthe old juvenile ath- letic gotcha stan — Atomic Bombin the jockstrap? 's from en. The seconds, as Kaisa Saarinup50 but was seconds short at the finish, giving the Canadians a Te fo ceed North America,” said nadian team leader Beckie Scott. “Hopefully it will generate interest in our sport in the United States and Canada. It’s a confidence Honolulu ‘expen ae east = INSIGHT.COMBOWL Phoenix, Az. $750,000 Sea ied1pBy 18Eat? psp lyPea, booster for our team to ski at this an level. I realize it’s not the top field. NEWORLEANSBOWL’ IDauepenisnarotitiee ls < ™ See NORDIC,Page C-5 $750,000 a . relay “Tt was importantfor us to suc- hindthe other, yank upward on his trunks, and yell, “Weeeeed- Maybe in the Tekh they would start poking back andforth: * “Touched youlast.” “No,got youlast.” court set, or ifthe other wouldget See MONSON,Page C-7 him back during a timeout by Liberty Bowl May Be Offer League Champ Can’t Refuse Conference has trouble finding homein Westfor its top team ee ce SPECIAL ee unre onese ete eae niaBelmondoofItaly. hard tofendoffaformidable attack Hollow. “Tt was definitely an experience,” Fortier said. “I enjoyed the first kilometer trying to stick with her. I kept looking up for Stefania’ and she was gone.” forming rattail with a towel and snap him in the privates,or if Mr. Jackson, Romper Room's head- would, you know,gouge one anotherin the eyes in transition defense,or if one might sneak up be- NORDIC SKI FESTIVAL ing finish in the 20-kilometer relay GORDON MONSON The World Champion Romper basketball ea Cup race as the skies See JAZZ, Page C-7 21 Roomers were dropped offby their moms atthe Delta Center on Saturdaynight to play with the Jazz. Andweall sat and watched to see what shenanigans, what pranks, whatchildish wordsand infantile team, after beating UNLV 79-70 Saturday in the Huntsman Center, sitting oe eee 's great and Delta Center But here isthe University of situation ofher career Saturday:a points Play Nice at as a goodloss. THE SALT AKE TRIBUNE 57 Juveniles It borders on basketball sacrilege, to even doubt the coaching mantra that there is no such thing See UTES,Page C-3 built a 13-point advantage heading and did everything they coud 10 to ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Counting Monday’s win over Wyoming, coe oe and looked retaans improved. Maybe all those close losses the Utes (10-6, 2-0) suffered in the first six weeks are paying dividends. “I don’t think we'd be near the floor tonight gave us something,” Starks said. “They did an excellent job,” added Bryant. “They just played a terrificic game.” In winning their third straight game and improving to 23-13, the Jazz eased to a 58-55 halftime lead, their well-publicized differences BY PATRICK KINAHAN Utah “Everybody who stepped on the emotional from the beginning, the Jazz prevailed because of balance, good shooting and intensity that has been lacking for most of the last month. For the Lakers, whoslipped to NA NA BY MICHAEL C. LEWIS. “We're notin a positiontojust roll out eee there andinvite ourselves”to the mostpresti- ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE gious bowl games, Commissioner Craig Th- When the Mountain West Conference lined upits first college football bowl agreements shortly before its official launch in 1999,it intentionally kept them short, hoping to negotiate better arrangements once other opportunities opened upafter the 2001 season. Butbetter arrangements might be hard to come by. And thatis both good and bad for the league,as it begins examining which bowls it peeraburhn Aeri its contracts with the Liberty Vegas bowls expire after next season. It’s good because that means the conference at least has respectable its that next season.Butit's bad because it also means the league does not yet have the cachet to land its champion anywhere but in a midlevel bowl game clear across the country in Tennessee. ompsonsaid. “But we're movingin the right direction.” Overthe next couple of months, Thompson plans to examineall of the options available to the league before its Joint Council Executive Committee meets in April to consider what bowl contracts it should pursue. The commissionersaid he wouldlove to be able to have enough informationfor the com- mittee — which includes Brigham Young Athletic Director Val Hale and Utah faculty repre sentative Larry Gerlach — to makea decision and forward it to the conference's board ofdirectors in June. Butthe possibilities seem almostendless,if not entirely breathtaking. The Silicon Valley Classic, perhaps? A new bow]in New Orleans? There are openings at the Humanitar- ian in Idahoor the Mobile in Alabama, and INSIDE SPORTS big basketball Ags Beat , Pacific men atcs Youngstown St. 73, Southem Utah 67 ee women ak rmca ‘Souther Utah 69, Youngstown St. 63 Uta56, San ‘State 87, UNLV 61,BYU 50 Stato47 8t45 wa “ "PAGE,CS RIK ernsareane NFL Playoffs ve Jan. 28 in Super Bowl XV PREVIEWS, C5 BALTIMORE at OAKLAND RAVENS 2.p.m., Channel 2 MINNESOTA at NEW YORK 10:30 a.m., Channel 13 See BOWLS,Page C-4 | | |