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Show SPORTS Today’s Indy is battle of the engines Indianapolis 500 could be the fastest ever? Ford and Buick engines dominate up front instead of the tradi- tional Chevys. And you have to look back several rowsto find the first Team Penske driver. But the bottom line remains: last year’s retirementplans still on hold. Also in this high test field are seven rookies, including Lyn St. James, the second woman to make the race. But the race could well come down to the simple question: Which motors can finish 500 miles — the high-powered Buicks and Fords that dominated the first two Howfast can you go and how long rowsor the less-powerful Chevrolet can you doit? A and B models. While speeds soared this month, The past month has been spent blazing eye-popping speeds into the record book, with Roberto Guerre- a series of crashes brought the first ro’s four-lap average of 232.482 mph leading a 33-car field whose Indy-car driver death in i0 years, sent three-time Formula One champion Nelson Piquet to the average of 223.479 brokethe yearold mark by nearly 5 mph. hospital with devastating foot and ankle injuries and left defending You've also got a record 10 former champions, including for the first time a trio of four-time win- champion Mears bruised and battered from what was the most spec- ners — Rick Mears, A.J. Foyt and Al Unser — and 26 veterans repre- lot. But top lap speeds in the race are expected to drop to around 224 senting 260 years of Indy experience. Foyt, the oldest driver in the field at 57, will be making his record 35th consecutive start, with tacular and terrifying crash of the or 225 — not muchfaster than the current record of 222.574 shared by former winners Arie Luyendyk and EmersonFittipaldi. And, despite the death of rookie Jovy Marcelo of the Philippines in a crash on May 15, the spectre of Bulis slam Cavs death does not haunt these drivers. Thelast driver to die from injuries received during an Indy 500 was Swede Savage in 1973, the current drivers insist they do notlose sleep over the possibility. “I'd be a lot more worried about things like that if I didn’t believe in the safety of these cars and the fact that Jovy’s death was a freak inci- WINNERS SHAREOF. PRIZE Toa $1.4 Se 1.27 1.1 your own ability.” Mears will race today with a protective sheath covering a broken bone on his left foot, a sprained right wrist and a sore upper body, all from his terrifying crash on May 6. He won last year with a broken bonein his right foot. Despite the glamour that annualhy brings 400,000 spectators to Indy, the motors are the factor turning the 76th running into the See INDY on 2B Rick Mears $1,219,704 $4,162,989 2. Al Unser 0.87% 7. 1,762,463 Bobby Rahal 8-|Johnny Rutherford} 0.44 1,691,141 9.1 Tom Sneva 1,632,336 0.| Gordon Johncock 1,631,598 spocerpcieipnnensegs ia BASEBALL 2,448,080 2,157,833 1,923,581 064 024 A.J. Foyt, Jr. 5. Mario Andretti 6. Arie Luyendyk ves ves in millions of dollars: PO era World WarIl i 0 4 . 4 ay '60 65 ‘70 ‘75 ‘80 ‘85 '90 1911 15/20 '25 '30 '35 ’40 °45 ‘50 '55 World War| Source: indianapolis Motor Speedway Media Fact Book The Associated Press WSU Aggression is byword women once again track champs for Jazz Standard-Examiner staff the Jazz were out of options. BOISE — In what may hav re been the final performance of a short yet outstanding career, Weber State’s Elizabeth Kealamakia was running like the wind Saturday on Bronco Stadium’s blue track, which left the rest of the Big Sky Conference green with envy. Kealamakia, who became familiar with Boise State University’s blue track surface while competing at Malad High School, swept four individual events and ran legs on the Lady Wildcats’ first-place 4x100 and 4x400-meter relay teams ea to boost Weber State to Team leamsfinals are no time for timid offense By TOM McEACHIN Standard-Examiner staff SALT LAKE CITY — For two games, Karl Malone looked at the options in the Utah Jazz offense and tried to get his teammates involved. But once they were down 0-2 to the Portland Trail Blazers in the Western Conferencefinals, he decided mM ON NBC: KUTV Channel 2 airs today's game at 1:30 p.m. its second straight outdoor track and field championship. “Elizabeth was very foKealamakia cused; she was intense and ready to compete. She ended up scoring 45 of our team’s points,” said WSU women’s Coach Jim Blaisdell. “Even though she is just a junior, this was morethan likely Elizabeth’s last track meet. She is going to graduate in a couple of weeks in the nursing program.” Kealamakia was selected the outstanding women’s track athlete by winning thetriple jump (40feet, 10% inches), 100-meter hurdles (14.05 seconds), 200 meters (24.37) and 400 meters (54. 86). Her triple-jump mark exceeded the existing Big Sky record of 40- 7, but Kealamakia’s leap was wind-aided. She set a new Big Sky Conference record ~ of 24.09 in Friday’ O-meter trials, and Keajamakia also esta:bliished a new personal record of 13.99 in the 100 hurdles trials “I’m sure it helped havang Elizabeth run at women’s It was time to be more aggressive. The result: A 39-point performance and a 97-89 victory in Game 3 on Fridayto cut Portland’s lead in the series to 2- 1 going in- to today’s Game 4 at 1:30 p.m. at the Delta Center. “I think the team as a whole is playing good defense, but maybe we're little tentative on offense,” Malone said before Friday’s game. “I think now there is no time for that ... I’m going to do what I’ve got to do.” What Malone did was simply dominate. The 6-foot-9, 260-pound Malone went hard to the basket almost every time he touched the ball, making 14 of 23 shots and going to the free throwline 13 times — against Buck Williams, one of his toughest defenders. “Karl’s a tough player. When he’s shoot- ing the basketball and he’s in a good groove it’s almost impossible to stop him,” said the 6-8, 22 5-pound Williams. “I think our team does a veryfine job of supporting me defensively and making sure he doesn’t get easy baskets and make him work for everything he gets. Sometimes it worked and sometimesit hasn’t.” Mostly, though, it has worked. Portland held Malone to 23 points a game in the regular season, 5 below his average, and in their first two playoff garnes, he was held to games of 11 and 25 points. “It’s not so much that Buck’s going to stop Karl Malone or Buck’s going to do things. Nobody stops Karl Malone. I think what Buck has over all the other interior defenders I’ve ever seen is he’s so mentally tough and he understands that this guy is going to score, ” said Portland Coach Rick Adelman. “(Malone’s) not going to get any easy Boise State during her high school career She had @ lot of supporters, including her husband Terry and her family, rooting for her today,” said Blaisdell. Weber State has won back-to-back titles in both indoor and outdoor track, but Blaisde said Saturday’s trizymph was certainly th most difficult The Lady Wildcats trailed Northern Ariz na by one point heading into the day’s las event — the erything he gets.... If he scores, he scores, but the next one is going to be harder for him to get. I think that’s what sets him aside.” Adelman did complain, though, about the way Malone got his 39 points Friday night. He said the NBA hasa special set of rules for Malone to get him to the free throwline, rules that don’t apply to Port- land’s Clyde Drexler and Kevin Duckworth. See JAZZ on 2B event, we never would have been ROB CLARK JR./Standard-Examiner Buck Williams goes up for a rebound during the first period as the Jazz played the Trail Blazers Friday night at Delta Center. Today’s gamestarts at 1:30. 3B American League Boston 5, Oakland 1 Milwaukee 5, New York 4 (10) Minnesota 6, Detroit 5 California 6, Baltimore 2 Chicago 5, Toronto 2 Texas 4, Kansas City 2 Cleveland 5, Seattle 4 National League Montreal 7, Atlanta 6 New York 6, San Francisco 3 Cincinnati 10, Philadelphia 0 St. Louis 10, Houston 4 Chicago 7, San Diego 2 Los Angeles 5, Pittsburgh 4 SPORTS SHORTS Pilkington wins nationaltitle WHEELING, W.Va. — Pau Pilkington of Roy, Utah, was the first American across the finish line in the Big Boy Classic Distance Race on Saturday and was crowned the men’s national 20-K champior by The Athletic Congress Pilkington was third overall with a time of 1:03.09. Boay Akonay of Arusha, Tanzania, broke away from the pack in the first mile and was never challenged as he went on to win in 1 hour and 1.33 seconds Akonay, a member of the Tanzanian Olympic team, finished more than a minute ahead of runner-up Antonio Rodridguez of Porto, Portugal (1:02.51) Mexico’s Olga Appell set a course record in winning her second straight women's title Appell shaved 10 seconds off of Kellie Cathey’s 1990 women's record with a time of 1:11:09. BYU wins league track title AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. — Brigham Young University, led by Jason Pyrah’s victories in the 800-meter and 1,500-meter runs, won the Western Athietic Conference men’s track and field championship Saturday for the eighth consecutive year The Cougars scored 270.5 points in the men’s competition, the second highest point total in the 29--year |hiistory of the event Texas-Ei Paso was second with 167 points. Host Air Force finished third with 117.5 points, followed by Wyoming (98), Colorado State and New Mexico (46) San Diego State (42) and Utah 23 e only double winner for BYU on the day was Pyrah, a sophomore from Willard, Mo yrah won the 800-meters in 1 and the 1500-meters at 1,600-meter relay . Weber State’ s foursome of Cin ningham, Stephanie Johnson, Jeni Holbrook and Kealamakia won that race in a new Bronco Stadium record timeof 3 minutes 45.49 seconds. NAL was a badly beater fifth. Weber State outscored Northern Arizona 163-156. Boise State took third with 67 points. “It was an intense, tough meet. We won eight of the 19 events andthat is the most that we have ever had. The t 1 could ne have performed any better thanit did,” said Blaisdell “Debbie Howard of Hurn of her career in the winning 100 met (9:57.05). Without her performar in that baskets. He’s going to have to work for ev- 2B Farr West golfer is having the Mayofhis life. 2B 2,814,615 :: 107. 3:| EmersonFittipaldi 2,450,597 :| 4. 105-96 victory. Despain rolling 1991 Leading career money ar dent,” Mears said. “We know that we can alwaysget bit in a race car, but you have to trust the car and ee Michael Jordan disrupts Mark Price to lead Chicago to in a posi- tion to win the meet. She ended her career by getting a bi Sy is Sk S Mat kept $ contention for the Big championship.” ach a filard‘Hi rschiof the Year honors sian has new ride for ‘600’ CONCORD, N.C. — Davey Allison v ave to stranger to help him track rely ona down NASCAR's $1 million bonus in Sunday's Coca-Cola After wrecking the Ford he affectionat Thiinder ihunde bird o INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — What’s all this talk about newengines and fresh faces when today’s SIDE LINES 5 SCoR SSAs oer Sew momen vi: STANDARD-EXAMINER SUNDAY, MAY24, 1992 SPORTS EDITOR: 625-4260 y called “007” in winning The Winston all-star race last weekend, he'll be driving an untested replacement at Charlotte Motor Speedway See TRACK on 28 Collection of tidbits suited to short attention spans one 5is the time of year for short att n spans — catching a couple of innings on the tube between mowing the lawn, cleaning golf clubs, digging out fishing gear and playing parent-tag with the kids In consideration of such, and the fact you're reading the Sunday pa per only becauselife has been cruel enough to leave you at homeover Memorial Day weekend with nothing better to do, here are a few brief thoughts for contemplation @ As pay-per-view television quietly wraps another tentacle around your sports lifeline, it's drawing about as much attention as those signs that read: Speed Limit 55. If you're asking, “What signs?” then it is indeed a good thing you stayed home this weekend In case you missed it, ABC has as >; s, ERIC DIETERLE Sports editor announced an “experimental” plan to offer pay-per-view for college football this season. It won't cost more than $10 per game, we're assured, and the number of free telecasts won't decline The idea behind pay-per-view isn't motivated by evil, but they said that about the Inquisition, and we all know what that did to Notre Dame's ratings. Anyway, it does give fans a chance to see the team of their choice when the national broadcast of Yale-Dartmouth doesn’t hold much interest. But there’s this liingering worry that one his view ofreality from day sports on free TV will be about whowrote the as common as unfluoridated water “The Flying Nu Versace probably soared right through the ozone hole, though if it's any comfort, our friends from the Western Athletic Conference — technically part of the ABC deal — assure us none of this wi book when he said the his n nspired Delta Center is TAKE A TICKET n NBA basketball: Brigham Young and the U of I every week anyway For now. Stay tuned @For shell-shocked Jazz fans ho began to havejust the slightest the loudest are NBA “even louder than Chicago Stadi um,” the place where crowd noise ©" is legendary : Sure, it gets loud in the D.C., but‘ not for long — a sustained frenzy for most Utah fans rarely outlasts the shot clock. Bulls fans start >! doubts chances screaming in their cars on the way against Portland, don’t start jumping from the Delta Center rafters just yet. Fx mer NBA coach Dick Versace, acting as studio co-host to the game, and don't stop unt two or three hours after they ve gone to bed. It's no wonder they a end up looking like those guys w nc roct for “Da Bulls” on Saturday ; “ Night Live _— affect the conference for now. Be- sides, see most about Utahns Utah's can for TNT's playoff broadcasts, guaranteed Utah would win both home games this weekend We can only hope he didn’t get g@ Television producers covering the Indianapolis 500 have ex- SPORTS QUOTE Oc topus on defense ara Kar "© aye a . have to ‘ puso mwuaneie mentality. Y © a £1ass Of war hile you're asleep magine this mtroduction ture college basketba gan See DIETERLE on 28 arms |