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Show Page B2 THE DAILY HERALD. P f Portland moves on MORNING BRIEFING Knicks take 2-1 lead over East’s No. | seed Notable Quote * “You're born. You div. Ir between you work on cars. We the opposite page of photos of injured spectators at North Thre | 1 nal four | complete injured in the accident Valvoline has apologized for | the ad, while Sports Illustrated has taken full responsibility for the mistake ath of the } dd left Miamion the {first-round elimina “ mat York's hands for he second straight season. If t Brian Grant scored 20 points, six as the Blaze he Heat} | outscored Phoer final four minutes. Gre Anthor « Lall eight of his Golf point in the Senior PGA Tour's Bell Sponnter that started it all Isaiah Hide he first competitive round since attention and contr: undergoing hip surge Nicklaus, 59, under much of the n January, forcing him to miss his first Masters in 10 years Doctors had predicted that the tthe Suns’ lend to 83-82 with 3:47 to pla Wallace’ three-point play put the Blazers up for good 85-83 and Anthony's fastbreak bas winner ket with 2:17 to go put Portland ahcad 87-83. of the Utah Sacramento series ir rn Conference semifi Cliff Robinson. who ried a label of playoff flop in hi vight seasons in Portland, led the Suns with 24 points, but announced a schedule ton will become just he second tyseeded team in NBA histiry ed ti dose toa No.8 Latrel! Sprewell led the five potnts for the Heat, shoot ing }-for-8 before he was od from Mourt points the game. Alonzo ished with 18 PISTONS 79 Robinson’ baseline reversc 1 to 87-85, but Grant « throw id hi nson missed two stuff cut nitls Soccer Game Friday. they Knicks with 20 points, while Allan Houston had 18. Tim Hardaway scored just amire in th sunk a i er from the top of the rebounds and Jim Jackson scored 13 apiece for the deep Paenic Division tournament golf for six months. * The Utah Fre “72, Wnt state's new indoorsoccer team again the choice Mike De pla poi D center of champions, who will play the six-time Masters champion wouldn't be able to return to. anthony rach Arvyd, 11 points and 11 Rasheed Walla replacement of his left hip in one 11S to pla outburst | including Nicklaus will play Atlantic Classic next wee has The victory gaye the Knicks 21 fend in the best-of 5 inute f control of the id their first-round by defeating: Miami 97 es Hrarhear loonie wiv pledied and eight others were + Jack ke PHOLNI The Portland | tr ul By t nded six vear ie pl rustra | tion We diy might, pulling Caption on a Valvoline ad Sports Hlustrated placed on Carolina speedway. dan incredible BOX SCORES, B9 By The Associated Press should all be so lucky HAWKS 63 AUBURN HILLS. Mich Det which lost the fi two games by 26 points each, routed Atlant 179-63 Lo stay alive in their best-o! had three turnovers and with a decidedly international flavor. missed two free throws in the final 2.1/2 minutes, Jason Kidd The Freezz will play teams from EB] Salvador, Brazil, and Mexico at the Center during its Inaugural season «© BLO. For a full schedule had 16 points and 12 TheBlazers, a playoff series KNICKS 97 oints were the HEAT 78 scared by the NEW YORK 1 plavoff game and nd-lowe The New st in NBA his: Continued from Bt + UCLA point guard Baron Davis and his surgically repaired left knee are headed to the NBA “The NBA is calling and 1 game think I'm ready for the chal lenge.” Davis said Wednesday in announcing he would forgo at a frenetic pace. Mths WASHINGTON a 15-7 lead Pollin is passing the torch Bruins last season He missed Pe Ee, the first four games while ly re mt recovering froma knee mjury | Hee ey Oe iar that occurred during the 1998 Nena Veshors nnd held. generation owt Capitals NBA's and. eve W Center Saying he wanted “a little less time in , Nia relay iicarsa anlar a little more time doin for folks who are le: The WNBAS Utah Stang, Trainer ees Beginningon: Friday, May 14 the Starzz will tip off t ing camp from 10.a.m.to 12 | velcmtintiden daze) seemed stunned, even allowing: the | Kings an alley-oop dunk off ar inbounds play | The Kings stretched their | lead to. 37-21 on a reverse layup nate.” noon and from 6 pm.toS pan. | by Chris Webher with 7:22 left Starzz will be assisting at the with 312° left | But the with | starter on the! flodn. his third foul only on finiehed | before halftiy B p.m. for children ages Sto vw | * Larvy Wright. who w the | pull from Grambling to winni half with within J six of his he ishington Bullets, is back at} h mbling sts head conch | at yrmer New York Knick front office executive with the New Jersey Nets. was among 200 fans, friends, family mem | unanimously American Willis Reed. now a at the NBA : in ior two the first poin W Board of | by Utah's Karl Malone during the first quarter on Wednesday. ST. LOUIS The St. Louis Blues are loving life on the tightrope after beating the Dallas Stars two straight “I missed the sliding, the travel, the people, and the rac said the 31- Baseball Pierre Turgeon stole clear: ing nd scored at 5:52 of the extra period as the underdog Blues beat the Si 3-2 to even the series at two ¢ apiece Wednesday night “He madeagreat play get- cams played three overtime umes diving the regular m Webber fanted out in overtinu 1 1 wit investinent king af a al I UTAH any RESULTS, B10 few goals, but this is going to happen in the playoffs. It’s always tight and there aren't manyscoring chances.” Turgeonpickedoff Zuboy’s clearing effort near the center line. He skated into the slot before beating Ed Belfour with a high wrist shot, his ninth shot of the game, for his fourtt soul Everybody makes m takes,” Matvichuk said. “If there were no mistakes made every game would be 0-0. You can't blame anybody.” SABRES 3 BRUINS 2 BUFFALO, N.Y.— Dixon the winning gi nd Dominik Hasek blanked critical theplay, “Just to hear the crowd It was the thirdstraight victory Poll and last along entrepreneur Ledecky and Capit dent Dick Patrick Initial Young, whose forechecking on overtime in the series and the Blues’ sixth overtime in 11 « 17 20 19 21 4 ta 70 14 10 Ww 7 he Buffalo Sabre skated to 3-2 playolf win over the Bruins on Wednesday night Rhett Warrener knocked in his own rebound to tie the Omaha 7-6 in the first gameof ond game to break a 2-2 tie Uh Swi Boston for the final 51 minutes Salt Lake Buzz came back from a 6-0 deficit to defeat enth-inning singlein the Vhe Zuboy wouldn't talk about the play, but his coach wa erupt is a great feeling.” MendyLopez hit a sev TSs0s by ‘Ted Pollir first wh it all Leonsis, and 11th point of the playoffs defenseman Sergei Zubov forced header Tuesday early will have ting through when the space was open,” said right wing Sec + Jacque Jones hit a sixth-inning grand slam as the a Pacific Coast League double: and headed America Online executive Leonsis “And someds o call it quits.” of the Kings by Jim Thomas to the Maloof family, which owned SACRAMENTO (Har the Houston Rockets in the late 1970S partnership St. Louis wins second consecutive overtime contest games in overtime. and give Omaha a 3-2 HOR GALATIThe Assnciated Press Take that! Sacramento forward Chris Webber is knocked to the floor | forced him to leave more than Kennedy said he has med ' apprey a ye ical clearance to once againto luge competitively Wed Washington Sport & Entertainment W OM the Wizards. the MCL Conter and US Airways Are tow By The Associated Press teamafter a brain stem injury sé Dallas singin’ the Blues very in the * Duncan Kennedy ts returning to the US. luge ing most ofall,” to Pollin selling the Cap ! minority interest | bers and other well-wishers at Grambling greet Wright on Wednesday year-old Kennedy. run points Thad just | Olympic Sports 16-1 fo shots star and Grambling All Grambling h a haltiime. Malone missed all NBA championship with bottom half of th Southwestern Athletic Conference for several years he is 1 | in the first half, and Malone | went to the bench again with dr. Starzz camp trom Sam. to mile he NU NCAA tournament UbeAnEN Once On Saturday, May 15 the ‘ computer-market hi ing the nation’s capital an Utah was missing Davis a 6-foot-2 1/2 sopho:» | Malone, who got his second foul more. averaged 15.9 points. 5.1 7) into the game. for most of assists and 2.5 steals forthe fn deoueht have announced tentative | By TheAssociated Press an | is the Jizz went 6:03 without a | basket. lead, cain finish off Detroit i game turning carly 5-0 defieit inte his final two vears of cligibili- Det 15 pe went into overtime tied 77-77 The Kings began the ty toenter the NBA draft ( finals against the Chica Bulls. Still, the Hawks, with a2 1 points by Utah in last your's in Capitals, Wizards four free throws in the final minute of regulation time as the tory, eclipsed only by the 54 Pollin to sell shares JAZZ Basketball Defense, defense: Miami: Alonzo Mour New York defender Chris C dley jr Eastern Conference showdowr You can't that.” coact Ken Hitcheock said. “He know it. we all know it. There was nobody there. The lane was up the wall. It was wide open. As a matter of fact, if we get it up playoff games. They've won four of them the wall. “We don’t want to be in that situation too often,” Turgeon said. “We'd like to be ahead a But fellow defenseman Richard Matvichuk defended Zuboy it would have been a Glove save: Buffalo goalie Dominik Hasek react against Boston's Landon Wilson in firstperiod act Jason Woolley gave Buffalo 1.0 lead on a power-play 97 seconds into the game. But Steve Heinze and Anson Carter game at 6:44 of the third period, Ward connected 2:54 later as the Sabrestook a 2-1 lead scored for Boston in the next in the best-of-7 Eastern Conference semifinal series. Boston's stingy defense held Buffalo without a shot for 21 11 minutes, while Joe Thornton assisted onboth goals nearly 1 record low of st shots in the first two periods combined, hut woke up and pressured the Bruins with 18 third rennwhi minutes following the Sabre first goal. All three Sabres eg a the th short range on their one power play. the NHUs They pla Buffalo managed just sev Vaclay Varada passed from the side of the net to Ward in the slot and he scored from shots inthe first period came va period of di with just 21 shots k and finished at Hasek MVI i |