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Show RT'S DailySHevald TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2006 SPORTS EDITOR| Darnell Dickson - 344-2555 - ddickson@heraldextra.com UTAH JAZZ torino 2006 Gold on her mind DOUGLAS C. PIZAC/Associated Press Chicago's Ben Gordon (7) misses a layup against Utah's Matt Harpring on Saturday. Okur’s late trey sinks Bulls in OT THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS SALT LAKE CITY — Mehmet Okur hit a 3-pointer with 0.7 seconds left in overtime and Matt Harpring had28 pointsto help the Utah Jazz edge the ouee Bulls 109-107 on Mondaynight Devin Browntipped anoutlet that Andrei Kirilenko caught with 3 seconds left. He passed it to Keith McLeod, who found Okur for the wae UTAH 109 Andres Nocio- CHICAGO FILE /Daily Herald Former Orem star Shauna Rohbockpushesfrom the backof her two-womenboblsedwith herdriverJill Bakken, right, during practice in January2000. Orem’s Rohbockis driving for the gold with the U.S. bobsled team ’ Chicago,but his 3-pointer camejust after the final buzzer. Kirilenko had 21 points and 10 rebounds for the Jazz, who have won three oftheir last four games. Ben Gordon scored 35 points,including two free throws that gave Chicago a 106-100 lead with 1:31 left in overtime. The Jazz finished the gamewith a 9-1 run to sendthe Bulls to their fourthstraight loss. Chicagois 0-4 recordon its seven-gameroadtrip. Keith McLeod scored a layup with 1:16 left and after Gordon missed a shot, Okur hit twofree throwsto close the gap to 106-104. Nocioni turned the ball over and then Harpring hit a jumpertotie See JAZZ, C2 SUPER BOWL Steelers’ forecast looks good Jamison Hensley THE BALTIMORE SUN Now that the Pittsburgh Steelers have “one for the thumb,” they could be a handfulfor years to come. ‘The Steelers have 18-of-22 starters under ir CONtract for next ‘season,including their best rusher, leading receiver, entire mam offensiveline and all but one of their Ca Roethlisberger top seven — ‘ have ever-improving Ben Roethlisberger, who has a 27-4 record in two years as a starting quarterback (including 5-1 in PKni tha they ‘have removed a longstanding, emotional roadblock with a2l- beats over the Seattle Seahawks in Sunday's Super Bowl. Afterfinally gutigove coibee ‘Sdays Neil K. Warner DAILY HERALO 107 Mihada chance to win it for maginethis conversation. Shauna Rohbock,a 1995 Mountain View graduate,is at her 10-year high schoolclass reunion and someoneasksher, “So Shauna, what have you beenup to since you graduated?” “Oh,I played soccer at BYU,then played for the San DiegoSpirit of the WUSA (Women’s United Soc- high schoolshe led the nation in scoring as a sophomore at BYU and finished her career as a Cougar with 95 goals, a schoolrecord. Togive you an idea of what kind of impact Rohbock made at BYU, just look at the record book under the most goals scored in one season. Rohbock 1996 — 35. In secondplace with 25 goals scored in oneseason is ... Rohbock (1998) andin third place with 20 USA's No. | bobsled team at the Winter Olympics. Whathave you been doing?” Therecertainly haven't been manydull moments for Rohbock, goals scored is ... Rohbock (1995). cer Association). Wona silver anda who still holds the state career soc- bronze medal in the bobsled on the World Cuptour,joined the National Guard and I'm the driver for Team cer scoring record with 131 goals and helped Mountain View win a stategirls soccertitle in 1995. After Her95career goals are nearly double that of the person in second with 52 career goals. But soccerisn’t the reason people acrossthe nation havelearned the correct pronunciation of her name (Row-bach) Rohbockis famousbecauseshe’s an Olympian. She left homein October and has been onthe roadsince. She's been on the World Cuptour in Europe for muchof January andis nowin Torino,Italy, preparing to make a run at a gold medal. Rohbockis the driver for USA's top bobsled team. The 2006 Winter Olympics open on Feb. 10. The 17-day competitionis expected to be watched by two See ROHBOCK, C3 USS. snowboarder: A soccer mom made medoit Soccer momsweretoo ‘intense’for gold medalfavorite Shaun White Brian Friedman THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TURIN,Italy — Snowboarding — and the U.S, Olympic team — may owea debt to a bossy soccer mom in Southern California. Shaun White, the free-spirited U.S. snowboarder favored to win gold, says he was a pretty good soccer player but gave up the sport mostly “because of the soccer moms.... It was just intense to me.” To hear Whitetell it, he was one of the best players on his rec team in Carlsbad, north of San Diego, when he was about 11 years old, but showed up late for a game one day because he had stayed too long at a skateboarding demonstration. That's when he got an earful from the mother of a teammate. “This mom snapped on me,” White recalled Monday at a news conference with the rest of the U.S. haifpipe team. “She said, ‘You get out there, and you score!’ AndI was just like, ‘Whoa!’ When someoneelse's momyells at you,it’s pretty intimidating.” Goodbye, Pele. Hello, Tony Hawk. White by then was already entering amateur skateboarding competi- tions and got his first sponsorship dealat age 13. Now,at age 19, the snowboarder known as “The Flying See WHITE, C3 BILL ROSS Associated Press snowboarder Shaun White, 19, of Cartsbad, Calif., hangs out at his house in Aspen before practicing in the Winter X Gamesin Aspen, Colo., in January. Whiteis the favorite to win gold at the Turin Olympics. 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The extra exposure and atSee SUPER BOWL, C2 | amA Ercanit Steelers be primed toow‘te New England Patriotsas the RTEet from the primary object of trying to play consistently strong basketball Outside influences could be a factor in the MWCrace as the other seven teams look to take advantageof the Aztecs (15-6) and Falcons (18-4), who have bigger stakes to play for. WWW.HERALDEXTRA.COM ‘CALL 375-5103 TO SUBSCRIBE “I don't want them tofall eyto thinking so much about consequences,” Bzdelik said. “I just want them to play basketball.” Not so easy. Various highly read Websites offer weekly selections of the field of 65. It's rare that more than one aS team is mentioned. _— is guaranteed one we, to the champion of next month's conference tournament in Denver. The rest is up to debate, based on a number offactors. See MWC, C4 JAE ©. HONG/Asscelated Press Air Force's Jacob Burtschi, right, drives against UNLV on Jan. 25. wm areal |