Show -- '':- eft4177-74'- - - r'''r eiejc:'40'ww14i44ae-A-:‘:—L:-- -' '"' ' - -r" 7 7 i' - ! -' 21) The Sall Lake Tribune - n'' '' '' 7 ' :'::rrrk':'-'4- : :: P 1:-- ft- Tuesday February - - 1 Eagles' Francis Enjoys Season Of Challenges :""4:4 Alk f r 9 Two months later as their teams practiced in the warm Florida sun- shine in advance of an Orange Bowl with national championship implications Lou Holtz and Bill the football coaches at Notre Dame and the University of Colorado traded similar tales of woe "This team has overcome so much adversity it is simply incredi- bk" McCartney said "No team has gone through one- tenth of the adversity that this team has been through" Holtz Later after Notre Dame had defeated Colorado but finished second to the University of Miami in the polls Miami Coach Dennis Erickson flew back from the Sugar Bowl and met with reporters "I'm so proud- - he said at the outset "because this team has experienced- a great deal of adversityWhew And as if all that wasn't it an overdose of the cropped up again less than a month later at the Super Bowl where believe it or not the steamrolling San Francisco 49ers threw it around "fhis team has faced adversity all year long- - San Francisco safet'y Ronnie Lott said in the days lead- - ing up to his teams victory "Everyone said you can't repeat las champions Wle've had to listen II) that all year" Tough times Obstacles Distractions Doubters They are the rage of the entire sporting world right to baseball now from Life is a struggle for everyone Nothing comes easily In a startling revelation the world simply isn't 55-1- - ping-pon- perfect The is hotter Everyone is into hardship Searching for it tIsing it as motivation Wearing it proudly If you haven't faced adversity you're not really motivated You're incomplete Your losses aren't as dramatic Your championships aren't as important It's the thing to have Till key to victory Athersity9 Just have of course some Occasionally people are confrimted with the real thing The Colorado football team was rocked by the death of quarterback Sal Aunt'SV It was a terrible tragedy Buster Douglas won the heavyweight title barely three weeks after his mother's death have thy real thing don't worry You can always create your own adversity Just find something — anything — and grab it and milk it It s no big deal Everyone is doing it If the San Francisco 4 9ers can complain of being motivated by a lack of respect in a year when they almost had a perfect record and thy ontire NFL was terrified of them anyone can do it I ' ' t 4oi "bi:g it4 N4" OWNERS CET THEIIIIIE t: - - r F - q41e:i1114N-1- ' ' tq'1 - t7 ''': 1 1 s1 :4 r - 'OPE ' - '''qrAi - i ''-- - ts: -- -- PLAYERS 111E zET rsE FAlls:: tc L Li: E -- So do some of the nation's governors 14 of whom sent a letter to Vin- 1 &s v cent on Monday calling the labor dispute "a national disgrace" ''Baseball is too important to our both economically and culcountry turally — to allow this to drag on" the letter said Fehr paid a courtesy call to Vincent on Monday before leaving for Arizona lie said he expects to brief players around the country after Tuesday's meeting: he did not say when he would return "My expectation is that after the Phoenix meeting the great likelihood is that I will see players in two or three other places before coming back to New York- - Fehr said Av ao p- c) t ‘ e""qmrvgoir""Alr t?'77:1 '' 's - r'' '44hootoorr t ' e: 11414 l' 14 A Management negotiator Chuck O'Connor to 'e e —Associated Press Photo This fan isn't alone in disgust at stalled baseball talks — 14 governors drafted letter calling lockout a national disgrace (Incidentally the tillers should visit the Denver Broncos for a glimpse Of real adversity The kind where you're walking down the street minding your own business and little women call you names) blue-haire- these modern complicated days there are all kinds of ways to stimulate adversity and give you something to overcome Drugs NCAA scandal Bad press Boos Close losses Prison Paternity suits liehab Lockouts The lock Of the year (no pun tend(d) is that next fall the World Series winner looks back to spring -training and says We had a lot of this adversity year" The Miami Hurricanes' adversity was losing one game to Florida State Tough life The Oakland Athletics' adversity was losing key players to injury OK OK legit Jose Canseco's adversity was getting caught driving 125 mph and starting his OWII 900 number Get a job Jose Just last week Maryland basketIn ball Coach Gary Williams said his team had played brilliantly against Duke in the face of all the crap-goion around it The crap of course was Williams' violation of an NCAA rule But hey adversity is adversity You use it when it's there Sometimes of course you have no choice Boxer Eddie Van Kirk got arrested on his way into the ring the other night Now that is adversity Cnfortunately he didn't post bond in time to make it back for the fight and overcome that adversitY Ah well It didn't used to be this way At least I don't think it was I don't remember Vince Lombardi going around complaining that people didn't give his team respect Red Auerbach didn't Nvhine about the stress of overcoming injuries when to had the best team in the far league Where all this started I m not ex actly sure I kno‘k General Custer gave his lads a rousing pep talk af ter they rode over the last hill and StIddenly realized they had under estimated the isneMV "111V odds are against you men' the Oeneral said "but you can do it OK so it doesn't always work As far as sports goes I blame it all on football cmiches They seem particularly to enjoy hardship But then football is a physical game and players do often respond furiously if they think everyone and everything is against them Steroids can have the SaMe effect of course by t '73 - 4- - to Rat first-plac- it could Wednesday But yes be a two-yea- eligibility The owners did offer one new proposal Monday: to allow the parties to reopen the contract after three years instead of two And management said it has offered to guarantee triple damages for collusion if the union proves it against seven teams "We are not lunatics or unreasonable people" Milwaukee Brewers owner Bud Selig chairman of the owners Player Relations Committee said in an emotional defense of his bargaining strategy Fehr said he had not heard any criticism from players about the union's stand on arbitration "I have yet to have a player call me up and tell me we should be doing anything differently from the way we are" he said Heaton and two other Pirates expressed other opinions "We feel it's going to be awful tough for the owners to give back that year so if it's the only thing holding sacrificed" Milwaukee's player Dan Plesac representative said he is eager to attend Tuesday's meeting in Phoenix "When you start pushing the season back it creates a lot of problems" Plesac said "So I'm excited about the meeting tomorrow because I think it's the first opportunity we've had to get other players involved" 4 - Randy Allen hit a jumper with 8:21 to play to give Sacramento of the final its smallest deficit period A basket by Cummings with 3:21 left gave San Antonio its biggest lead The Spurs built a advantage with 1:19 left in the third quarter on run the strength of a '' - '47N 4$ e ' '''''2 - ) (Spok ti0:& q I le ' 1 -- ft ' ' : 1 ' - ir k ' yt ' 77-7- 6 14 v ' t''‘ A"'"N k 10 10-fo- t ' r A' 95-8- 6-- 0 basket gave Ainge's fourth lead with 2:03 rethe Kings a maining in the first half Ainge had 10 points in the second period Harold Pressley gave Sacramento its biggest by hitting a pair of margin free throws with 57 seconds to go in 49-4- A- - 72-6- the half L ''''''''(''°°4°'(‘'''''°44r4: : 7Bers 129 110: At PhiladelBarkley led a balanced Philadelphia scoring attack with 25 points as the 76ers handed Orlando its seventh straight defeat Rick Mahorn added 14 points and 15 rebounds for Philadelphia which had seven players score in double fig36 ures That offset a career-higpoints and 15 rebounds by Orlando's Sidney Green Philadelphia improved its home record to 22-while Orlando fell to 4- 25 on the road A layup by Barkley lead midway gave the 76ers a I hrough the first quarter and they never trailed again 17-1- Hawks 123 Heat 111: At Atlanta DominiqUP Wilkins scored :36 points and the Hawks overcame a deficit to win their r third straight lead on a The Heat took a pair of free throws by Sherman Douglas with 628 left in the third period but a tipin by Moses Malone started a 2710 Atlanta run that tied the game at 88 Atlanta took the lead for good 9694 on a basket by Alexander Volkov 78-6- - 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) st arZ Vixmm - ‘' A KE 0 1 ) 4 CO tit e104151 "11M44E—rU 111 Pl gi moon SALES mo (11)1) — The In- - & 1 i) urs ig - 4A HU Gives Its Blessing To Kansas City Team '11) - Is 4 it t- -- :) t- ' OM I1:-- -- t 0 41 V 3 t4-- 2 of:Itl-- Travel 401'14 01IP140111111 ''''4' e0fr - Magic phia Charles third-quarte- ' 7 i 111 53-4- 14 — probably could hear from him n salary-arbitratio- 6 : thivt session "It really depends on his meetingO'Connor said "At the earliest I Tribune Wire Services Terry Cummings scored 10 of his 24 points in the fourth quarter leading the San Antonio Spurs to a 105-9victory over the Kings Monday night in Sacramento Willie Anderson and David Robinson added 19 points apiece and Rod Strickland had 18 as San Antonio won its third straight game The victory moved the Spurs to within 112 games of the Utah Jazz in the Midwest Division Danny Ainge scored 33 points and Antoine Carr added 24 for the Kings losers of three in a row an enterprising thought you needed to desk is dim I may go blind think of many columnists faced this Mtiell adversiti press on 3aid he would wait for Fehr about another bargaining talk about this back why not go ahead and agree?Kipper was quoted as saying -Who's complaining? Probably the first- - and second-yea- r players But I didn't complain after two years" I'm 20 days short of having- two years in so it would benefit me- Bell But if that's was quoted as saying the only holdup if that's the only issue we're squabbling over I don't think its that big an issue Let's keep it at three years Its not that big a deal We've gone four years with it at three years and its worked out well If were good enough to stick around for three years were going to get paid Were ready to get started to get ready to play" O'Connor said he was aware of those remarks but did not want to make too much of them 'I've heard about the quotes but I didn't hear the players say them directly I'm not going to use them against Don F ehr or the union' O'Connor said Dave Gallagher of the Chicago White Sox said the unions view of the arbitration issue was correct -Id rather wait this out and see something done because its had a negative effect on me the last two seasons' said Gallagher nine days short feel strongly of two years service about the strength of the union They don't want the younger players to be Cummings Helps Spurs Dump Kings being journalist I know about this latest trend It even trickled clown to the 110k spa per business I happen to be writing this column On a computer that prints the letters b and r in triphcate when you punch them on the keyboard Thats rough 011 and riy chair squeaks The light at my call to We have not broken through the logjam of the three-yea- r problem There have been no new proposals on the benefit plan no new proposals on the minimum salary no new proposals on roster size" he said Vincent said he attempted to find a solution to the arbitration problem on Sunday but that the union would not tell him what it would accept — other r than a complete rollback to he said surdity' r: r'-- meaningful cumstances where there's a national obligation or trust at stake" 'I find it tragic to the point of ab- ef1AFT11 - week before we get together again I hope not but it could beAsked what it would take for the union to return to negotiations Fehr said ''It has to take an indication from the clubs that there's something games Vincent sympathized with fans saying they would view the logjam as -two giant organizations overwhelmed with riches fighting in cir- 4 P PVtt d r44 spring-trainin- i : Anyway kY f:fy:41- 7- Continued From Di three weeks of spring training is needed plus several days for players to travel to camps The exhibition season was scheduled to start Thursday — those four openers have been canceled — and plans were to be made Tuesday about future ' ' I hut' 0: ? Without Adversity adversity" - 14 i — "eFi Talks Break Down Again 14 Governors Cry Foul Li By John Eisenberg The Baltimore Sun After his team completed its sweep of the San Francisco Giants in the World Series last fall Tony La Russa manager of the Oakland Athletics explained how difficult it had been -- This team" he said has gone through so much : Artv?nzi797'-tk- i'':kvesia'fic:2017Lid-tp1-4-- ---- 0- 4fe: 17 b ' :a1r1--1---- - No Championship Is Complete hey if you don - : ' 1990 1)-- 1 But tr:: k 48°'1("ZIATIllam""lir Continued From come" said Al Coates Flames assistant to the president The flames expect Francis and Eagles assistant Jamie Ills lop to eventually send several of the Eagles to the National I lockey League "First and foremost our primary concern is 'player development" said Coates When you're working with young players you're not always going to see results right away The rewarding thing at that level is development and we're starting to see that That's a credit to Bobby and Jamie "We don't sit up here in Calgary and say 'What's wrong with the coaching?' because there's nothing wrong with the coaching" Francis said the support from the Flames has helped him "They keep a firma grip on what's going on" he said and they instill confidence in your judgment so there's no concerns (about job security) Calgary's very good at delegating responsibility and we're all on the same wavelength as far as priorities go I don't think there's a better organization in hockey" It's an organization known for patience with players and other employees "The coaches are developing too" said Coates "If somebody's ever going to be a head coach for us in the NIIL we want them to have first run their own team and experienced the difficulties that go with that" That's fine with Francis who has had plenty of difficulty this year and who has MIL coaching aspirations too In the meantime he's happy coaching in Salt Lake "I don't think it's been disappointing this season" he said "Sports in general are going to be frustrating at limes and exhilarating at times" You think Bo is ' 1 F - -- - -- !:'ee9 - A '2f2'rr2:L!'--- --'- 27 - 7 Each Year o to 440 GOLF PACKAGE 4 Doys Golf Air Fare 18 Holes Per Day With Cart 'A 900 'Doi Hotel April 18-2- Scottsdale Arizona FOR MOPE INFO or 205 W 700 S Suite 303 i' u1 I th 02 '': I- I d ! f |