| Show f iff 7Th lH- - f COMICSTV JL 1 i! 1! tbrusrv 4 J Dl rrm 0 n i i L'tSIJAY OBITUARIES t U Prosecution Approaches End of Case ft By Steve LuLm THE SALT LAKE TKlbUNE The Jazz's 126 123 win Monday night over Chicago was well ineredi-bui- l Jeff Malone ended the wild marathon with of second to play He was fouled on his way to the basket by Michael Jordan who then drew a technical foul Malone's three free throws ended a brilliant battle that defied all the odds: r point guard John Stockton's turnover with three seconds left in regulation ended the early hopes of the Jazz who survived a missed Jordan jumper at the buzzer In the first overtime Blue Edwards brought the Jazz back in the final 2:10 with eight points and three steals But Edwards a free throw shooter and Malone an foul shooter missed to set up Jordan's tying 3 pointer Jordan has made 28 percent of his threes this season After Jordan's trey with six seconds left Stockton found Malone at the baseline A shooter from the field Malone missed a chip shot forcing a second overtime It figured: Malone was 4 for 21 this frenzied night with 30 The Bulls led seconds left in that period when Jordan inexplicably missed two free throws to give Utah life Stockton's tied it again forcing the third overtime That's when things really got interesting Mark Eaton who averages 27 points a game hit a free throw with 2:22 remaining to give hira a 14 for the game That season-higlead gave the Jazz a Scottie JPippen's two foul shots put the Bulls back in front but the r Bulls' fouled out and was hit with a technical with 1:13 left Stockton's free throw tied it again Jordan and Karl Malone who had 34 for the Jazz then exchanged scores The Bulls' next possession ended with John Paxson a deadly See D-Column 6 triple-overtim- five-tenth- e INDIANAPOLIS s All-Sta- ""' h v?' m -- - i ! -- ! l-- - ' "" uil A t fl 'J V - r : I r J '" f - i w J ' t - - I - - 8 —— v - 1" ':r' ' 1 - ('iaiai---''- ''if - ii te h 119-11- - 1 2 five-minu- "v""U-- ' J V: V ! All-Sta- 0f Kii f£an'!lM Chicago 9s Jackson Loses Sleep After Tough Battle With Jazz Tickets Turn Streets Into Game of Price Is Right By the time the Jazz and Bulls took the floor Monday night the crowd was finally dwindling outside the Delta Center For two hours before the game the southwest corner of 300 West and South Temple was Salt Lake City's version of the New York Stock Exchange a frenzied market for the buying and selling of tickets The average sale price: three times face value "They're getting outrageous prices" a regular buy- er said Professional brokers were buying and reselling tickets for a profit Others were selling their tickets and upgrading to more expensive seats Even a few Junior Jazz youth basketball players were witnessed selling their discounted tickets Some customers were making trades like two $30 "Les Miserables" tickets for two $15 Jazz tickets Still others just wanted to watch the game no matter how much they had to pay Some season-ticke- t holders sold their tickets to brokers in advance or even on the corner One seller was claiming to have paid $80 for $30 tickets last week and was asking $100 apiece "Family's tickets" said a rival broker "He's out here every game" While the Jazz organization once pushed for legislation the selling of tickets remains legal — off Delta Center property Monday two arena employees made sure all transactions took place on the sidewalk while three Salt Lake City policemen insisted only that business be conducted out of the way of pedestrian traffic The Jazz's move to the Delta Center from the Salt Palace softened the scalping market but the annual visit of Michael Jordan and World Champions the made Monday's ticket possibly the hottest in Jazz history brokers said Teams like Detroit and San Antonio never command more than double face value The Delta Center box office's practice of holding back some tickets until just before game time See D-Column 6 anti-scalpin- i g 2 1L 5 3-Te- By Jay Drew £ 2 4&S 4 4 basketball championship buttressed by an NBA record win pace in 3992 can be a cure for insomnia But if this native Moatanan got a fitful night's rest early Tueday he oughta get an immediate endorsement from Sominex Double overtime losses are bad enough but losing your star player — the world's best basketball performer — can cause nightmares for the best of coaches A V if I 1 JLM s Michael Jordan so cool so calm and so collected for 64 minutes and 59 seconds blew his cork late Monday sight spoiling a classic basketball game spoiled if you were on the losing side anyway Nothing not a single solitary thing could tanush the sentiments of Jazz followers everywhere following the victory over the Bulls at the trembling Delta Cen126-12- 3 overtime kick Sal! LaKv Irifiunr l Im Fans were paying big bucks fw chance to see Michael Jordan T K I I) N E am Three which hit the halfway mark ) and last Tuesday Killcrest West Jordan ) appear to be the ter son underway in most of the state's 13 boys high school basketball regions it's about time for some teams to start thinking playoffs First of all how about those Skyline Eagles? Despite getting blown out Friday by Alta the Eagles ) are tie for the perched in a three-wawith lead Two Brighton Region and Alta The feat is remarkable considering Skyline was picked by most of tne region's coaches to finish last or next to last in its league The coaches weren't the only ones wrong about the Eagles Tfx Tribune picked them to finish fifth In Region One Viewmont survived its toughest test of the season with a road win at Bonneville Friday to remain one of only two unbeaten teams in the state Davis ) has emerged at the Vikings biggest challenger in the northernmost league Not surprisingly Bingham ) has a two game lead in Region (5-2- y (4-0- (5-0- 4-- (7-0- ) Prep Rankings (5-2- league's other above-averag- e teams while Taylorsville ) will likely be the league's other playoff Rank Five teams are in a dogfight for the four available playoff spots in Region Four At the midway mark e has a Timpview lead over Mountain View Orem and Provo American Fork ) has won two straight and is still alive for a postseason bid Ogden and Mountain Crest are in a duel for the Region Five holdcrown with the Tigers ing a game lead Box Elder ) and Sky View ) are the others in line to make the playoffs Region Six one game past the halfway mark is its normal self Two teams are tied for first (Bountiful and Granite) two teams are a garoe back and tied for third (Tooele and Jordan) and two teams are knotted for the fifth and final playoff spot (West and Murray) Regions Seven and Eight both See D-Colunm 6 1 (4-3- entrant (4-1- ) one-gam- 2 3 4 5 CLASS 4 A 12-- 0 Viewmont 13-Brighton 12-Timpview 13-View Mountain 11-Bingham 3 3 Week 1 4 2 2 3 2 5 2 2 3 4 Emer 3 Granite 8-- 6 5 Bountiful 8-- 6 3-- A 1 (4-3- 12-- 1 2 — — — CLASS 2 A (3-4- 3 Record CLASS 13-Ogden 12-Crest Mountain (2-3- (7-- School 1 Manti 2 10-Hurricane Beaver 5 Morgan 10-San Juan CLASS 12 0 Piute Rowland Hall 13-North Summit 3 4 5 12-- 3 3 11-- 3 1 2 5 5 4 — 1 3 11-- A 1 2 3 4 5 9-- 3 Valley Bryce Valley 11-- 2 9-- 4 1 4 2 5 Nelson said Tyson's accuser also told her of the alleged attack "She said 'I was with ITyson last night and he raped me' I said 'Take him to jail" " Nelson said Defense attorney F Lane Heard HI tried to establish in that Tyson's remarks and behavior during the pageant rehearsals made it clear that he was interested in having sex Nelson said Tyson "placed his hand around my waist and was squeezing and rubbing a bit and I said 'Stop it!' And he did" Murphy said when Tyson came into the pageant rehearsal she saw him behaving "like an 6? x!iijraz"- r Kobella Sport Editor Playground" read a sign hoisted by a jubilant Utah Jazz fan Make that Blue Edwards' ground or John Stockton's or Mark Eaton's or Jeff Malone's This one was truly one for the archives - - the first triple overtime NBA Jazz game anyone could remember It was not an ordinary matchup This wasn't Charlotte or Miami or Orlando coming in from the Eastern Division It was the World Champs It was a team armed with 39 victories only seven losses and harboring visions of being the winningest team in the NBA's regular season They still may reach that D-Column 6 all-tim- e " rzS ports Capsule: NBA Utah 126 Chicago 123 3QT) Golden Stale 122! Orlando 114 Seattle 112 Atlanta 110 Minnesota 114 Denver fcS Houston 122 Indiana 111 Phoenix 113 L A Lakers 104 Dallas t5 Sacramento Top 25 Basketball Kansas 80 Kansas State 58 Syracuse bi UConn bZ Wake Forest 69 Tulane 66 C9-S- "Yo Michael Utah is Karl's 2 NHL Detroit 4 Pittsburgh 4 Minnesota 4 Toronto 2 Majera& On Way to Islands Promising to Slow Down By Joe Eaird (5-2- With the second half of the sea- triple-- stop" Pageant contestant Charisse cross-examinati- Chicago Bulls Coach Phil Jackson has been getting more sleep these days Earning a 1991 world Surprising Skyline Making Race Region Two a THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE ball IjiKf IriUuiir Utah's Karl Malone and Chicago's Horace Grant battle for a loose ball during Monday night's thriller in the Delta Center Bulls-Jaz- z By Kurt Kragthorpe confinement and criminal deviate conduct If convicted he faces up to 3 years in prison The defense maintains that the woman consented to sex and Las implied that the former heavy w eight champion will testify In six hours of testimony last week Tysons accuser said he pinned her on a bed July 19 stripped her raped her' and laughed while she cried in pain and begged him to stop Murphy said she and the woman became friends Miss Black America the during pageant and joked about how neither had any rhythm during dance rehearsals At rehearsal on July 19 however Murphy said the woman seemed preoccupied and told her about being raped "I asked her what was wrong with her and she turned around and looked at me" Murphy said ' People say a look says so much — this look said it all She didn't even look like herself She was like a zombie like something had taken her soul away" MurDuring phy said the woman gave her few details but "she told me she kept telling him to stop that she kept telling him 'no' and he wouldn't cross-examinati- 2 THE SALT LAKE TKIBUNE teen-ig- second week Tyson 25 is charged with rape nt 115-11- —A beauty contestant blurted out "' lie riped me!' " aid locked as if "something Lad tiken her soul away" smother pageant participant testified Monday m boxer Mile Tyson's trial "She said she felt so stupid She just wouldn't slop talking" Stacy Murphy told the Manon Superior Court jury "I just wanted to comfort her 1 didn't know what to do I knew the help and I knew I couldn't help Ler" The prosecution neartd the end of its case as the trial entered its THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Rick Majerus says he's feeling better thank you very much And the Utah basketball coach fully expects to be on his way to Honolulu today to rejoin his team for Thursday night's game against Hawaii JJut it is a wiser Majerus that is heading to the islands Though apparently not serious the urinary tract infection that has sidelined him since Saturday has served as a warning to slow down "I just got this viral infection and didn t take care of it" he said Monday "I've got no one to blame but myself" Majerus became ill and fainted Saturday mormng while giving a speech to a Farm Bureau gathering at the University 1 'ark Hotel He was taken to LDS Hospital for treatment and released but was forced to miss his team's victory over New Mexico in the Huntsman 61-5- 4 Center that night and was left behind Sunday when the Utes departed for Hawaii "It wasn't a tig deal" he said "But I guess it went out over the wires I've befn getting flowers cards all kinds of stuff" Majerus began feeling poorly las1 week after a hectic four-dastretch in which he made two recruiting trips and one lengthy drive from Idaho Falls after his flight was diverted there because of foggy airport conditions in Salt Lake All this in addition to preparing his team for a pair of pivotal games against UTKP and the Lobos "I really pushed it" he admitted Majerus has had the virus before "I had the same thing last May" he said "It wasn't during the season so nobody ever heard about it But I've h&d a little problem with it since my heart surgery'' However Majerus' cardiologist Dr Donald Lappe said the See Column 1 y out-of-tow- n I)-- 2 In Action Tonight IHL Hockey: Eagles at San 8:50 Die-g- o pm College Basketball: Southern Utah at Idaho 7:30 pm TV Sports GIM) — College Basketball Indiana at Illinois 6:30 pm — College Basketball Kite at Texas 7 pm — Boxing Tun Witberspoon vs Jimmy Lee Smith (JIN) 7:30 pm — College Basketball Auburn at tlJpjD 8:30 pm — NHL Hock ey Islanders at Kings Duke Still Tops The ranks of the undefeated were thinned by one iatt week and the two which remained were atop the Associated Press college basketball poll on Monday Duke (17-0- ) remained the No 1 team for the 12lh consecutive Coll Uhat's all there's been) the three as e unanimous choice Oklahoma Slate (20-0- ) moved up one place to second and the Cowboys were close to a unanimous runner-u- p falling four points short Complete poll D-- 4 |
