| Show BUSINESS QlDfTrO'ipQ Scores: 89 oenu SATURDAY February 22 pr minute COMICSTV Bl 102 US's Yamauchi Paints £port3 Capsule NBA Gold Masterpiece on Ice THK Jf f' x I ' iVun New WiriATED press ALBERTVILLE France — Krisfi Yamagu-chi'- s artistry set up the golden challenge and one by one the grand dames of fgure skating ail fell away black and blue It was a triumph of elegance over brute power at the Winter Games that paralleled a victor' on another rink in Meribel minutes earlier Unifed Friday night — the smooth-skatinAmericans in Team over the the hockey semifinals The Russians kept coming and coming pelting American goalie Ray Le Blanc with the puck in the mask the chest the legs Ffty times he stopped ihem but it was all too much too fast for even this hero with his teammates sequestered in the penalty box The Unified Team as slick as it ever was in and the uniform of the Soviet Union won Americans clinging to left the hopes of a bronze and screaming about a Swedish referee There was little to fault the officials at figure skating The ladies who fell had only themselves to blame Yamaguchi eschewing the quads and triple axels that seemed to be all the rage concentrated on form and slipped only once as she became the firs American gold medalist in women's figure skating since Dorothy Hamill 1 1 journeyman-turned-Olympi- ev U 'n' Jndana I'll rTri4 f(r:ndoioo rhir??o Atlanta HB Cleveland :u Sacramento 102 San Antorio 'iVi P'ila 90 Chpoers lift Gulden S'Me 123 P'ioenix II" v:: g f CbnrVtte M0 I U'TiVer rough-and-tumb- s" " n h 124 NHL Minnesota 4 Rrfticers f5 New Jersey 4 'Vinnioej N V c r ralear 9 Angeles Fdmon!i"n 3 Varrnuver o San Jop Rocton 5 3 5-- 2 hard-checkin- in 1976 Yamaguchi was just 4 years old when Hamill won in Innsbruck and as a child she used to take her Dorothy Hamill doll to the rink and Clark Donatetli vents his frustration after 3rd period penally IHL g Kristi Yamaguchi soars toward figure skating gold medal during free program performance She was conservative but artistic while challengers fell out of contention Phoenix place to take the silver medal and American Nancy Kerrigan got the bronze The other American Tonya Harding was fourth That boosted the United States' medals total for the Albert ville Games to 10 just two shy of their record in 1932 and 1980 both m Lake Placid N Y " foot and 93 Yamaguchi pounds skated with the same lightness and loveliness she See Column 8 pretend they were skating together Friday Hamill was there in person to give her a pep talk just before she took the ice 'She's one of the reasons I"m in the sport right now and it was just a thrill to meet with her" Yamaguchi said "She wanted to wish me all the best She reminded me how hard I worked to gpt here and told me just to go out and have fun" Midori Ito of Japan moved up from fourth B-- 4 Jeff Malone s Explosion Bl asts Rockets off Malone struggling through a in recent weeks exploded for 23 points on shooting Friday night at the Delta Center as the Jazz ripped p fi Houston 124-9Malone had 12 points in the first quarter and 13 by halftime when he was 3 for 11 from the floor "I felt great" said Malone who'd hit over 50 percent of his shots just once in the previous 10 games "I felt like I did early in the season I felt like even' shot was going in and that's a great feeling to have" Jazz coach Jerry Sloan had a couple explanations for Malone's shooting "When Jeff's hot" he said But we executed "he's going to make his shots better as a team In the first half we executed about 7 I f as well as we have" The Jazz who made 14 of their 18 shots in the first quarter finished at 57 percent Karl Malone scored 22 points on shooting shots en route to while John Stockton made 13 points Stockton also had 15 assists giving him 7003 in his career Only five other NBA players have ever had 7000 career assists Stockton's 7000th came after a long lead pass to Jeff Malone who dribbled once and popped in a with 7:42 left in the third quarter That made it "It's nice" said Stockton "but I don't think about it a lot It's good to have a lot of assists in a game Column 1 See 73-5- 1 B-- 3 Rockets' Rudy T Needs Torch to Ignite Rockets You can say this for Rudy Tomjanovich who by the way gives all the appearances of the little kid who sticks his finger in an electrical socket Called on this ' Lr week to give CPR to a near-comatos- mi e Hous- Dick Rosetta ton Rockets basketball team r Rudy T did one better against the Utah Jazz Sports Editor Friday night than his predecessor Don Chaney did back on January 18 at the Delta Center Rudy's Rockets lost by just 27 points 124-9Houston lost here a month ago 108-8Chsrlie Thomas must be doing cartwheels over that one Thomas you see is the Rockets' Chairman of the Board who sent 1990-9NBA Chaney packing this past week That makes three guys Thomas has jettisoned or at least provoked into leaving over the past 10 years including Del Harris and Bill Fitch who took the Rockets to the NBA finals It's Rudy T's turn now And this guy is still in See 3 Column 5 " 7 i ts 0 - 1 Paul Fmiighton'Thf Suit Ijikr Tribune Houston's Hakeem Olajuwon finds it tough to get to the basket Friday with Utah's Mark Eaton standing in his way Olajuwon and his teammates found the going tough ail game as the Jazz easily knocked off their rival WAC Basketball Race at a Glarce Samet Remaining !2 home 2 awov): ot New Mexico CvtniJw WC Standings WJC WT 3''"i 9 LT? fuew Vtevlco Utah Hnwoii Cc'ofo-1- St 6 5 3 VoeNrg An P'rr Sen Diego 8 7 7 St S3 8VU Swsfln L V 3 — 4 '! 4 1 13 19 52 17 7 5 2 5 2"? 7 4 14 9 9 6 0 12 9 5 5 14 10 Fb 27 SAN DIESO St Mdfcti 7 Feb jr?l (1 home 2 awoy): ot Wvoming Fb 27 at Colorado St Fed 2 NfvV Fft Ml:XiCO Morch7 home away): BVU State Fob 27 at Air Fb 22 at Coiomda fVyce Fe(V 20 at UTEP Mrsrch 7 UTAH (4 home (j awnvl: WMING Fb 22 SN DIEGO ST Feb 27 HAWAII rtP 12J3 m 13 11 Fb 9 15 2 22 22: HAWAII 7 at Utoh SAN WSXICO (1 A y BvtiMotchj 2 home 2 awavt: Alft FCPCE 22- at ByJ Fb 27 at Utoh 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(3 home 2 awov): at 22 NFW MEXICO Fsb A!R FORCE Moich 3 at 7 Coach-of-the-Ye- In Action Tonight Rakethsll: 3YU at New College Mexico 4pm f b i 1 IHL Hotkey: Eag'es - Phoenix at the Helta renter 7pm College Basketball: Boise State at Weber State at the Dee Center Ojden 7 30 p m College Raskethall: So Utah at Sacramento State 3 30 p m College Basketball: Utah State te at San Jose p m v- College Basketball: Wyoming at Utah at the Huntsman Center lflpm FSPN By Steve Luhm tiu: salt lake triwnr Against the Rockets Jeff Malone finallv blasted mini-slum- 3 ar TV Sports !'§" am 11 — Olympic1 ice hockey speed skating speed skiing 11 am — Tennis U ESPN Pro Indoor semifinal S J Noon — CoSleee Basketball UCLA at Notre Dame C2 1 pm — Rowling Fair Lanes Open 2 2 pm — Golf Buick of California (4J Invi-tation- pm — College Florida at South CfSPN Ras-ketba- ll C4J 2:30 pm — Boxing N orris vs Daniels CfSNj 3 pm — Women's Basketball Syracuse at Providence PESPNj 4 pm — Horse Racing Fountain of Youth Stakes C11J 4 pm — College Basketball BYU at New Mexico PSN j 5:30 pm — "Women's Basketball LSU at Georgia CWT3S j 5:35 pm — NBA Bas- ketball Nets at Hawks C5j 6 pm — Olympics figure skating alpine skiing bobsled CPMj 8:30 pm — College Basketball Colo St at San Diego St N J 10 pm — College Bas ketball Wyoming at Utah Albertviile Update The day at the Olympics: MEDALS — With 21 medals to go Germany led with 10 golds and 25 overall The Unified Team was second with 22 three ahead of Austria The United States had eight c HOCKEY— Goalie Ray 50 and shots kept stopped the Americans in the game for two periods but the relentless Unified Team outshot them 55-1- 8 and scored three times in the win The Unified third for a Team plays for gold Sunday the Americans for bronze Saturday CROSS COUNTRY — Stefania Belmondo won the freestyle and became the first Italian woman ever to win gold in cross country The Unified Team's Lynbov Egorova finished second her fifth medal of the Games ON SATURDAY — Medals at stake in five events: men's crosscountry skiing and slalom four-mabobsled men's 5000-mete- r r short and women's track speed skating 5-- 2 n 500-mete- B-- Traffic Jammed Up on Road to WAC Tide By Joe Baird THE SALT LAKH I'RIBIJNB With a little over two weeks left in the regular season absolutely nothing has been settled in the race for the Western Athletic Conference basketball title Going into today's games the league's top six teams are bunched within games of one another and only two spots — eighth and ninth place — have been nailed down Given all this it's quite possible that the WAC's regular season champ will end up with five losses That's only happened twice in the history of the league But then again maybe it's fitting The conference possesses no truly outstanding team this season What it does have is a bunch of evenly matched ones look at the What follows is a contenders and what lies ahead for them team-by-tea- 33 BYU: One game up in the less column folwin over Utah the lowing Thursday's 58-5Cougars are the only ones in the league who can control their own destiny "Just win baby" will be coach Roger Reid's motto through his team's final four games But the task will hardly be easy The Cougs must deal with New Mexico in the Pit this afternoon then wrap up their season in the Huntsman Center against the Utes In between are home dates with Hawaii and San Diego State 6 10 1'TEP: The Miners are probably still sweat- - 74-7- 2 overtime win ing following Thursday's it but kept them within a against Wyoming half-gamof the Cougs Coach Don Haskins' club is handicapped by the fact it has just three conference games remaining and two of those are on the road UTSP's first stop? Thursday at Laramie followed by a Saturday date in Fort Collins with Colorado State Remember these are the same guys who lost at Air Force a week ago SI New Mexico: Today's matchuo with the league-leadinCougars gives the Lobos a wonderful opportunity to jump into the driver's seat Beyond that it's all road — and a rocky one at that Today's outing with BYU is New e g See B-- 4 Column 1 |
