Show I Zht gall takt Zribunt It 4 SATURDAY 1 APRIL 10 2004 II 1 i STINGERS WIN WITH BIG RALLY IN 9TH 0 SLi!JGEs Baseball : i DB AVALANCHE TAKE 1 NHL ((vnlvitritess Weather D3 2004 LEAD ON STARS 0 D9 Playoffs Boxing D7 D5 Scoreboard 2-- MASTERS - SECOND ROUND : o ill Ik0i' iiI : 11''':u‘0ti'1!1::'-- But Rose has familiar names nipping his heels 1 KURT KRAGTHORPE By KURT KRAGTHORPE Me Suit Lake Tribune AUGUSTA Ga — Now this is where Tiger Woods is really good He's apparently the only golfer in the world who can play defense against the rest of the field While Woods played his way out of oblivion and back to even par after two rounds at Augusta National Golf Club he succeeded mostly by somehow preventing anyone else from taking control of the 68th Masters As of Thursday England's Justin Rose was the leader at As of Friday Rose was the leader at Weir will have quiet weekend in Augusta Ga Monday will debut of the Weir Golf of clothing and accessories Green jackets? Those are so last year Draper resident Mike Weir's defense of the Masters title ended abruptly Friday creating a long wait with nothing to do until Sunday evening when he awards the ceremonial green Jacket to the 2004 winner at Augusta National Golf Club Then he's off to Toronto for the fashion event at Sears where the reception is sure to be more subdued than it was for last April's Mondayafter-the-Masters event cut by one Weir missed the stroke Friday bogeying the 18th hole that was the site of his clutch tying par in regulation last year His final shot of tap-I- n the '04 Masters was a About an hour later he knew he was out of the tournament It was another wild day for Weir be ginning with four straight bogeys to comblete the suspended first round and start the second He responded with five birdies and two more bogeys shooting He's a Masters champion for life but "defending" Is hereby stricken "I wanted to play well obviously" Weir said "But my game hasn't been very good the last couple weeks It's a tough golf course to play when you're not real sharp" were far more conscious of the cut line or Just hoping he emcould recover from his barrassment This guy does not think like we do He was still trying to win the tournament citing Ernie Els' 6 move into contention last year Weir's day started at the par-No 16 where he splashed his tee shot Three more bogeys followed then came birdie try at No 2 For most of a lip-ous it would have been all over but the pouting Yet he kept trying "I just thought ill could Just plug I was real close to shooting a away AUGUSTA 7) ' 44000'- Think of it this way: Woods is only four strokes out of second place with a lot of golf left Rose parred the final seven holes of the second round while Alex Cejka and champion Jose Maria Olazabal each bogeyed the 18th hole to fall two strokes behind him KJ Choi who shot a record 30 on the front for the tournanine to reach ment faded to fourth place at where Phil Michelson laterjoined him Notice anything about those names? International golfers own four of the top five spots on the leaderboard trying to become the player who receives the green jacket from 2003 winner Mike Weir the Canadian who lives in Draper Besides Michelson most of the other players in contention this weekend are s - two-tim- 1"' '4014 74 V44 s half-hearte- d See MASTERS 4 1)4 'f4 v 110- - cMASTERS '4 r!' 79-7- 0 SECOND-ROUN- -- ' n d ij A' rttoo DAvtD England's Justin Rose was not spectacular on Friday but his 71 70-7- 0 -- 4 9 -- 4 0 -- 3 Phil Mickelson 72-6- 9 -- 3 Fred Couples 73-6- 9 -- 2 Chris DiMarco 69-7- 3 -- 2 Ernie Els 70-7- 2 -- 2 1 -- 2 Davis Love Ill 75-6- 7 -- 2 Jeff Sluman 73-7- 0 -- 1 Steve Flesch 76-6- 7 -- 1 Mark O'Meara 73-7- -- Olazabal III 0 1 fillr - ti 4 1 Football is his job but not his life "1":"? Handed a chance to pull away from the Jazz in the race for the eighth and final Western Conference playoff berth Denver and Portland settled back into a three-watie by losing on the road Friday night The Nuggets fell in Houston r- i I ThSaII hthe Tribune Just more than a decade ago on a Texas day Jeff Grimes sat at a pROVO '79 Chevy Blazer the in his beat-uno one with soaking in his own perspiration and his own desperation He was on his way home from another dead-enday of selling advertising coupons and calendars to burger Joints and other small businesses in College Station asking for scraps of money nobody wanted to spend while waiting for his wife to graduate from Texas A&M and for his future to present itself Grimes had played four years of football at Texas-E- l Paso and been cut by two professional teams one of them famous — the then-LoAngeles Raiders — and the other obscure — the San Antonio Riders A Job selling corporate insurance back in El Paso already was on the table Temptations of giving pro football one more go were banging around inside his head and soul - ) li kN e 1 y D r — p at Jazz f TONIGHT d 7 pm FSN ---- - ' i - i s N lit Soh Iakr Tnhttnt Jeff Grimes made the move to BYU because the job affords him more time to be with his family New offensive line coach ' GRIM clinch-Rocket- 5 Complete scores D5 i 84-7- 4 t 441100''''''''''"lot I Alf:d s - "4 4 rif 17 L i''''' 1' ' ' t 1:7 : tV 14 1 4 s 21- - "'" - i ' - I' ' 1 VL '''f 1 )ii (I ' (v tOttl' ing a playoff berth for the Rockets while the Trail 131azers whose year postseason streak is in Jeopardy lost to San Antonio for the fifth consecutive time That leaves all three teams exactly where they were before Utall's loss in Dallas on Thursday: Dead even It won't stay that way for long The Nuggets and Blazers meet tonight in Denver's Pepsi Center a game that could all but eliminate the loser 117-9- 1 STEVE 106-10- 3 NI1A-recor- ' t 0 J 11111111PrilwAnxialtdPme Well that's one way to keep the playoff race alive - It 9 79-7- THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE t 10' I i 75-6- Mike Weir i f Sti b' 7 J' I MONSON Tiger Woods Jazz even with Nuggets Blazers i C OPyb 6 Alex Cejka NBA iticiSokesmigARAvail44trl444441P"N°444'z Finding purpose and priorities L -- was good enough to keep him in the lead by two shots Id' Grimes BTU cffensive line coach See GRIMES D2 (36-3- 1 NOTABLES' MONSON'S PEOPLE BY GORDON EIMMENIMEMEIMIIIIMIS 67-7- Charles Howell I 3 DI LEADERBOARD Justin Rose Jose Maria KJ Choi 79-6- See KRAGTHORPE strj it I Yardage: 7290 Par 72 Weir-watche- first-roun- e 1' L ! li N1 PAT StILLIVANnIthoitielidd Prim center and the Rockets dealt a blow to Marcus Camby and the Nuggets See full story and NBA report D6 Yao Ming left Kelvin Cato Who should the Jazz pull for? "I'm not rooting for either of them" said Raja Bell "I'm rooting for Utah" Not that the Jazz can watch the game anyway While its fellow rivals square off Utah will take on the Rockets who now have little to play for tonight in the Delta Center Denver owns the 41-3- 8 against the other while Utah would win a two-watie with Portland two teams in the race y Moore's mission Journeyman hoping Jazz make playoffs so he can prove himself on large stage D7 |