| Show f T V Friday January 15 1999 The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sporli inapiho Pages allop past Mostani New lineup helps Utah State end three-gam- e skid against Cal Poly By Jeff Hunter sports writer Two weeks into the new year the Aggies were finally able to party like it's 1999 Following three straight losses in January defeats to open Big including West Conference play Utah State returned home to the Spectrum Thursday night and battered Cal Pbly 97-7- 3 “That was the whole thing right there the whole shebang” USU guard Rashad Elliott said of playing at home for the first time since Dec 30 “We had to get back in front of our home crowd and build our confidence back up and we were able to do that with their support” With the victory Utah State (1-- 3 in the Big West 6 overall) avoided its first 0-- 3 start in conference play since 1928 and also ended its three-gam- e losing streak “It’s nice to be home" was the first thing USU head coach Stew Morrill declared after the game The 97 points were the most scored by Utah State since a 102-7-6 trouncing rtf North back-to-ba- AP photo American Lindsay Davenport returns a shot during her semifinal match against Steffi Graf at the Sydney International tennis tournament 5 and Davenport won the match 2 will meet Martina Hingis' in the final 6-- 7-- Sport! brlofi Former USU quarterback Matt Sauk has reportedly agreed to a contract with the Munich Cowboys of Germany for the 1999 spring season Terms of the agreement were not disclosed “We are very excited to have Matt joining our club for the upcoming season" Cowboys coach Dean Cokinos said “We expect some exciting things from him and he should help us continue our winning tradition" Munich was last season and won their most recent German championship in 1993 Sauk led USU to Big West championships and to the 1997 Humanitarian Bowl He was ranked 14th ami 13th nationally in total offense during his two seasons at USU -1 back-to-ba- ck Williams to stay with Nets EAST RUTHERFORD NJ (AP) — Jayson Williams the New Jersey Nets star who upset fellow players with his candid comments about the NBA lockout reached agreement on a seven-yea- r deal that could be worth $100 million The New York Post citing unidentified sources said today that the fust five years of the deal are guaranteed for $825 million The of Newark also said the center could earn over $100 million if he plays seven seasons but put the base deal at $838 million for six years — the maximum allowed for a deal under the NBA’s new collective bargaining agreement Players are not allowed to sign contracts until the new bargaining agreement ratified by players and owners last week is finalized Star-Ledg- er six-ye- ar Taylor a finalist for Hall CANTON Ohio (AP) — Despite problems Lawrence Taylor was among 13 finalists for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame The Pro Bowl linebacker with the New York Giants was one of four candidates to make the list of finalists in his first year of eligibility The others are former Buffalo coach Marv Levy running back Eric Dickerson and defensive end Howie Long The hall's 36 selectors will meet in Miami on Jan 30 to elect the class of 1999 10-ti- Thursday's scoro! NCAA basketball Utah State 97 Cal Poly 73 Brigham Young 83 San Diego State 76 Weber State 77 Idaho State 56 Western Illinois 76 Southern Utah 68 marked the fust time since that 1998 victory that seven Aggies reached double figures A starter through the first 13 games of the season freshman guard Tony Brown came off the bench to knock down three 13 points and score a team-hig- h Facing a Cal My team that loves to press and trap on defense and shoot at will on offense Morrill moved senior Tyrone Allick from point guard to shooting guard and plugged Elliott in at the point ‘We went with both of our points out there because of their press and also because we felt like we could play a little bit better man-to-man” Morrill explained “And the third reason was to let Tony Brown watch a little bit and relax and take a little pressure off him" Morrill's new lineup paid dividends across the board Utah State had little trouble with Cal Poly’s press — about half of the Aggies’ 16 turnovers were traveling violations — while the Mustangs shot just 36 percent and turned the ball over 20 tunes against USU's defense completely zone-fre- e “We didn't play one possession of zone” Monill pointed out “We worked all week on self-inflict- ed man-to-m- SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Jazz will face the Denver Nuggets on both sides of the Rocky Mountains during the NBA’s shortened pre- ng 3-- 9) Head coach Jeff Schneider felt that rebounding — USU won the battle — had as much to do with his team’s loss as anything else “Rebounds in this game were definitely a key to this game especially in the second half” Schneider said “In the first half we were down one or two rebounds which kept us in the game but in the second half they just dominated the glass” Utah State freshman forward Spencer Nelson collected the second double-doub- le of his career with an 11 --point performance off the bench while senior big men Pharoah Davis (Upoinls nine rebounds) and Donnie Johnson (10 points nine rebounds) also scored and hit the boards hard “Utah State was tough and we just ne to day tougher” Schneider said “Utah State just had tougher tougher kids so we have to make some toughness in us We just have to raise our level of toughness “Donnie Johnson wu definitely die toughest player on the team He just went after more rebounds and I think our whole team felt that" The Aggies also got some inside scoring from sophomore Brandon Birch The former Sky View standout looked more aggressive than he has all year knocking down a turnaround baseline jumper and powering up Is 48-to-- See AGGIES on Plage 11 season schedule the league announced Thursday The Jazz will host Denver on Jan 29 in their first game since losing the NBA Finals to the Chicago Bulls on die same floor in June Utah will visit McNichols Arena which is in its final year as the Nuggets’ home building on Feb 1 In addition to the preseason games the Jazz will hold an open scrimmage at the Delta Center on Jan 23 Free tickets will be available to the public for both the scrimmage and the home preseason game Tickets for every seat in the Delta Center will be available on a first-com- e first-serv- ed basis for the scrimmage season game but the remaining 3500 seats will be free as well The Jazz likely will begin their abbreviated training camp on Tuesday at their new practice facilities in West Valley City Nine of the 10 Utah players currently under contract are already working out at the Franklin Covey gymnasium and the tenth Karl Malone is expected to join them soon “I A reguli schedule still has not been released Press for North Carolina Charlotte in the final 10 minutes Then Melvin Levett made what looked to be Cincinnati's biggest 3 of the game but it didn't count On television 5:30 pm ESPN -P- GA Golf Hawaiian Open second round at Honolulu 7 pm FSR — IHL Hockey Kansas City at Utah ESPN2 — Boxing champion Thomas Tate (35-5-vs Merqul Sosa (33-7-for NABF super middleweight championship at Las Vegas 2) Today's quote “It's an honor to go to the game But if that's the only problem I've got in my life then I've got a pretty good life The most important thing is for us to keep winning and keep climbing and get in those playoffs I’ll take that over any All-Stgame” — Los Angeles’ Luc Robilaille on being left oft the All-StAll-St- ar ar ar game roster despite trailing only Philadelphia John LeClairfor the NHL goal lead North Carolina Charlotte knocked No 3 Cincinnati from the ranks of the unbeaten Thursday night with a 62-6- 0 victory that had quite an eventful last 17 seconds The 49ers (10-- 6 2-- 2 Conference USA) were leading 62-6- 0 when Levett missed a shot and Guevera was fouled grabbing the rebound with 17 seconds left He went to the foul line for a and missed the free throw Cincinnati (13--1 4-got the rebound That’s where things got messy As the Bearcats headed down-cou- rt Levett buried a But an official had mistakenly blown his whistle so the ball was given to Cincinnati out of bounds and the dock was restored to 17 seconds 1) "That one really hurt That us" Levett said of the killed Sea- son ticketholders will keep their regular seats for the pre- Diego Guevara made four Fort Wayne 4 Michigan 2 ck Diana BushHamld Journal Utah State canter Donnie Johnson (40) goes up for two over Cal Poly forward Jaromiah Mayas Thursday night In the Spectrum Jazz to play Revenge for Pippen would millions him cost twice Nuggets By The Associated IHL 0) Texas last year and Thursday’s contest back-to-ba- Bearcats lose the NHL Carolina 3 Florida 2 Ottawa 3 New Jersey 2 Detroit 2 Nashville 1 OT Edmonton 3 Vancouver 1 Los Angeles 3 Calgary 0 Sr ck 8-- Former Aggie QB to play for Munich Cowboys because we fob like Cal My had too good of shooters to play zone defense” As for Brown the former Mountain Crest star hit treys from the left corner midway through the first half and ended from the field The freshman up guard who also came up with a career-hig- h five steals led the team in scoring for the first time since putting up 18 points in the season opener against Simon Fraser Cal Poly's shooters meanwhile continued to slump Junior Mike Wozniak ended up with 19 points but wu just from range And starting forwards Jeremiah Mayes and Jabbar Washington who were averaging 233 points per game between them combined for only six on Thursday Sophomore Chris Bjorkland the second-leadiscorer in the Big West led the Muswith 20 points but it wasn’t tangs (0--3 enough to keep Cal My from dropping its seventh straight game man-to-m- CHICAGO (AP) — After yean of hating each other Scottie Pippen and Jerry Krause now suddenly need each other Pippen can’t get top dollar without Krause’s help and Krause can’t get anything back in a trade without Pippen's help At feast the Chicago Bulls are giving us one last soap opera before the breakup hits full throttle NBA teams learned Thursday that the expected starting date for the opening of training camps — as for trades and free agent signwell ss the ings— will be next Tuesday instead crfMooday Under new collective bargaining rules the Bulls can offer Pippen more than any other team with a limit of $14 million Since Pippen doesn’t have the leverage to command that amount the Bulls are trying to sign him for $10 million to $11 million and immediately trade him to another team But Pippen a free agent could choose to sign with Houston taking the Rockets’ $95 million in salary cap space and leaving the Bulls with nothing in return deal Pippen If Houston gave him a four-yewould make $442 million If the Bulls gave him go-ahe- ad urn-for- m sign-and-tra- de con-tende- See PIPPEN on Page 19 - Lady Bucs ‘O’ By Lance Frazier I After six lethargic minutes Thursday night the West Side Lady Pirates strung together 26 strong minutes more than enough to dispatch the Marsh Valley Eagles blown" O'Neil said “Therefore we had to take the ball out of guess” The 49ers then fouled Kenyon Martin a 52 percent shooter with 32 seconds left He missed die front end of the and Cincinnati got the rebound but was unable to get off a shot “This is a quality quality win North Carfor a team” free-thro- w ar olina Charlotte coach Bobby Lutz said “I've been saying all along that Cincinnati is one of precious See BEARCATS on Page 10 ' sports writer "As soon as the ball was rebounded the whistle was bounds and reset the dock” Cincinnati coach Bob Huggins said he never heard the whistle “I'm not allowed to comment” he said “But you can probably -- crush Eagles ' 54-3- 6 “The first six minutes were very slow and then the girls realized they have to day basketball to win” West Side assistant coach Ray Buttars said afterwards A couple of timeouts to discuss “what we can do and should be doing” didn’t hurt either The Pirates (2-- 1 in District 5 8 overall) led just 10--9 after one period but cranked up the energy to outscore Marsh Valley (1-- 4 44-2- 7 the rest of the way Key in that run of Buc centre Sheri was the Bingham who had been struggling with an illness but exploded for 14 points (shooting from the from the field and AP photo line) five rebounds three blocks two assists North Carollna-Charlotta- 's Kadric Smith (10) is and two steals against the Eagles Cincinnati's Shawn trapped by Myrick (3) and Pete Mickael In thw first half See BUCS on Page 11 8-- 3-- 9) -7 11 ra-- ar ar whistle which he said he heard as he was getting ready to release his shot “We fought to get back even though we played terrible and then that happens to us” Lead referee Tom O’Neil said the whistle was inadvertent first-ye- Aeal starting at $10 million he would a four-yemake $382 million Therein lies the price at feast $14 million that Pippen must pay to mess up the plans of Krause the Bulls general manager with whom he has feuded “That would be my impression right now I don’t think you’ll see Scottie back in a Bulls again said Bill Wenningtoo another one of the Bulls’ free i Pippen’s best other option would be to sign with Denver if the Nuggets would give him their entire $13 million in salary cap space but Pippen to win another championship 7 Two of the strongest Pippen rumors involved tire Los Angeles Lakers and Orlando Magic with the Seattle SuperSonics a longshot the Associated Press learned Thursday rs As for a Latrell S prewell trade the top appear to be the Miami Heat and New " YorkKnicks J IM J A1 14 (POOR |
