Show i ' ' ’ pTi '' " ' :j“ vi- - 17 Interleague play 1 8 Western Open 19 The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday July 9 2000 Insido Dekker dominates stage Armstrong in contention VILLENEUVE-SUR-LO- T France (AP) — Lance Armstrong preparing for next week's mountain stretch remained in contention in the Tour de France Saturday a day on which Holland’s Erik Dekker burst won die eighth stage of race Armstrong die defending champion is 16th nearly six minutes behind overall leader Albedo EUi of Italy But Armstrong is in a group with most of his main challengers for the title and appeared Peruvian soccer teams visit Cache Valley for tournament EIJi is 12 seconds ahead of Fabrice Gougot of France and 1:17 ahead of Belgium’s Marc Wauters in third Armstrong looking to become the first rider since Miguel Indurain in 1995 to retain the Tour title fell four places to 16th place but is still 5:54 behind E11L Laurent Jalabert the framer world No 1 is in 14th 14 seconds ahead of Armstrong Jan Ullrich the 1997 Tour de France winner dropped six places to 28th 6:37 behind Elli while 1998 Tour winner Marco Pantani is in 87th 11:06 behind die leader Dekker who started the day back in 164th place in die standings said his win in Villeneuve-sur-Lwas "emotionally die best win of my career’’ The Dutchman had decided to be aggressive before the stage even began “I have always wanted to win an important race such as a World Cup or Tour de France leg and now I have done it” Dekker was among a group of 17 riders that opened up a gap in mile 34 and kept dear fra most of die race well-plac- ed Texan will look for another comfortable ride in Sunday’s ninth stage a flat The Page 18 in Newton 112-mi- le Saturday's scores MLB course from Agen to Dax before he gets his chance to climb the leaderboard during the mountain stages which begin Monday Dekker won the hilly trek from Limoin southwest France in ges to Villeneuve-sur-Lfour hours 22 minutes 14 seconds Xavier Jan of France came second 52 seconds back with Garcia-Acosof Spain third 56 seconds behind the winner Fred Rodriguez of the United States came in 4 r8 seconds behind Dekket Cubs 9 Chi White Sox 2 Cincinnati 14 Cleveland 5 NY Yankees 4 NY Meta 2 1st game NY Yankees 4 NY Mets 2 2nd game Anaheim 6 Colorado 2 ot Jose-Vicen- te ta Atlanta 5 Boston 1 San Francisco 7 St Louis 6 Pittsburgh 4 Minnesota 1 Toronto 6 Montreal 3 Philadelphia 13 Baltimore 4 Florida 6 Tampa Bay 5 ' Detroit 4 MHwaukea 2 (15) Kansas City 5 Houston 2 Texas 8 San Diego 1 Seattle 11 Los Angeles 0 Oakland 8 Arizona 7 (10) “ mm o J WUPJUUU V H MLS "On Jersey Kansas City 0 Los Angeles 5 Miami 3 Dallas 3 DC United 0 Chicago 3 Columbus 1 San Jose 1 Colorado 0 r 1 VI — ''ZJ Vf "Hn'jI' : vj jvs jr' V a ' :r Erik Dekker reacts as he crosses the finish line to win the eighth stage of the Tour de France whoalneady had pop in her game she was amazed to see a black woman on vy 'V x r AUTO RACING TNN — NASCAR Winston Cup New England 300 at Loudon Nil 7:30 pjn ' ESPN2 — NHRA Winston Show down at Bristol Tenn (same-da- y tape) CYCLING ESPN2 — Tour de France stage 9 at various sites (samo-da- y tape) GOLF 8 am TGC — European Tour Smurfit European Open final round at Dubfin 7-- the match to remember to 1130ajn bend her knees It’s the oldest advice in tennis and easy enough to forget when ai Pa match gets tense But Garrison decided not to pass it on to Venus because die didn’t want to make her nervous pja ABC — PGA Western Open final round at Lemont II NBC — American Century Celebrity Golf Championship at Lake Tahoe Nev 1:30 pm ESPN — USGA Women’s Public Links Championship final round at Aberdeen NC FOX — Thoroughbreds Hollywood Gold Cup at Inglewood Calif pm ESPN2 —Thoroughbreds “2f)ay at the Races1 Dwyer Stakes at Elmont NY Triple Bend Breeders’ Cup at Inglewood Calif Bashford Manor Stakes at Louisville Ky and Breeders' Cup Handicap at Com-husk- pm ESPN2 — Future Stars Game at Atlanta' MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 12:20 pan WON — Chicago White Sox at Chicago Cubs 6 pm NY Yankees at NY Mets ESPN TENNIS - AP photo Venus Williams laughs as she holds the championship trophy on Centre Court at Wimbledon 6 (3) to win her first Grand Slam title Saturday Williams overpowered Lindsay Davenport 6-- 3 — Wimbledon Championships men's singles championship and women's doubles championship at London WNBA BASKETBALL —fpRU - KJZZ — Utah at Los Angeles — Today's quote "I’m not looking at Sunday as pressure I’m looking at it as an opportunity” — Pete Sampras who g 13th will go for his Grand Slam championship on Sunday at Wimbledon record-breakin- 7-- Sisters changing the game WIMBLEDON England (AP) — Centre Court at Wimbledon has never seen a celebration quite like it With unabashed joy Venus Williams jumped up and down on the hallowed grass Saturday after winning her sport's most prestigious championship All of tenms had reason to join in the jubi-- Even the player Williams defeated defending champion Lindsay Davenport graciously admitted that Venus and her sister Serena are changing the game for the better cloudy day the big sister claimed the Wimbledon silver salver — the aptly named “Venus Rosewater Dish’’ — for a family trophy case that already has the little sister's 1999 US Open cup It’s the first time in tennis history two sisters have each won a Grand Slam championship foreseen arrived Williams Venus a note saying "The time is now’’ "The one thing I knew was enough” said Garrison who glowed Garrison wrote lost to Martina Navratilova in 1990 "You have to win it It was very emotional for me out there and it was pretty amazing to have an African American win the event" Gibson 72 lives in East Orange NJ She was too ill to charisathleticism and combine travel to WimHedon but was power They ma in a way that has electrified die sprat and very much on Williams' mind increased its popularity “I knew she was watching "Venus and Serena certainly have grabbed when Serena won the US the imagination and hearts of people in a Open” Williams said "She said that she was happy that way that crosses all color barriers" six-tidie got to see another black Wimbledon champion Billie Jean King said Or as Venus put it "People are turning on person win it in her lifetime So their TV and suddenly they see this black now I think it’s really a privilege for me to win this Wimgirl playing tennis: ‘What is this?!”’ bledon while she’s still dive" Williams came to Wimble See SISTERS on Page 23 By Shawn Harrison sports writer limes are a changing Utah Jazz fans better take a deep breath and hold on It could be a rocky ride ahead For years foe Jazz have been written off because they were growing too old Then came appearances in the NBA Finals in 1997 md 1998 But reality started to sink in after the shortened ’99 season After viewing the 2000 playoffs there is no doubt The time has crane fra some big changes It has to happen or Jazz fans will witness in Salt Lake City what Celtic - fans have been experiencing the past decade in Boston The Celtics waited until it was way too-laand now have a regular lot te tery pick each June Die big question is cm the Jazz make the big moves? And cm the Utah faithful hang strong Attend Jice was already down this past season and even playoff tickets were available at game time Utah has taken a couple of steps that I never thought possible First the Jazz drafted a young Russian last year Andrei Kirilenko The teenager still has commitments in Russia and will play for his country in foe upcoming Olympics He could possibly join Utah for the 2000-0season but is more likely to make it here foe following season And did anyone really think Utah would draft a kid out of high school? 1 Never: Well that has changed too The sec-o-od step was drafting another old in the first round in the recent draft DeShawn Stevenson who hut saw action at a high school in Fresno 19-ye- ar ( “We’re breaking records and we’re moving forward” Venus Williams said "I dways expected to win Grand Slams Dus was meant to be” When the moment she had When the vivacious returned to the court for the trophy presentation as she twirled in she once did in ballet classes laughing and waving her arms Her utter joy carried overto a crowd that laughed with her Everyone knew they were seeing something special: the blossoming of a young woman who could dominate tennis fra years along with her sister half-circl- es “It's really great because I’ve worked so hard all my here" Williams said after accepting the trophy from the Duchess of Kent life to be See VENUS on Page 23 Big changes on the horizon for the Jazz 7 am NBC champions and on this cool that just being there isn’t back tears Venus simply er Altoona Iowa (same-da- y tape) MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL feaus and Serena Williams were raised to be hopped up md down giddily then scampered up the steps from Centre Court to hug Serena and their father and coach Richard Serena and Richard fought Instead 3:30 pm 3pm d when she was born -- Ireland TGC — Buycom Tour Buycom Hershey Open final round at Her-she- y child-hoo- dreams and her father's prophe-- r the world while she And her sister SercaE 6-- 5:30 pm tape) would follow in Gibson’s footsteps that she dashed out to a mall and bought her champions dinner ball gown before she left home It was her way of making a promise to herself her way to push herself to fulfill her w&actaf buffoon die concrete courts of Compton Calif At Centre Court on Saturday Garrison sat near Serena in the guest box and watched 'Venus win Wimbledon by beating defending champion Lindsay 6 (3) with die Davenport 3 kind of flair that Althea Gibson showed when she became the first blade women’s champion in 1957 and 1958 Gibson had given Garrison a message for Venus before am ' ESPN — Senior PGA State Farm Senior Classic final round at Columbia Md (same-da- y tape) HORSE RACING 1:30 pm ESPN — Thoroughbreds Irish Derby at Dublin Ireland (same-da- y don so confident that she TV playing on the most famous lawn in -- 1 X C Garrison playing in the Wimbledon final 10 years ago On tolovlsion 5 ' V- AP photo As a scrawny Phoenix 66 Indtana 65 New York 63 Miami 51 Cleveland 80 Charlotte 59 Orlando 64 Seattle 53 Sacramento 78 Washington 56 1 - -- WIMBLEDON England (AP) — Venus Williams thrilled at the sight of Zina - WNBA 11 ' -- First Grand Slam title is sweet for Williams BHings (late) N - ver wrn v ' Pioneer League at N Yotk-- r Vimblodon championship PCL Sacramento 3 Salt Lake 2 r v- ot 126-mi- le CM Ogden f Calif will join foe Jazz this falL "I’m sure there will be some headaches" said Utah head coach Jerry Sloan on draft night Yes there probably will be Actual- - ly there is one already The same night Stevenson was drafted he got mixed up in a fight at a high school game- and is now not talking' to foe investigators Welcome to foe new age of professional athletes Utah Yes foe times are a changing I’m sure Jazz fms are still rolling their eyes and nervously wondering if they are ready for this all-st- ar See CHANGES on Page 19 Ai B 1111 'y |