Show Section Tuesday April 22 2003 The Herald Journal Inside Page! still rule Cheruiyot pulls away to win Boston Yankees complete sweep of Minnesota B2 BOSTON (AP) — His name sounds like “chariot” and he certainly rolled through the streets of Boston from Hopkinton to Heartbreak Hilt Robert Cheruiyot became the 12th Kenyan in 13 years to win the Boston Marathon on Monday and his countrymen took die next four spots in the 107th running of the nice With the top three finishers running for the first time in Boston Kenyans seem poised to keep their grasp on the race said the “I was Cheruiyot (pronounced “It is a marathon to make your name known in the world" Svetlana Zakharova of Russia won die women’s race to prevent a second straight Kenyan sweep Marla Runyan who is legally blind was fifth — the fiBoston’Marathonl best finish for a US runner since 1993 The men’s and women’s winners in the field of 20260 each won $80000 Cheruiyot pulled away from Timomark led thy Cherigat at the le 1 12 miles left 16 with seconds by and won by 23 seconds in k time of 2 hours 10 minutes 11 seconds “I like the way people make encouragement along the way” Cheruiyot said “They are happy about Africans and I like that very much" Cheruiyot won his only other marathon last December in Milan and primarily has competed in (62 mile) races and 22-mi- well-prepare- d” Sports briefs cheh-REE-y- Burton named Aggie Athlete of the Week Ttack and field thrower Kelli Burton was named Utah State's Athlete of the Week it was announced on Monday Hie honor is selected by a ' local media panel Burton a freshman from Kaysville ns See RULE on B3 NBA AP photo Robert Cheruiyot of Kenya raises his trophy after winning the 107th running of the Boston Marathon Monday Playoffs won both the shot put and discus at USlTs Mafk Faldmo Invitational this past weekend This is the second straight week she has won both events Burion's distances in the shot put and the discus were personal bests and moved her up the rankings for the NCAAs They also moved her to second all time in the shot put and third in the discus in school history ©01) Utah State golfers in 9th place at Big West Kings lose Webber still beat Jazz easily Phil Kalivas shot a 77 to lead Utah State's golf team in the first round of the Big West Conference Championships in El Dorado Hills Calif on Monday morning The second round of the event was rained out Monday afternoon and the tournament will be shortened to a event with the final 18 holes scheduled for today UC Irvine and Cal Poly are tied for the team lead with identical scores of 36-ho- SACRAMENTO Calif (AP) — In most of their playoff games over the past five years the Sacramento Kings have seemed just as unnerved by their loud crowd as their opponents did But the Kings' trepidation went away in Game 2 d series with Utah of their on Monday night — and that might be even more discouraging to the Jazz than the Kings' 108-9- 5 victo19 home le first-roun- 294 Idaho is third at 299 Utah State shot a 322 and is seven strokes behind UC Santa Barbara eighth-plac- e Individually only two players in the field broke par of 72 at the Serrano Country Club as UC Irvine's Mike Lavery fired a par 70 to lead Matt Hansen of Pacific by one shot Kalivas a senior shot 37 on the first nine before following up with a 40 on the back side His total of him for 22nd Aggie freshmen Cody Huot and Marcus Myers each carded rounds of 79 in their first career Big West Tournament action They are tied for 30th 77-tie- ry Peja Stojakovic a frequent victim of the postseason jitters scored 29 points as the Kings lead early in roared to a the fourth quarter A late Utah rally narrowed the final gap but the Kings never gave their deafening fans much reason to doubt For the first time since they began their string of 25-po- int s best-of-sev- ' Weathersby expected to make full recovery DUARTE Calif (AP) — Top NFL draft prospect Dennis Weathersby is expected to make a complete recovery after he was shot in die back in violence suspected gang-relatThe former Oregon State comer-bac- k was in stable condition Monday and was expected to be released from the hospital no later than Wednesday agent Gary Uberstine said ed Monday's scores Al" Toronto 11 Boston 6 NY Yankees 15 Minnesota 1 Cleveland 9 Chicago White Sox 2 Baltimore 4 Tampa Bay 0 PCL Salt Lake at Fresno ppd rain breath" AP photo Sacramento guard Mike Bibby right jumps past Utah guard John Stockton during the first quarter of the NBA playoff series in Sacramento Calif Monday night second game of their Utah sends Stevenson home before game SACRAMENTO Calif ( AP) — The Utah Jazz suspended guard DeShawn Stevenson on Monday hours before their playoff game against die Sacramento Kings for getting into an argument with coach Jerry Sloan at practice Stevenson was sent back to Salt Lake City for conduct detrimental to the team the Jazz announced in a brief press release A team spokesman said the Jazz will decide the length of the suspension after meeting with Stevenson later in die week Stevenson declined to comment Monday when contacted at his home in Sandy Sloan also didn’t want to talk about the incident before Mon- during practice on Sunday “It can happen but the coach is the coach" forward Andrei Kirilenko said “Mentally he disap- - V' r --- Vv o S:30 djil TBS — St Louis at Atlanta NBA fV pm TNT— Playoffs first round game 2 Milwaukee at New Jersey s v - v ’ 7:30 pm TNT — Playoffs first round game LA Lakers at Minnesota NHL pm Toronto See HOME on B3 KU Former Illinois coach back where career began MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL ESPN ESPN2 — Playoffs confer- DeShawn Stevenson Self takes over at On television ence quarterfinals game 7 pointed us We need to be a team like a fist" Stevenson a third-yepro who was drafted by the Jazz directly out of his Fresno high school played just one minute in Utah's 96-9- 0 loss to the Kings in Game 1 He was a disappointment this season averaging 46 points per game in a steadily dwindling role He averaged 125 minutes while playing in 61 games and shooting just 40 percent from the ar day's game but Stevenson's teammates said the two argued NHL playoffs 5 see Cruise on B3 first-roun- Toronto 2 Phfladeipnia 1 20T Minnesota 3 Colorado 2 OT 2 The Kings pjayed at their favorite tempo: all-oaggression They did it mostly without leading scorer and rebounder Chris Webber who went to the locker room early in the fourth quarter with a ut Sacramento 108 Utah 95 Indiana 89 Boston 77 San Antonio 84 Phoenix 76 5 five straight playoff appearances in 1999 Sacramento took a 2-- 0 lead in a series “We finally did it We finally won the games we were supposed to" said forwaiti Scot Pollard who had eight points and six rebounds ‘‘We're stepping on them right now We want to squish them We want to step on them and squish them so they get no at Philadelphia Mbmesota at Colorado St Louis at Vancouver AP photo BB Self talks about his new position coach during as the Kansas men's basketball a news conference Monday in Lawrence Kan LAWRENCE Kan (AP) — Bill Self is back where his career began He was introduced Monday as the new basketball coach at Kansas which lost Roy Williams to North Carolina a week after losing the NCAA championship game Self talked about smoothing over the bitterness stirred by Williams’ departure — and similar feelings at Illinois where Self coached for three years “I stand before you with mixed emotions” he said “There’s been a lot of things said a lot of feelings have been hurt a lot of things happen in the last seven or eight days at two wonderful institutions Nobody picks the timing" His first college coaching job was as an &CollegebasketballS assistant to Larry Brown at Kansas in 1985 and Self called his new post “the most prestigious act in all of college basketball’’ About 300 people were at Hadl Auditorium on campus for the news conference greeting Self and chancellor Robert '' Hemenway with a standing ovation as they entered Hemenway said his school's search focused only on Self who won two Big ' titles and one conferTen regular-seaso- n ence tournament championship with the and he Illini His record there was 78-2- 4 See SELF on B4 |