Show B4 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Saturday July 13 2002 a&a ©omftDimyes Jdf Sweet Continued from B2 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Trouble always seems to follow Allen Iverson the NBA superstar who faces charges he forced his way into an apartment with a gun and threatened two men He spent time in prison as a teenager and has been charged with gun offenses before He often squabbles with Philadelphia 76ers coach Larry Brown and made a rap CD in 2000 that used terms for women and gays that drew harsh criticism Through it all he has survived even thrived With his bad-bo- y image and electrifying moves on the court it's no surprise his jersey is the NB A's top seller Still at times he presents himself as more of a family man who can behave and be a team player At news conferences he sometimes brings along one of his children An uncle Stephen Iverson said his famous nephew had been “progreasing so well" since coming into the league in 1996 as the No 1 overall pick of the Sixers “Just look at what's happened since he's got into the league How he’s changed It’s been like a ' step-pingsto- ne going up and up and these type of things just bring it to a standstill" Stephen Iverson said It's too soon to tell how the latest case will affect Allen Iverson’s career on and off the court If convicted he could end up in prison and would be suspended by the league for at least 10 games But his main sponsor Reebok is standing by him and with good reason The footwear and apparel company gave Iverson a lifetime extension of a $50 million endorsement deal last year While some experts believe the case could hurt Iverson’s mar- ketability others said it might even help sales for Reebok “The bad-bo- y image unfortuis what sells and now nately right he's the best bad boy out there” said Alan Brown president of HolAlan T Brown lywood Associates a sports marketing firm Iverson 27 is expected to surrender Tuesday morning to be charged st with assault criminal trespass threats and gun offenses Four ' APfilephoto Allen Iverson holds his MVP trophy at the 50th NBA Game on Feb 11 2001 Iverson- is facing four felony counts and related offenses for allegedly forcing his way into his cousin's apartment with a gun and threatening two men All-St- ar - 10-ye- ar - ' Fla-bas- ' of the counts are felonies and Iverson faces up to 54 years in prison if convicted of all the charges gun-tot-i- In the meantime Iverson is con' fined to the grounds of his $24 million suburban mansion Iverson and another uricle Greaccused of barg- - ' gory Iverson-aring into cousin Shaun Bowman's apartment on the morning of July 3' as the Sixers’ guard searched for his wife Tawanna Iverson is said to ' have thrown her put of their house naked during a dispute according to a transcript of a 9) 1 call ed ter-rori- too much to handle Allison Feaster scored all but four of and Tammyher 19 points on Sutton-Brow- n added 1 8 points as Charlotte heat Orlando 72-6- 7 Friday night in Orlando Fla Andrea Stinson had 12 points for (he ” who won a road game for Sting 1 10-the third time this season Shannon Johnson had 23 points for the who have lost five of seven Miracle (9-Sutton-Brow- n from the was free throVv line in the second half and she and Feaster led a 21-- 7 run midway through the second half that helped Charlotte pull away for good Shock 72 Lynx 69 Rookie Swin Cash scored 14 of her 18 points in the second half to lead host ' 8) 10 V? Indiana rookie Tamika Catchings a starter in next week’s WNBA game suffered aconcussion in the first half and never retumedwith Nadine Malcohn led Indiana All-St- I") ar - - Sparks 82 Fire 76 OT Mwadf Mabika scored 32 points and DeUsha Milton converted a three-poi' e play with 26 seconds remaining in as visiting Los Angeles ended Pint- nt over-tim- land’s franchise-recor- d seven-gam- e 3) -- 3-- West-leadi- ng 3) 9-- 1-- With the score tied at 3 Mark Sweeney g fra pitcher Mike Holtz (1-hit a leadoff single to snap an slump and chase reliever Dave Veres (3-- 4) Pinch-runn- er Tenidad Hubbard took second on Ramon Vazquez’s groundnut and scored or Klpsko’s two-osingle off Steve Kline TYevor Hoffman struck out the side in foe ninth fra his 21st save in 22 chances Giants 9 Rockies 0 Livan Hernandez pitched the third complete-game shutout of his career giving up four hits as host San Francisco best Colorado Rookie Damon Minor hit a tworon home run and Tkuyoshi Shinjo drove in three runs as San Francisco won its third straight also added an RBI Hernandez (7-1double in the eighth inning 0) ut 0) (7-1- 2) Mi NEW YORK (AP)— Latasha Byears and Michelle means a woman gets about 84 percent ofthe amount s man gets or an average of $ 1 1 45 less- That is a total average of : $88597 each year 2 Menezies said foe school funds aid for women athletes Afo-- : at the National certed effort As long as we levies Association maximum are showing that we arepiak- -' ant the funding fix' men is at not minimum progress they’re going ing The law centra said theap say that we are not in com- athletes between pliance” Kir one-ga- : ' - ’! ! i Continued from B1 The win was Zabel'B12th stage vic- tory intheTour following two sec- - j finishes in sprints' He won three stages iq last year’s race ' “Thi i really a nice victory Ine” said Zabel who crossed the fin-t- o ish line in foe green jersey worn by the Tour’s best overall sprinter “The mmrtFtitinn fnr thSi nrint find th IIanuh haamumI i added women’s soccer afew'1 $216450 compared whh green jersey is really tough V ' $37 1446 fra men during foe Vi 'Zabel one of the world’s best sprint- years ago and quickly added '2000-200- 1 looking to claim the green jer-fchool year That 7 'ers scholarships for it it has a record seventh straight year for school 75 male had shbwnaconcraledeffdrt ' the year J sey ' -- ' Riders pushed the pade from thd said atidetes and 76 female eth-l 7 start Friday and a group of five breakletes' However the law ranWi The majonVofthe " sdid women make up 40 per- away riders held foe lead for about' 37 i The main pack caught the' lead- Idaho' hiiles at tdward athletes 104996 cent of the $ gap goes before the fin--t and 45 jxrcent of the student ' sebotarships for baseball play- - ert less than a half-hoish ' ers President Dene Thomas but receiVe 36 percent 1 ' riders The iaid v of foe sprats dollars That averaged 282 mph fra foe i! r)lp"e ond-pla- : ce 'Iythe ! rk : ur j - ’ 7 in die Storm’s 0 victory The fight fallowed a play in which Sparks star Lisa Leslie and the Storm's Lauren Jack-so- n battled for a rebound and Leslie elbowed Jackson in the chest No foul was called 79-6- “It’spartofthegameof basketball It was a very phys- ieal game last night’' Qooper said “The officials called the ' game the way they saw it” i -- d : stage “Lance srdd this was a fastrace The mood wu initially a little nervous with a lot of windf”Mullra said Alessio rider Alexandr Sheferof Kazakhstan was hospitalized after clashing 15 miles from the finish A craxh on Thursday forced two Continued from B1 ' jams tiiat kept the Mustangs'fiom ponibly' tunning away with foe game Mountain pest began its half ra foe fifth Marco Pinotti returned to Italy with Harris - ‘ technical foul for arguing about fee game’s physical play charged onto the court Both se fine-An- : - said she does dan to appeal “It’s just what the league saw” Sparks coach Michael Cooper said Friday "(WNBA president) Val Ackerman has done a great job so far' and die governing body of that that’s what they decided Whenever there’s punches thrown that player ugoingto get the more severe penalty” Byears wss dribbling rat a fast break when Marciniak fouled her Byean tossed the ball from dose range off Marciniak’s face Marciniak came at Byean with her hands up before Byean shoved her to the gnxmd Cooper who already had a Marciniak were suspended Friday by die WNBA for their part in a fight the previous night Byears of die champion ' Los Angeles Sparks was for two games and (3-1-5) - v two for league-leadin- six-ga- ' ' cyclutlto qaittbe net Lwnprerida :2S?b3S3LI?2?' yertuugghe 1 1 broke his right collarbone UJndmojwwraf c®0 the Mustangs’ groundnut -5 batten to 'i gani struck out five and hit twoj ' ‘Tyson threw a great tame” Markworth ’ v v' v ' said' Ech team scored once iq the first! ' - andovercast Friday and cyplista had a bnefrain ' slower near foe final stretch nds of fans including cattle and i sheep fanners lined the route to watch riders speed by on the flat course ' 7 Saturday’s seventh stage is a 109-battle-bod- y i mile run through the Normandy fields of World War II from Orne to Avranches Bagnoles-de-Thou-Mehezi- es I : - L’ GregltalmradroreinDaiLarsen" who doutyed off Jorgensen with one out' '! to give foe Grizzlies a 0 leadThe Mustangs tied it sfoen Ryan Ztmr ! foerman doubled and scored on Nick Elia- son’s to left “We’ll just build on this loss" worfo said “It will do nofoing but make us a better team" ' ‘ 1-- J RBI-sing- le 1 :’V ' T- lOth-mni- ng 3-- Denise Kaigler said “Wie firmly befieve that Allen wifi be vindicated” Bjilf-Vfrn- (6-1-2) A:V 0-- 8) “People don’t think it’s really that big of a deal They think the media is making a lot bigger deal out of it than it really is" Gold said Reebok stock has fallen some 10 percent since Monday The Iverson brand is expected to generate between $125 million and $150 million fra Reebok this year or 4 to 5 percent of total revenues “It is Allen’s celebrity status not the facts that continues to fuel these proceedings” Reebok vice president iv 0) : i 5-- fined $1000 Marciniak of the Seattle susStorm got a pension and a $500 fine “I feel really bad I can’t tell iL you what it feels like to be sitting here when I’m supposed AP photo to be at foe gym right now" Cleveland Rockers' Chasity Melvin (44) gets a Marciniak said in a phone shot past Seattle Storm's Adia Barnes Friday interview from her home “It’s disappointing to me I’ve was which 11) coming off a big win over verymixed emotions about it defending champion Los Angeles Sue V got“I know they talk about retalBird added 17 points and seven assists iation and Isaw the film many Comets74 Monarchs 60 many many times Joday I don't Sheryl Swoopes had 1$ points and five know the difference in acting in ' assists as visiting Houston won for die miH HhHwi 11th time in 12 games What do you take and what Tina Thompson hadl2 points and seven don’t you take as a player? rebounds for die Comets who got their V Where do you draw foe finer 16fo vktoryTifEani John- g Storm coach Lin Dunn who Son scored 13 points and Janefo Arcain had said late Thursday the team 12 in a balanced attadr for Houston (164) would appeal said Friday nei-t- e which held the Monarchs to one field goal fora S torm nor Marciniak over a 9:52 span in foe second halt could appeal the suspension but dtat Marciniak could Tangela Smith led Sacramento with 15 points Marciniak appeal the (3-1- 6) I 5) sus-pehd- ed Scott-Richards- on 3-- " 9-- pinch-hittin- ( winning streak Milton finished with 23 points and 13 ' rebounds' for the Sparks (15-aiufMar- -' ' lies Askamp had 1 1 points and 12 Detroit'' rebounds 16 Ayana Walker added a career-hig- h which improved Sylvia Crawley and DeMya Walker points for Detroit eachscraed 18 points for the Fire (11 9) to 6 under coach Bill Laimbeer who took over from Greg Williams in June' 7 Rockers 62Storm 58 Ann Wauters scored 16 points and Katie Smith had 27 points for the Lynx ' ' while Tamika Williams added 19 Penny Taylor had nine of her 12 in the second half as visiting Cleveland snapped Detroit pjayed without starting point ' the a missed who losing streak guard Dominique Canty had 12 points and 12 Melvin ankle a with Chasity game sprained and Merlakia rebounds for Cleveland Sol 68 Fever 62 Jones had 10 points and five rebounds Sheri Sam had 15 points and 10 LaUren Jackson scored 10 of her 22 rebounds to lead visiting Miami to its ' sixth wiii in seven games points over the final 7:06 for Seattle (9- - ' as visiting Philadelphia held off New York Down 5 foe Meta loaded the bases : with no outs in the bottom of the ninth inning Mike Piazza grounded into a double play and closer Jose Mesa then hung on to preserve foe victory Robert Person (4-- got the win Pirates 9 Brewers 2 Brian Giles Kevin Young and Jack Wilhomers as Pittsburgh son each hit two-ru- n cruised past Milwaukee The victory made the Pirates 0 at Miller Park this season The Brewers lost despite outhitting Pittsburgh 12-- 9 All of the Pirates’ home runs came off Glendon Rusch (5-who fell to 5 lifetime against Pittsburgh Giles whose homer beat foe Brewers 2 on Thursday night connected in foe third to give foe Pirates a 1 lead Diamondbacks 3 Dodgers 2 Curt Schilling earned his major leagueleading 15th victory as visiting Arizona beat Los Angeles to move within a halfDodgers game of foe NL earned his ninth consecSchilling (15-utive win over Los Angeles and ran his road record this season to 0 in 10 starts With Arizona down 0 Junior Spivey hit a solo homer off Odalis Perez (10-5- ) in the fifth After Craig Counsell singled shot Greg Colbninn added a two-ru- n Padres 4 Cardinals 3 Bubba Trammell hit a three-ru- n double in the seventh inning and Ryan Klesko singled in the tiebreaking run in the eighth as host San Diego beat St Louis er (8-1- 1) 16 points and Olympia had 14 points and 1 1 rebounds Miami (8-1took foe lead for good with a 9-- 1 run to start the 'second half 8) "If -- WNBA mm: Associated Press ' I store’s was Ore third straight lots and sixth in eight games for foe Reds Phillies 9 Meta S ' Pat Burrell hit another brane run against f for 1": ng Iverson’s lawyers declined comment Friday Richard Sprague is the lead defense attorney in the case Other defense lawyers predicted Iverson would reject any offer of a plea bargain and take his chances at trial They said the case was winnable and called Jones — reportedly evicted from his apart- - : Sting By The Bowman’s roommate Charles Jones was at home with another man and told police that a Iverson and his uncle demanded to know the whereabouts of Tawanna and Bowman mem this week --- a weak witness “I think Ivdnan is going to beat the case" said Chris Warren as attorney for convicted Philadelphia mob boss Joseph Merlino Under the NBA's collective bar-pining agre&ftent Iverson would be automatically suspended for a minimum of 10 games if convicted of a “violent felony” NBA commissioner David Stern could also take more drastic action The NBA planned to contact Iverson at some point to get his “side of the story” league spokesman Tim Frank said While some NBA stars like Kobe Bryant do business with many companies Iverson has only two endorsement deals — the one with Reebok and one with Sega That's not likely to change anytime soon said Bob Williams president of Burns Sports & Celebrities Inc an Evanston 111 company that pairs athletes with companies for commercials and other marketing “Most advertisers don’t fed any different today because they had already checked him off their list as being too controversial” Williams said “But it hurts his chances with advertisers who are edgy and trendy and possibly contemplating his services” Still Iverson paraphernalia was flying off the shelves as usual at Philadelphia sporting good stores Iverson jerseys bobblehead dolls armbands hats pins' photos and other assorted knickknacks were still in demand at Team Sprats Inc in Center City said Marc Gold the V - 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