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MONTREAL (AP) — If this was the end of the Montreal Expos call it a fond farewell There was live music in the lobby The scoreboard showed grainy highlights of the team's first game in 1969 And the fans cheered wildly for star slugger Vladimir Guerrero who fell one home run short of a 40-4- 0 season Lines formed at ticket windows an hour before the game and a crowd of 25 178 — the third-large- st at Olympic Stadium this season — watched the Expos beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-- 2 ' Sunday in what might be their final game in Montreal “I have no idea what’s going to happen but I feel really good about the way I’ve been treated by the fans all these years here” Guerrero said through a translator The only time the fans showed frustration came in the eighth inning after Guerrero was called out on a check swing in his final -- t- £ i'--' -- fcVf - &? P' VVv Brant StevensHerald Journal The foundation is being laid for a major renovation of Mountain Crest's baseball field The goal is to make The Yard more of a ballpark ly Diamond at M C to undergo renovation Washington Portland Ore and Puerto Rico have been mentioned as possible destinations “I think anywhere we can call home is a bonus” said Brad Wilk-erso- n who set an Expos rookie record with 20 homers this season “It’s really unfair for us because we can’t be sure any place is ours I think everybody in here would like to play in die States” If the Expos go it won’t be without leaving some lasting memories There’s more baseball history in this hockey town than most people realize Jackie Robinson played minor' league ball here Pete Rose got his 4000th hit And Maury Wills was game” To do that left field is going to be leveled out meaning the berm will be gone a retaining wall with a three-fofence on it is being put in the grandstands will be raised four feet allowing fans to see over the dugouts better and a concession stand will be put in as well as a press box with an announcer’s booth “It should be pretty nice" Hansen ot £ t' ' Cincy hoops coach progressing slowly after heart attack 4 CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati basketball coach Bob Huggins’ condition improved Sunday a day after suffering a heart attack at Pittsburgh International Airport during a recruiting trip Huggins 49 remained in serious but stable condition at Medical Center in Beaver about 20 miles northwest of Pittsburgh said Tom Hathaway the university's sissis- tant athletic director -- “He continues to make progress and the doctors are happywith the type of progress he’s made this afternoon” Hathaway said Athletic director Bob Goin visited with Huggins before returning to Cincinnati to meet with reporters “He was akat" Goin said "He’s talking He’s in pain He has his family there and obvi- ously that's a tremendous comfort to him” Hospital spokesman Scott Monit deferred calls on Huggins' health to the university Doctors implanted a stent Saturday morning The tiny metal mesh device is designed to keep Huggins’ once-cloggartery open Hathaway said Huggins could remain in Pennsylvania for several days and then come to Cincinnati Dr Lynne Wagoner director of cardiac services at University of Cincinnati Hospi- tal said Huggins’ doctors will have to deter-- : mine the damage to his heart before they decide when he can retum to Cincinnati Huggins was at the airport for a flight to Milwaukee for a coaching clinic “He was lucky he was where he was ' not in the wilderness or on an airplane” ' Wagoner said Wagoner said she understood that Hug- - 1 gins received treatment quickly but said that his recovery period would still be a ‘ minimum of weeks She added that it would be three months or longer before it was determined if Huggins sustained any permanent heart damage st The hard-driviHuggins was the coach to get 500 wins in Division I His career record is 50Q-17- 2 including a 332-10- 0 record in 13 seasons at Cincinnati ed AP photo Former Expos manager Buck Rodgers chats with current manager Frank Robinson prior to the Expos final home game of the season the first batter in franchise history Gary Carter Andre Dawson and Tim Raines Rusty Staub—Le Grand Orange — and Jany Park Rick Monday’s ninth-inni' home run off Steve Rogers to send the Dodgers to the 1981 World Series The 1982 All-Stgame before a packed house at Olympic Stadium with four Expos in the starting lineup for the National League The first foreign team in the majors gave baseball a bit of Freifdh flair “I remember the good old days” said former infiekler Ron Hunt ng ' ar who played in the Old Tuners’ game Saturday “Any time that a franchise can’t make it it hurts the game — no matter who it is” Mark Monninger and Kim Bean took a flight from Califor- nia early Sunday morning to make sure they got to see the Expos play in Montreal “They all come out for the first game and the last game but 7000 fans a night in between is not enough to keep them going” Monninger said Fans were allowed on the field to get autographs from the Old Timers before the game -6 third-younge- NFL i said What’s even more nice is what Mountain Crest is doing for Paula Gilsdorf and her family Paula lost both her son Brandon known to everyone as “Fuzzy” and husband Rick within an eight-mont- h span To honor the father and son Hansen said the grandstands and field improve- ments will be “in the memory of Rick and Fuzzy Gilsdorf” On top of that the concession stand will be called "Fuzzy’s Snackshack” ' Jill Hansen Stephen’s wife came up with the idea to honor the Gilsdorf ’s “Jill first asked me after we lost t ' Continued from A8 and Gonzalez caught seven passes for 140 yards Steelers 16 Browns 13 OT Tommy Maddox who signed with Pittsburgh last season after reviving his career in the XFL’S only season replaced Kordell Stewart and led die Steelers to the tying touchdown drive late in the fourth quarter Maddox then drove Pitts- burgh for Todd Peterson’s winning field goal in overtime The visiting Steelers (1-got 11 completions in 13 attempts from Maddox whose TD pass to Plaxico Burress with 2:02 left in regulation tied it Maddox was for 77 yards oh the drive 31-ya- rd 2) Fuzzy it was a couple of months and she’s like ‘We’ve had a lot of people that want to do the snackshack and do it as Fuzzy’s Snackshack how do you feel about that?’” Paula said “I was a little hesitant at first and we’d never said anything to Rick about it because we weren’t sure how he would handle it "Then after this happened with Rick it was just up to me and the kids and we said we want to do it At first I thought ‘Oh I don’t know’ But the more I thought about it I thought ‘No that will be good’ It’s just weird what this can do to you" ' Paula said her kids — Justin Joey and — the decision her make Leigha helped to have the Mustang baseball program honor Rick and Ftizzy “The second time (Jill talked to Paula) I talked to the kids about it and they were just like ‘Yeah mom let’s do it That wUl be neat’” Paula said The renovations are expected to be done by the 2003 season Paula said she is excited to see what the end result will ' 10-ya- rd 6-o-f-7 Bills 33 Bean 27 OT After having a potential gamewinning field goal blocked with 25 seconds left in regulation Drew Bledsoe found Travis Henry for a touchdown on the second play of overtime 26-ya- rd The Bills (2-2- ) have played in three OT games this season tying for their most ever in s season They’ve won their last two OT games after losing the opener to the Jets No NFL team has ever gone fo an extra period three times in its first four games Bledsoe set an NFL record with his fourth touchdown pass in overtime Cowboys 13 Rams 10 Kurt Warner left with broken little finger on his throwing hand then die Cowboys made the Rams’ season even worse when rookie Billy Cundiff kicked a rd field goal as time expired Warner will be evaluated on Monday to determine whether he needs surgery but by the time he comes back it might be too late No team ' except the 1992 Chargers has made die playoffs after an (M start J Lions 26 Saints 21 Rookie quarterback Joey Har-rington won his first game throw- ing for 267 yards and a touchdown as the Lions won for just the third time in 20 games under coach Marty Mornhinweg The Lions held on after building a 20-- 0 lead on Harrington’s TD pass to Bill Schroeder " 48-ya- it es ' - te fan-frien- A V V- - ll It’s no secret The Yard at Mountain Crest is one of the best kept high school baseball fields in the state ' Despite that renovations are currently underway to make the field even better “Basically the playing field itself is pretty good but it’s not very iy” Mustangs coach Stephen Hansen said “We just want it to be more enjoyable for the fans to come watch a ball- - out for the baseball team' I don’t krjow if he’s baseball equipment but he could tiy Joey is a junior at Mountain Crest and currently plays on the defensive line for the football team Other notes: Both ICON Health & Fitness and E Miller Inc paid for all of the concrete which is a tot of the Cache cost according to Jill Hansen Valley Electric Co donated all the Lawson-Yeatelectrical supplies the donated Inc some of sprinkling supplies to help repair the $prinkling equipment Many boosters and businesses are also contributing to the renovation process XsA ‘i Plastic bottles paper cups and were thrown onto the a bag-bafield The Reds came off and waited out a delay in their dugout Born in 1969 the Expos are now owned by the other 29 major league clubs This offseason they could become the first franchise to move since the expansion Senators left Washington following the 1971 season to become the Texas Rangers By Wade Dennlston took I' - at-b- at Staff writer ' if ’ ‘ 38-ya- rd The Saints (3-- couldn’t mount the same kind of comeback they had against Chicago Deuce McAl lister was held to 61 yards rushing but caught eight passes for 67 yards 1) M 'if J V Chiefs tight end Tony Gonzales center pulls down Raiders 52 Titans 25 Rookie Phillip Buchanon scored on a punt return handed off on another punt brought back for a TD and had an interception that led to yet another score in Oakland's rout of Tennessee also got three interOakland (3-ceptions from Rod Woodson including one he returned 82 yards fra a touchdown making him the NFL’s career leader in interception return yardage with 1339 Rich Gannqn was for 381 yards and four touchdowns and Jerry Rice had seven catches for 144 yards and a TD Packers 17 Panthers 14 Ten yean and two days after becoming Green Bay's starting quarterback Brett Favre found Donald Driver for a touchdown with 4:10 left to win it for (been Bay Newly signed Shayne Graham ' field goal with 13 missed a seconds left that would have tied the game Favre was for 200 yards with one interception to toad the Packers (3-Cardinals 21 Giants 7 Marcel Shipp an undrafted second-year pro who didn’t have an 0) 29-of-- 39 22-ya- rd 24-ya- rd 18-of-- 32 1) a touchdown pass NFL cany before this season ran 10 yards for one touchdown and caught a pass from Jake Plummer for another as Arizona (2-beat the bumbling Giants Shipp who was in the game because Thomas Jones had a sore left ankle ran for 92 yards and caught five passes for 39 yards ' Eagles 35 Texans 17 fourth-quart- er 2) Brian Dawkins caught a touchdown pass had an interception a sack and a fumble recovery for the Eagles Donovan McNabb completed 24 of 42 passes for 259 yards and one touchdown and Duce Staley added TD runs as Philadelphia two (3-cruised to its third consecur five 1) double-digitvicto- ry Buccaneers 35 Bengals 7 Brad Johnson threw three touch--' down passes 'and just teammate Keyshawn Johnson had predicted ' had a walk in the Buccaneers (3-the park against the Bengals for Brad Johnson was 277 yards but his franchise-recor- d streak of 187 straight throws without an interception ended when linebacker Brian Simmons returned a pick 51 yards in the first quarter 1) 19-of-- in front of Miami's Arturo AP photo Freeman Jaguars 28 Jets 3 Led by 237 yards from Fred Taylor — 142 rushing and 95 receiving — the Jacksonville Jaguars made the Jets look hapless again Stacey Mack scored three touchdowns for Jacksonville (2-which is three more than New York has scored in the last two weeks The been outscored 102T Jets 13 in three straight tosses their e stretch since worst 1962 when they were known as the Titans ' ' Seahawlu 48 Vikings 23 Shaun Alexander set an NFL 1) ve three-gam- i record with five first-ha- lf touchdowns scoring three times within A span of 1 :05 Alexander scored on runs of 2 20 3 and 14 yards and took a screen pass from Trent Dilfcr for an TD igniting the offense after the Seahawks (1-averaged 547 yards rushing in three tosses Standout receiver Randy Moss started for the Vikings (0-4- ) five days after being arrested and spending a night in jail for pushing a Minneapolis traffic officer with his car But he wasn’t a factor with six receptions for 50 yards ami he dropped three passes in the end zone 80-ya- rd 3) |