Show t t 'f: B4 —The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday April -- - On Tuesday tiny Sum Coon — the home of the Huskies — could become the undisputed capital of the bas- - r r' Bl Continued from i : ' A1 j - Kentucky Wildcats to win the title after being ranked first in the preseason The Huskies’ wound up ort top of the coj- - v i ketball i coach Jim Caihoun is one “Going of the hardest things you can do and it wasn't just the beginning of the year Tor us” Calhoun said “TTiis went September to April and that’s as hard as it gets” wire-to-wi- re wire-to-wi- The re double-doub- coaching veteran 32-ye- ar ' ' ’ le week After the way he built and guided this team it’s hard to imagine why He coached UConn k) its second championship in six seasons and joined Mike Kryzewski and Bob Knight as the only active Of course UConn has more and every element was working Gordon a junior who led the team in scoring this season hit durall three of his first the to 20 minutes ing help the Huskies take a 13 -- point lead at halftime Okafor kept his hands straight major pro sports he is already a rock star Irishman revered as the blunt who moved down from Boston to restore New England’s rightful place near the top of the sport that was invented there ' That was always Calhoun’s ambition ' to build a program that would be men- tioned in the same breath with Duke Carolina and Kentucky "That’s what I want to roll off their lips” he has been telling anyone who would listen since he arrived at UConn ago and by winning it all in both of his first two Final Fpur appearances Calhoun may last long enough to hear it happen Then-Co- n necticut athletic director John Toner no doubt believed it might when he announced his selection committee had settled on the hot young coach at Northeastern But neither man really knew what they were getting UConn wasn't a destination job back - then but the Big East was already the toughest coaching conference in the country John Thompson was at Georgetown Jim Boeheim at Syracuse Lou at St John’s and the rest of the league's programs weren't exactly being run by slouches Calhoun fast-talki- ng Continued from Bl Instead of bitterness what Calhoun dwelled on were his memories of watchHall ing the Springfield Mass-base- d the far from built not campus of being American International where he went to school and played college baU ' “Every couple of weeks I’d go down there and get an appreciation for some of After I finished the great great players playing I’d go to see the coaches the guys that I saw at the Final Four from a distance And my sons used to do this funny thing” he said “They used to say when Coach Knight would walk by me or whomever it might be who is a legendary coach they’d say ’Hey Dad will they know you out on die street?”’ The answer to that question today depends on where the street is kicated In a few col- lege hoops hotbeds chances are good some- ’ body will recognize Calhoun especially if his tie is loosened and his pacing constant the way he often prowls a sideline But back in Connecticut a state without s Car-nesec- ca NL Continued from B2 leading the defending NL Central champions over Cincinnati at Great American BallPark After winning their first division title in 14 years the Cubs got a good start on their image-bustin- g quest: back-to-bafor the seasons winning first time since 1971-7- 2 The Reds had another disap’ pointing debut in Great Ameri- - 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Would you like toplay in the Carrier Dome — just not for Syracuse?7 “And if a kid said ’I love Georgetown an awful lot’ I’d ask ’Have you talked to Coach Thompson? No? Good’ And we Went from there” Calhoun can still be charming on the recruiting trail — “I think Coach could talk himself out of being hijacked or robbed” guard Rashad Anderson said — but everything else about the UConn program has changed in the last five years And that includes Calhoun : “I told my wife the typical coach’s lie that this would all get easier once we started winning And she just said to me ’I haven’t seen you in five weeks’ I thought at the time I was being halfway truthful because I love her so much “But” he added with a sheepish grin “it was a blatant lie” ing in working out of two trig jams and outdueling Kevin Millwood and the Pirates rode Craig Wilson’s homer and Tike Redman’s tiebreak- ' ing double to a victory over Park at PNC Philadelphia Jose Mesa pitched the ninth for the save against his former club ' Padres 8 Dodgers 2 The Frank McCourt era in Los Angeles got off to a bad start Brian Lawrence allowed one run in five innings and Phil Nevin hit a grand slam as can Ball Park where 42122 fans sat and watched a lineup missing injured Ken Griffey Jr stumble ' out of the gate once again t If you have coached or you are interested in coaching a WBB A Liftle League baseball team there will be a coaches meeting tonight at 7 at theLogan Recreation Center : nity by overpowering Crooked Stick to win his first major He went through alcohol rehab a nasty divorce and a sib- pension from the PGA Tour for rash behavior then showed up at St Andrews for the ’95 British Open and added a silver claret jug to his trophy collection — much mote — than Okafor Y b 1 ' t VVBBAcoiaohes meeting tonight - the season which was marked by persistent injuries Prowling the lane on both ends) using his frame to Mock lanky two shots and alter dozens hwrc he dominated on offense and negated Tech's Aussie cen- ter Luke Schenscher Early in the second half missal making the Basketball Hall of Fame by one vote this Valloy briofo up and denied three straight ' Tecft attempts to get the ball ' toward the basket Yellow Jackets coach Paul Hewitt buried his head in lus hands i there s probation house anest (uid turned around toward the crowd He couldn’t believe youvegot to take that I know there wasn’t a foul— or " you re not a convict I knopv maybe he just couldn’t stom- ach what was happening This might not be the best way By that point the lead bad for the fust major to 20 and to grown although ' prepoe Tech's Turious rally cut the! " chaityionshipoftheyeaespe- ' deficit to seven in the final dally on a daunting course like National seconds the outcome was Augusta ' But then distractions seems never in doubt to be a constant companion "They just went after the boll” Tech’s Matyin Lewis said “They Daiy wk the nuMhauawie used their sue they tiaxed out hciowdirough the night well they got lo the bolL W: were to thel991 TOAQianipionslMp then stunned the golfncwnmu- fighting as hard as we could" ’ universeThe women’s team takes on Tennessee in the title game in New Orleans and with a win Connecticut wbuld become the first school to sweep both championships “It Was a great season" Okafor said "We had our ups ' and downs This moment makes it all worthwhile" Some say (he Huskies' sue- cess starts with Okafor the Final Fdur's most outstanding player He also had lSiebounds for his 24th of lege basketball world thanks to a tall quick deep and tal- ' ented roster put together by 'i i ’ 62004 coaches with multiple titles f - 1 ’ 4 t--’ ’ |