Show ' Section ' I I1 ’ Thursday October ft 003 Pagel 1 The Herald Journal Youth movement under way for Jazz Inside SALT LAKE CITY (AP) —After a run of playoff appear-Utah Jazz are suddenly ances the the preseason favorites to among ' contend for the lottery 20-strai- US gets by advance rival Norway in World Cup to B2 Sports briefs Aggies’ Nielson earns co-Bi- g The Jazz opened training camp Wednesday well on their way in an effort to get younger after the offseason departures of John Stockton and Kail Malone The effort to get better however is just getting started “The thing I thought about was kind of remodeling We had a pretty good model It worked So let's try to get back to it maybe in a different way” Jazz vice president of basketball operations Kevin O’Connor said Tuesday “It’s going to be a little painful the remodeling process But I’d like to think that once it’s fin ished that we’re glad we did iL “I think ye’re going to be a better basketball team than people are giving us credit for” The outlook at the jazz practice facility was optimistic on the night before the first full workouts Even after a summer that featured Stockton’s retirement Malone’s decision to leave as a free agent and several unsuccessful ventures for restricted free agents the Jazz were upbeat about rebuilding the franchise without their pick-and-r- oll cornerstones “I think in the years past you had John and Karl you kind of knew what offense was coming” said small forward Matt Harpring who at 27 is among the older members of the Jazz “This year is going to be different" That’s for sure The only returning starters are center Greg Ostertag and Harpring Sixth-ma- n Andrei Kirilenko shooting guard DeShawn Stevenson center Jarron Collins and point guard Carlos Arroyo are the' only other players on the prescason roster to play for Utah last season The biggest pickup was forwardcenter Keon Clark who the Jazz got for a second-roun- d draft pick as the Sacrament Kings cut costs The biggest change will be in the backcourt Instead of Stockton who had been running the offense since the West honor ati ©©Gutter Utah State senior Mike Nielson West Conferwas named the co-Bence Cross Country Athlete of the Week it was announced on Wednesday Nielson shared the honor with Sean Ricketts of Cal Poly Nielson is the third league player of the week honor for a USU athlete this week as football player Ronald Tupea was named the Sun Belt Conference defensive player of the week and v Nicole Feuz was tabbed the BWC soccer player of the week on Monday Nielson posted an eighth-plac- e finish out of 255 runners at the prestigious Minnesota Griak Invitational last Saturday Nielson covered the difficult 8000-metcourse in 24:31 to help lead USU to a 20th- place finish among the 30 teams The Bellevue Wash product has been USlTs top finisher in both meets he has competed in this year : He opened the season by winning the Idaho State Invitational in a course-recor- d time of 18:14 on Aug 30 He dim missed the BYU Autumn Clas-si- c due to a slight injury Nielson was also retroactively honored as the league's athlete of die week for his performance at Idaho State Ricketts led Cal Poly at the Stanford Invitational by placing seventh out of 175 competitors The Mus- tangs finished second as a team out of 22 schools ig Aggies’ Galliano be making 16th straight start vs Lobos will er : ' late 1980s before retiring after his 19th season the Jazz will hare a young trio battling to start at point guard The only one among the bunch ' with any NBA experience is Arroyo who was the team's No 3 point guard last season and played in just 44 games But Arroyo impressed Jazz officials enough with his performance on the Puerto Rican national team in an Olympic qualifying tournament in August that Utah — for now — has stopped pursuing veteran points The Jazz had signed restricted free agent Jason Terry to an offer sheet but Atlanta matched it and retained him So Arroyo Raul Lopez who is coming off knee surgery that kept him out a year ago and rookie Maurice Williams will vie for the job By Shawn Harrison sports editor Utah State's most consecutive starts on offense and defense just happen to be the guys that anchor the trenches — Ronald Tupea on defense (22 starts) and Aric Galliano on offense (15 starts) While Tupea has been relatively healthy the same cannot be said for Galliano Yet 297-pou- one-hand- ed ALDS Mitch MascaroHerakJ Journal See CENTER on B3 Utah State center Aric Galliano refuses to let anything keep him from playing NLDS C : nd straight start Saturday at New Mexico "That is his love for the game his desire to play his competitiveness" Aggie offensive line coach Jeff Hoover said "He is going to i find a way to get it done" ‘ Yes getting Galliano out of the lineup is next to impossible Not even breaking his snapping hand last year would stop No 59 He simply taught himself how to snap left handed over two weeks thanks to a bye week after breaking it against Louisiaria-Monro- e and started all 1 1 games last year: "(Hoover) came to me and said 'Can you play guard? I was like 'I can snap'" Galliano said And so he did With his right hand wrapped up and useless as far as pushing or grabbing He said dial anyone he played helped him work' on his technique "I didn't want tocome out " Galliano said "I will do anything to get on the field" Which makes Hoover smile "He makes the guys around him better" He has Hoover said "He's a great athlete been a hard worker but his biggest attribute is how he makes guys around him better He directs traffic up there he understands our schemes and knows where we want to go" Last week that was on the ground USU finished with a season-be- st 201 rushing yards Running back David Fiefia credited the Aggie O line for getting him a career-hig- h 142 of Oakland 5 Boston 4 (12) GOLF if ' ' : Wednesdqy's scores Noon American ESPN — PGATour-WGExpress Championship first round at Woodstock Ga TGC — LPGA Longs Drugs Chal-- 1 lenge first round at Lincoln Calif 3 pm TGC — Nationwide Tour Monterey Peninsula Classic first round at Seaside Calif MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 2 pm ESPN2 — Playoffs AL Division Series game 2 Boston at Oakland 6 pm FOX — Playoffs AL Division Series game 2 Minnesota at New York SOCCER 5:25 pm ESPN2 — FIFA Women's World Cup quarterfinals Germany vs Russia at Portland Ore 8:25 pjn ESPN2 — FIFA Women's World Cup quarterfinals China vs Canada at Portland Ore V?: centhe ter refuses to let anything keep him from playing and plans on making his 16th NEW YORK (AP) — Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh resigned from ESPN on Wednesday night three days after his comments about Philadelphia Eagles quarter-back Donovan McNabb being overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed Earlier Wednesday Democratic presidential candidates Wesley Clark Howard Dean and Rev A1 Sharpton called for the cable sports network to fire Limbaugh “My comments this past Sunday were directed at the media and were not racially motivated” Limbaugh said in a statement Wednesday night “I offered an opinion This opinion has caused discomfort to the crew which I regret” COLLEGE FOOTBALL 5:30 pm ESPN — West Virginia at Miami ' What is it with the middle? over comments On television f - Limbaugh resigns Florida 9 San Francisco 5 Atlanta 5 Chicago Cubs 3 - UCR proved LBSU Defense has helped 3-- 1 to a Utes start can be defeated USU takes shot at 49ers tonight By David Cordero sports writer Apparently that threat isn't as imposing any more Though the 49ers (8-- 3 overall 3-- 1 Big West) did rebound to win their next three conference tilts It had to be a mistake Just had to No way UC Riverside defeated they're certainly a far cry from the squad that won three national Long Beach State titles in a And even if it did — as crazy span and as that sounded — it certainly ripped through the league undefeated two yean ago didn't do so in only four games The Aggies (9-- 4 2-- get What are we in Superman's their chance against The Bizarro World where night is Aggls Beach tonight at 7 in the day in is out and up is down? volleyball "I was likc 'No they got it Spectrum Perhaps it's just a coincidence but wrong" recalled Utah State senior before the Highlanders tripped up Erin Cartwright upon hearing about The Beach on Sept 19 their last vic- UCR's 3--1 defeat of the 49ers two weeks ago "It was one of the lowest tory over the 49en was in 1982 So teams in the conference beating one of the biggest threats" See USU on B3 10-ye- 1) SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — While offense was the preseason buzzword for coach Urban Meyer's first season at Utah it’s defense that has the Utes off to a 1 start Utah has hardly been overwhelming on defense but has been good enough to give the Utes a bit of confidence entering Friday night’s gamq against No 19 Oregon (4-“We just want to let everybody know that we’re not just some team from the Mountain West Conference that you want to schedule for preseason just to get a win” nose guard Steve Fifita said Much of Utah’s early success was caused by turnovers The Utes 14 already including six last week in a 1 win over Colorado State that likely would have been a 3-- 1) have-force- loss if it weren’t for another key play by the defense Two Colorado State touchdowns in the fourth quarter tied the game at 21 -- all and the Rams drove deep into Utah territory before the Utes pulled out the win Strong safety Dave Revill hit Marcus Houston hard enough to cause a fumble which popped right into the arms of Utah's Arnold Parka as Ire started on an sprint for the winning touch-‘dow- n with 1:33 remaining The Utes know how close the thrilling win was to becoming a heartbreaking loss Without Revill's hit Colorado State could have easily had a short field goal attempt for the win and Utah would be 2-- 2 going up : 80-ya- rd 28-2- I See UTES on B3 6:J |