Show B2 — Tho Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday November 3 2003 Bryant nets 21 in home debut ' ' Lakers remain perfect at 3-- 0 l( )S AN( II Stalling i:S i Al’) 1 Bryant played 35 minutes — two less than he did in tiis first game of die season Saturday night in I’hocnix white he scored 15 pi tints' ami w as greeted hy a inix of cheers and boos lie is awaiiingtriaf on sexual assault charges in Colorado - I'ruin hix progame in’iro-ducti- - Kobo Bryant received liuec clieerv in hisliomo ilchiit Bryant scnrll 21 points' to ' can make olfensively and ' ileleiisisely so tonight I went in and played with more confidence""Kobe is finding a pretty good striilcVl Liters coach Phil Jackson siiiil ‘l Its energy seems to he a lot belter than it was 4 week ago'" Clifford Robinson led the War I riors with 19 points Calherl iiKises I ' Oevean George hud 12 points “Everybody is getting involved Karl Malone and Gary said it best ( )n any given night you better pick your poison’" O'Neal said “Guys are moving the ball they're playing very very unselfish It's ' actually fun to watch"-Jackson compared the sluggish h s®i hands with w ife Vanessa rule marathon NYC Si 61 Si Ar NEW YORK (AP) — Margaret Okayo surged past her closest competitors and took The top American man was J Matt Downin of New Hamp- the lead with abciui seven the miles to go in the New York at shirea former standout City Marathon University of Wisconsin in There was nd doubt she tlfJ7th' place in2: 18:48 The would win Only one question best US woman was Sylvia remained: What would Mosqueda of “Los Angeles in dCsiSSL new r Okayo — - yr-- ” rsreshe set here in 2001 hy nearly $ 100000 with Okayo getting i two minutes Sunday finishing a $60000 bonus for finishing in 2 hours' 22 minutes 1 sec-- J under 5 onds and then Americans have to get dropped to £ knees to kiss the ground ShCj rowork” Mosqueda led a Kenyan contingent thaff “ Kenyans run well Russian A n "n —j Running 01 thej?f: f herl£The Pll saidp 2 1 Perhaps Okayo should great day-t- really come andj nicknamed The Course Recordcatch these Kenyans”gW Breaker She ajso holds rec6rdp4r Nine runners wierebunched'times in the Boston MarathonJ& through the'first half oftheM and the' San Diego Rock rai:erincluding‘ ? 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Last year ‘ S' she finished fifth after having problems and was tak'eag i hospital after the raCc?! ” Combs Giguere Okayo beafSThisyear she' spent tluiee IDiddy $undin'spAnaheims n J: made his first start ih five games finishing astrong fieldAnd she did iti&Sfe months trainiim forth NYC fli&Pi with 22 saves His record slipped to 1 on a Warm day with the tei 7 Predators 3 left Tor in die 60sJV-Stars 'perafure r ' " “ " Bill Guerin earned his second hat trick the Hurricanes who lost their thiid V in three games and the fifth of his career IstraightCaroIinahas just two wins inits ' to Head host Dallas firstll games Kenya was seepnd among the K this” said her coach Gabriele : " Sharks 2 Thrashers 2 Rosa “Goal for Athens that's Brenden Morrow NikoKapianen Mike men in 2:11:11 and country' Marco Sturm scored offd scramble man Christopher Cheboibocb: Modano and Jistiti Arnott each added a a hiljy course too She’ll run was third in 2: 11:23: with less than three minutes remaining to the marathon in the Olympics” goal and an assist for the Stars Sergei It was not a good day for the Zubov added three assists and goalie Seven of the top 10 men and rally visiting San Jose The tying goal'came after Atlanta goalie ' Marty Turca made 21 saves four bf die top lO wpmen woe American women Marla ' from Kenya Fiye of the last Pasi Niirminen tried to trap the puck Guerin w ho also had an assist has finished fourthin in sw nine his Sturm New York last year and fifth' chest hut seven men's champions have' goals this season second only to against wped Atlanta's Ilya Kovalchuk who has 11 in Boston this year was and scored his third of the season ' been from KenyaThe top three ' Kinimo Timohen and Scott Walker men last year were freon Kenya Jeff Cow an scored at 2:30 of the secamong the early leaders: But ' scored power-pla- y ond period and Slava Kozlov added a ' “I am very happy because : she tangled with Ndereba at a goals for Nashville: Rookie defenseman Marek Zidlicky also ' for sure we are representing ' water station at die goal with five minutes left for the ' Thrashers our counuy” Lei said! scared mark and fell behind be$ly nwOmen’s f j a-- o Jk-th- e e i S "k I rSVMikael M fil Jean-Sebiasfi- en two-ma- dl "lAl mb WiJ ' c behind Mike Dunham and then carbmeil offihe goalieVsk'ate andin towjnit Tanguay:‘w ho extended his NHL-hepoint streak to nine games tied it with 9:06 iei't ih regulation' picking up a rebound of Milan Hejduk!s w rapardund a shot in olT Dunham's try and hanking ' ' - - ' st ‘ ' left ' arm-- ' ' ' ' - “ Trayis Brigley scored his fust NHL d goal during a ptiwer play for the Avalanche Da id Aebischer stoppled 22 'shots' Bobby Holik and: Mark Messier scored for New York Dunham made 35 saves in his eighth straight start Run-yanw- hd : third-perio- : - " R'i "W ' :: : ile : ft Tc ni Pi Pi Ki is unanimous By The Associated Press ' : ' - unanimous pick for the Oklahoma in Associated The ftess college foottop spot ball poU Sunday and Miami’s record streak of top five votes ended after 55 weeks! The Sooners ) received all 63 first- place votes in balloting by the panel of sports writers and broadcasters to extend their sea- g run at the top of the poll Oklahoma beat rival Oklahoma State 52-- 9 Saturday Miami fell from second to sixth after its 39- -: game regular season winning streak was snapped with a 31-- 7 loss at Virginia Tech ' : The Hurricanes had been in the top fiye since Oct 8 2000 the longest streak since the poll began in 1936 The previous record of 48 was held by Oida- and Ohio State (1973-76- ) homa( 1953-5There w as plenty of movement within die ' poll after a day when six of the top 14 teams 7) : L lost — all to ranked opponents But the 25 ' teams in the poll remained thesame Southern California moved up to No 2 — its highest ranking since Nov 21 1988 — after beating Washington State 6 Florida State jumped two spots to No 3 and LSU improved three places to fourth its highest ranking since Sept 21 1987 Virginia Techwhich went from third to 10th after a 28--7 loss last week to West Vir-ginia moved back up to No 5 following its first victory ever in 34 games against teams ' ranked No 8 or higher Following the Hutricanes were Ohio State Michigan Georgia and Iow a Georgia had been No 4 before losing 3 to Florida The USA TodayESFN coaches pofl had dre 16-1- - SeeOUtaB4 n 1 Goosen made birdies to hold off Goosen finished at 272 on the Cop- afinal charge from Vijay Singh and win the perhead course at Imusbrook and earned: Championship on Sunday making ' S864000 making him thankful he decided to Singh wait one more week for achance to Win the PGA Tour money title skip a trip to Spain this week to play in the Volvo Masters on the European tour Goosen closed with a 1 --under 70 for a three-- : MerThe victory gets him into die wiimers-onlshot victory and became one of only five play- cedes Championship at Kapahia die perfect way ers to have won a PGA Tour event each of the for the easygoing South African to start the season last three years Chad Campbell (69) could have taken some' The week wasn't a total loss for Singh who has won or been runner-u- p in his last four PGA money away from Singh He was tied for sec- ' Tour events ' ond with him until a triple bogey on die 18th: ' 70 That dropped Campbell into a tie for fourth The big Fijian closed with a to finish sec’ with Tim Petrovic ond alone He earned $518400 to extend his Goosen wasn't the only winner lead on the money list to $768494 over Tiger ' Woods with only the Tour Championship Briny Baird made a double bogey to take him Houston week of contentionbut he still Closed with a 72 in out next remaining tie for and finished alone in third to make $326400 Singh only has to finish in a three-wa- y ' third to end Woods’ four-yeBaird who was 33th on die money list earned reign atop die money list Woods will have to win to have any more than enough to move into die top 30 and chance of a record fifth straight title qualify for his first Tour Championship back-to-ba- ck 43-1- son-lon- ! 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