| Show TUESDAY PI December 2 1997 CLASSIFIEDS o IS 5por D-- 7 Page — Scholar in Hansen Stands Out OBITUARIES Page At H UM I SI Their Form CHICAGO — Call Drew Hansen a "student-athlete- " and risk winning an Understatement of the Year Award Yes Hansen is an athlete He's a starter on the University of Utah's unbeaten basketball team But Hansen is more than a student He is a scholar BY l! Well what do you know? Seven weeks after John Stockton had surgery on his knee the Jazz are not wallowing in the Midwest Division cellar They're not six games out and fading They're not attacking jerry tioan They're in first place All by themselves The Jazz arrived there with a 100-9victory over the New Jersey Nets at the Delta Center on Monday night and though such standing usually doesn't mean much before the gifts have been opened it holds a bit more significance this year because of Stockton's absence and the Jazz's 4 start "It's unbelievable what a difference a two weeks classroom Michael Jordan who with one exception has earned an "A" in every class at Utah Hansen's efforts in the classroom have led him to the brink of a Rhodes Scholarship But in Judicial Process 512 — his first class taken at the end of his sophomore year — Hansen endured the indignity of an Though it hardly qualified him for the Beavis & Butt-hea- d Hall of Fame the non-- was a setback According to Hansen the grade was based solely on five papers he was required to write during the term "I got an A on the first one" he said "and on the next seven straight over the Nets Next: lf Wednesday Utah vs Karl Malone "EveryToronto at the Delta body was making us out to be dead Center 7 pm now we're in first place" The hold is tenuous — merely a e over the Houston Rockets who play host to the Denver Nuggets tonight — but the Jazz are nonetheless 10-- and riding a winning streak with Stockton set to return in perhaps as little as two weeks Utah has beaten the Nets seven straight times and haven't lost to them at home since 1992 "This one hurt" said Nets forward Jayson Williams The Nets were vying for a sole ownership of first place too over in the Atlantic Division and without top draft pick Keith Van Horn having played a single minute The former University of Utah star has been out since the half-gam- 6 five-gam- e — !£0 The result? The lone blemish on Hansen's college transcript "I did the best I could" he said "I wasn't upset because I knew I performed at my highest level M Tim'rTrliriiiii Steve GriffinThe and that's what the teacher See JAZZ Page rTii D-- 5 Salt Lake Tribune New Jersey's injured Keith Van Horn peers over the shoulder of Xavier McDaniel on Monday night thought I deserved What's there to argue?" Utah Coach Rick Majerus reMomembers Hansen's ment The freak of nature is frozen in his mind like the Kennedy assassination and the first moon-wal- k Sprewell Attacks His Coach D-- 3 Hornacek Is Just M A 'Regular Guy' THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Jeff Hornacek's improbable path to his current place and posi tion with the Utah Jazz should never have hap- MONSON'S People Sis- ters the Fates twisted his life's course And THIS WEEK Jeff Hornacek named Stacy with sturdy values and a steel-cla- d work ethic They have three kids and two dogs And are more about family than NBA fluster and riches He does laundry when he's home plays lawn darts with the kids in the backyard strings his own Christmas lights attempts to do his own auto-repawork but usually screws things up worse than they were before She feels guilty about the heft of her husband's paychecks He drives a '94 Ford Explorer with a broken radio antenna She a '93 Chevy Suburban with a cracked windshield ir are laughing g now With every three-pointEvery leaning half-hoo- k half-fli- p squib shot Every pass He's supposed to be an accountant quietly living in a tract home on a quarter-acr- e lot surrounded fence and beds by a white-picknet-dustin- h midwest dream girl pened Could not have happened Something went berserk The Weird mim wSp"" of marigolds in Des Moines Iowa It almost went that way too Came close He got his accounting degree worked a couple of summer internships with firms in DM married a farmer's maize-haire- d daughter A dairy-fres- BY GORDON MONSON nt D-- 6 Fast Fact: Jazz have now won makes" said four" See HANSEN Page Jazz 100 Nets 95 2-- 500-lev- He could become the third Rhodes Scholar coached by Majerus following Marc Marotta at Marquette and Rick Hall at Ball State "If I had to make a call this time I'd say Drew brings the most to the table" Majerus said Clearly Majerus loves Drew Hansen He has ever since he deguard-forwar- d cided to sign the out of Tooele High GAME GLANCE 5 Drew Hansen tne" MICHAEL C LEWIS THE SALT LAKE TKIM NE — a "I met with Drew the next day" Majerus said "I told him 'It can be easy now You're not going to graduate with a perfect grade-poiaverage So the easiest thing is to get a couple of Bs and not worry about it' " Ridiculous to Hansen "Ever since I got my first 40 in junior high" Hansen said "I've strived for that goal It's like Coach always says: If you have a passion for something then do it as hard as you can — and as well as you can — every time That's how I approached it" He faces his first Rhodes Scholarship interview in Salt Lake City on Wednesday at 2:30 pm He'll play in tonight's Great Eight game against Providence then catch a 5:45 am flight If Hansen passes the initial step toward the opportunity to study at Oxford University in England he will be interviewed again Friday Then he will fly to North Carolina in time for the Utes' game Saturday against Wake Forest "The dizzying travel schedule (ioesn't bother Hansen But the audition for a Rhodes Scholarship is another story ' It's an honor just to have the committee want to meet me" he I'm a little nervous I'll said " ust try to go in present myself as am and hope the committee likes 6 azz Fin I t " THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE I D-- Stock-les- s Utes' Senior Chases Rhodes Scholarship BY STEVE Section D See HORNACEK Page D-- 4 M Hart mann The Salt Urn Will Texas Wind Sprints Push Bingham to 5--A ing schedule and vomited on the weight room floor or football field Many other times she has wished had never discovered the vests the players wear to work out or ever heard of Texas wind sprints — running from one end of the football field to the other in segments Through all the disorientation and nausea two things are clear — Rasmussen isn't going to change and she has to suffer to be part of one of the state's best programs "Rand says how many times you puke is Ras-muss- d BY LYA WODRASKA THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Bingham basketball player Shaylin Stoddard meekly holds up her hand and says "Five times" Five times this year she has given in to the pain of coach Rand Rasmussen's train Tribune H3 TTT Editor's Note: For five days this week The Salt Lake Tribune will preview the Utah high school girls basketball season Today: Class like Jeff Hornacek is a member of the Utah Jazz family but that's not his real home team His family is comprised of in back Jeff and wife Stacy and in front Ryan Tyler and Abby Girls Hoop Crown? 5-- A bragging rights" Stoddard said "But it's just embarrassing Every day before work- outs we've all got upset stomachs worrying about how hard it's going to be" Baseball player Jeff Sorensen joined the group once and still cringes at the memory while Rasmussen gleefully reminds him he became ill twice "It was the hardest thing I've ever done" Sorensen said "It's all endurance and going all out and as quick as you can at each weight station" For two months the Miners suffer through the preseason workouts which feature weight-liftinin increments push-up- s in the weighted vests and the dreaded wind sprints which have to be repeated if the athletes doesn't beat her previous time "The object is to push yourself to the limit" Rasmussen said "Vietnam in practice isn't as hard as a game These kids are thankful once the season starts because nothing is as hard as what they've been do-Sg MINERS Page D-- 3 THE BOTTOM LINE- - -- Williams Traded Home NFL to Diamondbacks The Cleveland Indians sent Matt Williams home to Arizona on Monday acquiring Travis Fryman and Tom Martin from the Diamondbacks Williams a power-bittinthird baseman who wanted desperately to play in Phoenix to be with his chilextension with dren agreed to a $45 million five-yethe Diamondbacks as part of the trade "This is the most important decision of the rest of my life" said the recently divorced Williams who wanted to be close to his children so much he is forfeiting $25 million of his 1998 salary reducing it from $7 million to $45 million Williams who lives in Paradise Valley Ariz batted 263 last season with 32 homers and 105 RBIs left-hand' g ' -- - COPY -- J - i-Cf v Matt Williams Green Bay 27 Minnesota 11 Calgary 3 San Jose 2 (OT) Detroit 3 Vancouver 3 NBA Utah 100 New Jersey 95 UTEP 70 SUU 63 NHL Big 5 Women's Basketball Carolina 3 Boston 1 Pittsburgh 1 Montreal 0 Buffalo 1 Philadelphia 1 Phoenix 3 Florida 2 BYU 57 Pacific 48 Big 5 Men's Basketball Top 20 Men's Basketball lDuke 98 S C State 40 5 S Carolina 72 Belmont 61 In Action Tonight Men's Basketball: Utah vs Provi-denc- e 5:30 pm ESPN Men's Basketball: BYU vs Penn State at the Marriott Center Pro-v-o 7 pm Ch 5 TV Highlights (JSPfD 5:30 pm — Men s ketball Utah vs Providence - Time Out Situations: Percentage of current franchises that have never won a championship: World Series: 8 of 28 (29) NBA title: 12 of 30 (40) Stanley Cup: 13 of 26 (50) NFL title: 15 of 29 (52) No-Wi- n Bas- CTST) 6 pm — NBA Basketball Sonics at Wizards GD 7 pm — Men's Basketball - Penn State at BYU NHL Hockey Oilers at Avalanche (TSPNl 7:30 pm — Men s Basketball Kansas vs Arizona QSD ? 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