Show THURSDAY January 1998 1 Wit Salt ribtsnr Section D NBA STATISTICS Page WOMENS BASKETBALL D-- 3 Page DICK ROSETTA JUDGING FIGURE SKATERS Silver Lining News Points Out Positive fm& $0is You are in the wrong column if you are into whining biting kicking choking yelling fighting sniffing injecting stealing spitting publicly urinating philandering or assaulting Granted every day of 1997 was not retraced but what sports fan can deny that during most days there was a sordid news happening or three plastered across these pages And to think that once upon a time this journalistic enclave was regarded as a pleasant respite from the almost daily depression of worldwide tribulation Well today there are no Latrell Sprewells Marv Alberts Mike Tysons Bill Romanowskis Shaquille O'Neals Charles Barkleys Michael Irvins Dennis Rodmans or Barry Switzers to horn in on this space An old friend once suggested we start a newspaper called the Silver Lining News Well Charles R Kennedy God rest your soul let's take a New Years Day foray into the la la land you dreamed of so many years ago and make up our own headlines of the day from 1997 with which to launch 1998 Mailman Delivers Perennial Jazz Karl Malone would just as soon aid the abused and homeless as score another hammer dunk He and his wife Kay have devoted hours and hours and countless dollars to ease suffering of Utah families Citizens for citizens now that is something you gotta love baby Summerhays Family Affair: For 10 months of the year Midway golfer Bruce Summerhays competes on the Senior Tour and this past year won his first tour event Always a son or daughter is his caddy His wife Carolyn is frequently in the gallery Families that play together stay together Mayne and Schafbuck Home Run: For nearly a half century Don Mayne and Steve Schafbuck have poured thousands of their own dollars and countless hours of their own time into sustaining American Legion baseball in Salt Lake County There are no monuments at Kearns Oquirrh Park to honor their work but there should be Thousands will chase boys of summer dreams because of the duo's Oquirrh contributions Mayne and Schafbuck went to bat for the countys kids Both are in the pinch-hittehall of fame Fullmer Still Knocking Em Out: For 15 years West Jordans Gene Fullmer struck a worldwide boxing blow for the little guy from the sticks counting ring legend Sugar Ray Robinson among his knockout victims For the past 35 years Fullmer has toiled tirelessly in the Golden Gloves program encouraging hundred of other kids to pound on a punching bag in a gym instead of on one another in the streets Another championship belt please Gardner and Michaelis: They waged their inaugural battles in the 1970s when it wasnt fashionable for women to compete in the sports arena But Fern Gardner of the University of Utah and Elaine Michaelis of BYU always had that pioneering spirit and wide angle vision Fern is in the Utah Hall of Fame and Michaelis' invitation is printed and ready to mail They poured the foundation for Utahs women's sports explosion Commemorative coins would be appropriate Holtry a Coach for All Seasons: Hundreds of Utah men and women labor often anonymously in the high school coaching trenches A handful most of whom pass humbly into history enjoy championship spoils Their worth should not be measured solely by a gold trophy Rather like West High Schools retiring Don Holtry an accomplished football and wrestling coach they deserve the appreciation few making a difference for the future They were teachers first then coaches Just some of Utahs Silver Lining News to usher in a Happy New Year all-st- ar behin- d-the-scenes rs far an When Its All Added Up Process Just Confusing Numbers Game BY LINDA K HANDY SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE Figure skating analyst Dick Button describes the sports scoring system as convoluted and impossible to understand All those 58s and 59s do not add up easily The safe part of the 1998 figure skating forecast is predicting what win not No bare midriffs happen fashion-wisor backs unless of course theyre made to look that way with flesh-tone- d material The female skater who has it all together will wear a skirt and men wiU be in pants No tights This is not e: ballet Besides taking itself seriously the skating world is a trendy place Elements of amateur figure skating are here today gone tomorrow And what is considered a hallmark achievement de-- B How the Scoring Works B Descriptions of figure Skating Jumps two-tent- BY RICHARD ROSENBLATT H McBride Edwards Uneasy B Clobbers Syracuse THE ASSOCIATED PRESS E ASU TraPASADENA Calif dition is one thing but when it comes to winning national championships Michigan one-tent- one-tent- mem- USFSA) who incorporate them All the skaters participating in the Olympics and all the judges marking them are supposed to follow them Theres a lot of latitude in those rales though said Josephine Lawless who chairs the USFSA rales committee For instance midriffs are not allowed but Michelle Kwan's costume last year had one with a d material so it still met modesty standards rather than Figure skating as sport entertainment as on the professional flesh-colore- See JUDGING Page D-- 2 who averaged gars (10-1-) more than 500 yards per game So we've never faced a team as prolific as this Nor has Washington State faced a defense as overpowering as Michigans As dominant as Woodson has been in this his junior and perhaps final season the Wolverines defense ranked first nationally in points allowed (89) yards allowed (2069) and in pass efficiency (758 rating) But as Carr points out The matchup interest is our defense aiid their offense but defense alone wont win this game I can tell you that With all the hype over the Leaf Woodson matchup few rose petals have been tossed the way of Michigan quarterback Brian Griese Griese a fifth-yesenior who regained the starting job this season passed for 2402 Heisman Trophy winner That's what you look for play for practice for For the past two weeks the deWolverines Danny L&The Salt Lake Tribune Houston's Cam Stewart slides into the goal under Utah goalie Wade Flaherty as the Grizzlies' Jan Vopat left knocks the puck away during their IHL game on Wednesday at the E Center Aeros Odd Couple of Goals Trips Grizz BY BRETT PRETTYMAN WEST VALLEY CITY The Houston Aeros scored two of the strangest goals of the year in a span against the reigning IHL goalie of the week Wednesday and beat the Utah Grizzlies 2 before a standing-roocrowd at the E Center 3-- Unfortunately for the Grizzlies the weird goals came on the last day of the year and against a team Utah would really have liked to ar IHL St 48 Top 20 Women Big 5 Hen 3 U Conn 82 Utah State 80 Radford 73 7 Rutgers 69 Vanderbat 91 Cleve St 72 Top 23 Men In 89 Indiana 7S Florida St 68 DePatri 55 18 Michigan ?6 Wisenmnn 63 22 W Va 85 Georgetown 74 Women's College Basketball: BYU vs New Mexico at the Marriott Center 3 pm W emeu's College Basketball: Utah vs 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No single country is responsible Representatives from a mix of countries form the International Skating Union (ISU) The ISU passes the rales down along D-- 4 Runs Past Iowa B Southern Swa Bowl 1S A mom St 17 Washington 118 Toronto 91 Lillehammer which is definitely a deduction and I had to take it its the rale explained Park Citys Margaret Wier the American judge for ladies events at the 1994 Winter Olympics Shes a member of the USFSA board of directors So how could h of a point be that big of a deal to the skaters? Well it was to Nancy Kerrigan She was h away from the gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics That h made a difference in one of the judges placements Four judges including Wier placed Kerrigan first and five put her second to Oksana Baiul Whethh er that of a point was lacking in the short program or her final free skate is unknown as well as the reason it was taken away In any case the two events were combined for the final results History? Carr Just Knows Its Been A Long Drought Coiftge Football USA D-- 2 day-plann- er THE E0TT0M Liberty RwJ 22 So Mas 4L Pitt 7 Fiesta Bswi 18 Kansas St 35 14 Syracuse 18 D-- 2 pends on whos looking at it as in the judging of the US Championships starting Sunday in Philadelphia The United States Figure Skating Association (USFSA) ratebook is the of the sport only bigger with nearly 500 pages of rales complete with rales for the people who define the rules and rules considered exceptions to the rales In SSR (skating standard regulation) section 69 rule 91 states the clothing standards It says that judges must penalize skaters who violate these rales with a deduction of one- - to of a point for the second mark (artistic impression) Katarina Witt didnt wear a skirt at -- lows 7 D-- 8 Action Today ter 7 pm TV Highlights (JLSI3L) m College Football Outback Bowl Wisconsin vs Geo- rgia CB 18:39 m College Football Gator Bowl Virginia Tech vs North Carolina 11:30 am m ball Cotton Bowl College FootUCLA vs Texas A&M (3D 2:30 pjn College Football Rose Bowl Michigan vs Washing- ton St (3D 6:39 pm College Football Sugar Bowl Ohio St vs Florida St GD 11 a m College Football Citrus Bowl Penn St vs Florida di ttw N5 J |