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Show Daily Utah Chronicle 10 Wednesday, January 12,2005 Newest Yankee apologizes for outburst Randy Johnson makes his regrets public Kimberly Stephens holds her line at the Utah Invitational last week In Park City. SKIERS the Utes came before the Utah Invitational. Alpine star Andi continued from page 7 Weiser tore up his knee in a and it was exciting to see Ash- training run and will be lost for the season. The junior had ley performing well." Daniel Sonntag was the top surgery earlier this week, and male performer, winning the is petitioning the NCAA for io-km freestyle, and finishing an extra year of eligibility. ninth in the classic. "This is a big loss for the While the team was not squad," Sweeney said. "I sure completely satisfied with their do want him to recover well showing, the worst news for and be back in the gates for us 3-[ave a taste for the finer things in dfe? The Chronicle is currently seeking fine arts writers. Applicants should contact Eryn Green, A&E editor in Union Room 240. next season. He is dynamite for this team." Sweeney will shake up the lineup a little bit for this weekend's invitational. New recruit Magnus Carlsson will start for the nordic team. Following this weekend's competition, the Utes have a week off before skiing in the Denver Invitational Jan. 28. jbeatty@chronicle.utah.edu NEW YORK—Randy Johnson's first pitch in pinstripes was an apology. The Big Unit opened Tuesday's news conference introducing him as a member of the New York Yankees by talking about his confrontation on a Manhattan sidewalk with a television cameraman on the way to his physical for the team the day before. "I'd first like to once again reiterate: The situation yesterday, it was unprofessional," Johnson said, "and obviously I feel very foolish today at such a great moment of my career that I would have to stand before you and apologize for my actions. Hopefully it's water under the bridge." Johnson added: "Yesterday, my actions were uncalled for. I'm sorry. I hope I can move on and can get another chance to prove that I'm worth coming here." In a deal in the works for more than a month and agreed to Dec. 30, the Yankees sent pitchers Javier Vazquez and Brad Halsey, catcher Dioner Navarro and $9 million to the Arizona Diamondbacks for Johnson. The five-time Cy Young Award winner got a S32 million, two-year contract extension that runs through 2007. The Yankees revamped their rotation in the offseason, also adding starters Carl Pavano and Jaret Wright. "Obviously, the acquisition of Randy Johnson is, in more ways than one, a huge addition to our pitching staff," Yankees manager Joe Torre said in a statement released before the news confer"Yesterday, ence. "His accomplishments speak for them- my actions were selves, but he will also uncalled for. I'm make everyone around sorry. I hope I can him much better." Vazquez passed his move on and can get physical with the Dia- another chance to mondbacks on Monday prove that Vm worth night, Navarro had to take coming here." two physicals Mon-Randy Johnson day—one for Arizona and one for Los Angeles, which is acquiring him as part of a separate deal. made contact with the camThe Dodgers are receiving era, station spokeswoman four prospects from the Dia- Audrey Pass said. mondbacks for outfielder "Get out of my face, that's Shawn Green and sio mil- all I ask," Johnson said, aclion. cording to a video of what Green and Arizona reached occurred, which was posted an agreement in principle on the station's Web site. Sunday on a S32 million, "No cameras," Laveroni three-year contract, which said. allows that trade to be final"Don't get in my face," ized. Johnson then said. "I don't Green also passed his care who you are. Don't get physical with Arizona, which in my face." introduced him at a news I'm just taking a picture," conference in Phoenix on said the cameraman, identiTuesday. fied by the station as Vinny The deal bringing Johnson Everett. Responded Johnto New York fell through in son: "Don't get in my face, several forms. Turning to and don't talk back to me, all Johnson on Tuesday, Yankees right." president Randy Levine said, Johnson issued a statement "We've been trying to bring through agent Alan Nero that you here for a long, long was distributed by the Yantime." kees. Johnson got a taste Mon"Regarding the unfortunate day of how much attention incident that happened this star ballplayers can attract in morning as I was on my way New York. to take a physical, I hope that Walking along a Manhat- everyone will understand tan avenue, he put his long that the past few days have right arm up to block a cam- been a bit overwhelming and era from WCBS-TV after he I wish I had handled the situation differently," Johnson left his Manhattan hotel. said. "I am very sorry it hapJohnson, who was accompanied by Yankees director of pened." team security Jerry Laveroni, The Associated Press Marino, Young among 15 finalists for Hall of Fame CANTON, Ohio—Dan Marino and Steve Young set dozens of NFL passing records in the 1980s and '90s, some of which Peyton Manning is erasing now. Marino and Young soon might have something else in common: membership in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The two retired quarterbacks are among 15finalistsfor the hall announced Tuesday. The class of 2005, which will have from three to six members, will be announced Feb. 5, the day before the Super Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla. "It's an honor to get to this stage of the selection process and to be considered along with 14 other deserving candidates," Marino said in a statement released by CBS, where he is a commentator on its NFL pre-game show. "I've always said that election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame was the greatest individual achievement in the game and it would be one of the highlights of my career to join the sport's greatest players in Canton." Marino, who holds many of the NFL's career passing records, and Young, who led San Francisco to the 1995 Su- per Bowl title, are among four ter throwing six touchdown finalists who made the list in passes in the 49ers' 49-26 win over San Diego. their first year of eligibility. The others are Michael Ir"It's a huge honor to be convin, a member of the Dallas sidered with the names on teams that won three Super this list, some of the all-time Bowls between 1992 and 1995, greats," Young said in a stateand the late Derrick Thomas, ment issued through ESPN, the Kansas City linebacker where he is an NFL analyst. "I who died in 2000 after a car have always had enormous reaccident. spect for the Hall of Fame and Marino completed 4,967 of all it represents, and should 8,358 passes for 61,343 yards this come to pass it would be the capstone and 420 to my athlettouchdowns "It's a huge honor to ic career." from 1983-99 with the Mi- be considered with the The leftami Dolphins. h a n d e d names on this list, some He passed for Young threw 3,000 yards of the all-time greats," for at least 13 times in a 3,000 yards -Steve Young season, inin a season cluding six six times and seasons in which he reached had 20 or more touchdown 4,000. The native of Pittsburgh, passes in a season five times. who played for the University Adept at avoiding onrushing of Pittsburgh, passed for 300 defenders and scrambling for yards in a game 63 times and yardage, he rushed for 4,239 400 yards 13 times. yards and 43 touchdowns. He held the record of 48 His league record for passtouchdown passes in a season er rating in a season—112.8 in until Manning threw 49 this 1994—was also shattered this season for the Indianapolis season by Manning, who finColts. ished at 121.1. Young, one of the top-rated Two of the finalists had alpassers in NFL history, was ready been determined: sethe 1995 Super Bowl MVP af- nior nominees Fritz Pollard BASKETBALL continued from page 7 and Benny Friedman. Pollard, who played in the 1920s, was the first black coach of an NFL team. Friedman played for several teams from 1927-34. The other nominees are linebacker Harry Carson, who played for the New York Giants in the 1970s and 1980s and was a member of the 1987 Super Bowl champions; defensive end Richard Dent, MVP for the Chicago Bears in the 1986 Super Bowl; defensive end L.C. Greenwood, a member of Pittsburgh's "Steel Curtain" teams of the 1970s; guard Russ Grimm, a member of Washington's famed "Hogs"; defensive end Claude Humphrey, who played for Atlanta and Philadelphia between 1968-81; guard Bob Kuechenberg, who played on Miami's 1972 undefeated Super Bowl champions; wide receiver Art Monk, a member of three Super Bowl winners with Washington; Roger Wehrli, a cornerback for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1969-82; and the late George Young, who built two Super Bowl winners as general manager of the Giants. The Associated Press NCAA. His success exemplifies the greater ease of assimilating to a less-altered variation of the international game. Coaches still reign supreme in college basketball, and the movement without the ball by motivated players yields a gameplay less reliant on complex whiteboard plays that nobody ever seems to pay much attention to, anyway (if I ran a JumboTron, I'd run a graphic that said "Your coach is making bunny ears behind you, AJ" during every Philly timeout). As for Bogut, many are forecasting him as a top10 pick in next year's draft, when another GM will "roll the dice" on a big guy who can shoot, pass, rebound, run the floor, set picks, and contribute in every category to a team's success... "Running all hard like that, naw, coach, you best sit that rookie." To the Darkos and the Zarkos of the world, I feel your pain, but you'll learn to live with the practice squad. Stop by Atlanta and get yourself a membership at the Gold Club, tell the girls you know Antoine. It's not so bad. 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