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Show 10 STATES WEDNESDAY, JAN. 12,2005 MAP#-SPORTS Aggies hit the road, set for Pacific Mixing School & Babies? BY A A R O N FALK Sports Editor • MATERNITY INSURANCE •When you get married, you are automatically thown off mom and dad's policy. • Must be in effect 10 months BEFORE you deliver the baby • Works great with other health insurance policies » Great prices on all Life, Health, Auto & Renters Insurance Cache Valley Insurance, Inc. So far this week, .Utah State head coach Stew Morrill has seen a spark in his team during practice. And the Aggies, who have struggled on the road this season, will need a spark when they travel to last season's conference champion Pacific Thursday. "They know who they're playing," Morrill said of his players. Even after suffering road defeats to Idaho- and Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne, Morrill said he still believes the team can win away from the Spectrum. "We're hoping we can have a really good road year," he said. "[In the past] when we've won on the road it was tight, most of the time very tight." Morrill said the difference between winning and ( losing on the road is sometimes very small - and almost always comes down to rebounding. Against Pacific, a team Morrill said has the best core of post-players the Aggies have yet to face this year, rebounding and inside play will be a concern for USU. "When you talk about a group of three or four guys, we haven't played against anybody with this kind of size and depth," he said. Senior Spencer Nelson and junior Nate Harris will be saddled with the task of limiting Pacific's Christian Maraker and Guillaume Yango, but Aggie big men Ian McVey and Cass Matheus will need to play big also against the Tigers. Coming off the bench Saturday, Matheus threw down 14 points to help the Ags to a 76-65 win over Cal Poly and Morrill said he expects the 6-foot-lO-inch Brazilian to keep improving. "He's really practiced hard," head coach Stew Morrill said. "I told our team Cass is a great lesson for everyone." Saturday, the Ags won't have it any easier, going head-to-head with Cal State Northridge, a team that ousted USU from the conference tournament last March. "You've got to play well," Morrill said. "If you play mediocre at Pacific, you have no chance. And if you play mediocre you really have no chance at Northridge. You have to play well" -acf@cc.usu.edu 94 South Main, Logan (435) 752-4560 Ask for Quent Casperson or JaNae Wolfley Now Open! (Just follow Your Tastcbuds to find us!) y ,.- s///////A-fry HOUSE •A* ' A ' Sundaes & Shakes Fruit Smoothies Cookies Gourmet Coffees Muffins Celebration Goodies Check out our Cookies Cakes! Perfect for birthdays, get well, anniversary, congrats, in 6 sizes. You'll love 'em! Now OPEN in Cache Valley Mall 792-3773 Gregory Bull/The Associated Press FIVE-TIME CY YOUNG WINNER,RANDY JOHNSON poses for photographers at Yankee Stadium in New York Tuesday. Johnson, Beltran introduced to NY long, to be exact. Traded Tuesday from Arizona to the Yankees in a deal that dragged out for weeks, Johnson was greeted with banNEW YORK - Carlos Beltran and ner front-page headlines about Randy Johnson played in an offseason Monday's flareup. doubleheader Tuesday, a Cirque de Subway for two crosstown rivals hoping "BIG JERK" blared one. "PITCHthey might meet up again in October. ING A FIT said another. Beltran, the Mets' $119 million man, Johnson opened by saying he was stepped before more than 100 sorry. reporters and dozens of cameras at "It was unprofessional and, obviousShea Stadium in the morning. Strobes ly, I feel very foolish today, at such a flashing off his shiny gold watch, he great moment in my career, that I smiled as he spoke in English and would have to sit before all of you, or Spanish. stand before all you, and apologize for my actions. Hopefully, it's water under Three hours later in the subterthe bridge. I hope to do bigger and betranean Stadium Club at Yankee ter things on the field than off the Stadium, the sometimes irritable field." Johnson faced an equally large media mob, politely answering questions Earlier in the day, Mayor Michael about his sidewalk confrontation with a Bloomberg joked about the clash. television cameraman a day earlier. "Randy actually has to sit down with East Side, West Side, all around the me for some tips on how to deal with town, baseball took center stage as the New York City press corps," he said freezing rain fell. at a speech. Both wore gray, chalkstriped suits, Beltran, who spurned the Houston with Beltran sporting a snazzy five-but- Astros on Saturday night, said Pedro ton jacket. Johnsons was slightly dark- Martinez's decision to sign with the er and a lot bigger - 46 extra, extra Mets played a part in his decision. The BY RONALD BLUM The Associated Press Yes, We've Cot Those, Too. Along with Thousands of Brushes, Paints, Boards, Sketchpads, Pencils, Inks .... ALL YOUR ART SUPPLIES Over $200 in annual purchases earns 20% discount 27 N. MAIN, DOWNTOWN 753-0333 ^ S THE H I BOOK TABLE Logoa't Dcporanr.il iitort Atuttc. MdtoaixlAriBnJh very first question he addressed was about the Yankees, who turned down a chance to sign him for $100 million over six years. Speaking in the Diamond Club, overlooking a ballfield covered largely by a tarp, Beltran said he was excited about the chance to play for the Mets, trying to overcome their image as New York's No. 2 team. "I call it the new Mets because this organization is going to a different direction, the right direction, the direction of winning," he said. His wife, Jessica, said they made the decision early Sunday morning at their home in Puerto Rico and were too tired to celebrate after spending hours on the telephone trying to choose. Mets owner Fred Wilpon telephoned her the following day. "He called me to welcome me to New York," she quoted him as saying. "We're going to protect you and we're going to take care of you." Beltran will take No. 15, last worn by Richard Hidalgo. Johnson, his No. 51 already taken by Bernie Williams, inherits No. 41 from Miguel Cairo. HEART From Page 9 it was" she said. "It wasn't a fun surgery." Torp said she was supposed to be unconscious during the surgery, but the anesthesia the doctors used wasn't working. She said the doctors were asking her if she used drugs because she was so immune to the anesthetic. She told them she didn't and stayed awake for the three hour surgery asking for pain medication every 10 minutes. Ten years ago, open heart surgery was the only option for PFO patients who had suffered a stroke. But with the technology advancements, Torp was able to avoid that. Instead, she watched a screen as the doctors fixed the hole in her heart by going through an atery in her leg. "I was watching the whole surgery being done on the screen," she said. I'd see them slip or something and all of a sudden my heart would skip a beat. That was kind of scary. Or they would poke something and all of a sudden I would have a chest pain and couldn't breathe. "I kind of panicked dur- "I feel pretty fine for the most part. I can feel pains in my heart... but that's about it." Anne-Marie Torp ing the whole thing. I was crying the whole time." Before the surgery, the doctors told her if something went wrong during the procedure, they would have to revert to open heart surgery. "I was pretty much convinced during the whole thing that I'd have open heart surgery after that," she said. Despite the painful three hours, Torp is fine now and recuperating. She hopes that rather than keeping her from doing everything she did before the surgery, it will actually allow her to do more because the doctors believe her migraines will stop. "I feel pretty fine for the most part. I can fe.el pains in my heart, kind of, but that's about it." She said she asked the doctor, since the defect was something she'd lived with all her life, if she would be able to do more things than before, like dunking the ball. He wasn't sure. ~aedmunds@cc.usu.edu |