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Seattle shines up for another Final Four SKATTl.K (AP) — Times and tht* rules have changed since Seattle knoc ked Final Four fans' soc ks off with unprecedented red c-iirjH>t treatment in but the c ity hopes to come out ahead again — financially and imago wise — with this weekend’s col lege basketball Finale And with the Arkansas Razor backs in the game along with UCLA. Oklahoma State and North Carolina, there’s spec illa tion the F'irst Fan might show, though official White House plans Monday put him in the state of Arkansas for the week end. not at courtside. "They keep getting themselves in trouble, hut they find a way to win." said President Clinton to The New York Times on Satur day. who w.is the suhjm t ol mu li comments himself in 1992 Me said there was a White Mouse watch party Friday, and we had 11 lot of folks from home Seattle's rave reviews for 19H9 brought the 1989 tournament here as well, not to mention this weekend's semifinal matchups and Monday's championship game "They literally rewrote the book on how to host the Find Four, said R» h Baker, who orga nizml Dallas lor the ISHfi games It w as like a w hole brand new era." Well, it was the 1‘tHUs Bust ness was booming and so was the city skyline Six year* ago. lights in the partly finished Columbia ( enter spelled out NCAA F inal 4 HO Local sports promoter Bob Walsh had o lot to do with < hang mg (a*rs|Hs live on the Final Four '1 envisioned the t'iH4 Final Four as an opportunity for our city to make a name for itself by doing it bigger and better than anyone else evar did uid Walsh, key boaster for the 1990 Goodwill (WuniK But it was wiry difficult at first because people didn't realize the value it had." rh*' IUM4 organizing < nmmlt tis> spent St million siting reads five times the previous high Walsh is not involved this year, the weekend is I wing organized tn Bon Man fie senior vie e pres ident Min Boiler and Brian Front of the Seattle Organizing Com mittee But he laid the ground work I le took it to an lm rodible lev el.' said Front, the committee director It's a coup for tfie University of Washington as well t he s< hool gets tt) percent of the gate about $200,000 this year but Turn to FINAL. P.i )i* 14 Oregon bids seniors farewell at banquet Mt TXfit fnmmM Forward Jeff Potter was awarded his second straight Harry Ritchie Scholar Athlete Award at Monday’s banquet tor his combining of academic and athletic excellence Potter was also one ot Oregon’s eight seniors to say goodbye to Oregon at the dinner Kris Henry My £ Mom ,n,i olades for the Oregon men’s haskel hall ten in were awarded Monday night it tin team's banquet .it the Eugene llilton The awards hampiet was a spirited affair, with rousing ovations, laughter and electricity in the air as Oregon's eight seniors got their final t tir tain < all for their outstanding season and i areers at the school Two*time all-conference seltK.tion Orlando Williams was awarded the Steven I Award is ()n gun's most valuable player for the second i on mh utive season The Portland produr t completed his mroer with l .074 overall points w hu h ranks him 2'tth on the all-time Pai - to chart and as the Ducks' fourth leading all tun*- si orer. I'he smooth shooting lefty also hangs up his No 21 for ()regon as the record holder in career three-pointers (2H2) Hie t> foot-2 senior co-i aptaill was the sisth leuding si orer in the Pacifii to (ainfereiit e this season with 18.7 points per game Senior forward Damon Kunvon was named the winner of the lesse Nosh Award as tile team's most improved player Runyon came off surgery last year and was able to give the Ducks a needed Insist from the bench in the final months leading to the NCAA tournament Sophomore forward Henry Madden garnered the John Warren Award as the team's most inspi rational player Madden started nine games and was Oregon's second-leading re bounder (T>) and Turn to AWARDS Pag© 16 Stanford prepares for mighty Connecticut squad STANFORD. Calif (AIM — Tara VanDerveer's first order of business Monday was to dispel the notion Stanford might t>« intimidated by Connecticut in the Final Four. "Obviously they've had a great season." the Stanford coach said. "They haven't lost a gome They're blowing people out Their average margin of vic tory is close to 30 points. "In a lot of situations, 1 think everyone is talking about the quote 'rematch' with Connecti cut and Tennessee My altitude is we have a lot of work to do this week but we're going to show up for the game. Records are kind of irrelevant at this point." Stanford (30-/) will play Con necticut (33-0) in a semifinal at Minneapolis on Saturday floor gia (28-4) plays Tetnnemee (33-2} in the other semifinal, with the championship game Sunday. VanDerveer said Stanford should benefit from having a week to p re [Mire for Connecticut, which showed some vulnerabil ity in a 67-63 victory over Vir ginia in the East Regional title game last Saturday. Stanford advanced by defeating Purdue 69-58 "I think Connecticut throws a lot of things at you and having a week is what we need to really break down the tapes, show our team the things we need to do to get ready for the game." Van Dorveer said "I think that Virginia showed some tilings that maybe we want to learn from They'd been rolling through the tournament and Virginia maybe put a little stare into Connecticut and showed you some things you could do that would work against them." Connecticut, the nation's top offensive team, needed a strong performance from Kara Wolters to hold off Virginia. The fi-foot-7 center had a couple of key blocks in the late going and fin ished with 1H points. Stanford center Anita Kaplan, who is 6 5. had an squally impressive uulmg against Puriluo with 1H points. Other tey inati hups include Stanford forward Rachel Hem mer. who shut down All-Amor ica Charlotte Smith in the regional semifinal win that oust ed 1994 national champion North Carolina, against Con necticut's Reins (it I-oIx). the col lege player of the year And Stanford guard Kate f’aye against Connecticut guard Jen nifer Riczolti. "We're going to have to play well defensively because they're an offensive machine," Van Derveer said. Stanford, though, has some things going in its favor For on thing, the Cardinal is 3-0 against Connecticut, including a 94-75 victory Inst year / March 2X. IW Volume an. Issue 1l*J Dibble suspended for comments SARASOTA. Fla (AF) The Chu t. jo While Sox sus pended pitcher Rod Dibble one day alto? I'd was quoted saying ropi.i. omunt players would be « with the iabei lor life “hke child moleslers Dibble was suspended Sun. lay lor conduct unbe COfT'i'iij to a While So* pi.ly er general manager Ron Schuoie said, adding that Dibble 'criticaed our major league players " Dibble was quoted in Sat urday's Chicago Tnbutw as saying replacement players wore go«ng to be labslsd like child molesters lor the rest o! Hum lives You're nev or going lo gel nd of that Dibble also interred to replacement baseball as a beer league and said Chis'ago's minor ••• i j. could beat the strikob'inix This (S Dibble s ninth Sus pension White with Hu? • 'sit. Reds. w.is Sus pended for such acts as throwing a bat into a screen throw's) bails at a player and a Ian and charging onto the tie d during a brawl Marquette to meet Virginia Tech in NIT finals Nf W YORK (AP) Anlho ny Pie per scored a career high 32 points and freshman Aaron Hutchins continued his late season heroic;:, with 20 M >r i lay nigr -t, sending Mar quelle to the championship game of !ho Nil with an 87 79 victory over Penn State T’ <■ (loft Jen f agios (21-11) w play Virginia lech, a 71 ■ 59 winner over Cani$ius. in Wednesday n*ght's title game it will be their third championship game, then only title coming in 1970 Vir g • a Tec h beat Marquette 57-54 January at M>iwa, kee Murqiiet!e struggied through a rough lust hail, going 10 reroutes with just one tied goal in 14 attempts, and tho N tiany Lions (20 11) ted 30-20 with 2 59 left in the half Hie Golden i agios scored the last eight points of the hat! a run started with Hutchins' first two points of trie game, and opened the second half with a 20 4 run with Piepor a sophomore guard, and Hutchins scoring alt the pomis
