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QN THE TUBE NBA, Seattle (23-11) vs. Miami (24-8), TNT (27), 6 p.m. DAILY TRIVIA Which NFL team lost made the Super Bowl as a Wild Card? See scoreboard lor answer. Anderson’s late-game heroics give Blazers 88-84 win ■ NBA: Arvydas Sabonis scored 24 points, and Isaiah Rider had 17 points and nine rebounds in Portland’s fifth straight win By Bob Baum The Associated Press PORTLAND — In a game dominated by big guys, the lit tle guy made the big plays at the end. Kenny Anderson, struggling through a miserable offen sive game, scored Portland’s final eight points Monday night as the Trail Blazers beat Los Angeles 88-84 for their fifth win in a row. “I just waited until things opened up for me, and there it was,” Anderson said. "Boom, boom, boom.” In a rough, foul-filled battle against Arvydas Sabonis, Shaquille O’Neal had 34 points and 12 rebounds for the Lakers. But he was just 4-of-14 from the free throw line and missed an 8-footer, only his second missed field goal of the half, with 1:13 to go and the game tied 84-84. The loss snapped the Lakers’ six-game winning streak. Sabonis led the Blazers with 24 points. Isaiah Rider added 17 points and nine rebounds. Anderson scored 15, but was just 3-of-ll from the field before his late outburst. It began when he made two free throws to put Portland ahead 82-81 with 2:38 to play. Elden Campbell scored on a stuff shot and O’Neal made one of two free throws to put the Lakers up 84-82 with 1:51 remaining. But Anderson drove past Nick Van Exel for a layup to tie it at 84 with 1:40 left. After O’Neal’s miss, and with the clock shot about to expire, Anderson sank a 3-pointer over Byron Scott to put the Blazers up 87-84 with 51 seconds remaining. “Anderson’s shot as the 24-second clock expired was obviously the biggest play of the game,” Lakers’ coach Del Harris said. “If he misses, we probably would have won the game.” Eddie Jones, who was 0-of-6 from the field and scored just three points, threw up an air-ball on a 3-pointer, the Blazers got the ball and Anderson was fouled. He made one of two free throws with 4.9 seconds to play to clinch the victory. The Blazers’ Clifford Robinson played just 1:15 before going home with the flu. That gave rare playing time to Turn to NBA, Page 12 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS NBA Chicago.102 Golden State.101 Utah .89 Charlotte .109 Portland.88 L.A. Lakers.84 NHL Ottawa .3 N.Y. Rangers Tampa Bay.4 Colorado Montreal.5 Anaheim Hartford .4 Vancouver .. MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL (18) Texas.61 N.C. Charlotte .81 (1) Kansas.86 (14) Louisville.92 Providence .91 (10) Villanova.68 WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL (14) Duke.55 Northwestern St. .. .68 (13) Virginia .62 (23) S. F. Austin .. .101 Northern Illinois ... .77 (19)W.Kentucky ...81 .2 .2 .1 .5 DAILY TRIVIA ANSWER The New England Patriots upset Miami 31-14 in the AFC Championship to earn a berth to the 1986 Super Bowl. The Patriots were beaten 46-10 by the NFC Champion Chicago Bears. Up, up and away riniiiiiiiiTiiiiMiiwiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiMBiiinffiMiBM" 111 ini i mu —mrm MATHEW STIFFLER/Emerald Ryan Makinson, a senior economics major, goes in for a layup in the Esslinger courts on Monday. Esslinger is open daily for pick-up basketball games. Panthers, Jags deserve shot at Super Bowl If Jimmy “the Greek” were still alive to day, he probably wouldn’t have picked the Carolina Panthers and the Jacksonville Jaguars to be in their respective league championships only two years after their conception. It may seem ridiculous to some fans that these two expansion teams have legitimate shots at going to the Super Bowl. Especially those former expansion team fans in places like Tampa Bay, Atlanta and Seattle, who have rarely had the chance to see their team have a shot at playing in the big one OPINION and are currently at the m opposite end of the spec- HfM trum as far as making it HfllVIl'SHI to the playoffs. It’s not only the whin ing fans of the perpetual losers that are a lit tle bit angry to see second-year teams doing so well. I can think of a few hundred thou sand fans in Denver and Dallas who aren’t too happy about losing to expansion teams in the playoffs. I think that most everyone who is both ered by the rapid success of these expan sion teams is not bothered by the fact that there are new teams vying for the title, but is rather miffed at how they got to this status. As some see it, the benevolent NFL, with all good intentions, created its own monster in the latest round of dealing with expan sion rules in acquiring team players. In an attempt to make right what was wrong with past expansion player acquisitions, bound aries were crossed and super-expansion teams were created. Obviously, the NFL was trying to make up for a few skeletons left in its closet from 1976, namely Tampa Bay and, to a lesser ex Turn to HALVORSEN. Paae 8 Council vote assures Mariners of new stadium before 2000 ■ BALLPARK: The King County Council authorizes $336 million in bonds to build 45,000 seat stadium The Associated Press SEATTLE — The Metropolitan King County Council on Monday voted 8-5 to authorize the sale of $336 million in bonds to build a new Seattle Mariners ballpark and parking garage. The council heard nearly four hours of public tes timony before voting. “This should be a simple, straightforward issue. The revenue is sufficient to retire the bonds, we pledged to do this, we need to move forward and do it,” said Councilman Chris Vance, chairman of the budget committee. But Councilwoman Maggi Fimia, one of the dis senting votes, questioned the wisdom of the propos al. “There’s nothing in the last 20 years that has giv en me the indication that we make prudent fiscal decisions when it comes to baseball and football,” she said. In issuing the bonds, the county in effect issues IOUs to investors, who over 20 years would collect principal and interest, funded by miscellaneous tax es. The $336 million will be used by the Public Facil ities District to build a 45,000-seat, retractable-roof stadium and a 1,500-car garage just south of the Kingdome, where the Mariners now play. Many members of the audience opposed the deci sion to issue the bonds without a public vote on the project. “Local and state governments and taxpayers are being bullied into bailing out these greedy owners,” testified Vincent Koskelo, a stadium opponent. Counting all sources, the project has estimated funding of $414 million, although the official bud get remains $384.5 million for both the ballpark and the garage. The latest figure of available funding grew from $405 million last week after the county’s bond un derwriters began crunching numbers and realized the county would earn more interest during the col lection of bond and tax money. Council approval means all but one of the team owners’ demands have been met. Seattle Mayor Norm Rice hoped to have a propos al by Tuesday under which the city and the Mariners would agree on expenses for cleanup, po lice and traffic on game days. The team has said it isn’t responsible for such costs. Turn to BALLPARK, Page 9
