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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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