Sports brief
NBA season in question
as deadline nears
NEW YORK — We should
know shortly whether David
Stern’s threat was real, whether
Michael Jordan will play again
and whether it was worth it to
push the NBA to the brink of
calamity.
Stern is due back in the office
Monday after spending two weeks
in Aspen, Colo., and union direc
tor Billy Hunter has told the play
ers on his negotiating committee
to be in town by Tuesday morn
ing
“We’re ready to negotiate. The
league is refusing to negotiate,”
Hunter said Sunday. Hunter also
said he had not yet spoken to Stem.
With Thursday the deadline for
reaching a new collective bargain
ing agreement, a look at some of
the most pressing questions in
what will be one of the most piv
otal weeks in NBA history,
Q: They wouldn’t cancel the
rest of the season, would they?
A: Yes, they would. The threat
of losing the entire 199(1-99 season
is very real, with Stern saying
many owners are pushing him to
pull the plug and teach everyonea
lesson about how seriously imper
iled the league’s financial health
is. But rest assured, NBA fans,
Stern will not cancel the season
without making at least one sin
cere, last-ditch effort to forge a
compromise.
Q: So when does Stern make his
final push?
A: It depends on what his own
ers tell him to do. One possibility
would be for him to come out of
the Board of Governors meeting
Thursday with the authorization
to make one “absolute, final of
fer,” It’s hard to see Stern ending
the season without something be
ing voted on by the 430 players.
The NHL lookout settlement in
1995 name several days after the
deadline, and baseball owners
went two days past their deadline
when they canceled the 1994
World Series.
Q: What is the biggest factor in
the way of a compromise?
A: Aside from the fact that the
chief negotiators have let this
fight get too personal, the single
biggest stumbling block appears
to be the union’s insistence upon
receiving 57 percent of the rev
enues in year 6 of a six-year agree
ment.
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Oregon’s Lindsey Dion muscles her way into the basket to score two points against Cali
tomia in the Ducks’ victory at home Saturday night.
Stanford
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points for the third time this sea
son and finished second on the
team with five rebounds.
“We certainly need to work on
our free throws and played better
overall, but a win is a win, espe
cially in conference play,”
Wolvert said.
Oregon hit just 10 of 22 free
throws for the game, including
just four of 12 in the second half.
Head coach Jody Runge said Ore
gon will need to greatly improve
at the line for it to have a chance
to beat Stanford tonight at
McArthur Court.
“I think there was some ner
vousness out there in the begin
ning,” said Runge, whose team
was playing for the first time
without senior guard Lisa
Bowyer, who broke a finger in a
86-57 win over Depaul in Port
land on Dec. 22.
“That can happen anytime you
have pressure to perform. But I’m
really pleased with the way we
played, Dion especially, both of
fensively and defensively.”
Meharry added 13 points and
eight rebounds off the bench as
Oregon, the Pac-10's top-rated
defense entering the game, held
California to 49 points on just 37
percent shooting from the field.
“Tonight was a good step in
the right direction,” Runge said.
“But you can’t expect to keep
winning games if you miss your
free throws. We need to take care
of the little things to beat Stan
ford.”
Oregon has not beaten the Car
dinal in its last 22 meetings with
them dating back to 1988. How
ever, Stanford (5-7, 1-0) has
struggled early this season and
has already lost more games than
it had all of last season.
The victory over California
was the Ducks’ fifth win in a row,
including a two-game sweep of
Depaul and Portland at the first
ever Portland Jam at the Rose
Garden last month.
Rivalry
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just 50 percent in the win.
After the game, head coach
Jody Runge said that is one area
the Ducks will need to improve.
The Cardinal have had an up
and-down season thus far. They
defeated then-No.l Purdue 73-72
earlier this season, but have post
ed a weak 5-7 record to date.
Sophomore Carolyn Moos
leads the team, averaging 15.5
points per game with Lindsey Ya
masaki second with a 14.7 aver
age.
Yamasaki is a former teammate
of Meharry’s from Oregon City
High School and has the edge af
ter the Cardinal defeated the
Ducks by more than 20 points in
their first meeting on Jan. 4th last
season.
Oregon made a better showing
in the second meeting, losing by
eight points, but it was a loss
nonetheless. The Ducks feel that
this will be the year to end their
losing streak with the Cardinal.
“We just want to be one of the
first teams to get a Pac-10 win
against Stanford,” Meharry said.
“We want to knock them off early
and we feel good about our
chances this year.”