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Between a Rock and a hard place John Rocker's discriminatory re marks in a Sports Illustrated ar ticle sparked a media frenzy — and that’s great. PAGE 9 Scoreboard Rocker ‘favorites* “I swear to you if he said that to my face I’d tear him up, and one of us would be suspended right now. When I joke, I don’t try to make somebody feel bad. He knows, too. We don't joke like that.” — Randall Simon, on Atlanta relief pitcher John Rockers’ calling him a “ fat monkey” and then covering his tracks by claiming it was just a friend ly jab between teammates. “Actually, it’s kind of fun seeing that you can get into that many people’s heads because of something you’ve said. I certainly don’t believe any thing they say. They’re screaming, ‘You suck.’ Well, if you watched my performance over the last year, you know why I’ve got too much confi dence to believe stuff like that.” —John Rocker, with 38 saves in 1999 “I’ve never wished harm on a base ball player, but I’d really like to see Rocker take a Mike Piazza liner be tween the eyes. Not enough to kill him, you understand. Just enough to straighten out his vision and make him a little less verbose. ” —Thirteen (contributor to Web site “ Lu nkhead! A tri bute to baseba 11 buf foon.”) Jordan back in the game WASHINGTON (AP)—Michael Jordan will join the Washington Wizards as head of basketball operations and ,. part-owner a year after he retired from the NBA. The announcement will be made at an afternoon news conference, two league sources, speaking on condi tion of anonymity, told The Associat ed Press. Jordan was to attend the news con ference and tonight’s home game against the Dallas Mavericks. One of the sources said final details of the deal were being worked out even as the former Chicago Bulls great was on a plane to the nation’s capital. Reaching for the Summitt KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Few coach es can come off their worst confer ence defeat and say they are enjoying their job. But few coaches are like Tennessee’s Pat Summitt. “You know I like this challenge,” Summitt said Wednesday. “It is differ ent.” This won’t be another 39-0 dream season like 1998 for the Lady Vols. Losses to top-ranked Connecticut and No. 3 Louisiana Tech assured that. But even a 27-point loss to Southeast ern Conference rival and seventh ranked Georgia on Monday isn’t proving dispiriting to Summitt. For the mentor to six national cham pions, this is a new opportunity to do what she does best—teach, analyze, rotate players and prepare for March. Best Bet [ NCAA Basketball j Arizona vs. UCLA 7:30 p.m., FoxSports Net mrnmmm Thursday January 20,2000 Volume 101, Issue 79 Erfierakl UO hungry to battle at the Pit ■ After enduring a 10-game road trip, Oregon returns home unranked to host regional rival Washington The Hustle What: Women’s basketball Who: Oregon (11 -4) vs. Washington (5 11) Where: McArthur Court When: Tonight, 7 p.m. By Scott Pesznecker Oregon Daily Emerald The ominous, way-larger than-life poster of Jenny Mowe with basketball palmed in hand, glares cold ly at onlookers from the northwest corner of McArthur Court. Then, in big, bold words: home-court advantage. But now, back from a school-record 10-game road trip, the Ducks (11-4 overall, 2-1 Pacific-10 Conference) play at home tonight at 7 p.m. And if the visiting Washington Huskies (5-11, 1-3) don’t see Mowe’s sign on the way in, Oregon wants its opponents understand ing home-court advantage by the time they walk out. Even without Lisa Bowyer, the former Oregon defensive standout who would do anything to win, and Jamie Redd, her coun terpart on the Huskies who never found a shot she wouldn’t take, Mowe isn’t concerned about the lack of competition. “Our fans just hate the Huskies,” Mowe sq,id. “I don’t know why, I have no idea where this comes from, this hatred. I mean we want to go out and beat them but our fans are like ‘Raurgh!’ What do they say? ‘Huck the fuskies’? It’s going to be a lot offun.” Undoubtably, Oregon fans are hoping that the Ducks Turn to UO women, page 8A Jeffrey Stockton Emerald Point guard Shaquala Williams and teammates try to extend a 22-game win streak against North west Pac-10 team* tonight. Ducks taking Washington trip seriously Jettrey Stockton Emerald Senior forward A.D. Smith says that neither he nor his teammates are taking the next two games g lightly. ■ The Huskies and Ducks are getting prepared to renew one of the Northwest’s most competitive collegiate rivalries By Jeff Smith Oregon Daily Emerald When viewing the confer ence road schedule, the trip to Washington is seemingly the easiest road swing in the competitive Pacific-10 Con ference. But if the Oregon men’s basketball team (11-3 over all, 2-1 Pac-10) starts to take this weekend’s games for granted, it might be taking another kind of trip — a trip down to the middle of the Pac, that is. Tonight’s matchup against Washington (6-10, 1-3) at 7:05 p.m. at Seattle’s Key Arena will pair two teams coming off losses that would both love nothing more than to get back in the win column against their Northwest nemesis. For Washington head coach Bob Bender, taking on Turn to UO men, page 8A
