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Scoreboard College Hoops TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Ari zona Coach Lute Olson was not elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame, he said. Olson, who was one of ten finalists, will automatically go on next year’s ballot, but he told the Tucson Citizen that he did not make the cut this year. “It’s such an honor to be nominated; I’m not at all dis appointed,” Olson said from Honolulu, where he and his wife, Bobbi, are on vacation. The inductees were expect ed to be announced this week. The other coaches nominat ed were James Phelan of Mount Saint Mary’s College (Md.), Morgan Wootten of De Matha High School (Md.) and C.M. Newton of Kentucky. Olson, 65, just completed his 27th season as a head coach, 17th as the Wildcats’ head coach. Baseball NEW YORK (AP) — Seattle in fielder Mark McLemore was suspended for five games Tuesday by the commission er’s office for his role in a fight last weekend. The players’ association im mediately appealed the penalty imposed by Frank Robinson, a vice president in the commissioner’s office, de laying the start of any suspen sion until after an appeal be fore Paul Beeston, baseball’s chief operating officer. “I knew what the conse quences were when I went out there, but I think five days is a little much,” McLemore said before the Mariners played the Orioles in Balti more. “Obviously, I under stand it has to be something.” In addition to the suspen sion, McLemore and Mariners reliever Arthur Rhodes also were fined. With Seattle trailing Tampa Bay 4-2 in the seventh inning last Saturday, McLemore charged the mound after an inside pitch and tackled pitch er Esteban Yan. Football ATLANTA (AP) — Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis squeezed a tennis ball in his hand and watched quietly Tuesday as prosecutors tried to link him to a double mur der through “a trail of blood.” Fulton County District Attor ney Paul Howard used his opening statement to tell ju rors that blood from one of the two victims was found in Lewis’ limousine and in his hotel room after a fight that led to the stabbing deaths of two men. Attorneys for Lewis said he acted as peacemaker in the Jan. 31 fight and didn’t stab or hit anyone. Best Bet MLB: Seattle vs. Baltimore 4 p.m., FoxSports Net Wednesday May 24,2000 Volume 101, Issue 159 Emerald Oregon head / coach Renee Baumgartner leads her team into battle for the last time this week, marking the end of a 13-year coaching era By Peter Hockaday for the Emerald When you talk to women’s golf head coach Renee Baum gartner, a word that comes up often is “chapter.” Baumgart ner must think of her life as a book, one where each page is important. If Baumgartner’s life is written in chapters, then the one titled “Coach” is on its last page. And the one ti tled “Full-time Administra tor” is just beginning. The last page of “Coach” will be written this week at the NCAA Championships in Sunriver. But first, that chap ter began in 1987 with a young golf team and a young coach. “We were probably one of the worst teams in the coun try when I started the pro gram,” Baumgartner said. Golf had just reappeared at Oregon after a five-year ab sence, and it appeared as a women’s sport for the first time. A young coach who had a few years of playing experi ence at Southern California Turn to Golf coach, page 12 In her last year as Oregon coach, Renee Baumgartner gives junior Jerilyn White some final pointers. Blazers on a mission if cool heads prevail ii If the Blazers de fend their home court and win the next two, it's over. Inside Columnist Laura Lucas reflects on Game 7 of the Pacers-Knicks series. PAGE 13 ■ Maybe it’s Scottie Pippen, but the Portland Trailblazers definitely played “The Chica go Way” in Monday’s Game 2 of the Western Conference Fi nals. No, I’m not talking about that Bulls team that won six NBA ti tles. I ’ m talking about the Acade m y Award win ning movie, Scott “The Pesznecker ,uounch; ables,” starring Sean Connery and Kevin Costner as visionaries who want to bring down bootlegging in Chicago dur ing Prohibition. You’re probably thinking, “what the hell does this have to do with basketball?” Read on. Perhaps one of the most memorable scenes takes place in a church, when Con nery (portraying Malone, a blue-collar police officer) is coaching Costner (Elliot Ness, leader of the Untouchables) how to defeat the all-power ful, most infamous gangster of all time, Robert De Niro (or, in reality, Al Capone). Malone to Ness: “He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. They send one of yours to the hos pital, you send one of theirs to the morgue. “That’s the Chicago Way — and that’s how you beat Capone.” Just as I can relate every facet of life to basketball, I can relate every facet of basketball to life. I can even relate a scene from a movie, made way back in 1987, to how the Blazers sized up, manhandled and eventually crushed the Lak ers on Monday night, and how they will go on to win the Western Conference Fi nals. When Shaquille O’Neal played “the knife,” cutting into the Blazers for 41 points in Game 1, Portland made the Lakers pay in Game 2 by Turn to Blazers, page 16 Calm down, Portlandfans OK, Pez, calm down. C’mon, Blazers fans, stop it. So your team came on like gang busters and bludgeoned the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 2. The Portland Trail blazers surprised even its diehards with just how tough it is. So life is, as they say, good. Right? Espe cially be Mirjam now you SwanSOII get Shaq, Kobe and their apparently useless teammates in your house, on your floor, where your boys are 34-11 until this point. And you’re thinking: We’ve figured out those purple pretty boys. We have their number. Advan tage Portland. Ooooh, life is so good for you all. You’re thinking that with Monday’s 29-point blowout, Turn to Lakers, page 16 H Damon Stoudamire won't likely get into foul trouble so soon, so he'll proba bly be get ting more floor time — which is A-OK with ja_11
