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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