Baltimore’s Belle reportedly ready to retire
By David Ginsburg
The Associated Press
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Al
bert Belle has just about given up
hope of playing baseball again.
“At this stage, I need a miracle,”
the Baltimore Orioles’ slugger told
USA Today after delaying his long
awaited spring-training debut again
on Monday.
He has missed all four of the Ori
oles’ spring training games because
of an arthritic right hip that threat
ens to end his career.
“At any second, it could go,” he
said. “I’ve felt more pain the last
three days. The leg isn’t getting
stronger.”
Shortly before the Orioles board
ed a bus to Port St. Lucie, Belle told
manager Mike Hargrove that his ail
ing hip had not healed enough to
allow him to play right field in the
exhibition game against the New
York Mets.
Their morning chat has become a
daily ritual, and Hargrove has yet to
hear the three words he’s been wait
ing for: “lean play.”
“It’s no different than yesterday.
The hip was no better,” Hargrove
said. “He’ll try to play tomorrow.”
Belle, 34, has three seasons left
on a $65 million, five-year contract.
He will receive the remaining $39
million whether he plays or not.
The Orioles have an insurance poli
cy that will cover 70 percent of that
amount, The Washington Post and
The (Baltimore) Sun have reported.
But money is not the issue for the
Orioles, who need Belle’s bat in a
lineup that is severely lacking in
power. Despite suffering through a
second-half slump last season be
cause of his hip, Belle still led the
Orioles with 23 homers and 103
RBIs.
That’s why Hargrove will wait as
long as possible before charting
plans for a season without his pro
jected cleanup hitter.
“Obviously there comes a point
in time that common sense says
you have to do something,” Har
grove said. “But we haven’t set a
certain date when we’ll make a de
cision one way or another.”
Hargrove said Sunday the team
would like to reach a decision by
the middle of spring training. With
every passing day, the doubt sur
rounding Belle’s future intensifies.
“Each day your concern grows,”
Hargrove said.
Gonzaga captures third straight trip to Big Dance
By John K. Wiley
The Associated Press
SPOKANE, Wash. — Break out
the dog-eared “Go Zags” signs.
For the third consecutive year,
the Gonzaga Bulldogs are in the
NCAA Tournament, with an un
precedented third West Coast Con
ference tournament title and victo
ries in all but one of their last 19
games.
“This is so sweet because every
one expected us to drop off,”
Casey Calvary, the only current
Bulldogs player who started on
both the other NCAA teams, said
after Monday night’s 80-77 win
over Santa Clara. “But we’re back
again.”
Bulldogs fever is on the rise in
Spokane, the Eastern Washington
city of 190,000 residents whose
long winters have been enlivened
by Gonzaga basketball.
A large crowd of fans greeted the
team at the Spokane International
Airport on Tuesday afternoon, and
all three network television sta
tions cut from regular program
ming to broadcast the arrival.
“They’re the greatest fans in
America, I say,” said freshman
guard Blake Stepp, who scored 21
points Monday night.
Dan Dickau, the transfer from
Washington who scored 25 points
in Monday’s championship game,
said this trip to the tournament
will be sweeter than the trip he
made with the Huskies in 1998.
“I feel more a part of things
here,” Dickau said. “It’s a great
feeling.”
The Bulldogs (24-6) find out
Sunday whom they will play in
the first round of the NCAA Tour
nament.
Calvary, a Wooden Award final
ist and conference MVP, and Mark
Spink, the conference defensive
player of the year, are the team’s
only seniors.
Dickau, who spent December on
the bench with a broken left index
finger, returned in mid-January to
key the Bulldogs’ 13-1 regular sea
son conference run. Stepp was
named the WCC freshman of the
year.
“It’s sweet, maybe even sweeter
the second time around,” second
year Gonzaga coach Mark Few
said. “There is supreme satisfac
tion of a mission accomplished.”
It’s sweet, maybe even
sweeter the second time
around. There is supreme
satisfaction of a mission
accomplished.
Mark Few
Gonzaga coach ))
Dickau scored 19 of his 25
points in the second half Monday
and was named MVP of the WCC
tournament. He was 6-of-8 from
the free-throw line in the last 1:36.
Gonzaga enters the NCAAs hav
ing won 18 of 19 games.
Gonzaga won five NCAA games
the last two seasons. It fell a win
short of the Final Four during its
surprising run in 1999, then came
back for more last year, reaching
the regional semifinals before be
ing eliminated.
Santa Clara made 10 three
pointers in the second half to rally
from a 13-point deficit, including
one by Kyle Bailey to pull Santa
Clara to 78-77 with 24.9 seconds
left.
Gonzaga fouled the Broncos be
fore they could get off shots in the
final seconds. After a timeout,
Jamie Holmes shot an airball as
time ran out, sending the Zags
into a familiar celebration.
Stepp added 21 points for the
Bulldogs. He led a 22-3 run in the
first half by making three three
pointers, giving Gonzaga a 38-20
lead 3 minutes before the half.
Brian Jones scored 21 for Santa
Clara (20-12) and Steve Ross had
20.
It was the second time in the
tournament that Gonzaga came
back from an early deficit to win.
Santa Clara jumped to an 11-point
lead just six minutes in. In Sunday
night’s semifinal victory over San
Diego, Gonzaga was down by 14 in
the first half before going on a 16-0
run.
“They are a very good team that
can give you problems in the
tournament,” Santa Clara coach
Dick Davey said. “They create a
lot of problems that other teams
don’t.”
Gonzaga led 40-35 at halftime
and then opened a 48-35 lead, its
biggest of the game, after Dickau
made two shots, including a
three-pointer, and Stepp hit three
free throws.
Santa Clara scored the next 11
points, a run capped by three
pointers by Ross and Bailey, to tie
it at 48, but could never get the
lead back.
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