APRIL 29, 1998
let The Home Court Matters
BLAZERS COMPLAIN ABOUT OFFICIATING
Bv BOB BAUM
One loss from being swept from
the playoffs by the Los Angeles
Lakers, the Portland Trail Blazers
are hoping the foul calls are a bit
more balanced now that they’re
playing at home.
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The Lakers shot 31 more free
throws than the Blazers in Sunday’s
Cíame 2 at the Great Western Fo
rum.
As the series shifts to Portland
forTuesday night’sG am e3, coach
Mike Dunleavy told the emotional
Blazers they are reaping what they
have sewn through the season.
“What Mike told us is all the
things w e’ve done throughout the
season in terms o f negative public
ity and yelling at referees is all
com ing back on u s,” D am on
Stoudamire said. “But at the same
time w e’ve got to fight through it.
We ve got to focus in on the game
and not on the referees.”
The Lakers were 34-for-52 from
the free throw line in their 108-99
victory over the Blazers Sunday.
Portland was 17-for-21.
“Some of it was aggressiveness
and some o f it was ridiculous,”
Isaiah Rider said. “We have a play
where Sabas (Arvydas Sabonis),
myself and Rasheed (W allace) get
W hy w ould a 43-year-old man
who has won tw o British O pens,
earned m ore money than anyone in
the history o f g o lf and ow ns sev
eral thriving businesses want to
put in the grueling work to return
to com petition from surgery?
W hy w ouldn’t som eone who has
experienced as m uch heartbreak as
G reg N orm an use a significant o p
eration on his left shoulder as an
excuse to quietly w alk aw ay from
the gam e?
W ith Norman the answ er is quite
sim ple.
Pride.
Few athletes are m otivated as
much by pride as Norman. It’s why
h e ’s been able to bounce back so
often.
“ I think there are still m ajors in
m e,” N orm an said by telephone
from his Hobe Sound, Fla., home.
“T here is still a lot on my plate I
w ould like to ach iev e.”
It w ould b e a sham e ifN o rm a n ’s
career ended like this. And there is
slapped in the arm. Then we come
down and slap them in the arm, they
go to the line.”
Dunleavy, who shared the lead
with Utah s Jerry Sloan for most
technicals in the regular season, used
the word "am azing” to describe the
free throw discrepancy. He said his
belief that the Blazers were victims
o f bad calls were backed up by re
marks he heard from commentators
when he watched the videotape o f
N BC’s telecast o f the game.
“ I come back and I watch the film
and 1 see five or seven replays where
I’ve got the guys on NBC saying
’Those aren’t fouls.’ ‘T hat’s not a
foul.’ ‘I d on’t think that was a touch.’
‘That’s pretty cheap.’ I don’t have to
say anything,” Dunleavy said. "It’s
being said on national TV by people
who are more objective than I cer
tainly would be, so I hope it changes
back.”
Shaquille O ’Neal sees the Blaz
e rs’ frustration mounting.
‘ ‘They don ’ t th ink they ’re getting any
calls, hesaid,“sothey’llbeextrapumped
up. We’ll just have to be ready for that.”
Portland is equally frustrated try
ing to defend O ’Neal. The Blazers
have double- and triple-teamed the
big center, only to have him toss it
out to a teammate for an open jumper.
s till
PIL STANDINGS
SPORTS STANDINGS
1998 SPRING STANDINGS
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B\ ROXY ROXBOROUGH
DAVID SCOTT
and
D oes the hom e co urt m a tte r in
the NBA'.’ You bet. N ot only are
all eight o p e n in g -ro u n d p la y o ff
"It’s going to be me sometimes. I
series changing venues this w eek,
It’ll probably be Nick or Kobe in the I
so are th e ir o d d s. W hile b o o k
next gam e," Fox said. “If we canf
m akers w ould ju s t as soon keep
keep them off-balance, w e’ll be bet-1
things
th e w ay they are - m ore
ter for it It’s a collective effort.’
ab o u t th a t a little la te r - the
After scoring 30 in the series I
opener, O ’Neal had 19 points S un- 1 ch ange o f zip cod es has had a
dram atic effect on G am e 3 prices.
day, but his teammates picked upf
the slack. Fox had 24, Jones 2 1 and |
H ere are som e ex am p les:
* The In d ia n a P a c e rs, w ho
Horry 15.
w
ere
fa v o re d by 7 and 7 1/2
"It’s good for everybody,” Har
ag ain st the C a v a lie rs in Indiana,
ris said. “It’sgood for Shaq when hel
now are 3 -p o in t u n d erd o g s for
doesn ’t have to be the leading scorer I
G am e 3 in C le v e la n d , M onday.
every game.”
* T he S uns, w ho w ere 3 1/2
Portland's Arvydas Sabonis hasl
and 4 1/2-point picks versu s the
playedjust24and 14 minutes in the |
Spurs in P h oenix, are 5 l/2 -p o in t
two games because o f foul trouble.
dogs in San A n to n io , M onday.
Even when he is in the game, Sabonis I
* W hile the M iam i H eat was a
h a s n ’t been able to deal w ith!
7 and a 6 -p o in t fa v o rite ag ain st
O ’Neal’s quickness and power.
the New Y ork K nicks in M iam i,
“Shaq’s unstoppable,” Rider said. I
the gam e w ill be a pick w hen the
"If we didn’t double-team Shaq, hel
team s renew th e ir riv a lry in New
would get 50 points against Sabonis. f
Y ork, T u esd ay .
You double- and triple-team Shaq|
* A 2 -p o in t dog and then a
every time he touches the ball.”
m isg u id e d 2 1/2-point fav o rite
Having that kind o f player in the I
in C h a rlo tte , the H aw ks are 8 1/
middle is the kind o f luxury other)
2 -p o in t fa v o rite s to beat the H o r
coaches envy.
nets in A tla n ta , T uesday.
“ It’s amazing what $120 million |
* F avored by 13 and 12 points
can buy,” Dunleavy said.
in Salt L ake C ity , the Jazz are a
a chance that the nearly ex peri
eight tim es in m ajor cham pion
m ental procedure involving heat
ships. And much could be said
and lasers to stabilize the ball in
about the fact that he lost all four
his left shoulder socket will not
m ajors in a playoff.
work.
But the one thing that has to be
I f there is any one em otion that
s a id is w h a t a tr e m e n d o u s
N o rm an ’s surgery tapped into it
a c h ie v e m en t it w as to get clo se
was a sense o f loss. For tw o d e
that often. M ake no m istake about
cades he has been a force in the
this: N orm an bro u g h t co m p lete
m ajor cham pionships, and there
in ten sity to ju st about every to u r
was a sense that there must be at
n am ent he played.
least one m ore N orm an run at a
In 255 PGA T our events since
m ajor som ew here down the road.
1979, N orm an made the cut 230
T h ere is also a nag g in g feeling
tim es - 90 percent. He finished in
that the th o u g h t o f d o m in a tin g
the top three 58 tim es - 23 percent
th e S e n io r T o u r fo r a co u p le o f
- with 18 victories. A ctually, since
y e a r s p ro b a b ly d o e s n o t g e t
the tour d id n ’t recognize the B rit
N o r m a n ’s c o m p e titiv e ju ic e s
ish O pen until 1995, he really has
flow ing.
20.
It’s m ore than likely he will be a
N orm an won the B ritish Open
Joe D iM aggio or Ted W illiam s,
in 19 8 6 a n d ’9 3 ,and I6 o th e rtim e s
and when he can no longer play to
he was in the top five in a major.
his incredibly high standards he
His 18 top-five finishes in 69 m a
will leave the gam e to concentrate
jo rs is 26 percent.
on his oth er businesses.
And how about this: Since 1976,
M uch could be said about the
N orm an has won at least one tour
fact that N orm an finished second
nam ent som ew here in the world
Unique Amateur
Golf Competition
Debuts in
Portland in 1998
The popular Toyota G olf Skills
Challenge National Tour announces
its debut in the Portland area, July
24-26, when 750 amateurs are ex
pected to go head to head in the
highly competitive, one o f a kind
g o lf skills event.
C h a rb o n n e a u C o u n try C lu b ,
32020 S.W. Charbonneau Drive in
W ilsonville, will serve as local host
site on the 25-city tour— which not
only is recognized as the w orld’s
largest grassroots multi-skill g olf
competition, but is patterned after
NBC Sports’ celebrated EMC2 Gold
Skills Challenge for PGA Tour and
Senior PGA Tour professionals.
“TheToyotaG olfSkillsChallenge
lends the best opportunity for novice
and advanced players al ike to sharpen
their overall g am es,” said Brad
Faxon, PGA Tour veteran and two-
time EMC2 G o lf Skills Challenge
champion. “Regardless o f handicap,
all golfers must continually enhance
their fundamentals. This com peti
tions designed to let amateurs do just
that, and the professional event pro
vides us the same opportunity.”
Event entry tee is $20 per person, and
a portion o f the proceeds benefits area
juniorgolfprograms. Tee times arc avail
able from 8 am to 4:30 pm, and reserva
tions can be made by calling 800-932-
8337. A limited number o f wald up tee
times arc available each day. National
Tour sponsors arc Toyota, Dockers Golf,
Taylor Made, MasteiCarel International,
EMC2, Golf Magazine, Ojai Valley Inn
&Spa, NBC SportsandJC Penney. Local
sponsors are area Toyota dealers.
Eddie Jones, Kobe Bryant, Rick Fox,
Robert Horry and Nick Van Exell
have taken turns burning the Blaz
ers.
SOFTBALL
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Franklin
10 1
Madison
8 3
Wilson
8 3
Cleveland
7 4
Benson
6 5
Marshall
6 5
Lincoln
5 6
Roosevelt
5 6
Grant
3 7
Jefferson
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Jefferson forfeits are posted .
GIRLS TENNIS
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Grant
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Wilson
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Marshall
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Franklin
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Benson
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Madison
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Roosevelt
1
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Jefferson
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Lincoln
Benson
Cleveland
Grant
Wilson
Franklin
Jefferson
Madison
Marshall
Roosevelt
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Benson
Roosevelt
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m o re m o d e s t 5 - p o in t c h o ic e
a g a in st the R ockets in H ouston,
W ednesday.
G et the p o in t(s)?
As for the betting, it took gam
blers four days just to get their first
significant victory. O f the games
played between Thursday and Sun
day that moved a point or more,
bookmakers won six-of-eight. Par
ticularly sweet for bet takers was
Saturday’s Charlotte-Atlanta game,
where bettors laid the Hawks from 2-
ÎP Ï
point underdogs to 2 1/2-point favor
ites. The Hornets prevailed, 92-85.
One of the victories for players was
New Y ork’s outright beating o f M i
ami as a 6-poin, underdog, Sunday.
The Knicks had opened at +7 1/2 for
the gam e. G am blers also w on
Sunday’s Minnesota-Seattle game.
Here are the results from the first
long weekend o f the NBA payoffs:
F av o rites: 7-9
O > e r :
8-8 U nderdogs: 9-7
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“ My passion for the gam e has
alw ays been extrem ely high irre
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And th a t’s the way he played the
gam e. H opefully, that passion will
still be there when he tries to return
in N ovem ber
“ I w o n ’t know until S e p te m
ber o r O c to b e r how I w ill feci
a b o u t p ra c tic in g , ab o u t h ittin g
b a lls day a fte r d a y ,” N orm an
said. “ I assum e I w ill be fired up
and ready to g o .”
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