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prizeof$468,000.
“ I feel like I’m calm er n o w co m
ing dow n the stretch ,” S lum an said.
“I ’m h an d lin g it b etter. B u t also
things ju s t seem to b e g o in g m y
w a y m o re th an th ey u se d to .”
Jets mistakes doom
Super Bowl bid
DENVER- R em em b er how the
N e w Y o rk G ian ts w o n tw o S u p er
B o w ls u n d e r B ill P arcells? T h ey
w o u ld p o u n d you o n th e g ro u n d ,
tu rn th e b all o v e r ab o u t o n ce a
m o n th and m ix in an efficien t p ass
in g gam e.
T h e p assin g g am e w as OK. on
S u n d ay , b u t m ista k e s an d a 1-
y a rd -a n d -a-clo u d -o f-d u st gro u n d
attack doom ed P arcells ’ N ew Y ork
Jets to a trip h o m e a n d a lo n g er
w ait for th eir first S u p e r B ow l ap
p earan ce sin ce 1969.
“ W e m o v ed the b all w ell ex cep t
fo r so m e c o stly tu rn o v e rs,” w id e
re c e iv e r K e y sh aw n Jo h n so n said
o f th e Jets ’ 2 3 -1 0 lo ss to D e n v e r in
the A F C cham pionship gam e. “ W e
knew if w e m ade as m any m ¡stakes
as w e d id ag ain st Ja c k so n v ille (in
th e J e ts ’ first p la y o f f g am e), w e
w o u ld lose, an d th a t’s w h at h ap
p e n e d .”
KO Punch Turned
Around Tyson Bout
L A S V E G A S - M ik e T y so n
w in ced in p a in as h is cu t m an tried
to stop the b le e d in g aro u n d his
rig h t eye. T h e lo o k o n th e face o f
tra in e r T o m m y B ro o k s w as o n e o f
g ro w in g co n c e rn as h e im p lo red
T y so n b e tw e e n ro u n d s to try an d
g et so m eth in g tog eth er.
T y s o n ’s w ild p u n c h e s w ere h it
tin g n o th in g b u t a ir an d F ran co is
B o th a w as m ak in g h im p ay fo r it
w ith w ell p la c e d co u n ters. W o rse
y et, B o th a w as talk in g trash, ta u n t
ing the fig h te r w h o se m ere p re s
en ce in th e rin g o n c e te rro rized h is
o p p o n e n ts .
T h is w as n o w a y fo r th e b a d d est
m a n o n th e p la n e t to start a co m e
back.
Corretja, Venus
Williams Win; Rios
Drops Out
M ELBOURNE, Australia-
M a r c e lo R io s , g o n e . G o ra n
Ivanisevic, gone .Alex Corretja, al
m ost gone.
W ith Pete Sam pras staying home,
the Australian O pen faced som e gap
ing holes in the men \ oinks on its first
day, and cam e aw fully close to losing
V enus W illiam s, too.
A stress fracture in his back
knocked out the top-seeded Rios,
the 1998 runner-up. D octors advised
him to rest until March.
For No. 11 seed Ivanisevic, a three
tim e W im bledon finalist, it w as a
pinched nerve in die back.
DIMagglo Released
From Hospital
HOLLYWOOD,Fla.-Nextstopfor
Joe DiMaggio, Yankee Stadium.
Yes, that’s correct. A fter 99 days in
intensive care, after lung cancer sur
gery, pneumonia, and an infection that
nearlykilledhtm andlefthtm inacom a,
Joe D iM aggio w ent hom e Monday.
N ow h e 's getting ready for a return to
the Bronx, w here he hopes to throw out
the ceremonial fust pitch o n opening
day April 9. The 84-year-old Y ankee
Chpperrecerved last ntes afterhe lapsed
into a com a last m o n th But each time
doctors said he probably w ouldn’t
survive,DiMaggioprovedthem wrong.
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Doing the Bird: Atlanta revels in
Falcons’ first Super Bowl
Sluman pulls out
fourth career win at
Sony Open
HON O L U L l-JeffS lu m an seem
in g ly cam e o u t o f n o w h ere S u n
d a y a n d h e ld o f f so m e o f »he
w o rld ’s b e st p lay ers, p o stin g his
seco n d straig h t 4 -u n d e r-p a r 6 6 to
w in th e in au g u ral $ 2 .6 m illio n
S o n y O p en at the W aia lae C o u n
try C lub.
T h re e sh o ts b e h in d T o m m y
T o lies to start the ro u n d , S lu m an
c lo se d w ith co n se c u tiv e b ird ie s to
fin ish at 9 -u n d er 271. T he d im in u
tive F lo rid a S tate g ra d u a te w o n b y
tw o shots an d to o k h o m e th e first
JAN. 20, 1999
A T L A N T A -S tart flapping those
arm s and ju m p on the b andw agon —
the A tlanta Falcons are going to the
Super Bowl.
Ih e city aw oke M onday w ith a giant
"D irty B ird" hangover, celebrating a
gritty team that pulled o f f a stunning
upset in the din o f the M etrodom e,
conveniently forgetting all those years
w hen the Falcons w ere treated like the
crazy unc le that everyone in the fam ily
tries to ignore.
“G o B rav es— and take the Falcons
with you." was a popular bum per sticker
in the 1980s w hen both team s w ere at
the bottom o f their respective sports.
W ell, the B raves have tom ahaw k-
chopped their w ay to seven straight
postseason appearances in the 1990s,
but it to o k the N F L ’ s w inningest coach
and a strutting group o f has-beens and
never- w eres to take the Falcons to their
first cham pionship gam e after 3 3 years
A tlanta, w hich defeated M innesota
30-27 in overtim e Sunday for the N FC
title, w ill m eet the D enver B roncos in
the Jan. 31 Super B ow l in M iam i.
T he team w ill b egin its preparations
o n W ednesday, w hich left a couple o f
days to savor the m om ent. A ctually,
the party began S unday night w hen
the team arrived at H artsfield A tlanta
International A iip o rt and w as greeted
by m ore than 5,000 people. N ary a
m ention w as m ade o f those three years
w hen the team failed to sell out a hom e
game.
“Y ou felt like you w ere in a dream
w orld,” said linebacker Jessie Tuggle,
w h o has been w ith the Falcons for a
dozen, m ostly losing seasons. “Y ou
alw ays talk about being in a Super Bowl
and now w e ’ve d one it. W e earned the
rig h tto g o to M iam i. It m eans a lot when
it all sinks in, the w ay everything fell
to g eth er.”
A nother4,000orsorevelersjam m ed
the team ’s suburban training com plex,
creating a rush hour-like traffic jam in
the m iddle o f the night. T he scene w as
surreal w hen the players appeared on
a second-floor balcony, saluting the
crow d that had spilled onto thepractice
fieldbelow .
“ It w as absolutely nuts,” T uggle
said. “It w as like a rock concert in
Suwanee, G eorgia.”
C oach D an R eeves, w ho underw ent
heart bypass surgery ju st five w eeks
ago. endured a w hirlw ind schedule
M onday. A fter gettingonly4{ h o u rs o f
sleep, he appeared o n A B C ’s “G ood
M orning A m erica,” stopped by P ied
m ont H ospital for a routine check-up,
and held his usual post-gam e new s
conference in Suw anee.
O f course, there w as nothing rou
tine o r usual about this day. T he Fal
cons have never played at this tim e o f
year, suffering through 25 losing sea
sons in their first 32 years.
A fter R eeves w as hired as coach,
the Falcons lost seven o f their first
eight gam es in 1997. Since then, they
have w on 22 o f 26 d o u b lin g the
franchise’s p la y o ff victories from tw o
to four in the span o f eight days.
“I t’s incredible w hen you think
about it,” R eeves said, “com ing from 1-
7 halfw ay through you first year to be
in the Super B ow l in the second year. I
can ’t say enough about our players.”
B ut m uch o f the focus w ill b e on
R eeves at this S uper B ow l. H e ’ll be
fa c in g th e te a m he
coached for 12 years and
took to three title games.
H e ’ll also be facing the
coach he fired for alleged
subordination and the
quarterback w ho said
playing for R eeves w as
“hell.”
R e e v e s, w h o w as
fired by the B roncos af
ter the 1992 season, in
sisted M onday that he
has buried any hard feel
ings for M ike Shanahan
and Jo h n Elw ay.
“ I d o n ’t live in the
p a s t ,” th e F a lc o n s
co ach said. “ I f y o u ’re
going to b e a football
coach and you preach
and teach to the players
that they should look to
the nex t p lay an d not
think about the last o n e ,
I think y o u have to go
through life the sam e
w ay.
Falcons defeated the Minnesota
Vikings.
Settlement Again Delayed; Pippen,
Sprewell Trades Set
N E W Y O R K - All sorts o f deals are
being m ade, from Scottie Pippen head
ing to the H ouston Rockets to la tre ll
Sprewell going to theN ew Y ork Knicks.
B ut those transactions will have to
wait som e more, as the N BA informed its
team s T uesday that training cam ps will
not open on W ednesday, delaying any
trades or signings until Thursday at the
earliest
B ut the waiting gam e hasn’t stopped
teams from having deals ready to go
w henever the lockout does end.
T he C hicago Bulls agreed to a sign-
and-trade deal sending Pippen to the
Rockets for forward Roy Rogers and a
second-round draft pick, and the Knicks
were set to acquire Latrell Sprewell from
G olden State for John Starks and Chris
Mills.
A ls o , to p fre e a g e n t A n to n io
M cD yess w as expected to choose be
tween D enverand Phoenix by the end o f
the day.
A lso:M innesota,Toronto and D en
ver agreed on a three-way trade sending
guard Chauncey Billups to the N u g
gets, center Dean G arrett and guard
B obby Jackson to the Tim berwolves
and guard M icheál W illiam s and tw o
No. 1 picks to the Raptors.
T he Bulls signed and traded guard
Steve Kerr and center Luc Longley, with
Kerr going to San Antonio, and Longley
N ew Jersey reportedly acquired cen
ter Jim M cllvaine from Seattle for for
w ards M ichael C age and D on Mac Lean.
T he Los A ngeles Lakers sent for
w ard T ony Battie to Boston for center
Travis Knight.
V lade D ivac is w aiting for M cD yess
to decide before he goes to Phoenix,
D enver o r Sacram ento.
All o f those deals cannot be com
pleted until league and union lawyers
put the settlem ent into writing. In addi
tion, both sides are trying to resolve
several differences that have arisen.
T he biggest disagreem ent concerns
the new average salary exception, w hich
allows team s already over the salary cap
to sign an extra free agent. T he union
w ants the exception to be used for six-
year contracts; the league w ants it lim
ited to three-year deals.
T he Bulls w ill sign Pippen to a deal
w orth $67.2 million for five years before
trading him.
A lthough the salaries for Pippen and
R ogers d o not m atch, the deal is allow
able under N B A rules because Houston
will have enough salary cap room to fit
in P ippen’s contract. His salary for this
headed to Phoenix for forw ard M artin
M uursepp, forward-center Mark Bryant
season will be $ 10.6 million.
Pippen, a six-tim e cham pion with the
Bulls, had talked to the R ockets about
signing w ith them as a free agent. He
apparently agreed to the sign-and-trade
deal because it aliows him to make more
m oney than H ouston could have of
and guard-forward B ubba Wells.
fered.
The acquisition o f Pippen should
clear the w ay for C harles Barkley to re
sign w ith H ouston for the $ 1 million
m inim um , giving the Rockets a form i
dable front line o f Barkley, Pippen and
HakeemGlajuwon. and allowing Barkley
to keep his Larry Bird-exception rights
for another year.
“ I am excited about my new career in
H ouston, and even though everything
seem s to be changing, I hope Bulls fans
everyw here will understand that it is
tim e for a new era to begin in C hicago,”
Pippen said.
“Chicago has beenm yhom efom early
halfm y life, and w ith family and friends
here 1 will alw ays treat thecity as home.
I only hope the city o f C hicago will
continue to treat m e as one oftheir own.
Thanks for all the great m em ories.”
Sprewell, a three-time All-Star, drew
the longest nondrug-related suspen
sion in league history last season for
choking his coach, P.J. Carlesimo.
The Knicks will send Starks and Mills
to the W arriors, tw o league sources said
today. New Y ork originally offered Mills
and guard C hris Childs.
The Knicks, H eat and Pacers had
been know n to be the leading bidders,
and the AP learned that a com plicated
four-team trade involving Golden State,
M iam i, C leveland and Boston also w as
discussed.
In that scenario, Sprewell would have
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G olden State getting Brent Barry, D an
M ajerle and Bobby Sura. B oston would
have received Jam al M ashburn and
V italy Potapenko, and Cleveland would
have received Paul Pierce and A ndrew
Declercq.
M cD yess is expected to decide to
day betw een re-signing w ith Phoenix or
going to Denver. The R ockets and Bulls
w ere am ong his earlier choices.
“H ouston and C hicago are out o f the
picture,” agent Jam es B ryant said.
“T ony has analyzed the situation care
fully, and h e ’s m ost at hom e w ith those
tw o options: Phoenix is going to stay a
w inner and D enver is going to be a
winner.”
If M cD yess stays in Phoenix, the
N uggets are expected to m ake a final
push for D ivac or Tim berw olves free
a g e n t fo rw a rd T o m G u g lio tta . I f
M cD yess returns to D enver, w here he
played in the 1995-96 and 1996-97 sea
sons, the Suns' fallback plan w ould be
to sign D ivac to play alongside Longley.
R eports out o f B elgrade said Divac
w ould sign with Sacram ento, but to do
so the K ings w ould have to renounce
the rights toC orliss W illiam son to have
enough cap space to pay Divac.
The three-w ay trade revolving the
Tim berw olves, R aptors and Nuggets
had been rum ored since Sunday.
The A P learned o fth e Battie-K night
trade from tw o league sources It will
reunite K night with the Lakers, the team
he played for before signing with Bos
Scottie Pippen will not be
returning as a Bull.
O ther previously undisclosed deals
in the works: Clippers free agent forward
Loy V aught w as close to accepting a
fi ve-year offer from Detroit for about $23
million. Rockets guard M att M aloney
w as expected to re-sign w ith Houston.
H aw ks free ag en t g u ard E ld rid g e
R ecasner w as c lose to agreeing to a deal
w ith Chai lotte for four years and $5
million. Celtics center Popeye Jones w as
expected to re-sign w ith B oston for $8
m illion over three years. W izards for
w ard H arvev G ran t was headed to Phila-
delphia for tw o years. T he league and
u n io n a lso w e re sq u a b b lin g o v e r
changes to “circum vention” rules. The
league w ants to prohibit w rek-and-nod
deals in w hich a team w ould sign a free
cided on exactly w ho it w ould send back
to the Bulls, although M onty W illiams
agent for one y ear w ith the unw ritten
understanding that a long-term deal
w ould follow using the B irdexception.
T he union contends changes to that
rule w ere n ever discussed.
“ I think w e have a realistic chance o f
getting it done by the end o f (T ues
day),” union law yer Jeffrey K essler
w as a possibility.
said.
ton as a free a g e n t Ih e Lakers acquired
Battie from the D enver Nuggets in last
June’sN ick V an Exel trade.
K err w ill sign w ith the Bulls for $ 11
m illion over five years, then be shipped
to the Spurs. San A ntonio was unde
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