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Trailblazers take to the Road
Purdue back on top
Purdue replaced Tennessee as
the No. 1 team in T he A ssociated
Press w om en’s basketball poll for
the second tim e this season, m ov
ing to the top M onday w ith only
tw o w eeks o f voting to go.
Purdue becam e N o. 1 for the
first tim e in school history when
it bum ped Tennessee in the sec
ond poll o f the season. T hat hap
pened after P urdue’s 78-68 vic
tory against the Lady V ols, who
had led the preseason poll.
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Tyson's Jail
Outburst Could Cost
Him Privileges
ROC KVII±E,M d.-M ikeTys«i
is to learn this w eek i f he will lose
privileges and tim e o ff for good
behavior for hurling a TV during an
outburst in jail.
" It’s an institutional m atter and
an internal process,” said Eric
S ele zn o w , sp o k esm an for the
M ontgom ery County (M d.) D e
partm ent o f Corrections.
The form er heavyweight cham
pion has been in an isolation cell
since Friday, w hen he tossed a tele
vision set against jail bars in an
inmate recreation area. He report
edly becam e agitated w hen a guard
hung up a telephone he was using.
P O R T L AN D, O re.- The only per
son standing betw een the G olden
State W arriors and their fifth straight
win was Brian Grant, and they found
it im possible to shove him out o t the
way.
Grant had 18 points and a career-
high 24 rebounds as the Portland
Trail Blazers defeated G olden State
90-84 Saturday night to win their
fourth straight and stop the W ar
riors’ streak at four.
"B rian was unbelievable,” said
team m ate Isaiah Rider, who had 27
points. “ I’ve never been around a guy
who got 24 rebounds. W e’ve got to
help him out on the backboards, but
he doesn’t mind getting so many him
self.”
G rant’s 24 rebounds are the high
est in the N BA this season. His pre
vious career high was 20 against Dal
las last season.
Portland coach Mike Dunleavy said
he urged his other frontcourt players
to get as aggressive as Grant, who has
59 rebounds in his last three games.
Rodman to Play
Friday for Lakers
B E V E R L Y H IL L S , C alif. -
D ennis R odm an laughed and he
cried. H e ranted and he railed. At
tim es, he w as obnoxious, using
four-letter w ords and speaking
far too candidly o f his sex life.
T he dom inant rebounder o f the
’90s m anaged to ja m a lot into 20
m inutes o f telling the w orld he
w as rea d y to p la y b ask etb a ll
again. Y et w hen it cam e dow n to
it, his reason for returning is a
sim ple one.
’ ’W hat got m e over the hum p
is I ’m bored,” R odm an said in
one o f his few m om ents o f clar
ity at the new s conference he
called M onday to announce his
desire to join the Los A ngeles
Lakers. " I ’m tired o f not doing
anything.”
Vikings Offensive
Coordinator Myers
Dead at 53
M IN N E A P O L IS - M innesota
V ikings o ffe n siv e c o o rd in a to r
Chip M yers has died o f a heart
attack. H e was 53.
M yers was prom oted to often
sive coordinator ju st a m onth ago
after Brian B illick left to coach
the Baltim ore Ravens. H e w as a
receiver for eight years w ith the
Cincinnati Bengals, and m ade the
Pro Bow l one year. R adio station
W C C O r e p o r te d M y e rs w as
stricken M onday night at his M in
neapolis home.
“I challenged our big
guys tonight to step up
and be a part o f the Brian
Grant party,” Dunleavy
said. “ He willed us to
win tonight.”
After starting the sea
son 0-5, the W arriors
began their modest run
with a 105-100 double
overtime win over the
Blazers in Oakland last
Sunday night. They won
four in a row for the first
time since the 1995-96
se aso n , b u t c o u ld n 't
o v erco m e P o rtla n d ’s
physical play down the
stretch.
“B ig gam e for us,
looking for .500, but
(we) got killed on the
boards,” said W arriors guard John
Starks, who had 13 points on 5-of-14
shooting. “W e have to leam to win on
the road, although this game was a lot
better than our last.”
in se co n d .
T ig e r W o o d s, jo in t- r u n n e r up
to E ls o n S u n d a y , re m a in s top.
Top 20 (U.S. unless stated)
1. TigerWoodsl2.81 points
average
2. David Duval 11.04
3. Davis Love III 9.85
4. Ernie Els (South Africa)
9.67
5. Mark O ’Meara 9.49
6. Lee Westwood (Britain)
9.10
7. Colin Montgomerie (Brit
ain) 8.69
8. Vijay Singh (Fiji) 8.35
9. Nick Price (Zimbabwe)
8.21
10. Justin Leonard 7.37
11. Jim Furyk7.23
12. Phil Mickelson 7.18
13. Fred Couples 6.93
14. Masashi Osaki (Japan)
6.77
15. Steve Elkington (Austra
lia) 5.90
16. Darren Clarke (Britain)
5.75
17. Jesper Pamevik (Swe
den) 5.57
18. Payne Stewart 5.52
19. Scott Hoch 5.11
20. Brian Watts 5.04
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Brian Grant secures NBA record
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Trinidad-De La Hoya
the talk of boxing
N E W Y O R K -W h ile P em ell
Whitaker was en route to a hospital
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Madison Square Garden was about
Felix Trinidad fighting Oscar De La
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“If Don King as a promoter wants
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De La Hoya. However, he said the
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Whitaker underwent surgery for a
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