"What we are trying to do this year to keep that tempo and play defense the way we want It's early We are trying to get ourselves in game condition. Elster was benched at the start of the game, but scored the tying run as a pinch-runner. "Sergei has very often performed techniques even better than he was taught" Petrov said "He had a creative approach "It's as if you teach phonetics or grammar In grading the pupil, you feel he does better than expected. The thought is that the last thing credible journalism needs is another athlete who brings to the studio a resume that sparkles with such credentials as "made Pro Bowl twice" and "I really love to talk" In what area, you wonder, will Jeter be best suited-reading American League scores or National? But you listen to Jeter anyway and find out he's taking this whole thing a little more seriously than some. Assuming Reggie makes normal progress next year, I think he's going to be a terrific pro "A first-rounder this year? He'd have a chance I think he's a kid who really needs another year".
WASHINGTON — The one-time and perhaps future welterweight champions met in a ring last Thursday at Palmer Park, Md, and the message they banged out with their fists was clear: It was a big hello to the United States from Canadian Shawn O'Sullivan, and a small reminder from Sugar Ray Leonard that he was once remarkable, and still is O'Sullivan used to be a sparring partner for Leonard Now Leonard is a sparring partner for O'Sullivan. Gary didn't have to touch her, either" Randy Romero rode Winning Colors when she won her first start at Saratoga last August, and Stevens has been aboard ever since. The official winning margin was a head, but it looked more like a nose as Stalwars and Brian's Time almost overhauled this 17-hand (68-inch) rogue in a result that shocked most of the 16,502 fans at Turfway Park. This same Dale Brown has seen his team lose its superstar high school recruit, lose its leading scorer and rebounder to injury, lose weight and stamina to a chicken pox epidemic, and lose 11 games after a 14-0 start.
It's not a good deal for Toronto" Many would disagree, saying that Barfield seems unlikely to repeat his success of 1986, when he hit 40 home runs and drove in 107 runs. "It's fun to be able to get past the basics and talk about how to set up batters" Pitching: Hart junior Jason Edwards improved his record to 8-0 with a 6-1 win over Alhambra. After 15 years' service, the railroad laid him off and in Detroit's depressed economy, it wasn't easy for a man pushing 45 to get a toehold in a new career. HILLTOP-MOOSE TOURNAMENT Mission Bay 4, Chula Vista 1-Rusty Filter threw a no-hitter and struck out nine as the Buccaneers (3-1) handed the Spartans (3-1) their first loss of the season. "Our defense didn't turn it on until the fourth quarter" Jordan said. Winning Colors, trying to become the first filly to win the race since Silver Spoon in 1959, is next on the line at 5-2, and Mi Preferido, who won the San Felipe for his fourth victory in five starts, is the third choice at 7-2. That handicapping imponderable-bleeding horses running on Lasix for the first time-will be more of a factor than ever Saturday when the Santa Anita Derby is run for the 51st time. But you'd have to have something wrong with you to be around people like Red Auerbach and John Wooden and not have something rub off" Westphal said his ideal system would be similar to Paul Westhead's at Loyola"I like to run, press and play wide-open" he said.
And the number of injured players listed as "probable" for each week's games has decreased by 40, he said. The Clippers magic number for making the National Basketball Assn draft lottery is two. I know he wanted to race those last two races, but he stepped aside. Clipper Notes Seattle broadcaster Jimmy Jones suffered a heart attack at the Los Angeles hotel where the SuperSonics were staying Wednesday afternoon and was rushed to a local hospital. On April 5, in a dual meet with California, he had a personal best time of 45. 59 in the 400, on a wet track, yet.
Baltimore 4, Kansas City 3-Rick Dempsey was batting only . 189 and playing only about half the time, but he made a good guess in the fifth inning at Baltimore. Brief because Chapman's Olivier Amerlinck and Bis Houssels combined to defeat Tom Slamon and Hal Sweasey in No 3 doubles, 2-6, 7-6, 7-5. "Different people at school were saying to me, 'Are we going to get our softball title back? Are you playing' I just said, 'I don't know if I'm coming back' " With hopes of obtaining a college scholarship, Silverman returned But it has not been easy for the senior. "My horse was galloping, and I seemed to have a lot of horse going down the backstretch" said Chris Antley, Private Term's rider "But then he just seemed to quit running. Haney, I'm thinking twice about becoming the new conference commissioner. Batting . 205 as a team, the Cardinals would have preferred activating a club vice president named Stan Musial, but . 200 seemed like a lot to at least three regulars-Terry Pendleton at . 192, Tommy Herr at . 156 and Mike Heath at . 073. It was just one more measure of what King has lacked in his comeback.
Each player will receive the traditional Times golden basketball plaque and award certificate. "If you had been here with this rule in 1980, I wouldn't have missed with Codex" Lukas said. "We played very difficult against his team, particularly in the second period "I didn't think that Janecyk could play like that. The townspeople had clustered around a wreck in the middle of the race course when Mickey came up at 150 m. p. h.
Ribbs at Miami and a long pit stop in the final half-hour of the 24 Hours of Daytona, Pruett could be 4 for 4 this season. It was Peete's 10th victory in the last five seasons, which is more tournaments than any other player has won on the tour in that period. Close your eyes and listen, and you might swear it was Lasorda himself, constantly barking out encouragement, telling his players how terrific they are. This is a guy who shaved maybe once a week, tops, when he was a senior in college at Gonzaga University, a school not exactly known for producing pro basketball stars at the same rate Caltech produces rocket scientists. If that proposed league for short basketball players fails to make a go of it, Utah Jazz guard John Stockton-who stands 6 feet 1/2 inch in his stocking feet, according to his college coach-could be a disproportionate reason. Knocking off the mighty is commonplace in the ACC, which includes No 3 Duke and No 5 Georgia Tech. He's also a softie who arranges his schedule so he won't be away from his two young sons for more than two weeks at a time.
Dan Petry had his best outing of the spring Friday night and Chuck Finley allowed just one run in five innings Saturday night. "In games like this, individual plays are kind of hard to remember, but on that winning shot I headed for the corner and saw the three-point line "But I decided to pull up and go for two instead. "If he comes out of the race sound-and we have no reason to think he didn't-it looks like we'll go to the Derby" said Allen Paulson, who with a 40% interest is the principal owner of Vernon Castle. But then, the student-athletes of Royal began abusing him as if he were a substitute teacher and handed Camarillo a 4-3 Marmonte League loss at Camarillo.
Westminster 5, Fountain Valley 1-Freshman left-hander Ryan Klesko (5-2) pitched a six-hitter, struck out six and walked only two at Westminster High as the Lions remained in second place. La Quinta's Terry Bryant led off the third with a double off losing pitcher Anthony Candelas (5-3. They play their home games in a church gym in Paramount, which is about 30 minutes away. The Dodgers had lost by one run in seven of their previous 10 games.
The Trojans lost to Washington State, 77-75, on Thursday whereas the Huskies were beaten by UCLA, 94-89, at Pauley Pavilion. "I thought it would be another warm day, so I started out in my shirt sleeves" said Douglass, becoming a regular in the interview room. had a winning season was 1977 when it won the SCBA, beat USC in the West Regional and then finished fourth at the College World Series "I thought it would take five years to build this program. "The big thing was getting every player thinking and working toward the goal of winning the league" he said "Then, I had to work on their confidence It seemed like whenever we got behind, we were in trouble. "And remember" Xanthos said, "they've got a Greek coach" Yu didn't start playing tennis until his junior year at Kennedy, worked and traveled in Europe for a couple of years after high school and wasn't good enough to make the Pierce team three years ago Now, he's the Brahmas' No. — Bolshoi Boy, a nonstakes winner but second to Badger Land in the Flamingo and to Country Light in the Louisiana Derby in his last two starts, has drawn the outside post position and has been made a 3-1 favorite in Thursday's $200,000 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland. "But it would be against my stance to take the test" Silva also said he would not take the tests.