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2B SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1999 Celebrating BEST BETS JDctroil iTrcc Vrcss 1 ZZU (Liu (XCC 1 1 Black History Month! Negro League Hats Caps T-Shirts ccessones FF Negro League Jackets pe Hat Shod 6941 Crafiot -Det 1 (313)571 9012 wad 9c Outdoors show attracts antsy anglers GAME ROOM SALE 20-50 OFF Pool Tables Domed Hockey Poker Tables Air Hockey Soccer Tables Electronic Dart Boards Since 1971 Ey Eric sharp free Press Outdoors Writer The past month's mild weather fias opened up a lot of waters usually frozen this time of year. That should provide even more impetus than usual for antsy anglers to attend the felverdome Boat, Sport Fishing Show. This traditional opener to the met-(o Detroit outdoors show season has about 300 fishing boats, most under 23 feet, and a smorgasbord of fishing tackle and angling outfitters. 1 A lot of the best stuff isn't new but tried-and-tested gear that's selling at Bargain prices. A good example is the Forschner filleting knives on display at Gloria Kuhr's Instalaunch booth on the second level.

These cutting tools are virtually standard equipment among professional fishing guides throughout North America. Some own several, (he oldest usually pared down to LaBaron's Sports SrC'- Hours: Thurs. Fri. 10-8; "i'fTT Report: Collins in, Kanell out as Tfos IBssH cruise. It looks like it would be a good all-arounder for inland lakes, and Jim Johnson said the boat-show price with a 50-horsepower Yamaha engine and galvanized trailer is $9,000.

Ron Alman, an angler from Rochester, visited the show to check out new spinning reels. "Used to be, you spent $19.95 for a reel and used it for three or four years until it wore out and you bought a new one," Alman said. "Now they have all these high-end reels at over $100, but I guess they're supposed to last a lifetime, and they catch and fight fish better." A feature that should be popular with anyone who plans a summer trip to the Upper Peninsula is Dan Don-arski's seminars on "Fishing the UP, from the Keweenaw to Drummond Island." Donarski, an outdoor consultant for the Sault Ste. Marie Chamber of Crew members push Kenny Irwin's car into the inspection garage Friday at the North Carolina Motor Speedway near Rockingham, N.CRain postponed qualifying for Sunday's Dura-Lube 400. BURTONAssoctated Press more than 40 years ago, died Monday.

He was 86. BOWLING: Rudy Kasimakis retained the lead after the second round of match play at the PBA Tour's Flagship Open in Erie, Pa. Kasimakis had a pinfall total of 8,672. John Bauerle who tied the record for most perfect games in a tournament with four, was in second 176'pins back. Bauerle shares the record with Walter Ray Williams Jr.

and Dave D'En-tremont SKIING: Finland's Mika Myllylae won the men's 30-kilometer freestyle race, the opening event of the Nordic Ski World Championship in Ramsau, Austria, in 1 hour, 15 minutes, 26.2 -J iljiMi rrtminifiiitii wiwtoirtr-rtm 94 Slopes The Mostjn Michigan Ski Two Mountains For One Prjce Over a 50 Inch Base The Best in Years Halfpipes, Tubing Terrain Parks New Improved Austrian-American Ski School Nationally Recognized Midweek Lift Lodging The Mountain $58 The Highlands $67 Boyne USA Resorts 1 -800-QO-BOYNE www.boyne.com Boyne Mountain, Boyne Falls Boyne Highlands, Harbor Springs Packages are per person, based on dbl, tax extra. amwi Serve it up: Michigan natives Murphy Jensen, Rebecca Jensen, Meredith McGrath (left) and Katie Schlukebir will play in an exhibition match at 9-11 a.m. at the Midland Community Tennis Center. Luke Jensen, who will not participate because of a knee injury, will sign autographs. Tickets are $5 for adults and $2 for children.

FISHING FEVER WHAT: Silverdome Boat, Sport Fishing Show. WHEN: 10a.m.-9:30p.m. today, 10-6 Sunday. TICKETS: $6.50, children $3, 5-underfree. INFO: i-616-530-1919.

FREEP BOOTH: Outdoors writer Eric Sharp will appear at the Detroit Free Press booth at 1 p.m. Sunday to answer questions about the outdoors. Commerce, will cover what he considers the top five spots for small-mouths, walleyes, pike and stream trout, and the top three for offshore trolling. Donarski will speak at 3:30 p.m. today and Sunday.

To leave a message for Eric Sharp, call 1-313-222-2511. Be sure to include your area code. Giants' QB seconds 35.3 seconds ahead of Thomas Alsgaard of Norway. Ste-fania Belmondo won the women's 15K in 38:49, beating Kristina Smi-gun of Estonia by 30.4 seconds. TENNIS: Jim Courier took 49 minutes to advance to the semifinals of the St.

Jude Indoor tournament in Memphis, beating Mariano Puerta, 6-0, 6-2. Courier will face John van Lot-turn, a 3-6, 7-6 (7-3), 64 winner over unseeded Daniel Nestor. Venus Williams routed German qualifier Barbara Rittner, 6-2, 6-1, to set up a semifinal showdown with Steffi Graf at the Hanover WTA tournament in Hanover, Germany. Top seed Jana Novotna of the Czech Republic also advanced with a 6-1, 6-4 victory over France's Sandrine Tes-tud. Britain's Greg Rusedski won a hard-fought 7-6 (7-5), 3-6, 7-6 (7-5) victory over Frenchman Cedric Pio-line at the AMRO tournament in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Rusedski will play Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov, a 6-1, 5-7, 6-4 winner over Roger Federer of Switzerland, in the semifinals. TRACK AND FIELD: Gail Devers ran 60 meters in 7.01 seconds, the fastest time indoors this season, at the Flanders Indoor meet in Ghent Belgium. Ivan Pedroso of Cuba set a season's best, soaring 27 feet Vh inches in the longjump. president of Ameritech Michigan, will be roasted at the dinner at Cobo Hall. Fortickets call 1-313-222-0594 or 1-313-894-5100.

OBITUARY: A funeral for John Lomakoski, a Lions tackle in 1962, was Friday in Munising. He was 58. Lomakoski, a Romeo native, played at Western Michigan before the Lions drafted him in the fourth round. He retired in Munising after a career as a Procter Gamble sales representative in the Grand Rapids area. PREPS: The death of Billy Geiling.

15, a Meridian High freshman basketball player who collapsed on the court Wednesday night during a game against Roscommon High, was caused by a cyst at the stem of his brain that cut off blood flow, family members told the Midland Daily News. Doctors described that type of cyst as rare and said there was no way it could have been detected beforehand, even though it probably had been there for years. Warren De La Salle needs an assistant track coach. Call Mike Jolly at 1-810-778-2207. SOFTBALL: No.

5 Michigan dropped a pair of games to No. 4 Washington, 8-0 and 6-3, in the first day of the Louisville Slugger Classic in Gainesville, Fla. SWIMMING AND DIVING: Michigan was in third place, 47.5 points behind Minnesota (181.50), after the first round of the Big Ten women's championships at the University Aquatic Center in Minneapolis. Northwestern (166.50) was second. The Wolverines' Shannon Shakespeare won the 220 individual medley in 1:59.39 a Big Ten meet record.

looks like Kerry Collins is in with the New York Giants, and Danny Kanell is out ESPN reported Friday that Collins agreed to a four-year, $16- million deal, and that Kanell would be released. But Giants spokesman Pat Hanlon said, "We haven't signed anybody and haven't made any announcement to that effect I'm not disputing what reporting, I'm just telling you NATIONWORLD we don't have any comment on it" Kanell was the Giants' starter during a 10-5-1 season in 1997, when the Giants won the NFC East. But he slumped in '98 and was replaced as starter after the 10th game by Kent Graham. Collins, 26, struggled with the Carolina Panthers, who made him the fifth overall pick in the 1995 draft. He was released on Oct.

13 after telling Dom Capers then the Carolina coach, but since fired that he didn't have the heart for pro football. Signed by New Orleans, Collins returned with the Saints to Carolina two weeks later and was booed loud-Jy all game, even though he didn't play. He was arrested a few hours later for driving while impaired. The Saints waived him after the 1 iV( cn, Moving Recovering Sale (248) 585-3535 Wed. Sat.

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Cole, M.D. I long, skinny boning knives after years of sharpening. Kuhr sells a model with a 10-inch blade, ideal for big species such as salmon, lake trout and steelhead, for $29.99. A six-inch version that works well for walleye, bass and smaller trout is $17.99. "I sold them for years, then for a long time I couldn't get them" after a distributor retired, Kuhr said.

But the demand didn't slow, and now that she has found a new source for the knives, "I sell a ton of them. I even ship them to people in Florida and all over the country." Something new to Michigan is the 17-foot Pathfinder flats boat on display at the Johnson's Pere Marquette Lodge booth. This tunnel-hull model is designed to float in four inches of water and would be perfect for poling up into shallow backwater marshes where pike hide or the rocky flats where smallmouth bass and carp CHUCK season. MORE NFL: Wide receiver Eddie Kennison, a first-round pick of the St. Louis Rams in 1996, was traded to the Saints for a second-round pick.

The Miami Dolphins re-signed free-agent linebacker Robert Jones to a five-year contract, keeping the team's third-leading tackier from last season Mohammed Haroon Ali, who is accused of killing Tracey Biletnikoff, the daughter of NFL Hall of Famer Fred Biletnikoff was arraigned on one murder count in Redwood City, Calif. Ali was Tracey Biletnikoff's boyfriend. AUTO RACING: Bill Lipkey, who organized the first U.S. Auto Club race Mercy vs. Cleveland State, WDFN-AM (1130).

7:00 NHL: Montreal at Toronto, CHYR-FM (96.7), pregame starts at 6:30. 7:00 Junior hockey: London at Windsor, CKLW-AM (800). 7:30 College hockey: Michigan vs. Michigan State, WTKA-AM (1050). 7:30 Junior hockey: Plymouth Whalers vs.

Erie, WSDS-AM (1480). AREA EVENTS Women's college basketball: Wayne State vs. Westminster, 1 p.m., Matthaei Building. 1-313-577-4280. Women's college basketball: Madonna vs.

Siena Heights, 1 p.m., 36600 Schoolcraft Road (l-96Levan), Livonia. 1-734-432 5300. College basketball: Wayne State vs. Westminster, 3 p.m., Matthaei Building. 1-313-577-4280.

College basketball: Detroit Mercy vs. Cleveland State, 4:05 p.m., Caliban Hall. 1-313-993-1700. College hockey: Michigan State vs. Michigan, 7:30 p.m., Joe Louis Arena (sold out).

1-313-983-6606. Junior hockey: Plymouth Whalers vs. Erie, 7:30 p.m., Compuware Arena, 14900 Beck Road, Plymouth Township. 1-734-453 8400. Hockey: USA junior under-18 team vs.

Omaha USHL), 7:30 p.m., Ice Cube, Ann Arbor. 1-734-213-1600, ext. 244. Rodeo: Longhorn World Championship Rodeo, 8 p.m., Palace. 1-248-377-0100.

HORSE RACING Hazel Park: Intertrack at 12:30 p.m. 1-' 248-398-1000. at 12:30 p.m. 1-517-788-4500. Northville Downs: 12 races, 7:40 p.m., plus intertrack at 12:30 p.m.

1-248-349-1000. Saginaw Raceway Park: Intertrack at 12:30 p.m. 1-517-755-3451. Sports Creek Raceway: 11 races, 7 p.m., plus intertrack at 12:30 p.m. 1-810-6353333.

Toledo Raceway Park: Intertrack at 12:30 p.m. 1-419-476-7751. Windsor Raceway: 10 races, 7:20 p.m., plus intertrack at 12:55 p.m. smssm YYW METROSTATE TODAY POOL TABLES (All tables include equipment) WAS SALE Bumper Pool Slate bumper pool table $800 $598 7ft Renegade 34" slate whardwood rails 1300 948 7ft Meridian 34 slate solid oak ball claw legs 2300 1498 7th Sorrento Proline 1 slate-Professional table 2200 1448 8ft Arlington Proline 1" slate Solid Oak-flmwMIMOA 3200 1998 8ft Arlington Proline slate Dimml Sights Wdt Rails 3200 2198 8ft Sorrel Proline Solid Cherry Maple tflmtsmitiiiktrpirttis 4100 2698 8ft Americana Proline hand painted table mjiitoifin((i(j 5000 2698 8ft Leopold High Point Mission Sn le table 10000 5998 This is a Once in a Lifetime SALE at prices never to be GAME TABLES WAS SALE 48 inch table Game table 4 upholstered chairs Solid $698 2 inch 1 table Game table Rockerswivel chairs Solid Oak 2100 1598 2 12 in I Darafeev Game Table 4 gus lift chairs Solid Oak 5600 3098 3 in 1 Darafeev Chateau Game Table gas Itfirkirs Md Oak 7900 4698 BASEBALL: Fenton senior Nick Tomczak (14-3, 0.99 ERA the past two seasons) committed to Western Michigan. BASKETBALL: Cynthia Cooper, star of the two-time, WNBA champion Houston Comets and league most valuable player the past two years, will host the Cynthia Cooper Invitational on Feb.

26-28 at the Capital Centre in Dimondale. The tournament is open to girls 18-under. Cooper also will conduct IV2-hour minicamps. The entry fee is $175 per team and $20 for minicamp participants. Call 1-517-6464667 for more information.

HOCKEY: The Grand Rapids Griffins of the International Hockey League signed NHL veteran left wing Darrin Shannon and defenseman Francois Leroux. Terms were not disclosed. Shannon, 29, spent the past seven seasons with the Winnipeg JetsPhoenix Coyotes, and Leroux has played with Colorado, Edmonton, Pittsburgh and Ottawa. HONOR: Linda Bernard, president and chief executive officer of Wayne County Neighborhood Legal Services, will receive the Sunnie Wilson Spirit of the Linda Bernard Champ award March 22 at a Joe Louis Video Memorial Room benefit. Bernard will be honored for her contributions to helping the poor.

Bob Cooper, ft A TV HIGHLIGHTS 11:00 a.m. CHE Red Wings Weekly: Darren McCarty. Noon (EPf College basketball: Xavier at Massachusetts. Noon College basketball: Northwestern at Ohio State. Noon ED College basketball: St.

John's at Georgetown. 1:00 p.m. S3 College basketball: Miami (Fla.) at Connecticut. (BP2) College basketball: Clemson at Duke. 1:00 08 Auto racing: NASCAR jBusch Grand National Alltel 200.

2:00 (BPS) Bowling: PBA Flagship Open. 2:00 Track: D. C. Invitational. 2:00 QTSD Tennis: Kroger St.

Jude semifinal. College basketball: Penn rState at Purdue. "3:00 BD College basketball: Tennessee -at South Carolina. G8 Golf: PGA Nissan Open, third Jround. 3:00 (BPS5 College basketball: Southern Methodist at UNLV.

I 3:30 NBA: Seattle at Utah. 4:05 (Tm College basketball: Cleveland State at Detroit Mercy. 5:00 (BP2) College basketball: Florida State at Wake Forest. 5:30 (BBC Golf: Senior PGA GTE 'Classic, second round (taped). CRBSNHL: Montreal at Toronto (first game at Air Canada Centre; pregame scheduled to start at on Channel 9 but might not air because of a strike).

CESC College hockey: Michigan State vs. Michigan. (BHD College basketball: Providence at Villanova. CESEB) College basketball: Nebraska at Texas Tech. CUBE) Boxing: Felix Trinidad vs.

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