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ASBURY PARK PRESS I WEDNESDAY, NOV. 27, 2002 QG6QOQC) CONTACT US Managing EditorSports John Quinn 732-643-4241 johnqapp.com TAKING IT TO DEIROIT The Devils travel to Detroit to meet the team they beat for their first Stanley Cup. 2 RALLY EKTRI Holiday football games have championship implications. 8 sr- I cr TV VPT kv College Basketball 5 0 Scoreboard 7 If 'p HOWELL'S 1 "Now it's just a typical NBA city in the sense of I played here, I enjoyed it, but the Suns are behind me. I have something bis on my mini and that's to win a championship with the Nets." JASON KIDD NETS GUARD WHO PLAYED FOR PHOENIX fflTMAl 1 i IS HOME Ex-teammate Art Howe hires former Howell, Brookdale star Associated Press A.

J. Feeley (left) completed all three of his passes as the Eagles defeated the 49ers Monday night. Eagles turn to Feeley THE ASSOCIATED PRESS mm seas Sum sd MiM Mm Denny Wallinff to move north and become Mets' batting coac PHILADELPHIA A.J. Feeley began training camp battling for the backup quarterback job Guard makes 2nd return to Phoenix and ended it fighting for a roster spot. He was released two months ago, re-signed a i By HOWARD BASS STAFF WRITER By BOB CONSIDINE STAFF WRITER PHOENIX Jason Kidd doesn't care.

He's moved on. It's over and done with. The Phoenix Suns are in his past. The New Jersey Nets are his present. You could take Kidd at his word when he talks about tonight's game against the Suns.

But then you remember he said the same things in March, in his first trip back to Phoenix since being traded for Stephon Marbury. Kidd wound up pressing the entire game and the Nets lost a painful 89-87 decision. After Keith Van Horn missed one of two free throws with less than second left and a chance to tie the game just as Marbury shouted "I knew he'd miss!" at the line Kidd hurried off the court and hoisted a middle finger to a heckling fan. Kidd's team lost the game and he lost $5,000 for the gesture. And, boy, did he care.

"Now it's just a typical NBA city in the sense of I played here, I enjoyed it, but the Suns are behind me," Kidd insisted to a handful of Suns beat reporters yesterday. "I have something big on my mind and that's to win a championship with the Nets. "You guys are all talking about last year. You See Kidd, Page C2 Denny Walling, who grew up in Howell and lives in Waynesboro, has been named batting coach of the New York Mets. Walling is being reunited with new Mets' manager Art Howe, his teammate on the Houston Astros from 1977 to '83.

"I'm elated for this opportunity," Walling said. "I'm looking forward to being back with Art. This is like coming home. I'm one of 11 kids and have seven or eight brothers and sisters and their families still residing in Central Jersey." Walling said that while in Howell, he played baseball every day and every night he could. He played in the Jersey Shore Baseball League and was a standout in football, baseball and basketball at Howell High School.

"My goal was always to be a major-league player," Walling said. "I watched my brother sign right in the living room. I was blessed with being a good athlete but I worked hard at it." His brother Greg signed with the Astros in 1967. Denny started his pro career in Chattanooga, and then went to Charlestown, W.Va., where he met his wife. "I'm a converted Southerner now," few days later and spent a week on the Philadelphia practice squad.

Unless Koy Detmer recovers quickly from a dislocated left elbow, Feeley will make his first NFL start for the Eagles against the St. Louis Rams on Sunday in a rematch of last season's NFC champi-, onship game. "I think A.J. is comfortable with all the things we've done. You want to let the guy execute the plays he's familiar with," Eagles coach Andy Reid said yesterday.

Detmer, starting for injured Donovan McNabb, played magnificently in Monday night's 38-17 victory over the San Francisco 49ers. In his first start in three years, Detmer completed 18 of 26 passes for 227 yards and two touchdowns and ran for a 1-yard score. After Detmer went down with 3:32 left in the third quarter, Feeley completed all three of his passes for 17 yards, with a 1-yard TD pass to Chad Lewis. Detmer is doubtful for Sunday, but Reid hasn't officially ruled him out. "It's too bad things happened the way they did for Koy," Reid said.

"He took command of the huddle and made some plays. Koy came in and did what we thought Koy could do. He just took and executed the offense to a See Eagles, Page C4 I he said. This is the fourth time that Walling and Howe will be together. Besides their stint as players with the Astros, Walling played Era: IPf If lip.

"t-'T'i wir 'k'J for Howe in 1992 when Howe managed the Astros and Walling was Howe's batting coach from 1996 to '98 with the Oakland A's. Walling has been with the Baltimore Orioles for four years and served as the organization's minor league batting instructor from 1999 to 2001. Walling, who ranks eighth all-time with 108 pinch hits, graduated from Howell High School and Associated Press Packers' security coordinator Mike Cygan (center) keeps Warren Sapp and Mike Sherman separated. Packers-Bucs issues threaten NFL image Brookdale went 32-10 when Denny Walling (right) played under coach Paul MacLaughlin. Walling hit .600 in 1974.

See Walling, Page C6 An NFL game is a three-hour collage of swirling emotions for the combatants. Before the media are allowed into the locker room afterward, there's a 15-minute "cooling off period" in which everyone's given time to regain composure before STEPHEN EDELSON Giants' WR Carter is carjacked iv J-'' Tim Carter, who is on injured reserve, had his car, jewelry, credit cards and other items taken Sunday night. making any statements in the heat of the moment that might later be regretted. There was no time to decompress for Green Bay head coach Mike Sherman and Tampa Bay defensive tackle Warren Sapp. As more details emerge regarding their on-field confrontation after Sunday's NFC game in Tampa, it appears that postgame frustration and rage ignited an inferno that burns brightly days later, with the incident placing the spotlight on long-smoldering issues that are suddenly white hot.

From Sherman's perspective, not only had his team been dismantled in dropping a game behind the See Edelson, Page C4 By ERNIE PALLADINO STAFF WRITER Wide receiver Tim Carter, staying behind in New Jersey because he is on injured reserve following Achilles' tendon surgery, was involved in a three-hour carjacking ordeal Sunday. Carter was uninjured, but his BMW, $10,000 in jewelry, his credit cards, and his ATM card were taken, as were his crutches. Carter, a rookie drafted in the second round, had gone to the movies after watching his teammates lose to Houston on TV. "There were two guys," Carter said. "One of them had a gun that he stuck in my ribs.

He said, 'Give me the keys." I turned around and gave him the keys. I thought he was just going to take the car, but then he told me to get in the back seat. So I got in the car and they took off out of the parking lot." The police, alerted by onlookers who saw the carjacking, gave chase. But the crooks outran them on the streets of Newark. Carter watched as friends of the thieves used his ATM card, See Giants, Page C4 BRIAN FF.RRKIRA Staff Photographer BRAND NEW 7003 FORD BRAND NEW 2003 FORD TRY PARK PRFSS WINDSTAR EXPLORER JtE-S mi ii I MONEY DOM NO MONEY POWHil I i VX 'I I of Monmouth County lj 11 1-000-49 1-0078 Pass Van.

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