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Sports MIKE WOODS i Commentary mwoodsa i postcrescenLcom section Business C-8 Tuesday, February 11, 2003 Contact Sports Editor Bob Berghaus at (920) 431-8222 or bberghaugreenbaypressgazette.com Green Bay Press-Gazette Wilson's wisdom is in demand I iiwi mm no fl nn ra Panthers 78 Phoenix 54 UWmen prepare for Spartans, C-2 BY ROB DEMOVSKY rdemovskgreenbaypressgazette.com MILWAUKEE It's hard to believe this was the same University of Wisconsin-Green Bay men's basketball team that knocked off UW-Milwaukee last month at the Resch Center. Three weeks after UWGB pulled off a 79-68 upset in Green Bay, the Panthers delivered payback in the form of a 78-54 demolition first time around. In its place was a passive team that either settled for jump shots or squandered what few easy opportunities it had. It was a performance that typified UWGB's comfort level or discomfort level on the road, where it remains winless in 10 tries this season. "Sometimes with our guys, when things go poorly they have a mentality of, 'Oh no, here we go Phoenix coach Tod Kowal-czyk said.

"Changing that is the biggest challenge I have as a (first-year) head coach. In some of the players it has changed, but in all of the team it certainly hasn't. Until we get everyone to change, we're going to have nights like this." A barrage of UWM 3-pointers some of them from NBA range buried the Phoenix (8-16 overall, 3-9 Horizon League) early to start the game," Kowal-czyk said. "The first 5 minutes their intensity put us on our heels. I think their deep 3s hurt our morale a little bit We're the type of team that's not good playing from behind.

We don't have the offensive firepower or the athletic ability to play from behind." Green Bay's woeful shooting was contagious. See UWGB, C-2 in the first half. The Panthers (19-5, 10-2) nailed nine of their season-high 14 3s in the first half and led 46-23 by intermissioa UWM's Jason Frederick (15 points) knocked down four of his five 3-pointers in the opening half. UWGB never got closer than 19 points after halftime on the way to its most lopsided loss of the season. "I'm shocked and surprised by how we came out of the reeling Phoenix in front of 4,011 fans on Monday at the Klotsche Center.

This was the same Green Bay team in body only. Missing was the aggressive, attacking Phoenix that handled UWM the More inside Seats added for women's 45th Daytona 500 qualifying home games, C-2 Poll, C-4 Women stay at Green bumps Dale Jr. off pole 1 No. 21 BY MIKE SP0FF0RD msporforgreenbaypressgazette.com The University of Wis consin-Green Bay women's basketball team is holding steady in both the national poll and the power ratings. The Phoenix remained at No.

21 for the third straight week in The Associated Press poll, which is showing little volatility. The top 11 teams all held their spots for the third Gannett News Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. The Dale Earnhardt influence was felt in a big way Monday at Daytona International Speedway The team Earnhardt served as driver and the team he served as owner combined to post five of the top six speeds in rain-delayed qualifying for Sunday's 45th Daytona 500. Richard Childress Racing upstaged Dale Earnhardt Inc. when Jeff Green followed Dale Earnhardt Jr.

onto the track and bumped him off the pole with a fast lap of 186.606 mph around the 2.5-mile superspeedway Soon after, RCR driver Robby Gordon bumped DEI's Michael Waltrip from third to fourth. The very next car out, a third RCR entry driven by Kevin Har-vick, slid into the sixth spot. "Dale, he straight week. Ranked for the first time in program history, UWGB has been in the poll nine consecutive weeks. UWGB moved up one spot in two Ratings Percentage Index polls on the internet.

Collegerpi.com and rpiratings.com both have the Phoenix at No. 39 nationally, up from No. 40 last week. Collegerpi.com has the Phoenix projected as a No. 8 seed in the NCAA Tournament, also up one spot from last week.

Last People continue to seek out Woody Wilson. They still ask him to share his wisdom, allocate his experience and employ his teaching skills. i This 60-year-old unemployed college basketball coach is in demand, which, in itself, rings with irony A lot of people want his help, but he is out of work. 1 It is a strange world in which the former University of Wisconsin-Green Bay men's assistant matriculates. Coaches like Ernie Kent of Oregon have asked Wilson to come out and offer assistance with the Ducks' motion offense.

Coaches like Minnesota's Dan Monson, Wisconsin's Bo Ryan and Marquette's Tom Crean have had him in for practice and asked him his opinion. High school coaches, too, have sought Wilson's input, and then there has been the cadre of parents who have asked Wilson to instruct their budding basketball junkies. A 38-year veteran Wilson is in demand, yet still looking for full-time work after being let gobyUWGB. "I've talked to a couple of people, but nothing real serious," he said. He says he still wants to coach, perhaps for 10 more years.

He has 38 years of experience. He has worked several basketball camps with Bobby Knight He has served as an assistant at Evansville under Knight protege Jim Crews, and then with Dick Bennett and Mike HeidemanatUWGB. But he's 60, and it's a young person's world. Then again, he knows his experience is valued, and his hope is there will be some head coach at the other end of the phone who feels the same way. "But it has to be the right situation," Wilson said.

"When you've been coaching for 38 years, you don't want to move for the sake of a move." In the meantime, he will continue to offer his assistance to whomever asks and will enjoy his opportunity to work with the youth, to teach them the fundamentals, because he is a basketball purist, and it is his way of protecting and nourishing the game. He's still learning He recalls the time he spent with Utah's Rick Majerus, and how Ma-jerus made the point that too many college coaches lose touch with what made them good. When they were younger and working their way up, they worked camps and attended clinics and coached year-round. But once they take over a major program, and the demands that come with it, they no longer have the time to get their hands dirty like they once did. "And when you're coaching year-round, you're constantly experimenting," Wilson said.

"Even if it's a phrase to better get a point across, or finding a better way to teach a certain aspect. I think it's critical to always be working with the game, looking for ways to teach it, to do it a little bit better." When UWGB excused Wilson, it was the first time he had been let go. There are many parts of the game he misses, and a few he floesn't. But whatever the future may bring, he knows there will always be someone, somewhere who will want his services. He will be in a gym, whistle in hand, coaching, teaching, learning.

And that will make him happy. Mike Woods can be reached at (920) 993-1000, ext. 232. More inside Notebook, C-3 Qualifying results, Twin 125 lineups, C-4 year, the Web site predict was the man here for many, many years. We just gave him a rx NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver Jeff Green exits his car after winning the pole position Monday during qualifying for Sunday's Daytona 500.

Photos by The Associated Press ed 49 of 64 teams within one spot of their actual seed for the tourney Last week, UWGB improved to 19-3 on the season and 10-1 in the Horizon League with road victories at Cleveland State (79-59) and Detroit (76-52). That the Phoenix's RPI rating didn't fall is significant, because Cleveland State is No. 272 and Detroit No. 229 in the RPI, hurting UWGB's strength of schedule. The Phoenix's schedule car, owner Richard Childress said of his partner and friend, who won the Daytona 500 in 1998 and was killed in this event three years later.

Earnhardt Jr. and Waltrip have combined to win six of the last eight races at Daytona and Talladega, where NASCAR mandates carburetor restric-tor plates to hold the speeds in check. They were briefly on the front row together after Earnhardt Jr. ran a 186.382 mph lap to bump his teammate to the outside. But Green was the next man out.

"It's kind of bittersweet to lose the pole, but we have got so much to be proud of," Earnhardt Jr. said. "We didn't expect to run as well as we did, so we didn't get too carried away-Only Green and Earnhardt Jr. have locked in their starting spots for Sunday's race. The bulk of the field will be set Thursday in the Twin 125-qualifying races, which line up based on the speeds from Monday Green doesn't have to worry about any of that.

Not that he was too worried anyway with a car he knew was fast. Richard Childress, right, congratulates driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. during qualifying for the Daytona 500. Childress, owner of the No. 30 car driven by pole winner Jeff Green, also owned the car of the late Dale Earnhardt "I really kind of expected it, although a lot of people looked at me like I had four eyes when I said that," said Green, who was the original DEI driver when Earnhardt launched his team in the NASCAR Busch Series in 1995.

"(Sunday) in the rain was the longest day of my life, because I know how good a car we had." Green said this pole, the second of his Winston Cup career, counts for more than winning a Busch Series championship in 2000. But a bigger prize is still out there. "It's a driver's dream to come down to Daytona and be the fastest car here," he said. "Hopefully, we can turn that into being the fastest car Sunday." Only veteran Ricky Rudd, in his first race with the legendary Wood Brothers, broke up the RCR-DEI Chevrolet juggernaut as the fifth-fastest qualifier. rating of 145 is the worst of the top 50 teams in the RPI.

Two results that appear to be carrying a lot of weight for UWGB in the computer polls are a 10-point victory over Ohio State, whose RPI is 19, and a five-point loss to Kansas State, whose RPI is 5. UWGB plays four of its last five regular-season games at home, beginning at 3 p.m. Saturday against Loyola. Preseason TV games on move TBI. In the package More inside Packers hire I Preseason TV rim Cj joe rniiDin as offensive line coach, C-3 BY WARREN GERDS wgerdsgreenbaypressgazette.com The Green Bay Packers' preseason TV games will move to new stations in almost every broadcast market in Wisconsin this summer as part of a big overhaul announced Monday.

In Green Bay, the games will be aired on WFRV, NewsChannel 5. The games had originated on WBAY, Channel 2, and aired there for approximately 40 years. The key players in the new, three-year agreement are the Packers, WFRV and Milwaukee's WTMJ. The games will feature CBS Sports' announcing and production teams. "It's going to be network- summer viewing.

"Packer preseason games are one of the gems of Packer programming," said R. Perry Kidder, WFRV's vice president and general manager. WFRV is owned and operated by broadcast giant CBS-Viacom. WTMJ is the state's largest broadcast company The Packers plan to leverage those associations into a larger profile. Along with preseason, pregame and other shows, a year-round presence is planned.

"We're entering an era where our business is going to change drastically," said Bob Harlan, the Packers' president. See TV, C-3 games, produced by CBS Sports, to be carried on eight stations A half-hour pregame show for each preseason game A half-hour preview show during training camp A "Fifth Quarter-show on Sunday nights during the regular season, originating from the Lambeau Field Atrium, with player guests A half-hour holiday special focusing on the role of Packers in charities and community quality preseason football programming that people are going to be able to enjoy across the state," said Jim Prather, president-TV of the Journal Broadcast Group, which owns WTMJ. The play-by-play announcer and color analyst will be announced at a later date. Preseason Packers games last year averaged a 26.5 rating and 48 share in Milwaukee, the only market where data is available. The numbers are high for kirn-rrn rftmrmfr ra- fct aaia It's spring somewhere New Seattle manager Bob Melvin, right, chats with catcher Ben Davis during the Mariners' first spring training workout on Monday in Arizona.

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