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2C ODESSA AMERICAN Thursday, January 10, 1991 Griefs Jordan, Bulls down Fran staff end wire reports on ou-ss and fifth overall. The Bucks, the Central leaders at 25-9, are 18-0 at home but 7-9 on the road. Boston, off to its best start in 18 seasons, played its second consecutive game without Larry Bird, sidelined indefinitely with an inflamed nerve and swollen disc in his lower back. The Celtics won both games. Suns 113, Cavaliers 105 PHOENIX Jeff Hornacek scored 23 points and Kevin Johnson had 10 of his 16 in the final 6:42 as the Phoenix Suns beat Cleveland 113-105 Wednesday night, handing the Cavaliers their ninth consecutive loss.

Tom Chambers added 22 points and Xavier McDaniel 18, while Mark West had 10 rebounds and Johnson 12 assists for the Suns, who won their fourth straight home game. Cleveland lost its seventh road game in a row despite Brad Daugherty's 27 points and 14 rebounds. Craig Ehlo had 19 points for the who have dropped 16 of their last 18 games overall. Mavericks 109, Trail Blazers 89 DALLAS Rolando Blackman and Alex English each scored 24 points and the Dallas Mavericks snapped a nine-game losing streak to Portland with a 109-99 victory Wednesday night over the Trail Blazers. The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA Michael Jordan scored 40 points, including the of his career, as the Chicago Bulls defeated the Philadelphia 76ers 107-99 Wednesday night.

Jordan scored 28 points in the first half and reached the plateau on a free throw with 25 seconds left in the first He reached the milestone in his 460th game, faster than anyone in NBA history except Wilt Chamberlain, who did it in 358 games. Bill Cartwright added 19 points and Scottie Pippen 16 for Chicago, while Charles Barkley had 29 and Armon Gilliam 23 for the 76ers, who lost their sixth game in seven starts. Tlmberwolvej 111, Ragle 103 ORLANDO, Fla. Pooh Richardson had 30 points and 14 assists and the Minnesota Timber-wolves used a 20-6 fourth-quarter run Wednesday night to beat the Orlando Magic 111-103. Celtics 110, Bucks 102 BOSTON The Boston Celtics lost all but two points of a 28-point lead Wednesday night, before Reggie Lewis and Brian Shaw led them to a 110-102 victory over Milwaukee, snapping the Bucks' eight-game winning streak.

The Celtics, leaders of the Atlantic Division with a 28-5 record, won their 17th straight home game si- AP Laserphoto Kevin McHale blocked this shot by Frank Brickowski. Danny Ainge added 17 points for Portland and Buck Williams had 15 points and 10 rebounds. Blackman had 13 points and English added 11 points as the the Mavs built an 81-65 lead after the third period. Dallas led by as many as 20 points at 76-56 at the 3:40 mark of the period. Randy White, whose career high is 20 points, came off the bench for 14 first half points.

It was Portland's first loss of the year against a Midwest Division foe after 1 1 straight victories. The Blazers' road record dropped to 13-4. Portland whittled away a 20-point Maverick lead to five points with 2:36 to play on a free throw by Clyde Drexler. but Dallas held on for the rare victory over the Blazers. Drexler fouled out with 1 :23 to play with 22 points.

Watson's resignation has brought change in Kansas City. Watson's resignation doing some good Johnson reassigns Simla KANSAS CITY, Mo. Tom Watson said Wednesday his resignation from the Kansas City Country Club to protest its discriminatory membership has resulted in positive reaction nationwide. Watson's resignation late last year from the private club where he learned to play golf, prompted the club to change its mind about the membership application of Henry Bloch, co-founder of the nation's largest tax preparation firm, Block. Bloch is Jewish, as are Watson's wife and children.

"I think that's a very positive step," Watson said of Bloch's acceptance last month as the first Jewish member of the 94-year-old club in Watson's home town. "I've gotten letters from, all over the country and the world from people coming to Kansas City. It's been heartwarming. "I hope there's been a significant change," he said. "I think there has.

I hope this has made Kansas City re-evaluate its prejudices and look at what they are inside." I i LI 1 AP Laserphoto Tar Heels give Smith 700th career victory The Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N.C. Dean Smith got his 700th career coaching victory as fifth-ranked North Carolina routed Maryland 105-73 Wednesday night behind a career-high 25 points by Hubert Davis. The 59-year-old Smith became the sixth Division I coach to reach the 700-victory plateau, and did so in the fewest years. He is 700-204 in his 30th season. It took Smith 904 games to reach 700 victories, 68 more than Kentucky's Adolph Rupp, who won his 700th in his 33rd season.

The victory in its Atlantic Coast Conference jopener, was the 10th straight for North Carolina (12-1). Maryland, which shot 24.3 percent in the opening half, fell to (7-5, 1-2). Pete Chilcutt, who scored 18 points, and George Lynch, who had 17, led the Tar Heels to a 47-28 halftime lead. Seton Kali 74, No. 10 St.

John's 62 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. Terry Dehere scored 21 points and Seton Hall used a smothering defense to stop Malik Sealy as the surging Pirates beat No. 10 St. John's 74-62 Wednesday night. The victory was the fourth in five meetings for Seton Hall (10-2, 3-1) against its Big East Conference rival.

The Redmen (10-2, 1-2) had won 15 straight games between the schools until the Pirates began their recent run. No. 11 Kentucky 89, Mississippi St. 70 LEXINGTON, Ky. Freshman Jamal Mashburn scored 24 points and Kentucky's press forced 31 turnovers as the llth-ranked Wildcats coasted to an 89-70 Southeastern Conference victory Wednesday night over Mississippi State.

Kentucky (11-2 overall, 3-0 SEC) used a 17-4 run, led by Mashburn's three baskets, to pull ahead 23-12 with 12:02 remaining in the first half. No. 14 Duke S3, No. 24 Georgia Tecb 57 DURHAM, N.C. Billy McCaffrey had a career-high 29 points as the sharp shooting and defense of No.

14 Duke stifled 24th-ranked Georgia Tech 98-57 Wednesday night in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Georgia Tech, tops in the ACC by allowing a shooting percentage of 40.8, suffered a reversal. The Yellow Jackets (9-4, 1-1) shot 36 percent while the Blue Devils (11-3, 1-1) hit 58 percent. Texas Fishing rtcport IRVING (AP) Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson reassigned offensive coordinator Dave Shula on Wednesday and said he' has begun a search for his replacement. Johnson said Shula was given the title of passing game coordinator-receivers coach.

The new offensive coordinator will also be the quarterbacks coach, Johnson said. Johnson said he had "two or three" people in mind for the position, and hoped to talk to those individuals this week. But he refused to talk names. "That would be counterproductive at this point," he said. Johnson said the move was not a demotion for Shula, but rather an attempt to augment an offense that was inconsistent last season.

Shula will work with receivers coach Hubbard Alexander and also with the tight ends, Johnson said. "This is a similar role to what he had with the Miami Dolphins (in 1985 -88)," Johnson said. The Cowboys ranked last in the NFL in offense last year even though they finished 7-9. Johnson also announced he had released two holdover coaches from the Tom Landry era tight ends coach Alan Lowry and defensive backs coach Dick Nolan. He said Nolan had the option of remaining with the team on a part-time basis.

Johnson said he hopes to hire a new offensive coordinator by the end of January. "We're not doing this because of problems," Johnson said at a news conference. "We're doing this because we want to get Rice's Brent Scott goes up for a bucket as Alvaro Teheran defends. No. 18 Nebraska 97, City 78 KANSAS CITY, Mo.

No. 18 Nebraska got 18 points from Carl Hayes, one of four players in double figures, and won its 13th straight game, defeating stubborn Missouri-Kansas City 97-78 Wednesday night. TCU 80, Texas A4M 72 COLLEGE STATION Texas Christian scored the game's first 10 points and held off a late Texas rally, winning 80-72 Wednesday night behind the 22 points of Michael Strickland. TCU improved its record to 2-0 in Southwest Conference play and 10-2 overall, the Horned Frogs' best start since going 11-2 in 1985-86. Texas Aggies fell to 0-3 in league play and 4-9 for the season, their worst start since going 4-10 in 1970-71 Houston 80, Rice 73 HOUSTON Derrick Daniels scored a career-high 33 points that included streaks of 8 and 14 straight points as Houston won its 16th consecutive home game with a 80-73 Southwest Conference victory over Rice Wednesday night.

SKO 68, UT-San Antonio 88 DALLAS Mike Wilson's driving layup with 23 seconds left in overtime lifted Southern Methodist to an 88-86 victory over UT-San Antonio Wednesday night at Moody Coliseum. in 1966, into the Panhandle Sports Hall of Fame in 1966, into the Amarillo High School Hall of Fame in 1976 and into the Texas High School Hall of Fame in 1988. Rasmussen signs deal with Padres SAN DIEGO Left-hander Dennis Rasmussen returned to the San Diego Padres today, agreeing to a one-year, $805,000 contract minutes before the midnight deadline. Rasmussen last month rejected San Diego's salary arbitration offer, and he had until midnight Jan. 8 re-sign.

Once Tuesday's deadline had passed, he could not have signed or negotiated with the Padres until May. Reds comes to terms with Reed CINCINNATI The Cincinnati Reds said today that catcher Jeff Reed agreed to a two-year contract and infielder Luis Qui-nones agreed to a one-year contract. The team did not disclose the contract terms. Both players were eligible for arbitration. Back problems sideline Bird BOSTON Larry Bird will be sidelined indefinitely with back problems in the first complication for the Boston Celtics this season.

Bird missed Tuesday night's game in New York and Wednesday night's home game against Milwaukee. He also is expected to sit out games Friday night against the Los Angeles Clippers and Saturday at Washington. "When Larry Bird is healthy and sound again and ready to play, he'll play," Dave Gavitt, the Celtics senior executive vice president, said at a news conference before Wednesday night's game. "When that is, your guess is as good as mine, and I'm not going to guess. "We are deliberately putting no timetable on this.

The Celtics can afford to take their time with Bird. They went into Wednesday night's game with a 27-5 record, the second best in die NBA, and a lfgame home winning streak. With a balanced attack, the loss of Bird isn't as serious as it would have been last season. OHS football banquet today The Odessa High School football banquet honoring the 1990 District 4-5A co-champion Bronchos will be held tonight at 7 at the Holiday Inn Centre. Banquet tickets are $8 and available at Odessa High, Athletic Supply sporting goods stores in Odessa or at the banquet door.

The public is invited. Rams dismiss 6 assistant coaches ANAHEIM, Calif. Six Los Angeles Rams assistant coaches including defensive coordinator Fritz Shurmur have been dismissed and won't return to the team next year, the Rams announced Wednesday. Also relieved of their duties were linebacker coach Fred Whittingham, secondary coach Steve Shafer, assistant defensive line coach Larry Brooks, assistant linebacker coach Artie Gi-gantino, and special teams coach Jairo Penaranda. Syracuse names new head coach SYRACUSE, N.Y.

Wasting little time in replacing Dick MacPherson, Syracuse named assistant Paul Pasqualoni as head football coach on Wednesday. The announcement came just 48 hours after MacPherson was named coach of the New England Patriots. Pasqualoni, who was the Orangemen's linebacker coach, learned he would become Syracuse coach on Tuesday. He got the word from athletic director Jake Crouthamel while they were attending a coaches' convention in New Orleans. WAV.

Micklaus dead at 87 AMARlLLO W.W. "Windy Nicklaus, captain of the first Texas Tech football team in 1925, is dead at the age of87. Nicklaus, a longtime Amarillo educator and civic leader, died Tuesday. He was also captain of the first football team at Amarillo High School to be called the Golden Sandstorm in 1922. He was installed into the Texas Tech Athletic Hall of Honor Scuthszst LIVINGSTON: Water clear.

55 degrees. 2 inches above normal level; black bass are good in the 4-6 pound range in the creeks on cranks and Izards; striper are slow; crappie are fair earty around marinas and docks with minnows; white bass are stow, fish are up the river on a spawning run; cattish are fair on trotlmes in the river beds, catfish are good in the 20-30 pound range. RAYBURN: Water clear. 50 degrees, 2 feet tow and rising; Mack bass are fair In the 3-4 pound range in shallow water along the inside edge of the grass tines on silver blue backed Rat-L-Traps and RattUn" Rogues; crappie are stow, no knits caught this week; catfish are stow; fishing pressure is tght because of the poor weather. TOLEDO BEND: Water dear, near normal tover, fishing pressure has been Ight because of the weather.

AMtSTAD: Water dear. 64 degrees, 1 foot tow; Mack bass are fair to 6 pounds on dark worms in 30 feet of water around dropoffs; striper are fair to 20 pounds on Roadrunners; crappie are stow; white bass are good it Zorro and CabaHo Canyons on 1 -ounce white stabs; catfish are good in 90 feet of water in baited holes on cheese baits. -BRAUN1G: Water dear, 55 degrees, normal tevet; Mack bass are fair in numbers on cranks; striper are good in the 6-8 pound range on Rat-L-Traps; crappie are stow; catfish are good hi the 5-6 pound range on nightcrawlers and chicken fvers; redftsh are good to 10 pounds on cranks and Rat-L-Traps. Cental AUSTIN (AP) Here is the weekly fishing report as compiled by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for Jan. 1 0: L'est OAK CREEK: Water clear.

52 degrees, 7 feet tow: black bass and all fishing has been stow due to poor weather and lack of fishermen. POSSUM KINGDOM: Water clear, 70 degrees. 2 feet tow; Mack bass are stow, striper are good in the 6- to 20-pound range on cranks; crappie are good on minnows with tuK knits; white bass are stow, catfish are good to 24 pounds on rod and reel baited with live perch. SPENCE: Water clear. 58 degrees, 35 feet tow.

black bass are stow, striper are fair to good to 16Vt pounds on slabs and Ive bait; crappie are stow, white bass are stow; catfish are stow. TWIN BUTTES: Water dear. 44 degrees, normal level; Mack bass are good to 10.66 pounds on spoons; hybrid striper are stow, crappie are stow; white bass are good with limits to 2 pounds each on minnows; catfish are fair ki the 3-4 pound range. Csstrs! BROWNWOOa Water dear, normal level; Mack bass are stow due to lack of fishermen; striper are fair in the 5-6 pound range schooing under birds while trolling white and yeftow jigs; crappie are good under docks on minnows and jigs; white bass are fair under birds with sirvef spoons and slabs; catfish are slow. Winds have been tairr, high this week.

CANYON: Water clear; 60 degrees. 18 inches low; black bass an fair in numoer on chartreuse jigs; striper aru stow; crappie are fair from the pier in Cranes Mill Park on minnows, some limits caught; white bass are fair to good, best earty under birds on white slabs in 40 feet of water; catfish are fair to 7 pounds on nightcrawlers. FAYETTE: Water clear. 57 degrees. 18 inches tow; black bass are fairly good to 7 pounds on dark worms, five baits and jigging spoons in 5 feet or less of water, black bass fishing has been good in the hot water discharge but most fish caught are in the stot and below on Ringworms and live baits; crappie are picking up to 5 fish per string in the brush on minnows; catfish are fair in the 30 pound range on minnow baited jug lines.

GIBBONS CREEK: Water clear. 50 degrees, 4 inches tow; black bass are improving to 8 pounds with 2 weighed in on Monday, fish were caught on green Bombers; crappie are slow due to lack of fishermen; catfish fare stow. LBJ: Water clear. 56 degrees, take ft black bass are good through 6 pounds, 12 ounce on pumpkin seed jigs; striper are slow; crappie are good off docks with structure on minnows; white bass are beginning to congregate in mouth of the Liano River, best baits are deep divers; catfish are slow. taSrtMSSSt BOB SAN0UN: Water sfightty off color.

60 degrees, normal level, about 2 inches of the rain over the week; few fishermen went out this week due to poor weather. FORK: Water dear, 49 degrees, 3 inches above normal level; black bass are fair to 8 pounds on jigs and spoons; crappie are good to 1 pounds on minnows; catfish are stow. LAKE 0 THE PINES: Water clear. 42 degrees. 18 inches high; black bass are fair to 6Vt pounds on black and Woe jigs and pigs; crappie are fair on minnows in 10-20 feet of water, white bass are stow; catfish are good to 1 3 pounds on minnows and cut shad.

MONTCELLO: Water clear, 70 degrees, normal level; black bass are good to 7 pounds on chartreuse worms and water dogs; catfish are good to 15 pounds on shrimp and night crawlers. MOSS LAKE: Lake level is stil tow; boat ramps are unusable. Lake should refill around March. PALESTINE: Water murky in the creeks, main take fairly dear. 48 degrees, 6 inches above normal level; black bass are fair to 5Vi pounds on jig and eel and jig and worms; striper are stow; crappie are fair to 2 pounds jigs and minnows around 155 bridge; white bass are stow, catfish are good to 15 pounds on trotfines with chicken blood.

RAY HUBBARD: Water dingy. 37 degrees. 18 inches tow; black bass far to 3Vi pounds around the marina on crappie jigs; striper are far to 7 pounds at the hot water outlet on Sassy Shad and 58-ounce white budctailed jigs with a white worm traitor crappie are on and off. some knits in 2 pounds, on hair jigs; white bass are far at the hot water outlet on cranks, small Rat-L -Traps and L'l Georges; catfish are fair to 5v pounds at the hot water outlet TEX DMA: Water dear. 45 degrees, normal level; black bass are stow; striper are tarty good to 8 pounds on Sassy Shad and jigs; white bass are good on Sassy Shad; catfish are good to 40 pounds on cut bait; crappie are good on chartreuse and black jkjs..