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Fan phone lines Ask Us about sports rules, history, trivia (813)892-2367 2c Sports department number (813)893-8123 TIMES MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1996 TODAY'S QUIZ Who were the Los Angeles Clippers when they first joined the NBA? Quiz arawsr Wow TODAY'S QUOTE: "Too smelly and too much spit." One bidder' speculation on why the hockey penally box at (he Boston Garden auction wasn't told Fanfare SPORTS CAPTAIN'S CORNER A daily guide to fishing in the Tampa Bay area mm mm-. iiiijjiiMtm hi' Beloit's football team ended its season 0-9 while Tampa Bay was 1-8 after nine games. His money's on God Joe DiDonato, who rebuilt a chapel at the Meadows harness racing track southwest of Pittsburgh, was a bit skeptical before he was hired as track minister three years ago. The Assemblies of God minister said he thought his job JfvL usual, there is good news and bad news. The bad news is that the Novem-W ber winds have arrived and put a chill on offshore fishing.

Small-craft advisories are posted for a reason and we should stay in port when they are up. It is easy to begin a trip offshore with strong easterly winds at our backs and enjoy fairly smooth, following seas until a distance of 3-4 miles is reached, then turn around and realize this is no place to be because of the rapidly building waves. Winner takes Bucco Bruce? Beloit College insists it didn't steal its logo from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The college football coach CAPT. DAVE ZALEWSKI says he plucked the image of the mustachioed man in a feathered cap from a catalog 20 years ago, the same year Tampa Bay joined the NFL.

"When I picked it out, I didn't even would be to counsel people who had lost a lot of money, and that was a turnoff. "My response was, 'You want me to do what? "he said. But then he learned of a need for a pastor at the busy track, where schedules don't always include A safe and productive place to fish is the Indian Shores Augmentation reefs. These reefs were constructed to replace live bottom that was covered when the Indian Shores beach renourishment project was finished. Many people have mistaken these markers for swim buoys.

Each reef is 120 by 150 feet and rises 4-5 feet off the bottom. For the depth these reefs are located in, this is awesome structure and they hold a surprising quantity and diversity of fish. The good news is that I spoke to Capt. Mike Ware in Panama City on Friday and he reports there are plenty of Kings and mackerel being caught. The water temperature was 69 degrees in the Panhandle.

So keep those excuses for your boss handy, we still may experience some great offshore fishing if the winds stop blowing. Dave Zalewski charters the Lucky Too out of Madeira Beach. Got a fish tale to tell? Call bur Fish Fone at (813) know what Tampa Bay's looked like," coach and dime Lit. UJl CLIUl i t- EdDeGeorge said. Ihe WATER TEMPERATURE AND TIDES CtQQ Sunday at Egmont Key, southwest AP of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.

High Low tow High Dan Plant of Tempe, does a swan dive from "La Quebrada (The Break)" that helps him to a second-place finish in the first Acapulco cliff-diving tournament in three years. Birdie binge gives Kite, Haas victory SUN AND MOON Sunrise 6:54 a.m. Sunset 5:37 p.m. Moonrise 1:21 p.m. Moonset 12:15 a.m.

SOLUNARS Minor Major 11:50 a.m. 5:40 p.m. 12:20 a.m. 6:05 a.m. MARINE WEATHER Tampa Bay area Small craft advisory in effect.

Monday: Wind east 15 to 20 knots. Seas 3 feet near shore and 6 feet offshore. Bay and inland waters a moderate chop. Tarpon-Apalachicola Small craft exercise caution. Monday: Wind east 10 to 15 knots.

Seas 2 feet near shore and 4 feet offshore. Bay and inland waters a light chop. High 8 06a 11p 1:27 Withlacoochea River Cedar Key Bayport Tarpon, Anclote River Dunodin, St. Jo' Sound Clearwater Indian Rocks Madeira Beach Cswy Johna Pass St. Pete Beach Cswy Pan A Grille Gulfport St Petenburg Pinellas Point Egmont Key Anna Maria Bradenton Little Manatee River Gandy Bridge Courtney Campbell Hillsborough Bay Safely Harbor art EARLTOWERY time for religion.

So DiDonato rolled up his sleeves and carpeted the cobwebbed chapel in one of the tack rooms. Services, Bible camp and Sunday school followed. His annual Thanksgiving dinner attracts 200 people, including drivers and their families. He has had to knock out a wall to make his chapel bigger. "The people I minister to at the track are not your typical church crowd for the most part.

They're not used to being in church every Sunday," said DiDonato, a former disc jockey. About 40 chaplains are at work at racetracks across the country. What's in a name? The dam of the racehorse Alphabet Soup is named Illiterate. catalog offered T1me a number of different buccaneer logos, "and we picked the one we liked the most." The NFL isn't planning to make it a legal case, said Chris Widmaier, director of corporate communications for the NFL. Both logos depict the same image only Beloit's feather points in the opposite direction.

The school declined the NFL's request to stop using the logo and discussed the issue at a recent board of trustees meeting, Beloit public-relations director Ron Nief said. "We suggested we might play them for it, winner take all, but we're just kidding," Nief said. "We may have a similar record, but that's about all we have in common, so I don't think people will get us confused." 10 46o SPORTS DIGEST won the NABO junior welterweight title with a 12-round decision over SPORTS ON THE AIR LATEST UNE NHL Favorite Gb Underdog Gb at Florida -1V4 Washington 1 at Boston -1 San Jose Vi Detroit -1 at Phoenix VS at Calgary -V4 Y. Rangers Even NBA Favorite Line Underdog Sacramento 3 at Vancouver Na Favorite Una Underdog at Dallas 4 Green Bay QUE ANSWER Subject to changes by stations and networks. Some stations not available in all areas, Cable only.

NFL 9 p.m. Packers at Cowboys, Chs. 28, 40; W2TM-AM 820. Other Sports 6:30 p.m. High school football: Jesuit at Tampa Catholic (taped), Time Warner Ch.25-c,Ch.

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3 a.m. Tennis: WTA Chase Championship (taped), Sunshine-c. Three teams play for district title tonight PREP FOOTBALL The Buffalo Braves, from 1970-71 to 1977-78. (WWW pnfirviiw BRANDON From the way their seasons went, it's almost impossible to predict a winner in tonight's Class 6A, District 8 football playoff between Plant City, Brandon and Bradenton Southeast. About the only sure things are that Plant City (6-4, 3-2) meets Southeast (4-4, 3-2) in the first quarter, which kicks off at 7:30 at McLane Stadium.

Brandon (6-4, 3-2) plays the winner in the second quarter. The teams split their regular-season victories this way: Brandon beat Plant City 3-0, Southeast defeated Brandon 21-14 and Plant City beat Southeast 23-6. Sarasota Riverview (10-0, 5-0) handed each team its only district loss. Plant City features Hillsborough County's rushing champion, Wayne Ward, who finished with 1,618 yards on 191 carries; Brandon counters with James Gaynor, who gained 1,124 yards on 118 carries; and Southeast has Chuck Spencer, who rushed for 215 yards in the Seminoles' victory against Brandon. SCOTT PURKS 2 FOR 1 GOLF With This Coupon $01 Tax Mm I Per Person Weekdays All Day Make Your Tee Times While They Last (Offer good until 1122.

Based on $42 reg. rdte. iji LJanaw'' Li' iilij.m iff 1.1-1 NEED CASH? Borrow Up To JD3C Finishing with nine consecutive birdies, Tom Kite and Jay Haas won the Shark Shootout in Thousand Oaks, by two shots Sunday. Kite and Haas teamed for their second straight 60, this time in a scramble format, to wind up the three-day tournament at 29-un-der-par 187. Second-round leaders Craig Stadler and Lanny Wad-kins shot 63 to finish tied for second with Hale Irwin and Lee Janzen at 27 under.

Haas began the birdie barrage when he rolled in an 8-footer on No. 10. Kite sank putts of 25 and 30 feet on the next two holes, then one or the other hit close to the pin for relatively easy birdies the rest of the way. Irwin and Janzen also closed at 60 with eagles on the 13th and 16th holes. MORE GOLF: University of Florida sophomore Steve Scott shot 1-over-par 73 in the final round to finish at par 288 for the 72 holes at the World Amateur Team Championships in Manila, the Philippines.

Scott was one stroke behind team leader Jason Enloe. The United States finished ninth, its worst showing ever. Australia finished 26-under 838, 11 shots better than second-place Sweden and 23 shots ahead of the Americans. After working five years for ESPN, Gary Koch is moving to NBC-TV. The Tampa resident who won six PGA Tour events in a 15-year career will do analysis and on-course reporting for the network, which telecasts the U.S.

Open. "It was one of the most difficult decisions I've ever had to make," said Koch, 43. "But it's a wonderful opportunity for me to get involved in some big events." His first tournament will be the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic in January. TENNIS: Her back ailing, Steffi Graf called it quits after a set, giving Jana Novotna the title at the Advanta Championships in Villanova, Pa. She lost the first set 6-4.

Australians Todd Wood-bridge and Mark Woodforde, the world's No. 1-ranked doubles team, beat Alex O'Brien and Sebastian Lareau 6-4, 5-7, 6-2, 7-6 (7-3) in the title match of the Phoenix ATP Tour World Doubles Championship in Hartford, Conn. BOXING: Fabrizio De Chiara, who collapsed in the ring during a title bout, was in a deep coma and doctors began trying to determine if he is brain dead. De Chiara, 25, was fighting Vincenzo Imparato in a 12-round bout for the Italian middleweight championship in Av-enza, Italy. After Imparato landed two sharp blows to De Chiara's head and one to the stomach at the end of the final round, the referee stopped the fight.

De Chiara made it back to his corner and collapsed in the arms of his trainers. Featherweight Kevin Kelley easily retained the World Boxing Union championship with a lopsided 12-round unanimous decision over Edwin Santana in Atlantic City, N.J. Kelley (45-1-2, 31 KOs), moving smartly on angles and utilizing an edge in hand speed, lost only one Of Your Home's Value former champion John Avila (23-3-1) in Inglewood, Calif. COLLEGES: The No. 1-ranked Florida volleyball team (29-1, 14-0 SEC) beat Tennessee 15-10, 12-15, 15-8, 15-9 in Gainesville to finish conference play undefeated for the second straight year and fourth time in six years.

Jenny Wood led UF with 19 kills and 13 digs. The Florida State volleyball team (12-18) cruised past Troy State 15-1, 15-9, 15-6 to conclude its regular season. The Seminoles won the first 21 points. HIGH SCHOOLS: Plant High won the Class 5A, District 5 swimming championship Saturday night in Lakeland. The boys totaled 419 points to George Jenkins' 370 and Lakeland's 277.

The girls totaled 541 to George Jenkins' 330. Lakeland was third at 320. Tampa Bay Tech's Kristy Parlett won the 200 IM in 2:18.86. Durant won the Class 4A, District 6 title at Winter Haven with 868 points to Lake Placid's 595 and Winter Haven's 446. The girls totaled 548 to Se-bring's 296 and Lake Placid's 274, and the boys were second to Lake Placid 321-320, with Winter Haven third at 308.

OLYMPICS: Don Catlin, joint head of the IOC's doping panel, said he reported at least four positive drug tests at the Summer Games in Atlanta that have not been made public. "A lab at the Olympics should at least be capable of reporting results within 48 hours," Catlin said. "I can think of no reason why these results have not been published." Women's weightlifting likely will be added to the 2000 Sydney Games, with 40 percent of the total competitors expected to be female. BASEBALL: Athletics catcher Terry Steinbach became the first player affected by the collapse of the proposed labor agreement to refile for free agency. The Indians have rescinded their offer to Albert Belle, the Plain Dealer reported.

GM John Hart told Belle's agent, Am Tellem, that he was withdrawing the deal, said to be worth $39-million to $40-million over five years. According to the paper, the Marlins made the free-agent outfielder a $38-million, four-year offer. ET CETERA: Mexican veteran Genaro Santillan edged American rival Dan Plant to capture the men's title in the first Acapulco cliff-diving tournament in three years. Santillan won with a swan dive from 65 feet and two forward somersaults. Breathe Right nasal strips do not improve physical performance, according to studies at Illinois State.

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