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APRIL 26, 1994 TIMES ADVOCATE 0 Steffi Graf not afraiatoplayin HamburgKL High school standings, statistics and honor roll UPengu ins win to stayaliveinNHL playoffs itis Mse pilayotrff sM In fact, in the history of professional sports in North America, only four franchises have ever known the glory of four straight titles. The New York Yankees did it twice in baseball. The Montreal Canadiens (twice) and the Islanders did it in hockey. The Celtics did it in basketball. Now come the Bulls, with three giant steps behind them and one enormous leap still to go.

The path before them is uphill and treacherous. Take it from one who knows, Red Auerbach, who coached those Celtics. Every one you win, the next one is harder and harder, he said. Every one is gunning for you. They all want to be the one Please see BULLS, C2 INSIDE: Final NBA leaders, playoff matchupsC6.

NBA: Chicago looks for fourth straight title, a feat accomplished by only four North American pro teams ROBERT MARKUSCfacago Tribune CHICAGO There are no road maps to guide the Chicago Bulls through the rugged terrain toward the summit they are trying to reach. Few adventurers have made it this far and fewer still have made it to the top. The Bulls are trying to become the first NBA team to win four consecutive championships since the Celtics mighty eight-year run ended in 1966. They are trying to become the first team in any major professional sport to string together four straight titles since the New York Islanders won four Stanley Cups from 1980 through 1983. his 4,297 career rushing yards with the WALDO NILO Times Advocate New England Patriots.

COMMENTARY Pats coach Parcells knows this Buttsisnt porcelain CHARLES BRICKER Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel When Odessa Turner wouldnt venture aggressively over the middle for the tough catches, Bill Par-cells ran him out of the lineup. When he found his fragile kicker, Haul Allegre, too often seeking treatment from the trainer, he began calling him as Old PB. OldPB? Yeah," Parcells huffed, the way he grunts answers when his blood is overheated. Old Porcelain Butt. Parcells is not a sensitive man of the touchy-feely 80s and 90s.

His life is shaped by the rock-solid foundation and down-to-earth principles of a less psychotic era. He will go to the wall for his pals and harbor an enduring vindictiveness for his enemies. As with Don Shula, there is no middle ground. Line up behind him or get the hell off the train. Well, the line in New England is a lot longer these days than it was in the wimp-out year of Rod Rust or the silly, rah-rah seasons of DickMacPherson.

Of course, Parcells sensed that a year ago. After the Patriots lost to Pittsburgh on Dec. 5, Par-cells had dinner with Ed Croke, his confidant and public relations director when he coached the New York Giants' Theyre not quitting on me, Ed, Parcells said. Thats the key thing. Were 1-11 and theyre still playing hard.

Four games later, Par-cells Patriots were doing more than just sucking it up on Sunday. They were playing startlingly good football. On the final day of the season, a game Shula never will forget, Parcells young gang knocked the Dolphins out of the playoffs. Despite their similar temperaments and tough-guy approaches to the game, and the fundamental lessons of life they share, there is a profound difference between Shula and Parcells when it comes tofoctball. While Shula has struggled for years to find the running game, Parcells builds running games as if they were no more demanding than 10-piece puzzles.

They say you dont win Super Bowls without balanced offense. Shula knows something about that from 1984. Two years later, Joe Morris took Par-cells to a Super Bowl. Ottis Anderson got him a title in 1990. And now Monday, on the final day of the draft, Par-cells traded virtually nothing to the Chargers for Marion Butts, a 250-pound battering ram who may not take him to a third ring this season but surely will give him a splendid shot at the AFC East crown.

Its almost all in place now in New England. All it needs is a little growth. Two years after Parcells Running back Marion Butts will add to Chargers trade back to Patriots GEOFFREY OOLEY Times Advocate SAN DIE GO One thing surely figures to improve for the Chargers this season: program sales. Fans are going to need them when general manager Bobby Beathard gets through retooling the Chargers this year. The team lost its 10th starter from last season when Beathard traded running back Marion Butts the second-leading rusher in franchise history to the New England Patriots on Monday.

We regret we got to the point where we had to make a deal for Marion Butts because I think you build good football teams around guys like Marion Butts, said Beathard. We hate to see him leave. It would have son. The only two choices left for the Chargers were to work out a trade or terminate Butts contract. There had been rumors of a possible deal for several weeks.

Ive been expecting it for awhile, said Butts. Ive been talkingto my agent Leigh Steinberg for 3 Vi or four weeks, so it wasnt too much of a surprise. Its something Ive known for a while. The deal finally came early on the second day of the NFL draft. In the trade, the Chargers and Patriots exchanged third-round picks, with the Chargers moving up to the 7 0th overall selection from the 78th.

They used that pick to take Kansas State wide receiver Andre Coleman. The Chargers also received the Patriots fifth-round pick, selecting tight end Aaron Laing from New Mexico State. New England wound up with the Chargers third-round pick and the player who has led the Please see CHARGERS, C4 'nt "If Mpj 1 5 i AaaoaatedPrtst file photo Florida State QSCharfle Ward More NFL coverage 9 Contract: Sean Salisbury chooses not to come home, signs with Oilers, C2. 9 Chargers: Profiles of team's selections, C4. 9 Draft: Heisman rophy winner Charlie Ward overlooked, C4.

9 Aztecs: Defensive end Ramondo Stallings picked by Bengals, C4. After all the moves, are Chargers better? been great if there had been a way to keep him. We looked at every possible way to do it. It would have cut into our team in a couple of positions. Its just a move we had to do.

The reason? Its no reflection on Marion, Beathard said. Its a reflection on the salary cap. The trade means the Chargers unload Butts $1.4 million salary this season. Beathard said the two sides discussed but could not reach an agreement on a restructured contract. They were not willing to restructure it in a way we could live with, Beathard said.

The other thing is that Marions people felt they would be able to go some place for the same contract he is under for next sea Winston-Salem State. But he still managed to draft a running back from Division I-AA Tow-son State. But the question that remains after all the draft picks, all the trades, all the free-agent moves is whether this is a better team than the one that finished last season. The Chargers have lost such players as Butts, Anthony Miller, Nate Lewis, Derrick Walker, Mike Zandofsky, Burt Gross-man, Gary Plummer, Jerrol Williams, Blaise Winter and -Donald Frank. But Beathard left no doubt about his opinion.

The way weve been portrayed this off-season is weve been kind of caught with our pants down andlost a lot of players, Beathard said. Some of the people weve lost, like Marion Butts, we didnt want to Please see DRAFT, C4 UOT ULUAN K05SAC0FF BARRETT I Times Advocate San Pasquals Teri Balogh earned MVP honors In the Hilltop tourney. Durable sophomore has Eagles well-armed come the ace in her first vtirsity season. If the move helps the Eagles win, thats fine with Balogh. One person cant be the only one doing the job to win, said Balogh, 15.

It kind of blew me away that I was pitching as much as I was before Lisa went back to third. If I wasnt playing that much, Id just sit on the bench and cheer. If I was on the bench, then there would be a reason for that. As of now, Balogh may never see the bench except while the Please see EAGLES, C3 GEOFFREY OOLEY I Times Advocate SAN DIEGO Things got back to normal for Bobby Beathard and the Chargers on the second day of the NFL draft. After patiently biding his time and avoiding the temptation to deal his way into the first round uncharacteristic considering Beathards reputation got down to business Monday.

Beathard made two trades, including one that sent Marion Butts, the teams leading rusher the past five seasons, to the New England Patriots. He picked up two more selections in this years draft in the process. He didnt seem to gamble as often as in past seasons. This year Beathard selected players from such programs as Notre Dame, Miami, UCLA and Arkansas instead ofBloomsburg College, Oregon Tech or PREP OFTHE WEEK: Ten Balogh acts as a workhorse on the mound in helping SanPasqual win tourney TERRVMONAHANftmCTAipocote ESCONDIDO Heading into the softball season, Lisa Warren and Teri Balogh were set to alternate on the mound for San Pasqual High School. It went that way through the first half of the season.

Then Warren, a junior, decided she wanted to concentrate on playing third base despite her 5-0 pitching record. That meant Balogh, a sophomore, would Please see PARCELLS, C2.