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PRO SPORTS THE KANSAS CITY STAR 3 Wednesday December 20 2000 Tuesday's NBA Wolves too powerful for Blades Wolves 7 Blade By HOWARD RICHMAN The Kansas City Star At Toronto 103 Utah 95 Jazz's Karl Malone scoreless in second half At Atlanta 87 New York 77 Hawks' Lorenzen Wright scores 20 points and grabs 12 rebounds LA Lakers 81 at Miami 79 Lakers' Shaquille O'Neal gets 22 points 14 rebounds At Golden State 120 Minnesota 99 Warriors rookie Marc Jackson scores career-high 31 points Indiana 90 at Chicago 85 Pacers' Reggie Miller scores 15 of his 22 points in fourth quarter v- San Antonio 86 at Houston 79 Spurs' Tim Duncan scores 25 points including 12 in the fourth quarter Detroit 89 at Phoenix 84 Jerry Stackhouse gets 35 points for Pistons At Sacramento 106 Washington 72 Kings win seventh straight at hdtn Standings summaries 0-6 Ctricago 3 13-7 Kansas City 2 12-5 FIK5T PEMOO: 1 Chicago Larouche 8 (Brown Andery son) -57 (pp) 2 Kansas City Ready 5 (Scissons Kariya) 121 3 Kansas City Sharifijanov 8 (Hawgood Holden) 3:58 (pp) 4 Chicago Larouche 9 (Noonan Petit) 1 1 :45 (pp) 5 Chicago Noonan 11 (Brown Petit) 1657 (pp) Penalties: Kansas City leeb (hooking) 26 Chicago Andersson holding 239 Chic go Plante (hooking) 3:44 Kansas City Lingren (interference) 9:46 Chicago Meianson (obstruction slashing) 1155 Kansas City Komamiski (hooking) 1352 Kansas City TaHaire (slash ing) 15:16 SECOND PERIOD: 6 Kansas City Komamiski 6 (Sassons Kariya) 4:15 7 Chicago Drury 4 (Brown Kruse) 19tf 1 (pp) Penalties: Chicago Larouche (interference) 23 Chicago Larouche (tripping) 4:45 Kansas City Sharifijanov (hooking) 820 Kansas City Scissons (hooking) 18U3 THIRD PERIOD: 8 Chicago Drury 4 (Brown) 326 9 Kansas City Kavanagh 7 (Ruutu Allen) 6:19 10 Kansas City Leeb 8 (Holden Sharifijanov) 1357 11 Chicago Anderson 10 (Larouche Noonan) 1427 12 Chicago Drury 6 (Brown Kruse) 1730 Penalties: Chicago Meianson (holding) 6:32 Sfeotaoa goal Chicago 13 9 8 30 Kansas City 12 3 9 24 GoNtenders Chicago Young 60:00 minutes played 24 shots faced 19 saves 5 goals allowed Kansas City Michaud 6000 minutes played 30 shots faced 23 saves 7 goal allowed Power plays: Chicago 4-6 Kansas City 1-6 Announced attendance: 3017 taken a 5-3 lead on defenseman Ted second goal of the game at 3:26 of the third period The Blades responded and tied it on back-to-back goals from Pat Kavanagh and Leeb But 30 seconds after Leeb scored Chicago regained the edge when Niklas Andersson scored with 5:33 remaining Drury got the hat trick with 2:29 left and put the game out of reach outworked us Outplayed Kavanagh said came out hungrier than we did You could tell we ready put pressure on them then have breakdowns We've got to redeem ourselves" Several players had big nights besides Drury and Larouche Rob Brown had five assists The Steve Kariya stayed hot as he picked up two assists and now has 15 points in eight games for Kansas City The Blades were without left Fast When Blades right winger Brad Leeb went to the penalty box 26 seconds into the game for hooking Chicago hardly wasted time making Kansas City play Wolves center Steve Larouche who scored two power-play goals got his first just 31 seconds after Leeb exited need the power play to win games" said Larouche who has scored five goals in his last three games got a lot of talent It was just a matter of time before we were So why did the penalty killers get buried too often? (Wolves) moved it around welL We gave them holes and they fed off of it We think we can cheat but everybody has to be responsible and everyone has to follow through on Blades coach Stan Smyl said Still four power-play goals wasn't enough for Chicago which needed more to prevail The Wolves had Jazz coach sits Malone Stockton The Chicago ailing power play got healthy at the expense Chicago had the worst road power-play percentage in the International Hockey League but one never would have believed it Ttiesday The Wolves buoyed by four power-play goals in six attempts beat the Blades 7-5 in front of 3017 at Kemper Arena And every last one of them can return for free On the Blades It was Win meaning if Kansas City lost those in attendance were guaranteed a ticket to the game Jan 10 against Utah In fryt the Blades 15-13-1 hadn't lost in a while having won four straight Chicago 12-12-2 was an awful six for 66 on the road power play coming to Kansas City But the Wolves began to make it all better The Associated Press winger Dody Wood who has a hand injury He is expected to be available tonight when Kansas City plays at Chicago in a 7 pm faceoff SPEEDWAY: Fans can get on track say this but we looked sad to be here I care what names were out on the floor I was looking for someone who wants to play We came down and shot the ball like a cannon" The Jazz are in the midst of its longest road trip of the season playing six games in nine days but Sloan care having practice tomorrow not a shootaround" Sloan said care about NBC Sports is counting on referees to bring TV audiences closer to NBA action The network will wire refs fbr sound on all of its broadcasts this season will have mikes on referees at all David Neal head of production for NBA on NBC said Ttiesday looking at tape of last season some of the best exchanges we got came via the microphones on the referees" Continued from D-1 Karl Malone and John Stockton have spent many years together with the Utah Jazz On Tuesday night they spent time together on the bench Jazz coach Jerry Sloan was upset with the way his team played in a 103-95 loss to the Raptors in Toronto and Malone and Stockton paid for it Malone who was held to 12 points and four rebounds missed his first three shots of the third quarter and was benched for the rest of the period He played only 4 minutes in the fourth quarter Sloan benched John Stockton 2 minutes after he sat down Malone Stockton played just 10 minutes in the second half pay to come watch the players look bored" Utah coach Jerry Sloan said sorry to Tuesday's NHL Philadelphia 4 at Boston 4 Flyers remain undefeated under coach Bill Barber (2-0-3) NY Islanders 2 Carolina 1 Taylor Pyatt scores winner early in third period Calgary 3 at Colorado Mike Vernon makes 34 saves Atlanta 7 at Los Angeles 6 OT Frantisek Keberle scores winner Standings summaries D-6 i Anaheims Kariya has broken foot iM inn The Associated Press WENDY YANGThe Kansas City Star Fans will get a chance to drive cars such as this one when the Richard Petty Driving Experience visits Kansas Speedway next year has become immensely popular Kyle Petty said for a pretty simple reason: dam exciting The cars have about 600 horsepower and attain speeds of around 165 mph at tracks similar to Kansas Speedway Those numbers are very similar to Busch Grand National qualifying numbers and certainly high enough to give participants a feel for what drivers experience during those runs Grant Lynch president of Kansas Speedway said people who take the experience about it for weeks and they do it Lynch said Petty stressed that the Richard Petty Driving Experience which is named after his father who won more Winston Cup races than any other driver is not a driving school and very little classroom instruction is given It is more he said fantasy-camp type Costs ranges from $89 for the ride-along to almost $1200 for a session that features 30 laps of driving In 2001 the program will hold 18 to 20 worth of sessions at Kansas Speedway The first sessions will be held in April a couple of weeks before the first real racing will be held at the speedway will be on the track Kyle Petty said lot of fans from here will have more laps on Kansas Speedway than we will (before Busch and Winston Cup make their Got Great Weekend Rates All Wrapped Up r'J 3-Day Rent-A-Car Special A sellout of season tickets would mean that no individual tickets will be available for the NASCAR Crafts man Ttucks Indy Racing League Indy Lights Busch and Winston Cup races Tickets for the ARCA and Winston West day of racing on June 2 are still available for now Jeff Boerger vice president and general manager of Kansas Speedway said tickets to the doubleheader are off the Tickets range in price from $20 to $35 and allow admittance to both races The ARCA Winston West day will mark the first time racing will be held at the speedway debut at the track in late Race lengths for next major events at Kansas Speedway have been determined and will be officially announced soon According to a source associated with the speedway the Winston Cup race Sept 30 will be 400 miles the Busch Grand National Race on Sept 29 will be 300 miles and the Indy Racing League race on July 8 will be 300 miles Season tickets for the 2001 racing season at Kansas Speedway are almost sold out Speedway officials say about 72000 season tickets have been sold at the 75000-seat facility $Q99 I A DAY SOCCER: Game is tribute to Hunt Mighty Ducks forward Paul Kariya will be out at least two weeks because of a cracked bone in his right foot Kariya who has 12 goals and a team-high 31 points was injured blocking a shot by Tampa Pavel Kubina in the second period Sunday A CT scan showed Kariya had broken his foot for the third time in less than two years He was outfitted with a walking cast and will be able to do some fitness workouts brother Steve plays for the Blades The shooting touch is there the leg strength is coming After 314 years away from the ice Mario Lemieux seemed back at home Ttiesday while practicing with the Pittsburgh Penguins in Canons-burg Pa for the first time since announcing his comeback After an hourlong practice and 20 minutes of extra shooting (he was the last player off the ice) Lemieux he must develop only one aspect of his game to again be the player he once was His patience not going to step on the ice and score five to six points my first said Lemieux the Penguins owner-player who plans to return Dec 27 against Toronto was talking with (coach) Ivan (Hlinka) and he said going to have to be patient with yourself and give yourself time and not get Taylor Pyatt scored just 2:21 into the third period helping the NewYotk Islanders to a 2-1 victory against Carolina in Uniondale MV Continued from D-l exciting Hopefully it will increase turnout and see what the fans are made Wizards midfielder Chris Klein who has been invited along with Meola to the US national team training next month could be on the US roster for the April 25 game do think next year is going to be exciting for soccer fans in Kansas Klein said have a championship team trying to defend its title and we will have an international soccer game US national team is really concerned about winning games They thought Kansas City is a good place to get a pro-American crowd for the game a tribute to the city and Lamar Hunt" is the best brand of soccer in the Gray said like these will help the Wizards all a Joe Serviss chief of staff to Kansas City mayor Kay Barnes said: the city can host a national event it shows Kansas City is one of the major cities in the nation in sports This is great for our One of the players most recognized on the US national team since 1990 is Wizards goalkeeper Tony Meola who hopes on the squad when the game takes place in Kansas City happy for Lamar and Clark Meola said was important to them to bring this game to Kansas City and now they got it Although the attendance lagged behind that of most MLS 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