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'sy--fttr'VA-: rt-' Hie Columbian Wednesday March 30 1994 699-3006 Z-y Scoreboard D2 Local a D4 Business D5-6 i- af-''T 5 7 wear dwGH See cheese bologna for Portland manages to hang tough for three quarters but Seattle NBA-best defense turns the trick in the final period najssfinm By KEN VANCE The Columbian PORTLAND Buck Williams thinks the Seattle SuperSonics have a defensive gimmick If that's what it is it's the best gadget In the game of basketball For the third time in four: games between the two teams this season top-ranked defense was too much for the Trail Blazers this time in the form of a 114-100 Sonic win Tuesday at Memorial Coliseum "They have a defensive gimmick that seems to work and they believe they can said Williams Seattle guard Nate McMillian necessarily agree with Williams that a gimmick want to pressure people for 48 said McMillian simplifying any mystery of how Seattle has become one of the NBA's best defensive teams and compiled the best record at 52-17 There are four teams in the league that are currently allowing less points a game than Seattle but none come close to playing to the type of tempo the Son-icsdo win because of our defense 90 percent of the said Seattle coach George Karl our assessment could easily include his Tuesday win over Portland but Shawn Kemp and the rest of the inside people deserve their fair share of the credit as welL Seattle coach says he mind new Barry Bonds Lenny Dykstra and Ken Griffey are being used to sell bologna and cheese for the purpose of increasing base-baN knowledge New pop-up baseball cards win start appearing next month on specialty marked packages of Kraft cheese and Oscar Mayer bologna The cards in the cheese packages will profDe15 American League and 15 National League players The canto packaged with the bologna also will have pictures of 15 players from each league but those will contain baseball player trivia Among the other players who wil show up In supermarket daily cases are Bobby Bonilla David Justice Cal Ripken and Dennis Eckersley To avoid confusion the cards in the cheese will be rectangular and those in the bologna will be round The Associated Prase (TELEVISION! College basketball: Vance rbi It plays Villanova In the championship game of the NIT tonight (6 pnu ESPN cable Channel 28) (More TV sports best bets on Pags D2) SKIlRERORT 3 Northwest skiing conditions this morning: MOUNT HOOD MEADOWS: Rain and snow 33 degrees no new snow 126-inch base Hours: 9 am to 4 pm TTMBERUNE: Ckrudyt 41 degrees no new snow 131-inch base Hours: 9 am to 4 pm SKI BOWL: Overcast 34 degrees no new snow 62-inch base Hours: 4:30 to 10 pm MOUNT BACHELOR: Snowing 33 degrees 1 1nch new snow 65-inch base Hours: 8 am to 4 pm WHITE PASS: Overcast 32 degrees no new snow 60-Inch base Hours: 8:45 am to 4 pm SNOW PHONES: Mount Hood Meadows (503) 227-7669 Timberiine (503) 222-221 1 Mount Hood SKIBOWL (503) 222-2695 Mount Bachelor (503) 382-7888 White Pass (509) 672-3100 (Updated ski Information Is also available on The Coiumbtan'a INFO-LINE by caMng 699-6000 (Mount Hood Meadows ExL 5662 Tlmbertlns ExL 5661 SKI-BOWL ExL 5660 and Mount Hood ski woathor ExL 7544) flSHlCOUNTj 1 Monday's fish count at Columbia River dams: BONNEVILLE: 75adult spring chinook14 stsettiead Temperature: 46 degrees Visibility: 50 feet Streamflow: 1 1 1 000 cubic feet per second INSIDE in brief: Mike Tyson will get another day tai court Page D2 fanning the flames it gams At Portland Jp Sonics 114 Blazers 100M sCjNaxt garnet Today0g (41-29) Mfd MBeaukee (iMim 'tRadtosKEX 1190 TVs Norm Kemp scored a team-high 28 points including 16 in the third quarter aa Seattle began to take control of a game that was up for grabs for three quarters At one point in the final moments of file third period Seattle had a 4020 edge over the Blazers in points scored in the paint or inside the free-throw lane defense clearly was at its best in the fourth quarter when the Sonics outscored Portland 3420 to claim the 14-point victory Under the pressure Portland was limited to just eight field goals in the final 12 minutes and the Blazers were forced into she turnovers the game went on I thought they got more and more Karl said that happened they got the basketball into better positions for us to be The Sonics who lead the NBA in steals as a team had 10 in the game compared three That allowed the Sonics to convert those opportunities into 23 Please see Blazers Page D3 one which clinches the season series against said Karl who has infliriated the Blazers in the past with statements that Axels the flames of the Pacific Northwest rivalry was important to said Karl referring to winning the season series against the Blazers I really think we need to keep this rivalry going I think important we keep the edge over the Karl also admitted that he will be more than happy to supply the media with all the material it Barry Switzer center head football coach about right Johnson was diplomatic in his response to reports that Switzer will replace him saying it is strictly decision resignation canted a long-standing feud that boiled over in Orlando Fla last week when Jones suggested in a barroom conversation that he should hire a new coach and his remarks got back to Johnson our discussions we have mutually decided that I would no longer be the head football coach of the Dallas Johnson said after two days of meetings with Jones i DAVU OLSONTh Cekanbian Portland's Rod Strickland threads the needle between Seattle's Shawn Kemp left Kendall QIU and Detlef Schrempf on his way to a 30-point scoring night George Karl loves Blazer-Sonics rivalry and he plans to keep it going By KEN VANCE The Columbian PORTLAND In the locker-room after his 114-100 win over Portland Tuesday Seattle coach George Karl was more than happy to emphasize how much he enjoys the Sonics beating the Blazers really happy we got this ple down here like to write about those things I don't want to disappoint Seattle all-star forward Shawn Kemp who scored a team-high 28 points in the Tuesday win Cowboys and ex-Oklahoma coach Switlzer negotiate r-i P-JSwlf Sport salmon season melts a 3-day reprieve needs to keep things stirred up between the two teams long as I am around I am sure that 1 will continue to make smartassed comments to keep it he said way peo Thai want the impression to exist that Karl is the only one who feels strongly about beating the Blazers not just Kemp Please see Rivals Page D3 The gillnetters caught 83 wild Snake chinook during their season in February and early March At the end of fishing on Sunday it is projected sportsmen will have landed 2343 chinook with 81 of those Snake River wild chinook Biologist Guy Norman of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife said with a nearrecord low of 49000 spring chinook forecast for upstream of Bonneville Dam officials do not want to push to catch every last wild Snake River chinook allowed Angling has been relatively poor he said The catch was a chinook per 15 boat rods and 42 bank rods-during the past week Water clarity a key to good spring chinook catches has been' good Norman said But the streamflow has been less than average Oregon officials extended fishing for hatchery steelhead in the lower Columbia through Sun-' day A decision will be announced by Thursday whether fishing for hatchery steelhead on the Washington side of the Columbia also continues through Sunday wastes little time in going after replacement for Jimmy Johnson IRVING Texas CAP) It apparently take Jerry Jones long to find a new coach for file Dallas Cowboys Hours after Jimmy Johnson said he was leaving the twotime defending Super Bowl champions Jones met with former Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer to finalize a contract to become the Cowboys' next head coach the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported today Switzer and Jones met Tuesday night in North Texas the Star-Telegram said citing team sources Telephone messages left by The Associated Press at the home of Jones and the Dallas hotel where Switzer is registered were not returned this morning Switzer 56 won three national titles in 16 years at Oklahoma before leaving amid several scandals involving arrests of his players He went 197-2D4 at OU and won or tied far 12 Big Eight titles I was offered the job I probably would accept Switzer told The Daily Okla- homan on Tuesday too premature to talk about anything that would affect that opportunity all I want to comment throe national titles as Oklahoma Fishing on lower Columbia to end Sunday By ALLEN THOMAS The Columbian Spring chinook salmon fishing in the lower Columbia River will continue through Sunday Washington and Oregon officials on Tuesday approved three additional days of fishing beyond the normal end of fishing on March 31 Under guidelines of the Endangered Species Act sportsmen and gillnetters in the lower Columbia River are allowed to catch 198 wild Snake River spring chinook a threatened species A run of 6200 wild Snake spring chinook is forecast this year The 196-fish allocation is to allow the harvest of spring chinook from healthy stocks headed to the Willamette Cowlitz Lewis Kalama and Sandy rivers More than 90000 adult spring chinook are forecast to return to the five lower Columbia tributaries this year State officials decided in January to split the 198 wild spring chinook evenly among the commercial and sport fishermen with each side getting 99 Johnson said he expects to coach again although no NFL head coaching positions are open for the upcoming' season Jones gave Johnson a monetary settlement he called a thank it was believed to be a multi-million dollar payment and the two were amiable at their press conference no way in the world either one of us could have done all this without each said Johnson who was happy to be learing even though it meant giving up a chance for a record third straight Super Bowl victory 6994000 S34-6000 -Whougsl a For the tartest sports results cat The Columbia's Info-Une LOCAL SPORTS: Press 2010 Results available after 10:30 pm OUTDOOR REPORT 1683 NBA 6002 NHI 6010 SPORTS HEADUNES: 6018 NCAA BASKETBALL SCORES 6046 -v fi 1 i.