Shaun Green reveals scored 12 fells in and Tyler Kepkay and Lawrence Borha added 11 points each for Utah, which ended a three- game losing streak to UNLV( 20- 8, 8- 6. This season is kind of looking the same; our bracket is tough but I think we have a good chance of winning " Baylor won the tournament as a No 2 seed in 2005 and Maryland did it last year. The addition of two perennial All- Stars to a team coming off an unprecedented ninth consecutive division title instantly made the Avalanche a Stanley Cup favorite. Randolph was 35- of- 59 and threw three of his touchdowns to Jon Brock, who had eight catches for 105 yards.

Douglas was being bothered by two defenders as he missed a 3 with about 45 seconds remaining, and the rebound made its way to Henderson- who hustled downcourt, sidestepped one defender and drew contact from the 7- foot- 1 Solomon Alabi as he hit a layup . In the offseason, he was sent to Detroit in a six- player deal . 4 million, and Philadelphia' s Simon Gagne, who is being paid$ 2 6 million . Texas finally took the reins off a four- wideout set in last week' s 56- 0 rout over Baylor .

Baseball is a tradition- bound sport, a game that pays full faith and credit to its history and heritage, etching the past in stone . 95, largely because of a new stadium in Philadelphia and a refurbished one in Chicago . The Lobos' weak spot in recent years has been scoring, but Kelly says that will change this season because New Mexico will go with a more wide open attack " If we don' t come out and score a lot of points and put up big numbers, we' re going to be disappointed " says Kelly, who last season threw for 14 TDs and ran for six more In sophomore halfback DonTrell Moore and junior D D . New York Mets: Carlos Delgado returned to the New York Mets on Thursday, five days after the birth of his son, Carlos Antonio . After a time- out, Barber scored nearly untouched on an option toss thanks to a mammoth Tapeh block " The decision to go for it on fourth down at the two- yard line, it looked good because it works " Minnesota coach Glen Mason said " If it doesn' t look good, what the heck " Barber shared the glory with Tapeh " As big as he is " Barber said of the 230- pound Tapeh " he opens the hole the way the offensive line does " Mason said it is purely coincidence that Barber' s name has been called so many times in scoring situations. Cole says he noticed some of his players were having flu- like symptoms after a morning workout this week.

JACKSON, Miss( AP- Standford Speech scored 14 points and all but one Mississippi Valley State player scored as the Delta Devils dropped Central Arkansas 66- 51 on Wednesday night . After leaving the Senate in 1995, he helped broker peace in Northern Ireland and investigated violence in the Middle East . 7 million during the fiscal year that ended in July 2002- 10th among Big Ten schools " We have to come with different ways to find opponents " Maturi said " One is to work out a two- for- one contract, where a school comes to play us here twice and we go there for a road game " The Gophers did that with Louisiana- Lafayette and Ohio University . Machen completed a 49- yard pass to Najah Pruden and Eugene Jarvis ran for 15 on the drive before Powell moved them back with one of the Hokies' three sacks and Reed' s kick was off target . Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

Guerrero followed with nine second- round homers to eliminate Holliday- including that 503- foot shot to a previously unexplored area . I was facing the pitcher and I never went to hit the guy " The game was delayed about 20 minutes and Offerman, Beech and Bridgeport manager and former major league pitcher Tommy John were ejected . People have been saying that Yao' s cultural differences will keep him from dominating, and that physical play from the Bad Shaq and all of the brutal Dogmen will keep him at bay, and that he doesn' t want it bad enough, which is just a way of saying he is too weak and weak- minded, and isn' t physical enough . Angels manager Mike Scioscia, who caught 13 years for the Los Angeles Dodgers, believes the Japanese tradition of a strong pitcher- catcher relationship will help ease the transition of the Mariners' pitchers to Johjima " That pitcher- catcher communication is essential and I know those guys are schooled very deeply on that in Japan and I think that transition will probably be a little easier " Scioscia said Johjima did appear crossed up a couple times . At the Texas High School Coaches Association' s All- Star Game in July, he took MVP honors for the victorious North team with 22 points and three steals in a 117- 107 victory He drained five three- point buckets " A J. PHOENIX- Recently retired first baseman Mark Grace, who once referred to a teammate as " Jason " from the " Friday the 13th " series, will join the Arizona Diamondbacks' television booth in 2004. Mavraides had 17 points and Pawel Buczak 15 for Princeton( 13- 14, 8- 6 Ivy, which snapped a five- game losing streak to the Quakers.

Bowdry came off the bench to lead Eastern Michigan with a game- high 12 rebounds . They' re very talented kids that have bought into every thing we do " Adam Gore scored 14 points and Ryan Wittman added 13 for Cornell in its 86- 53 win over Harvard to win the Ivy League and earn an NCAA Tournament berth " It' s hard to put into words " Jason Hartford, Cornell' s only senior, said of the emotions that overcame the team in the game' s final seconds " No words can express the feeling to that one sound of the horn . Newton coached SEC members Alabama and Vanderbilt for 20 years and was the athletic director at Kentucky- another SEC school- from 1989- 2000 " I am pleased that C M . Griese, who signed with Miami in June after Denver released him, and his father, Bob, became the first father and son to play quarterback for the same team in NFL history Led Zeppelin 2 Tickets . He struck out one before being lifted by manager Grady Little as the Yankees scored four times in the fourth to take a 5- 4 lead.

4 AP) survived a 3- point onslaught and beat the Cowboys 89- 81 on Monday night . I understand now that it is a World Series ring, though of course, I have never seen such a thing up close " My mother died just before I reached the majors, and I was always sad that she never got a chance to see me pitch But worse was the longing I felt for my father Whenever I would see Ken Griffey Jr or Barry Bonds or Aaron Boone, I would feel such jealousy . Aside from winning the World Series, what the White Sox did wasn' t that unusual Teams pick up quality closers on the cheap all the time The Marlins signed 37- year- old Todd Jones for$ 1 . SHAQ MINUS PENNY: You forgot about this, didn' t you? Kobe was looking like such the Svengali, and Shaq was so smooth in the role of the spurned superstar who just wanted to play " team ball " that you forgot we' ve been down this road before . On July 17, 1958, Musial hit a pair of home runs off Bob Rush of the Braves to tie Lou Gehrig for second place( 1190) behind Babe Ruth( 1356 Ruth and Gehrig had ranked 1- 2 for 20 years.

The second time Gardenhire emerged from the dugout was in the third inning when home- plate umpire Sam Holbrook, after mulling it over with the other umpires, ruled that Lew Ford wasn' t hit by Sabathia' s pitch . He said he expects to bring his assistant coaches from Raleigh Sendek faces a difficult job here . From beyond the three- point arc, MJ buried six shots, scoring 35 points in the first half . Conner was 14- of- 23 passing for 115 yards without an interception .

They did a nice job " Henry was suspended for the game for " internal team matters " the Arizona sports information staff said . Stauffer made only one start for the Padres last year, but it was a big one . Once Grimsley hired a lawyer and quit cooperating, the agents had no reason to continue to go easy on him . In the second OT, Arkansas came up with an interception and drove into position for a chip- field goal that ended the game " We' re a little bit confused as to how we blew a three- touchdown lead " quarterback Brodie Croyle said " Starting 2- 4 would not be the way we' d want to go . With Pennington out, the Jets also are looking for a veteran quarterback. He' s also remembered for throwing a chair across a court, punching a police officer in Puerto Rico and kicking a chair his son, then a player, was sitting in He also was accused of choking a player.