Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 17, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba C2 sports Fri i Phi 2001 lakers go Home with title 2 stays Calm Aba champs get Parade tomorrow los Angeles a visibly tired Shaquille Oneal and a relaxed Kobe Bryant lumbered off a chartered flight yesterday to the cheers of a few dozen fans and relatives in a warm Homecoming to Mark the to Angeles lakers second consecutive Aba Cham its just great to come Bryant said after holding up the championship trophy for news cameras and getting a kiss and bouquet from his Vanessa the team returned from Philadelphia after winning three straight games from the including a 10896 Victory Fri Day night that clinched the amid tight the plane landed about on a Seldom used run Way at los Angeles International air most team members headed directly for their cars in a nearby Park ing lot after waving to the 40 screaming fans gathered behind a nearby a downtown Victory Parade is planned for police said yesterday they had made several arrests on Misdemeanour charges after the lakers clinched the championship the previous but declined to give specifics until a full report is issued the Low number of arrests is a rever Sal from last years pos championship police on motorcycles and bicycles made sure there was no repeat of last years spurred by the teams Victory Over the Indiana talk quickly turned to the possibility of a after the lakers beat the los Angeles finished with a record of 151 in the the Best postseason winning percentage in league with two perennial Al stars in Oneal and Bryant and a Phil who has won eight titles in 10 the lakers have a foundation that could Lead to Many More titles Over the next Sev eral the first championship was just to get the Monkey off my Oneal the ones i get from now on will be to try to stamp my name in a nine year three time finalist and two time is cementing his spot As one of the most dominant big men in the history of the along with Wilt Bill Kareem Abduljabba and George Jackson credited Oneal with becom ing More of a team Leader this which was no Small feat considering How fractured the team was during most of the regular the relationships Between Oneal and Bryant and Jackson and Bryant had deteriorated to the Point where both players approached management and discussed the possibility of being Bryant eventually went to former Lak ers president Jerry wests House for a Spaghetti dinner that turned into a involved discussion about relationships and winning Champi Bryant left vowing to do his part to repair the discordant dynamic that had infected the right its a thing of the Bryant next when people see us talking aggressively its not going to be a thing of the someones going to blow it out of proportion until we win another and its going to happen its a but hopefully we wont have to go through what we went through this the lakers finished the season with eight straight then rolled through the Western conference play offs with sweeps of the Portland Trail Sacramento Kings and san Antonio s Haq came out with a lot of Energy after the Allstar break and now its time to Start Jackson he kept motivating the he kept conditioning and reconditioning taking a lot of time with free throw shots and All the things that Are the weak Points of his game that he wanted to he truly was a great Oneal provided a daily dose of comic Relief As the final calling him self quota Cious and relishing his role As the big after giving his thanks to his team mates and his family and discussing the Way the lakers soap opera unfolded through the he explained Why he appeared so stoic and emotionless when the final Buzzer sounded and the title was i think in Oneal it May not seem like in Happy on my but in also and in not press fax oversize 3pw steel was mow 2844653 7795755 7254795 great we also Oak Crest Golf course Minnesota just two hours from Winnipeg 18 holes fantastic greens watered fairways driving Range Complete pro shop snack bars refreshments toll free 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medal list Simon Whitfield of won the inaugural Victoria International triathlon while Stefan Jakobsen of was in his first race in Canada since win Ning the triathlon Gold at last Summers Sydney Whitfield finished in one hour just ahead of training partner Greg Bennett of aus who had a time of Jakob sen finished in Laura Rebak won the women in As americans swept the Becky Gibbs took second in while Sheila Taormina was third in Sharon Donnelly of was fourth in Teske wins Lyga event Evi a Australia Rachel Teske won the million us evian masters Golf tournament yester beating Sweden Maria Hjorth by a stroke for the biggest payday of her who entered the tournament with sore ribs and Little birdied the final Hole for a 4underpar 68 and a 273 Hjorth shot a 69 to finish one stroke american Beth Daniel closed with a 72 for 277 total to finish Charlottetown Lorie the Lone Canadian in the carded a 71 yesterday to finish 10 shots behind the Victory was testes third on the Lyga the winners prize of was the largest in her five years on the spider Man is Back Detroit a spider Man is Back in but theres no yet just some fist pumping in Cele bration of his third pole of the Helio tire Indianapolis 500 Winner whose pos Victory rites include leaping from his Marlboro team Penske race car and climbing the nearest was characteristically excited after taking the top qualifying spot for today Detroit grand this is the same race where a year ago the brazilian got his first cart Victory and began his unusual Post race team players Drivers Patrick car rentier of and Alex Tagliani of will Start sixth and Toronto native Paul Tracy will Start Joyner retires a Anaheim first baseman Wally Joyner retired ending his 16year major league career where it Joyner spent the first six years of his career with the Angels before return ing this he announced his retirement on his 39th before the Angels game against the los Ange Les i said at the Start of training Camp that it was my deepest desire to finish my career in an Angels Joyner i want to thank the organization for allowing that dream to become a Joyner finished with a career 204 Home runs and Bis in he played in one world with the san Diego padres in he also played for the Kansas City royals and Atlanta open continued from Page c1 Duval 71 and Azinger 69 were at Mike Weir of Brights carded a respectable 2under 68 and was tied for ninth at 1over Richard Zokol of shot a 74 and was tied for 44th at 7over tied for the Lead with Goosen and Brooks after two staggered to a 77 and dropped out of of he was still one stroke better than when asked whether Woods had a Mickelson asked How far Back he was 4over nine shots i guess everybody at 4 Over has a Mickelson if he wins this hell be my that for Garcia the biggest open comeback belongs to Arnold who charged from seven strokes behind in 1960 to win at Cherry Woods recited some other great ral lies Johnny Miller with his 63 at Oak Mont in 1973 to jump past a dozen play and the greatest comeback in major championship history when Paul Lawrie made up 10 strokes at Carnoustie on final Day of the 1999 British Lawrie had Jean Van de Woods Doest look like hell get that kind of a Cool customer from South finished with nine straight none of them particularly and history is on his Southern Hills has seen wire wire Winner in four of its other five major Champi Cink might rely on starting two shots he was 3 Over on his first two holes and in a free he turned it around quickly with four straight and set himself up for a Chance at his first for a group of players who have rarely been in this the big test will come today on a course that is getting firmer and you might see a lot of bogeys made by Cink its kind of hard to but it will be exciting that almost press Call today 6977100 family continued from Page c1 i had a calf injury at the beginning of the summer and i went upstairs to the elliptical Trainer because i do which suited me two weeks i got the of to move onto the Treadmill for something different and fell in love with she lost 40 pounds and made it her goal to run the in so said a Cou ple of Days ago i had the feeling like i was in line for a really big it seems like a great then you get to the front of the line and you look up and see How huge the thing is and wonder what you were i had a bit of that last but then i had a great run and in just i cant wait until in in that All the Waltons cited Michaels weight loss As a reason to like the i i was inspired by said i fought the Battle of the bulge for a Long time and As a new years Resolution i decided to do something about Michael was severely asthmatic As a and we watched him suffer through Lorraine we watched him Deal with that by getting he began working out and losing weight and Hes been a big inspiration to Christophers twin will be the Only Walton not running she be there to cheer her fam ily on to the finish 0 bombers reach Deal to bolster defensive line by de Tait and Gary Lawless the Winnipeg Blue bombers Are about to take a crucial step in filling a gaping Hole in their defensive front the free press has Learned that the bombers and Calgary stampedes will announce a Trade tomorrow morning that will Send the rights to Canadian defensive lineman Doug Brown to Winnipeg in Exchange for a first round pick in the 2002 Canadian College draft and a third Rounder in a has spent the last three years in the nation Al football league with the Buffalo Bills and Washington the bombers have been pestering Calgary about his rights for most of the feeling Brown is potentially the cols next dominant defensive at least the equal of Doug Peterson of the Edmon ton Brown apparently wants in the neighbourhood of which would make him one of the most expensive defensive lineman in the the Trade has some risk built in for Winnipeg because Treyve yet to reach a Deal with but the bombers have some incentive to make Brown Happy mainly there Lack of size and experience on the defensive they have no absolutely said bombers coach Dave referring to his defensive line earlier this i dont know if we have enough skill up there to win with right Well keep on Well keep on practising and see who Rolls but in worried about the whole it cant go anywhere but if you had two rookies in your front seven youve got a but were looking at five Hows one Guy going to Tell the other Guy whats Hap pening when he Hast seen it before in a Little discouraged right but Well see what stampedes coach Wally Buono would have liked to keep but said his club afford the former first rounders salary we got something for him and canadians draft picks Are How you build for the Buono told the Calgary her d d farming putting game goes astray by Pat Doyle Victoria a cynic might suggest that Todd fanning made just one mis take yesterday when he dropped his Putter on the 14th he went Back and picked it for All the Good it was doing you hed have been just As Well off using a broken tree Branch on the the Flat Blade betrayed the Nia Kwa golfer like a cheating wife on Day 3 exposed in his i should be winning the censored he growled scant seconds after an even Par round of 71 at Gorge Vale Golf club left him three swings in Back of the Blair Piercy of the Host join Leader with fanning after the first round of this Canadian tour Stop which offers to the was 69 i have shot any better for the last two fanning said of his Back nine which featured much precise shot and Ive got censored to show for it his voice tailed As if some sort of anger control mechanism had kicked i lost my i he for those of you keeping score at fanning had very make Able Birdie putts on and and he should have made his Par putt on make even three of those and he has a share of the at agreed still wingless in nine years on the Canadian a Good one tomorrow will erase All the negativity in feeling right it should be pointed out that his cause want aided in any Way by his playing Todd six Pence of starting the Day at Pence took a triple bogey on 5 and a double bogey on on he stopped to take a pee break it was offi he was leaking All Over the and it didst Stop until hed taken 81 swings on the address that although he did express a cer Tain degree of frustration with slow play by the pair in front of slow play always bothers he its just in still in right about someone asked fan Ning if he would be heading to the Media room for he said in going to the putting ;