Phoenix 122, Golden State 107-Rookie Armon Gilliam scored 19 points at Phoenix as the Suns kept their slim playoff hopes alive. Butler, who has attracted a number of scouts and coaches here, regained his form with 17 points and 14 rebounds. I understand that the Padres and Dodgers are opening the National League baseball season with a picnic Monday afternoon. The next year, with urging from Halas and Redskin owner George Preston Marshall, that limiting factor was removed You could pass from anywhere behind the line of scrimmage. "We could have gone into a shell when the Cardinals tied it in the ninth. If you must, be tactful, and keep in mind it was just a season ago when Alemany started strongly and finished in the Del Rey League's second division It's not that the Indians were poor last year, far from it.

The sophomore left-hander, who struck out 11 Verdugo Hills batters on Tuesday, bailed the Spartans out of a bases-loaded jam in the fourth inning and finished the game to improve his record to 3-0. And after last season, he was co-winner of the team's award for the most improved player. "He ran two bad races at Santa Anita last year, then went over to Hollywood Park and worked super before winning a stake, so that ought to tell you something". The third-place match between Davis and Hampton Institute will be played at 10:30 a. m. Either way, he can turn the best fight nobody ever heard of into Rocky V "Come early And don't turn your head" warns McCrory. . Or, failing that, he'll try to pick a fight with Colombia's Fidel Bassa, the World Boxing Assn champion.

Oakland's Storm Davis will face right-hander Kirk McCaskill in the Angels' home opener tonight at 7:05. But the forearms are still solid, and almost 12 years after his last game, he appears comfortable in a uniform and has the cocky look of a great player who knows he's still great With only a bit of prompting, he begins to talk "It's understandable how Cal Jr and Billy (Ripken) feel" he says "I certainly know how Cal Sr feels When I got fired the first time, I was devastated I wanted to go hide. GUARDS Mike Hankins, 5-11, 165 Provides outside shooting when the Pioneers need it, taking the pressure off Don Maclean and Shawn DeLaittre inside. I think the thing that has gotten to him is that he is not invulnerable" Meanwhile, the 76ers have other health problems to worry about The most troubling is the continuing saga of Andrew Toney. I'm only arrogant on the day I pitch" And on those days, Clemens was asked, is he thinking about Nolan Ryan, who sent him a congratulatory telegram after his 20 Ks? "I've always loved the feel of a strikeout and always admired hard throwers" he said. He's improved 100% with the ball" The kicker in this is that virtue may not be fully rewarded until the next level. The Valiants managed only one hit over the final four innings against the burly Kostenbader, who previously had pitched 10 innings all season "It was just a big game" Kostenbader said.

It was the first time in 24 years that a Blue Grass winner hadn't run in the Derby. Only slightly toxic levels of smog blanketed the cozy confines of Anaheim Stadium, and the home team, the Angels, won the game, 6-4, over the fearsome Oakland Athletics. Robinson, a junior who played only 27 minutes, finished with 19 points, while Vernon Butler had 16 points and 17 rebounds and Kylor Whitaker added a season-high 16 points, 14 in the first half. Schulhofer moved to the leadoff position last week against El Camino Real and went 1 for 3 But the switch has made things tough for No 3 hitter Mike Kerber. The bad part was that she picked up her first case of tonsillitis there, and it has been a lingering problem ever since. One of the best-kept secrets around Palm Springs is that the Desert Falls CC course is open to the public. "The few scouts I've talked to say his bulk will help him score inside" said Mulligan, who has referred to Engelstad as "the fat " about 1,000 times in the past two years "Of course, I think he's got too much bulk.

All things considered, Keck rates as a most unusual speed merchant. In the seventh, South was down 4-2 and had the tying runs on second and third with two outs. However, he lost because of his own shoddy fielding-three errors, including two on the same play. By 1932 she was participating in the first WIBC Tournament in St Louis, and hasn't missed one since. Ed Fiori upset Kite in 1982, Keith Fergus beat Caldwell in '83, Mahaffey turned back Jim Simons in '84 and last year it was Wadkins over Stadler.

Akin Akin-Otiko, a 6-foot-6 junior from Nigeria, gave the Oral Roberts its first lead of the second half with a 14-foot jumper with 3:05 to play. — Barns 37 and 39 face one another on the backstretch at Churchill Downs. Noonan (2-1) struck out 10 but took the loss for Valley Christian (2-6, 1-1. Even as his successor at Maryland, Bob Wade, was conducting interviews in one corner of the building, Driesell was in the process of whipping Dick Vitale, 4-2 (retired, in a game of one-on-one that had everyone in the building roaring.

Receivers-David Petrutis (Santiago, 5-8, 150, Jr, David Harriger (La Quinta, 5-9, 160, Jr. I hit a decent drive, but it carried over into trouble on the left. Chris Zavatsky, a relief pitcher for the Cal State Northridge baseball team, has asked for a release from his scholarship and will seek a transfer to another school. They had height, discipline and speed, not to mention an 82% free-throw shooting performance (27 of 33. Right, Cheryl Miller, wearing splint on broken finger, strikes a pose JAYNE KAMIN / Los Angeles Times.

Soccer seems to be the game they liked the most" Like any other soccer parent, he's proud of his daughter's accomplishments but prouder still of the way she's gone about polishing her skills. "It does surprise me, it really does" said Fuller, ticket chairman of the Mesa HoHoKams, a group of Mesa businessmen whose prime function is to see that the Cubs are housed properly each spring. Mel Stute, who trains Snow Chief for owners Carl Grinstead of Chula Vista and Ben Rochelle of Beverly Hills, was slightly surprised at the turnout. "It was, in my mind, the difference in the game" Hawking said. "The last five years we've been struggling to show we could make a conference go and that it would work economically" USIU and Buetow were instrumental in forming the Great West Hockey Conference for the 1985-86 season, Buetow's first at USIU. Oldfield, now 40, has history's longest throw, 75 feet in 1975 at El Paso, Tex.

Teams had until noon Tuesday to release players without having to pay their full salaries. Horses never crash and burn" As an Indy car owner, Keck never had to worry about scraping up enough cash to keep the operation going. The Chicago Bears are expected to let their grace period expire today and allow linebacker Wilber Marshall to go to the Washington Redskins for two first-round draft choices. Academic success became re-established firmly as the main objective at Chapman.

For me, coaching is the fun part of the game" It's been fun for Lovarov, even though the last 27 years have been an endless succession of long bus rides, hours of raking, watering and lining the field, hitting fungoes and lugging equipment. Glad to see Gene Mauch is OK and will probably be back in action soon. North Carolina State never got closer than nine points after that. You kept on saying you had never gotten the respect you so richly deserved I still cannot figure out what respect you were lacking You got tens of millions of dollars to fight. "You can see where Kareem strides very purposefully toward Mr Nicolia and just slams him" Leshner said. "They've done a very good job, as always, so I'm not certain whether it's the gridlock of traffic that has caught up with them now, as it did with us the last two or three years, or whether it's something that might impact on us this year" If it is simply inter-track wagering that brought about Santa Anita's on-track decreases of 9% in average daily attendance and 3. 3% in average daily handle, then gains made in off-track attendance and handle should more than compensate for the drop, Everett believes "I'm not concerned about inter-track" she said "I think inter-track can only help us. They look like citizens of Tokyo who just spotted Godzilla in town Dr Richard Kimble didn't run this hard.

Several women's races are on the preliminary program, beginning at 8:40 a. m. . Unfortunately, all I have to go on in recommending Gonzalez for the starting lineup is the Dodgers' word. Barry Weisbord, the president of Matchmaker, said he believed there was room for another exchange, and said his firm would watch closely the track record of Stallion Access "We may take a few things out of their playbook" he said "We will not be stagnant. Arredondo, 24, from Mexico City and Los Angeles, has a knockout percentage to rank with the all-timers, 33 K0s in 35 victories He's lost twice. Curtis Strange joined the long list of victims last year, knocking his second shot into the creek and making a bogey 6 in the final round.