For Manute Bol: An embroidered sampler of the greatest one-liners about his height, like Darryl Dawkins' "If he falls down, he's halfway home" Also, a moratorium on word-plays on his name, like: "Manute was called for Bol tending" and "The experts said his chances of making it in the NBA were Manute" For Tom Lasorda: None of those mean-spirited gifts others are suggesting, gifts to remind Lasorda of the horrible ending to an otherwise exciting season. Coach Miller added, however: "It seemed like Reggie had a protection society out there. "We really haven't been at full strength except in Hawaii" he said. Sylmar 8, Kennedy 0-Deann Wright pitched a three-hitter for the Spartans in a North Valley League game at Sylmar. With the Seoul Olympics in sight, Lewis says he is focusing more on the 100 meters and the long jump and less on the 200 meters and the 400-meter relay. He attended West Valley Community College, and continued to run well Still, Krulee wasn't the area's top runner. He finished with 14 points, second only to MacLean's 18 for Simi Valley.

Yocum said the thumb could be sufficiently healed in the next several days DeCinces also is expected back in the lineup tonight. After all, the ARS (American Racing Series) only had seven cars for its first race" The American Racing Series is CART's development series for Indy car hopefuls. No, this game is made by the strange behavior of Sherrill, whom A&M has made a million-dollar coach. But the 1987 Eclipse Award-winner is a front-runner with a questionable pedigree for 1 miles; Brian's Time was able to run him down in the 1 1/8-mile Florida Derby. A sample: "Heroes and cowards both experience fear, they just react differently.

Pomona and Pitzer colleges have teamed up to form another program. Then get home in time for scores and highlights on ESPN" 22 Years Ago Today: On April 30, 1966, Rick Reichardt of Angels hit two home runs in the eighth inning to lead the Angels to a 16-9 victory over the Boston Red Sox. Trevino has been through all of this before, and it doesn't seem to faze him. An announcement by the team also said Karl cited "organizational matters" but no one specified what matters were involved. "I've been competing for 15 or 16 years, and don't know if I could ever get the feeling out of me" But he is, indeed, semi-retired, although it didn't appear that way in Tuesday's 7-5, 7-5 win over Anger at the La Quinta Hotel Tennis Club. Gross (2-1) struck out seven and walked one in pitching his second complete game of the season and lowering his earned-run average to 1. 14 Gross helped himself with two hits and two runs. Of course, then there's the problem of how Pedro will actually throw a ball that's now stuck on his hand But the Dodgers are taking this problem one step at a time.

Instead of North Carolina playing at home, rival Duke, the ACC tournament champion, will travel the 12 miles from Durham, N. C, to play in Chapel Hill. Neither the school nor officials would speculate on reasons for the suicide, but Carter had apparently been shaken by the death of his father, Cloyd, in August. But Cleveland State's pressure defense kept the game close, and the Vikings pulled into a 38-38 tie on a layup by Clinton Smith with 14:08 to play. Kim Peppi (15-5) will start on the mound for Cal Lutheran in the first game today and Becky Wolfe (10-4) is expected to start the second game A third game, if necessary, would be played Saturday. Samuel was thrown out at the plate by Hatcher on a Schmidt single to left field to end the inning. — Forward Eric White and guard Dwayne Polee scored 20 points apiece as Pepperdine handed Southern Methodist its first defeat of the season Friday night, 75-68 in overtime, in the opening round of the Kentucky Invitational tournament. This season, however, even the most positive-thinking fans have had trouble spotting 3 year olds who look as if they could be bona-fide Derby contenders.

playoffs for the third straight season with a 110-105 victory over the New York Knicks Thursday night at New York. What we have got to do is have somebody with some pull, somebody who is influential We've got to have somebody stand up. "A lot of people will second-guess it, because Golden State came back from a big deficit" said forward Marques Johnson, who led the Clippers with 22 points "That didn't help (Chaney) too much But the fact is, we won "I definitely don't like Don Chaney being in this situation I don't know if this game changed much. "He's shooting better from three-point range than we are at the free-throw line Then Simon takes it. For the record, he retired two Mariners-Danny Tartabull on a grounder and Gorman Thomas on a fly ball Everyone else he faced reached base-and scored "This may be the worst I've ever had" Sutton said.

Junior Danny Yu won his three sets as Valencia High School defeated Anaheim, 10-8, in an Orange League tennis match Friday at Pearson Park in Anaheim. The election continued, however, and after Seeley nominated Leslie Liscom, Felton was re-elected, getting the votes of Liscom, Paul Deats and Henry Chavez, with only Seeley voting against him. Kingsman honored: Jon Egertson, a senior third baseman from Cal Lutheran, was selected Golden State Athletic Conference Player of the Week. Frank Shorter, the Olympic marathon gold medalist in 1972, was expected to be a contender But he injured a tendon in his ankle while training He says he'll run only part of the course today. Indiana (18-5, 10-3) was clinging to a one-point lead but was called for a backcourt violation with five seconds left.

He's very good at milking the car right to the end of the race" Gregg said: "Scott's a very focused, intense guy, especially when he gets in a race car. By then, the Griffin machine was running up and down the court, and flipping alley-oop back door passes to guard Matt Treece, who scored two surprise layups on the weak side of the Cypress defense. "Tom has done everything by the seat of his pants" says teammate Dan Healy "Polo was a hobby he picked up on his own He paid for everything himself. To give you an idea where Lorenzo is coming from, before racing, he was into tournament karate. AUGUSTA, Ga.

Banks made 10 of his 16 field-goal attempts, four of which were three-pointers, as the Rebels raised their PCAA record to 2-0 and their overall mark to 13-2. In an Empire league girls' track and field meet: Katella 69, Cypress 58-Cypress' Staci Carrington ran a personal best in the two-mile in 11:38. 6, beating Katella's Martha Pinto, who finished in 11:41, at Katella The loss was Pinto's first dual meet defeat of the season Katella's Melissa Gardner put the shot 34-feet. In order to reach that goal this year, however, he has had to compete against: David Stewart, a 5-10, 150-pound junior, who has never hit the ball too hard in his life, smiles on the inside when one of his placement shots lands just out of your reach, and who, according to his coach probably would not make much of a car salesman "Oh, yeah, David is much quieter" Collins said "David has always put tennis No. Anyway, Bob Big Boy told me he'd heard a rumor that the Korean Olympic people thought I was too old" "Listen, you're no kid, kid" I kidded. Not only did he knock out all four of his opponents to win the title, it took him a combined total of less than two minutes His first bout lasted seven seconds "He was about 260 pounds, a Navy guy" Newberry said.

I think sometimes we get too much respect" Smith, himself, has been giving Arizona lots of respect. And the emergence of the Ladies Professional Bowling Tour and its hefty tournament purses has made the sport lucrative for the top women bowlers. Foothill 12, Orange 3-Frank Governale had two doubles and knocked in five runs to lead the Knights (4-2) at Foothill High. "We don't think they can keep up with us running" Laker forward Kurt Rambis said. "I'm not a very good writer, but I couldn't have written it any better. 1, but second-ranked Portland State is favored to win the NCAA Division II women's volleyball championship this weekend at Portland State. And so, there will be no swan song for Giddings, the former Marine who has coached on the professional, college and high school level On Friday night, speed killed the Sailors.

Francis Yacht Club, San Francisco, plans to christen its new 12-Meter, USA, on June 10. — When Atlanta Braves' third baseman Ken Oberkfell looks around, he sees a crowd. Before Guerrero stepped to the plate for the Dodgers in a key situation against Atlanta reliever Jim Acker-bases loaded and two outs in the ninth inning of a 2-2 game-he had managed only an infield single in nine at-bats during the first three games of the season. You may have noticed that the Rams aren't taking the ball away from anybody else lately, either.

Proceeds from the game will benefit the Hope House, a temporary residential facility in Irvine for substance abuse victims For more tickets and information call, 856-5000. Ricky Spears and Kirk Shankle each had two hits and one RBI for El Camino (3-17, 2-8 Rancho Buena Vista fell to 7-14, 3-7. Western Kentucky beat Texas in last year's Mideast Regional, 92-20, on Lillie Mason's desperation shot at the buzzer. And the course conditions, virtually all the players said, were about the same, too, which meant that the wind swirled as only it can at Augusta National and that the greens were as swift as ever. As each hugged her, the laughing, crying, almost incoherent Fletcher repeated: "I can't believe it" But her time of 1:54. 28 made believers out of Canadian Laurie Graham, who was second in 1:54. 60 and Switzerland's Maria Walliser, who won the season's World Cup downhill title with 115 points by finishing third in 1:55. 08.

Short relief: Cal State Northridge has begun to get solid starting pitching from Leo Ramirez and Cary Snyder in the past few weeks, and it now appears that the Matadors (9-17, 1-1) are getting bullpen support. The unseeded Swede, who entered the tournament as a late replacement for injured Ivan Lendl, upset Mats Wilander, his top-seeded countryman, 6-4, 7-5, 6-3, Friday night at Dallas. The new alignment will mark the first time since the series went on the air in 1970 that only two announcers will be used. They were able to start quickly and angle to the inside by the end of the long run to the first turn, then backed off Winning Colors, who claimed the lead and the rail and discouraged what little speed was on the inside. Speed and agility are more important than size in arena football, which is played indoors on a playing surface half the size of a regulation field Clark (6-1, 255) played center for CSUN Palamara (6-2, 260) is a guard. No one can ever take that piece of paper away from you" Reminded that many players come in with that attitude and never seem to get that piece of paper, Miller said, "Yeah, but if didn't, my dad would kill me" Miller is working toward a degree in theater arts, which should come as no surprise to anyone who has ever seen him play basketball.

Outfielder Beth Onestinghel has 42 runs batted in, breaking the record of 39 she set last season. Davis now has five hits in four games since being moved from seventh to second in the order Then, there's the curious case of Griffin. BOLD ARRANGEMENT-Beware of the pattern that sometimes befalls foreign horses running in the United States -their first start off the plane is a good one, but the next one can be disappointing. "I learned a lot regarding pitching and hitting mechanics and conditioning" The program, developed by DeRenne and Texas Ranger pitching coach Tom House, is geared to improve pitchers' throwing velocity and hitters' bat barrel-head velocity The Mt. A zone wouldn't stop that, but it would disrupt the rhythm and spare Thompson the task of playing Person man-to-man with four fouls. Just about the time I got off him, he was having his throat fixed and he became a different horse after that" Alysheba had an entrapped epiglottis freed by surgery a few days after Day had ridden him for the last time, a second-place finish in the San Felipe Handicap March 22.

Driesell and I were classmates at Duke, and I can state unequivocally that his use of the English language at that time was absolutely superb. In the meantime, Jones, Patterson, Hayward and Vosberg return to minor league outposts such as Las Vegas and Beaumont, Tex. SACRAMENTO — Reggie Theus scored 33 points Tuesday night, leading Sacramento to a 120-105 victory over the Clippers and snapping the Kings' four-game losing streak. Dave Anderson of the New York Times points out that Tarkenton's rushing total exceeds that of five Hall of Fame running backs-Frank Gifford, Charley Trippi, Tuffy Leemans, Tony Canadeo and George McAfee. -The Dosage Index, which sounds like something that should be treated with penicillin but is actually an arcane analysis that determines whether horses have the staying power to win the 1-mile Derby, gives Snow Chief no chance. The rookie, Bol, had the edge, but his team turned ice cold in the third quarter, scored only 13 points and lost. Gimme five, he said, reasoning that the extra arm would help save wear and tear on the four others.

Dean Harvey also went 3 for 5 with with a double, a RBI and one run scored. But he didn't get it in there that time" In Ryan's view, if the Rams weren't ready to play the Bears, it wasn't because they lacked the manpower to match the National Football League's strongest defense, just the time to prepare for it. Lutheran 1-Orange Lutheran scored three unearned runs on three L. A Lutheran errors to take the nonleague win. That's why this season (USC is 10-15 overall, 4-11 in the Pacific 10) has been frustrating for me.

Matt Smith of Fire Station 14 here was listening to the Dodger game with the Padres in San Diego. "I knew there was a possibility I'd be taken off early on" But after the Hollywood Park win, he said, "I felt comfortable I had the mount" Solis grew up on a farm in San Carlos, a town of roughly 500 about 2 1/2 hours from Panama City. But the pitching of starter Don Sutton, who gave up 2 runs (1 earned) in 5 innings, and relievers Alejandro Pena, who earned the win, and Jesse Orosco, who got the save, kept the Dodgers in contention all night. It usually takes at least two quality pitchers to win a Southern Section title, but Gullotti will need such pitching just to make the playoffs.