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Boilermakers overcome critics, prepare for Lady Aggies
DANCE CLASSES
The Associated Press
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue coach Lin
Dunn credits the lack of respect her team received
from rival coaches for the Boilermakers winning a
share of the Big Ten women’s title and a Sweet Six
teen berth in the NCAA tournament.
“A turning point in our season was when the
Big Ten coaches voted this team fifth,” Dunn said
Tuesday as her team prepared to meet Texas A&M
in the Midwest regional semifinal Thursday night in
Palo Alto, Calif.
‘‘That was like a challenge to this group, to our
staff and to our program, to go out and show peo
ple that they had us entirely too low.”
Purdue (27-4) heads west seeded first in the re
gion and Texas A&M (23-7) is the 13th seed. The
winner plays either third-seeded Colorado (27-4)
or No. 2 Stanford (24-5) in Saturday’s regional fi
nal.
Dunn doesn’t know what to expect from her
team, which doesn’t have any seniors and starts one
freshmen and two sophomores.
“We’re young and I think that sometimes
younger players take things a little differently than
older players,” Dunn said. “I don’t think they feel
any pressure. They’ve done so much more than
anyone away from this team thought.
‘‘They’ve overachieved by just winning the Big
Ten and getting to the Sweet Sixteen. But, they’re
having fun. They play relaxed all the time. They en
joy each other. They’re really special.”
Dunn, who is 160-48 in seven seasons at Pur
due, says she isn’t surprised by her team’s record.
”1 knew we had the potential to do exactly what
we’ve done, but you never know how freshmen are
going to mature,” she said. “The freshmen have
matured quickly. Our sophomores and juniors have
played above their level of classification.”
Forward Leslie Johnson, a 6-foot-1 freshman,
leads the team in scoring and rebounding with av
erages of 18.5 points and 9.5 rebounds.
Atlanta woman
files suit against
Spurs’ Rodman
The Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — An At
lanta woman has filed a lawsuit
against San Antonio Spurs forward
Dennis Rodman claiming Rodman
infected her with the herpes virus.
Lisa Beth Judd, 22, in a lawsuit
filed Monday in state court in Ful
ton County, Ga., alleges Rodman
transmitted the virus to her during a
sexual encounter in January 1 993.
Ms. Judd, who was a dancer for
the Atlanta Hawks when she met
Rodman in 1991, claims in court
documents Rodman had told her he
did not have any sexually transmit-
table diseases.
"We have tried for weeks to get
this resolved discreetly and confi
dentially,” Ms. Judd’s lawyer, Mark
Trigg of Atlanta, said in Tuesday’s
San Antonio Express-News. “But
our requests have fallen on deaf
ears.”
Rodman and his attorney de
clined to comment on the allega
tions.
Spurs spokespeople did not im
mediately return telephone calls
Tuesday from The Associated Press.
Spurs coach John Lucas told the
Express-News: “I support Dennis in
the matter, but I really know very
little about it. We will get through
this, too.”
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San Antonio Spurs' forward Dennis Rodman (10) guards Dallas Mav
ericks' forward Jamal Mashburn, during a game last fall.
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Center Stacey Lovelace, a 6-4 sophomore, is the
only other player scoring in double figures at 11.6
and she is second on the team in rebounds at 7.3.
The Boilermakers, ranked No. 8 in the final poll,
have limited their opposition to an average of 58.9
points per game while setting a school record for
victories in a season.
Purdue has held opponents below 50 percent
shooting in 30 of its 31 games and below 40 per
cent 20 times. Opponents have shot just 36.5 per
cent for the season.
“Our defensive intensity is a major weapon, the
ability to use our size, our quickness ... the pressure
that we put on our opponents to take them out of
their game,” said Dunn, whose team tied with
Penn State for the Big Ten championship.
Looking at the Lady Aggies, Dunn is concerned
with their size and shooting ability of their guards.
“They’re big and they’ve got good post players
inside,” Dunn said, mentioning 6-4 Martha Mc
Clelland and 6-5 Kelly Cerny.
Stars try to
replace Tinordi
with three trades
The Associated Press
DALLAS — The Dallas Stars built
the equivalent of a new offensive line
through three separate trades Mon
day, adding center Pelle Eklund, right
wing Mike Needham and left wing
Alan May.
The Stars also made a fourth deal
before the trading deadline, sending
left wing Reid Simpson and defense-
man Roy Mitchell to the New Jersey
Devils for future considerations. Botn
players spent the entire season with
Kalamazoo in the IHL.
Dallas continued revamping its
roster by recalling left wing Jarkko
Varvio from Kalamazoo.
The moves wrapped up a busy
weekend for the Stars (37-25-10),
who clinched a playoff spot with a 2-
1 overtime victory over Vancouver
Sunday. On Saturday, the team traded
defensemen Doug Zmolek and Mike
Lalor from San Jose for right wing Ulf
Dahlen and future considerations.
“From the time we decided to
make a real push towards filling Mark
Tinordi’s hole ... we had to open up
another spot and today was really a
reaction toward that,” Stars coach and
general manager Bob Gainey said.
Tinordi, a defenseman and the
team captain, was lost for the season
Feb. 23 when he severely broke his
leg against the Los Angeles Kings.
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Moon could go to Minnesota
The Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston
Oilers owner Bud Adams says he’s
waiting to see what the Minnesota
Vikings will offer for quarterback
Warren Moon.
"They’d like to have Warren,
but it would be tough to trade
him,” Adams told the Houston
Chronicle. “He wants to stay with
the Oilers. We’ll just have to work
on it. They do nave some extra
picks.”
Minnesota has two first round
picks and two second picks but
they are offering lower selections.
‘In the next two-three days,
we’ll see what we might come up
with,” Adams told The Houston
Post during a break in the NFL
owners’ meetings in Orlando, Fla.
Adams admitted that Oilers
won’t be able to keep Moon, who
will earn $3.25 million next sea
son, and backup Cody Carlson,
who will make $3 million, under
the team’s $33.8 million salary
cap.
Johnston to consider offers
The Associated Press
IRVING, Texas — The “Moose”
is loose.
Fullback Daryl Johnston has said
he plans to consider offers from as
many as four National Football
League teams besides the Dallas
Cowboys.
Johnston told the Fort Worth
Star-Telegram in Tuesday’s editions
that he feels assured of making his
desired $1.5 million annual salary
over two or three seasons — al
though it might not be with the
Cowboys.
The agent for Johnston told the
Star-Telegram and The Dallas Morn
ing News that the Pittsburgh Steelers
have entered bidding with the
Washington Redskins for the unre
stricted free agent.
The only offer that Johnston,
known to fans throughout the
league as “Moose,” has received so
far is a three-year deal worth $4.2
million from the Redskins, agent
John Maloney said.
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