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Switzerland wins America's Cup
By Bernie Wilson
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUCKLAND, New Zealand
— So Switzerland just won a
world-famous race, huh? Must
be the Swiss bobsledders or
skiers at it again.
Guess again. This win goes to
the sailors.
Would you believe that
Switzerland, a country without
an ocean, owns the America’s
Cup, the biggest prize in sail
ing and the oldest trophy in
international sports?
“Switzerland — who would
have thought, the America’s
Cup?” 37-year-old biotech bil
lionaire Ernesto Bertarelli said
after his sailing crew, including
seven New Zealanders, complet
ed the historic five-race sweep of
Team New Zealand, the two-time
defending champion.
Alinghi became the first
European team to win the
America’s Cup in 152 years. The
Swiss overwhelmed the Kiwis,
clinching the best-of-nine series
with a 45-second victory Sunday
or. the Hauraki Gulf.
At the cup’s new home, the
Geneva Nautical Society on
Lake Geneva, Swiss sailing
enthusiasts ditched their coun
try’s reputation for reserve by
screaming and cheering while
watching the race on TV in the
early morning hours.
“It’s a really great achieve
ment,” said Severine Gaillard,
dancing on the quayside follow
ing the victory. “But I believed in
it right from the beginning.”
Swiss President Pascal
Couchepin and Sports Minister
Samuel Schmid telephoned
Bertarelli to congratulate him
and his team “for their
unprecedented achievement.”
It was a remarkable job by a
team that started from scratch in
2000, with Bertarelli’s money
and Kiwi talent.
“For me, the fact that
Switzerland wins the America’s
Cup is a sign of hope for a lot of
people,” Bertarelli said. “It really
says to the world that the impos
sible doesn’t exist.”
It seemed like it took 152
years to get this regatta finished.
There were seven delays due to
uncooperative weather on the
Hauraki Gulf, taking 16 days to
get in five races.
Alinghi was near-perfect, with
a fast boat and unflappable crew
led by Russell Coutts. The 41-
year-old New Zealander became
the most dominant skipper in
America’s Cup history, sailing
unbeaten through his third
straight America’s Cup match, for
two different countries.
Coutts has won a record 14
straight races in the cup match. It
would be 15, but after staking
Team New Zealand to a 4-0 lead
over Italy’s Prada Challenge in
2000 he handed the wheel to
understudy Dean Barker and
watched the clinching win from a
chase boat.
Coutts’s 14 wins are the most
in America’s Cup races, one more
than Dennis Conner had in four
cup matches.
Five of Coutts’ Kiwi mates on
Alinghi are 15-0 in three cup
matches, including tactician Brad
Butterworth. They won their first
in 1995, leading Team New
Zealand to a 5-0 win over Conner
off San Diego.
Bertarelli, a Harvard MBA,
built his syndicate the same way
he turned his family business, the
Serono Group, into Europe’s
leading biotech company.
“People make the difference,”
said Bertarelli, who served as
Alinghi’s navigator. “It’s all
about having the best people you
can and trusting them and giving
them space to do their work.”
Bertarelli poached the best tal
ent Team New Zealand had fol
lowing its successful cup defense
in 2000. The Kiwis lost one-third
of their sailors and designers to
three major overseas syndicates,
leading to an undercurrent of bit
terness in this regatta.
Coutts and Butterworth plan
to remain with Alinghi.
“I am a New Zealander. Make
no bones about that,” Coutts said.
“But I am immensely proud of
what we’ve achieved at Alinghi.”
The Swiss victory brings the
antiquated cup into a new era,
with big changes expected. It
goes from a remote country that
is half a world away from almost
any other place, to a continent
with major population areas.
Since the Swiss have no coast
line, they’ll have to defend the
cup at a port on the
Mediterranean or Atlantic, proba
bly in 2007. It will definitely be in
southern Europe, “because I like
the sun,” Bertarelli said.
Alinghi plans to announce
some plans for the next cup
Tuesday.
Spurs beat Houston, 97-88
By Michael A. Lutz
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON — Five San
Antonio Spurs scored in double
figures. One surprise scorer led
them all.
Emanuel Ginobili scored a
career high 20 points as the Spurs
held off the Houston Rockets for a
97-88 victory Sunday.
The Spurs won for the 13th time
in 14 games and improved their
record in 2003 to 22-4. Tim
Duncan had 17 points, Tony Parker
and Malik Rose each had 16, and
David Robinson had 14.
“We played real
well together. I’m
real proud,” Ginobili
said. “We have to
keep doing the same
thing. Twenty points
just happened today. I
don’t know if it will
happen again. I don’t
care if it does.
“It’s just one of
82 games. With our
scoring team, it’s not
easy to do. It just
happened. I don’t give
it much importance. I’m happy to
help the team but it’s not the most
important thing.”
The Spurs never trailed and
they were up 87-70 with 6:04 to
play when the Rockets pulled
within 94-88 with 52 seconds left.
Glen Rice scored 11 of his 19
points in the final 5:43.
“He’s becoming more and more
important to this team,” Spurs
coach Gregg Popovich said of
Ginobili. “He plays defense, he
gets steals, he gets loose balls. He’s
just an outstanding player. The
league is beginning to see there’s
more there than they thought.”
Steve Francis led the Rockets
with 21 points, and Yao Ming had
14 points and nine rebounds.
“We’ve got to do something about
our slow starts defensively,” Rockets
coach Rudy Tomjanovich said. “We
got into a comfort zone and then
when it got to the embarrassing stage
we picked it up later on.”
The Spurs used a 12-4 run to
build on their 51-39 advantage at
halftime. Even an 11-1 run by the
Rockets couldn’t get their deficit
under 10 points, and San Antonio
kept Houston at bay and led 74-59
going into the fourth quarter.
Duncan and Parker peppered the
Rockets defense in the first quarter
and Ginobili scored nine points
early in the second as the Spurs
kept their big lead at halftime
despite a late second-quarter 11-2
spurt by the Rockets.
“He’s a fiery guy, very talent
ed,” Tomjanovich said of Ginobili.
“He’s an intense guy who attacks
the game with a passion. He has a
lot of tools that you don’t see a lot
early because of the injuries.”
Ginobili was acti
vated from the injury
list on Dec. 29 after
missing 11 games
because of a sprained
right ankle.
Parker had 10
points in the first
quarter and Duncan
scored eight to give
the Spurs a 30-18
lead.
“If we can keep
our turnovers down,
our assists up and keep the oppo
nents offensive rebounds down, we
will do well,” Duncan said. “We
are playing very well and we are
right where we want to be.”
Robinson, retiring after this sea
son, likely played his final game at
Compaq Center. He chatted briefly
with Rockets coach Rudy
Tomjanovich and Rockets broad
caster and Hall of Earner Calvin
Murphy.
“I have great memories here,”
Robinson said. “Playing against
Hakeem (Olajuwon) was one of the
motivating factors for me early in my
career. He was tough, him and Patrick
Ewing were the guys I wanted to be
like when I first got in the league.”
The Rockets are 12-2 this season
when Steve Francis and Cuttino
Mobley each score 20 points. Yao
and Duncan are two of only six
players born outside the United
States to be selected No. 1 in the
NBA draft. Ewing, Olajuwon,
Michael Olowokandi, and Mychal
Thompson are the others.
We are playing
very well and we are
right where we want
to be. %
— Tim Duncan
San Antonio Spurs' Center
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he's a good passer and he's a good scorer. The whole
team guarded him.”
In lieu of only connecting on 40.7 of
its shots, A&M made the final stretch of
the game interesting. Down by 17 at one
point, the Aggies surged back with 2:59
remaining in regulation as junior guard
Kevin Turner and King collaborated to hit
three consecutive triples to pull A&M
within nine. After that point, though, it
(became a free-throw contest as OU’s
Sampson said he never thought the game
was out of their hands.
“We were up 17 and if we make our free throws, they
don't come back,” Sampson said. “Give A&M credit.
Those were some hellacious threes they were putting up.”
Saturday marked the first time the Aggies held their
opponent below 70 points and failed to secure the win.
With the OU loss behind them, A&M needs one more reg
ular season win to lock up its first .500 season in nine years.
The Aggies will have two more opportunities to secure a
winning record as they face Baylor at home on Wednesday
at 7 p.m., and then travel to face Oklahoma State
University next Saturday in their season finale.
KING
Streak
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Unfortunately for the
Cowgirls, that was the
moment the heavens
opened, and the pleasant
drizzle turned into a
downpour that created
small ponds all over the
courts of the Tennis
Center. Just before 7 p.m.,
the Aggies and Cowgirls
were able to take to the
court again, and the Aggie
women came out with a
new drive.
Freshman Nicki
Mechem made quick
work of her opponent,
junior Zana Masnic, on
court five. The win was a
carry-over from earlier in
the day when Mechem
put up a shutout in the
first set. She went on to
capture the match in the
second, finishing with a
score of 6-0, 6-2. The
win was the sixth in a
row for Mechem, which
pushed her personal
record to 9-1, the best on
the Aggie squad.
The main story was
going on next door at court
three. Junior Roberta
Spencer, who had prob
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opponent, Kolodynska,
was able to climb out of
her first set hole. Spencer
came back from a first set
loss to send Kolodynska
down by a score of 5-7, 6-
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the Aggies, their fifth
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hit more down the mid
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“Before, I was getting
aggressive down the line
and she was passing me,
so I was aggressive down
the middle and she wasn’t
able to get enough angle.”
The Aggies will take
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at the A&M Tennis
Center. The match
against the Texas
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