- The Daily Utah Chronicle

Baseball Trying to Fill Roles

February 1, 2002

February will be very telling for the U baseball team, which will match-up with four different teams during the month. The Utes will face the Arizona Wildcats this weekend, Pacific next weekend, and then Mesa State and Southern Utah to finish off the month.

Softball Gets Going, Heads for the Road

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Skiers Can’t Catch a Break in Oly-Affected Season

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The Olympics appear to be a considerable inconvenience if you're U ski coach Kevin Sweeney. U skiers' practice time has been cut due to Olympic venue construction and traffic congestion. Whereas the U would normally have five quality practice days per week, the team is lucky to get only two with all the Olympic mayhem.

Four More Utah Teams in Action Over the Break

February 1, 2002

Men's Tennis With competitions in Arizona, Idaho and California during the Olympic Games, the men's tennis team is looking to continue its winning ways. Victories against Montana State and Utah State gives Utah its first two wins of the year and sends the team packing with a perfect record to defend.

New U Soccer Coach Meets With His Team

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Gymnasts Will Now Hit the Road

February 1, 2002

The U gymnastics team (3-0) does have a fraction of good news as it heads into five straight weeks on the road due to the Olympics?it doesn't have to protect its 167-meet regular season home winning streak. Utah, ranked No. 1 in the nation, will not host a meet in the Huntsman Center until a March 9 outing against Oregon State.

Olympics Interfere with Men’s Hoops

February 1, 2002

Whether complaining about the revocation of his $1,200 a year parking spot, the thought of having troops patrolling campus with AK-47s or some of his players being ousted from the dorms, U men's basketball coach Rick Majerus has never been an outspoken Olympics booster.

Women Struggle to Break Free of Mediocre Season

February 1, 2002

The tradition of coachspeak dictates that when U women's basketball coach Elaine Elliott is asked what big games she sees on the horizon for her team, she is compelled to reply, "I have absolutely no thoughts in that regard." After all, coachspeak etiquette dictates that team leaders insist they're not looking ahead to anything, just taking the season one game at a time.

Mistakes in Stretch Cost Women Game

February 1, 2002

Elaine Elliott is pissed. After seeing her U women's basketball team battle back from a 12-point deficit, surge ahead of conference power UNLV, then throw it all away with a bevy of unforced errors in the last two minutes and drop to the break-even mark, she was literally too peeved to even chew her team out in a post-game locker room rant.

Computer Model Monitors Bioterrorism

February 1, 2002

A U-developed computer model will help detect possible bioterrorist attacks during the Olympic Games. Using medical records from some of U's clinics, the model can detect disease patterns that resemble a bioterrorist attack. The model retrieves medical data daily and creates reports used to identify an outbreak.