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The top six athletes, three for the men and three for the women, stand atop the podium and celebrate their victories with a shower of Champagne following the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships Korbel Legends Race in Vail on Wednesday. Didier Cuche took first in the men’s race, and Alexandra Meissnitzer won the women’s race. TOWNSEND BESSENT TOWNSEND@ VAILDAILY.COM
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A photo finish at the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships Korbel Legends Race shows Lasse Kjus, left, victorious over Kristian Ghedina in Vail on Wednesday. Kjus fell to Didier Cuche in the final race to take second place. During the 1999 Championships in Vail and Beaver Creek, Kjus won five medals in five different events.
Didier Cuche is back on top in Vail Racing in Bode Miller’s ski boots, Lasse Kjus takes second in Legends race By John LaConte jlaconte@vaildaily.com
VAIL — These days, as long as he’s on top of the podium, Didier Cuche doesn’t much care about discipline or venue in a ski race. “It always feels good to win,” he said. At Wednesday’s Korbel Legends Race, the Swiss star added another win to his impressive list, which includes five podium-topping performances on the legendary Hahnenkamm in Kitzbuehel, Austria, the most revered track on the World Cup circuit, as well as a World Championships super-G win. On Wednesday, however, from the familiar confines of the Vail Valley, Cuche reflected on the one that got away. “Birds of Prey, that’s the only
one that I’m a little bit sad not to have won this race,” he said of North America’s downhill. “I won the super-G but not the downhill.”
LEGEND OF HONOR To earn his win on Wednesday, Cuche had to battle it out head to head with Norwegian Lasse Kjus at Golden Peak Race Arena in Vail. The race, an homage to the legends of the sport, took place in a head-to-head format similar to the Nations Team Event competition, which took place Tuesday but on a shorter course. Complimenting the Legends race is a Legend of Honor awards ceremony, in which Kjus was to be honored a few hours later along with his teammate Kjetil Andre Aamodt as the 2015 recipients of the annual award. They were also featured on the official Vail Valley Foundation pin for Wednesday. “We all know the success Lasse has had, so it feels good, feels sweet to be in front of Lasse today,” Cuche said. “But it was more a matter of fun, coming together and giving a little show for the few
hundred people who were here.” Rounding out the podium was Marc Girardelli, of Luxembourg. On the women’s side, Austria’s Alexandra Meissnitzer was in first; Kristina Koznick, of the U.S., was in second; and Michaela Dorfmeister, also of Austria, was in third.
BODE’S BOOTS The Golden Peak venue didn’t see nearly the crowds for Wednesday’s Legends race as it did for Tuesday’s Nations Team Event, but those in attendance were in for quite a show, with racers battling it out, finishing on one ski and then flipping that ski into the air after crossing the line. “This will be a great memory to have in me. I prefer not to compete too much any more. I’m kind of done with it, and to be a little bit forced to get back here into the circus, there’s only one way to do it — I must try to do my best,” Kjus said Wednesday. “Today it’s only fun; it’s not serious at all but the nerves are coming. ... I was not expecting to perform as good
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Lasse Kjus is seen shortly after his last race during the Korbel Legends Race in Vail on Wednesday. Kjus was named one of the 2015 Legends of Honor. In 1999, during the World Championships in Vail and Beaver Creek, Kjus won five medals in five different events. as I did today, so I’m surprised, really happy.” Kjus said he was well equipped Wednesday for the Golden Peak course, which Austrian downhill legend Franz Klammer proclaimed, laughingly, to have “too many turns.”
“I’m in Bode’s shoes and skis, so I am doing well,” Kjus said. “Bode Miller?” Kjus was asked to clarify. “Yes, of course Bode Miller,” he said with laugh and a gesture toward his Head skis. “Or at least that’s what they told me.”
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Start Elevation: 11,283’ | 3,440 m Finish Elevation: 8,954‘ | 2,730 m Vertical Drop: 2,329’ | 710m Distance: 8,069’ | 2,460m Avg. Slope: 30% | 16.7° Max. Slope 59% | 30.5°
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Start Elevation: 10,890’ | 3,320 m Finish Elevation: 8,954‘ | 2,730 m Vertical Drop: 1,935’ | 590m Distance: 6,002’ | 1,830m Avg. Slope: 34% | 19.0° Max. Slope: 57% | 30.0°
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Start Elevation: 9,548’ | 2,911 m Finish Elevation: 8,935‘ | 2,724 m Vertical Drop: 613’ | 187m Distance: 2,099’ | 640m Avg. Slope: 34% | 18.9° Max. Slope: 46% | 24.8°
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Watch out: This will likely be a speedier GS, as opposed to a technical one, with the course going over Screech Owl, Golden Eagle, Harrier and Redtail. Those who carry speed from up top onto the slower part of the course down low are those to watch. Favorites: Jessica Lindell-Vikarby (5), of Norway, won the test event here in 2013. She joins Shiffrin, Brem, Fenninger and Maze. Darkhorses: Everyone forgets about Sweden’s Maria Pietilae-Holmner (1). Austria’s Kathrin Zettel (6) was strong in the combined. Switzerland’s Lara Gut (9) has also been skiing well here. Americans: Shiffrin (3), Mancuso (26), Vonn (31), Megan McJames (38). The picks: As always, no wagering. Shauna Farnell, Vail Daily: Shiffrin. Chris Freud, Vail Daily: Maze. Pat Graham, AP Denver: Shiffrin.
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The format: It’s a two run race with the top-30, making the flip, meaning that the fastest in the first run goes 30th. The top-60 racers do get second runs. They will run after the flip. Best combined time wins. There are 116 racers today. The numbers: The course starts at 10,093 feet and drops 1,158 feet. The course is 4,280 feet long. The weather: Its meant to be a high of 44 degrees and partly cloudy. The course held up a lot better for the women’s combined on Tuesday than it did on Monday for the men’s combined. Defending Worlds champion: Tessa Worley, France, (12). Defending Olympic champion: Maze. Defending World Cup champion: Fenninger.
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BEAVER CREEK — So apparently, there’s some local connection with today’s giant slalom. Welcome back to Beaver Creek and today’s FIS Alpine World Ski Championships women’s GS, aka “Mikaela is here.” The Worlds started something like two years ago — actually 10 days — and Mikaela finally gets to ski in an individual event. If you have been living in a cave without wireless recently, the force is strong with Eagle-Vail’s Mikaela Shiffrin, who will wear No. 3 today. Obviously slalom is her strength right now, but Shiffrin got her first GS win back in October in Soelden, Austria, a tie with Anna Fenninger (7). However, as much as local race fans would simply give her the gold, there are, surprisingly enough other racers in this event. Austria’s Eva-Maria Brem (4) leads the points in GS, followed by Fenninger and Shiffrin. Sweden’s Sara Hector (15) is in fourth and some Slovenian named Tina Maze (2) rounds out the top five. (We’ve heard she’s been doing pretty well at Worlds.) We also welcome Mexico’s Sarah Schleper (54) who finally gets a run at the Championships on home snow. Back in 1999, she was injured and didn’t get to race, so good on her for going this time around. And this is probably the longest the Vail Daily has ever written on women’s skiing without mentioning Lindsey Vonn (31). No, these Worlds have definitely not gone the way she has wanted, but she deserves credit for competing in the combined and the GS. She knows it’s about the home fans, and she is doing her best on that count. As far as the podium goes, it might be too much to ask for Shiffrin to make the top step. Let’s try to remember that she’s all of 19. Yes, she has shown that
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LAS VEGAS — He couldn’t stop fighting the NCAA any more than he could give up chewing towels courtside. Jerry Tarkanian built a basketball dynasty in the desert, but it was his decades-long battle with the NCAA that defined him far more than the wins and losses. The coach who won a national title at UNLV and made the school synonymous with basketball died Wednesday after
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The night before he died, fans attending UNLV’s game against Fresno State draped towels over the statue of Tarkanian outside the campus arena. Tarkanian is depicted in the statue chewing on a towel while sitting in a courtside chair urging his team on. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, a longtime family friend, said Tarkanian’s legacy was far more widespread than just in Las Vegas, where he made UNLV a national power and was a bigger star than anyone playing on the Las Vegas Strip. “Jerry’s mark on American athletics is significant not only because of his coaching ability, but also his fearlessness in taking on the brutal NCAA,� Reid said. “They controlled, bullied and tried to embarrass him, but he never stopped fighting until they cried uncle.� Tarkanian’s wife, Lois, said her husband fought health problems for the last six years with the same “courage and tenacity� he showed throughout his life. His death came just days after the death of another Hall of Fame coach, North Carolina’s Dean Smith. “Our hearts are broken but filled with incredible memories,� Lois Tarkanian said in a family statement. “You will be missed Tark.�
REVOLUTIONIZING THE GAME Tarkanian was an innovator who preached defense yet loved to watch his teams run. And run they did, beginning
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with his first Final Four team in 1976-77, which scored more than 100 points in 23 games in an era before both the shot clock and the 3-point shot. He was a winner in a city built on losers, putting a small commuter school on the national sporting map and making UNLV sweatshirts a hot item around the country. His teams helped revolutionize the way the college game was played, with relentless defense forcing turnovers that were quickly converted into baskets at the other end. He recruited players other coaches often wouldn’t touch, building teams with junior college transfers and kids from checkered backgrounds. His teams at UNLV were national powerhouses almost every year, yet Tarkanian never seemed to get his due when the discussion turned to the all-time coaching greats.
INDUCTED INTO THE HALL OF FAME That changed in 2013 when Tarkanian was elected to the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame, an honor his fellow coaches argued for years was long overdue. Though hospitalized in the summer for heart problems and weakened by a variety of ills, he went on stage with a walker at the induction ceremony. “I knew right from day one I wanted to be a coach,� Tarkanian said. “Coaching has been my entire life.� Tarkanian’s career spanned 31 years with three Division I schools, beginning at Long Beach State and ending at Fresno State, where Tarkanian himself played in 1954 and 1955. Only twice did his teams fail to win at least 20 games in a season. But it was at UNLV where his reputation was made, both as a coach of teams that often scored in the triple digits and as an outlaw not afraid to stand up to the powerful NCAA. He went 509-105 in 19 seasons with the Runnin’ Rebels before finally being forced out by the university after a picture was published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal showing some of his players in a hot tub with a convicted game fixer. UNLV was already on probation at the time, just two years after winning the national title and a year after the Runnin’ Rebels went undefeated into the Final Four before being upset in the semifinals by the same Duke team they beat by 30 points for the championship the year before. Even after losing four of his starters off that team and being on probation, Tarkanian went 26-2 in his final year at UNLV. His overall record is listed several different ways because the NCAA took away wins from some of his teams, but the family preferred to go with his on court record of 784-202.
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ENGLEWOOD — At 67, Wade Phillips has lost neither his passion nor his esprit. Both are on full display, along with his trademark confidence, as he begins his second stint as defensive coordinator of the Denver Broncos. Phillips, who took last year off, said he hasn’t gotten his fill of football after working for nine NFL teams since 1976. “I love coaching. That’s what I do,” Phillips said. “My wife, Laurie, wanted to get me out of the house after a year of being around so I love what I do. I was a lousy head coach, but I’m a pretty good defensive coordinator and that’s what I do well. So I wanted to get back to doing that and I couldn’t be happier.” New head coach Gary Kubiak hired Phillips after pursuing Cincinnati secondary coach Vance Joseph, who also interviewed for Denver’s head coaching job. Joseph was an assistant in Houston for Kubiak and Phillips. “I think John and Kube and me all feel like Vance is a bright young star,” Phillips said. “But I believe I’m of first magnitude myself. I think that’s the way they judge brightness of stars, anyway. So it worked out great. It worked out great for me and I think I’m going to do a great job for this team.” Phillips also served as Denver’s defensive coordinator from 1989-92 and as the
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Denver Broncos new defensive coordinator Wade Phillips talks to reporters during a news conference at the team’s headquarters in Englewood. Phillips, 67, begins his second stint as the defensive coordinator for the Broncos. Broncos head coach from 1993-94. “The ‘91 defense here was one of the best I’ve ever had. We lost 10-7 in the playoff game in Buffalo but I think we threw a screen pass for a touchdown to them. That’s how they got 10. We had a great bunch. I’ve had a great bunch everywhere I’ve been. I’ve been lucky to get into the right situations with good players and I think we have them here.” Both Kubiak and John Elway, now the Broncos’ executive vice president and general manager, played in that AFC championship game against the Bills that year. After Elway’s tipped pass was returned for the Bills’ touchdown, Elway got hurt and Kubiak came in and completed 11 of 12 passes.
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Former Denver Nuggets head coach George Karl directs his team against the Los Angeles Lakers in 2013 in Denver. The Sacramento Kings and Karl have agreed to the framework of a deal for him to take over as coach.
George Karl set to coach Kings after the All-Star break By Antonio Gonzalez AP Basketball Writer
The Sacramento Kings and George Karl have agreed to the framework of a deal for him to take over as coach, a person familiar with the negotiations said Wednesday. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the discussions were private. The plan is for Karl to coach the Kings in their first game following the All-Star break Feb. 20 at home against Boston, meaning Tyrone Corbin will be coaching his final game for Sacramento on Wednesday night at Milwaukee. Karl is attending funeral services for former North Carolina coach Dean Smith this week. The Kings are expected to announce the deal in the coming days after final terms have been agreed upon and the contract has been signed. Karl will be Sacramento’s third coach this season. The Kings (18-33) made the surprising move to fire Michael Malone in December after an 11-13 start in his second season as coach, even though they had shown progress until All-Star center DeMarcus Cousins was sidelined for an extended period with viral meningitis. Sacramento slid even further after promoting Corbin from lead assistant, losing 12 of its last 14 games and 20 of 27 overall since Malone’s dismissal.
FAMILIAR FACE Karl is a proven winner in the league and a familiar face for Sacramento’s front office. Kings general manager Pete D’Alessandro and assistant general manager Mike Bratz are among those who worked with him in Denver, and team adviser Chris Mullin played for Karl with the Golden State Warriors from 1986-88. Karl last coached in the 2012-13 season, when he won NBA Coach of the Year with the Nuggets before being fired following a first-round playoff loss to the Warriors. D’Alessandro left Denver that summer and brought Bratz with him to Sacramento. The Nuggets made the postseason all nine years under Karl. They advanced past the first round only once during his tenure, losing to the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2009 Western Conference finals.
ANOTHER SHOT Karl, who has been working as an analyst for ESPN, has let it be known the last two months that he wants another shot on the sidelines. He has openly talked about his interest and recently thanked fans in Sacramento and Orlando — which fired coach Jacque Vaughn last week — for their support on Twitter. The 63-year-old Karl, a cancer survivor, is one of nine coaches in league history to eclipse 1,000 wins. He has 1,131 victories as a head coach, with stops in Cleveland, Golden State, Seattle and Milwaukee, earning a reputation for turning around teams. Sacramento certainly presents another one of those challenges. The Kings are headed for a ninth straight losing season and are trying to rebuild around Cousins, who has a history of clashing with coaches but was close with Malone.