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48 • The Daily Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa - Friday, August j'l , 2001 SPORTS Satin, Agassi move to 3rd round ., ..... Associated Press NEW YORK- Andre Agassi anxiously waited through two sets for a sign of mortality from his relentless opponent, and it finally came when Nicolas Massu double-faulted on set point. "C'monl" Agassi shouted as the serve landed an inch wide, symbolic of the margin by which he escaped Thursday at the U.S. Open. Confronted with a barrage of remarkable shotmaking from Massu, Agassi bung on until the Chilean cooled off. With the tense victory, 6-7 (4), 6-4,6-2, 7-6 (1), the second-seeded Agassi advanced to the third round. "My experience tells me that was a great one to kind of sneak through there," the twotime Open champion said. "He wasn't giving an inch from the beginning, and neither was 1." After losing the first set, Agassi was in danger of losing the second. He struggled to hold serve for a 5-4 lead, then took the set when Massu hit only his second double fault. With that one errant shot, Sparks sting Charlotte ., ...... FI"ff' Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The heavily favored Los Angeles Sparks got a jump on their bid for their first WNBA title, getting 24 points and eight rebounds from Lisa Leslie in a 75-66 victory over the Charlotte Sting in Game 1 of the league finals Thursday night. Leslie showed why she was the MVP of both the regular season and the AU-Star game with a dominating second-half performance to rally the Sparks from an 11-point deficit DeLisha Milton added 19 points and Tamecka Dixon scored 12 for the Sparks. The Sparks need only to win one game on their home floor - where they are 18-1 this Bea80Jl - to close out the bestrof-three series and join their counterpart, the Los Angeles Lakers, as champions this season. Game 2 is Saturday. The Sting, who started the season 1-10 before turning things around and winning the Eastern Conference title, got 18 points from Andrea Stinson. At first, the game seemed like a showdown between Stinson and Leslie and their different styles ofbasketball. They cloeed out the first half by exchanging baskets - Stinson making fancy jumpers using tricky dribbling and behind the back passes, and Leslie answering by lowering her shoulder and driving the ball to the basket on consecutive poeaessions But Stinson got the last word of the hal£ She missed on a running jumper in the final seconds of the half, but scrambled for her own rebound, caught it in the air and heaved it hack up and in for a 39-35 Charlotte lead at the break. Stinson gave way to Allison Feaster at the start of the second half, giving the former L.A. reserve ample opportunities to run the offense. She did, acoring on three oonaecutive jumpers to pad Charlotte's lead to 48-39. r momentum immediately shifted to Agassi. Massu, 10 years younger at 21, was nonetheless weary from doing most of the running and began spraying his shots. "Over the course of a match, that's an important ingredient for me - that an opponent is having to work hard," Agassi said. Defending champion Marat Safin also survived a tough test, nearly exhausting his allotment of tiebreakers but outlasting Ivan Ljubicic, 7-6 (5), 6-7 (2), 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5). Despite the marathons, the Open remained largely upsetfree. Jennifer Capriati advanced to the third round by beating Evie Dominikovic, 6-2, 6-0, defending champion Venus Williams beat Meilen Tu, 6-2, 6·2, and French Open runnerup Kim Clijsters beat American Allison Bradshaw, 6-3, 6-2. Capriati and her brother, Steven, were eliminated in the opening round of mixed doubles. On the men's side, a recurrent shoulder injury forced American Jan-Michael Gambill to retire trailing Mikhail Youzhny, 6-4,4-1. ~~:-. 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Agassi-Massu was an unlikely candidate for the best match so far this week. Massu came into the tournament ranked 86th with a 17-20 record this year, and he lost to Agassi in straight sets at Wimbledon two months ago. WehaveB•••. We have POOD. We have TBLIIVISIORS. We have POOTBALL. What more do ya neecll ~ .... Come See Why Everyone Is Saying "Bob's Your Uncle!" Food Expertly Prepared by Scottsdale Culinary· lnmtuta Uonoted G Chaf Rich Grothaus WAtch -The GA\.'\e At Joe's P\0\cel\ 75¢ HAP~~~OUR Domestic $350 D~mestic 4·8PM Draws P1tchers ......... -, ........ ~ CHECK OUT OUR NIGHRY SPECIAU IIEVER A COVER! ALWAYS A GREAT TIME! Judged "BEST WINGS" ~ "BEST OVERAU FOOD" At River£est Taste o£ Iowa City ........... ·~·· SJ6.
The 'baily Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa • Friday August 31 , 2001 - 58 ·· ~ for- IIICt'e ltrfor.rtfon on 1he II .... • Allr. htf't>~~.~edw\iiiiCI or- CQII '335-17Z7 Spruced-up museum ready to art out ByJIIIIIRolpll The Dally Iowan In an attempt to attract students when it reopens today, the UI Museum of Art has reinstalled some co11ections, added a coffee bar and a museum store, and extended its hours. Museum Director Howard Collinson and the museum staff have devoted more space to the university's collection "in a way that makes it more accessible to people without a prior knowledge of art," he said. While other museums don't explain art as a whole, he said, he wants the museum to be about art, not a museum of art, focusing instead on the functions art plays in life. "The museum's works have been installed in a different visual style to make it a little more modem," Collinson said. Within the different galleries, works have been placed together by theme rather than by medium. By putting similar pieces together, people can compare the pieces and understand the art better, he said. Themes within the European and American Art gallery include geometric abstraction, abstract expressionism, antirational art, cubism, expressionism, and the human figure. Halogen lights have also been installed throughout the museum, changing the appearance of paintings, said Pamela Trimpe, the museum's curator of painting and sculpture. "It brings out the blues and yellows," she said, especially in Jackson Pollock's Mural. A new gallery is devoted to Native American art, featuring Hopi, Navajo, and Pueblo works. The African Art gallery has doubled in size with an open storage display, allowing for all new installation of more pieces, including furniture. "The co11ection was strong in arts with religion and ritual," said Victoria Ravine, the curator of Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "I'm interested in arts with a function that anyone can understand." New pieces include a palace wan plaque from the kingdom of Benin, a Nigerian door, and a Nigerian mask. The African collection has also been divided by themes, including ideal beauty, divination, abstraction, and masks, Ravine said. The museum has expanded into computer art and video art, with a new projection room continually playing artists' videos. Currently on display is a temporary exhibit - Gillian Wearing's Drunk, a video presentation using three screens. While only about 20 percent of the university's 12,000-piece collection is currently on display, the museum is "getting out a larger percentage of the collec- Nick TremmeVThe Daily Iowan A vlsHor views one of the Ul Museum of Aft's new galleries. tion," Trimpe said. Introductory videos to African, European, and American art as well as an overall introduction to the museum will be available in the Focus One Gallery during museum hours, she said. A new coffee bar overlooks the Iowa River, offering coffees, other beverages, and snacks. Located next to the coffee bar, a new museum store offers posters, cards, and books, among other items. The Division of Performing Arts will hold Friday night concerts in the sculpture area beginning Sept. 28. Collinson said he hopes the changes "make the museum more lively, intellectually and visually," while being able to "integrate the museum into the life of the university." Students will go to the museum if interesting art is presented in interesting ways, he said. Art student Emily McFarland agreed. "It's always been a great place," she said. "' think a lot of people would like that kind of surrounding, with the coffee shop. It's a nice place to get away from things." Admission to the museum is free. Beginning today, and every Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday, the museum will be open from noon-5 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays .it will be open noon-10 p.m. E-mail 0/ reporter Jlale Rolph at lessie·roiphCuiowa.edu The D'oh of God & 'The Simpsons' tnt tavern & eatery Comer of Gilbert & Prentiss • Iowa City 39 Second Street • Coralville 354-8767 338-7770 FOOTBAL :' IPECIALS 1 =t:. Bloody Mary's Sc:rewdriftn All Day Saturday & Sunday Steins of Coon Light, Killiaas &Millel'l.ite All Day & Night Monday '211 '210 Corcalvllle location only American Heart -' Association .. ~ FIIJfllittgHotfOIINN 8/ldSiroQ Domestic Pitchers By Rlcllanll. Ostling Associated Press How God appeared in a dream: "Perfect teeth. Nice smell. A class act all the way." The family religion: "You know, the one with all the wellmeaning rules that don't work in real life. Uh, Christianity." Church signboard slogan: "God Welcomes His Victims." This is just a very small sample of one-liners about religion from "The Simpsons." For 12 seasons and counting, the animated series has mined religious subjects for laughs like no other show on television. The staple of the Fox network has sometimes been called sacrilegious - rather than satirical - for its jabs at clergy and the faithful alike. But religious commentators, especially this year, have looked at the animated series and found plenty to like. In a rare coincidence, two leading Protestant magazines, the liberal Christian Century and conservative Christianity Today, simultaneously ran friendly cover stories on the show. Christian Century said it's appreciated in religious eircles, while Chris~iq.nJJy 1bday hailed the good-guy characterization of the Simpsons' evangelical neighbor, Ned Flanders. An anthology, "The Simpsons" and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer (Open Court), reported religion was an element in 70 percent of randomly selected episodes and the major theme in 10 percent. The latest analysis, which will be published Saturday, asserts that - strange as it might seem - the cartoon "more accurately reflects the faith lives of Americans than any other show in the medium." (1he Slmpsons] more accurately reflects the faith lives of Amettcans than •Y other show In the medium. In The Gospel According to "The Simpsonii" ~We~tmi~ster John Knox), Mark Pinsky notes that the characters regularly pray, attend worship, and discuss humanity's inescapable religious questions. God's existence is unquestioned, and He sometimes intervenes directly in the preposterous plots. Pinsky, the religion writer for the Orlando Sentinel, also notes that, despite ridiculing everything in sight, the show is basically pro-family and usually lets a rough morality triumph. According to Pinsky's estimate, 80 percent of the show's writers over the past dozen years he,ve been either skeptics or atheists. Several, however, have called themselves believing Christians. For all its barbs, however, "The Simpsons" rarely mentions Jesus and steers clear of explicit Christian teachings, Pinsky says. He says that, in the end, the show may actually cloak a "sacred essence in the guise of profane storytelling." He concludes that "whether the series, once considered so anti-authoritarian, is subversive or supportive of faith is largely in the eye of the beholder." Comedown& meet the man from Nantucket ... No Coftr • llast Be 21 .A. C. STIKA LIVE THIS WEEKEND AT THE ••• l.ce Cold loHies In The Tub Stop by & try our NEW NACHO CHIPS • Long Island Ice Teas Wild Sex Drinks
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