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TUE WED THU FRI SAT

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LAKERS

at New

Orleans

6:30

SpecSN, ESPN

WASH.

7:30

SpecSN

CLIPPERS

at Dallas

5:30

Prime

at Memphis

5

Prime

at San

Antonio

5:30

Prime

RAMS

NEXT: SUNDAY AT ARIZONA, 1, CHANNEL 11

CHARGERS

NEXT: SUNDAY AT DENVER, 1:15, CHANNEL 2

KINGS

N.Y.

ISLANDERS

7:30

FSW

at San Jose

1

FSW

WINNIPEG

7

FSW

DUCKS

at Arizona

6:30

Ch. 13

WINNIPEG

1

Prime

Shade denotes home game

TIME EVENT ON THE AIR

BASKETBALL

5:30 p.m. Clippers at Dallas TV:Prime

R: 570, 1330

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

9 a.m. NIT Season Tipoff, Western Michigan vs. Seattle TV:ESPNU

11 a.m. NIT Season Tipoff, Yale vs. Bucknell TV:ESPNU

11:30 a.m. Maui Invitational, Georgia vs. Michigan State TV:ESPN2

2 p.m. Maui Invitational, UCLA vs. Chaminade TV:ESPN2

3 p.m. Wichita State vs. South Carolina TV:CBSSN

4 p.m. Fairleigh Dickinson at Notre Dame TV:FSW

4 p.m. Hall of Fame Classic, Missouri vs. Oklahoma TV:ESPNews

4 p.m. New Jersey Institute of Technology at Rutgers TV:Big Ten

4 p.m. Legends Classic, Richmond vs. Auburn TV:ESPN2

5 p.m. Maui Invitational, Dayton vs. Virginia Tech TV:ESPN

5:30 p.m. West Virgnia vs. Northern Iowa TV:CBSSN

6 p.m. Stephen F. Austin at Duke TV:FSW

6:30 p.m. Hall of Fame Classic, Butler vs. Stanford TV:ESPN2

7:30 p.m. Maui Invitational, Kansas vs. Brigham Young TV:ESPN

8:30 p.m. MGM Resorts Main Event, Colorado vs. Clemson TV:ESPN2

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

4 p.m. Western Michigan at Northern Illinois TV:ESPNU

COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL

7 p.m. Women, Pepperdine at Brigham Young TV:ESPNU

HOCKEY

5 p.m. Dallas at Chicago TV:NBCSN

SOCCER

9:45 a.m. UEFA Champions League,

Lokomotiv Moscow vs. Bayer Leverkusen

TV:TNT, TUDN,

UniMas

9:45 a.m. UEFA Champions League,

Galatasaray vs. Club Brugge

TV:GALA

Noon UEFA Champions League,

Real Madrid vs. Paris Saint-Germain

TV: TNT, TUDN,

UniMas

Noon UEFA Champions League,

Juventus vs. Atletico de Madrid

TV:GALA

TODAY ON THE AIR

COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Favorite Line Underdog
at UC Irvine OFF La.-Lafayette
at Ball St. 171 ⁄ 2 W. Illinois
Arizona St. 10 at Princeton
at E. Tenn. St. 13 Appalachian St.
Furman 13 at Elon
at St. Bonavent. 71 ⁄ 2 Mercer
at William & Mary 61 ⁄ 2 Morehead State
at DePaul 12 Cent. Michigan
at Ill.-Chicago 61 ⁄ 2 Canisius
Belmont 51 ⁄ 2 at E. Washington
N. Dakota St. 71 ⁄ 2 at Idaho
at California 121 ⁄ 2 UC Davis
at Pacific 101 ⁄ 2 SIU-Edwardsville

Drake OFF Northeastern

Miami (Ohio) OFF South Alabama

Loyola Chicago OFF Colorado St.

South Florida OFF New Mexico St.

Seattle OFF W. Michigan

Bucknell OFF Yale

Gardner Webb 61 ⁄ 2 Tenn. Martin

N. Colorado PK Boston University

Wichita St. 11 ⁄ 2 South Carolina

West Virginia 61 ⁄ 2 N. Iowa

NHL

Favorite Underdog

at New Jersey OFF Minnesota OFF

Boston -120 at Montreal +110

Dallas -113 at Chicago +103

ODDS

Jason Garrett is still the

coach of the Dallas Cow-

boys, although there are

those who say that has a lot

to do with the fact that the

team has only three days

between its loss to New

England on Sunday and its

game against Buffalo on

Thanksgiving.

It may also have a lot to

do with the fact that the

Cowboys are still sitting

atop the NFC East, al-

though owner Jerry Jones

didn’t seem too impressed

by that after his team’s 13-9

loss to the Patriots.

“It is a significant set-

back for our team. We

needed this win,” Jones

said. “ We needed to win

against an opponent like

this, and we haven’t had ’em.

And consequently we’re

very aware of that.”

The Cowboys are 6-5 but

have yet to beat a team with

a winning record. Sunday’s

game was played in misera-

ble conditions, but Jones

was in no mood for excuses.

He wanted a signature win,

and his team didn’t deliver.

“Make no mistake about

it, this was a bigger game for

us than it was for the Patri-

ots on the win column. And

we had a chance to really

establish something,” Jones

said.

“There’s no gratification

in being down to the last

drive with it determining

maybe the outcome of the

game. ... You can’t be satis-

fied just because you got

within the last drive to

maybe go ahead. I’m just

really frustrated. I thought

we could come up here and

put together a better effort.”

Earlier in the day, the

NFL Network’s Ian Rapo-

port reported that the New

York Giants “have emerged

as a real and legitimate

potential for Garrett”

should the Giants fire coach

Pat Shurmur and the Cow-

boys part ways with Gar-

rett, whose contract expires

after this season.

According to Rapoport,

the Giants would be Gar-

rett’s “preferred destination

if he can’t stick with the

Cowboys.”

It might seem odd that a

coach whose team leads its

division with five games

remaining would be think-

ing that way.

But then again, he’s

working for a guy who is

saying things like, “With the

makeup of this team, I

shouldn’t be this frustrated”

and “I don’t think there’s a

game that a coaching staff

has areas that it couldn’t do

better in — I just don’t like it

that we’ve got so many.”

So maybe it’s good that

Garrett seems to have a

backup plan.

Your favorite

sports moment

What is your all-time

favorite local sports mo-

ment? Email me at hous-

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and tell me what it is and

why, and it could appear in a

future Sports newsletter or

Morning Briefing.

This moment comes

from David Pohlod of Oak

Park:

“In 1984 my high school

buddy took me to my first

baseball game in San Diego.

Saw Tony Gwynn get a hit.

But unfamiliar with the

game, at the seventh-inning

stretch, I thought the game

was over and started to

leave the stadium. In 1986

my new girlfriend [now wife]

declared: ‘... no dates out

this week, World Series

comes first ...,’ so I became a

baseball [Padres] fan.

“Naturally, I became a

Gwynn fan. In the 1998

World Series, Game 1,

Gwynn hits a home run in

the fifth. After the series,

Gwynn gives an interview in

San Diego and states [with

that big beautiful grin of

his]: ‘Man! I saw that home

run on the big screen in the

stadium, my swing was

perfect, it was a home run

that put us in the lead, and I

looked great on national

television!’

“He was just so happy to

help the Padres get a shot at

the title.

“Miss that guy a ton.”

MORNING BRIEFING

Garrett seems to have a backup plan

By Houston Mitchell

and Chuck Schilken

DALLAS COACHJason Garrett is not exactly getting a strong backing from

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who isn’t happy with the team’s loss to New England.

Steven SenneAssociated Press

Lindsey Vonn

smiled as she

walked into the

SoHo House in

West Holly-

wood after the

premiere of her

documentary,

“Lindsey Vonn: The Final

Season.” The greatest fe-

male ski racer ever is no

stranger to life as a celebrity.

Earlier in the night she was

on a red carpet with Dwayne

Johnson and Shaun White,

but as she entered her after-

party she was flanked by her

father, Alan Kildow, and her

first ski coach, Erich Sailer,

with her mother and sib-

lings trailing them.

“My family with all five

siblings and my parents,

who are divorced, don’t get

together often,” Vonn said.

“To have us all at the same

place at the same time to

experience this together

really means a lot. I just

wanted them to be here to

thank them for everything

they’ve done for me.”

Vonn’s documentary,

which premieres Tuesday

on HBO, offers not only a

behind-the-scenes look at

her final season but also an

unfiltered glimpse at her

childhood and her rocky

relationship with her father,

whom she didn’t talk to for

years after she married

former U.S. ski team athlete

Thomas Vonn.

“My father being here

means a lot because he was

my coach growing up and he

was the main reason I got to

where I got to,” Vonn said.

“There was a lot of personal

things in the documentary

about my family, and I don’t

know how they all took it,

but it was a great night for

us as a family.”

The screening this

month began with a laugh

when Vonn playfully

shouted an expletive at the

screen as the HBO Sports

open included a clip of Tiger

Woods, Vonn’s ex-boyfriend.

The documentary, directed

by brothers Steve and Todd

Jones, was supposed to be a

celebration of her final

season, but it quickly turned

into a comeback story when

she tore the lateral collat-

eral ligament in her left knee

in a training crash just three

days into shooting.

“It was really difficult to

watch the first time,” Vonn

said. “I hadn’t seen my dad’s

interview, and that was the

most triggering part of the

documentary for me. Hear-

ing him speak and say that

he was proud of me. That

was really emotional for me.

Also reliving the pain that I

was going through at the

time was hard. I originally

had envisioned having an

amazing last season and

breaking the World Cup win

record and having it be my

swan song, but the crash

totally derailed everything.”

In addition to the docu-

mentary, Vonn is releasing a

memoir, “Rise: My Story,” in

March.

“I go into a lot of detail,

and maybe more than I

should, about things, and I

hope my family forgives

me,” Vonn said. “I wanted to

share my story, and I

wanted it to be empowering.

I want to empower people to

overcome adversity and be

independent and strong,

and that’s why I titled it

‘Rise’ because it’s about me

overcoming all these things

in my life. It’s the documen-

tary on steroids.”

The documentary culmi-

nates with Vonn’s dramatic

bronze finish in the women’s

downhill at the FIS Alpine

World Ski Championships

in February. It was her final

race and made Vonn the

first female skier to win

medals at six world champi-

onships. Nine months into

retirement, Vonn, 35, still is

trying to find a way to satisfy

her urge to compete and go

fast.

“I drive my car a bit too

fast, unfortunately,” Vonn

said. “If you see a Range

Rover flying by you in New

Jersey, it’s probably me.

There’s nothing that re-

places skiing or the adrena-

line and competitiveness

that came with it. It’s a

challenge.”

Vonn began dating New

Jersey Devils defenseman

P.K. Subban last year, and

the couple announced their

engagement in August.

Subban wasn’t able to at-

tend the Hollywood pre-

miere of Vonn’s documenta-

ry because he had a game

that night in Calgary, but

Vonn hosted a viewing party

in New York for Subban and

his teammates Monday.

“I’m so lucky that I found

P.K.,” Vonn said. “He’s been

such a rock in my life, espe-

cially in retirement.... I just

feel very lucky to have found

someone who loves me for

me and not as a skier or

anything else. He just loves

me for me, and that’s some-

thing that I’ve never found

before. I’m looking forward

to being his wife and start-

ing a family if we’re lucky

enough to be able to do that.

This is the start of a big and

exciting chapter in my life.”

LINDSEY VONNattends the premiere of HBO’s “Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season” in Beverly Hills. Vonn,

arguably the greatest female ski racer ever, also is releasing a memoir, “Rise: My Story,” in March.

Rich FuryGetty Images

Vonn relives glory and pain

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