Giants snap 7-game skid

Utes top No. 11 Hoosiers; Knicks beat Spurs David Treadwell kicked a 37-yard field goal with 2 seconds to play last night to help the New York Giants snap a seven-game losing streak with a 13-10 victory over the Oilers, who lost for the seventh straight time. Houston's loss ruined the coaching debut of Jeff Fisher, who replaced Jack Pardee last Monday and decided to scrap Houston's run-and-shoot offense. Kent Graham, who replaced injured Dave Brown, rallied the Giants after a scoreless first half and gave New York a 5-0 all-time record against the Oilers. After a scoreless first half, Graham threw a 40-yard touchdown pass to Mike Sherrard and set up Treadwell's first field goal, 26-yarder, with a 55-yard pass to Sherrard. New York led 10-7 with 8:19 to play, but the Oilers tied it with 4:08 left on Al Del Greco's 42-yard field goal. Fisher turned the play-calling over to offensive coordinator Dick Coury, but the Oilers, who relied mostly on the run, didn't get into the end zone until 4:44 remained in the third quarter on Tolliver's one-yard keeper. The score came one play after Tolliver completed a 41-yard screen pass to Lorenzo White, who was knocked out of bounds at the 1 by Jesse Campbell. The Giants responded on their next series, capped by Graham's 40-yard TD pass to Sherrard, who squeezed between defenders Marcus Robertson and Blaine Bishop for the score with 14:01 elapsed in the third quarter. The Oilers, who ranked among the top offensive teams in the NFL in recent years with the run-and-shoot, didn't use the four-wide receivers alignment in the scoreless first half. Instead, they gave the ball to White, who had eight carries for 40 yards in the first quarter and 116 yards by halftime. He finished with a career-high 156 yards on 27 carries. Hampton had 122 yards on 34 carries and Graham was 6-of-13 for 105 yards. Fisher, whose defense blitzes fearlessly, showed he wasn't afraid to take chances on offense too, going for a first down on fourth-and-1 at the Giants' 40 in the second quarter. The try failed, and New York drove to a third-and-10 at the Oilers 20. But the Giants never got to kick because Graham took the snap with 14 seconds left and scrambled away all the time. Brown, who won his starting job back at the beginning of the week, received a concussion when he was tackled by linebacker Lamar Lathon in the second quarter. Utah 77, No. 11 Indiana 72 LAHAINA, Hawaii -- Brandon Jessie scored 23 points last night and Utah withstood foul trouble to beat No. 11 Indiana 77-72 in the opening round of the Maui Invitational. The game, the season-opener for both teams, was an intense one. Utah's depth helped quite a bit in the hot, packed Lahaina Civic Center. Jessie, a junior college transfer, made both ends of a 1-and-1 with 19 seconds left for a 75-70 lead. Indiana freshman Michael Hermon scored on a rebound with 10 seconds left to again make it a three-point game. Sophomore Keith Van Horn, the Utes' leading scorer and rebounder last season who was saddled with foul trouble throughout, made both ends of a 1-and-1 with nine seconds left. A 3-pointer by Hermon bounced long off the rim and the Utah players jumped in a celebration circle near midcourt as a fan ran around the court with a school flag. Utah will play No. 7 Maryland, which beat Chaminade 95-67, in tonight's semifinals. Knicks 92, Spurs 88 NEW YORK -- Derek Harper made a key steal in the last minute and New York's defense held San Antonio without a point in the final 1:51 as the Knicks defeated the Spurs 92-88 last night. Charles Oakley scored 16 points and Patrick Ewing had 13 despite an injured right knee. Neither team ran off more than four consecutive points in the fourth quarter. David Robinson had 29 points, including 10 in the fourth quarter, and 12 rebounds, and Chuck Person added 17 points off the bench for San Antonio, which never led by more than two points and never trailed by more than eight. After Ewing committed his fifth foul, Robinson sank two foul shots with 1:51 to play, bringing the Spurs to 91-88. Oakley then missed two 18-footers, and San Antonio had the ball before Harper stole it from Avery Johnson in the left corner. Anthony Mason then grabbed an offensive rebound with 28 seconds to play and Johnson was forced to foul Harper after the Knicks ran the clock down to 12.6 seconds. Harper sank one of two free throws to put New York ahead, 92-88. · Magic 124, Heat 89 ORLANDO, Fla. -- Anfernee Hardaway scored 17 of his 30 points in the third quarter last night as Orlando broke open a close game with Shaquille O'Neal on the bench and went on to beat the Miami Heat 124-89. O'Neal returned from foul trouble to lead a 21-3 surge at the start of the fourth period and finished with 22 points in 28 minutes, 10 below his NBA-leading average. Orlando led 64-61 when O'Neal left with his fourth foul and built the advantage to 14 with Hardaway going 11-for-11 from the foul line and nearly matching the Heat's third-quarter production of 19 points. Hardaway, who was 14 for 14 from the line, sat out the entire fourth quarter. That was hardly relief for Miami, which managed only 17 points in the last period to fall to 0-5 on the road, 1-7 overall. Nick Anderson added 21 points for the Atlantic Division-leading Magic (6-2), while Kevin Willis led the Heat with 20 points and 12 rebounds. NEW YORK -- Baseball owners will meet Dec. 5 in Chicago and may decide then to impose their salary cap plan. Yesterday's move, which wasn't announced publicly but was confirmed by several officials, means owners will gather just two days before the deadline for teams to offer salary arbitration to their former players who became free agents. Owners don't want another winter of arbitration and are set on eliminating the process, which began in 1974. Acting commissioner Bud Selig said plans haven't been completed yet, but he didn't didn't deny that Dec. 5 was the probable date.