(Jeff Robbins | AP file photo) Utah Jazz Karl Malone takes the ball away from Portland Trail Blazers Buck Williams during their Western Conference Finals game, Friday, May 23, 1992, Salt Lake City, Utah. Malone scored 39 points as the Jazz beat the Blazers 97-89 and now trail the Blazers in the best-of-seven series 2-1.
Eric is a West Valley City native and a graduate of Granger High School and the University of Utah who joined The Tribune in 2003. He hoards rescue cats and guinea pigs, reads historical fiction, watches British baking shows, and obsesses over 1980s hair-metal bands in his spare time.