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Show Friday, Octobef 18. 1991 The Daily Utah Chronicle Utah Utes Series Colorado State e has a winning streak in the 61 game series.. The Rams have never won three in a row against the Utes, who hold a edge Utah-CS- U two-gam- r -- 43-16- in -2 contests. Last Yean Utah QB Jason Woods head-to-hea- d passed for yards hut was sacked seven times and the Utes committed five turnovers in a 3 ; 315 22-1- loss at Hughes Stadium. Colorado State's bruising rushing game chewed up 315 yarns. No TV: Because a crowd of only 27,000 is expected for the game at Rice Stadium, there will be no live TV broadcast The game will be AM and 94.1 aired on KALL-91- 0 FM with commentary by Bill Marcroft and Neil Hancey. Utah Injury Report: Utah OT Brian Anderson is out for 4 games with a knee injury. LB Kim Lambert is also out with a sprained ankle. LB Anthony Davis, who played sparingly at Wyoming, will 3-- All-WAC . 1 Sat., Oct. 19 . 12 Noon Rice Stadium . start despite an arch problem in his foot. SS Sharrieff Shah (neck) and OT Russ Dailey (wrist) will also play with pain. CSU Injury Report After missing three games, LB Kareem Ingram will be back for the Rams. DT Don Jones is questionable after suffering a concussion against Hawaii. (special(ly Important) Teams: U. coach Ron McBride called the Wyoming game "the best performance by the special teams at Utah in five years." The Utes have been blocked three times on punts and FG attempts while rejecting four of their opponents' kicks. PITTSBURGH CSU won its game against UTEP when Tom Romero blocked a punt and Greg Primus scooped it up and ran 15 yards for the deciding touchdown with just 1:36 left Key Player for Utah: DE Jimmy exuberant celebration on the field, and triggered and ever wilder scene in the clubhouse. For the Pirates, the loss marked another season of disappointment, far worse than last year's playoff defeat by Cincinnati. unlikely World Series ever. The Braves made winning look easy Thursday night as John Smoltz pitched Atlanta past the six-ga- Pittsburgh was baseball's best team during the regular season at 98-6and came into the playoffs calm and confident. The Pirates won the opener, took two of three in Atlanta and returned to Three Rivers Stadium this week with a 2 Pirates 0 for its first pennant. Now, a season full of surprises ends with the biggest one yet. The Braves, baseball's poorest team last year, and the Minnesota Twins, the only other team this century to go 4-- 4, meet in the from worst-to-firs- t, World Series starting Saturday 3-- lead. But that's where it stopped for the Pirates and started up for the Braves. Smoltz capped a streak of 27 straight scoreless innings for night in the Metrodome. homer Brian Hunter's two-ru- n three-ru- n first a inning, and capped that was all Smoltz and the Braves needed. The Pirates' big hitters again went poof, and Pittsburgh was shut out for the second straight n coverage. The Ute defense, which gave up 12 grabs to Wyoming's Robert Rivers last week, must; contain Primus with more than Pittsburgh at home. The Braves won the fifth pennant in franchise history, and first since 1958 in Milwaukee. Atlanta had been swept in its only other playoff appearances in 1969 and 1982 game. A day after NL playoffs MVP Steve Avery and Alejandro Pena Smoltz shut down Pittsburgh, won his second game of the series In reversing their with a also stopped the braves the history, man coverage or the Rams will go downtown for long gains. before this year. The Pirates went meekly, and so 1-- 0, six-hitte- Bears beat Sportscene ATLANTA COACH WINS AP SKIPPER OF THE YEAR AWARD: Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox was selected by the Associated Press writers as the Major League Baseball Manager of the Year. After taking the helm at midseason in 1990, Cox took the last place Braves in 1990 and made them a winner in one year. Cox replaced previous manager Russ Nixon. THE MAJOR SOCCER LEAGUE OPENS 14TH SEASON: With one less team and no television contract, the Major Soccer League is set to begin its 14th season on Saturday. As has been the case in the league for 12 of the last 13 years, at least one team has folded and no team has been able to run up a profit. The Kansas City Comets kept the folding tradition this year, while the four-tim- e San Diego Sockers and the defending champions Dallas Sidekicks barely avoided folding by gaining new ownership. Attendance has dropped every year since the 7 years with an average of about 6,500 fans in attendance per 86-8- game. To remedy the revenue problem, owners have shortened the season season with schedule to a 40-ga- mostly weekend games. FIVE HORNETS REJECT MILLION DOLLAR OFFER FOR JOHNSON: For No. 1 draft pick Larry Johnson the excitement of being the first player chosen has been all fame and no fortune up to this point. . Johnson's drafters, the Charlotte signing bonus. Team President Spencer Stolpen called the amount "ludicrous," but commented that he was glad that at least Johnson and his agent are starting to negotiate. FOR RATINGS SURGE MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL: Television sports have always been good for ratings on the weekends, and during the seventies and early eighties, Monday nights were also hot baseball. Unfortunately, drastic drops in the for and football ratings over the next few years caused a crimp in ABC's ability to show Monday night sports on TV. The network eventually dropped baseball from the slot and barely held on with football. series of Game 7 successes Pittsburgh had played five previous deciding seventh games, and won them all. to last year, the lure of larger audiences to watch football on Monday night has increased 8 with a 17.3 overall rating. By ratings' standards, it's a tremendous jump. ICKEY IS ACTIVATED: "When maybe you ought to make you're a few changes," Cincinnati Bengal's general manager Mike Brown said Thursday. In a meeting with coach Sam Wyche, Brown decided to activate the injured fullback Ickey Woods a little prematurely from knee rehabilitation. Wyche, however, is 0-- 6, less than thrilled about the idea because Woods has not had even one chance to practice with the team yet. season end. Hunter, a rookie, drove in three homer after runs. He hit a two-ru- n Ron Gant's sacrifice fly in the first inning, and added an RBI double in This time, it was over early. After the Braves knocked out winner John Smiley in the first inning, the Pirates had their best chance when Orlando Merced and Jay Bell led off the first with 20-ga- GREEN BAY, WIS. (AP) The Chicago Bears managed only one touchdown Thursday night. It was plenty against the Green Bay shut the fifth. Smoltz, in danger of losing his spot in the rotation in midseason won for the when he was 14th time in 16 decisions since the All-Stbreak. He pitched his first 1, singles. But the big three of Andy Van Slyke, Bobby Bonilla and Barry Bonds each made outs, failing for the umpteenth time. They were a with runners on combined Packers. The Bears shut down and out Green Bay's sputtering offense in a 10-- 0 victory. It was Chicago's 11th victory in the last 13 games against its longtime 0-- ar shutout of the season and of the third Atlanta's and out series striking eight walking one. 33 His only trouble after the first inning came in the eighth when Bell singled with one out and Bonilla singled with two down. But Smoltz got Bonds on a routine fly. base until Bonilla singled in the eighth. In the ninth, with 500 Braves fans chanting and chopping in the rival. Jim Harbaugh's touchdown pass to James rd far reaches of the upper deck, Thornton late in the second quarter and Kevin Butler's d field goal early in the fourth sent the Bears (5-to a victory after two 22-yar- What kind of pizza do the boyz in red eat? 2) However, most recently, ratings have soared for football and things are looking to get even better. Compared did their fans. A crowd of jusl 46,932, more than 10,000 fewer than watched Game 1, saw the r. Pirates' Packers Hornets, rejected his proposal that the team should pay him a $5 million straight losses. The Packers, who had 138 yards total offense and made just five first downs, fell to 6 with their fourth straight loss and 11th in 12 games dating back to last season. Don Majkowski, in one of 1-- the worst performances of his career, completed only three of 16 passes for 32 yards before he was replaced by former Bear Mike Tomczak in the fourth Any kind they want. quarter. 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