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Show Monday, November Shorts By The Associated Press The San Diego Chargers, with a commitment to change this season, might be the best team in the NFL. The Los Angeles Raiders, with their "Commitment to Excellence," may be doomed to mediocrity. Vince Abbott, cut by the Raiders last year, kicked three field goals Sunday night and the Chargers won their eighth straight game, beating Los Angeles At 16-1- 4. the Chargers have their longest winning streak since 1961 and the best record in the AFC. The Raiders, slowed by a 186 yards in pend lost their sixth in a row alties, 8-- 1, team-recor- fell to and The losing streak is their longest since a 3-- QUARTERBACKS Name yds td 228 2 Wilson.LARaid Started for the first time this year and TD pass of 5 threw two fourth-quartand 47 yards. Wasn't quite enough as 16-1Raiders lost to San Diego 0 0 McMahon, Chi Plays tonight against Denver. 1 80 Young, SanFran Started for first time this year. Scrambled 4 times for 24 yards plus threw a d TD pass to Jerry Rice in first drive of the game before being sidelined with a slight concussion. The 49ers lost 26-2- 4 to New Orleans. RUSHERS Name td 0-- 0 StLouis 0 Sikahema, Did not have a carry or pass reception, but had 20 return yards. RECEIVERS Name Chrlstensen.LARaid Caught two passes in San Diego. 0-- 0 Bellini, Ind No receptions in 40-2- 1 TD 0 16-1- 4 loss to 0 victory over Miami. Name LJohnson, Hou 3 Good day punting in Pittsburgh. 23-- 3 win over skid in 1962. "That little guy named Abbott nailed the coffin shut tonight," Howie Long, the Raido defensive end, said ers' of the team's flagging playoff hopes. The Raiders saw flags all night, from the fans and the referees. The record crowd of 60,639 at San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium got "Fans Flags" e in a giveway and twirled them throughout the evening, similar to the "Homer Hankies" that Minnesota fans swirled as the Twins won the World Series. The other scores Sunday: New Orleans 26, San Francisco 24; Indianapolis 40, Miami 21; New York Jets 16, Kansas City 9; Cleveland 27, Buffalo 21; Dallas 23, New England 17 in overtime; Washington 20, Detroit 13; Houston 23, Pittsburgh 3; Seattle 24, Green Bay 13; New York Giants 20, Philadelphia 17; Los Angeles Rams 27, St. Louis 24; Minnesota 23, Tampa Bay 17, and Cincinnati 13-ga- all-pr- pre-gam- 16, Atlanta 10. Chicago, leading the NFC with a 1 record, plays at Denver tonight. The Raiders finally played mistake-fre- e in scoring two touchdowns in the fourth quarter. But by then it was too late as San Diego swept the season series for the first time since 1981. 7-- report on sporting events in Central Utah, around the Here's how 10-- 1 Orem and 11-- 1 Skyline reached the state 4-- football finals: Provo 40, Orem 34 Orem 20, American Fork 17 Orem 28, Brighton 20 Orem 43, Hillcrest 16 Orem 43, Alta 25 Orem 43, Bingham 13 Orem 44, West Jordan 8 Orem 34, Mountain View 8 Orem 54, Taylorsville 9 Orem 25, Davis 7 Orem 35, Granger 29 j "It drives you crazy," Raiders quarterback Marc Wilson said. "If we completed a pass, we all just started looking for the yellow flag." last seaThe Chargers, 4-- son and out of the playoffs since 1982, continued to win with their balanced attack. Defense and the running game now get as much attention as the Dan Fouts-le- d passing at- Skyline 20, Highland 14 Skyline 36, Ogden 7 Skyline 32, Taylorsville 6 Granger 21, Skyline 14 Skyline 35, Cottonwood 13 Skyline 47, Kearns 14 Skyline 39, Olympus 7 Skyline 39, Cyprus 7 Skyline 32, Murray 6 Skyline 37, Brighton 12 Skyline 24, Layton 6 Skyline 35, Bonneville 29 tack. "It was a real physical game. We knew it would be going in," Chargers Coach Al Saunders said. "It was a game of might versus might." The Chargers might have decided it early, scoring 10 points on Raiders' turnovers in lead at halftime. taking a Sp. Fork man wins grid contest first tied 16-- 0 Abbott, who lost out to incumbent Raiders kicker Chris Bahr last year before coming to San Diego this season, kicked field goals of 38, 47 and 39 yards in the second quarter. "Personally, I took this as any other game," said Abbott, g who kicked field Cleveland and goals against Indianapolis over the past two weeks. "I don't get any special satisfaction from playing the Raiders, but I did from the Chargers beating the Raidgame-winnin- ers." Fouts had thrown a touchdown pass to Kellen Winslow in the first quarter. The Raiders scored with eight minutes left in the game on Wilson's pass to Do-kWilliams. Wilson threw a TD pass to James Lof- ie 47-ya- rd seconds left. Fouts completed 15 of 32 passes for 149 yards while Wilson hit 15 of 32 attempts for 228 yards. Each was intercepted once, and each turnover led to a touchdown. Saints 26, 49ers 24 Morten Andersen kicked a field with 1:06 to play, for a miss in a similar atoning situation three weeks ago, as the Saints snapped San Fran16 40-ya- rd cisco's streak. seven-gam- e winning The win moved New Orleans within one game of San Francisco in the NFC West. The field goal was Andersen's fourth of the game. Andersen made five field goals against San Francisco on Oct. with 25, but missed a seven seconds remaining as the 49ers won Joe Montana was supposed to sit the game out with a finger injury, but was pressed into action early on when Steve Young was sidelined with a mild concussion after TD strike. throwing a Montana and threw a TD pass to tight end Ron Heller with 2:54 left, giving the 49ers a 3 lead. Colts 40, Dolphins 21 Eric Dickerson rushed for 154 yards in his second start since being traded and Dean 24-2- 2. 46-ya- rd 29-ya- rd 24-2- Biasucci kicked four field goals as the Colts overcame a 14--0 deficit and ended the long- est losing streak against one team in the NFL. The Dolphins had beaten the Colts 14 straight until this loss, dating Raider quarterback Marc Wilson scrambles with Chargers' Les Miller in pursuit. back to 1980 when the Colts were still in Baltimore. Five teams were tied for first place in the AFC East going into the game. Only the Colts and the New York Jets remained in the tie after Sun- day's play, both with 5-- 4 records. Jets 16, Chiefs 9 Freeman McNeil, benched a week ago, returned with the second-berushing day of his career, gaining 184 yards and helping set up three Pat Leahy field goals. Replacing the injured Johnny Hector, McNeil had a day surpassed only by his 192 yards on Sept. 15, 1985, against Buffalo. Browns 27, Bills 21 In a duel of former Miami, Fla., quarterbacks, Bernie Ko-spassed for 346 yards and two touchdowns to lead Cleveland over Jim Kelly and the Buffalo Bills. Kosar completed 24 of 33 passes and threw touchdowns of 15 yards to Reggie and 52 yards to Webster Slaughter. Kelly completed 22 of 35 passes for 222 yards and rushed four times for 42 more. Cowboys 23, Patriots 17, OT Herscnel Walker broke up the left sideline and carried the ball 60 yards for a touch st ar Lan-ghor- ne Ditka down with 1:50 gone in overtime to lead Dallas over New England. The Cowboys' Roger Ruzek sent the game into overfield goal time with a with 28 seconds left in regulation. Walker's scoring run gave him 173 yards rushing on the day, an NFL career high. Redskins 20, Lions 13 Doug Williams earned the 20-ya- rd starting job at quarterback next Sunday by coming off the bench halfway through the second quarter to replace an inef- fective Jay Schroeder and throwing two touchdown passes. Williams had scoring completions of 16 yards to Kelvin Bryant and 42 yards to Gary Clark in the first half, giving 3 the Redskins a lead and their 12th straight victory over the Lions going back to 1965. Oilers 23, Steelers 3 Warren Moon threw touchdown passes of 14 yards to Curtis Duncan and 42 yards to Drew Hill in the third quarter as Houston defeated the Steelers at Pittsburgh for the first time since 1978. Seahawks 24, Packers 13 17-- Dave Krieg and Eugene Robinson ran for touchdowns in the final 2:08 of the first 3 half, giving Seattle a 21-1- McMahon sees new - DENVER (AP) Jim McMahon, mellowing? Jim McMahon, maturing? C'mon, Mike Ditka, are we talking about the same person? Ditka insists it's true. The Chicago Bears' coach seems to be enjoying his mav ds 37-2- ca Burmingham, Ala. There is a slim chance the ca tistics until this weekend at Dick Harmon Sports Editor Nov. 21. The bowl office was a hub of telephone activity this morning and no official word has been leaked out of Birmingham about BYU's status. "All I can say is we will be inviting the two best teams we can to this contest. That's all we've ever tried to do," said Okley. THE BANDITS: BYU's secondary, part of a defense s, ranked 12th nationally in is closing in on a take-away- school record for interceptions in a season. The Cougars intercepted three UTEP quarterbacks five times Saturday, one off a single game school record set in 1951 against Texas Western, now called UTEP. For the season, with two games left, BYU has 25 team interceptions, one off the record games. 26 set in 1980 in 12 Twelve people for place in this past week's Daily Herald football contest by correcting picking 11 of the 12 winners, but Eugene Colledge of 159 N. 900 E., Spanish Fork, won by coming closest to the closest score in the Colledge predicted Wyoming would beat Utah The actual score was Wyoming 31, Utah 7. Colledge will receive a gift certificate for a portable gas grill from Anderson Lumber. He also qualifies for the finals and a chance to win a trip for two to San Diego and tickets to the Holiday Bowl. 27-1- 0. Junior corner Rodney Rice picked off two passes including one returned for a touchdown in the fourth quarter of BYU's 4 victory over the Miners. Since Rice missed three games with an injury, he won't be eligible for conference sta- People who bet, and some people in Provo do such things, say the odds are that BYU will play West Virginia, North Carolina or Virginia in Bowl the Dec. 22 Bowl will be able to lure their preferred geographical preferences, Georgia or Alabama, to the bowl which pays out $850,000 to each team. "If we sell out 75,000-seLegion Field," said bowl publicist Bill Okley, "we will offer a million to each team." Bowl invitations are formally sent and accepted Saturday, Page 9 wit nation and the world. g erick, quarterback a lot more these days. "He's still rebellious about some things, but I haven't seen much of that this year," Ditka said, whose Bears face Denver tonight at 7 p.m. "He's been a joy to be around." head-stron- lead, and the Seahawks held on to beat Green Bay. Curt Warner scored Seattle's first touchdown on a run on the first play of the second quarter and finished with 123 yards rushing. Giants 20, Eagles 17 57-ya- rd Raul Allegre kicked field goals of 53 and 52 yards, the second 3:48 into the fourth quarter snapping a 7 tie. Philadelphia had a chance to send the game into overtime, but Paul McFadden missed a field goal attempt with 17-1- 39-ya- rd seconds to play. Rams 27, Cardinals 24 Los Angeles wiped out a 24-St. Louis lead in the third quarter, then got a field goal from Mike Lansford on the final play of the game 25 14 20-ya- rd to beat St. Louis. Charles White gained 62 of his against one of the nation's top passing teams, Utah. Otherwise Rice's team high six interceptions would give him the WAC leadership in that category. The BYU individual season record for interceptions is 9. "They sputtered early in the (UTEP)," game said BYU defensive coordinator Dick Felt, who explained his defensive backs were very quiet during warmups in El Paso. "But over the years, I've learned that doesn't necessarily mean anything. But then they adjusted very well and played an outstanding ball game." sufSafety Troy Fuller, who fered a shoulder injury against UTEP, is questionable week. i.UNNING IT UP: One this sistent cry from certain factions up north the past decade is when BYU defeats Utah, which it's done consistently since 1978, the Cougars run up the score or statistics on the Utes. It appears now, BYU is in a catch 22 situation. Favored to beat the Utes again this year, if BYU goes conservative at any point in the game and starts running the ball, odds are they could accumulate ob- scene yardage against the Utah defense. The most humane thing BYU might do is pass the football. Utah's defense is down. It is worse than when the season began. BYU abandoned the pass in Salt Lake City (119 yards) last year but had a whopping 454 yards rushing. In the past two games, Utah watched UTEP's John Harvey run for 202 yards and Wyoming accumulate 301 yards with two backs, Gerald Abraham (172) and Steve Bena (109) going over the century mark. Catch con- - 22. ADD BOWLS: The Holiday career-hig- h yards on a winning drive, helping the Rams end a three-gam- e losing streak. 213 94-ya- rd Vikings 23, Buccaneers 17 Tommy Kramer came off the bench to throw his first touchdown pass since Dec. 14, and Chris Doleman forced a pair of fumbles that Minnesota converted into 10 points against the Buccaneers. Besides forcing the fumbles, both recovered by Keith Millard, Doleman helped key a Vikings defense that held Tampa Bay to just 15 yards rushing. Bengals 16, Falcons 10 The Bengals gained 270 yards rushing, including 100 by Larry Kinnebrew, and beat the Falcons on Kinnebrew's scoring run with 23 seconds left. Bowl picture clearing as invitation in THE HERALD, Provo, Utah. A full ton with PUNTERS 16, 1987 Bowl will invite Iowa from Aztecs edge Colorado St quarterback SAN DIEGO, Calif. Aztec Todd Santos passed for 391 yards to become the first college passer to ever hit the 11,000-yar- d mark as San Diego State beat Colorado State 2 in San Diego. Santos, who last week became college football's 26-1- all-ti- leading passer, ended the game with 11,052 yards. The Aztecs trailed 0 with 7:33 left in the fourth quarter when Santos threw a touchdown pass to Kerry He then hit n with a conversion pass to give SDSU 2 lead. SDSU scored an once more late in the contest to account for the final mar12-1- rd Reed-Marti- n. Reed-Marti- two-poi- nt 18-1- : SDSU went to 7 overall and 4 in the WAC. CSU is 9 and gin. 4-- 3-- 6. wins BergerAustralia ADELAIDE, (AP) Gerhard Berger, 28, who also won the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka two weeks ago, became the first Ferrari driver to win consecutive Formula One races since the late Gilles Villeneuve of Canada won the 1981 Monaco and Spanish races when he won the Australian Grand Prix Sunday. nears the for the second straight time. According to sources connected with the bowl, Iowa wasn't the team they originally wanted. Sea World Holiday Bowl officials were courting Southern Cal and Penn State very hard this fall and had reason to believe there was some "good faith" exchanged before this weekend with Penn State. Penn State lost to Pitts0 burgh Saturday, and then backed away from the Holiday Big This week's contest entry form is on Page 7 of today's Daily Herald. The winner will receive a $25 gift certificate from Macey's Sack 'N' Save. 10 10-- Bowl. Southern Cal was interested only if BYU or Air Force was the opponent. Penn State is expected to play Clemson in the Florida Citrus Bowl. The Penn State move could be viewed as a snub by the defending national champions to the Holiday Bowl and the primary reason could be projections of playing Wyoming. THE FREEDOM BOWL wanted a local matchup between UCLA or Southern California and the Air Force Academy or a return visit by BYU. In that order. What they will invite Nov. 21 is Air Force to play Arizona State or Southern Cal. QUOTABLE: BYU offensive coordinator Roger French, who called for a fireside chat with the entire offense during the first half of the UTEP-BYgame, and thereafter the entire unit kept returning to chat after each series. The offense rattled off 37 unanswered points: "We talked about emotion and execution. I sure was proud of those guys. They kept coming off the field and wanting to get together and talk. It was like Mohammad returning to the mountain. Or whatevU er." QUESTION: Late Saturday night on national cable television, Todd Santos became the the first hufirst collegian man, or any other form of life to pass for 11,000 yards in the NCAA. It took place on his home turf, Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego. Why didn't outspoken SDSU athletic director Fred Miller stop the game and award him the football on national TV? Public relations opportunities like that come once in a lifetime at no cost. |