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Show Jl Theater B4 Comics B5 Couaairs to face 'Maybe I could have made a Miller Liie commercial for being the lowest rated quarterback in John Fourcade, the league." who joked that his climb out of the NFL quarterback ratings cellar might have cost him money. LINEMEN OUT: offensive linemen were suspended from the Illinois football team for the remainder of the season for violating unspecified NCAA rules, Coach John Mackovic said Friday. Guard Rich Herr, a second stringer from Florissant, Mo., and tackle Ed Pederson, a third stringer from DeKalb, HI., had . seen limited action this fall, athletic department spokesman Mike Pearson said. Both are seniors. Pearson refused to divulge the nature of the violations but said the incidents would not result in any NCAA action against the school. SICK FISK: More tests were in store today for Chicago White Sox catcher Carlton Fisk, hospitalized after becoming dizzy and dropping to the ground while golfing. Fisk, 42, was playing golf Thursday at the Calumet Country Club in suburban Homewood when he became ill. Dr. James Boscardin, one of three White Sox team doctors on the staff at Palos Community Hospital, determined that Fisk's blood glucose level was low, said South Suburban Hospital, spokeswoman Sue Ellen Wilcox. Improper eating Thursday may have prompted the dizziness, she said. RICH CLYDE: The Portland Trail Blazers announced Friday that they have extended the contract of Clyde Drexler by one year - an agreement that reportedly will pay the star guard more than $8 million for the 1995-9- 6 season. The salary is believed to be the highest ever for one season for an athlete in a team sport. MOTION DISMISSED: a federal appeals court on Friday dismissed a motion by two limited partners of the New York Yankees seeking to block the resignation of former general partner George Steinbrenner. The appeal to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was based on a district court's refusal to grant a temporary restraining order prohibiting Steinbrenner's resignation. The defendants, who asked that the motion be dismissed, included baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent, his special investigator, John Dowd, and the Yankees. The court agreed with their argument that denial of a temporary restraining order is not appealable, and noted that the appeal is moot because Steinbrenner already has resigned. THE STAFF'S BACK: Manager Cito Gaston and four of his coaches will be back next season, the Toronto Blue Jays announced Friday. Gaston, 46, took over as manager of the struggling Jays in May 1989 and steered them to the AL East championship. The Jays had numerous chances to repeat in 1990 but blew their chance by losing six of their last nine games, finishing two games behind Boston. Gaston, Toronto's batting coach from 1982 until being named manager, has a 163-1record. The Blue Jays also announced that pitching coach Galen Cisco, first base coach Mike Squires, bullpen coach John Sullivan and hitting coach Gene Tenace also have been invited to return in 1991. TB r-- i GAMES REQUIRED TO THROW 200 TOUCHDOWN PASSES 1 Dan Marino 69 games 121 games 2. Johnny Unitaa 3. Frank Tarkenton 137 games 4 Dan Fouts 143 games 143 games Tie Joe Montana 1S2 games 6. John Hadl 7. Len Dawson 153 games 156 games 8. Sonny Jurgensen Source: NFL Sports Features Syndicate will pay S5 lor your list It published. Send lists to Sports taaturas, P.O. Box 660, Maple Shade, N.J. 08052. Include name, address, phone number and source. Saturday, Oct. 13 10:30 p.m. College football (ESPN) 10:30 p.m. College football (TBS) Noon. College lootball. Colorado St. at BVU (KSL Channel 5. PSN. KSL 1160 AM) p.m. NBA, McDonald a Open championship (NBC Channel 2) 1:30 p m. College lootball (ABC Channel 4) 2 p.m College tootball, Oklahoma vs. Texas (ESPN) 4 30 p.m. College lootball (PSN) 5:30 p.m College lootball (ESPN) 6 p m. Baseball. NL PlayoMs it necessary (CBS Channel 5) 8 p.m. College lootball, Coloraoo St. t BVU (taped. KBYU Channel 11) 9 30 p.m. College lootball. Oklahoma St. al Kansas St. (taped. PSN) 1 a m College tootball, CSU at BYU (taped, PSN) 1 Sunday, Oct. 14 11 a m. NFL, Channel 5) 11 1160 11 a m AM) NFL, Lions at Chiels 4ers s.m. Equestrian at Falcons competition (CBS (KSL (ESPN) upstart Colorado State By DICK HARMON Herald Sports Editor This week oil prices climbed to a record high, the price of silver plummetted to the lowest price in years, the U.S. government shutdown for a day and LaVell Edwards turned 60. Saturday Two I Saturday SBOltS Also in this section: NOTABLE QUOTES: IB) the Ed- wards will set aside attention on oil, the federal budget and silver for four hours and try to win his 170th career victory. To do that Edwards' Cougars (4-will have to deal with WAC 1, 2-- 0) (4-- 2, Oct. 13, 1990 B B ams iraee-Siardesie- d 3-- today in Cougar Stadium. Kickoff is slated for noon. The game will be televised by KSL-TChannel 5. A prediction: In the next two years, Rams' coach Earle Bruce will make CSU a consistent winner, finish regularly as a WAC title challenger and take the school to a bowl game in 1995. Bruce is that good. At teaching fundamentals (tackling, blocking), Bruce may be the best in the league. But Edwards is the winningest coach in the history of the WAC and while his 1990 defense ranks 95th in the country after facing some heavy hitting offenses, this may be the best offense he has had. The Rams bring to Provo a attack which uses the Power-- I formation. While CSU isn't opposed to airing ed d, it out, mostly from passes. And there'll be some play-actio- n option running, too. The 13th ranked Cougars are used to seeing nearly 50 passes a game the past five weeks. Saturday it will be a whole new opponent. Edwards, the third-winninge- st coach in the nation with a record, predicts it won't be easy to make it two. in a row over the improved Rams. "I said last summer that if there was a darkhorse team in the league, it would be Colorado St.," he said. "Right now, they're right in it. With a couple good breaks, they could have been undefeated." 169-57- -1 s close out Pirates in Game 6 1wbiipuii w Cincinnati to meet iww mww'Wiiiuii4w'uww''111 .uum ,i' , awinnnwu mwu mmm.wminne'"mr'ijiiii m By JOHN MOSSMAN AP Sports Writer One week ago, Utah showed a consistent ability to make big pass plays to its tight end against Colorado State, an occurrence that hasn't gone unnoticed by Brigham Young's Chris Smith. ,4f ft-- cinnati starting Tuesday night . ' . tr . 4 V J 72-ya- rd Ron Oester, the remaining link to the Big Red Machine of the 1970s, led off the seventh inning with a single off Zane Smith. Barry Lar-ki- n popped out on a bunt attempt, but Billy Hatcher's single moved Oester to third. In a surprising move, Manager Lou Piniella then pinch-h- it Luis Quinones for Paul O'NeilL O'Neill in the series. was one-on-o- surgery, but is expected back for CSU. Last year against the Rams, Smith caught nine passes for 149 yards and two touchdowns. The CSU-BYmatchup features two teams which are unbeaten in conference play. CSU is 0 in WAC play and 2 overall, while In fact, BYU is 0 and there are four unbeatens, but barring ties only two will emerge from weekend action unscatched. The other two, New Mexico (1-- 0 and 24) and Wyoming (3-- 0 and ), face oil in Laramie. In another league clash this Paso (0-- 3 weekend, Texas-E- l entertains Hawaii (1-- 1 and and Air Force (3-plays at ), eighth-ranke- d Notre Dame and San Diego State (2-in travels to UCLA (2-games. Utah is idle. BYU coach LaVell Edwards is well aware of the importance of this week's game, but U 4-- 3-- 13th-rank- 4-- 2-- n i r.V f J--. S 23rd-rank- LW iiainnittfmir,ai 2-- AP Laserphoto Pirates catcher Don Slaught collides with Reds runner Barry Larkin and tags him out at home plate in the third inning of their N.L. playoff game Friday night. 2-- 3) (3-1- 3) non-leag- ue 3) Cincinnati won't have it easy against Oakland A's in Series PLAYOFFS National League Thursday, Oct. 4 Friday, Oct. 5 Cincinnati 2, Pittsburgh 1 Monday, Oct. S Cincinnati 6, Pittsburgh 3 Tuesday, Oct. 9 Cincinnati S, Pittsburgh 3 Wednesday, Oct. 10 Pittsburgh 3, Cincinnati 2 Friday, Oct. 12 Cincinnati 2, Pittsburgh 1, Cincinnati wins series 4-- 2 American League Saturday, Oct. 6 Oakland 9, Boston 1 Sunday, Oct. 7 Oakland 4, Boston 1 Tuesday, Oct. 9 Oakland 4, Boston 1 Wednesday, Oct. 10 Oakland 3, Boston 1, Oakland wins series 0 3-- WORLD SERIES Tuesday, Oct. 16 Oakland at Cincinnati, 6:32 p.m. four-gam- Wednesday, Oct. 17 Oakland at Cincinnati, 6:29 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19 Cincinnati at Oakland, 6:32 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20 Cincinnati at Oakland, 6:29 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21 Cincinnati at Oakland, 6:29 p.m., necessary Tuesday, Oct. 23 Oakland at Cincinnati, n. it 6:29 p.m., if necessary Wednesday, Oct. 24 Oakland at Cincinnati, 6:29 p.m., if necessary (See REDS, Page B2) Monday begins long NCAA season will be different for fans. As of now there won't be a repeat champion because UNLV was put on probation, not for what the Runnin' Rebels did to Duke in the most-lopside- d - Calif. (AP) They have a winner, the most feared reliever in baseball, a former Rookie of the Year, and the National League batting champion. This lineup that looks like the nucleus of a pennant contender is actually a list of players the Oakland Athletics did not need in their clinching victory that sent them on a third consecutive trip to the World Series. Bob Welch, the leading candidate to win the AL's Cy Young Award, did not pitch, neither did Dennis Eckersley, who had 48 saves this year. Walt Weiss was injured and did not even dress for Oakland's 1 victory over Boston Wednesday e that completed a sweep. Only Willie McGee, the NL batting champ who came to the A's in an August trade, got to play, and all he did was pinch-ru"If it takes 10 years, people are going to sit back and say, 'Wow, what a team that was," said Oakland infielder Mike Gallego. It should not take that long. The A's can field a lineup consisting of eight former All Stars with 23 selections between them OAKLAND, Pittsburgh 4, Cincinnati 3 two-hitter- By The Associated Press rank up there with Christmas, the Fourth of July or even Labor Day, but Oct. 15 is here and there are some people very happy about that. It's the day college basketball teams can begin practice for the upcoming season. The first games are just a month away and all is right with the world as the pursuit of March Madness becomes a reality. So as teams learn plays, work on defenses and get accustomed to the new faces on the layup line, it's time to look at how the 1990-9- 1 knee undergo arthroscopic 2-- It doesn't AthSmith, an letic Conference selection in 1989 after catching 60 passes for 1,090 yards, gets his shot at that CSU defense on Saturday in Provo. After watching Utah tight end Mike Anglesey catch five passes for 162 yards, including a scoring pass when he beat single coverage by a linebacker, Smith can hardly wait. "We like to see that," Smith said. "Covering any BYU reis pretty ceiver tough." The Cougars' standout tight end took advantage of his team's open date last week to rn - when Dave Stewart is expected to start against Jose Rijo. Starter Danny Jackson and relievers Norm Charlton and Randy Myers combined to hold the Pirates to one hit. Pittsburgh made three errors. the Pirates announced several hours before the game that reliever Ted Power would start instead of Smith. But after the first inning, it looked like Manager Jim Leyland should have started a different four-gam- WAC action today 2-- us grounded on the sidelines. Ty Detmer needs his average, 436 passing yards to break the e mark set by Houston's 1989 Heisman Trophy winner Andre Ware. Scott Giles, an outside linebacker for BYU who transferred from Snow College after prepping at Timpview High, gets his first start replacing injured Jared Leav-it- t. unbeaten to shrink iimiawwtat umnmnnw' - lifetime against Quinones, Smith, delivered with a single to drive in Oester and send the Reds to their ninth NL pennant. Quinones was as a pinch hitter this season. "I feel a great sense of pride," Piniella said. "These guys played hard all year and I think we all had something to prove." The Reds' championship comes only a little more than a year after Pete Rose was banned from baseball fcr gambling. Piniella and general manager Bobby Quinn came in and turned the Reds into winners again. Two of the Nasty Boys, Charlton and Myers, finished the job started brilliantly by Jackson. The other Nasty Boy, Rob Dibble, struck out 10 of the 15 batters he faced in the series. Perhaps fittingly, Dibble and Myers, the latter with three saves, shared series MVP honors. The Nasty Boys, including Charlton, pitched 16 3 innings, giving up six hits, one earned run and striking out 20 to guide the Reds to the World Series for the first time since 1976, when Cincinnati swept the New York Yankees. With one out in the ninth, Barry Bonds walked and Carmelo Martinez followed with a drive that right fielder Glenn Braggs caught at the top of the wall. Myers fanned Don Slaught to end the game, as fireworks exploded above Riverfront Stadium. Pittsburgh's one hit was the lowest total in playoff history. On four s. occasions, there have been In the World Series, Don Larsen pitched a perfect game against Brooklyn on Oct. 8, 1956. The expected pitching duel between Jackson and Smith eventually materialized, anyway. Jackson was just short of perfect for the Reds, giving up one run and one hit in six-plinnings. To almost everyone's surprise, ball and keep BYU's offense Ranks of Oakland in Series By JIM DONAGHY AP Baseball Writer CINCINNATI (AP) For the Cincinnati Reds, it's goodbye to Pittsburgh's Killer B's and hello to the mighty Oakland A's. The Reds brought a championship and cheers back to their town again Friday night by beating the Pirates for the National League pennant. It was another display of pitching, defense and timely hitting that gave the Reds a 1 victory in Game 6. The World Series comes to Cin- Some key factors to watch today: CSU will try and control the championship game ever, but for what happened 12 years ago when the NCAA asked the school to suspend coach Jerry Tarkanian for two years. The NCAA Infractions Committee has agreed to hear an appeal on the postseason ban on Oct. 28 and Tarkanian, who lost a long legal battle with the NCAA last year, has offered to step aside when the tournament begins if it means his Mark McGwire at first, Willie Randolph at second, Carney Lansford at third, Rickey Henderson, Jose Canseco and McGee in the outfield, Terry Steinbach catching with Harold Baines as the designated hitter. Add to that a pitching staff with nine All Star selections. Only at shortstop, where Weiss, who just happens to be the 1988 American League Rookie of the Year, are the A's unable to place a former All Star. And this is a team that keeps getting better. Weren't the A's considered the best team in baseball two years ago, before adding Rickey Henderson? Wasn't it the same this spring, before Oakland acquired Randolph, Baines and McGee? "You look at what the Oakland did down the stretch, picking up Willie McGee and Harold Baines," said Boston's Mike Greenwell. "They picked up Willie Randolph earlier. Those three guys kicked our butts. I gotta tip my cap to their front office for getting them. They rolled the dice and came up sevens." hoop season loaded team can have a chance at being the first repeat champions since UCLA in 1973. "I feel compromise by myself and the efforts of the university, and the NCAA are fair if they achieve a just result," Tarkanian said. UNLV has star forwards Larry Johnson and Stacey Augmon back among four starters from the team that beat Duke 103-7- 3 last April. Two other schools could face severe sanctions by the time the season finally starts. Missouri and Illinois are both facing penalties for major viola tions that would make postseason play unlikely. Missouri, the only Big Eight school to have never been on probation, faced at least 15 allegations, the most serious being lack of institutional control and the charge that department members provided false and misleading information to investigators. Illinois, which has lost all five starters from last year's team, faced 11 allegations of recruiting violations. Florida is one school breathing a little easier as practice starts since (See NCAA, Page B3) cautions that neither team should consider its season lost with a setback on Saturday. "This is one of the early showdowns for the conference championship, but each of us still has to play Wyoming," Edwards said. "There are a lot of tough games for both of us coming up. You can win the title with one loss, but history has shown you can't win it with two losses." CSU is coming off a me- thodical 22-1- 3 victory over Utah in which the Rams ran 101 plays, rushed for a season-hig- h 315 yards and enjoyed a edge in time of possession. BYU was idle, giving the Cougars time to regroup after a 6 loss to Oregon that ended their hopes for an undefeated season. CSU's offense ranks 16th in 32-1- the country, averaging 437 yards per game with a fair mix of run (241.5) and pass (195.5). Brian Copeland leads e the WAC with a average of 80 yards rushing. BYU has the nation's passing attack, averaging 439.4 yards per game. Ty Detmer has passed for at per-gam- top-rank- ed least 300 yards in 17 straight games. "We haven't gotten off to a very quick start in any of our games," CSU coach Earle Bruce said. "That's one thing We we must do Saturday. can't let them dominate at the start and score a bunch of points on us early. It's also very important that we keep our offense on the field and their offense off the field." Edwards pronounced Detmer, who has had a sprained wrist, to be fine and said his team appears to have "gotten the Oregon game out of our system." (See WAC, Page B2) |