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Show fTr! f7 I I ;l f j y J I- B Lifestyle C4 I I H Entertainment C8 5 LJI The Daily Herald Wednesday, January 1, 1992 NOTABLE QUOTES: "You've got to look at this as not a loss. If Iowa wins this game, they probably end up No. 3 or 4 in the nation, and that makes a tie say more for BYU than it does for Iowa." Sonny Detmer, father of BYU quarterback Ty Detmer, after BYU and Iowa tied 3 in the Holiday Bowl Monday night. The elder Detmer and another son, . Koy, were on hand in San Diego for the Holiday Bowl. 13-1- NOTABLE QUOTES II: "Over Thanksgiving, I called all of my friends in the league. It took about 12 seconds." Atlanta Falcons coach Jerry Glanville, on his relationship with his NFL colleagues. SHORT BREAK? chuck Knox, who resigned last week as head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, will interview with the Indianapolis Colts Friday for the team's head coaching vacancy. A source close to the team said Monday that Colts general manager Jim Irsay would meet with Knox either at the team's Indianapolis headquarters or in Chicago. Knox would become the second of at least four candidates the Colts are considering as head coach, including interim coach Rick Venturi. Venturi was promoted from defensive coordinator five games into the season when Ron Meyer was fired. Irsay and his father, team owner Robert Irsay, met with Michigan State coach George Perles last Thursday in Chicago. Two other candidates still to be interviewed are San Francisco 49ers offensive coordinator Mike Holmgren and Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator Ted Marchibroda. GEORGE STYMIED: Daniel R. McCarthy, who unsuccessfully sued commissioner Fay Vincent last year, was elected managing general partner of the New York Yankees on Tuesday as George Steinbrenner's bid to regain control of his team was put off. McCarthy needs approval from of American League owners and a majority of National League owners, and his prospects are uncertain. "Everyone in baseball, including limited partners, agrees not to sue the commissioner, which raises a serious question in my mind," Vincent said. "He withdrew it, which I think is helpful, but he lost. It was a dead lawsuit. It raises a question and I'll have to evaluate it." three-quarte- PERSON FINED: rs Chuck Person of the Indiana Pacers was fined $7,500 by the NBA on Tuesday for elbowing Chicago's John Paxson in the fourth quarter 4 of the Bulls' victory Monday night. In addition, 12 players received automtic $500 fines for leaving the bench during the ensuing melee. They were Scott Williams, Stacey King, Cliff Levingston, Will Perdue, Bobby Hansen, B.J. Armstrong and Craig Hodges of the Bulls and George McCloud, Greg Dreiling, LaSalle Thompson, Dale Davis and Kenny Williams of Indiana. 109-10- CHARGERS' BOSS: Bobby Ross, who led Georgia Tech to a championship in 1990, resigned Tuesday to become coach of the San Diego Chargers. The move had been expected for weeks, even before San Diego general manager Bobby Beathard fired Dan Henning at the end of the season. Ross was record during his five years at Tech. Who's champ if that happens? The Associated Press While the debate intensifies over what the national championship implications would be should No. I Miami and No. 2 Washington both win their bowl games Wednesday, here's something to think about. What if they both lose? Unthinkable? Not really. Both appear vulnerable. In the Orange Bowl against No. I I Nebraska, Miami's offense will be operating without two key run By AVERAGE MARGINS OF VICTORV IN NFL PLAYOFF GAMES-- x 16 points 1. Super Bowl 14. S points AFC t. Championship 16.1 points 3. NFC Championship 12.2 4. AFC Divisional Championship 5. NFC Divisional Championship 13.8 points 11 6 points 6. AFC Wild Card Games 13.8 points 7. NFC Wild Card Games all NFL playoH games, 1933-199- 0 Source: Sports Features Syndicate Sports Features Syndicate will pay S5 tor your list it published. Send lists to Sports features. P.O. Bon 660. Maple Shade, N.J. 08052. Include name, address, phone number and source. M.iLuiimKWJM,'.i.imimi '..lli,l.,. Wednesday 9:30 a.m. Peach Bowl, East Carolina (ESN) N C. St. vs. a.m. Hall of Fame Bowl. Syracuse (NBC Channel 2) 11:30 a.m. Florida Citrus Bowl, California va Clemson (ABC Channel 4) 11 30 s m Cotton Bowl. Florida St. va Teiaa AIM (CBS Channel 6, KSL 1160 11 vs. Ohio SI. AM) 2:30 p.m. Fiesta Bowl, Penn St. vs. (NBC Channel 2. KSL 1160 Tennessee AM) 2:45 p.m. Rose Bowl, Michigan vs. Washington (ABC Channel 4) 6 p m. Orange Bowl, Nebraska vs. Miami (NBC Channel 2) 6:39 p m. Sugar Bowl, Notre Darre vs. Florida (A3C Channel 4, KSL 1160 AM) 7 p.m. Table tennis (PSN) 10 30 p.m. MSL soccer (PSNI 11:30 p.m. Gymnastics (ESPN) Thursday Noon, Prep basketball, Japaneae-U.S- . tesms (ESPN) 4 p.m. Sportscentral (KSL 1160 AM) ning backs injured Stephen and suspended Martin Pat-toIn the Rose Bowl against No. 4 Michigan and Heisman Trophy Mc-Gui- re n. winner Desmond Howard, WashOutland ington's Trophy winner Steve Emtman may e be available for only duty after being weakened by the flu. Could both heavyweights lose, then? Stranger things have happened. If No. 1 and No. 2 both go down, it would switch the focus to the Sugar Bowl, where No. 3 Florida battles a struggling No. 18 Notre Dame. That will be the final game of a crowded New Year's morning, afternoon and evening part-tim- schedule. It begins before noon at Atlanta with No. 12 East Carolina (10-1- ) vs. No. 2 North Carolina State (9-2- ) in the Peach Bowl. Then the Hall of Fame Bowl at Tampa, Fla. sends No. 16 Syracuse (9-against No. 25 Ohio State ). In the Citrus Bowl at Orlando, Fla., No. 14 California (9-plays No. 13 Clemson ). The Cotton Bowl at Dallas has No. 5 Florida State (10-2- ) vs. No. 9 Texas A&M (10-1- ), completing the early part of the daj. Then comes the Fiesta Bowl at Tempe, Ariz, with No. 6 Penn State (10-2- ) against No. 10 Tennessee (9-2- ), followed by the 1 2) (8-3- 2) vs. Michigan Washington (11-in the Rose Bowl at Pasade(10-1- ) na, Calif., the Orange Bowl at Miami with Miami (11-vs. Nebraska and the Sugar Bowl at New Orleans with Notre Dame (9-vs. Florida (10-1- ). The Sugar Bowl has occupied also-ra- n status lately and it was not helped by Notre Dame's slump that included losses to both Penn State and Tennessee, who play each other in the Fiesta Bowl. The Irish barely survived their final regular season game, faint recdefeating Hawaii 48-4ommendation for them going into the Sugar Bowl against a Florida team that seems to be peaking. 0) 0) (9-1-- 3) late-seas- 2, The Gators' lone loss came early in the season at Syracuse and they recovered to capture the SEC title. Florida finished the regular season with a victory over Florida State that thrust the Gators to No. 3, in position to make major poll progress if there is any stumbling ahead of them. That loss by five points and the narrow one-poidefeat to Miami reversed the fortunes of Florida and State, which opened at No. more weeks. stayed there for Now the Seminoles are No. 5, a marquee attraction for the Cotton Bowl but with virtually no chance to return to the top. Even if No. and No. 2 lose. nt 1 1 1 1 Nebr 3Skc3 reserve By BOB HUDSON Assistant Sports Editor - ineligible MURRAY Jeremy Sink scored eight of his 18 points dur7 ing a spurt which enabled Mountain View to pull away from Murray en route to a 2 boys' basketball victory Tuesday afternoon. - 15-- r 77-6- ce ... .. MIAMI (AP) Nebraska declared its No. 2 fullback ineligible and put its share of the Big Eight Conference title in jeopardy in the process on Tuesday, some 24 hours before the Orange Bow! game with No. Miami. Omar Soto, a Miami native, will not play Wednesday night, Nebraska faculty athletic representa- . Mountain View led just 27-2- 5 with 5:01 left in the second quarter before Ryan Lewis connected on a pair of baskets to start the Bruins' run. Sink followed with bastwo of his four three-poikets and Ryan Roberts added another trey. By halftime, the Bruins had a 42-3- 2 lead. 1 tive Dr. James O'Hanlon said nt Tuesday evening. 0"Hanlon and assistant athletic director Al Papik said verbal confirmation had been received by the school indicating Soto participated in a preseason scrimmage for Mount San Jacinto Junior College in California in the fall of 1986. They said that while such a scrimmage is allowed under national junior college rules, it constituted use of a year of eligibility under the NCAA rules by which Nebraska who led Mountain Lewis, View with 20 points, had three quick baskets at the start of the third quarter as the Bruins stretched their lead to 16 points. 5 Mountain View led at the buzzer. Murray closed to within 4 with 5:27 left in the game when Brian Anderson scored. But, the Spartans' 0 run, which featured a by Jess Fillerup and Kevin Carlston's two free throws, came to a sudden end when Anderson was whistled for a technical foul. Anderson apparently questioned a foul call a bit too vehemently for referee Dee Talbot. Just seconds earlier. Sink had earned a technical for questioning a traveling call against him. From that point, Mountain View pulled away as point guard Stoney Hunter suddenly started scoring. Hunter ended with 14 points, 12 of which came in the final quarter. "I don't know where we won the game," said Mountain View coach Kline Adams. "I really don't. I can't pinpoint anything." Sink probably deserves as much credit for the victory as anyone. His four treys enabled 61-4- 63-5- 7-- three-point- operates. "Nebraska will offer to forfeit any games in which Soto participated in 1991. if the formal investi- er ?'W V r r. : '1 I gation reveals it would be appropriate," O'Hanlon said in a news release. That investigation is expected to be completed by Jan. 31 and submitted to the Big Eight Conference. He said a league decision on an appeal of the forfeits wasn't expected until a meeting of ' the faculty representatives in March. Nebraska coach Tom Osborne said he and his staff tried to put the pieces together to determine if Soto was eligible to play against Miami on Wednesday night. O'Hanlon said NCAA rules were r v I" very specific. "If an athlete is determined to be ineligible, the team will forfeit those games he played." said Jeff Bollig. Big Eight services bureau official at the Orange Bowl. Iff the Bruins to pull away quickly. "Jeremy Sink was very, very good," Adams said. "And Lewis had his usual good game. (Eric) Gentry and (Jim) Hawkes got into a bit of foul trouble, so that hurt Bollig said that Nebraska's record of wouldn't be affected by the forfeiture of the games. O'Hanlon and Papik said Nebraska would appeal to the Big Eight over forfeiture of games in which Soto participated. The fullback played in Nebraska's first us." The Bruins overcame that foul trouble with good ball movement, however. They had plenty of open shots throughout the game. Adams also noted that junior Aaron Osguthorpe turned in quality minutes replacing one and (See BRUINS, Page C-2) three jiiamasf Herald PhotoJason Olson Murray's Eric Wells lets out a whoop as he fouls Mountain View's Jim Hawkes during a game Tuesday afternoon. The Bruins beat the Spartans, 77-6- ce games, breaking a leg early in the third game against No. 2 Washington. He returned to play sparingly with one carry for 3 yards against Iowa State Nov. 16 and carried twice for 4 yards in the season finale against (See HUSKERS, Page C-- 2. t BYU L points j 2) defense earned respect with its bowl play - SAN DIEGO, Calif. When all the smoke cleared from San Mite',' Diego's Jack Murphy Stadium WS J wrlatiTiirMitrrM Dick Monday, a 3 tie may have hidden a significant little tidbit in the 13-1- Harmon 14th Annual Holiday Bowl. BYU's defense, on a mission to earn some respect, did just that. This was the same defense that left The Murph a month ago embarrassed on national TV when the Aztecs scored 52 points and launched enough bombs to provide highlights for the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. These were, in many parts, the same defensive players who fell victim to Texas A&M here a year ago, giving up the most points ever 65 big ones. by a Cougar team For all intents and purposes, BYU's defense could have showed up and gone through some motions here the past eight days. They didn't. "We were sick and tired of getting embarrassed down here," said Holiday Bowl defensive Josh Arnold. "There is no way we were going to let it happen P SPORTS EDITOR es downfield as hard as he could again. "We had to gain some respect," said Cougar season defensive leader Shad Hansen. "We were determined to show people we can stop a good team. I think we showed that, and our young players got a lot out of this something to build on next year." g For all the by these defensive players for holding back-slappin- Iowa scoreless for nearly three quarters of the game, a lot of credit must go to the game plan which finally called for putting an opposing quarterback in the crosshairs. A month ago down here, SDSU quarterback David Lowery stood up like a statue and launched pass throwing bomb after bomb and making it look as easy as sailing in the harbor. This time, in this game, BYU did not wait to become duck soup. The Cougars cut it off at the pass. "After first down, they brought the house and we were confused," said Iowa quarterback Matt Rodg-er"Those were times for us to make a big play and we never s. did." The Cougars unveiled a seldom-even-thought-- seldom-use- d, of strongside blitz package, shooting Arnold in from the side of the tight end. It worked nearly every time BYU tried it. If Rodgers wasn't picking himself off the turf, he was running for his life. Arnold sacked Rodgers three times for losses of 8, 14 and 11 yards. "They surprised us with their stunts and blitzes something we hadn't seen on any of their films all year long," said Iowa's Hayden Fry. Actually BYU's aggression added a new dimension to the entire Cougar defensive mindset and, as LaVell Edwards explained afterwards, "Our defense actually grew better as the game wore on " Sitting ducks no more. "We liked taking it into our own hands," said captain Rocky Biegel who played his final gime for the Cougars. The Cougars ended up dominating the No. 7 ranked Iowa Hawk-eye- s in nearly every statistical category. They had the ball 32 minutes and 23 seconds to Iowa's 27:37 and, while BYU converted third downs, the defense . 10-of-- limited Iowa to3-of-1- 0. Where third-and-lo- had be- come almost a password for opposing offenses, on this night, in this game, even though the game ended in a tie, BYU's defense had a handle on the door. It was mostly closed. The Cougar defense came to San Diego on a mission. When all the hoopla of the bowl ended," the fireworks were gone, bowl officials rolled up the poin-settiand the buses to Sea World stopped rolling, the play of BYU's defense remains one shining victory at this bowl which has not been kind to Provoans. as Fry, disappointed college football doesn't have a told Edwards afterwards the entire affair seemed like a big waste of time. He may have been right w hen no clear winner had been crowned at the gun. But there was a winner in San Diego, a victim that refused to be victim again. And that's something to rest on for another year. 4' |