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Show NFL football Scoreboard Pro golf EDITOR: SPORTS B4 Bo B7 STEVE CAMERON Bl THE DAILY HERALD 344-25- MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, !WK Steve Cameron $5 0 O Step on up, folks, it's time to revise og(P o our Cougar quiz Once upon a time... Well, actually it was a couple of days before the season opener. But the fact is that I numbly offered Cougar fans a list of questions whose answers would define the '98 football season. s Now here we are, of the way through the schedule, and the two-third- jury remains out. Therefore, our questions need to be updated; to wit, you'll know how the Cougs should fare down the stretch if you'll simply tell me: J ASON OLSON The Associated 3 1. Has medical science found a cure for the dropsies? tens) BYU receivers treated the football like a live grenade for about a month, and fumbles have been a problem all year. If these cats can put a handle on the thing, they'll be fine. 2. Brother, can you spare a dime? Or even a nickel. The Cougs have been burned over and over in their specialty pass defenses, as Alabama and San Jose demonstratState r among others ed with incendiary effect. So who's got that guy in the slot, anyway? the real Ronney Jenkins please stand up? 3. Will The Cougs' nuclear weapon has admitted he came to camp mentally unprepared and physically unfit. He cramped up at 'Bama and confessed to letting Washington rattle his mind. ! To run the WAC table and present bowl themselves in a game, the Cougars need their star front and center every week. Ronney says he's up to it, so... BYU faces By TAD WALCH The Daily Herald Could there be a PROVO ger regular-seasoshort notice? n big- game to play on Pacific Division leader San Diego State (4-- overall, WAC) moseys into Dodge this week for a gunfight BYU (5-with second-plac- e at 4-- 0 3 3-- Cougar Stadium. The game will be played Thursday night at 6 because ESPN chose to showcase this perpetually entertaining rivalry. Can Kevin Feterik find love and happiness in Cougarland? In the end, it might come down to this above everything else. BYU historically has traveled as ; far as its quarterback can buy the I gas, and Feterik is no exception. If folks will stop booing, quit fuss- ; ing over whatever happened to Paul ' Shoemaker, forget the occasional bad read... - ! ', ' I Well, who knows? The generally shy Feterik admitted he was laughing in the huddle at Hawaii, making him sound like a bona fide BYU assassin. "We want to run it out" Kevin says, referring to a 10-- finish. You throw it and we'll cheer, lefty. 3 Steve Cameron is sports editor of The Daily Herald. ttt COPY) post-gam- e DENVER (AP) Jason Elam kicked himself into the NFL record book, while Terrell Davis ran into some pretty good company, too. Elam tied a NFL record with a field goal and Davis rushed for three touchdowns to lead the Denver Broncos to a the over victory Jacksonville Jaguars on for the Sunday. Denver is first time in its history. Elam's kick at the end of the first half matched the New Orleans' Tom Dempsey kicked in 1970. "It's an old record and I'm proud to have a piece of it," Elam said. "I swung about as hard as I can swing at it. I hit it really clean." Davis, the NFL's rushing leader, ran for 136 yards to reach 1,001 yards for the season, making him only the third player in NFL history to reach 1,000 in seven games. He joins Jim Brown (1958) and O.J. Simpson (1973 and 1975) as the only players to do it in seven 63-yar- FT- See COUGARS, B3 - d 7-- TOM GANNAMThe Associated Press San Francisco's Jerry Rice celebrates Sunday Another after scoring his 170th career TD in St. Louis. The catch set a league record: Rice has caught a pass in 184 straight games. NFL-bes- t: 49ers Rice ST. LOUIS (AP) roll again; sets record An off-da-y by Steve Young didn't San Francisco 49ers the stop from dominating the St. Louis Rams again. Young, misfiring more often than not, managed three touchdown passes and f Darnell Walker had two interceptions that led to scores as the 49ers beat the Rams for the 16th straight time, Sunday. "They made the plays when they had to. We made none," Rams cornerback Todd Lyght said. Jerry Rice set an NFL record by catching a pass in first-hal- 28-1- 0 184 consecutive games, Terrell Owens scored twice and the 49ers ) sacked Tony Banks eight times. The 49ers' winning streak dates to 1990, five years before the Rams ) left the West Coast for the Midwest. Tm not going to try and explain it," Young said. "I just know that we see it as an individual effort. They're won one at a time." Young's first touchdown to Rice, pass, a came on the 49ers' first play. e Rice broke the mark for (6-1- (2-5- er con-Se- 0 games. "When you look at the history of the NFL and all the running backs who have come through, and only three players have reached 1,000 yards in seven games that's remarkable," Davis said. "It feels good. I wasn't aware how close I was." Davis performance t string snapped an of 18 regular-seasogames in had which Jacksonville NFL-bes- n 49ers, B3 n r 37-2- 4 Edwards dye his 6. ing that backup Jason Scukanec still is recovering from a torn posterior cruciate ligament and stretched MCL in his left knee. Another concern is safety Chris Ellison, who has nursed a sore shoulder all season. Ellison normally The other catch is getting all the battered bodies back up to speed. Center Jimmy Richards was walking without crutches Sunday, a day after suffering a sprained ankle when he was bowled over by a teammate wrestling with a male cheerleader during Saturday's celebration. -- post-gam- e Patti to make an appointment and... Don't laugh. Back at Penn State, Joe Pa says he's trying to identify with today's athlete. A nice perm in Cougar blue would do it, hey, La Veil? Wednesday." Elam boots 63 yard field goal Junior Jimmy Richards is a heck of an athlete, but his trick shoulder goes numb when it takes a certain kind of hit and he can't get the ball to the quarterback. Now Richards is nursing a sore ankle after last week's tumble, and backup Jason Scukanec has a bum knee. The QBs might want to try some Elmer's glue on their mitts. Everyone else seems to be doing it, which so far has merely amused the Cougar boss. But hey, togetherness is a '90s approach. Maybe La Veil could ask "I'm optimistic," head trainer George Curtis said. "I don't anticipate he'll be able to participate fully in practice (today), but I believe he'll play." That was welcome news, consider- practice (today) with pads, which we never do. "Then we'll have our normal Tuesday practice and hold our regular Thursday practice on "It's a showdown," Cougar offensive lineman John Tait said. "It's on national TV. We control our destiny now. We're in the driver's seat. "We just need to win ballgames." It's a little more difficult preparing to do that in just three practices, one less than San Diego State, which used Sunday for a normal light workout usually held on Monday. On the other hand, the Aztecs will have to travel on Wednesday. "It will be a real challenge to get ourselves ready," BYU coach La Veil Edwards said. "We'll have a full Back to fundamentals: What about the center snap? Hey, it ain't no joke. hair? Aztecs Thursday division-leadin- g 4. 5. Will La Veil Press Opening up the 0: With the help of blockers like John Tait, left, running back Ronney Jenkins and quarterback Kevin Feterik led BYU to its biggest offensive perfor46-4mance of the year Saturday during a victory over San Jose State. The Cougars face a tougher opponent this Thursday. (5-2- ) 1 jt C JL?. if V V kELSLN The Associaled Press BRYAN Launch site: Denver kicker Jason Elam watches his record-tyinfield goal against Jacksonville Sunday in Denver. Holding for Elam is Tom Rouen. g 63-yar- d not allowed an individual rusher. Davis' scoring run early in the fourth quarter proved to be the clincher, givlead. ing the Broncos a John El way completed 21 of 35 passes for 295 yards and a touchdown for the Broncos. Mark Jacksonville's 100-yar- d 37-yar- d 34-1- 7 for 353 Brunell was and three touchdowns, yards but he was sacked seven 6 times. Overall, the Broncos, for the fourth time this season, generated 465 yards to 348 for the turnover-fre- e See ELAM, B3 |