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Show I una Ba f 0 Scoreboard C3 Business C5 m V - Financial Markets C6 f1 f r-M- j f f UbSD f (fig f f KJJO The Daily Herald l NCAA lets Miami profit from fraud By DAVID TEEL Newport News Daily Press The NCAA Infractions Committee is a bunch of saps. Pun intended. Not only did these professorial types slap Miami's football program on the wrist for gross rules violations, they catered to the school's every whim. The Hurricanes wanted a speedy verdict. No problem. The Hurricanes wanted to serve their bowl ban this season. No problem. Amazing. Dating back to 1986, Miami wantonly abused the sys- - Cougars aven Sasf loss to Aaai BYU 12 A year ago, Randy Reid could only sit on the bench at the Spectrum in Logan with his newly broken nose and watch as Utah State throttled BYU by 24 points. Tuesday in the Marriott Center, the story was completely different as Reid ran onto the floor and ignited BYU from the opening tipoff, helping the Cougars (2-post a complete reversal, a pasting of the Big West favorite Aggies (3-by a score of 2) 24-poi- nt 3) Analysis tern. Athletes received anywhere from $20 to $200 for big plays. g The school's policies were ignored when players such Warren Sapp as tested positive. Dozens of football players, 141 to be exact, received improper financial aid. drug-testin- an And these guys get preferential treatment? Come on! This isn't Princeton or Carnegie Mellon overlooking the fine print in the e NCAA Manual. This is a millions from that reaped program its lawlessness and embarrassed the sport with its tasteless taunting. These facts apparently were lost on the Infractions Committee, an group chaired by David Swank, former dean of the University of Oklahoma law school. The NCAA accused Miami of 10 infractions, including the big-tim- eight-memb- er 2. "Tell Roger Reid that we're even now," said Utah State coach Larry Eustachy. Randy Reid threw himself over Aggie guard Duane Rogers, who He then took charge of went BYU's motion offense, directing traffic, and let loose on a penetrating, cross key running hook shot that found the bottom of the net four times. The win evens BYU's record heading into the first round of the Cougar Classic Friday where the Cougars will host Reid scored 15 points, had four rebounds, two assists, two steals and one turnover in 33 minutes, but it was his defensive hustle in the opening five minutes that caught the attention of his teammates. "I was impressed," said Ken Roberts, who scored 10 of BYU's 5. dreaded "lack of institutional control." The school admitted to only six and appeared before the committee Nov. 10. By DOUG FOX The Daily Herald Executive Sports Editor points the Cougars with 16 points and 10 rebounds. "I gained a lot of respect for Randy's defense. When your point guard is dogging his man every time up the court it makes like you you sort of feel guilty should get after your guy harder." BYU's game plan called for intense pressure on the Aggie backcourt, trying to foil USU's inside double piston attack of seniors Silas Mills and American Fork's Eric Franson. USU's other players were just 3 for 26 in the game, while Mills and Franson combined for 40 of USU's 52 points. At times Franson and Mills were both screaming for passes from Aggie who were being hounded by Reid, freshman Nate Cooper and Bryon Ruffner. That frustration led USU, the defending Big West champions, to a paltry 28 percent shooting effort the first half, and 3 for the game. Mills had 21 points and Franson added 19. Meanwhile, the Cougars rode Roberts' satin jumpshot the first half and got a career performance from Jeff Campbell who made 7 of 12 field goals for 14 points with five rebounds. Ruffner, who has led the Cougars through three games in scoring, had 13 points against his former teammates. Justin Weidauer, the WAC's leading rebounder through three ball-handle- 1 1 JI LI '1 utiL Daily Herald PhotoJennifer Gtigg BYU guard Randy Reid drives past Utah State's Silas Mills, right, while delivering one of his hook layups Tuesday night as teammate Jeff Campbell awaits the outcome. The Cougars beat the Aggies 76-5- (See COUGARS, Page C2) 2. (See BALANCE, Page C2) Golf goes indoors - when wea her's bad 4 By ROD COLLETT The Daily Herald Associate Sports Editor swearing over missed putts and broken clubs. Just the mere mention of the phrase "cabin fever" and the most avid golfer seeks some alternative for any kind of golf. Now those who can't or won't put away their clubs during winter have "Fantastic Fairways" to 8-- 3. 24 scholarships. President Edward Foote and coach Butch Davis went public with the prerequisite pained faces and somber admissions. Then they probably retired to a back room, cracked a bottle of bubbly and giggled themselves silly. Talk about a scam. No future bowl restrictions. No television ban. Miami loses no seniors of consequence, plays Virginia Tech and Florida State at home next season and may contend for the national championship. All with the NCAA's blessing. Oh, sure, the scholarship reductions, 13 for next season, the next, will hurt. But punishment is supposed to hurt, especially when the crime is serious. Now Davis and his staff have little margin for error in evaluating For 40 minutes Tuesday night, the annual battle between BYU and Utah State hung in the balance even if the outcome was never really in doubt. On the first night this season that Bryon Ruffner did not lead BYU in scoring, the Cougars sported an extremely balanced attack that saw four players hit double figures and eight make it into the scoring column. Outside of the typically potent scoring tandem of Silas Mills and Eric Franson. however, Utah State's offense was impotent. Mills and Franson combined to score 40 points. The rest of the Aggies totaled 2. "1 don't know how many ways you can say we got our butts kicked." said Aggie coach Larry Eustachy after uncharacteristically ordering all his players to the team bus without commenting on the contest. On a night when Ruffner scored nine points under his season average, a pack of Cougars stepped in and picked up the offensive slack. Alter scoring 10 of BYU's first 12 points. Ken Roberts finished with 16 points and 10 a team-hig- h rebounds. Randy Reid. playing an solid floor game, tallied 15 points and Jeff Campbell added 14. Ruffner finished with 13. "We had a good inside-ou- t going tonight," said Campbell. "We had good chemistry and were 1 4l- A prolonged, bloody battle appeared imminent. But Miami wanted swift justice and begged the notoriously ponderous committee to issue sanctions before bowl bids were announced Sunday. Miami's thinking was clever. Since a bowl ban of at least one year was inevitable, the school hoped to serve it this season, when the Hurricanes are a pedestrian No championship dreams dashed. No recruits scared off. Sure enough, the NCAA's sanctions were announced Friday. Miami was banned from the postseason for a year and stripped of balance had Aggies off their stride , pointandmargin duplicates 24 first went on to lead By DICK HARMON Daily Herald Sports Editor 76-5- Wednesday, December 6, 1995 BYU ' 1 call for a tee time. The indoor fairway concept is not new. For some years, innovators in the industry have tried to produce a close up and personal experience with indoor golf. video and Using thousands of actual photographs for courses such as Pebble Beach and St. Andrews, the golf at Famous Fairways (at 1600 S. State in Orem, phone is has come fairly close to the actual experience on the fairways, minus of course, the CD-RO- ;s!l.:X V... I . 222-925- J. Daily Herald PhotoPatrick Jason Thayn of Lehi tries his swing on the indoors links at Famous Fairways in Orem. The indoor golf, Krohn uses technology, is especially appealing when the weather is bad. which CD-RO- 2) This writer recently played a few holes on the simulated fairways at Pebble Beach. In the case of Famous Fairways, the average foursome or player using their own clubs can play i 8 holes within an hour to 90 minutes. Besides the quality of the video projection, the quicker play means a lot to any golfer who doesn't have to tough it out over four hours in a typical game of golf. The key to delivering the indoor golf concept to this area comes courtesy of Robert Mad-se- n and David Bradford. "During a rainy day in 1994, David and I played in a tourney at Riverside Country Club that got rained out. David has one of our systems installed at his (See GOLF, Page C2) 1 1 prospects. If they sign a body, that body had best produce. And fast. ; Bleeding hearts say the wrong people are being punished. They former say the real' culprits , ; ; administrators, players and coach- esgot out ot Dodge before the passe arrived. :This is half true. Former head coach Dennis Erickson, who knew about payments to players g and ignored policies, rich as coach of the is off ; getting Seattle Seahawks. In our imper-feworld, he is untouchable. Too bad. Erickson deserves to : - ! ; ; drug-testin- et :pay. ; But sympathy for Miami's cur-- : rent players and coaches is mis-- ; placed. Each one of those men, from Davis all the way down to the long snapper on the scout team, went to Miami of his own free will, knowing full well the Hurricanes are a renegade program. Davis aims to shed that rene-'gad- e label, and here's hoping he's successful. He seems like a good enough guy and says all the right things. But it's too early to judge Davis. It's not too early to judge his employer. Miami cheated, won championships, made a mint and paid a minimal penalty. For the Hurricanes, fraud was a profitable investment. is By ANTON GARRITY Special to The Daily Herald The SALT LAKE CITY Houston Rockets avenged a home-couloss last week to the Jazz by Tues0 slipping past Utah Center. Delta the at day It looked like the Jazz were going to run away with this game in the first half, but by the second quarter their intensity dropped and the game became a dogfight the rest of the way. Utah led 100-9- 9 with 26.7 seconds left in the game, but Houston's center, Hakeem Olajuwon, made a layup to put the Rockets in front. On the other end, Utah's John Stockton committed his sixth turnover of the game and Houston's Sam Cassell converted two free throws for the "Well, I think they showed why they're the world champions," said Jazz coach Jerry Sloan. "They hung in there and we panicked a little bit when they started making shots and I their three-poithe was that thing that thought in the the difference made really ball game. Turnovers hurt us. We had a play called for the end of the game, but we didn't execute it." Utah's Karl Malone had a game-hig- h 27 points and 12 rebounds, while Chris Morris netted 21. He didn't play a minute in the critical fourth quarter. Even Sloan admitted after the game he should have taken Bryon Russell out of the game at that point in favor of Morris. Stockton added 15 points and rt 103-10- All-St- nt ar 12 assists, but also the six turnovers. The Jazz committed 18 turnovers. After starting the game shooting 73 percent from the field, the Jazz cooled off considerably. They finished the game shooting 38 percent from the field, including just from range. On the other hand, Houston 4 from beyond the arc, shot 7 for Robert Horry. including Olajuwon and Horry each netted 25 for the Rockets' while Clyde Drexler and Cassell added 17 and again got the starting nod from Sloan, only this time was a little different. In 39 minutes of play, Russell had just nine points, five rebounds and one assist. Utah was running its offense to near perfection in the first five minutes of the game as the Jazz jumped out to an 1 7 lead behind shooting from the field. The Jazz played with as much emotion and intensity in the first quarter as they have at any point this season Utah finished the opening period with a command- 14 respectively. ing three-poi- 5-- nt 10-2- 5-- Another area that hurt the Jazz was personal fouls. Both Stockton and Felton Spencer were in foul trouble most of the game. The Jazz hadn't played in five days and ironically enough it was these same Rockets they played in their last game, except the last game was played in Houston when Houston now Utah won takes sole possession of first place in the Midwest Division, one game 112-10- 5. ahead of the Jazz. Ever since the playoffs last year, when Utah was defeated in the first round by Houston in five games, Jazz fans have been waiting for the Rockets to visit Salt Lake City. They weren't disappointed as it was an exciting game from start to finish. The fans definitely did their part as they were as loud as they've been all year. 19 After scoring a career-hig- h points in Houston, Russell once n 8-- .. 8-- 31-1- 7 "", -. ... , v.' . . ! f:9 advantage. However, that intensity and execution of their offense didn't continue into the second quarter. After Houston went on an 1 2 run early in the second quarter, Sloan was forced to bring back Spencer and Malone from the bench much 1 -- earlier than he wanted. Then Stockton picked up his third foul and had to sit the rest of the half and watch as the Rockets continued to cut into Utah's lead. With 45.7 seconds left in the half, the Rockets' Mario Elie finished a layup that gave Houston its first lead of the game at 47-4Utah's Jeff Hornacek scored the final two buckets of the period to regain the lead for the Jazz as Utah lead at the half. held a 50-4- 7 Utah built its lead back up to seven in the third quarter, but with 7:33 left in the period, Stockton picked up his fourth foul and was 6. (See JAZZ, Page C2) AP Photo Houston's Hakeem Olajuwon, right, rejects this shot by Utah's Greg Foster Tuesday night during the Rockets' victory. 103-10- 0 |