Show r’ “ ‘ 8B Standard-Examin- T"’ i ' i v y Friday Oct 12 1990 er rizzlies swap spot llONTANAl&tiWEBERiSXATJ A-- A A fA J KICKOFF: 6 pm KLO 1430 AM BLAST MEETING: 1989: Montana won 31-- 6 B SERIES RECORD: Montana leads 19-- 9 B MONTANA RECORD: 0-- 2 Big Sky 3-- 2 Standard Examiner staff OGDEN — Someone is playing with our minds when it comes to Big Sky Conference football The generally predictable has become the exception It’s almost like the movie “Trading Places" where Eddie Murphy portrays Bill Ray Valentine a street hustler Dan Aykroyd plays Louis Winthorpe III a big money guy on whom his relatives play a dirty trick by switch overall 2 B WEBER STATE RECORD: Big Sky 2 overall B KEY MATCHUPS: Weber State’s four wide receiver set against Montana's nickel and dime pass defense packages Weber State's Jamie Martin has been picking apart secondaries and the Grizzlies have been giving up a lot of points Montana's offense has moved the ball of late but has been stung by turnovers B NOTEBOOK: Grady Bennett is closing in on Montana’s passing yardage lead He needs 250 yards to catch Marty Mornhinweg Martin has thrown for nearly 1000 yards in the last few games The 'Cats have not made a PAT kick or field goal in the last two games Montana has owned Weber State in Wildcat Stadium winning 10 of 13 previous meetings 3-- ing the two identities Life around the Big Sky has been that way with Weber State a recent member of the league’s By DALE BUBLITZ 4-- all-ti- s sitting at 2 and in secord place The University of also-ran- 3-- Montana to date has played a good Winthorpe III and currently e the contender is at 2 in league play barely above resident doormat Idaho State The Wildcats and Grizzlies meet at 6 pm Saturday in Wildcat Stadium 0-- long-tim- “I’ve said all along this is a league of parity and anyone can beat another team on any given Saturday" said Weber State Coach Dave Arslanian whose ’Cats have found their way into the national rankings at No 18 “I knew from the start that we weren’t the team the media picked to finish last in the confer- ' ence" Even Don Read Montana’s venerable coach has noticed a change This isn’t the same We- -- Bosses support pitcher 2-- is” Read noted that WSC quarterback Jamie Martin had gotten into a groove Martin leads all of See WSC on 12B 4-- - 4-- 4-- 26-2- 22-1- 3-- Cougars Ciosi ruce’s Rams By TOM CHRISTENSEN Standard-Examine- The star pitcher was ejected and as it turned out final game of the American League playoffs in Oakland for shouting obscenities at Cooney At the lime the Red Sox were See CLEMENS on 12B staff r PROVON — Earle Bruce and LaVell Edwards have been battling wits on the gridiron and golf courses off and on for the past eight years Bruce in his second year at Colorado State owns a 1 record against Edwards (2-- 0 at Iowa State 0 at Ohio State and 1 at CSU) On Saturday he will bring his Rams into Provo’s Cougar StadiBYU um to battle The two clubs run two very distinct styles of play “We are close friends" said Bruce “but once the football game begins we’re football coaches He likes to win And I like to win" “It is even more competitive when you play a game against a friend" said Edwards “Seven to eight years ago we began traveling together and serving on some national committees He has done an excellent job at Colorado State and for the conference” Both teams enter the game unbeaten in Western Athletic Conference play The Rams are 0 in league and 2 for the season Their only two losses came at the Arizohands of nationally-ranke- d na State and Arkansas by identi0 cal scores BYU is 0 in conference and 1 overall and has been idle since dropping a 6 decision at Oregon! But the way the two teams go about moving the football is as different as night and day BYU opens it up with its passing offense and will try to finesse you to death Colorado State prefers a controlled ground game and will physically go after you The Rams’ 3 win over the University of Utah last week was 4-- 2-- 0-- 13th-rank- ed from the fourth Umpire Rich Garcia (center) keeps Boston pitcher Roger Clemens away from umpire Terry Cooney (left) after Cooney Clemens from Wednesday’s game ejected - Smith still Pirates’ scheduled starter CINCINNATI (AP) — There aren't many secrets left between Zane Smith and the Cincinnati Reds Smith is scheduled to start tonight for Pittsburgh in Game 6 of the National League playoffs against fellow Danny Jackson with the Reds leading the left-hand- er 3-- 2 te However the Pittsburgh in today’s editions reported that manager Jim Ted PowLey land might start right-hander against Cincinnati “It’s not 100 percent sure but it's 99 percent" the quoted Leyland as saying "The Reds haxe eight extra position players We haxe eight extra pitchers Why Post-Gazet- er te National League not take advantage of that" But Pittsburgh vice president of public relations Rick Cerrone said early this morning that Smith was still the Pirates' scheduled starter In seven previous starts against the Reds this season Smith has given up 20 runs and 54 hits in 47h innings Some pitchers haven’t lasted seven starts in a career Smith was the losing pitcher in Game 3 when the Reds beat him homer shot by 6-- 3 on a Mariano Duncan and Billy Hatcher by three-ru- a n two-ru- n ative" garden-variet- Red Sox fan am one of them complete with one “sox" logo — it would be tough for anyone to make two red socks look appealing and they haven’t One of the many who at one time or another have phoned one of those baseball help lines — perhaps BIL-BL’C- K Malaise and depression has returned again in 1990 to beleaguer those of us who cheer for the men m Fenway This year's glimmer of hope was fueled by the American League East title — taken on the final game of the season after blowc lead to Toronto ing a 6':-gam- The stcamrolling Oakland Athletics summarily dismantled the short-livehope built up by Boston's tentative sucd cess Oh sure the Red Sox kept up the susleads after six pense Sills us One-ru- n mean much when don’t really innings bull lelving on Boston’s batting-piaetie- c pen Dennis Lamp's ERA in the two American League Championship Scries games at Fenway? An outstanding 1091 — outstanding in the ugly way it stands out None of the six relievers allegedly employed to hold onto leads at Fenway managed anything below 90 Oakland hurled a 10 ERA at Boston — the Yankees swept 0 by the A's this season could have batted better Not even stalwart Bosox fans expected any miracles in the ALCS games scheduled for Oakland Fittingly none appeared — Roger Clemens provided the most intrigue by being issued the thumb in Game 4 One run a game just won’t win a senes Time again to winterize Fcnwav 12-- I’utk It’s not like this year is the first of leading Bosox fans to the champagne and not letting them drink’ 2-- 31-2- 4-- Smith made four starts against Cincinnati for Montreal losing twice After being acquired by the Pirates on Aug 8 Smith was 0 in two starts against the Reds He was 2 in 10 starts for the Pirates yielding only nine earned runs in 75 innings But in Game 3 he gave up five runs in five innings “I'm glad to have another chance" Smith said “People would remember that See NATIONAL on 12B 2-- 6-- 1 am constantly reminded of 1986 — usually the memories are from other re- Oh the wretched life we live Neither members of Congress nor of the French Foreign Legion — not even Chicago Cubs fans — can feel the woes y Boston of the common of those team jackets with the dorky 3-- 4-- “This w ill be my eighth start of the season against Cincinnati and that can be bad" Smith said Thursday night “They’re familiar with what I throw and it's a neg- Few know woes of Bosox fan 1 offense 26-23- -3 tion" Post-Gazet- team that scores with a lot of people" said Read “They don’t turn the ball over much at all considering how wide open their iiliimLlAi VdjMs it 3-- in this" Harrington is quoted in today’s Boston Globe as saying on the flight from Oakland to Boston after Wednesday’s game “His position is that he was not directing his anger toward the umpire and we believe him and we’re behind him" Richie Phillips executive director of the Major League Umpires Association on Thursday said Clemens threatened to get Cooney after being ejected Clemens threatened Cooney “three times as they were taking him off the field He said he would find out where Cooney lives and would get him" Phillips said from his home in Philadelphia “The umpires in the crew told me It’s bizarre" Phillips said “Clemens was arguing every call he didn't get He knew what he was saying was cause for ejec- series “Weber State has improved everywhere and is a very explosive B LAST MEETING: 1989: BYU 45 CSU 16 B SERIES RECORD: BYU leads ' B CSU RECORD: 0 WAC 2 overall 1 “ 0 1 WAC overall B BYU RECORD: B KEY MATCHUPS: BYU quarterback Ty Detmer faces Colorado State’s defense which has given up only 1877 yards per game passing The Rams wilt counter with their running trio of Todd Yert Brian Copeland and Tony Alford They have churned out 242 yards per game while BYU’s defense has only allowed opponents to rush for 115 yards per game However BYU’s first five games were against pass oriented teams B NOTEBOOK: Colorado State Coach Earle Bruce is 1 lifetime against 4 BYU Bruce's last visit to Provo was in 1973 when Iowa State took a win over the Cougars in LaVell Edwards' second year as head coach Last week against the University of Utah Colorado State ran off 101 offensive plays for 315 yards rushing en route to a 3 win The Rams haven't been 0 in the Western Athletic Conference since 1980 The Cougars will bye for the second time in October after Saturday’s game before hosting New Mexico on Oct 27 A’S WAIT: AL champs get six 10B days to rest up 7 in Missoula B KICKOFF: noon at Cougar Stadium Channel 5 KSL 1160 AM B BOSTON (AP) — Boston pitcher Roger Clemens accused of threatening to “get” Terry Cooney was not directing his anger toward the plate umpire according to Red Sox president John Harrington “We’ve heard both sides of the story Who knows what was said? We’re behind Roger 100 percent best-of-- ber State team his club knocked porters When the Red Sox swept the Baltimore Orioles earlier this season I tried gloating to a Baltimore fan in the office All he did was pick up his 1983 Baltimore Championship mug and said: “I have one of these You don’t" I could have one of those too It is available It would have the scores of the 1918 World Series printed on it — the last time the Red Sox tasted a championship This was before the Yankees had claimed one of their eventual 22 World Series rings The world was a simpler place A dollar's worth of gas meant something World War II was still a glimmer in Adolph Hitler's eye The Persian Gulf held little if any international importance The Red Sox won the right to attend the big ball four times after that forgotten age — all four World Series with Boston went the full seven games The St Louis Cardinals won Game 7 in 1946 and 1967 the Cincinnati Reds in 1975 and the New York Mets in 1986 Somehow 1986 hurts a little worse — See CHRISTENSEN on 12B 32-1- 22-1- a patented example of Bruce football CSU held the ball for 101 offensive plays and chewed up 315 yards on the ground The Rams divide its ground attack between Brian Copeland (478 vards) Tony Alford (367) and Todd Yert (330) If CSU establishes its running game it n also opens up the passing of either Mike Gimenez or Kevin Verdugo Both have seen about equal playing time “The most impressive thing about their team is their running backs” Edwards said “If you allow them to get rolling it opens up the passing” BYU’s defense is still looking for a solid outing after giving up 435 yards per game in September The unit also lost linebacker Jared Leavitt with a neck injury Scott Giles was taken off redshirt status and will replace Leavitt Meanwhile BYU will try to revive its passing attack behind a Ty Detmer Detmer spent the bye week after the Oregon loss with his right hand in a cast after aggravating a knuckle strain The cast was removed on Monday in time to prepare for the Rams Detmer who is trying to shake off memories of his performance against the Ducks will have his hands full against the Rams who lead the WAC with 10 interceptions Andy Bryne and Selwyn Jones have three thefts each for CSU “They (the Rams) are very aggressive” Edwards said “They run basically a four-ma- n front but they will mix up defenses in front and in the secondary — something a lot of teams are do- ing these days" play-actio- career-threateni- ng “100-percen- t" See BYU on 12B WAC council votes to lift moratorium on expansion LITTLETON Colo (AP) — The Athletic Western Conference Presidents' Council has voted to lift a mora- torium on sion but officials emphasized Thursday that the move does not necessarily signal that expansion of the nine-tea- m conference is forthcoming The action by the Presidents' Council came on a vote by mail and was the result of a recommendation made to it by the WACs Conference Council after its July meeting "Lifting the moratorium on expansion docs not mean that expansion is imminent" said Dr Diana Natalicio Paso and president of Texas-E- l chairwoman of the Presidents’ Council “It means an orderly process regarding the possibility of expansion has been mandated with a maximum of input and information required before any further steps are taken “The goal of the conference is to move in a studied orderly and careful manner" Commissioner Dr Joe Kcamey said the WACs expansion committee will gather further information and report its findings to the Presidents’ Council “If it then was the desire of the conference to expand the next step would be to develop a listing of qualifications for potential future members" Kearney said Kearney said the earliest a potential new member could be added would be for the 1992-9- 3 year with the 1993-9- 4 year more likely ‘ t |