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Show Ill~ NATIONAL SPORTS DIGE ST OATES, TORRE TIE FOR AL MANAGER OF YEAR: Johnny Oates and Joe Torre were voted co-winners of the AL Manager of the Year yesterday, the first tie in voting in the 14 years of the awaTd. Oates and Torre each received 89 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Oates, who led the Texas Rangers to the first postseason appearance, got 12 firsts, eight seconds and five thirds. Torre, who guided the Yankees to their first World Series title since 1978, received l O firs ts, 12 seconds and three third. Voting is conducted before the postseason, and two writers from each AL city voted. Fi rst-place votes are worth five points, second-place votes are worth three and third-place votes are worth one. It was the fi rst tie in BBWAA voting since 1979, when Keith Hernandez and Willie Stargell shared the NL Most Valuable Player Award, and Alfredo Griffin and John Castino split AL Rookie of the Year. The only othc;r tics have been for the 1976 NL Rookie of the Year (Butch Metzger and Pat Zachry) and the 1969 AL Cy Young Award (Mike Cuellar and Denny McLain). HOLYFIELD HAS BEEN GIVEN A CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH BUT QUESTIONS PERSIST: Evander Holyfield probably is the most physically examined fighter in history. Still speculation and argument abound about whether the 34yea r-old former heavyweight champion is at risk in his Evander Holyfield challenge to WBA champion Mike T yson tomorrow night. Holyfield scoffs at the doomsayers. "I wouldn't do anything to hurt myself," Holyfield said Wednesday. " What makes you think I love boxing more than I love myself?" Asked about Holyfield's health, T yson said, "I don't know anything about it. I'm not concerned about that. I don't think about hurting somebody else. H e could endanger my life, too." Despite having fought three times since retiring with a heart problem after losing on points to Michael Moorer April 22, 1994, Holyfield has undergone extensive testing at the Mayo Clinic. FRANK TORRE LEAVES HOSPITAL AFTER TRANSPLANT: Frank Torre, who underwent a heart transplant in a Frank Capra-esque scenario the day before his brother Joe managed the N ew York Yankees to their world championship, walked out of the hospital yesterday."! feel like a new man!" Torre announced, looking strong - though a little thin - in his warm-up suit and sneakers as he stood behind a podium in the lobby of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center for his last news conference before departing. "We got a 28year-old heart." LUNT MOTOR CO SINCE 1934 CHRYSLER • • 586-6591 ••• 39 SOUTH MAIN ST.• CEDAR CITY 1-800-242-6591 THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL• SOUTIIERN UTAH UNIVERSITY• FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1996 I • few seniors, College hoops • a lot of contenders A early," Thompson said. "I'd better, or I wouldn't have my job. T his won't stop me. Others will rise." AP BASKETBALL WRITER The season starts Nov. 15 with The Classic, a doubleheader sponsored by the Black Coaches It hasn't reached the stage yet where they are Association that features Indiana vs. Connecticut and Clemson vs. defending national champion placed in glass-fronted exhibits for class field t rips to observe. There are so few top-flight seniors in college Kentucky. basketball, however, that listing their names The games will be played at the RCA Dome in wouldn't even cause a 3-second violation. Indidnapolis, the place where the 1996-97 season will Tim Duncan of Wake Forest would have been one come to an end with NCAA championship game on of the first names - if not the first - called in the March 3 1. Trying to figure out which 64 t eams will get the latest NBA draft. He deci"ded to come back for his senior season, as did likely lottery pick Keith Van chance to play in the NCAA tournament is an Hom of Utah. im possible task, but Then there's Kansas' recent history may have Jacq ue Vaughn and tipped off which team Iowa's Jess Settles, two could win the title. players who toyed with UCLA extended its own leaving via the draft, record two years ago with then decided to stay. its 11th national It would be the championship. Kentucky grandest game of fantasy followed as champion basketball to think of and moved into sole what could have been possession of second this season. place with its sixth title. The senior class would Could Indiana earn its have Ray Allen at sixth in a building just an Connecticut, Marcus hour from campus and Camby at com plete the historical Massachusetts, Jerry progression ? Stackhouse and Rasheed As the season Wallace at N orth approaches, the number Carolina, and Joe Smith to remember is 26. That's at Maryland. There ~ how many victories would be juniors like g; North Carolina needs Allen Iverson at S this season to push Dean Georgetown, Antoine ~ Smith past Adolph Rupp Walker at Kentucky, ~ on the career coaching Samaki Walker at ~ list. Louisville and Lorenzen !t Rupp was 876-190 in 41 L.J1...:;_ _ _ __ ..J1- seasons at Kentucky. Wright at Memphis. How about sophomores Wake Forest's Tim Duncan Smith, 65, enters his 36th like Stephon Marbury at season at North Carolina Georgia Tech and Shareef Abdur-Rahim at with an 851-247 mark. The Tar Heels went 21 -11 California? last season and a solid group of returning players There are also the players who went straight from makes 26 a very reachable figure. high school to the pros - Kevin Garnett, Kobe "Each team is what counts, how they did, " Smith Bryant and Jermaine O'Neal. said. "The record means longevity. Very few retire as coaches, you know, really wanting to. You can't There's no sense looking back. Just ask Duncan. think of too many . ... Because it really is a nice job." "You can say it has affected (college basketball) in many ways," he said. " You can say it has killed the It's also a profession of change, and this season there will be 48 schools with different head coaches game, but then you go out here and look around and than they had last year. there are still some great players out there. It's like The most surprising move is this week's firing of you cut the grass and it grows back." Georgetown coach John Thompson never had a Jim Harrick by UCLA for lying about an expense player leave early until Iverson did so. report and an alleged NCAA violation involving extra 11 benefits to current players. He will be replaced on an A lot of people wonder about Iverson and would I still go out and recruit players who would leave interim basis by 32-year-old assistant Steve Lavin. By JIM O'CONNELL BC suspends 13; two bet against team NEWTON, Mass. (AP) - Certainly there have been more scandalous incidents involving more serious charges and much more money. But never has a gambling probe implicated so many athletes from a single team than the one that resulted in suspensions for 13 players at Boston College, including two who bet against their own team. "I will not, and the team will not, accept back to the program anybody that has bet against Boston College," coach Dan Henning said. " We want every player on our team this weekend to be those that are interested in winning the football game." Middlesex County district attorney Thomas Reilly said he was confident that the two players did not influence the outcome of the Oct. 26 game, which Syracuse won 45-17. Although the two players were not identified separately from the others, Reilly said one did not play against Syracuse and the other played briefly or special teams. "We have found absofutely no evidence, no indication, of any game, the outcom e of any game, the score of any game, being compromised ... in any way by players at Boston College, 11 he said. Gambling on professional or college sporting events is against NCAA rules. All 13 suspended players will miss Saturday's game against No. 17 Notre Dame - BC's biggest of the year. Those whom Henning will allow to return can apply to th< NCAA for reinstatement. "They realize that there are rules. They realize that they made a mistake, 11 Reilly said. 11 And they realize that there are consequences for their mistakes and they will be held accountable. " |