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Show nit'll m&ii KJJl'lllil'llI Wams&a la ff8HHaMtyBfiWls z JWk- - JiWIIpllifiplll ltii t I .iii i D Monday, No ember MIAMI (UPI) The University of Miami, the nations No 1 college football team, agreed Sunday to play Penn State in the Fiesta Bowl in a tradition-breakingame that wouia De moved irom iew Y ear s Uav to Jan g 2 The prospect of appearing in prime-tim- e television and an escape clause from the game if Penn State loses its regular-seasofinale were critical factors in sealing the decision by the Hurricanes The Hurricanes and Penn State hold 10-records. Penn State, which likely will rise to No 2, after Michigan was upset bv Minnesota, closes its season next Saturday against Pitts-burgh. Miamis finale is Thanksgiving night Bowl bids are offiagainst East Carolina, cially extended Nov. 22. n 0 . ) ; ' 1 2-- ( i.r koo-m.liMT-Hoi- ' 30-2- 8 28-2- 3 0 Page 3 4 City Andre Townsend returned a Kenney fumble 8 yards for one score and Tony Colorito line recovered another at the Chiefs one play later, setting up Gerald Willhites short TD run Willhite also scored on a punt return and a run, giving him three touchdowns for the second time this season The best in the AFC Broncos improved to West Kansas City, which could have tied Denver for first place, fell two games behind d If Penn State and Miami close the regular season undefeated, the Fiesta Bowl would be for the national championship By shifting the day of the game, the Fiesta Bowl will move irom me logjam of six New i ear s Day now is into a television showcase The Fiesta Bowl traditionally leads off NBCs bowl lineup that also includes the Rose and Orange bowls If Penn State loses and Nebraska w ins the Big Eight to gain the Orange Bowl berth, Miami will play the Cornhuskers in the Orange ted to the Fiesta Bowl no pens against Pittsburgh matter what hap- Miami defeated Oklahoma 28 16 Sept 27 nolkrna Hiirrie'in.w k,w uw ..V . .S WV..V I JPi-- l V I.v; V playing the Sooner again couple things were very important to our players, Miami Coach Jimmy Johnson said First of all, if it so happens that there are two undefeated teams in the country, then we would accept the challenge to play the other undefeated team, and in all likelihood Penn State vill be No 2 to gain by A Bowl If Oklahoma wins tne Big Eight, Miami will play in the Fiesta Bowl against Penn State, even if the Nittany Lions lose to Pittsburgh If Penn State loses the Fiesta Bowl will be played Jan 1 The Nittany Lions are commit "And the second thing we looked at is if we were going to play that type of game, we wanted to have all the exposure that we could have So playing prime time Jan 2 was very " lmgvortant The Fiesta and Change bowls woiked out an agreement last week where the Hum canes uld plav at home in the Orange Bowl at 4 . . nr mt. . ' J x nauitu tiling n i . vyun iu UUiKt sure we had the backup JanLov ich said Be cause the things the coaches and players were interested in most important of all is playing an undefeated Penn State Secondly, they were not cran- about a rematch with Oklaho ma, and we wanted the option to play the ranked team that we did not plav preface weve during the year Thats the been working on all along " a um. next-highe- Jankovich stressed no bid officially had been extended "Its tentative," he said Everything based on if There aie no firm deals 0 is Capsulezz ziSports NFL Detroit Cincinnati Dallas - 124-10- i 5 5-- 3 half-gam- 2 e d 7 Stn 24, 21 14 NBA Houston 134, Cleveland 106 Portland Indiana Ctah 103 124, Washington 124, 111 103. L A Philadelphia LA Lakers Houston The Oilers had two touchdowns and a field goal nullified by penalties during a scoreless second half even before they failed to score on Clippers 90 Sacramento 111 113, NHL Philadelphia 6, 2 Washington Islanders 3, N Y Winnipeg four straight plays from the Steelers 1 early in the fourth quarter The Oilers, lost for the ninth time in their last 10 games The Steelers improved to 1 Edmonton 8. N Y Rangers Toronto 7, Chicago 3 WAC Hawaii Raiders 27, Browns 14: At Los Angeles, Jim Plunkett, who will turn 3y in three weeks, threw three touchdown passes to lift Los Angeles to a victory over Cleveland 6 Football 24, Fresno State 14 T.V. Log 7 United Press International Photo Saints back Rueben Mayes (36) breaks away from Leonard Smith (45) and for NFC roundup. rushing day. See Anthony Bell on way to Plunkett threw scoring tosses of 46 and 43 yards to Dokie Williams and 3 yards to Todd Christensen The veteran, who led the Raiders to a pair of Super Bowl triumphs, sent Marc Wilson to the bench last week after rifling two late TD passes in a victory over Dallas Plunkett, 39 on Dec 5, was 14 of 26 for 220 yards The oldest quarterback in the league was not intercepted and sacked only once The Raiders improved their playoff position by moving to They trail Denver in the AFC West by two games Cleveland fell to and into a tie with Cincinnati for the top spot in the AFC Central 131-yar- ninth straight In extending their team record for consecutive victories, the Jets improved to an NFL-bes- t are within three The Colts, defeats of tying the club mark for most losses in a row set in 1981. d OBrien, the NFLs passer, completed 20 of 35 throws for 237 yards with two interceptions Walker, who now has 11 touchdown receptions this season, caught five passes for 110 yards McNeil gained 104 yards on 18 carries 10-- top-rate- 4 , Ken O Brien threw three touchdown passes to an excuse That's just a defense " The Blazers broke this one open early lead on a three-poin- t After the Jazz took a play by Rickey Green early in the first quarter, the Trail Blazers outseored Utah 15-during the next 44 minutes With 3 35 left in the opening quarter, the Blazers led, as the Jazz By quarters end it was shot just 39 percent from the field (7 of 18) and they turned the ball over nine times. Portland kept going in the second quarter A basket by Drexler upped the Blazers' and Portland outseored the Jazz lead to 17-in the final five minutes of the half en lead route to a and Darthird quarter They got within rell Griffith drove to the basket with a chance to get Utah even closer But his shot was rejected and the Trail Blazers scored the next s not 80-6- 9-- 8 six points The Jazz never threatened again "1 thought we gave them a little better second half." Layden said 4 23-1- 3 Going into their second game in two nights the Jazz, had lost their only two outings on the road this season And neither was close Now make it three They lost at Dallas in the opener, 103 77, before falling at Denver. "Those games were early, though." said Bobby Hansen "Basically we were still learning each other's names Now were three weeks into the season We did well at home last week and I don't see any reason this team can't have a good record on the road BlazWinning on the road in the Jazz-Traer series, however, has never been easy The home team has now won 13 straight games, win two weeks including the Jazzs ago at the Salt Palace 35-2- 135-12- 1 47-2- 68-4- 2 Vandeweghe had 20 by intermission, when Portland shot 624 percent from the field They made 31 of 48. mostly at the end of fast breaks after misses by the (35 percent) Jazz Vandeweghe scored 12 points in the second quarter, all in the final 6 42 of the half The Jazz made one mini-rulate in the g 119-11- 0 n NFL Football, San Francis- pm. co at Washington College Football, Oregon 9pm. State at BYU (tape) (Q) D-- 3 d Wesley Walker to help New York survive a scare from the NFLs worst team and win its e J Tampa Bay Los Angeles Haiders 27. Cleveland d N 31, New England 30, Los Angeles Rams 28 Denver 38, Kansas City 17 New York Jets 31. Indianapolis 16 pass interference penalty into first-hal- f touchdown runs by Walter Abercrombie and Earnest Jackson as the Stnlers, helped by a fourth-periogoal line stand, beat mistake-pron- e East Rutherford, 20 Seattle l 54, Green Bay 21, Oilers 10: At Pittsburgh, the Steelers turned an interception and a costly first-plac- 10 13. Philadelphia 11 Pittsbuigh 21, Houston 10 Miami 34 Buffalo 24 New York Giants 22, Minnesota New Oilcans 16. St Louis 7 Sttders 4 Atlanta 13, Chicago Sea-haw- 4 that Tribune Sports Writer The Jazz's modest three-gam- e PORTLAND streak is over. winning So is their more modest stay atop the early season Midwest Division standings Kiki Vandeweghe scored 32 points and Clyde Drexler added 21 as the Trail Blazers raced to a victory over the Jazz here Sunday night The usual sellout Memorial Coliseum crowd of 12,666 watched the Blazers boost The Jazz, who got 16 points their record to from John Stockton and 14 each from Karl Malone and Thurl Bailey, slipped to Combined with Houston's win over Cleveland. the loss dropped the Jazz out of first place in the Midwest Division after a behind the stay They are now a Rockets "My reaction is to give them all the credit in the world," Jazz Coach Frank Layden said "They played well They were "In defense of our team, this was our fourth game ,n six nights, 1 think It showed Now I will receive million for playing in the Fiesta Bowl plus fiee lodging in Tempo, Aru st . t i rk. oaun iu vv iv ijtvm uiui n uo afternoon Jankovich day anticipated no problem wttn the NCAA over changing the date, but an NCAA spokesman said ihe association must approve any switch The Fiesta Rowl and NBC won out over the Citrus Bowl and ARC The move to Jan 2 should mean a big increase in advertising revenue for NBC The last time Miami played Jan 2, the Hurricanes won the national championship by dein the 1984 Orange feating Nebraska Bowl The game was moved to Jan 2 that year because Jan 1 was a Sunday and the net w oiks were televising the NFL playoffs Crimson Club Meeting Dolphins 34, Bills 24: At Orchard Park, N Y., Dan Marino threw for four touchdowns and 404 yards as Miami erased a 14 point deficit to beat Buffalo The Crimson Club will meet Monday at noon at the Salt Lake Hilton Coach Jim Fassel will show films of the Utah-UtaState game h Hokies After Copeland? Fuad Reveiz kicked field goals of 52 end 36 yards to account for Miami's other points as and the Bills the Dolphins moved to in a game between AFC East dropped to rivals Jim Copeland, in his second year as University of I'tah athletic director, has had unofficial contact with Virginia Tech officials, but is not a candidate for the athletic directors post at the Blacksburg, Va , school The Roanoke Tunes & World Sews, in its Monday editions, reported that Copeland's name was not among the 60 candidates to be screened by the search committee which held its first meeting Sunday to find a replacement for Bill Dooley, whose service extends through Dec. 31 Copeland, reached at his Salt Lake City residence Sunday afternoon, said "I have not been approached by Virginia Tech officials Virginia is my home state and I d be less than honest if I said I wasnt curious about the job As of this moment, I havent been contacted and 1 haven t applied for the job" 6 3-- 8 39 passes Marino completed a career-higpicking apart the Bills zone defense with mostly short receptions h in Portland Blazes To Fast Start, Whips Jazz 124-10- 3 By Steve Luhm 200 $2 5 third-quart- 31, Colts 16: At loll III. ll 11 He said the Hurricanes Bengals 34, Seahawks 7: At Cincinnati, quarterback Boomer Esiason threw a touchdown pass to put Cincinnati ahead, and Eddie Edwards recovered a fumble by quarterback Dave Kneg in the end zone to cement a victory over the reeling Seattle Seahawks The Bengals took advantage of the play to hand Seattle its fourth consecutive loss. The Seahawks, missed three field goal attempts and made five turnovers Jets I Set for Jan. 2 in Fiesta Bowl 1 quarter The victory gave the Patriots an record and kept their playoff hopes alive in the AFC and a half gam? in the East The Rams are NFC West behind San Francisco, which plays Washington Monday night BronCOS 38, Chiefs 17: At Denver, the Broncos forced two Bill Kenney fumbles and turned them into 14 points within 17 seconds of the first period en route to a rout of Kansas I T. Miracle Right Lifts Pats Win Over Ranis To 30-2- 8 Tribune Wire Services Irving Fryar said it was a "Hail Mary Bor- hut New Fnpfand Coach Raymond r.ass J I O'' ry disagreed "Its called a Miracle Right," a beaming Berry said Sunday after the Patriots pulled out a victory over the Los Angeles Rams on the final play of the game at Anaheim. The winning play was a floating, touchdown pass from Tony Eason that Fryar hauled down in a crowd at the back of the end zone. Another Patriots receiver, Stanley Morgan, leaped high in a group of Ram defenders to tip the ball, then Fryar made a diving catch. I was just trying to stay in the end zone," said Fryar, whod lost two fumbles earlier in the game but also caught a scoring pass from Eason midway through the fourth quarter to pull the Patriots within Stanley tipped it but I didnt see that I just got there and it was in my hands, Fryar said The stunning finale dampened what was nevertheless a memorable pro debut by the Rams Jim Everett. The rookie quarterback threw three touchdown passes to rally Los Angeles from a 13-- deficit in the second SXII - II .ill lM7 i 1 State Battle for No. Miami-Pen- n ' 17, 1986 s r , , m I -- .M.il I Section i In the first meeting of the year between Portland and Utah, Trail Blazer center Sam 31 Bowie had a career-higpoints He didn t play in the rematch, of course, because of a broken leg that has sidelined him for the season Mark Eaton, who had 15 points. 20 rebounds and 12 blocked shots against Bowie and the Blazers in the Jazzs win, said ' I still think they should be a good team Even without Sam They have the right players What it does, though, is weakens their bench " The Blazers didn't really need their bench Sunday And. rightly so, Eaton was wary heading into the battle with the Bowie-les- s Trail Blazers, who had won three of the previous four games without their ace "I ve always liked Steve Johnson." explained Eaton He plays hard He s a good rebounder and hes a good post-uplayer Eaton s words were prophetic Johnson finished with 18 points He scored 13 in the first quarter, w hen he had nine of the Blazers' first 13 points and 13 of their first 23 Hawaii Downs Fresno St. - HONOLULU (AP) Kevin Sweeney e moved into second place o the Division I career passing list, but Hawaiis defense was too much for Fresno State as the Rainbows beat the Bulldogs, here Saturday night. Hawaii, of the Western Athletic Conon the season ference, climbed to Fresno State, of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association, had its postseason hopes dashed, falling to The Hawaii defense, ranked third nationally going into the game, limited Sweeney to 131 yards passing on 10 of 19 completions Ti.e Rainbows held the Bulldogs to 230 yards in total offense all-tim- 24-1- 6-- 3 2 p Hurst Never Pitched for BYU, But He Can Make a Pitch for It Three weeks removed from the national spotlight, Bruce Hurst stepped into the I'tah spotlight this past weekend Hurst, who was one strike away from becoming the Most Valuable Player of the 1986 World Series for the Red Sox last month returned to his native St George Friday for Bruce Hurst Day and then flew up to Provo Saturday to be honored with other Mormon major-leaguplayers at halftime of the State football game Brigham Young-OregoHurst who won two World Sene games for the Red Sox, had a teary return to his hometown Friday It was pretty emotional, he mounted Saturday This was my hometown and the v were peop'e I really care about I was boin and raised there and we own a family business there, and they ve supported our store for a lot of years Those people are im friends ana for them to go out of their w n and do s nothing that nu e for me it choked was pretty : entimental me up a i fter ti it emeeonmig Huist joined m vor, other iiHi.iu euguers Saturday at Cougar Ma diem whin tnev were introdiued at half e I Tht c, large lefty was tin la- -t of te plave-- s to have his name called and he ie (ened 'K loudest ovation from the rowd oi Mil-- ' c He nev er attended BYU, but that didn t matter, he was a World Series hero, and a Mormon one at that Actually, of the eight players honored SatVance Law of the urday, only three of them Expos. Dane Iorg of the Padres, and Scott Nielson of the Yankees played baseball for BYU But the other five Hurst, Garth lorg of the Blue Jays, Barry Bonnell of the Manners and Kelly Downs and Jim Goit of the are members of the Mormon Giants church That connection alone t enough for the uni-ersity to want them to be a part of an assoc of Mormon BYl' professional athletes that the school is contemplating "Ten years ago we had mavbe a few pro fossiona! athlete said Carl Baker the director of the development office at BYU and in instigator ol Satuidav s idea Today, we have manv who are pioducts of Brigham Young Umvei'itv oi who aie members of the ml so this is the time The tune is chinch right Saturday s program brought in univ about hill of the major league piaveis with either 63.321 v M cu iiuo," he pi ins to around the BYl f onm t ,oi,s and Baki ) sa,d the others to the earnpu, tst ut Du ember Then la1 said c ( Hurst suggested that there is already an informal union among these1 players i the majors There is v cry muc h a t amaradt t ie among the Mormon baseball j lavers he explained I look for them I think they look tor me We look for each othei W e get mu-- her is often a we can I think that we hav e sju d in eiD tnat mavbe people unitss you re a Mormon athlete, wouldnt undeistand Wt talk to eat h other ,i nd talk about situations and stulf i c have intentions of bringing in our pro football players after the Im Bowl iu 'we February On the NFLs opening dav rosters two months ago BYT had 17 of its plavers in the pros, and that ranked the Cougars 19th among the nations colleges Michigan and Texas YAM were just ahead of BYU with 18 NU. with 38 players each while 1 SC w is No Ynd of course in the NB a quarter of the world champion Celtics roster is BYl ion Dannv Amge Greg Kite, .it'd hied netted Roberts We hope to have an as or i iimn with these athletes said Baker Ttiev ve been mdivid v u erv helpful ( otlec t ivelv we think that hi public w oi i njov seeing ttii m ar ouii and help us in our uiudeii'u needs and athletic v net T w hati v i i They also speculate about an all Mormon-BYhaseball team whnh with the omer genre this vear of ro ikies Wallv Joiner and Cory Snvder, they lould now ablv fill Hurst ha needled fellow Bostonian Mngr afiimer about BlueJav it Mnge was m.ei at iru btiaiiM hi didn t He the star ting lineup laughed Hurst named about I ight pl.e us he i e lid pi iv and I told him no he s no better ih tu tie. u tin se guy s lb1 i an t hit uc k h W would be t base this fit-hornets 22) ol ( la ui ' V, a t Jevmr Hltls fiend -ion 4) du It Cep 'I, .O thud base 6'i i th 11 lo! g B n K",lM .1 I , S ke it would go JMi 22 Migels ba c law Expo-- I 11 lull It i Mi ghil h t It 2 . 2M i 11 ' 21 Tt lit Alan Ashby, Astros ( 257, 7, 38) outfield Dale Muiphv Braves 265 29 83i Dane Iorg l'a ( dres i 226, 2, 1 1), and Bonnell, Mariners i 196 o 4 The composite batting average of the-- e nine players in 1986 was 267 which would rank fifth in the majors amon1 26 teams They also hit 103 homers, 45 more than the St Louis Cardinals did The pitching staff wouldnt In six-ma- n shabby either Jack Morris, Tigers 2 8. 3 27 earned run average), Hurst. Red Sox (11 H 2 99), Rick Aguilera Met 10 7. 3 88 Dow ns Giants (4 4, 2 75). Nielsen Yankees '4 4 4 02) and Gott Giants (0 0 7 62 Together, this new went 52 31 m 1986 with a composite FRY of 3 39 whuh also would rank it fifth in the major If this team got to the it would post! have its share of Series ept ncnce Morris won two Series games m RIH4 and Huist won two last month Knight hit the Senes winning homer for the Mots and Dane Im g got a Se 1 1. es a s s.i mg b ist' tut for the R w in l(i8,5 Mid it would pi ohablv be a c lose knit team s Huist s,nd Sitttid iv Some of ici bcttn ft a n d- - a e But e gays 1 i n la i e w , 'i t t then alter bet month eveiv cm tom a a fi t ml T d. ihn would I |