Show ' Section ! Friday October 3i 20Q3 l V N ' 1 I ' The Herald Journal Pagel iMI pleased wiih! Middle Tennessee Inside tries to bounce back a Division I foofraO champion By Shawn Harrison " j 1 sports editor11 through BCS sanctioned bowls The current system makes it next V ’"'-" to impossible for a school outside die i v Mission accomplished " I six BCS conferences to have a shot j Utah State University President at die national title or even day in Kermit L Hall spent two days in I one of die four most lucrative bowls Washington lobbying and then? 1 The USU president would like to Senate a Judiciary hearing attending ! on Wednesday dealing with see a playoff system Support for that ij Bowl Championship Series (BCS) : idea is growing as well as open ear i the rich keep gettirichec tHaU represents the Sun BeftConfar- - R to crithas ence and been an outspoken See SENATE on B6 J f ic of the cuirent system that crowns ’V 1 V- By Shawn Harrison sports editor ' West Side cruises to in playoff opener Sports briefs Earlier this week Middle Tennessee head coach Andy McCollum said his team would "pull back together" after a disap-pointing setback The Blue Raiders will try and do that Saturday at Romney Stadium when they meet Utah State with second place on the line in the Sun Belt Confer ence Both teams enter the contest with 1 league marks and over all records "We still have to go out and train " like a championship team" MT defensive lineman Demetrios Walker said "We can’t look to the past anymore We have to move on to our next opportunity and that comes up this week" The Blue Raiders are coming off a 33-2- 8 home loss to conference- - leader North Texas Middle Tennessee gave up a touchdown on a bad punt snap See BOUNCE on B3 2-- 6 2-- Utah boxer could face Aggie Hoops Fest deportation prison SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah welterweight champion Armando Robin has been charged with re-entry of a previously alien If convicted he could a possible prison sentence before being deported “They’re going to do to him what they'd do to a hardened criminal” said one of Robles’ trainers and family friend Jay Fullmer “What’s in the past should stay there They haven’t looked at nothing since then to see what this kid has done or what he’s like” Robles made his first court appearance on die charge Tuesday in front of Magistrate Sam Alba He was assigned a public defender who told Jay Fullmer die situation looks pretty bleak Robles Utah’s highest ranked professional hour was arrested on outstanding warrants during a routine ' : 'trafiEic stop last August in Midvale While he was in jail on die wmrants for marijuana possession and traffic viola-turns dating 1996 and 1998 immigration officials put a hold on him Federal prosecutors filed the aggravated charges after reviewing his criminal history Robles was convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon a knife in 1997 re-en- AVONDALE Ariz (AP)— Win- - Spencer (Nelson) are play- ing the most comfortably if that makes sense They're While around a’ thousand really comfortable in pur V Utah State basketball fans system they know what showed up at the Spectrum we're trying to do and they Thursday night for the just kind of flow in it Aggies' annual Hoops Fest' "Some of the new guys showcase if you didn't are just running from Spot A show up a little early then to Spot B They don't know you missed the finest play what they're doing yet But of the evening that's what you get this time of year And as long as I've been doing this it still frus-Local girl gets her trates the hell out of me" shot with Utah State Still die few hearty fans women’s team — B2 who braved the cold and snow to attend USUs tradiNear the end of USLTs tionally tardy version of early scrimmage senior Midnight Madness seemed guard Mark Brown chased to have an enjoyable time down a loose ball just ' ' becoming acquainted with before it went out of 2003-0- 4 version of the bounds cut up the court and die Aggies sprinted toward the Blue ' In addition to hosting a team's basket Closing in on halves of of pair the hoop Brown was simUtah refereed scrimmage too to fast attempt ply going k and 3- -' State held a layup and thanks to a contests New shooting point couple of White defenders guard Quenton Harvey bestwhipping a quick pass ed Brown in the first round across the lane to a teamthen topped former Aggie mate really wasn't an option guard Bernard Rock (clearly So Brown aiguably the dressed for the occasion in a in the best ' By Jeff Hunter sports writer : slam-dun- Big 5 football Boise State 50 BYU 12 NBA Seattle 109 LA dippers 100 New Orleans 100 Oriando 98 Houston 102 Denver 85 Phoenix 95 Cleveland 86 NHL r - On television BOXING 8:30 pm ESPN2 — Lightweights Gary Bai-let(29-1-vs Goyo Vargas (43-7- -' 1) at Providence RI COLLEGE FOOTBALL 5:30 pm ESPN2 — Cincinnati at South Florto ida GOLF 7:30 am TGC — European PGA Tour Volvo Masters Andaluda second round at Sotogrande Spain (same-da- y tape) 11:30 am TGC — Nationwide Tour Nation- wide Tour Championship second round at Prattville Ala 2 pm USA— PGA Tour Chrysler Championship second round at Palm Harbor Fla ' NBA pm public at 10-min- Thursday's scores 6 Morrill’s boys meet ' ston Cup driver Kevin Harvick won his fifth NASCAR Buisch series pole of the season Thursday taking the top spot for the race Saturday at Phoenix International Raceway v Harvick turned a lap of 132930 : oval in a Chevromph on the let easily beating Greg Biffle’s 132071 that earned him the outside spot on the front row for the Bashas’ Supermarkets 200 NY Rangers 4 Carolina 1 Buffalo 5 Toronto 3 San Jose 2 Tampa Bay 2 tie Montreal 1 Boston 0 OT Florida 3 Ottawa 2 Minnesota 3 Atlanta 2 New Jersey 3 Philadelphia 2 Nashville 5 Detroit 3 Pittsburgh 1 Chicago 0 Edmonton 4 Columbus 3 OT Vancouver 3 Los Angeles 1 i ' Harvick claims pole V' i ESPN — Minnesota at New Jersey 8:30 pm ESPN — Philadelphia at pure point guard Big West gently tossed the basketball straight up in the air Clearly on die same page senior guard Cardell Butler flew into the lane snared the ball and laid it in for the score But then as they say this isn't the first rodeo for either Brown or Butler "It's really hard to judge where we're at right now because the veterans are a long ways ahead of the new guys” USU head coach Stew Morrill noted when asked to describe his team's improvement — or lack thereof — through the first two weeks of practice " Mark Brown's a perfect example He and shirt and stock- finale the in cap) ing In the dunk contest Butler repeated as champ despite failing to finish on three of his five attempts His first windmill slam a high-flyin- g off of a high toss and bounce was apparendy enough to impress the crowd and cany him to the title "I was Actually thinking of doing another dunk but everybody told me to do the windmill" said Buder who said he has lost some of his trademark explosiveness since having knee surgery long-sleev- : ed in the offseason "The pass was actually See SKILLS on B6 Brent StovensHerald Journal Utah State senior canter Mike Ahmad throws one down during his turn ip the slam dunk contest Thursday night at the Spectrum Carden Butler won the event Logan SV hit the road to open playoffs Grizzlies need to be turnover-fre- e vs PG overtime battle while the Vikings fell to the Thunderbirds 22-1- 3 What insight can be learned from this small piece of information? Not The Logan Grizzlies will head — much considering 18 other south to Pleasant Grove ' after close a Logan games were played losing today football "We wanted to play a battle with rival Box Elder 14-- 6 last week' tough season to get ready The 6-- 4 Vikings are the for the playoffs" Favero second-seede- d said "We accomplished that team out of and we like where we're aL" Region 7 while the Grizzlies Pleasant Grove's Bill head into the playoffs as the No 3 seed out of Region 4 Mikelson announced earlier "I expect us to do well" this year that this would be Logan at PL Grow his final season as die 4 pan Logan coach Mike Favero The Vikings and Grizzlies — —— Vikings' coach Whether or did share one thing in common this not this wiU add more fed to Pleasant Grove's fire or not remains to be seen season — the Timpview Thunder-bird- s Logan managed to beat TimSee GRIZZ on B6 in a fierce double pview 47-4- 4 By Thomas Manning sports writer Cats know Lone Peak can be defeated By David Cordero sports writer advantage to BYU So chipper wouldn't exactly describe die feeling "That was a bad weekend for our You can sleep on something and feel better about it in the morning family" Tanner said "We just laid but some things take around all day watched View from to recover Sky football and were (ticked) longer football off the whole time Our Rewind back to OcL 5 2002 The Cooley housemom didn't want to talk to hold in Lewiston wasn't exactly overflowing with joy that Saturday Turner then a junior on us It wasn't fun" Though redemption for Chris is still in doubt Turner got his It occurred SV at Lone Peak last week at Bobcat StadiSky View's football team Spjn was still reeling after his um when Sky View came Bobcats blew a 16-- lead from behind to beat and lost to Logan the previous day Mountain Crest 1 and clinch a His brother Chris a junior tight end berth in the 4 A State Playoffs at Utah State had it even worse The Aggies choked away a 34-- 7 See CATS on B6 0 23-2- — i |