Bledsoe ditches Wazzu for NFL
PULLMAN, Wash (AH
Standout Washington State
quortorlwit k Drew Bledsoe an
lUHttlf ' ll Mond.iv that lie will
skip Ills lost year of college i |i
gibilitv and turn pro
Bledsoe said he s dtu ided
that entering April's \'H. draft
makes more sense than staving
in college
"I just feel like I need a lieu
challenge for mv skills In
said at n news i onferem e 'i
want to lake rm skills I the
next level .Hid see Vvli.lt I i .III
do playing loollwll at tin high
est level
ftledaa>*-\ expected lo tie one
of tile top picks III the April
draft New Liiydond lias the first
pick and the Seat!I< Se.ihawks
are se< ood
nledscx aid he would risk
injurs if In- remained another
year, which could hurt his ‘
tun* draft statu-.
"This year I feel I havi an op
portunity to he drafted pretty
highly." he said I don't lee!
like I'm leav mg the si hoof
hanging We have .moth"!
great miarterbai k
Bledsoe .-aid he is confident
hat k ii p qu a rt e r bin k M 1 k e
Pattinson i an help Waslinigtoii
State keep vs inning I be ( on
gars were ') t. mi biding a v i«
tory over Utah in the Copper
Bowl
Bledsoe had a m hool-rei ord
47l> yards passing in the (‘up
per Bowl, and the Cougars fin
ished ranker! 1 Mil Since then.
Bledsoe had Been seeking
< ounsel from Washington State
i ouch Mike I’rn e alnl friends
and familv around Ins home
town of W all.i Walla
Our whole font ha 11 team
is evi lied for Drew and sup
ports him in this do* ision 100
pen ent." I’m e said
Bledsoe said tie lias enough
evjMTienie to make tin- jump to
the Nil.
In three years .it Washington
State I've started 20 games,
whit h is more than most peo
ple plav m five years he said
Bledsoe liegan playing for the
Cougars as a true freshman in
l'eitl M l, draff ;. ;i . Mi I kiper
lias preilii led tfiat Bledsoe. 20.
COtlld lie the No 1 pu k this
year
Bledsoe said he will finish
the current sene -tel at Wash
ington Slate and return spring
semester
joining Bledsoe and f’m e .it
tile news i on fere Hie was
I’.ittmson a redshirt junior who
lias played his ( ollege can of HI
Bledsoe s shadow
Paltinson said earlier he
would support Bledsoe's mov
ing to the pros
"Wh«n votive got the oppor
tunity that Bledsoe has at tills
point in time not only to
play pro football hut to l»> the
No 1 pit l and make millions
upon millions of dollars
there’s really no reason for him
to stav. Pattinson said Sunday
Bledsoe, 6-foot *> and 22S
pounds, ( ompieted 24 1 passes
in 4 12 attempts for 4.246 s ards
this season all si hoo! ns -
ords He passeii for 20 touch
downs with 1 .ri interceptions
and ssas named l’ai ifii -1 ft ( on
ferern e Offensive Player of the
Year
Bledsoe vvas eighth in this
season's Heisman Trophy sot
irig and second only to Heis
m.in winner Miami’s t.mo
Torella among quarterbiu ks
I or his three seasons, Bled
soe totaled 7.473 yards Had he
det ided to remain at Washing
ton State, he would have been
within reach of the Pai 10 ca
reer passing record of 9.394
yards set In Oregon Stale's I rik
Wilhelm ill 1 OHM
Bledsoe is I 'lid yards short
wf the coiifereni e rei ord for i a
reer total offense set hv Stall
ford s John l.lwav in 1992,
Schott response due by Jan. 20
NKYV YORK (At1) Haseledls exet utive < ouncil
• decided Monday to give (.on inn.ill Reds owner
Marge Schott until Jan 20 to respond to allega
lions that sin1 matin rai oil anil nthnit remarks
Hu* four-person i oimmlti-r investigating St holt
presented its findings to Si holt's lawyer Robert
Hnnnetl. on Dei 2'1 Hennett said Monday In*
asked to have until |iin 25 to respond and said "it
appears to me there is no intention of giving her
due process and there is a rush to judgment f»'
i ause of outside pressure
Milwaukee brewers owner Hull Nelig. the exet •
utive i mint il i hnirman. said he didn't know how
long after |an 20 it would take for the executive
i ount il to make its dis iston I he i mint il t an fine
Schott up to $250,000 or suspend her
"Although tin* executive council is anxious to
complete the investigation and tome to a resolu
tion. vve have reluctantly agreed to an extension
for a response until Jan 20, loot, in view of the
important e to everyone in baseball." Selig said in
a statement issued by the t ommissioners off it e
Rennet! s.ntf the five tlavs were significant is
preparing a defense Imm ause mans of the wit
nesses he wants to interview were unavailable
during the Christmas holidays
I hose five days make .1 lux difference to me.
but I don't think it makes .1 very tug difference to
them. Bennett said.
former nmplovees of I fit? Reds and at least one
other club have accused Sc hott of making rac nil
and ethnic slurs against lilac ks, lews and Asians
She has apologized for using offensive language,
denied some an usations, confirmed others and
said she's not a rac 1st
“They have picked a date that they know 1 can
not meet Bennett said "I do not think that it is
due process or that is fair "
The exec utive counc.il, whit h is ruling baseball
in the absent e of a commissioner. appointed a
committee on I tec 1 to investigate Schott The
committee t (insists of American league president
Hobby Brown. National League president Bill
White. California Angels exec utive s ice president
|at kie Autr\ and Pittsburgh Pirates diret tor Doug
las Danforth
"I had been hopeful of working out an antic able
resolution of this thing," Bennett said "But 1 am
not going to let Mrs Schott lie rushed to judg
ment. I am ho|ieful that this isn't an indication
that they have reached their sentence even
though there hasn't lieen a trial
Blue Devils squeak
past Sooners, 88-84
DURHAM. N.C. (AH) - Top-ranked Duke fell the heat all
nigh! lung, and the unseasonably warm weather at Cameron
indoor Stadium was |ust part of the problem.
So I! Oklahoma took the unbeaten blue Devils to ov er
time before key baskets by Grant Hill and Antonio Uing led
to an RH 84 v ic tory Monday night
"They put us in a position where then* was pressure on
us, Duke coin h Mike Krzy/evvski said They fought like
c ra/v
To la- prec ise, Oklahoma fought like a team tamt on aveng
ing the tv|w of loss Duke pinned on the Souners two seasons
ago It was then that the Blue Devils stopped Oklahoma's 51
game1 home winning streak with a 90-Ha victory
Hi IS time. Duke was trying to preserve a winning streak
which was at 21 games, second longest in school history It
not only ac c omplished that task but the- Blue Dev ils (*)■()) ex
tended thenr home c cnirt winning streak over non Atlantic
( oast Conference sc hools to 77 games just barely,
■'They jiist played tough I don't know what it was " Grant
Hill said "They crashed the offensive hoards, and they
played extremely hard
Oklahoma s Jeff Webster tied the sc.lire at 7fi with 4.71 lelt
in overtime, but that would he Oklahoma's last basket for al
most three minutes as the Socmers (10-2) repeatedly rushed
their shots
Thomas Hill hit two free throws and Grant Hill scored
twice on a pair of passes from Bobby Hurley as Duke pulled
ahead in overtime
The Sooners missed five straight shots until Bryan Saltier
hit a short jumper with ! 2t> to ploy
Duke spread its offense to run down the clew k and bang
drove tor a lav-up with COS left Angelo Hamilton canned a
three pointer with 47 seconds to play, hut Hurley put an end
to the (Iklahoma threat w Oil four straight free throws
Grant Hill finished with 25 points lor the Blue Devils.
Hurley sc ured 21 and had a school-recurd 15 assists Thomas
Hill got 15
Webster scored 25 fear Oklahoma, and Hamilton got 17 of
his 21 points in the closing 25 minutes Saltier added !H
points and 11 rebounds.
The Blue Devils squandered most of a hot streak in the
first half, then blew all of a 20-point lead in the" second half.
If Grant Hill couldn't provide an explanation. Hurley knew
wfiat Duke's problem was.
"We weren't staying in our offense We weren't looking for
our shots like we were." Hurley said. "We didn't do the
things we did to build our 20-point lead. We became tenta
tive and thought the game was over at that point."
Hamilton tied the game on a three-pointer with 11 seconds
left, and Thomas Hill's shot at the buzzer was deflected,
sending the game into overtime But it was the extra period
where Oklahoma couldn't clear the hurdle.
"We hit that spot in overtime where the shots weren't nec -
essarily that Imd." Oklahoma coai h Billy Tubbs said, "but we
pist c ouldn't get anything to fall.”
Duke was horrible from the free throw line, making only
15 of .11 on the night and only one of 12 during a second-half
stretch
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