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FOX NFL coverage misses the boat t hasn't exactly been the ban ner football year I had .1. planned I'll he the first to acknowledge my last-place standing in the Kmernld football picks {like I haven't gotten enough flack for that), hut there is always next week. If the Pacific-10 Conference just went the way it was sup posed to. California Ix-ats UCLA. Chris Metz Kivu me a break. And who let Washington State fm good again? On another front, my fantasy football team isn’t doing so hot either, once again duo to some sort of cosmic wrong that has sent the earth spinning in reverse, making fantasy football stars out of freaks like Stan Humphries But the one tiling that has upset the balance ol the great sport of American football more than anything else is the FOX Network and its disappointing coverage of NF1. football. Most true football fans I know were quite reluctant — and rightly so — to accept that FOX literally stole the coverage away from the granddaddy of NFL coverage. CBS. It used to lie when ! woke up at l):to on Sunday mornings, ! could rush to the television, tune into the SFI. Today and get pumped for the day's action with the likes of Jimmy “The Greek" and lrv Cross. Nothing could drag me away from that station. Some of the biggest dis appointments of my childhood (which has yet to end) came on the days when NBC had the doubleheader action and CBS was forced to show Senior PGA "action" after the 10 o'clock game. I o FOX’s credit, it managed to snug most of the unemployed ( US talent led by the immortal John Madden, hut their energy just doesn't transfer from the good old days at CBS. One obvious problem is FOX's lack of signal strength. It simply doesn't come in as well as CBS or NBC. for that matter. So imagine my disappointment when 1 go to tune in Sunday's football action on my Surround Sound stereo and 1 hear more of the crowd noise than anything Madden might say. What used to lie the “inferior" Turn to METZ, Page 14 ,*u.a;a. MA** Wk. T t Ml ' n-m ( Oregon track and cross country coach Tom Heinonen knows what It takas to build successful teams and remains as one of the most successful coaches at the University. Coach runs up track record Trevor Kearney Owyon Clmty l iruutikl Approaching 57.000 miles usually means that you are getting pretty tired of your beat-up pickup truck But for women's cross country and track coach Tom Heinonen. it's bragging rights. "1 started (running) in eighth grade when my older brother twisted my arm and made me go out for cross country," Heinonen said, "and 1 found out pretty quickly I was good at it. Since then. I add up my run ning mileage on |un 1 of every year, and right now I'm fast approaching 57,000 miles of career running.” When Heinonen was rac ing. he ran about 55 to 75 miles a week, which he says was low by the standards of most runners. These days ho races less than 1.000 miles a year. But since placing third in the 10,000-meter race in the NCAA Championships his senior year ut the Univer sity of Minnesota, reigning as the Big Ten three-mile cham pion and trying out at the World Championships, Heinonen has racked up the miles “I'm due for a retread," he said. Mis experience has paid dividends for Oregon's cross country and track, programs The women's cross country was nonexistent before Heinonen took the helm in 1975. Under the coach, the Ducks have racked up six of the eight Pacific-10 titles and 11 of the 18 regional titles, alongside three NCAA titles. The women have made 18 national appearances in Heinonen's 19 years as coach and have placed in the top 10 all hut one of those years. Heinonen took over as the head coach for women's track and field in the spring of 1977, and the team won the NCAA championship in l>)85 “Wo start ml off building on thoOrogon running roputa tion. which was a mini's rep utation, " ho s/lid. "There was no history, no nothing on tho women's aide. “Hut wo had some things to build on, to start with. We've been able to stay ahead of tho curve fur a long while," Heinonen said of tho Ducks' success. "There hove been good runners in the state. There were terrific in state runners in tho late '70s and early '80s that carried us for a long time." And Heinonen, who was named NCAA cross country coach of the year three times, continues to keep the Ducks competitive. This year the team is ranked ninth in the country going into the Jeff Drenth Memorial on Satur day. The team stands in good position to move up if it can Turn to HEINONEN, Page 14 October 13. 1994 Viilumr ‘K> Kmk 3J Hare finishes third Oregon's Shannon Haro couldn't hold on to her share ol the second-round toad Wednesday as she shot a seven-over-par 79 in the final day ol the Edean Ihlanfekft Invitational and finished third, three strokes behind Stanford's Mhain McKay Stanford went on to win the team title also with an easy 27 -stroke margin of victory over second-place Tulsa Oregon finished the tournament in third place, si* strokes ahead of Arizona. Womens Soccer Oegun 4, Concortte - 0 NCAA Drvtjion I Cron Country Pol 1 Georgia ! 4 Noire Dome 2 Arkansas IS N An/ona 3 Wisconsin 16 BYU 4 Iowa Si 17 Stanford 5 Tennessee 18. Oregon 6 Penn Si 19 Providence 7 Colorado 20 Kansas 8 (Mdahoma Si 21 Washington ‘i An/ona 22 Army 10 Oarthmouih 23 Virginia Tech 11 Michigan 24, Florida 12 Idaho Si 2S Boston U 13 Montana Si IS CROSS KOTl I'RY NCAA Ovttwn I C/om Country Pofl I Arkansas 14 Nebraska 7 Provident* I S Wake I ores! 3. VWtanova_16. Arizona ■t Stanford 17 North Carolina 5 Wistonsm 18 Not re Dame 6 Georgetown 19 Washington 7 ( okxado 70 ( oloradoSt 8. Mtchaoan_21. Auburn lOf_22. WMnn 8 Maty 10. Perm St_23. Kansas 11. Alabama_24, Rtct_ 12. UCLA 7S South Florida I i Bnngham Young WRESTLINi The lourth annual University of Oregon Fall Wrestling Coach's Clinic is scheduled tor Friday. Oct 14. at the Casanova Center beginning at 9 30 a m. with registration. Featured clinicians are Oregon assistant coaches Dean Dixon and Chuck Kearney. Preregistration may be made by calling (503) 346 5467 Cost ol the clime is $25 tor preregistered coaches and $30 at the door.
