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
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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.