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THURSDAY Oclobw 20, 1995 SPORTING NEWS Prefight antics aren’t just training for Bowe I LOS ANGKl.KS (AIM Batman showed up at the cvsii( fibrosis wing of the \ Los Angelos Children's | Hospital on Wednesday, bearing pi/v.as. soda and gilt p hags. The man ripped off bis mask and t ape to reveal his true identity: heavyweight Riddii k Bowe. In walked a man wearing a Kvander Holy field mask, a robe and boxing gloves Turns out that he was an imposter Bowe and Holyfield fight in Las Vegas Nov. 4 Before they left. Bowe and his manager. Kook Newman, handed over a check for $25,000, a donation in mem ory of Newman’s nephew Patrick Proctor, who died last month of cystic fibrosis at ago 15. Hard foul puts O’Neal on shelf for six weeks ORLANDO. Fla (AP) — Shaquille O'Neal will havu surgery on his broken right thumb on Thursday and may Ik) sidelined until just Indore New Year's. "1 want to bo playing by Christmas, but I'm not going to rush anything." O'Neal said Wednesday. "My team is good enough to where they can hold their own without mu.” "Me will be out of com petitive basketball for approximately six to eight weeks after surgery." Dr Richard Shu re of the Jewett Orthopaedic Clinic said Wednesday after examining O'Neal Miami center Matt Geiger rac ked O'Neal's hand but was not called for a foul. In fact. O'Neal was called for traveling as he spun along the baseline and went for what looked like a dunk iniiupuiuiui > a |(|7 [ (lit? injury, O'Neal was furious and threatened tu “show ... some of my Shaq-Fu stuff" to any other player who put a similar move on him. Geiger said the Heat's strategy was to foul O'Neal if he got the ball in too close. “It was a just a normal foul," he said 'There' was nothing persona! about it.” The Heat's Hilly Ow ms adiled. "You're going to get fouled because he's not a good free throw shooter You^ot to expect that." College polls — really only a popularity contest A ball game nears its t*ticl on any given Sat urday evening. fans begin wondering what Sunday afternoon holds for them No, college football fans are not pondering what pro footlmll team is going to win or what spirited duds and stylish sun glasses a certain former Oregon com ti is going to wear on the sidelines What is on the minds of most college pigskin fanatii s is where their favorite teams are going to end tip in the major college foot Kill polls. They are kind of a strange concept, college football polls College sports are really the only major event in the world that are officially ranked by whom they beat on a particular day, whether or not they cov ered a point-spread or if some one who was supposed to tie more talented performed up to Ifllium Ul I1IM With the exception of boxing, Innnis and mayht? tnu k and Hold, you just don’t sot? major sport* taking th« titno to bother with ranking imo another. and you cortainly don’t *•'»■ any other fai ot of the world ranked i„ . i... __ HUS wav OUlsItle 1)1 t !)ll(>^t> ■>}'< >rt>» At any rate. it is hart! to understand nisi what goes into the derisions t**hmd today's major college football polls For that matter, it is hart! to under stand what the major college football polls are and whit n ones should lw> trusted Am! then them ore prieteason polls. postseason polls ami midseason polls that t an be taken into account There are predictions, post mime analysis and reevaluations of teams that go hand-in-hand in deciding who is the best team on any performances. Mnyhf you an count a country s GN1' or I (tame y rate as "rankings,” tint (nt u« OPINION 1 given nay Hut iitl ul them pretty much amount to the same tiling an unedoi ated evaluation of way toti many football programs at (Hit I). I will give tht! "pollsters" this, however It is one whop per of a task to evaluate Oregon or Northu estnrti or BYl ’ or any othai low profile or even modi uni profile team that resides to a far off region of the country It is tough to es ablate a team that you only see on paper or m 4f» set mid highlight clips It is tOUgh to do a report on ail Ore gon or even a Northwestern m to KEARNEY Pa jo it you go won mu* umi* ■Hon ored Assn* latwl Press Top ,; 'i poll, in whit h nun h effort and thought is supposed to In* put in by tlu* nation's most presti gums i ullage football exports? t >r should you side vv ith 1 ball i oai hits, who .in* polhtd in thi* CNN ! SA Today poll? After nil, these in* true football experts, right'’ May tie the fans should 1m* tin* units who dts idu tfiu i.ountries top teams, as the promoters of the "Burger King Top ft)" would probably want you to believe pic, you < i'r tamlv didn't see former President rmr bnq Bush drop behind Russia's Boris Yeltsin in anv polls because* Yeltsin had one hell of a summit meeting Saturday morning and Bush puked at a presidential dinner Saturday evening It just doesn't happen Frisbee fanatics Braves move closer to World Series title ■ WORLD SERIES: Atlanta* 5-2 victory [juts them ahead of Cleveland three games to one ( I I VI1ANII (AH I von tho Atlanta Bravos will Imi hard pressed to blow Ibis l lio Hrnvos. with Stovo Avery starting ahead of Grog Maddox, rnovod within one victory of the World Sorio* ( hampioiiship that has always eluded thoin, boating tho Cleveland Indians ’>■2 Wednesday night lor a l t load Atlanta, whoso postseason history is filled with failuni. could not ask for a hot tor position. Now Maddux, hold hack a day to roxt, can clinch it Thursday night in Gnmo i against Orol Hershisor Maddux, tho throo time Cy Young winner, won tho oponor with a two-hitter. I.von if they loso. tin? Hiaves Will bond homo with two more chances to win. Tim stats are on thoir side, too: Of tho t'i teams taking a 3 t edge in tho Sen os, t'l have won n After sixth-inning homers by Ry/in Kleskoand Albert Belle left it tied at J. the braves broke it open with three runs in the seventh l.uis Polonies go-ahead double chased Ken Hill, and David Justice hit a two-out, two-run single off Paul Assun in arbor. "It fell really good because we needed that Imm a use we know what kind of team Cleveland has." Justice said "The more runs wo get ahead of thorn, the better for us." Doubles by I red McCriff and Javier Lopez in the ninth added an insurance run against Alan Kinbroo, and sent a few of the 43.57H fans to the exits at quint Jacobs Field. A day after the Indians rap[>ed 12 hits in a ?di. 11-inning win. Avery limited them to three hits over six innings. Creg Mi.Michael followed with two scoreless innings. Mark Wohlers, whose 2 2I inning stint Tuesday night was his longest of the sea son. took over in the ninth with a 5-1 lead was tagged for Manny Ramirez's lendoff homer and a double by pinch-hitter Paul Sorrento Manager Hobby Cox wasted no time in bringing in Pedro Horhon, who struck out Jim Thome and Sandy Alomar and retired Kenny Lofton on a liner to right in his second appearance of the postsea ! u" ; WORLD SERIES I* i ;■ v Attempting an interception, Zac Cobb (right) plays defense on Andrew Bonar of the Ultimate Frtsbee Club during a scrimmage Tuesday. The club practices Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4 p m and Sunday at 3:30 p.m. at Southbank Field.
