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Emerald TUESDAY November t.s. 199b TODAY IN SPORTS Oregon safety named Player of the Week WALNUT CRI KK. Calif (AP) — Safety Brian Collin* of Orison. running t«u;k Anthony Bookman of Stan ford and Arizona State kn k returner Brian Singleton were named Pacific-10 Con feritni e players of the week on Monday Collins, a senior from Los Angeles, intercepted two passes, defies ted three more and tallied si\ tat kies in Oregon's 17-13 victory .it Arizona. Bookman, a sophomore from Grand Prairie. Texas, racked up 2 >5 all-purpose yards as Stanford !>eat Wash ington State 36-24. lie rushed 21 times for 123 yards, caught two passes for 39 yards, including a touch down. and returned four punts for 73 yards. Singleton, a sophomore from Pueblo, Colo., returned a kickoff 85 yards for a touch down and had 51 rushing yards in Arizona State's 3H 29 victory over California. Manlove tops list of new Oregon recruits The Oregon men's basket ball team announced a trio of re< ruits signed on Monda\ that promise to beef up the Ducks' squad next season. leading the list of re< ruits was Tyrone Manlove out of Wilson High School in Port land The h-foot-4 guard is arguably the state's top recruit, as he was listed among the top 50 juniors in the i ountry Ia«1 season w hen he averaged 21.5 points and 8 rebounds per game last season. "We are very elated about Tyrone's signing with our basketball program," coach Jerry Green said. "It is impor tant that the best players from Oregon want to stay home and play and we fee! that Tv's decision says a lot about our basketball program." Manlove is a four-year starter who was listed as one of the top five wing players at last summer's Nike All American (.amp in Indi anapolis Trie Ducks also announced the signing of 6 foot-4 point guard Mike Mi Shane out of South Salem High School. McShane aver aged 13 points, 10 assists. 5 steals and 3 rebounds last year as a junior. Jonathan Nelson, a stand out at Artesia High School in Lakewood. Calif., resigned with the Ducks, Green announced. Nelson had signed with the Ducks last spring but was unable to receive favorable entrance exam scores until just recently, Oregon 73, Romania 55 ANOH1 W ««At,* r MSlCMf I .n»a,J Forward Betty Ann Boewing and the rest of the Oregon women's basketball team took to the court for the first time this season tn an exhibition game against visiting Otelul Romania at McArthur Court last night. Oregon will open its regular so ison on Wednesday at Utah Money talks and players, fans walk The hiisehall season is over am) I s!’N has moved oil to talking nliout fooltmll. Ixisketball ami lux kev -■! hours a das Hu! if you watch enough Sportsdenter. sou will eventually hear (ho guys txdund tfm dusk talking alxnit tlm fai t that pro fessional husolm 11 plnysrs still do not have a control t with the league "Don't tail in love with ImseliaII again folks." thin say, "those money hungry |orks couia Mriki> 0^,1111 I Kavi' ii pruhlnin with tin* tiii t that fans urn Ih'iii# tolit to avoid twMituill ga 1111**1 ami to Ixiltovii that ihi* plavors urn tfit* most o^olisth nl athlntns of all tin* pro fossional sports .Statistu •. show atton dam ii was way down at DeYoung iiiiijui imii|uirKs this pest season The media often showed empty '.mils with striking fan” signs draped ovnr them People went loid tn believe b.iselnill. oni ii punt and sunplti. had lawn raped by tiui greed nf tin- pi.n its and owners Hut fans did not blame the uwnm, they b la mod till* players Ian a use they worn tini onus tin strike Thu NHL player*, worn locked nut by tluiir ownwrs .it the beginning of hist soasnn. but tin you think fans avoided hot key games after the season started lMa.auso they were upset at the owners' No. they went to the games and spent lots of money money that went right into the pm ket* of the same owners who had just lot kod out the players No "striking fan" signs there Over the summer. NBA players voted on disbanding the players’ union because some players lad lev ed that the union wasn’t representing them well rlii*. would have meant superstars like Mil haul Iordan and Patric k I wing could have made more money I'hu fact is the lesser known players making the league minimum would have suffered and the fiig name players would Turn to DeYOUNG, Pago 10A Maddux notches fourth straight Cy Young ■ BASEBALL: The Braves ace becomes the first pitcher to wm the award for four consecutive years NEW YORK (AP) - For Greg Maddux, winning the Cy Young Award — even unanimously — is just another part of his routine "We might have a little party tomorrow night or something," he said Monday after capturing his fourth consecutive NI. Cy Young, his second straight by a shutout vote "After winning the World Series, we’re pretty much partied out.” Maddux, at 29 and perhaps not even halfway through his career, continued to put up numtwrs that uni be compared only w ith base ball's greats. Steve Carlton is the only other pitcher to win four Cy Youngs. Hu did it for Philadelphia in 1972. 1977, 1980 and 1982. Sandy Koufax is the only oth er pitcher to win the award unan imously in consecutive years in 1965-66 for the Dodgers. "It's really hard for mo to talk about the history of the game because my history goes bark 10 years,” Maddux said during a telephone news conference from hts home in I jis Vegas "When I heard comparisons about people who pitched in the '50s or '60s or '70s, 1 < an't real ly relate to it 1 didn't really watch baseball a whole lot back than. I really wasn't the fan then that I am now. I just take it as a nice compliment and move on." he said. Maddux, who led tin? Atlanta Braves to their first World Series title, received 140 points in Ind icting announced by the liiseUili Writers Association of America. Maddux led the NI. in wins with a 10-2 record, and was tops in the league in KRA (1 63) and complete games (10). flu became the first major leaguer sint e Wal ter Johnson in 1918-19 to have an FRA under 1 HO in consecutive seasons. Cincinnati's Fete Schourek was second in the voting with 55 points, followed by Braves team male Tom Glavinu with 30. Los Angeles rookie llideo Nonio was fourth with 19 and Dodgers pitch er Ramon Martinez had eight. Many say Maddux already is a lock to make the Hall of Fame, iiis career record is 150-93 with a 2 88 FRA "That's something you don't think nlMiut." he said. "If it hap pens, great I'm going to do what I've always done Tin going to go out there and makes as many good pitches as I can. That's good enough for mo Whether I'm 20 t) or 0-20, it doesn't much mut ter." Maddux has won the Cy Young in each of his three seasons with tin* Braves. He says he's a much Iwttor pitcher than when h« start ed with the (Chicago (iubs. "Back then. I was pretty much brain dead heaver,” he said 'Now I'd like to think. I know « tittle something about pitching that I can apply on the field.'’ Last year. Maddux became the first player to win any of bose Iwills major awards three straight times. He’s also a strong con tender in this year's Nl. MVP race "if it happens, great," Maddux said "Who wouldn't want to win an MVP? I'm probably excited more about what our team accomplished this year than win ning the Gy Young, as much of an honor as it is to win the Cy Young ” By winning the award. Mad dux gained a $750,000 bonus added la his $5 million salary Glnvine gets a $75,000 bonus added to Ins $4.5 million salary.
