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SPORTS WEEKEND COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE Georgia Tech THURS. Georgia Texas THURS Bay tor Arizona State FRI. Arizona Nebraska FRI Oklahoma Boston Colieqe FRI. Rutgers Miami-Fla SAT Syracuse Michigan SAT. Ohio State Florida SAT Florida Slate Penn State SAT. Michigan State Texas AAM SAT TCU WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS Both the Oregon men's and women's tennis teams are undefeated after picking up victories against the Hawaii Rainbow \ .4 former Baylor basketball player is suing the school for making him sit out for a year because of questionable athletic eligibility 10 10 THIS WEEKEND 17te Eugene Snowcats will return to the ice on Friday night at lane County Ice Arena to play the visiting \'an couver Venom Emerald - > V h H WEDNESDAY November 22. 1995 Maddux tops list of NL Gold Glovers NEW YORK (AH — fireg Maddux of the Atlanta Braves won his sixth straight Gold Glove award Monday, moving into second place for the most won by a pitcher in the NL. Bob Gibson won nine Gold Gloves while pitching for the St Louis Cardinals Jim Kaat has won the most total Gold Gloves: 1R. There were four first-time winners this year: Florida catcher Charles Johnson, San Diego third baseman Ken t aminiti, Los Angeles out fielder Raul Mondesi and Padres outfielder Steve Fin ley. Atlanta outfielder Marquis Grissom won his third con sec ntiv«« Gold Glove, and Chicago Cubs first baseman Mark Grace won for the third time in four seasons. Second baseman Craig Biggio, who played for Houston and became a free agent, won his second straight award, as did Cincinnati shortstop Barry Larkin. I'he awards are voted on by major league managers and coaches and presented by Rawlings. McEnroe, Garagiola given awards by ASA NEW YORK (AP) — John McEnroe is a sports legend, at least he will be next week He became only the fifth man to win the designation from the American Sports caster Association, joining Kartsim Abdul-jabbar, Muhammad Alt, A.J. Fovt and the late Arthur Ashe, ni ,iu, M..Faroe is the youngest of the legends. He will he honored at the ASA dinner Nov JO in New York. Al Michaels and Chris Berman wore previously announced as co-winners of the Sportscaster of the Year award, and Chick Hearn as this year's inductee into the ASA Hall of Fame, Joe Garagiola will be hon ored as Humanitarian of the Year. Cotton Bowl will bring national attention I don’t know exactly what the Pilgrims did or what they thought about on the first Thanksgiving, but 1 know Hxm tly what 1 do year in and year out during this glori ous holiday weekend. On a typical Thanksgiving day. 1 sit around the house — quite often on the couch — and tune into the featured football game of the day. Hig surprise, right? I nap a little bit or poke around the house, or watch Miru< Iron J4th Street or It's a Wonderful Life Come about three o'clock, my routine is pretty much set in stone: stuff myself, watch televi sion, stuff myself, nap Repeat Now don't get me wrong Thanksgiving doesn't serve as jus! another excuse to be out of school and eat a lot of free food — in fact, it is about the only hol iday that really means anything to me anymore. Thanksgiving is a time for me to look lm< k at the things that 1 am fortunate for Among the many things I usual ly give thanks for in my four-day lounging period are ray family and friends, my good fortune to be alive and getting a good col lege education, not to mention the fact that 1 am doing so in this country. Hul — here is the sports-catch to my apparently misplaced col umn — I have a little more to give thanks to this year: the Oregon football team is headed for Dal las. The Cotton Bowl. That has a nice ring to it. The Cotton Howl featuring the Oregon Ducks Damn that lias a rrallv nit at ring to it (hi tint issui* of tin' Dut ks going to tint Cotton Bowl. I sttit things in thu long run. 1 sue things in only thu most optimistic of ways I son a national championship in tha making Okay Maylm I OPINION larwy riot a national championship, but ilt'finitttly .i chance for Ore Ron to prove all those people hoping. nay waiting for tint Ducks to return to the cellar of the Pacific-10 Conference that they are for real Sure, the Cotton Bowl is no longer the powerhouse post mm son college football game that it once was. And sure, the Cotton Bowl isn't part of the alliam e But 1 really and truly think that the Cotton Bmvl is going to do the Oregon football program even more good than the Rose Bowl did for the Ducks Inst year or would have done for them this year. The Cotton Bowl will do the I Hicks more good than the Pacif ic-10 Conference title, you say? Yup. Consider the location Texas A college football recruit haven Texas ranks right up there in terms of the amount of football recruits that it produces Beyond just Texas, the region is not only prime recruiting territory itself, but borders the Midwest and East, two regions synonymous with the words “national < ham ptonship " And. if you don't look at the fnt t Oregon Statu Imasts it) Texans on tlnur squad. Texas has boon tapped by some of tfio ts'-.t teams in the country. Consider the situation: the tith rankod Oregon Dm ks are the highest-ranked team in the Pm -10 They are second in the league and are only a half game behind co-champions Washing ton and DSC 1'hu Dm ks have a better overall record than botfi teams. beat Washington earlier in the season and are going to a more prestigious bowl game than the Huskies, and were the defending champions coming into the season Vet they are not going to the league's top howl spot. How could the situation be any hotter for the Dm ks' ()regon ftas got We are a better football team than the best teams in our confereni e" written all over it Consider the tradition the Cot ton Howl is historically n bigger bowl than tfie Rose Howl In oth er parts of the country, the Orange. Sugar and Cotton Howls are the deepest in tradition Hell, I grew up in Portland and I eager ly awaited the Cotton Howl each year In reality, the Rose Howl is for fans of the Hig Ten and Pac 10 exclusively While people in l-aiifoi 111,1. Ai i/mi.i. (begun m,| Washington can get hyped up about their si hoots going to tin* Rose Howl, and residents of Pasadena and the surrounding areas can just get hyped up about a major I Kiwi game in their area, people in the rest of the country don't get all that exi Red about a c< Oregon has got We are a better football learn than the best teams in our eonferenee written all over it 99 bowl that si bools from thoir region will never l»> able to go to finally, consider tint frequen i V of I ho Du< ks \ isiting Texas versus the frequency of them vis iting California it isn't ait abnor mal to son the f)ut ks playing in the Rose Bowl in California ns it is to sis; them in the Cotton Bowl m Texas The last time they played in the stale of Texas was in 1002. and before that in l')?7 I be last time they played in Cal ifornia was five find a half weeks ago What .ill of this amounts to is that by going to the Cotton Bowl, the Oregon fool Dill team is going to get a lot of national exposure that it otherwise may not have gotten People that otherwise would not have watched the Dm ks play whether Oregon was slated to play in the Rose Bowl or some insignificant howl will watch them play And many of those people could he prospective Ducks, Duck fans or l)ui k supporters Now that is something fur the Oregon football team and its fans of the present and of the future to give thanks for Trevor Keanwy is /he sports mii !■ -i f*M tin- Emerald Oregon looks to turn close losses into big wins ■ HOCKEY: Too many penalty minutes and lost leads plague the club sports squad By J. Daniel Pearson A combination of one-goal losses and a rare phenomenon known as "knuc kle puck" has put the Oregon club sports hockey team five games below .500 near the season's halfway mark. "Knuckle puck" happens to teams when everything is going right except for one small ingredient — the puck going into the net. Plays can he set up perfectly, shots can Ire unloaded point blank, but somehow the bis cuit doesn't fly cleanly into the basket, either hooking away from the goal or hitting the goalie right in the chest. "We've hit the post and fanned on a lot of shots," Ducks defenseman Seth Prouser said. “We have so many skilled players, our record c ould just as easily he 9-1." Perhaps it should be. But instead of hitting the holiday break with bragging rights, the Ducks are left looking at a 2-7-1 record and wondering what went wrong Two problems have plagued Oregon all season. The first is penalty minutes The Ducks have responded to their first home stand, in which Washington pushed them around the me, by playing extremely physi cal games This finally blew up in their faces last weekend, when head coach Nick Ham was suspended for one game after a night of more than 15 Oregon penalties — a league rule used about as rarely as the Zamhoni at Lane County Jte The second problem has been sitting on leads. Perhaps it's the physical play that causes fatigue, making the team unable to step up play in the closing minutes and hold those one-goal leads. Four of the Ducks' losses have been by one goal — a fact that doesn’t sit well with Prouser. "We just can’t seem to get over that one goal hump," he said "It's starting to gut frus (rating." If self-esteem is becoming a factor, surely thu m hodule must look promising. Out of Oregon's next Hi gitmtts, JO will he played at honm This will give the Ducks a linn advantage over most teams that are unable to bring a full squad on road games duo to time or travel expenses. The large amount of home games also gives Oregon more practice time now two days a week — without the worry of cancel ing one to travel, liven with these advantages for the sea son's second half however, the pressure is beginning to build for wins at home. It can l*i argued that these are must-win games for the Ducks if the team hopes to finish the sea son on a positive note. “The pressure is definitely on to win at home." Trouser said. "Wo need the fans to stick with us and keep coming out to games." The weekend of Dec. 3 will he the first test in the Ducks' search for a turn-around as they take on Walla Walla at lane County Ice
