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Emerald TUESDAY November ?8. 1995 r TOOAY IN SPORTS Webber expected to return on Thursday LANDOVER. Md. (AP) — Washington Bullets forward Chris Webber, recovering from a dislocated shoulder, is expected to play in Thursday night's homo game against the Cleveland Caveliers Webber had been placed on the injured list before the start of the season Me hurt the shoulder during an exhi bition game against Indiana on Os t 21 The Bullets are 5 (> without him. "Anytime you are able to get a player of Chris Webber's caliber back into your lineup, you can't help but be excit ed." coach |iin Lynam said, Webber would have been available for Tuesday night's game at New Jersey, but he will serve a one-game sus pension for a preseason fight with Chicago's Luc Longley. The Bullets waived center Mike Peplowski on Monday to make room on the roster for Webber. Rutgers fires coach after 4-7 season NEW BRUNSWICK. N.J. (Al’J — L)oug Graber, who failed in six seasons to turn around the Rutgers football program, was fired Monday as coach of the Scarlet Knights. University president Fran cis Uawrence announced that Graber had been relieved of his duties effective immedi ately Athletic director Fred Grunmger said a search had begun for a new coach. "Doug Graber has been an untiring worker for our foot ball program." Lawrence said. "We art* indebted to him for his efforts and wish him the greatest success in the future." Rutgers finished the season Friday with a 41-3B loss to Boston College. The team, expected to be Graber’s best, was 4-7 and 2-5 in the Big East Conference in six years. Graber had only two winning seasons, his best being 7-4 in 1992. Overall, his record was 29 36-1. Graber did not attend the news conference, but in a telephone conference call from his office said he did not feel he'd f>oon mistreated “There’s no bitterness involved," he said. "I am a big boy and I understand clearly what the bottom line is. 1 wish Rutgers nothing but the feist. Holiday weekend filled with exciting games I'm willing to admit it I blow it My football pit k-. for last weekend's games were piti ful I didn't post the big bagel, but going 1-5 was bad enough I hadn't had a losing weekend in six weeks, but now that is but a mem ore. You know something? Even though my picks were horrible, it really doesn't matter — I still lead the staff overall and I actu ally had bin losing A person couldn't have asked for n I letter holiday week end of close, dow n-to-the w ire, college football games Texas and Baylor gave us an inkling on Thursday night of what the next three days would hold, as the Longhorns grasped a 21-13 lead in the fourth quarter, staving off any Baylor threats until the final blow of the can non at the victors' stadium And how about the Georgia Georgia Tech contest. Tech was favored to oust the Bulldogs and their fallen head coach — it was announced prior to the game that he wouldn’t be returning next year — by two points, but the Bulldogs won one for the gipper anyhow On the final play of the game, one of the ugliest field goal attempts this v»sir viilwl through the uprights for an mi? upset On Friday morning, when everybody felt like a bomb had I OPINION I Hrfc McTyre lust gone off in their atom a« hs after gorgmg them selves on turkey dav, football fans had to suffer through four hours of the Comhuskers sin king it to tho Sooners 170 However, them was some excitement to the telecast Dur inn the fourth quarter, ABC took a break from the slaughter ou the field to toll the nation that a port-a pot tie was on fire in the parking lot and the lad der truck was on the way Oh. the excitement Hut things did return to nor mal later that day as Arizona State and Arizona battled to the end, as a VVildi .its' field goal won the game with less than a minute remaining. Arizona's il -H victory kept the Sun Dev ils from a bowl berth With Thursday and Friday's games setting the stage Dxrtuding the outhouse fluco — you had to have a finding something insane was going to happen It did < )f i nurse. I‘m referring to Michigan's it 2 t upheaval of then No 2 ranked Ohio State Not only did the loss deny the Hur keyes a chance of lieatiug out tfie toilet burners from Nebraska for the national title, but it also meant that the mini ( le team of Northwestern was going to the Rose Howl for the first time since 1‘HO However, the most important thing that has come front Ohio State's loss is the how l alliance saving face The atliam « was instituted this season (or the sole purpose of deriving a irue national champion front the t()H Divi sion I learns, so there wouldn't be any type of conflict aliout which team deserved the title, unlike last year's Nebraska Penn State controversy Prior to Mu htgan's triumph over ()hio State, however, everything was sel for there to lie another nev er-ending argument The then-third-ranked Mori da Gators were in linn to play the defending < hampion Corn buskers at the Fiesta How) a fillin' designated as tht> ~Gham i>nmship Game " Meanwhile tin- Hvu keyes would hnvn ta>eii playing a suhpar CSC loam ill thu Rose Howl, luaving them no i hanci) for thu national tit)*• like l<ist your s Penn State loam Hut now. hv iho virtue of some shining light. the alliance has come out smelling like ros os. if you don’t mind the phrase. They ve gotten the i hiimpionship null hup every one wanted ns long ns the Gators don't blow it against Arkansas in the Southeastern ( onferem e Championship game this weekend I voii though the title game is set. what is going to happen next year, or the year after, w hen the Nebraska I’enn State scenario comes up again ? Because you know it's going to hup|Mm Will teams break their con tractual howl agreements to play tn ii i hampionship game, or will it lie the same as 1995? I know this argument has Turn to Me TYRE, Page 10 UAIW Senior tailback Ricky Whittle was the lone Oregon player on the AH Pacltlc-10 Con ference first team offense selected by the conference head coaches. Whittle, Asher and Molden named to All Pac-10 team ■ FOOTBALL: The Ducks were honored with three first team and four second team selections this season By Trevor Kearney Sports f cftfar Three Oregon football players were named to the All Pin ific.* U) Conforeiu e First team and four others natilmil second team honors ns the conference selections were announced Monday Senior tatllmi k Kicky Whittle topped the list ns lie was the only Dm k named to the first team offense and was also honored ns n first team s|MK ialist for his all pur pose duties Whittle netted ‘>71 yards this season and had 12 rushing touchdowns, ana added 418 receiving yards and one touchdown. In terms of all-purpose production. Whittle netted 1HU4 yards, by far the !>est on the Oregon offense Whit tle was a first team selection a year ago. when the Ducks had five players on the top team Seniors Jeremy Asher, a linebacker, and Ale* Molden. a ( ornerliack, earned honors for their defensive efforts, while senior wide receiver Cristm Mi t.emore. junior offensive lineman Paul Wiggins, senior defensive line man Troy Bailey and sophomore defensive Lie k Kenny Wheaton were named to the conference's second team. Asher, a four-year lettermun out of Tigard, had 107 total tackles this season. 65 of which were unassisted. He had 11 tackles for a loss of 3H yards and was named to the second team All-Pac-10 last year Asher led the team with 645 total plays this year. Molden. a four year letterman out of Colorado Springs, Colo . w as on the first team last year and rai ked up nine deflected passes and 44 total tackles this season. List year Bailey mode the second team as a junior and Wheaton made the second team as a redshirt freshman as the Ducks find three players on the second team en route to winning the Pac-10 title. The Pac-10 offensive player of the year this year was USC wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson, who find 90 catches for 1.21H yards and six touchdowns The con ference's defensive player of the year was Arizona defensive end Tody Bruschi, who led the Pac-10 in quur terback sacks with 14.5 for 96 yards in losses. All selections were made by the conference head coaches.
