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Emerald TUESOAY January 23. 1996 an Baseball catches up with times The world is con stantly changing and finally bnsehall 1* i hanging with it lht> baseball owners last week to iitipit* rnent mterleague play for the find lima aim a them has been two leagues, and I am all for it. Ha sot kali is considered the national pastime, but has recently bat «mio th« national piMtlOM — moaning nobody cam who ■vTjm.li LrVf wins me World Series or kta| MVP With the whole strike ordeal and the owners ver sus players battle, baseball is not fun anymore for some people. But it still is fun, especial ly now that it is changing There will always lie those "purists" w ho believe that the sport shouldn't lie changed, that it should stay the same as it was when Bahe Ruth and Mickev Man tle were playing, But why should it* The fans have changed, the play ers have changed and the media has (hanged So why should baseball stay the same? There is so much compe tition between the proles sional spurts for fan* and media coverage The Super Bowl get* a much bigger audience than any baseball game wilt ever get I'm sure that most peo ple can name more players on the Chicago Bull* than on the Chicago Cuba. Even hockey is being covered more extensively than ever before How an hasctudl compete' There is a simple answer, and it looks like the baseball owner* have discovered it already Change the game to reflec t the changing times It started last season with the expansion of the two league* into three division* each. This made the game muc h more competitive and gave more fans the chum* to be rooting for their team in October. The two wild card spot* gave way to two very excit ing race* at the end of the season. Hey, without the wild card, who would have ever expected to see the Seattle Mariners in the playoffs’ Despite an idiotic deci sion to only televise the went welt. It was definitely voted Turn to OeYOUNG Page 10 — On the move • HlMil WH Soptiomor* J«tT fcnekton a monitor o* the chib sports Uenmn team, pna« m ky team s upcoming gama against Pacrfic LutMwan UfwwtMty on Fab i7 Buccaneers hire former Vikings defensive coach ■ NFL: Tampa Bay chooses the former Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator TAMPA. Ft* (API — Tuny Dungy » lone and frustrating nmnwv from the NFL'* youngest defen »*v* coordinator to • hoed coach ended ttxlay The Inns■i»m» a*»i*tant. interviewed but (wowed over by lour other loam* In Ilia U*t 10 year*. will r»« a toot at trying to I urn the Tam|M Bay Buoa iwn into a winner "I leal that they are very, V«ry t fuse," the 40 year-old Dungy will «t a mid afternoon mwicon* femme announcing hi* kivyear contract a* the w *th coach of the NFt. club Tha BwxatMHif* Hava young player* and a nu< low* read* lo take off The building block* am there. ha *4id. all iha loam need* i* con*i*tetu y Ha Imamu the fourth black bead coach In NFt. history. behind Art Shell. Daunt* Green and Ray Rhode* Dungy *aid hi* lir»i goal i* to build a *«ti*e of family and togetherness with everybody *trtving for lh« unw end — a winning team The Buccaneer* haven't made the playoff* «r finished above WO «im» PMU He «k»** ribed htmwlf a* a lea. her and *ai«l But caneer* linebacker Hardy Ntrkerkon i* a key to what he want* to do defensively Dungy explained hi* hiring a* a two week process and wilwl the i»*tem*t (t generated The people In Tampa made Hie feel so wel come All the call* to a number I thought wa* a private number," he said "While it wa* nerve racking it made me lee I good alantl the interna! in foert bail."' He deMfilxHt himself a* fortunate and hlotted by God that he * given me (hi* opportunity " He credited football figure* in hi* background who were mentor* He talked about how General Manager Hu h Mt Fay < aught him at thr offlt «* in Ptttdiurgh amt laid "You're the guy that we want " Dungy said he didn't want to get loo w veiled at fir*t lee ante a lot i an hap|Mut before contract* am <ogned "You will grow to like him ami you will cer tainly grow to retpect him." McKay taid in Intro ductory remark* Dungy, the Minnesota Viking*' defensive coor dinator *ince too.' flew lu town Sunday for hi* fir*t face to fate meeting with But*.atiwer* owner Malcolm GI user He wa* laughing and smiling a* he left a popu Turn to NFL Page t? Grapplers rebound from Cal Polv loss with tie ■ WRESTLING: The Ducks lose lo the Mustangs but salvage a tie m Civil War wrestling on Sunday By Trevor Kearney The Oregon wrestling leant ended a nerve rat king weekend of Pacific-td Conference duel meets in dramatic fashion Sun day by tying 17th-ranked Oregon Slate with a win in the final match of the afternoon The Ducks (2-3*1 overall in dual meets, 0-2*1 IB the Far IOJ were up by as much a* i%7 in team scoring after lift-pound senior Kevin Roberts, Impound sophomore John Taylor and 134 pound sophomore Jeremy Cnsrud — Wrestling up one weight class — won (heir matches. But the Heaver* staged a come back and took the lead when defending 177-pound national t ham j jit mi Ij» t .u tehee, who oru wrestling in the toil-pound weight ( law. pinned Oregon senior Nathan Sullivan But Oregon heavyweight Kith Polkinghorn escaped from the grasp of Oregon State'* Mat Oro tfora etvwi w and* into a fourth round tiebreaker to keep the Duc k* from losing their third straight Pec* 10 matc h It was only the *** utui ume the two school*' have ever ended a meet in a tie. Agauwt Cal I\>ly San Luts Obis po on Saturday, the Ducks start* ed out strong, winning tbetr first three matches But junior Huh Tanner injured his nh* against (ai Poly’s 142-pound junior Bobby Bellamy, giving the Mustangs six points due to injury default, After junior Sc ott Norton won the Impound match. Gal Pofy won four of the five remaining weight riasee* mr iudtng thror straight alter Norton's win. to take the meet “Cat Poly is « tough twain.“ head i oath Ron Finley said “t think Tanner getting hurt was unfortunate because that was sis points If we had won that it would have been a 9<point |Ore gon i swing We fust didn't wre* Iks that intense tonight ** . The Ducks nearly t ame back, however In the 190-pound weight class. Sullivan look Cal Poly |umor Scott Adams to an overtime pound Neither wrestler •cored in the overtime. I nit in the tie-breaker period, Sullivan st ored an escape with one sec ond remaining to win the match Hut in the final match — the match that would turn* won Un meet for tlrti Docks — Polking ham fell to Cal Poly heavyweight Eru. Rodrigue* and the Mustangs iced their win, I in lev vaid that coming into the weekend the team needed to M»d more pins, and they didn't get enough high-scoring wins to b«tt the Mustang* ”Wb would have had to win the last one lo win (the meet)," Finley usd "But we didn't gut any fall* and we didn't get the rnagir decision* that we needed and ww didn't win all Use match e* we needed to,” Sophomore Koytat Kefieisn fig ured in prominently in hath meet*, «» the 177-pounder lost to the Mustang's Jeremiah Miller after Miller took Kepenn down with three sacondi us the third period Hot on Sunday against Oregon State, Repenn got revenge hv scoring a reversal against the Heavers’ Sanders Freed in the final five «* ond# of the match, giving the Ducks back the lead before Gulches pinned Sullivan Nest up for the Ducks is Fret no State on Friday at 7:30 p m at Mr Arthur Court The meet will tie a delayed tiruaduiM on Prime Sport*.
