Future Super Bowl sites chosen
■ NFL: Decision leaves New Orleans, this
year’s host, out of the running until 2005
By Mary Foster
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — The Super Bowl took on a dis
tinct southern flavor Thursday as Miami, Atlanta and
Tampa walked away with the NFL’s title game for
1999-2001.
NFL owners agreed that Miami will be the site of
the 1999 game. Atlanta will have the 2000 game, and
Tampa, which had essentially been promised a Su
per Bowl by commissioner Paul Tagliabue after
agreeing to build a new stadium, will get the 2001
game.
“I think Tampa made the owners aware that the
city had made a great commitment to the NFL,”
Tagliabue said after the decision to award a third Su
per Bowl.
Originally the owners planned to name only the
hosts for the 1999 and 2000 games, but added the
third to accommodate both Atlanta and Tampa.
“Atlanta has shown it can host the Super Bowl,”
said Mayor Bill Campbell. “We’ve shown we can
handle big events and that our people know how to
make visitors feel at home. Look at what we’ve done
in the last decade ending with the Olympics and the
World Series this year.”
Atlanta was host to a Super Bowl in 1994,
Miami felt it also had proven itself.
“The show is going to the pros,” said Nicki Gross
man, vice chairman of the South Florida Super Bowl
Task Force. “We know how to put on a Super Bowl,
and we plan to make it great.”
Miami and Tampa had been considered the fa
vorites going in. Arizona was the only other candi
date. The proximity to last year’s game, which was
in Phoenix, was probably the main factor in not se
lecting Arizona, Tagliabue said.
Tagliabue recommended Tampa as a site before
the votes Thursday. But Atlanta offered strong com
petition to both Miami and Tampa.
“It was never a sure thing in my mind until the
vote was over,” said Eddie Jones, vice president of
the Miami Dolphins.
With the commitment Tagliabue had made to
Tampa in the wake of their approval of a new stadi
um, the owners evidently felt they could not deny
them a game.
“It was an accommodation,” said Bryan Glazer,
son of Tampa Bay Bucs owner Malcolm Glazer. “The
30 NFL teams are a partnership, and we all work to
gether. Atlanta would not have been able to host an
other Super Bowl game until the year 2005 because
of the convention business. The ownership wanted
to accommodate both Tampa and Atlanta, and the
best way to do that was this way.”
Tampa’s new stadium is being funded by a half
cent sales tax increase that voters approved in a Sept.
3 referendum. Former Tampa mayor William Poe
filed suit before the referendum, contending public
money should not be used to fund private enterprise.
The Tampa stadium is expected to be completed
in September 1998, 16 months before the Super
Bowl in January 2000. The NFL says a stadium must
be operating 18 months before the game.
The awarding of the 2001 game left some other
cities wondering about when they would next host a
Super Bowl.
The 1999 game originally was supposed to go to
San Francisco, but uncertainty about the stadium’s
future forced the NFL to look elsewhere. Tagliabue
pledged a game to San Francisco 18 months after the
completion of a new stadium. Carmen Policy, presi
dent of the 49ers, said he hopes the stadium would
be completed in time for the 2000 season.
It also appeared to squeeze New Orleans, host of
January’s game, out until at least the year 2005.
That’s the next time the city will have enough hotel
rooms and convention space to accommodate the
league.
San Diego will host the game in 1998.
Volleyball: Ducks concentrating on not
making mistakes against UW, WSU
■ Continued from Page 11
The previous night in Seattle,
the Ducks were dropped 15-3,15
2 and 15-8 by Washington. Ore
gon hit .054 for the match, and
middle blockers Dani Cordova
and Alii White were the biggest
contributors, each tallying eight
kills and three blocks.
Washington, now 8-3 in the
conference and 18-4 overall, vis
its Mac Court Saturday night. The
Huskies are led by Eugene native,
Angela Bransom, who has 383
kills.
But it is Washington’s blockers
that will be the biggest threat.
Makare Desilets has 109 blocks
this season and averages 1.73
blocks per game, putting her atop
the conference standings. She had
17 kills against the Ducks earlier
this season.
Leslie Tuiasosopo has 115
blocks and is fifth in the confer
ence with a 1.47 blocks per game
average.
Oregon head coach Cathy Nel
son recognizes the problem the
Huskies’ size represents.
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“Their outsides and middles are
very, very large. That’s where the
problem is — their big size.
They’re not necessarily a quick of
fense, but they get up high and
bang it down your throat.”
Nelson also said the most diffi
cult part in preparing for this
weekend’s matches is the differ
ence in the two teams. •
“Washington State is one of the
best teams in the league,” she said.
“They are very athletic. They’re
not necessarily huge, but they
have a quick attack.
“So the teams represent two
completely different problems for
us. That will make the weekend
difficult. They are playing some
great volleyball.”
But the one thing the Ducks
have learned with their recent
success is that it easier to concen
trate on their own play than the
other teams’ play.
“For the first time since I’ve
been here, the team feels like their
in control of the match,” Nelson
said. “Last year, we were physical
ly outmatched in all of our Pac-10
matches, and they felt like if the
other teams played well, they
were going to lose. This year, fi
nally realizing that if we control
our match and if we play well, we
can win. The other team doesn’t
have to play bad for us to win. ”
Team co-captain Amy Barnes
said the team knows what it takes
to pick up the victories.
“We have been focusing so
much in practice on limiting our
errors and keeping the ball in play
and let the other team make the
mistakes,” she said. “In the last
three matches, we have done that
pretty well. The games that we
lose are when we make the errors
ourselves. We know that now. It is
really helping us with confidence
and everything else that goes
along with the game.
“Washington and Washington
State are excellent schools in the
Pac-10. They have some great
players on their teams. But if we
can just go in and play how Ore
gon plays, it doesn’t matter how
Washington and Washington
State play.”
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