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Influenza vaccine may be given to persons wishing to reduce their chances of catching the flu, persons who provide essential community services and students or others in schools or colleges. For more information, call the Flealth Center at 346-4441 Hood: Lions’ overtime loss to Giants an example of point-spread scam ■ Continued from Page 7 next question. Your honor, it is true that the Dallas Cowboys have been able to keep afloat in the sea of NFL sewage, but that’s because their owner, Jerry Jones, has shelled out big bucks to keep the team’s stars. What he has not accounted for are the team’s reserves. Your honor, I insist the Cow boys are a shell of their former selves, and anyone who has watched them play this season can attest to that (courtroom nods and whispers). Your honor, I now wish to call both the Carolina Panthers and the Jacksonville Jaguars to the stand. Now you two teams have had success in your first three seasons in the league, have you not? In fact, both of you made it to your respective conference championship games, isn’t that right? Now how do you suppose a pair of expansion teams, such as yourselves, is able to make it a step away from football’s highest plateau in only your second year of existence (courtroom yells and some leap from their chairs)? Your honor, my plaintiff in sists that such mockery can only exist in a league so diluted with talent that you’d need a noodle strainer to find the league’s all stars. Your honor, I’d like to submit at this time Exhibit B. A 54-page document detailing all of the week’s Las Vegas lines and the highlighted point spreads of each game. Your hon or, I have found that in an aver age week, no more than four teams cover the aforementioned point spread. Your honor, my plaintiff in sists that each week is a crap shoot when it comes to telling which NFL team will show up for any given game. To demon strate this, I have brought with me the game film of one NFL game last Sunday. If we look at this film, we can see the final moments of a De troit Lions’ overtime loss to the New York Giants. In the footage, we can clearly see the final score, Giants 26-Lions 20, post ed in neon lights on the Silver dome scoreboard. Your honor, my client and I maintain that the final score is a farce because going into the game Detroit had won two games in a row and had been on a major roll. Your honor, by con trary, the Giants had not been playing well and were entering a game in which any sane man or woman would pick them to lose by a touchdown. Your honor, Exhibit C shows Detroit’s rushing statistics against the 5-2 Tampa Bay Buc caneers the week before. We can see here that Detroit ran for 259 yards on the ground and gained nearly 450 total yards. Compare that to this week's game, and we see that the Giants rank 20th in the NFL in total defense and are dead last in the NFC in total of fense. Your honor, it’s not compli cated. Everyone can see that De troit as a touchdown favorite was the safe bet at home in week eight. My plaintiff is asking for $50 to be awarded to him by ei ther the NFL or the Oregon State Lottery, whichever admits in volvement in this sick scam (courtroom cheers). The plaintiff rests, your hon or. Joel Hood is a sports reporter for the Emerald. Oregon: Klaasen gets medical clearance to resume full-contact practice this week ■ Continued from Page 7 people down defensively, but they have not been able to put the ball in the end zone like they would like. “At this point, I don’t see much wrong with them. They’re a good football team with great athletes, and for whatever reason, they haven’t made the key play at the right time.” Sound familiar? Oregon has also found itself in the pleasant dilemma of having two healthy — mentally and physically — quarterbacks again. One week ago, Ak ili Smith was as close to taking over the position as either quarterback had been all season, especially after he played through the middle of the fourth quarter against UCLA while Jason Maas stood on the sideline. But Maas’ three-touchdown, 369-yard perfor mance against Utah has muddied the water once again. “I think it makes it a lot tougher, a lot tighter bat tle and certainly more competitive,” Bellotti said in the aftermath of Maas’ strong outing. “This will be a very interesting week of practice for us.” In other words, who starts against USC will be de termined by the game plan and who performs above the other in practice this week. Most likely, though, both will see significant action. “My guess is that we will need both their skills to help beat a very good USC defense,” Bellotti said. “I think we will design a game plan for both under the assumption that if they both are healthy, they will both play again. I think they both have things that they bring to the table that can make us a more ef fective football team and a more effective offense.” In other notes: Starting true freshman offensive guard Lee Gundy will be out for several weeks after dislocating his patella Saturday against Utah. If the injury doesn’t look better in the next couple of days, Gundy may undergo season-ending surgery. Linebacker Ryan Klaasen, who sustained a severe concussion four weeks ago against Stanford, has been cleared to resume full-contact practice starting this week. Sports Briefs Player qualifies for tennis tournament Alina Wygonowska qualified for the main draw of the Riv iera Women’s All-American Tennis Championships over the weekend by defeating three opponents without dropping a set. Wygonowska will join team mates Allison Sosnow and Shanelle Kaneshiro at the Riv iera Tennis Club in Los Ange les, Calif., for the opening round today. Wygonowska will face her third consecutive Pacific-10 Conference opponent, Faye De Vera of Arizona State, today in the opening round of the sin gles main draw. Wygonowska advanced to the main draw by defeating two Pac-10 rivals on Sunday. In the morning, she swept Betsy Miringoff of Arizona 6-2, 6-4, before beating Emeka Mayes of California in the after noon by the same score. Tame ka Harris of Michigan was Wygonowska's victim in the first round on Saturday. Sosnow and Kaneshiro re ceived an automatic bye to the main draw of the doubles tour nament. They are the No. 31 doubles team in the nation, ac cording to the Rolex Collegiate Rankings. “Allison and Shanelle could beat anyone,” said coach Jack Griffin. “With the extra prac tice they’ve had, they should be a little more ready to play against quality competition.” — Tim Pyle Nowhere to run The Oregon Daily Eiri fr I' it ill where to hide. the world wide web. ! / I
