Moseley: The word
only confuses you
■ Continued from Page 7
father, foe, speaking of his
days playing basketball over
sees said: “In Italy you’d see
whole families living in one
big villa.”
I would? For one thing, I’ve
never been to Italy, and I don’t
know what the heck a villa is.
Nope, can’t identify with that
one. Next.
Boston Bruins head coach
Pat Bums on the proliferation
of overtime games come NHL
playoff time: “You hope you
have a decent fourth line that
can eat up [overtime minutes
equal to] what would have
been the TV timeout.”
I do? I don’t even have a first
or second line, much less a
fourth.
Maybe I need to switch pub
lications. On to the latest issue
of ESPN magazine:
Anaheim Mighty Ducks
wingerTeemu Selanneon
Buffalo Sabres goalie Dominik
Hasek: “He does so many dif
ferent things. You never know
what to expect.”
Sure I do. If I’m on the ice
against Hasek, I expect to fall
down a few times (I can’t ice
skate), then I would unleash a
less-than-powerful slap shot
that would more likely dribble
off to one side of the net than
force Hasek to make a stop. He
could probably make that save
from the bench. Can’t identify
with that one. Next.
Chicago Bulls center Luc
Longley on defending the Mia
mi Heat’s Alonzo Mourning:
“Alonzo is always a matchup
that you need a bulldozer to
handle.”
Hallelujah! Now that one I
can identify with. Although I
would probably require a
dump truck and backhoe to
triple team Mourning with the
bulldozer, I would definitely
need some sort of heavy ma
chinery to “D” him up.
So my point is, the asinine
appearance of the word “you”
in athletes’ comments is more
than interfering with my abili
ty to grasp the point of their di
atribes. It’s got to stop. Hell,
the Utah Jazz’s Karl Malone re
ferred to himself in the first,
second and third person in
one SportsCenter highlight
earlierthis season.
Quite frankly, you can’t take
it anymore. You’re tired of the
word, and you’re going to
change the channel or put
down the magazine next time
it appears.
Rob Moseley is a sports reporter
for the Emerald. He can be
reached via e-mail at dodpr
fan@pladstone.uorepon.edu
UO: OSU’s Beyster had 20
strikeouts in last meeting
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shortstop Jill Robinson said. “But
we still came in against ASU
knowing that we could win. I
think that was the first game all
season where it looked like every
one was having fun.
“Our mental approach has
changed from the beginning of the
season. Now we go into games
playing to win. We no longer go in
playing not to lose.”
Designated player Triawn
Custer agreed.
“We’ve just gotten back to ba
sics,” she said. “We’re healthy,
and we’re fine tuning for the rest
of the season.”
All signs seem to overwhelm
ingly point to a Duck sweep — or
do they?
To counter Oregon’s second
ranked conference offense on
April 11, Oregon State (25-20, 6
12) benefited from a remarkable
two-game performance by pitcher
Tarrah Beyster, who struck out 20
Oregon batters en route to her
team-high 17th and 18th wins of
the season.
If Beyster can match that perfor
mance, the Ducks could be shut
out of postseason play for the
fourth consecutive season.
However, Robinson said, playing
at home will give Oregon a boost
and likely could be a big factor.
“I think we’re a better team all
the way around,” Robinson said.
“They pretty well spanked us up
there, so we want to beat them
pretty bad.”
Jennie Cook, who leads the
team with 20 wins and a 2.54 ERA,
will get the start in Game 1 and
likely could be called on to pitch
in Game 2. Against Arizona State,
Cook pitched both ends of the
doubleheader and earned both
victories.
Chiefs owner announces
plan to bid for the Royals
By Craig Horst
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas
City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt
wants to buy his city’s baseball
team to “assure that the Royals
will remain in Kansas City.”
Hunt, a sports entrepreneur
who is joined in the bid by West
ern Resources utility, called the
venture “very important to Mid
America.”
He announced his plans Tues
day, the deadline to submit pre
liminary bids for the American
League franchise. He said his bid
is competitive but would not elab
orate. It is not clear how many
bids have been submitted.
“The ball is now in the Royals’
court,” Hunt said.
The NFL club owner said talks
between his family and Western
Resources began last month. He
said if the bid goes through, own
ership will be evenly divided,
with the Hunts the managing
partner.
Western Resources is based in
Topeka, Kan., and Chiefs execu
tive officer John Hayes said the
joint bid is designed to keep the
Royals where they are.
The Royals have been without
an owner since its founder, Ewing
Kauffman, died in 1993.
Golf: Beavers fall to tie for 7th with WSU
Card Collegiate Golf Rankings,
has a combined four-over-par 220.
Derek Croskrey shot an even
par 72 for Oregon that put him
into a three-way tie for 14th place.
Croskrey has a two-over-par 218
through three rounds.
Ryan Lavoie continued his re
covery from a first-round 79 for
the Ducks by shooting even par.
Lavoie has a combined eight-over
par 224 and is tied for 34th.
Oregon’s Adrian Burtner shot
his second 75 of the tournament
to give him a 226 total. He is tied
for 43rd.
Chris Cone suffered through his
worst round of the tournament for
the Ducks by shooting an 81.
Cone dropped into a tie for 53rd
in the 60-player field with a com
bined 231.
Arizona, which is ranked No. 4
nationally, fell from second to
third place by shooting an 11-over
par 371 that gives them a three
round score of 1090. Stanford
stayed four strokes ahead of Ore
gon in fourth place by equaling
the Ducks’ 365.
UCLA shot a two-under-par
358 to tie Oregon for fifth. Wash
ington State rose to a tie with Ore
gon State for seventh by shooting
a 362. The Beavers’ 369 dropped
them from sixth. Washington fell
to ninth with a 367, and Southern
California remained in last place
with a 364.
Sports Briefs
No. 9 Ducks selected
to West Regional
After a disappointing eighth
place finish at the Pacific-10
Conference Championships last
week, the Oregon women’s golf
team could use some good
news.
The Ducks, who are ranked
No. 9 in the MasterCard Colle
giate Golf Rankings, got just that
when they were selected to the
NCAA West Regional Women’s
Golf Championship by the
NCAA Division I Women's Golf
Committee this week.
The 20-team regional is set to
begin May 7 at the Stanford
University Golf Course. It will
include seven other Pac-10
teams. Oregon is seeded fourth
in the Far West District behind
Arizona, Arizona State and
Stanford.
Twenty-two teams will take
play in the East Regional at Duke
Golf Club in Durham, N.C., be
ginning on the same date.
Eleven Western teams and
eight Eastern teams along with
two individuals from each re
gion will advance to the NCAA
Championships at University
Ridge Golf Course in Madison,
Wis., which start May 20.
The selection marks Oregon’s
sixth straight season in postsea
son play. The Ducks best re
gional finish was fourth in
1995, and their best NCAA re
sult was seventh last season.
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