Rugby club to take on UW
By Jeremy Dickman
lor ihe Emerald
If you thought the only big
game with the Huskies this year
is at Autzen Stadium next week
end, take another look.
The Oregon men’s club rugby
team is off and running this
weekend with its first road trip
of the fall season. The Ducks
play Washington in Seattle on
Saturday, then battle Western
Washington on Sunday in
Bellingham.
“Coordination is the key [with
club sports],” first-year coach
Bob Snyder said. “The kids have
never been the problem with de
veloping a team — the organiza
tion is usually the problem.”
The Ducks are jumping into
the 1998 season against Division
I-A teams for the first time since
1995. Last
Saturday,
Oregon de
f e a t e d
Southern
Oregon 12
5 in Ash
land, in a
contest that Snyder said was
more of a scrimmage than any
thing else. Southern was one of
the Ducks’ common opponents
last year, along with Reed Col
lege and Willamette University
in Salem.
However, the Huskies
matchup should prove to be a lit
tle different.
“Washington is actually one of
the lower tier teams in the
league, “ Snyder said. “But West
ern Washington will be a pretty
good test.”
Snyder's projections for the
league predict Central Washing
ton as probably the strongest
contender. But Snyder sees Ore
gon State and Western Wash
ington as the probably the next
toughest competitors in the di
vision.
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tent to play at Stanford in 1994
but chose instead to pursue a
baseball career after being
drafted in the first round of the
amateur draft.
After coming to Oregon late
this summer, Smith finally got
significant playing time against
USC when inside linebacker
Aaron Cheuvront went out
with a hip flexor injury and a
migraine headache.
Smith seems to have enjoyed
the experience.
“Pac-10 football is so intense
and exciting, that when you get
the opportunity to get in there
and play, it’s tough to find
something better than that,”
Smith said after the game.
“I haven’t thought about
baseball for a while because
here there’s so much going on,
so much to learn, my days are
so busy,” he continued.
“When you get out there and
see 45,000 fans screaming and
everybody excited, it’s tough
to focus on anything else be
sides what you’re doing.”
Albert Belle may play tor the Yankees despite problems
By Ronald Blum
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Albert Belle in
the Bronx?
Listening to George Steinbren
ner, that’s a possibility for next
season if Bemie Williams doesn’t
re-sign with the New York Yan
kees.
“Nobody’s history scares me,”
the Yankees owner said. “We
have a discipline in the organiza
tion that has proven itself.”
This is the Albert Belle who
prefers to be left alone, who has
been fined for profane outbursts
and violent incidents, who used
his vehicle to chase trick-or-treat
ing teen-agers after they threw
eggs at his house.
Belle in the media center of the
world? In the clubhouse of team
tranquility?
“Who comes from deeper
problems than Darryl and Doc?”
Steinbrenner said, referring to
Darryl Strawberry and Dwight
Gooden. “Yet they accepted the
discipline and accepted the di
rection.”
One of New York’s off-season
decisions was pushed back a
week. The Yankees and David
Cone agreed the pitcher would
have until Nov. 4 to decide
whether he will exercise his $5.5
million player option.
Cone’s original deadline was
midnight EST Wednesday.
“David Cone is very dear and
very important to me,” Stein
brenner said. "He’s a real New
Yorker. I realize he’s coming to
that point in his career where
maybe he has to consider all the
options.”
Williams, who turned down a
$37.5 million, five-year offer
from the Yankees last winter,
wants a deal at least seven years
long and agent Scott Boras
sounds like he wants more than
the $13 million average Mike Pi
azza will get from his record $91
million, seven-year contract with
the Mets, which was agreed to
last weekend.
“I think that all of baseball, to
be honest with you, was stunned
by that,” Steinbrenner said of Pi
azza’s deal.
Piazza’s contract, a baseball
record for total and average, will
change what other players ask for.
“The dollars
were a little stag
gering and that
will reflect,”
Steinbrenner
said.
There’s no
doubt Belle can
produce. He hit .328 with 49
homers and 152 RBIs last season.
But there’s also little doubt he’s
an island to himself in the club
house and has largely refused to
help his teams sell tickets.
At this stage, it’s hard to tell if
the Yankees are serious about
Belle or trying to send Williams a
message that they won’t wait for
him the entire off-season.
Belle, who agreed to a $55 mil
lion, five-year contract with the
Chicago White Sox in November
1996, has a unique clause in his
deal that allowed him to become
a free agent Tuesday and also
gives him the option of returning
to his White Sox contract any
time through Nov. 25.
Arizona general manager Joe
Garagiola Jr. said Wednesday he
intends to have Williams in for a
visit next month. Diamondbacks
manager Buck Showalter was
Williams’ manager in New York
from 1992-95.
“The idea is, here’s a player
who was the American League
batting champion, a gold glove
center fielder. I think it would be
useful, if he wants to, to have a
conversation with him,” Garagio
la said. “He is one of the most at
tractive players on the market.”
Steinbrenner made an appear
ance Wednesday to donate two
$100,000 checks from the Yan
kees foundation to repair build
ings destroyed by Hurricane
Georges.
One will pay to rebuild the Dr.
Carl Th. Georg Regional Chil
dren’s Hospital in San Pedro de
Macoris, Dominican Republic.
The other will fund reconstruc
tion of the Center for Senior Citi
zens in Jurabo, Puerto Rico.
Even though he's technically
no longer a Yankees, Williams
will personally deliver the checks
in Puerto Rico and the Dominican
Republic along with team offi
cials.
“I don’t know how you can
read anything into it other than
he cares for the people,” Stein
brenner said.
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