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Editor in chief: Laura Cadiz
Sports Editor: Tim Pyle
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UW feeling lucky today
Mirjam
Swanson
So it’s Washington, despite its ugly 0-2 nonconfer
ence start, that seems to be in control three weeks
into the Pacific-10 Conference race.
Lucky Dawgs.
Lucky because they got Oregon minus its two best tail
backs, Reuben Droughns and Herman Ho-Ching.
Also lucky because the week before that, they faced
Colorado without first-string quarterback Mike Moschet
ti, who was coping with a knee injury, at full health.
And now Arizona State’s star tailback, J.R. Redmond,
is questionable for the Sun Devils’ showdown with
Washington in Seattle on Saturday.
Redmond suffered a recurrence of a slight shoulder
separation in the third quarter of Arizona State’s loss to
Notre Dame.
Also take into account that the Huskies themselves
are completely healthy — or relatively close. Except for
the season-ending knee injury to backup tight end John
Westra, all of Washington’s skill players have had only
to deal with minor ailments so far.
No-love L.A.
For only the seventh time in the 73-year history of the se
ries, Southern California (1-2 Pac-10,3-2 overall) and Notre
Dame will both be unranked when they meet Saturday.
The Trojans dropped out of the polls after losing to
Arizona 31-24 last Saturday. USC’s departure from the
nation’s top 25 left the Pac-10 without a ranked team and
simultaneously aggravated Trojan fans.
USC head coach Paul Hackett may have found a way
to beat the Fighting Irish last season, but the consensus
in Los Angeles is that he probably won’t do it again.
Notre Dame is fresh off a 48-17 rout of Arizona State.
The Trojans’ latest loss continued to emphasize their
scoring anxiety thanks to both an ineffective running
game and the absence of injured No. 1 quarterback Car
son Palmer.
So in preparation of Saturday’s result, fans are calling
for Hackett’s coaching license to be revoked — and soon.
In USC on-line chat rooms, former Hackett-supporters
chimed in to apologize for any previous excuses they of
fered on the coach’s behalf.
Meanwhile, Hackett’s usual detractors continued a fa
miliar cyberspace tune: “This is the most unexciting,
undisciplined, poorly conditioned USC team ever.”
“That Arizona game was the most pathetic play-call
ing I have ever seen. ”
“We suck. I cannot remember the last time we won a
big game. I am exhausted waiting for this week’s game
against hated rival Notre Dame. I’m not sure I care any
more.”
“No imagination with this coach.”
Hackett responded to the criticism with the expected,
yet accurate, evaluation.
“We just didn’t perform as well as we needed to
[against the Wildcats],” Hackett said. “All phases of the
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Huskies’ fullback Pat Conniff has helped Washington to a 2-0 Pac-10 start.
Oregon Cross Country
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freshman Jason Hartmann of the men s cross country team, himself a Midwest native, hopes to make a big impression in the Pre-NCAAs on Saturday in Indiana.
Next
in line
It’s not a stretch to say
highly recruited freshman
Jason Hartmann could be
the next in a rich tradition of
standout Duck runners
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
Clad in lengthy green sweat pants,
a bright yellow sweatshirt and
dyed yellow hair, Oregon fresh
man Jason Hartmann walks into
the Bowerman Building lounge.
As the cheek-to-cheek smile on his face
clearly shows, the 6-foot-3 cross country
phenom is thrilled to be a Duck.
The Rockford, Mich., native did, how
ever, have many offers to run elsewhere.
July 1, 1998, proved to be an exhaust
ing day for Hartmann. The day marked
the first that college coaches could con
tact soon-to-be high school seniors.
As one of the top-five premiere prep
distance runners in the country, Hart
mann’s phone was busy, real busy. Some
of the schools that contacted him were
Stanford, Arizona State, Oregon, Wiscon
sin, Georgetown, Michigan and Michigan
State.
“It was definitely a nerve-wracking ex
perience,” Hartmann said. “When you
have big-time coaches from all over call
ing for you, you don’t really know what
to think. It was overwhelming, and all I
kept thinking to myself was, ‘Don’t say
anything stupid.’ ”
Eventually Hartmann narrowed his
choices down to two: Oregon and Wis
consin.
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Ducks
drop two
on day 2
■ Oregon falls from a tie for third to
a tie for fifth in its final fall action at
the STRATA Intercollegiate
By Matt O’Neill
for the Emerald
As the second day of the STRATA Inter
collegiate tournament came to a close, the
Oregon men’s golf team saw its place in the
final standings fall two spots.
In dropping to a tie for fifth place, the
Ducks rounded out their fall schedule Tues
day at Saticoy Country
ClubCin Somis, Calif.
Oregon finished the
first day in a tie with UC
Santa Barbara for third
place at 595 and figured to
be in the hunt for the top
three spots.
But it ended up tied with Colorado State.
The two day total for the Ducks was 891
(296-299-296), only seven strokes behind
winner Texas A&M (884).
“We actually gained some on the teams
ahead of us,” head coach Steve Nosier said.
“I wished we had played better. We had
four guys at par at the turn, if they would
have shot par for the back nine, instead of
eight over, then we would have been right
there. But of course, if the dog didn’t stop to
pee, he would have caught the rabbit.”
Oregon gained three strokes on Texas
A&M, and six strokes on host Pepperdine
during the second day.
The Ducks were paced by redshirt fresh
man Chris Carnahan, who finished the two
day event in eighth place with a 4-over-par
score of 220.
After finishing the first day tied for 11th,
Carnahan jumped up to the eighth spot by
shooting a 73 on Tuesday.
Sophomore Brandon Harnden fell two
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