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wire games that Oregon keeps
playing have good points and bad
points, the Ducks’ coaches and
players contend.
Oh, they’re great for the fans —
all of those who stick it out and
stay the whole time, anyway.
They’re mostly great for the
I! ( It's nice to have the
dilemma of having two very
good — and potentially
great — quarterbacks
that can both get the job
done. J J
Mike Bellotti
Head coach
players.
“The closeness of our games
has helped us to understand the
parity within this conference, and
the fact that there’s such a need to
play good, hard, inspired football
every week, or you’re gonna get
beat,” Bellotti said.
But they’re not so great on the
team’s nerves.
“This is too hard on all of us,”
defensive coordinator Nick Al
liotti said. “This is way too hard.
You would hope that games are
fun. But in reality, they haven’t
been much fun when you’re nail
biting your way to the end.. .these
cardiac kids.”
It seems that Bellotti ought to
be rather used to it.
Since he became head coach in
1995, Oregon has averaged five
outings per season decided by
seven points or less. The Ducks
llllliiliiii
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—
Scott Barnett Emerald
A. J. Feeley has had a tough time of late, and ASU’s Erik Flowers didn’t help any.
have won 18 of the 25.
However, none of those have
been against the Cougars. In the
previous 12 meetings, no game
has been decided by less than 10
points.
Continuing that trend sounds
just fine to the Ducks.
“We’ve been through too many
of those close ones,” senior
flanker Tony Hartley said. “I’d
like to have a couple games in the
Pac-10 where we know what’s go
ing to happen at the end of the
game.”
Deaths affect Griffey’s wish
SEATTLE — Ken Griffey Jr.
said the deaths of Walter Payton
and Payne Stewart triggered him
to ask the Seattle Mariners to
trade him to a team closer to his
home in Florida.
He knew both the U.S. Open
golf champion and the NFL’s ca
reer rushing leader, but the death
of Stewart was more shattering,
Griffey said in an interview in
Wednesday’s editions of The
Seattle Times.
“While my decision was main
ly about family, this is what led to
my final decision,” Griffey was
quoted as saying. “Payne missed
the cut at Disney (a golf tourna
ment in Orlando). On Saturday,
he went to see his son play foot
ball — his first football game —
and he caught a touchdown pass.
“On Monday, his wife and
daughter kissed him goodbye.
Forty-five minutes later, he’s not
there anymore.”
Stewart died last week in a
Learjet crash.
The accident drove home Grif
fey’s desire to spend more time
with his family.
“With our travel,” Griffey said,
“I play on one end of the country,
and they live at the other end. I’d
be flying all over the place. With
Trey in school, it would even be
tougher.”
He said he drives Trey to school
daily and wants to be able to see
him play youth baseball.
“I know people might ask about
us moving to Orlando, but that’s
where we want to live,” said Grif
fey, a 10-time All-Star. “Everyone
should live where they want. If
we stayed in Seattle, I’d only have
the offseason to do things with
Trey, and sometimes it gets so wet
it’s tough to do things.”
Mariners’ officials said Tues
day they will try to arrange a
trade. Griffey has veto power over
any deal.
He said he informed the
Mariners’ newly hired general
manager, Pat Gillick, when they
met Monday.
“I had never even met Pat be
fore,” Griffey said. ‘‘He seemed
like an all-right guy. I was only
there for a few minutes and told
them how I felt, and that was it.
There was no yelling or scream
ing.”
The Reds already have ex
pressed interest in Griffey. He
wouldn’t say if he was interested
in Cincinnati.
“So many things could jell or
not on this trade,” Griffey said.
“They might not find a trade they
like. They told me, ‘You may not
find one you like. But if there is
no trade, I’ll be going to spring,
training with Seattle at my normal
time. You don’t have to worry
about me. There’s not going to be
any distractions. You’ll still see
me, trade or not.”
Associated Press
DiCicco steps down as U.S. coach
He was the man behind the
scenes of one of the biggest stories
in women’s sports. Tony DiCicco
avoided the headlines, reserving
them for the players on his
women’s World Cup soccer team.
So when he resigned as coach of
the U.S. women’s national team
on Wednesday, it was no surprise
that he did so without fanfare.
A statement from U.S. Soccer
said the country’s most successful
soccer coach was leaving at the
end of the year to spend more time
with his family.
“The main reason I’m stepping
down is that it’s more important
for me to be a world-class husband
and father than a world-class
coach,” said DiCicco, who has
boys of ages 17,14,12, and 8.
“When I looked at the generous
financial opportunities available
to me next year, I didn’t see how
they could possibly enrich my life
more than spending time with my
wife and boys.”
DiCicco has been asked to work
with the federation as a consul
tant. The federation gave no indi
cation who might succeed him,
but Lauren Gregg, his top assis
tant, certainly will draw attention.
The new coach will face a difficult
task: replacing DiCicco with the
Olympics 10 months away.
“I can’t think of anyone more
deserving of the attention and
praise brought on by the U.S.
women’s national team’s suc
cess,” U.S. Soccer president
Robert Contiguglia said.
“He has won every trophy in
sight and done it with grace and
style. He has been an integral part
of the team’s success since our first
World Cup championship in
1991, and he has met every chal
lenge head on.”
Associated Press