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Rodman charged
with drunken driving
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP)—The
Worm is in trouble again.
Basketball star Dennis Rod
man was charged Tuesday
with misdemeanor drunken
driving stemming from a De
cember arrest in Costa Mesa,
Calif. Meanwhile, his court
date in Las Vegas on a cock
tail waitress’ claim that he
grabbed her breasts is near
ing.
Police said the 38-year-old
Dallas Mavericks forward
had a blood-alcohol level of
.15, nearly twice California’s
legal limit, when he was
pulled over Dec. 22.
After his arrest, a smiling
Rodman told reporters he
had a couple of beers and
had no criticism for officers
who stopped him.
“They’re doing their job,
they’re doing their job,” he
said.
McSorley charged for
attack on Brashear
VANCOUVER, British Colum
bia (AP)—Marty McSorley
must now answer to a Cana
dian court for his stick attack
on Vancouver’s Donald Bras
hear.
The Boston Bruins defense
man — one of the league’s
tough guys — was charged
with one count of assault
with a weapon for his Feb. 21
attack. He plans to plead in
nocent, his lawyer said.
McSorley, who will not have
to appear at the hearing,
would face a maximum of 18
months in jail if convicted.
“I’m disappointed,” McSor
ley said in an interview with
ESPN. “I’m disappointed it’s
going to court because I
don’t know if anybody really
knows right now how much
I’ve already lost.”
Yanks can't hit;
Steinbrenner hits exit
TAM PA, Fla. (AP) — George
Steinbrenner is having a hard
time watching his New York
Yankees. In fact, he can’t
even sit through the whole
game.
The Boss made another early
exit from his box — along
with his guest, television host
Regis Philbin — as the Yan
kees lost to Minnesota 7-5
Tuesday night, leaving the
World Series champions win
less in six exhibition games.
The day before, Steinbrenner
ducked out during a 15-1
pasting by Cleveland.
“Nobody likes losing. I don’t
like losing,” Steinbrenner
said at the time. “I don’t like
losing by the numbers we’re
losing by.”
Best Bet
Men’s college hoops
Big East Tournament
Viallanova vs. Pittsburgh
6:30 p.m., ESPN
Sports
Wednesday
March 8,2000
Volume 101, Issue 113
ElMrald
Junior Doug
Lee has
become the
cornerstone
of Oregon
wrestling
because of
his hard
work and
leadership
By Matt O'Neill
Oregon Daily Emerald
With a quick glance at the
end of a typical Oregon
wrestling practice session one
can see a lone grappler still
working hard.
That person is Doug Lee. He
is the epitome of what hard
work brings.
While the other members of
the team are milling around or
getting a drink of water, he is
still jumping rope — cursing
himself every time he has to
start over.
“He’s a machine; watching
him with his jump rope makes
me want to get mine,” sopho
more Eugene Harris said. “See
ing that makes everyone want
to work harder.”
That drive for perfection and
work ethic has pushed Lee into
some elite company. It has gar
nered the junior from Central
Point two Pacific-10 Confer
ence titles and three trips to the
National Championships in
three years.
That kind of determination
Turn to Doug Lee, page 6
Emerald
Doug Lee hopes to upend his competition at the National Championship Tournament next week.
Precarious Pac-10 still up for grabs
The remainder
of the Pac-10
season, like
the preceding
nine weeks, is
still impossible
to predict
Women's Notes
By Mirjam Swanson
Oregon Daily Emerald
If nothing else, this ridicu
lously unpredictable Pacific-10
Conference race makes for a
good, if baffling, story.
It all is truly, in Oregon’s
Shaquala Williams words, “a
little schizo.”
And now, with one weekend
of play left, a number of see
narios could unfold before the
dust settles.
Check it out: If Oregon (13-4
Pac-10) beats Oregon State on
Friday and Stanford (12-4)
wins its final two games
against the Arizona schools,
the Ducks share the Pac-10 ti
tle for the second straight year,
this time with the Cardinal in
stead of UCLA.
If Oregon wins and Stanford
loses either of its games, the
Ducks attain sole status as Con
ference champs.
If Oregon loses and the Car
dinal wins both of its games,
then Stanford wins it all — for
the 10th time in 12 years.
If the Ducks lose and Ari
zona wins both of its remain
ing games — including Thurs
day’s in Palo Alto, Calif. —
then there will be a three-way
tie.
Turn to Women, page 6
Title at stake for Arizona and Stanford
Emerald
Freshman Curtis Borchardt (11) set a school-record with six
blocks in an earlier game this season and will be looking to feast
on Wildcat shot attempts this Thursday.
■ The Pac-10 game of
the week has top-rated
teams clash in the desert
Men’s Notes
By jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
In the words of Michael
Buffer, “Let’s get ready to ruu
uuuuumble!”
After a wild weekend of Pa
cific-10 Conference basketball,
the top two teams in the league
get set to duke it out in the
main event this Thursday, as
both vie for the conference ti
tle.
What makes No. 9 Arizona
(13-3) and No. 3 Stanford's (14
2) contest all the more intrigu
ing is that both teams are com
ing off of losses — the first
time all season that they have
lost on the same day.
And both teams didn’t just
lose basketball games. They
lost heartbreakers. Stanford
played at home and got
bounced by a sudden surge of
determination by the UCLA
Bruins, 94-93.
Meanwhile, in Eugene, Ari
zona head coach Lute Olson
had written on the chalkboard
at halftime that Stanford had
lost. He told his team that a
win would tie the Wildcats for
first place.
Obviously the motivation
worked — for the first eight
minutes of the second half
anyway. The Wildcats stormed
out to a commanding 17-point
lead, but then got outscored
35-13, and lost 86-81.
Which sets the stage for
Thursday’s prime time tilt at
7:30 p.m. on Fox Sports Net.
Once the previous weekend’s
mayhem is forgotten, nothing
much will have changed in the
conference.
Stanford still holds a one
game advantage over Arizona.
With a win, the Cardinal
clinches its second straight
Pac-10 title, and most likely a
Turn to Men’s title, page 8
ii The
good news
is that, de
spite last
weekend,
we have a
chance to
get a share
of the title:
Lute Olson
Arizona head
coach
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