Lewis dodges murder questions at Super Bowl I
By Jim Litke
The Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. — A year ago, Ray
Lewis was wearing handcuffs and
an orange prison jumpsuit. Tues
day, he wore a diamond-encrusted
watch and a white Baltimore
Ravens jersey.
Other than the change of outfits,
Lewis kept insisting he was the
same man.
A midday sun hovered over his
left shoulder as he took a seat in
front of several hundred reporters.
He put an expensive pair of sun
glasses down in front of him, fold
ed his hands and for an hour, calm
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“So next week I can tell you
whether we’ve grown up, or if
we’re back in the same boat.”
A week ago at this time, Oregon
was determined to beat Washing
ton at home after falling to Califor
nia and Stanford in a rather lethar
gic fashion. The poor play
continued against the Huskies as
the Ducks lost 72-71 in overtime in
a game in which Oregon shot just
34.5 percent from the field.
The Ducks then held an encour
aging meeting where players spoke
about what needed to happen for
them to return to the high level of
play they had in December. The
meeting seemed to help, as Oregon
looked more poised and fluid in its
victory against Washington State
Saturday.
“It was a tale of two games,”
ly deflected every question that
wasn’t about football.
“I’m not here to justify what went
on,” Lewis said. “That's a story in
my book that’s closed.”
Tuesday was media day at the
Super Bowl. It’s the day the Nation
al Football League normally revels
in, but one officials have dreaded
since it became apparent Lewis was
talented and determined enough to
get the Ravens to the championship
game.
It’s a day set aside for uncovering
the personal stories of triumph and
tribulation that converge in the fi
nale. Lewis’ journey from last Janu
Kent said of the home stand. “One
game you saw a team that played a
lot of individual basketball and
wasn’t on the same page. And then
Saturday you saw a team that had
come back together and played
well.
“Hopefully they can understand
the difference.”
Big Chris making a big
presence
One of the biggest bright spots for
the Ducks last weekend also hap
pened to be their biggest player.
Junior center Chris Christof
fersen, who towers over his team
mates at 7-feet-2, scored a career
high 11 points in Oregon’s 81-66
victory against the Cougars.
The Roenne, Denmark, native
was all over the floor, setting solid
screens, grabbing key rebounds,
blocking shots and taking it strong
to the hoop on offense.
ary to this one featured more adver
sity, more twists, turns and tragedy
than all the other players’ stories
laid end to end.
But he wasn’t going to talk about
it. It’s easy to understand why.
In the early morning hours after
last season’s Super Bowl in Atlanta,
two young men were stabbed to
death outside a nightclub just miles
from the stadium. As chaos
reigned, Lewis, several friends and
a half-dozen hangers-on piled into
a limousine Lewis had chartered
and fled.
Long considered one of pro foot
ball’s best players, he was charged
Christoffersen hasn’t played in
five of Oregon’s 15 games this sea
son, but when asked if he’ll play
this weekend, Kent emphatically
responded, “Oh yeah.”
“He changes the game,” Kent
said. “Because of his size, people
have a hard time matching up with
him. He’s had two good practices
this week on top of the games, so
that’s encouraging to see.”
Sure enough, at the end of Ore
gon’s practice Tuesday, Christof
fersen made his presence felt with
back-to-back powerful dunks that
brought a smile to the Great Dane’s
face.
“I’m having a lot of fun out
there,” Christoffersen said. “It’s al
ways more fun when you have
your confidence going and the
coaches believe in you. I would
like to think that I bring a together
ness to the team.”
Jones came into the program
in the murders, then exonerated
several weeks later. Under an agree
ment with prosecutors, Lewis
pleaded guilty to misdemeanor ob
struction of justice and testified
against his two former co-defen
dants.
He recalled on the witness stand
how one, Joseph Sweeting, bran
dished a knife as they sped away in
the limo and made punching mo
tions with it. “Every time they hit
me,” Lewis quoted Sweeting as say
ing, “I hit them.”
Even so, Sweeting and the oth
er co-defendant, Reginald Oakley,
were acquitted of all charges in
with Christoffersen as a freshman,
and knows that there’s a lot of un
tapped potential in him.
“I know what Chris can do,”
Jones said. “He’s a good player,
and people don’t know that yet.
When you play with him every
day, you know the type of skills he
has. He’s going to surprise a lot of
people.”
Miller’s time to go
Washington State senior guard
Eddie Miller, who was one of the
six players suspended from last
Saturday’s game with Oregon,
has been dismissed from the
team.
According to the Spokesman-Re
view, Miller was the “ringleader” in
gathering five of his teammates and
going out to Eugene’s Rock N’
Rodeo bar late Friday night after
their hotel room had been checked
by their coaches.
While at the bar, the six players —
June. Lewis got a year’s probation.
No one was convicted of the
deaths of Jacinth Baker and
Richard Lollar.
Even now, Lewis remains unre
pentant. He is convinced prosecu
tors dragged him into the case be
cause of his high profile and that
the NFL tried to make an example
of him because several other play
ers were facing felony trials alleging
murder and sexual assaults.
“It was never about those two
kids lying dead in the street,” Lewis
said. “It was about Ray Lewis, and
that's not right. Don’t be mad at me
because I’m at center stage.”
all dressed in Cougar sweats — were
spotted by Oregon sports informa
tion assistant director Greg Walker.
Walker, a former Washington State
employee, called Cougars head
coach Paul Graham to notify him.
“Given my history with the
team, I felt obligated to tell Paul,”
Walker said.
Graham cited a poor attitude to
ward team responsibilities as the
main reason for taking the
Cougars’ second-leading scorer off
the team.
“After discussions with my
coaching staff, we have made the
decision that Eddie Miller’s bas
ketball career at WSU is over,”
Graham said. “Eddie is a senior
and has been given several
chances, yet has failed to demon
strate a commitment to the pro
gram.”
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Pac-10 and 7-8 overall.
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