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Oregon freshman Luke Larwin (bottom) has helped the Ducks deal with their depth problems at 174 pounds.
Ducks surviving key injuries
■The Oregon wrestling team
is succeeding despite a lack of
depth at certain positions
By Robbie McCallum
Oregon Daily Emerald
Quality, not quantity has been
the motto for the Oregon wrestling
team this season. I n -
juries have decimated the Ducks
roster, leaving
head coach
Chuck Kearney
with only 13 ac
tive wrestlers.
However, the
lack of depth has
n’t meant poor performances. This
year’s squad has the best dual
match record of any Oregon team
since the 1997-98 team and has the
highest national ranking (No. 14).
Most Oregon teams in the past
have had at least two wrestlers in
every weight class. The 2001 squad
is only two-deep in three classes.
Sophomore Jason Harless, junior
Kenny Cox and freshman Branson
Phillips provide depth at 125, 141
and 149 pounds, respectively.
Trouble began this fall when
junior David Watson suffered a
WRESTLING
broken ankle and Derrick Smith
left the team.
Later during the season, sopho
mores Matt Lee and Jake Leair both
sustained major injuries. Lee with
drew from school after a broken
ankle ended his season. Leair, who
was 21-17 for the Ducks last sea
son at 197 pounds, tore a ligament
in his knee.
Freshman Dustin Fisher is un
able to compete this season due to
his redshirt status.
Fortunately, the Ducks are near
ing the end of their season, where
depth is less crucial. Teams can
only send one wrestler each to the
Pacific-10 Conference Champi
onships, the qualifying tourna
ment for the NCAA Champi
onships.
Pac-10 Championships tickets
The Oregon Athletic Depart
ment is offering ticket packages for
the 2001 Pac-10 Championships
on Feb. 25-26 at McArthur Court.
The tournament will be divided
into four sessions across the two
days. Preliminaries will be held on
Feb. 25 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Quarterfinals and consolation first
round matches will be held from 6
p.m. to 9 p.m. On Monday, semifi
nals and consolation finals will
run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., fol
lowed by the championship finals
at 6 p.m.
Tickets for all four sessions are
available for $21 and individual
sessions for $7. For more informa
tion call the Duck ticket office at
346-4461 or visit the Len Casanova
Center. All seating is general ad
mission with doors opening one
hour prior to each session.
In the polls
Following an 18.-12 setback to
visiting Boise State, the Oregon
wrestling team dropped two places
in the Amateur Wrestling News
polls from No. 12 to No. 14.
Junior Shaun Williams and
sophomore Eric Webb lead the
Ducks individually. Williams, a
lightweight, and Webb, a heavy
weight, are both ranked No. 5.
Senior All-Americans Chael
Sonnen and Doug Lee are both
ranked seventh nationally. Sopho
more Brian Watsonrernained in the
top-10 despite an overtime loss
last week.
Junior Eugene Harris remained
No. 19 at 157 pounds.
Quarterbacks in Super Bowl spotlight
By Dave Goldberg
The AssociatedPress
TAMPA, Fla. — Trent Dilfer is
n’t John Elway and Kerry Collins
isn’t Joe Montana. Not even close.
Their skills aren’t close, and nei
adversity to sharpen us as football
players,” said Dilfer, who will
quarterback the Baltimore Ravens
against Collins and the New York
Giants in the NFL title game on
Sunday.
“Most of all, we’ve let adversity
make us better persons.”
In the case of Collins and Dilfer,
adversity is relative.
ther has the super
star sheen.
They do have
resilience.
“What the two
of us have in com
mon, I think, is
that we’ve allowed
Dilfer’s was on the field, where
he washed out after six years as
quarterback of the Tampa Bay Buc
caneers, who took him as the sixth
overall pick of the 1994 draft. He
was so highly regarded that when
Indianapolis bypassed him, at No.
5, it led to an on-air debate be
tween ESPN draft analyst Mel
Kiper Jr. and Bill Tobin, who was
the Colts’ personnel director then.
Dilfer’s play with the Bucs made
Tobin look good for passing on
him. He was mediocre at best, was
replaced as the starter last season
by Eric Zeier and then Shaun King,
and was finally released.
Collins’ troubles were far more
serious.
The first-ever draft pick of the
Carolina Panthers, fifth overall in
1995 after an outstanding career at
Penn State, he was a success al
most immediately. Collins led the
Panthers to the NFC title game in
his — and their — second season.
But behind the success were
huge problems.
Collins was an alcoholic who
could never stop at one beer. Even
in that dream second season, he
clearly lacked the confidence of a
star NFL quarterback — stammer
ing, rarely looking people in the
eye, clearly unsure of himself.
“I was described as ‘a lost soul.’
I think that was very right,” he said
Monday evening during a remark
able 45-minute session in which
he publicly exposed his deepest
scars, describing himself as es
tranged from a dysfunctional fam
ily which will come together for
the first time in years at Sunday’s
game.
But no one can take away this
moment. From either quarter
back.
Nowhere to run to. Nowhere to hide.
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