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Adam Jude
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World Cup
glory takes
you back
to England
Britannia!
MW Britannia rules the waves.
M^C Britains never never never
JL m. shall be slaves.
Ahh, for the life of an English foot
ball hooligan. Drink beer. Sing songs.
Root, root, root for The Boys.
Give me St. George in my heart, keep
me English.
Give me St. George in my heart, Isay.
Give me St. George in my heart, keep
me English.
Keep me English to my dying day.
No surrender!
No surrender!
No surrender to the IBA.
The English fans lifted their Boys in
the English World Cup opener Sunday
morning, filling
Saitama Stadium
in Japan with a sea
of noise, their
notes cascading
down the seats and
enveloping the ac
tion on the field.
Even through
my tinny-sound
ing Sanyo televi
sion set, the
sounds of the Eng
lish transported
me to another
time, a time when I
knew those chants
by heart, a time
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Two minutes for
crosschecking
when even this star-spangled boy bled
for the St. George cross.
I lived in London for two formative
years, and the sporting experience was
, as rich and diverse as the cultural ex
perience. But not because the sporting
scene was rich and diverse; in fact I
found quite the opposite to be true.
In England there is football, and
only football.
English boys and girls have two deep
seeded loyalties: their club team and
their national squad. King and country.
Left hand and right. The English football
talent is culled on the country’s play
grounds, where Britain’s children play
football for hours a day. As an American,
I was soon “broken in” on the concrete
fields of London, where I learned the
subtleties of the game shooting at a brick
wall behind my schoolgrounds.
We knew the players on the national
squad well, rooted them on in Italy
1990 (in England there is no need for
the moniker “World Cup,” the place
and the year suffice). Gascoigne,
Lineker and Platt were our gods.
Paul Gascoigne, the young, brash
hero of that English squad, famously
shed tears when he received a yellow
card in the overtime of England’s semi
final contest with Germany. He cried
because it was his second yellow of the
tournament, which meant he would
miss the final if England won.
Watching Gascoigne spill those tears
had a soccer-goal-sized impact on my
young sporting heart. The hero’s passion
was unmatched by any of my American
idols. His love for the game welled up in
his heart and out of his eyes that day —
and I was forever changed.
There is no way to describe how
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USC sprinter wins fourth NCAA title
■Angela Williams becomes
the first sprinter to ever win
four NCAA championships
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
The process wasn’t exactly the same,
but the results were.
USC’s Angela Williams became the
first sprinter — regardless of gender — to
win four 100 meter titles at the NCAA
Championships on Saturday. Williams
narrowly edged teammate Natasha May
ers by 0.01 seconds to claim the trophy.
“That was by a hair,” Williams said
after the race. “I barely made it out of
that. I had to lean and I’ve never had to
lean before.”
Suzy Favor of Wisconsin, who won the
I, 500 from 1987 to 1990, and Seilala Sua
of UCLA, who won the discus from 1997
to 2000, are the only other women to ever
win four NCAA titles in the same event.
“I was feeling so much pressure,” said
Williams, who ran 11.29 to Mayers’
II. 30. “When I looked up and realized I
had won, it felt like a huge weight had
been lifted from my shoulders.”
The 5-foot-2-inch Ontario, Calif., na
tive, who holds the collegiate record in
the indoor 60-meter dash (7.09), has
lived up to the high expectations placed
upon her at age 12, when she was
dubbed the next Florence Griffith-Joyner.
“What Angela Williams has done for
the USC program is immeasurable,” USC
head coach Ron Allice said. “If you take
a look at our storied history at USC, cer
tainly she is the greatest female athlete to
come to USC in track and field.”
Williams led USC to its first NCAA
team title in 2001 at Hayward Field. The
Trojans finished third at NCAA meet this
year in Baton Rouge, La.
“When I won this event as a fresh
man, I remember the huge roar from the
crowd and how it felt to see and hear
people cheering for me,” Williams said
Saturday. “When I won it tonight, there
was that same reaction from the crowd
and it felt to me like my career had the
proper bookends. When I won as a
freshman, that was the first chapter.
Now that I’ve won again, it’s another
chapter that has been closed. And that
makes me feel complete.
“And now, it’s time to start a new
book.”
E-mail sports editor Adam Jude
at adamjude@dailyemerald.com.
USC’s Angela Williams became the first collegiate athlete to win
four 100 meter titles at the NCAA Championships on Saturday.
Adam Amato Emerald
Freshman Katie McKeever (above) and sophomore Kirsten Riley (above right) were disappointed
with failing to qualify for NCAAs this season, but will use H as motivation for the future.
the
WAVE of the
FUTURE
■The names Katie McKeeverand Kirsten
Riley will be synonymous with success
for the Oregon track and field team in 2003
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regon track athletes Katie McKeever and Kirsten
Riley could not be more different.
1 J McKeever, a freshman, was ranked 31st in the
nation in the discus, and hails from Woodland,
Calif. Riley, a sophomore pole vaulter, tied for 26th and is
from Eugene, formerly attending South Eugene High School.
However, when you look a little further, the two have a
couple common denominators. Both represent the future for
head coach Tom Heinonen’s squad, barely missing competi
tion in the recently completed NCAA Championships in Ba
ton Rouge, La., and still have a long way to go.
With the NCAA typically accepting 19 to 22 athletes in
each event — in 2003 that number will rise to around 25 —
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