SPORTS BRIEFS
Pac-10 preseason soccer
poll favors Stanford
Defending Conference Champion
Stanford has been voted as the fa
vorite to win this year's Pacific-10
women's soccer title, according to the
Pac-10 preseason coaches' poll.
The Cardinal received six of 10 first
place votes, just edging UCLA which
garnered the four remaining first
place votes.
After finishing seventh last year dur
ing the regular season, Arizona State
bounded into the projected third spot
for 2003, followed by a pack of three
teams separated by six points in USC,
California and Washington.
Oregon fell in at No. 10, receiving
only 13 points.
Last year Stanford advanced to the
NCAA quarterfinals, losing 4-2 in an
overtime shoot-out to last season's
champion Portland. Stanford com
piled a league best 27-9-0 overall
record, and went 21 -2-0 against con
ference rivals. UCLA finished second
in the conference.
Yellow marketing effort
When the Oregon football team
opens its 2003 home season Sept. 6
against Nevada, the Ducks' marketing
department is envisioning a wave of
yellow-clad fanatics greeting the foot
ball team as it runs out of Autzen
Stadium's west tunnel.
To aid such a cause, the Moshof
sky's Center's Duck Shop has
stocked more than 9,000 yellow
"Lightning Strikes" T-shirts, selling
for $7 each, with one dollar from
each sale contributing to the fund
ing for the Oregon Marching Band
and the Ducks cheerleaders.
The color-coordinated effort is de
signed to heighten enthusiasm in a
venue that has acquired the reputa
tion as one of the toughest places for
opponents to play.
Oregon accumulated a 23-game
winning streak from 1997 through
2001. And the Ducks remain un
beaten in 18 non-conference games
in Autzen Stadium during Mike
Bellotti's eight-year Oregon head
coaching tenure.
The lightning yellow shirts also can
be purchased via the Internet at
www.goducks.com.
Track and Fields
completes staff
Dan Steele, a two-year volunteer
coach with the Oregon track and field
team, was hired as a full-time assistant
coach Tuesday.
Steele who has assisted with the hur
dlers and javelin throwers while a vol
unteer coach at Oregon, will now coach
the sprinters, hurdlers, jumpers and
heptathletes in the women’s program.
Steele was a two-time All-American
in the 400-meter hurdles at Eastern
Illinois as well as a nine-time Mid
Continent Conference Champion. In
2001, he was inducted into Eastern
Illinois' Hall of Fame.
In 2002 Steele competed in the
Winter Olympics, earning a bronze
medal with the U.S. bobsled team.
He also was a silver medal decathlete
in the 1999 Pan American Games
and placed fifth at the Olympic team >
trials in 2000.
— Jesse Thomas
Freshman wide
receiver Brian
Paysinger (center)
gets tackled by
freshman
cornerback Ryan
Gilliam (9)
in Saturday’s
scrimmage.
Jessica Waters
Emerald
Football
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good plays," sophomore comerback
Aaron Gipson said.
Gipson's position is one of a few
on the team that still remain up for
grabs as Oregon is whittling down
the numbers and defining the depth
chart. Senior cornerback Steven
Moore is solid at the corner posi
tion, but Gipson is fighting for the
other spot as freshman Ryan
Gilliam and junior transfer Rodney
Woods are also laying claim.
The coaches "said if the season start
ed right now, I'd be starting along with
Steven," Gipson said. "I just don't
want to get complacent, (I want to) go
out there and work hard all the time."
Gilliam led all tacklers in the
scrimmage and was credited with six
unassisted tackles and three assisted.
Oregon's running game is also
shaky with spots undetermined after
netting only 94 yards among 15 ball
carriers on Saturday, and averaging
only 2.1 yards per carry.
"Our offensive line can be very effi
cient and there is still a battle at the
tailback position," Bellotti said. "Once
those things are somewhat settled
then the offense will tend to gel where
you are playing a lot of people."
Oregon plans to continue to pare
down the number of players on both
sides of the ball throughout the
course of this week before the second
scrimmage Friday.
Contact the sports editor
at jessethomas@dailyemerald.com.
Thomas
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How many remember Pete Rose's
swagger, and him diving head first into
home plate? How many remember
Williams' great final stand at Fenway
Park with his career walk-off home run?
Why is it I get the feeling that 15
years from now Rose will be remem
bered as the man who bet on base
ball and finally made it into the Hall
of Fame after all the turmoil, and
Williams will be remembered for
what happened in his after life?
Ask your future kids or grandchil
dren who Ted Williams was.
They'll reply: "Oh yeah, wasn't that
the guy who had his DNA sold on e
bay and had his head separated from
his body while having his entire body
cryogenically frozen?"
Don't be surprised if that happens.
But the sports world is what it is and
the media sadly blow such incidents
out of proportion, overshadowing
what were great careers of some of
the world's finest athletes ever.
But to make a final switch, we can
look at what good has happened in
the golf world. Firstly, Tiger Woods is
no longer considered God, and thank
God for that.
Not that I didn't enjoy the great
ness of golfs resident deity, but
rooting for the underdog is so much
better. Shaun Micheel and Ben Cur
tis — who had ever heard of them
before two months ago?
Now golf has been given new life be
cause it doesn't matter if you are ranked
first or No. 500 — dearly, anybody can
come out of the woodwork to win a
major. As it should be in golf, it comes
down to who is their best on Sunday —
and that crowns a champion.
The sports world has its paradoxes,
nobody would deny that. Let's just
hope that Superman heals quickly,
golf feels comfortable betting on peo
ple ranked lower than No. 300, and
people don't forget that Rose and
Williams did play some baseball in
their careers.
Contact the sports editor
at jessethomas@dailyemerald.com.
His opinions do not necessarily
represent those of the Emerald.
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