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five scholarly panels on the work of
Kesey in the Fir Room, EMU, at
UO, starting at 7 pm on November 14
the Merry Pranksters at 2:15
November 15 in the EMU
Presented by the Council for Theatre and
Performance with the departments of Theatre
Arts and English. Panels and Pranksters open
to the public and free of charge.
November 14-16
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Drew would have
been key for Ducks
Imagine an Oregon football team
with one of the most highly recruited
running backs in the nation.
Think of Kellen Clemens or Jason
Fife handing off to this running back,
then seeing him split the opposing
team's defensive line for a 6-yard gain.
Hank Hager
Behind the dish
Then another 6-yard gain, which is
followed by a 23-yard blast.
And that would be just the tip of
the iceberg.
The Ducks almost had that in Mau
rice Drew. Instead, the 5-foot-8-inch
back is doing wonders for the UCLA
offense. He hasn't rushed for more
than 500 yards this season, but he is a
quick, versatile back.
While he's small in stature, he
weighs 200 pounds, a nice size for a
collegiate runner. Yet, some teams
may have been scared off because of
his size.
Not Oregon. Not Oregon head
coach Mike Bellotti.
Bellotti openly admits he wanted
Drew to become a Duck, but as it
would turn out, Drew decided to stay
in California.
Instead of wowing crowds at
Autzen Stadium, he's doing it at the
Rose Bowl. Instead of gamering recog
nition in the Northwest, he's getting it
in Southern California.
After losing Onterrio Smith to the
NFL after last year, Drew's place on the
Ducks would have been a boon to the
offense. Terrence Whitehead is a good
running back and should improve in
his final two seasons in Eugene.
Whitehead beat out three other ca
pable runners for the position, but he
has been inconsistent in his first ful!
season with the Ducks. Chris Vincent
has been OK at times, but has yet to
get to the level he showed during
spring football.
Ryan Shaw has seemingly disap
peared from Oregon's offensive plans,
and save for a few key carries this sea
son, Kenny Washington's specialty
this year has been special teams.
There is something about Drew
that screams future collegiate star.
Maybe it's the fact he played for De
La Salle High School, the school with
the most consecutive wins in high
school history. Or maybe it's that he's
taken control of the UCLA running
game. He's taken it out of the hands
of incumbent Tyler Ebell, who did the
same thing to Manuel White last year.
My bets are, though, that Drew
takes the job and runs with it. And not
just the rest of this year, or next. Bar
ring injuries or personal problems,
Drew should be a fixture at UCIA for
the next three seasons.
That should especially be the case
since Matt Moore and Drew Olson
don't play like the quarterbacks of the
future. Moore was injured early on,
and Olson has been inconsistent, for
the most part. When Moore returned,
he became just as inconsistent as Ol
son.
Former UCLA head coach Bob
Toledo seemed to get the best out of
his quarterbacks. Maybe it's not just
current head coach Karl Dorrell's
thing to get them going.
But he's got Drew going, and re
gardless of who the Bruins have be
hind center, they should be something
to watch in the Pacific-10 Conference.
We all know what Steven Jackson
did for Oregon State when he arrived
on the scene.
Drew could do the same.
Now imagine if he found his way
to Eugene.
Scary, huh?
Contact the sports editor
at hankhager@dailyemerald.com.
His opinions do not necessarily
represent those of the Emerald.
SPORTS BRIEFS
Prefontaine Classic
moved to June
Tom Jordan, meet director for the
Prefontaine Classic Grand Prix, an
nounced Wednesday that the 29th
version of the event will be held on
June 19 at Hayward Field.
The meet was held on May 24 last
year.
It will be the 10th year in a row the
race will be part of the International
Amateur Athletics Federation Grand
Prix circuit. It is also the third straight
year it will be part of USA Track &
Field's Golden Spike Tour Series.
Moving the Prefontaine to June will
make the event the last invitational
meet in the United States in 2004 be
fore the Olympic Trials are held in
Sacramento, Calif., on July 9.
Tickets can be purchased in person
beginning on April 7. They can be
bought at the Casanova Center or by
calling 1-800-WEBFOOT.
Online ticket sales will begin March
31 and can be purchased through
Oregon's Web site, www.goducks.com.
Men's golf inks two
The Oregon men's golf team signed
two recruits from Southern California
on Thursday.
Yorba Linda native Derek Sipe and
Joey Benedetti, who hails from Hunt
ington Beach, signed National Letters
of Intent.
"I've seen them both play, and they
are really good golfers," head coach
Steve Nosier said in a press release.
"They both have a chance to come
here and play right away. Derek has a
very impressive resume and under
stands how to win a tournament. Joey
doesn't quite have the same back
ground, but I think he has a chance to
be just as good. I'm really excited be
cause I think the two of them together
should provide a solid base for our
team for the next several years."
The Ducks will lose seniors Mike
Sica and jimmy White to graduation
after this season.
Garbin gamers
Pac-10 honors
Oregon's Nicole Garbin was
named to the Pacific-10 Conference's
All-Conference Second-Team on
Thursday.
Garbin led the conference in shots
with 70. She ranked in the top 10 in
assists with seven and points with
21. She had seven goals this season,
which placed her ninth in the con
ference and tied for eighth with two
game-winning goals.
The junior was the only Duck to
be named to the team.
Ferreira signs two
Oregon volleyball head coach
Carl Ferreira signed two players to
National Letters of Intent Thursday.
Justine Retry and Karen Wadding
ton signed the letters. Both stand 6
foot-2 and play the middle blocker
position.
Retry, aTrumansburg, N.Y., native,
was a first team Class C all-state se
lection in 2002. Waddington hails
from Langley, B.C., and has led D.W.
Poppy Secondary to a No. 2 ranking
for most of the season.
— Hank Hager