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Oregon Daily Emerald
Thesday, May 24, 2005
“He had to cut the wind with his balls,
which is something we had to see. ”
49ers coach Mike Nolan on the team’s private workout with
Alex Smith before the 2005 draft
■ In my opinion
CLAYTON JONES
SEVENTH INNING STRETCH
Typing takes
first victim
in world of
pro baseball
I’ve heard of a lot of ways that athletes injure
themselves and try to prevent injuries, but Chica
go Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano has found a
new way.
E-mailing.
According to the Associated Press, the right
hander has been instructed to cut back his
computer time, because the club believes the
four hours he spends a day typing e-mails to
his brother could be contributing to his recent
elbow problems.
I wish I was making this up.
How do you spend four hours of your
day e-mailing?
Maybe he should invest in Instant Messen
ger or this new device called a telephone to
communicate with his brother.
Maybe he is one of those finger-peck typists
and has to search for each letter.
Maybe he should spend some of that profes
sional athlete cash and get himself a high-speed
Internet connection.
Maybe he can go old-school and write letters.
The thing I don’t get is, what does someone
say in a four hour e-mail session? How many
times can he say how his day went and how he
can’t believe that his team is underachieving
every year?
But really, who actually believes he is spend
ing all this time e-mailing? This man is probably
Googling himself or partaking in other wireless
activities that we probably shouldn’t talk about
in a column.
Well thank goodness good old Dr. Dusty Baker
was there to help diagnose the situation.
“It’s not carpal tunnel, but if you don’t watch
it, who knows what it can lead to,” the Cubs
manager said. “We are trying to alleviate it.”
Alleviate it?
How about trying to have your pitchers throw
less than 136 pitches in a game like you had Zam
brano do two weeks ago against Philadelphia.
(Also, Baker can’t have the Cubs’ other young
ace, Mark Prior, throwing 126 pitches a couple
weeks after returning from elbow problems.)
Next thing you know, the Cubs will be teach
ing proper typing technique to their pitchers and
will need to bring in an Internet coach to help
pitchers navigate the Web faster and with a de
creased chance of injury.
Maybe Comcast can hook them up with DSL
and rake them over the coals with high prices.
That’s the Cubs for you.
In other odd baseball news, Cincinnati Reds
closer Danny Graves was let go by the team a day
after making an obscene gesture at a fan after the
fan yelled at him while he was in the dugout.
I would like to say that it’s good to see a team
stand up for the fans, but the man has been
horrible this season. He had an ERA of 7.76 and
has blown more games than the Reds could care
to see.
Maybe the former All-Star knew his time was
coming and just needed to vent.
Or maybe his troubles were due to excessive
e-mailing.
claytonjones@ dailyemerald, com
■ Duck tennis
Panova makes early exit at NCAAs
Daria Panova ends her career
as a Duck without the coveted I
individual championship title
BY ALEX TAM
DAILY EMERALD FREELANCE REPORTER
Senior Daria Panova’s quest for her
first national title came to an end in the
first round of the NCAA Individual Cham
pionships on Monday.
Panova fell to Kentucky sophomore
Sarah Foster in straight sets, 6-1, 6-3. The
loss ended one of the most storied tennis *
careers in Oregon history.
The 5-foot-7 native of Moscow, Russia, \
owns many of the Ducks’ women’s tennis
records. During her four-year career, she ac
cumulated a program-best 93 career victories
and has the most victories in a single season
(32). The 22-year-old is also a three-time Pa
cific-10 Conference singles champion and was
named the Pac-10 Player of the Year following
hpr sophomore season.
This season, Panova finished with a 19-14
singles record, leading the Ducks to a 17-8
overall record and an NCAA Tournament ap
pearance. It was the team’s second consecu
tive 17-win season. Oregon lost in the second
round of the tournament to Stanford, 4-0.
In addition to Panova, the Ducks will lose
seniors Davina Mendiburu and Ester Bak next
season. The team’s top returning starter is f
sophomore Dominika Dieskova, who finished
this past season with a 22-14 overall record.
I
Swinnen advances to NCAA
Individual Tournament
Oregon senior Sven Swinnen will attempt
to win his first national title when he com
petes at the NCAA Individual Championships
L
TENNIS, page 10
Nicou: Barker | Photographer
Oregon senior Daria
Panova, seen here
earlier this season,
lost the NCAA
Individual
Championships in
Monday’s first round
against Kentucky's
Sarah Foster,
6-1,6-3, in
Athens, Ga.
■ Club rugby
Club caves against Alumni in 60-5 loss
Zani- Rrn | Photographer
An Oregon Alumni player streaks by a member of the Club team in Saturday's Ducks vs. Alumni game, a tradition
started last year to keep ties between current and former players. The Alumni crushed the Club team, 60-5.
Oregon's team missed the help
of seven starting seniors at their
Ducks vs. Alumni fundraiser
BY STEFANIE LOH
DAILY EMERALD FREELANCE REPORTER
The annual Ducks vs. Alumni game ended
on a high note for the women’s Club rugby
team as freshman Autumn Manelick ran the
ball into the end zone. Manelick capped off a
final valiant offensive effort that began
halfway down the field, but the five points
that resulted from the score came too little,
too late for Oregon; the Ducks lost 60-5 on
Saturday at Southbank Field.
“We actually did better than 1 thought,”
Ducks head coach Greg Farrell said. “We’re
missing seven of our starting seniors today, *
and they are our most experienced players, so
we fielded a really young team, and I think
they did well.”
Stephanie Hyde, a sophomore on the team,
echoed the sentiment.
“We were predominantly rookies today,”
she said. “We were a little rusty because our
season ended seven weeks ago, but we drew
on this year’s experience, and it was a pretty
good game. ”
Four of Oregon’s regular starters were away
at tryouts for the National Rugby team — a tes
tament to the successful season the Club team
had this year. The Ducks were undefeated and
won the Pacific Northwest Championships.
RUGBY, page 10