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Page 12 Portland Observer, November 12, 1981 88888 8 88 88 888 88 8 8 8 8 ^ oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 Ì T 8 °°J 3 L ocations To S erve You: 5949 N.E. Union Ave. 283 9542 3120 N.E. Union Ave. 281 2628 2320 S.E. 82nd Ave. 774-9651 □ □ □ □ ALL NEW FUEL EFFICIENT CARS LOW DAILY RATES - FROM ’19« WEEKEND RATES - ‘15°° MAJOR CREDIT CARDS OR CASH RENTALS (CALL FOR CASH REQUIREMENTS) 223-4531 Score two for Adrian Dantley, last year's scoring champ. Paxton misses this one but scores 21 against the Jazz. (Photo: Michael Washington) 600 SW Pino Between 6th & Broadway Sports Talk by Ron Sykes, Sports Editor Two contrasting fo o tb a ll teams collided last Saturday in Pullman as Oregon—only three months ago thought to be a team o f d e s tin y - played WSU. a team that has taken that title fo r itself with a stunning 39-7 win over Oregon. The Cougars did little to diminish their amazing season last Saturday, as they carried the Tight to the less than pow erful Ducks before a crowd o f 30,000 plus. The Cougs walloped the hapless Ducks unmer cifully, to leave their record at 7-1-1 and 4-1-1 in the PAC-10. Oregon, meanwhile, continued to add to its woes. The Duck offense is simply non-existent. Last Saturday they amassed ju st 263 yards. A good high school team could do bet ter. And this team was considered a Rose Bowl contender. Oregon is a mystery, one that this writer doesn’ t pretend to be able to solve. Unlike Oregon State the talent does exist on this Duck team. The coaching is solid, the desire is apparent, but does a quarterback make that much difference? Against Coach Rich Brooks’ team the Cougars did everything they wanted to do. The only thing they didn’t do was take prisoners. The U niversity o f Oregon an nounced last year that the school was dropping their baseball p ro gram. Maybe the University gave up on the wrong sport. Oregon State continues to show up each Saturday and their oppon ents continue to punish them for do ing so. Last Saturday, S tanford, playing like the San Francisco 49ers, crushed the Beavers, playing like George Fox, 63-9. “ I was much more pleased with the way our team approached this game,” Avezzano said. “ We had an Alpenrose City Champs Alpenrose Dairy coached by Greg W illiam s won the Pop Warner championship last Saturday by de feating Western Wire 35-6 in a game played at Walker Stadium. Alpen rose was led by tailback John Eas ton’s two touchdowns. Alpenrose will meet CYO cham pion O ur Lady o f the lake this Thursday at 7:45. Scoring by quarters: 1 2 Alpenrose 6 15 Western Wire 0 0 3 8 0 4 6 6 Alpenrose: Easton 1 yd. run, kick xd., 2 pt conversion; Bryant 2 yd. •im I iislon 2 v<l run ? pt tu rn e r 1 attitude o f agressiveness about this game that our team likes.” W ebster’ s Handy College D ic tio na ry defines "aggressive” as: tending to attack or be hostile. The only thing these Beavers dared at tack was their pre-game meal, and as far as h o s tility goes I ’ ve seen more in a convent. Avezzano o f fered praises for Stanford, that John Elway was the top QB in America, that D arrin Nelson was surely the best back in the PAC-10. Did you hear that, Marcus Allen? But wasn’t this Stanford team 1-7 before stomping the Beavers. And isn’ t it true that Stanford isn’ t that good, only that the Beavers are that bad. Tony Dorsett, on Monday night, became the first player ever to gain 1,000 yeards in his first 5 seasons. But really how im portant is 1,000 yards as a milestone. When Jim Brown played in the NFL the sche dule only called for 10 games. Even tually it was moved to 12, then later to 16. Now i f a player in Brown’ s era gained 1,000 yards it meant something because they only played 10 games. But 1,000 yards in 16 tries can no longer be a milestone. Racing fans are well aware o f the importance o f a track’ s condition. But nothing is absolute and a track’s condition can change several times during a single day. Dale Duspiva o f the Daily Racing Form explains the differences: Fast-. “ A normal track, but there can be variations,” says Duspiva. Those variations form what handi cappers call the "track variance” — a numerical value placed on the times o f a day’ s race. You take a sum total o f all times during a day and compare them with a scale time o f what each class o f horse should cover the distance. The result is the track’ s variance. Sloppy: " A great deal o f water sittin on top o f the track means it ’ s sloppy. The times can be just as fast as on a fast track because there’ s s till a solid base. F ro n t-ru n n in g horses have an advantage on a sloppy track because nothing is be ing kicked into their faces. Other horses and their jockeys get discour aged, and sometimes they can get weighted down from the mud.” Muddy: "Q uite a bit o f moisture on the track, but some o f the water has worked its way down. The bot tom is slowly softening. Times are quite a bit slower, and front-runners have less o f an advantage because the track is more tiring.” Kelvin Ransey, Blazer point guard, is currently tied for second in assists in the NBA with an a vet age o f 8.2. Through the first 6 games the brilliant playmaker from Ohio State has dished out 29 assists. However, Ransey came under attack last week from a local scribe for not passing enough to running-mate Jim Pax son. "Ransey continues to make one bad mistake,” Steve Dain says. “ He seldom passes to P a xso n ." W ell, now, Mr. Dain, where did you ever get that idea? A t last look Paxson had put it up 82 times, Calvin Natt Racing news tells us that there are 85, and Mychal Thompson a team three other track terms but for Port leading 97. Ransey, himself, has at land these are the only ones fans will tempted 77 shots, five less than Pax encounter. son. You have to figure since Natt and Thompson lead the team in re The Class A A A H igh School bounding, that the difference could fo o tb a ll p la y o ff picture is s till be their ability to grab the offensive muddy, but it ’ s crystal clear for the boards. Paxson, at 6-6, only has 15 P I.I------ they’ re all out. The first rebounds. round ended with Jefferson falling Ransey should not be blamed for 48-13, Grant losing to Forest Grove Paxson’s unwillingness to mix it up 23-20, South Salem edged Benson 9- inside. The way Natt and Thompson 7 and 8th ranked Madison trampled are playing it would be a big mistake by C h u rch ill 27-13. The M etro to feed Paxson outside rather than League’ s Central Catholic was the go inside for the higher percentage only city team to win. CC prevailed shot. over third-ranked North Eugene 7- Thompson is c u rre n tly h ittin g 6. The Rams next face Dallas at Dal .546 from the field; Natt is shooting las, Oregon. a lo fty .565, while Paxson is .537. For the P .I.L ., however, it’s wait Who dares alter success. until next year. You can’ t blame B illy Ray Bates “ It took me four years o f playing fo r being frustrated. Sure, going vice safety and strong safety before in to the Denver game BRB was I made it to the corner. I would have shooting less than 30 per cent from been scared to death i f Coach the field. But the problem with Billy Landry had put me on the cover my was, and is, lack o f playing time and rookie year.” i f there’ s anything certain in this —Mel Renfro troubled world o f o u rs .. . it ’ s Billy Ray’s offensive ability. Whenever the Blazers are forced to start Billy, i.e., the playoffs, he has responded well. When BRB can go onto the court and feel com fort able that he’s going to play, then the caliber o f his play is always o u t standing. Save money on your insurance. This week in boxing The Ali-Berbich Bahaman fijght has been moved back to Dec. 11. There’s a great undercard, featuring Greg Page vs Scott LeDoux in a 12- rounder. Thomas Hearns will make his first appearance since Sugar Ray Leonard showed him what power punching was all about. "H itm a n ” Hearns will take on Marcos Geraldo in a 10-rounder. Rumors around the fig h t game are that Don King and Caesar’s Pal ace, tight buddies till now, have had a misunderstanding. I t ’ s reported that Caesar’ s had offered $3 million to r B e nite z D u ra n and w an te d took Holmes-Snipes to Pittsburgh instead. Caesar’ s then told King to take Benitez-Duran elsewhere, too. 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