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Page 10 Portland Observer, December 24, 1981 Sports Talk by Ron Sykes. Sports Editor PAC-10 update 1. Oregon State 2. U CLA 3. Arizona State 4. USC 5. Oregon 6. Cal 7. Stanford 8. Arizona 9. Washington 10. Washington State I know some will cry foul! But a lot of things have happened that we feel justify our making an update. For years this conference was the private domain o f the Bruins of U C LA but that Finally changed last season when Ralph M iller’s OSU team swept through the Pac-10 like Grant marched through Richmond. We decided on the update solely be- caue the NCA A in all their splendid wisdom decided to place our pre vious choice as the Pac-10 cham pion, U C LA , on the disabled list for 1981-82. And who besides yours truly really expected the Beavers to perform so admirably during the early campaign. The thought was that it would take the young Beavers until the second half o f the Pac-10 race to finally gel, especially after losing such stars as Mark Radford, Ray Blume and Steve Johnson to the pros. But Lester Conner has emerged as the leader and A .C . Green has just been phenomenal in his brief career, OSU will take a Far West Classic 10-game winning streak and two championships in a row to this year’s tourney. The Beavers have defeated five clubs expected to chal lenge for the championship of their respective leagues. OSU defeated strong Bradley, ranked in the top 20 of several pre-season publications; BYU, defending champion o f the W AC and ranked in the top 20 when the Beavers and Cougars played; Pepperding, defending champion of the WCACO Penn, Ivey Leauge run- nerup last year and N C A A playoff team that in 1979 was in the N C A A final four; and the latest power to bite the dust, Louisville, 1980 N C A A champion and defending Metro Conference champion. Louisville was ranked No. 3 by both wire services before losing to OSU. Oregon State impressed everyone as they captured the title at the Japan ese Suntory Ball Tourney. Oregon State under Coach Ralph M iller is rapidly becoming a national power. Junior guard W illiam Brew was named the Most Valuable Player and was joined by teammate Charlie Sitton on the Suntory Ball All-Star team. It ’s still baffling how all-every- thing guard Lester Conner could have been overlooked as an all tour ney selection. Lester led the team in scoring, steals and assists. W iltjer was the rebounding leader followed closely by Conner and I ’m still won dering what Charlie did. Can Black Football survive? When Alabama, Mississippi and the rest of the South started recruit ing the Black ballplayers in the early sixties, many observers feared that this would lead to a decline in the programs o f major Black univer sities. But so far this has not hap pened. The good Black schools such as Grambling, Texas Southern, Florida A & M etc., continue to pack them in. A crowd of 30,000 showed up to watch the annual Bayou Clas sic between Grambling and South ern two weeks ago and officials re port that this was the smallest crowd ever to watch the annual game. This annual classic, which was won by Coach Otis Washington’s souped up Southern University Jag uars 30-20, picked up the Bayou Classic name in 1974 when 76,733 packed the Tulane Stadium, which has since been razed. After that they moved the classic into the spacious Superdome in the mid-’70s drawing 73,188, but the present Superdome record o f 76,188 was established in 1976. Now, anyone knowing any thing about publicity will tell you that these figures are not too shabby. Bennie Thomas, S ID , o f South ern reports that the 1980 Bayou Classic drew 73,000. In the ’70s, Coach Eddie Robin son’s Grambling State University Tigers established the longest win ning streak in the series, by winning nine from 1970 through 1978. Southern snapped the string with a 14-7 victory before 72,000 in 1979. According to these lively attendance figures one can hardly say that the Black colleges are through. They Bayou Classic is a biggie, in fact it’s rapidly become the lifeline o f the major Black universities, just as the Rose Bowl is to the PAC-10 and arch-rival Big-10. W ithout its rev enue the football program would be in bad shape. Much like the other M ajor Bowls the Bayou classic draws immense media coverage but not if you hap pen to live North o f the Mason- Dixon line. Southern’s 39-0 win over Gram bling in 1939 is the largest win margin in the series. There has never been a tie in this series, which dates back to 1932. 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