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November 15, 2000 fjurtlanò Page B3 2-lje ^lortlanò (ÌHismwr Sports (ftberrurr ■■■■ Civil War Could Lead to Rose Bowl T he first shots have been fired in O re g o n ’s infam ous Civil W ar foot ball game. S om eone thought that the “O ” on S kinner Butte in Eugene needed a little m akeover and spray-painted the usually yellow letter bright orange. B ut the real w ar is ju st beginning. O regon State stands as the favor ite in a lot o f m inds, largely because o f an easy w in (33-9) at A rizona last Saturday. In term s o f national interest and bow l im plications, it’s a Civil W ar gam e for the ages. T he big gam e could produce a Rose Bow l invite. For the D ucks, it’s sim ple— if they win Saturday, it’s the P A C -1 Ocham pionship and they’re in the Rose Bowl. For the B eavers, it’s a little m ore difficult. T hey need to win and then hope that W ashington State upsets W ashington in the A pple Cup. T hat game will be played in Pullman, Wash. I f both O regon State and W ash ington win, the Huskies will go to the Bowl since they beat the Beavers earlier this year. But the losers o f the Rose Bowl race could still end up in a big tim e bowl gam e — all three are ranked in the top ten in this w eek ’s BCS poll. H ere’s a quick breakdow n o f the run for the Rose Bowl: O regon goes if they beat O regon State; O regon State goes if they beat O regon and W ashington loses to W ashington State; and W ashington goes if they beat W ashington State and O regon State beats O regon. The Civil W ar gam e is at R eser Stadium in Corvallis Saturday at 12:30 p.m. Rasheed, Blazers Nix Nets 94-82 First Game In East Coast Road Trip Goes In Portland’s Win Column T he P ortland T rail B lazers w ere w ell aw are that Stepnon M arbury had ju st w on N B A P layer o f the W eek honors, and they had a plan to stop him. L im iting the N e ts’ transition op portunities and w earing dow n N ew Jersey with theirdepth, the Trail Blaz ers contained M arbury andcontrolled m ost o f the gam e in a 94-82 victory M onday night. “ Y ou try to elim inate his rhythm s h o ts a n d tr a n s i tio n b a s k e ts ,” P o rtlan d 's G reg A nthony said. “ W e controlled the tem po, w hich w as im portant because th ey ’re one o f the top three transition team s in the league along w ith Sacram ento and Phoenix.” M arbury, w ho began the night as the N B A ’s leading scorer, w as held to 24 points on 9-for-22 shooting. R asheed W allace had 16 points, 11 rebounds, four blocks and another technical foul. Steve Sm ith scored 17 Blazers Activate Sabonis Harvey placed on injured list T he Portland Trail B lazers have placed forw ard A ntonio H arvey on the injured list with right knee p ain and have activated center A rvydas Sabonis. S ab o n is has b een sid e lin e d since undergoing pre-season sur g ery on his left knee to repair a slightly tom m eniscus. points, Bonzi W ells and Shaw n Kemp had 15 each and D ale D avis added 12 points and 17 rebounds. N ets coach Byron Scott drew two quick technicals and an autom atic ejection from referee D errick Stafford ju s t m om ents after W allace w as tagged w ith his sixth technical o f the seaso n . T he Blazers started steadily pull ing aw ay after Scott w as tossed and w ent on to their fourth straight vic tory as they began a 10-day, seven- gam e road trip up and dow n the East Coast. N ext up is a gam e at A tlanta, then trips to Toronto, M iam i, O rlando, W ashington and M ilw aukee. “I f you play in the N orthwest, they give you the worst travel schedule,” A nthony said. “It’s a tough trip, but that’s why this game w as so important for us to keep up our m om entum .” W allace, who set an N BA record with 38 technical fouls last season, picked up another from referee Bernie Fryer for arguing a non-call when he thought he was fouled. “For the amount o f contact there was on that play— there was a definite colli sion — that’s honestly a time when the From Your Loving Fam ily Check-Mart A g en ts fo r W e ste rn Union C h e ck s C a sh ed Pavdav L oans A reas low est check cashing fee v W estern U nion A gency \ M oney O rders U tility Paym ents yJ O pen 7 days 16IONE Broadw ay (503)287-6581 5132NE M L K (503)284-5443 Earth-Service Landscape & Property Maintenance Home-Business Hauling, Tough Tasks, and Odd Jobs O p en 7 a m -7 p m P h o n e 5 0 3 -5 0 4 -7 2 9 2 Globetrotters Win Streak Ends T he speech w as one that H arlem Globetrotters ow ner and general m an ager M anny Jackson h asn ’t needed very often. In fact, it had been five years since he last used it. “ Y ou saw history tonight,” Jack- son said M onday after N o. 3 M ichi gan State beat his barnstorm ing team 72-68 to end its 1,270-gam e w inning streak. “H ow m any people w ere here, 20,000? In 10 years there w ill be 10 m illion w ho said they saw this game. People d o n ’t expect us to lose.” T he defeat was the G lobetrotters first since a K areem A bdul-Jabbar A ll-Star team beat them in V ienna, Randy Johnson Voted National League Cy Young Winner A rizo n a’s R andy Johnson was the overw helm ing w inner o f the N a tional League C y Y oung A w ard on T uesday, his second straight aw ard and third o f his career. Johnson, w ho also won the 1995 . aw ard w ith Seattle, received 22 o f 32 , first-place votes in balloting by the ;B aseb all W rite rs’ A ssociation o f " A m erica. Johnson, 37, also got seven ’seconds and two thirds for 133 points. J “T here w as a lot o f com petition ¡this year,” Johnson said. “ Every year ¡as I get older, it is harder to put the .’num bers up. T he biggest gratifica ti o n I get is doing it at an age w hen a ¡lot o f people thought I m ight be over ’the h ill.” J Atlanta’s Tom Glavine finished sec- ;ond with 64 points, getting four firsts, 12 seconds and eight thirds. Greg Maddux ;o f Atlanta was third with 59 points, fol lo w e d by Robb Nen o f San Francisco ’(20), Darryl K ileofSt Louis(8)andKevin ; Brown o f Los Angeles (4). •Johnson join ed M addux and Sandy ;K oufax as the only back-to-back win- ners in the NL. Maddux won fourstraight Nets rookie Kenyon Martin. refs have to realize that a player is going to have a response,” Dunleavy said. M arbury hit the technical free throw to m ake it 61 -57, but Scott was ejected ju st 26 seconds later. “ I said a few things, but I d o n ’t think there w as anything I said that I should have been ejected for,” said Scott, w ho engaged the officiating crew in a b rie f staredow n as the team s left thecourtathalffime. “He(Stafford) seem ed ticked o ff from the tim e he stepped on the court. A fter the first tech he said som ething to m e, and I said som ething I shouldn’t have. “ A fte r I g o t th e tw o te c h s , th e w h o le c o m p le x io n o f th e g am e c h a n g e d . I ta k e fu ll r e s p o n s ib il ity .” T w o fo u l s h o ts b y S m ith fo r th e te c h n ic a ls m a d e it 6 3 -5 7 , an d P o rtla n d ’s le a d w as up to 7 7 -6 8 e n te rin g th e fo u rth . M a rb u ry h it a 3 - p o in te r e a rly in th e fo u rth b u t th e n w e n t to th e b e n c h fo r a b r i e f re s t w ith th e N ets tra ilin g 7 7 -7 3 , a n d it w as SO- 73 b y th e tim e he re tu rn e d tw o m in u te s la te r. Shay Washington Happy 12 th Birthday! from 1992-95andKoufex won in 1965-66. The Big Unit also became the eighth pitcher to win three Cy Youngs in his career. Boston’s Pedro Martinez wonhis third on Monday. R oger C lem ens has five, follow ed by Steve C arlton and M addux with four each. Koufax, Tom Seaver and Jim P alm er also have three. After going 14-2 with a 1.80 ERA before the All-Star break, Johnson fal tered down the stretch as Arizona fell out o f the pennant race. He won only five times in his final 16 starts, going 5-5 with a3.81 ERA after the break. “ I w ish I had finished stronger, but I still feel that from start to finish it was a pretty good year," Johnson said. “ I w as extrem ely blessed in the first h alf and things d id n 't go as well in the second half.” Nevertheless, Johnson finished the year with a 2.64 ERA — second in the league to Ixw Angeles' Kevin Brown (2.58) — while leading the league in strikeouts (347) and winning percentage (.731), and was tied for first in complete games (8) and shutouts (3). A ustria, on Sept. 12,1995. T h e G lo b e tro tte rs , w h o b e a t N CA A D ivision II cham pion M etro State o f Colorado last w eek in the first o f three college exhibition gam es, gave the defending D ivision I cham pions all they could handle. T he G lobetrotters led b y eight points early in the second h alfbefore M ichigan State took the lead on a s p e c ta c u la r d u n k b y Ja so n Richardson with 13:10 left. A 13-2 run gave the S partans a 64-51 lead with ju st under four m inutes rem aining. T he G lobetrotters w ent to a full- court press and eventually cut the lead to 68-66 w ith 39 seconds left on a layup by W ayne T u m er after a steal by D onnie Boyce. M om ents earlier, A lex Sanders converted a four-point play. But Charlie Bell, w ho led all scorers w ith 21 points, m ade a layup and two free throw s in the final 11 seconds to secure the w in for M ichigan State. Ending theG lobetrotters’ winning streak w asn ’t cause for celebration by the Spartans. “ I w as totally, and I m ean totally, disappointed w ith the effort w e gave tonight,” M ichigan State coach Tom Izzo said. “ I think th a t’s a direct re flection on m e as a coach. I’m going to take full responsibility for it. W e got beat tim e after tim e on effort- related things." 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