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Diamondbacks Vanquish Yankees
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Records Fall at NYC
Marathon
N EW Y O R K - T esfaye Jifar
w ont he N ew Y ork City M ara
thon in record tim e, pulling
aw ay from his lone challenger
w ith three m iles left in a race
dedicated to victim s o f Sept
11. Jifar ran the 26.2 m iles in 2
hours, 7 m inutes, 43 seconds
to becom e the first Ethiopian
to w in the race. He broke the
12-year-oldm arkof2:08:01 set
by T anzania’s Jum a Ikangaa
The w om en’s w inner also set a
race record. M argaret O kayo
o f K enya finished in 2:24:21,
trim m ing 19 seconds o ff the
m ark set by A ustralia’s L isa
O ndiekiin 1992.
Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, center, ducks a high five
between Series co-MVPs Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling.
Weir Scores Playoff
Victory in Tour
Championship
PH O EN IX - In the end, when
one wrong move could win or lise
a scintillating W orld Series, it was
the New Yoik Yankees who blinked.
A new age daw ned in baseball
Sunday night with the drama o f a
ninth-inning rally in G am e 7, the
suddenness o f Luis G onzalez’s
winning single into left field, and
the shock o f a beaten M ariano
Rivera, as the Arizona Diamond-
backs stunned the Yankees 3-2 to
take a rem arkable W orld Series.
H O U ST O N - M ike W eir o f
C anada w on the season-end­
ing g o lf T our C ham pionship,
edging D avid Tom s, Sergio
Garcia and Ernie Els with a birdie
on the first hole o f a playoff.
W eir’s victory w as his first o f
the season and third o f his
career. A ll four finished the
final round tied at 14-under 270.
G onzalez ’ s soft blooper o ver a
draw n-in infield finished an in ­
credible tw o-m n rally in the ninth
against a reliever thought in v u l­
nerable, and brought dow n a d y ­
nasty.
R iv e ra h a d c o n v e r te d 23
straight postseason save chances.
“A sto ry b o o k en ding fo r this
team ,” G onzalez said, “from front
to back.”
In a battle that centered on
Schilling against R oger C lem ens
- a duel that lived up to every
ounce o f prom ise - it w as left to
the A rizona lin eu p 's last gasp
against Rivera, w ho has closed
out so m any Octobers.
New York had taken a 2-1 lead
in the eighth inning on Alfonso
S oriano’s hom er into the left field
stands against a tiring Schilling -
the kind o f hit the Y ankees have
com e up with for decades.
But in the ninth, three outs
from a 27lh title . N ew Y ork
crum bled. And so d id Rivera, hwo
had struck out the side in the
eighth.
The num bers o f som ething ex­
traordinary: T he Y ankees had
been 10-0 in one-run World Series
gam es going back to 1981. And
they had not lost a Series game in
w hich they led going into the ninth
inning since 1947.
Schilling and Randy Johnson
w ere nam es C O -M V Ps Johnson,
24 hours rem oved from his Game
6 w ork, added in 1 1/3 innings o f
hitless relief as a bridge to the rally
and got the win.
The D iam ondbacks crushed
every ghost.
The Yankees, unable to find
their knack for survival, were fi­
nally sacked after four titles in five
years, their future uncertain with
the graying o f their horses.
Franklin to Play Glencoe Friday
Senior quarterback Legedu Naanee tries to keep control o f the
offense during Friday's PIL championshipgame against Lincoln.
The Franklin Quakers won the
PIL title -th e ir first since 1996 by
defeating the Lincoln C ardinals
56-27 last Friday at PGE Park.
M idw ay through the third
quarter, the Quakers put the game
out o f reach by scoring three
touchdowns in 2 :3 6 minutes. Se­
nior quarterback Legedu Naanee
threw four touchdow n passes
and ran for tw o others.
This w as the second loss for
Lincoln after losing to Franklin
on Oct. 19.
W ith a sco rin g a v e rag e o f
45 p o in ts, the Q u ak e rs h av e
w on six straig h t g am es. T he
Q u ak ers w ere ab le to secu re
the P IL ’s top seed in th e C lass
4 A p la y o ffs, an d w ill p lay
G len c o e, the M e tro L e a g u e ’s
No. 3 seed on Friday at Franklin
H igh S ch o o l at 7 p .m .fo r the
O S A A /U .S . B an k p lay o ffs. If
the Q uakers w in, they will co m ­
p ete ag a in st th e w in n er o f the
D avid D o u g las-M cK ay gam e
in the seco n d round.
Miami Retains Top Spot
A R L IN G T O N , Va. - T he top
five rem ains unchanged and
M ichigan slipped to NO. 13 in
the latest U SA TO D A Y /ESPN
co ach es’ football poll relased.
Top-ranked M iam i (7-0) rolled
to a 38-0 rout o f T em ple, but
lost five first-place votes. T he
H urricanes, w ho are third in
the Bowl Cham pionship Series
poll, received 41 first-place
votes and a total o f 1,479points.
N ebraska, the No. 1 team in the
BCS poll, pounded K ansas 51 -
7 and picked up four first-place
votes, giving them 18 and 1,456
points in the U SA T O D A Y /
ESPN poll.
Oregon Hands Sunde vils Fourth Loss
Joey H arrington threw for six
touchdowns o f w hich four w ent to
his favorite “go-to-guy” Keenan
How ry, who set an Oregon and
Autzen stadium single game record
for touchdow n receptions, in a 42-
24 win over Arizona.
Oregon was determined to make
their ground gam e w ork despite the
Sundevils gam e plan designed to
shut dow n O regon’s running game
and m ake H arrington air it out to
win. Joey accepted the challenge
and the Sundevils secondary was
unable to contain the varied aerial
attack. Joey was 19 o f 32 for 319
passing yards.
For Oregon, it's on to UCLA
where the Bruins will try to match
the offense o f Oregon and put them­
selves back in the hunt fortop hon­
ors in the P ac-10 rankings.
Tyson May Fight Mercer
If form er heavyw eight cham p
M ike T yson fights Jan. 19, the
date being held for him by
Showtime, it appears likely he’ll
fig ht R ay M ercer. T y so n ’s
m anager says the sides could
close the deal soon.
Wells Buoys
Blazers to
Victory
Ski Champ Passes Away
IN N U SBRU CK , A ustria - Su-
per-G skiing cham pion Regine
Cavagnoud died o f head inju­
ries sustained in a training-run
collision with a G erm an ski
coach. The French woman was
h u rt. T h e c o a c h , M a rk u s
A nw ander, has undergone spi­
nal surgery and is still at risk.
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Bonzi Wells continued his
impressive comeback from a
serious knee injury, scoring a
career-high 3 3 points to lead
the Portland Trail Blazers past
the Golden State Warriors 92-
8 7 last Wednesday. Scottie
Pippen scored 2 6 points and
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ground attack that sent the Arizona Sundevils reeling on their
heels and unprepared to defend the aerial or ground attack.
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