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NFL Legend Jerry Rice Retires After 20 Years
Popular receiver leaves football
career with 38 league records
But as m uch as the num bers, it
(A P) - Jerry Rice spent 20 years
m aking every sacrifice he could to w as the w ay he did things that
play the gam e he loved. He knew m ade the biggest im pression - the
his football career w as over when right w ay. He w as a m aster o f d e
all those sacrifices w eren’t enough tails, a m aestro o f route-running
to m ake him a key player in D enver precision, a good guy o ff the field
and a w orkout ju n k ie both in sea
for one, final season.
R elegated to reserve duty or son and out.
R ev ered by fans and his p eers.
nothing w ith the B roncos, Rice
chose the latter, calling it a career Rice told his short-tim e team m ates
M onday after tw o record-setting in D en v er that he w as retirin g
du rin g a short m eetin g held afte r
decades in the NFL.
“ I think th at’s it for m e,” Rice his p u b lic a n n o u n c e m e n t. T h e
said during his farew ell new s c o n B ro n co s g a v e h im a sta n d in g
ference at B roncos headquarters. o v atio n .
R ice led the 4 9 ers to th ree S u
“ I’m done and I’m looking forw ard
to the next phase o f my life now .” p er B ow l titles. H e m a ste re d the
W ith that, the N FL reached the W est C o a st o ffe n se and m ade a
end o f an era, saying goodbye to a ca reer o f tu rn in g sh o rt catc h es
into long g ain s, stru ttin g in to the
once-in-a-lifetim e player.
The 42-year-old receiver, a first- en d zone, his arm s raise d alo ft.
His w o rk eth ic an d a tten tio n to
round draft pick out o f tiny M issis
sippi V alley State in 1985, leaves the little th in g s g av e an en tire
the field w ith 38 league records, g en e ratio n o f rec eiv e rs som eone
including the m ost career recep to look up to.
A fter 16 y ea rs w ith th e N in ers,
tio n s (1 ,5 4 9 ), y a rd s re c e iv in g
(22,895) and touchdow ns receiv R ice w ent to O ak lan d , w here he
had three fairly p ro d u ctiv e sea-
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D is p la c e d
H o r n e ts
Jerry Rice, one o f the most dominate wide receivers in the NFL. waves goodbye after a news
conference announcing his retirement in Denver on Monday, Sept. 5. (AP Photo)
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New Orleans Saints linebacker TJ. Slaughter, left, and Tiffany Cardenas, 18, o f San Anto
nio, serve lunch to Hurricane Katrina evacuees, Sunday, Sept. 4. at a shelter at KellyUSA, a
former Air Force base, in San Antonio. (AP Photo)
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New Orleans’ NFL team may practice in Texas
(A P) - M eetings in a convention center. A 10-
m inute bus ride. Then, practice at a high school
facility and a bus ride back “hom e" to their hotel.
T hat’s the new routine for the New O rleans
Saints, forced out o f their normal surroundings by
Hurricane Katrina.
T he Saints returned to work M onday, trying to
focus on their opener Sunday in C arolina instead of
the awful pictures o f w hat’s happening in New
Orleans.
“W e all talked about w hat was going on before
practice,” said special teams standout Michael Lewis,
w ho was bom in New O rleans and has more than 30
relatives in the area. “Everybody in my family is OK.
But now that w e’re here, we know w hat we have to
d o .”
C oach Jim Haslett w as glad to be doing som e
Oregon State
Prevails Over
Portland State
The O regon State Beavers over
cam e the Portland State V ikings last
Saturday at the Reser Stadium in
Corvallis with a 4 1 -14 win in the first
gam e am ong the team s in 22 years.
Although O regon State took the
first 10 points o f the gam e, PSU ran
76 yards w ithin 13 plays at the end
o f the first period.
Later, though, the Beavers w ent
into halftim e with a 20-7 lead.
In the third period, the V ikings
reversed eight yards to bring up the
score 34-14.
T he final score set after a late
touchdow n pass by the Beavers in
the fourth period.
T he 1 - A Beavers start the season
1-0, while the 1-AA V ikings go toO-
1.
PSU will open at home on Sept. 17
in a Big Sky Conference game against
Sacram ento State.
sons. B ut it b ecam e c lea r the end
m ight be near last seaso n w hen
th e R a id e rs p h a s e d h im o u t,
p ro m p tin g a m id seaso n trad e to
S eattle.
He still av erag ed 14.3 y ard s a
catch last season an d sco red three
to u ch d o w n s, sh o w in g traces o f
the b ig -p lay ca p ab ility he flashed
so o ften ea rlier in his career.
L ast sp rin g , his ag en t p ut out a
league-w ide m em o stating that the
G O A T - th e G reatest O f A ll T im e
- w as av ailab le.
R ice signed w ith the D enver
B roncos, k n o w in g th ere w as no
g u ara n tee o f a ro ste r spot.
A bout h alfw ay th ro u g h tra in
ing cam p in his 21“ seaso n , he
m oved ah ead o f D arius W atts, to
D e n v e r’s N o. 3 re c e iv e r spot.
T h at m ove cau sed a stir, b ut a
clo ser look show ed a receiv er w ho
had tro u b le sep aratin g from third-
and fo u rth -strin g co rn e rb a ck s in
p ractice, a rec eiv e r w h o fin ish ed
w ith fo u r c a tc h es fo r 24 y ard s in
fo u r p reseaso n g am es.
W ith th e en d upon him , he w as
sad and o v erw h elm ed as he stood
b eh in d th e m ic ro p h o n e to a n
n ounce his retirem en t.
thing besides watching new s reports on television.
Though the Saints still are awaiting w ord where
they will play the balance o f their hom e gam es, the
team expects to practice in San A ntonio for the rest
o f the season.
The N FL announced M onday that their second
gam e - w hich was supposed to be their hom e opener
against the N ew York G iants - will be on M onday,
Sept. 19, at G iants Stadium.
The gam e will begin at 7:30p.m . on A BC, then be
sw itched to ESPN at 9 p.m., w hen A BC goes to the
regularly scheduled gam e between W ashington
and Dallas in Irving, Texas.
The team left New O rleans a few days before the
storm , then played their final preseason gam e in
O akland on Thursday night. Players had been off
betw een then and M onday.
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