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SPORTS
Vikings Back to Big Sky
The Portland State Univer­
sity Vikings return to their Big
Sky Conference schedule with
a game at Northern Arizona
on Saturday.
PSU is smarting from a 55-
12 non-conference defeat last
weekend against Oregon in
Eugene. The Ducks entered
the game leading the Pac-10
and ranking fourth in the na­
tion in total offense.
PSU will need victories
against Northern Arizona and
Nov. 11 against Sacramento
State for serious consideration
for a NCAA 1-AA playoff
berth.
The St. Louis
Cardinals celebrate a
World Series Champi­
onship after defeat­
ing the Detroit Lions
in five games.
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First series win
since 1982
(A P) — T housands o f fans
lined downtown St. Louis. Mo.
for a parade Sunday celebrating
the Cardinals' first W orld Series
title since 1982. The ballpark was
packed, too, just like the regular
season, for a rally capped by a
daylight fireworks display.
“A w esom e," A lbert Pujols
said. “ I’ve been dream ing o f this
since I was a little boy."
The C ardinals sold out the first
year at new Busch with total
attendance o f 3.4 million. G en­
eral m anager Walt Jocketty said
at the rally that it looked as if all
o f them were at the parade.
The team estim ated the crowd
at between 300,000 and 500,000.
“ I t’s o u t o f c o n tr o l,” ace
pitcher Chris C arpenter said. “I
don't think I’d ever have this
feeling. I c a n ’t describe it.”
The C ardinals received a pro­
longed standing ovation after
walking from the dugout to a
podium at second base. Tw o
days earlier, they won their I Oth
c h a m p io n sh ip , second in the
majors to the Y ankees’ 26 titles.
Manager Tony La Russa had a
place o f honor in the parade, with
his family getting a ride on the
Anheuser-Busch beer wagon led
by a team of eight Clydesdales.
The players were still digesting
their improbable run to the cham ­
pionship. They lost nine of the last
12 in the regular season, avoiding
perhaps the worst September col­
lapse in major league history, be-
fore taking off in postseason.
The Padres were flicked aside
in four gam es, and the Cardinals
outlasted the Mets in seven games
before elim inating the favored
Tigers in five gam es with a 4-2
victory Friday night.
“Everybody on our team knew
if we could just get in the play­
offs that anything could happen,
and boy it did,” reliever Braden
Looper said. “O nce we got there,
we just started playing together,
we started getting a few breaks,
and the rest is history.”
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Boston to 16 titles
(AP) — His genius was building
a basketball dynasty in Boston, his
gift was straight talk, his signature
was the pungent cigar he lit up and
savored after every victory.
Red Auerbach, the Hall of Famer
who guided the Celtics to 16 cham­
pionships — first as a coach and
later as general manager — died
Saturday. He was 89.
“ He was relentless and produced
the greatest basketball dynasty so
Red Auerbach
far that this country has ever seen
and certainly that the NBA hasever
seen." said Bob Cousy, the point
guard for many of A uerbach’s
championship teams, who referred
to his coach by his given name.
“This is a personal loss for me.
Arnold and I have been together
since 1950.”
Auerbach's 938 victories made
him the winningest coach in NBA
history until Lenny Wilkens over­
took him during the 1994-95 sea­
son.
Auerbach's nine titles as a coach
came in the 1950s and 1960s —
including eight straight from 1959
through 1966 — and then through
shrewd deals and foresight he be­
came the architect of Celtics teams
that won seven more champion­
ships in the 1970s and 1980s.
He was inducted into the Bas­
ketball Hall of Lame in 1969. The
jersey No. 2 was retired by the Celtics
in his honor during the 1984-85
season.
With the Celtics, he made deals
that brought Bill Russell, Robert
Parish and Kevin McHale to Bos­
ton. He drafted Larry Bird a year
early when the Indiana State star
wasajunior to make sure Bird would
come to Boston.
Auerbach coached champion­
ship teams that featured players
such as R ussell. C ousy, Tom
Heinsohn, BillSharman. K.C Jones
and Sam Jones, all inducted into the
Hall of Fame.
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(AP) — Until Oregon State's
fans descended onto the field in
droves, the third-ranked USC
T rojans b e lie v e d they w ere
headed for another victory.
Southern California couldn't
find a way to win this close game.
Oregon State capitalized on
four turnovers to upset the T ro­
jans 3 3 -3 1 on Saturday, snapping
USC's 27-game Pac-10 winning
streak and breaking the national
cham pionship race wide open.
USC (6 -1,4-1) had also won 18
straight road gam es. But the
m ig h ty T ro ja n s had show n
cracks in their last three games,
each a victory by seven points or
less.
A gainst the B eavers, they
couldn't escape, falling behind
early and com ing up one play
short in the end.
"I loved the com eback, but we
aren’t patting ourselves on the
back," coach Pete Carroll said. Oregon State's Dennis Christopher celebrates on the shoulders
"We thought we were going to o f fans after they beat Southern California 33-31 Saturday during
win all the way until we didn't." college football action in Corvallis. (AP photo)
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