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Newspaper Page TextSPORTS Thursday, October 12, 2017 East Oregonian Page 3B College Football Debate continues overs pro and cons of late Pac-12 kickoffs Associated Press Washington coach Chris Petersen has moved on from the debate over Pac-12 After Dark, those late-night televised conference games that end in the wee hours on the East Coast. But it’s worth noting he did bring up a topic that’s been debated on the West Coast for some time. Some say those late TV games are a great showcase for the Pac-12, others say it’s tough on the players. Some, like Petersen, wonder if it’s actually hurting teams to start so late when it comes to exposure. And, by extension, many wonder if it impacts things like postseason awards: After a long day of Saturday football games, are Heisman voters staying up late enough to see the league’s stars like Washington State’s Luke Falk or Stanford’s Bryce Love? Last week, Petersen addressed a series of late starts for the Huskies — who have not started a game before 5 p.m. local time this season — and apologized to fans. “It hurts us tremendously in terms of national expo- sure. No one wants to watch our game on the East Coast that late, and we all know it,” he said. The issue was ampliﬁ ed in a not-so-good way over the weekend when Kirk Herbstreit said on ESPN’s College Game Day that Petersen “should be thanking ESPN for actually having a relationship.” Petersen tried putting the mini-controversy behind him this week. The Huskies play Arizona State on Saturday night, and yes, it’s a late kickoff. “I don’t have any more thoughts on this. I spoke my piece,” Petersen said. “I’m on to Arizona State and that’s really how it is.” The reality is that the league has a 12-year, $3 billion contract with ESPN and FOX. Good West Coast teams, like No. 5 Washington, are going to get those late national time slots because there’s no other competition for them. Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said member schools have to accept late kickoffs as the trade-off for increased exposure and revenue. He was at Califor- nia’s game at Washington, which started at 7:50 p.m. “The night games rate better than the day games,” Scott said. “So what tends to happen is, the better you do the more attractive you are for TV and the more you’re going to get scheduled in the night.” USC coach Clay Helton said Tuesday that he accepts the entertainment/business aspect of it all. “The whole thing about college football is we are TV-driven,” he said. “As a coach, I’ve never worried about things I can’t control. There’s sometimes we’re going to play at 12 o’clock, and sometimes we’re going to play at 7:30. You just prepare your team for those different situations.” It’s not a new issue. The Pac-12 CEO Group made up of presidents and chancellors from its member schools approved a recommendation last year to modify the league’s agreement with ESPN and FOX to reduce the number of Pac-12 Network night games with a start of 7 p.m. or later. “The Pac-12 has some of the most loyal fans in college athletics and we appreciate our television partners working with us on this important issue for fans,” Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens said in a statement at the time. “The increased exposure and revenue from our contracts with ESPN and FOX Sports have been instrumental to our success, but we continue to work hard to minimize as much as possible the negative impact late start times have on our fans who travel great distances to see our teams in person.” Stanford coach David Shaw has been critical of late starts because of the impact on his players. He said last week that “I think it gets difﬁ cult if that’s most of what you play.” “Most of us are zombies on Sunday morning because we get home at 2 o’clock in the morning. Some of the road trips, guys are getting home at 4 or 5 o’clock in the morning. The players — for a lot of teams it’s their day off — it’s hard for them to get back to their studies because they’re sleeping in half the day,” Shaw said. Stanford hosts Oregon this weekend with a kickoff time of 8 p.m. Washington State coach Mike Leach doesn’t have a problem with late kickoffs, such as Friday’s 7:30 p.m. start for the No. 8 Cougars at California. A night owl, Leach is more upset by morning kickoffs. He said 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. is the ideal time to start a football game. Leach also disputes the notion that night games hurt West Coast teams hoping to get into the College Football Playoff or get their players national exposure when it comes to the biggest awards. “I’ve been to the East Coast,” he said. “The bars there don’t close till 4 a.m. because they’re planning to stay up late.” NLDS: Game 12 , 5 allowed on three Thursday in Washington, D.C. hits and since Game 4 of the World a row and threw ball one to Continued from 1B when he woke up Wednesday and told Baker he wanted the ball. That was all Baker needed to hear. “I could see the focus and determination in his eyes, you know what I mean, when he came in the ofﬁ ce and we talked to him,” the manager said. “You know, he’s a man of few words, but the words he said, you know, gave us every indication that he was ready.” Standing tall as clouds of mist rolled through Wrigley Field, Strasburg struck out walked two. The No. 1 overall pick in the 2009 draft has 22 Ks in 14 innings in the series, allowing only a pair of unearned runs in the sixth in the opener. “I like to think that any game that I pitch is the most important game,” Strasburg said. “That’s just how I tried to go into Game 4, and now we get a chance for a Game 5.” Chicago wasted a gutsy performance from Jake Arrieta and solid relief by Game 2 starter Jon Lester in its ﬁ rst home playoff loss Series last year. NL MVP Kris Bryant struck out four times, and the defending champs went 0 for 6 with runners in scoring position. Arrieta walked ﬁ ve in four innings in his return from a hamstring injury, but limited Washington to an unearned run and two hits. Lester got the Cubs all the way to the eighth, picking off Ryan Zimmerman before departing after Daniel Murphy’s two-out single. But Chicago’s bullpen faltered from there. Carl Edwards Jr. walked two in Taylor before he was replaced by Wade Davis. Taylor then drove a 1-1 pitch into the basket overhanging the brick wall in right ﬁ eld for his ﬁ rst career homer in the playoffs. “I was kind of numb, just running around the bases,” Taylor said. “Honestly, I didn’t think it was going to get out the way the wind was blowing in.” Ryan Madson worked the eighth and Doolittle ﬁ nished the three-hitter, giving the NL East champions a chance to avenge years of playoff heartache. ALDS: Kluber struggles for Indians again Continued from 1B ﬁ fth run scoring when Todd Frazier raced home on right ﬁ elder Jay Bruce’s throwing error. Gardner’s gritty at-bat was symbolic of these Yankees. They wouldn’t give in. “We can win a lot of different ways,” Gardner said. When Austin Jackson was called out on strikes to end it, the Yankees rushed to the mound to celebrate with a wide-eyed Chapman. An elated Girardi hugged his coaches. The Yankees became the 10th team to overcome a 2-0 deﬁ cit to win a best-of-ﬁ ve playoff series. New York also did it in 2001, rallying to beat Oakland — a series remembered for Jeter’s backhand ﬂ ip to home plate. Gregorius, who took over at shortstop following Jeter’s retirement after the 2014 season, hit a solo homer in the ﬁ rst off Kluber and added a two-run shot in the third off Cleveland’s ace, who didn’t look like himself during either start in this series. One win shy of a Series title last year, the Indians had only one goal in mind in 2017. They came up short again, and have now lost six consec- utive games with a chance to clinch a postseason series. The skid dates to last year’s World Series, when they squandered a 3-1 lead to the Cubs. Cleveland is the ﬁ rst team in history to blow a two-game series lead in consecutive post- seasons. Everything was set up for the Indians: Kluber on the mound, Game 5 at home, sensational setup man Andrew Miller rested. The Yankees, though, wouldn’t be denied. They battled back from a 3-0 deﬁ cit in the ﬁ rst inning of their wild-card game against Minnesota and then had to overcome a crushing loss in Game 2, when Girardi’s decisions led to him being booed at Yankee Stadium. But these Yankees displayed pinstriped pride. They’re moving on. KLUBER KLOBBERED Kluber was one of baseball’s most consistent pitchers all season, winning 18 games. However, October was cruel to the right-hander. He allowed nine runs, including four homers, over 6 1/3 innings in two postseason starts, hardly what he or the Indians expected. SLUMPS The Indians batted .171 as a team with All-Stars Francisco Lindor (2 for 18) and Jose Ramirez (2 for 20) unable to snap out of funks. AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh Washington Nationals starting pitcher Stephen Stras- burg throws during the ﬁ rst inning of Game 4 of base- ball’s National League Division Series against the Chi- cago Cubs, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017, in Chicago. SCOREBOARD Local slate PREP FOOTBALL Thursday Perrydale at Pilot Rock, 6 p.m. Dufur at Arlington, 7 p.m. PREP VOLLEYBALL Thursday Weston-McEwen at Heppner, 5 p.m. Condon/Wheeler at Ione, 5 p.m. Nixyaawii at Joseph, 5 p.m. Culver at Stanﬁ eld, 5:30 p.m. The Dalles at Pendleton, 6:30 p.m. Hermiston at Hood River Valley, 6:30 p.m. PREP BOYS SOCCER Thursday Pendleton at Hood River Valley, 4 p.m. Hermiston at The Dalles, 4:30 p.m. PREP GIRLS SOCCER Thursday Mac-Hi at Irrigon, 4:30 p.m. Hood River Valley at Pendleton, 6 p.m. The Dalles at Hermiston, 7 p.m. PREP CROSS COUNTRY Thursday Heppner, Helix, Stanﬁ eld, Weston-McEwen at Helix Stubble- buster, TBD Baseball MLB POSTSEASON DIVISION SERIES American League Houston 3, Boston 1 Oct. 5: Houston 8, Boston 2 Oct. 6: Houston 8, Boston 2 Oct. 8: Boston 10, Houston 3 Monday: Houston 5, Boston 4 New York 3, Cleveland 2 Oct. 5: Cleveland 4, New York 0 Oct. 6: Cleveland 9, New York 8, 13 innings Oct. 8: New York 1, Cleveland 0 Monday: New York 7, Cleveland 3 Wednesday: New York 5, Cleveland 2 Football NFL Week 6 Thursday’s Game Philadelphia at Carolina, 5:25 p.m. Soccer MLS Wednesday’s Game Houston 2, Sporting Kansas City 1 National League Chicago 2, Washington 2 Oct. 6: Chicago 3, Washington 0 Oct. 7: Washington 6, Chicago 3 Monday: Chicago 2, Washington 1 Wednesday: Washington 5, Chicago Hockey NHL Wednesday’s Games New Jersey 6, Toronto 3 Pittsburgh 3, Washington 2 Colorado 6, Boston 3 Anaheim 3, N.Y. Islanders 2 Calgary at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m. Thursday’s Games Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 4:30 p.m. St. Louis at Florida, 4:30 p.m. Dallas at Nashville, 5 p.m. Minnesota at Chicago, 5:30 p.m. Winnipeg at Vancouver, 7 p.m. Detroit at Arizona, 7 p.m. Buffalo at San Jose, 7:30 p.m. 0 x-Thursday, Oct. 12: Chicago at Washington, 2:38 p.m. (TBS) Los Angeles 3, Arizona 0 Oct. 6: Los Angeles 9, Arizona 5 Oct. 7: Los Angeles 8, Arizona 5 Monday: Los Angeles 3, Arizona 1 LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) American League Houston vs. New York Friday: New York at Houston (Keuchel 14-5) (FS1), 5:08 p.m. Saturday: New York at Houston (Verlander 15-8) (Fox), 1:08 p.m. National League Los Angeles vs. Chicago-Washing- ton winner Saturday, Oct. 14: Chicago-Wash- ington winner at Los Angeles (TBS), 5:08 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 15: Chicago-Washington winner at Los Angeles, (TBS), 4:38 p.m. Basketball NBA Preseason Wednesday’s Games Boston 108, Charlotte 100 Miami 117, Washington 115 Philadelphia 133, Brooklyn 114 Houston 101, Memphis 89 Portland 113, Phoenix 104 Thursday’s Games Dallas vs. Atlanta at Atlanta, 4:30 p.m. Sacramento at L.A. 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