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NOVEMBER 2000
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11/3/00: Baseball has lost
one of its great players as first baseman Will Clark
retired on Thursday. Clark most recently played for the
St. Louis Cardinals in the NL Central-Championship run, but
started his career in San Francisco; he also made stops in
Texas and Baltimore. "In every player's career,
sooner or later, you're going to have to make a decision to
move on," Clark said. He leaves with a .303 batting
average for his 15 years in the League.
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11/3/00: The Milwaukee
Bucks gave up 70 points in the first half as the Houston
Rockets cruised to an easy win, 115-93 on Thursday. The
loss sends the Bucks to an 0-2 start on the season.
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11/2/00: He's taken
three teams to the playoffs, and essentially patented the
slicked-back hair look. He's Pat Riley and, after
spending five months just one win away, his Miami Heat got him
career win number 1,000 on Wednesday night, beating the
Orlando Magic, 105-79. This year Riley will try to take
his third team to the NBA Finals after revamping the Heat in
the off season and losing star Alonzo Mourning to kidney
problems.
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11/2/00: His team was ranked
pre-season #3 in the country - and it was all downhill from
there. Expected to challenge for the national title,
Alabama has posted a 3-5 record on the season and needs to win
out just to qualify for the Aloha Bowl. On Wednesday,
coach Mike DuBose took the blame as he announced that
this will be his last season at the helm of the Crimson Tide.
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OCTOBER 2000
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10/31/00: The Tennessee Titans
must be the best NFL team nobody talks about. All they've done
is win 23 of their last 28 games, including seven in a row
this season. On Monday night the Titans went in and whipped
the Redskins, 27-21. It wasn't pretty, but it was very
effective. They dominated both sides of the line and their
special teams accounted for 13 points. With a schedule that
includes 5 of their next 8 at home (where they are 12-0), the
Titans have the inside track to home field in the AFC.
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10/31/00: There must be a
computer virus in the machine that figures out the Dunkel
Index, one of eight computer rankings used to determine
college football's Bowl Championship Series. Dunkel is the only
one of the eight that does not have unbeaten Oklahoma No. 1
(Florida State gets that honor). And Virginia Tech, another
unbeaten, is No. 6 in Dunkel. Garbage in, garbage out.
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10/30/00: As with so many
tournaments featuring Tiger Woods, the final round of the
National Car Rental Classic on Sunday featured a huge
come-from-behind victory. But this time, it wasn't Tiger
making the charge. Duffy Waldorf shot a
10-under-par career low 62 on the final round to capture a
one-stroke victory over Steve Flesch. Woods was three
shots back.
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10/30/00: A week off is
apparently what Denver Bronco quarterback Brian Griese
did not need. The highest rated passer in the AFC was
arrested Saturday night for driving under the influence of
alcohol as he was speeding at 80 mph in a 65 speed limit
zone. If convicted, Griese would lose his driver's license
and would face fines and jail time.
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10/29/00: Gil de Ferran turned in the fastest official closed-course lap in the history of auto racing Saturday as he sped 241.428 mph on a lap on California Speedway's 2.5-mile oval to win the pole for the Marlboro 500. The win also inched him one step closer to winning CART's tightest season championship race ever, which ends Sunday.
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10/29/00: Quick quiz: you're at home hosting the #7 team in the country and you have just scored a touchdown to pull within 56-55 in second overtime - what do you do? If you're Arizona State coach Bruce
Snyder, you fake a PAT and throw a pass for a two-point conversion then, when it fails, you say you had to do it because your kicker's back hurt. And you lose to the Oregon Ducks.
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10/28/00: We can't believe
we're saying this, but third year PGA golfer Steve Flesch
was too much for Tiger Woods to handle on Friday. While
Woods didn't make a bogey on Friday or Thursday, his 130 after
36 holes wasn't enough to take the lead as Flesch shot 128 and
tied the 36 hole record for the National Car Rental Classic in
Orlando.
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10/28/00: Rod Strickland of
the Washington Wizards was arrested early Saturday morning for
refusing to leave a restaurant that was being shut down by the
fire marshal. Authorities reported that the number of
people inside Republic Gardens exceeded the club's occupancy
limit.
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10/27/00: The Boston Bruins
did for new coach Mike Keenan what they weren't able to
do the previous four games - win. On Thursday night,
Jason Allison's two goals led the Bruins to a 4-1 victory over
the Washington Capitals. The Bruins had fired coach Pat
Burns earlier this week, and Thursday's game was Keenan's
first at the team's helm.
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10/27/00: While half of
New York is celebrating the Yankees' World Series victory today,
Major League Baseball has a big problem. Four out
of the last five years, it has been the Yankees, with their
league-high payroll, going out every July and buying themselves
the best players on the market to win a World Series.
Their 33-8 post season record over the last three years has
yielded three straight World Series rings. With no salary
cap, it allows the larger market teams like the Yankees to
simply buy themselves a World Series title. With interest
in the League waning nationally, MLB had better do something
quickly to curb this, or they will see small market teams like
the Twins, Padres and Brewers go away and those lucrative TV
deals stop coming through the door.
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10/26/00: It took the first
pitch of the game for the Yankees to grab a lead in Game 4 of
the World Series that they never relinquished. Derek Jeter homered
off Mets starter Bobby J. Jones and the guys from the Bronx
went on to beat the guys from Queens, 3-2. The Yankees lead
the series, 3-1, and can wrap up their third straight title
tonight.
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10/26/00: The NBA came down
hard on the Minnesota Timberwolves after finding out they
had entered into a secret contract agreement with Joe Smith.
Commissioner David Stern voided voiding Smith's $2.5 million contract and
took away the team's next five first-round draft. He also fined the team a record $3.5
million and indicated further punishment may be coming.
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10/25/00: The New York Mets
survived a crucial Game 3 on Tuesday, assuring them that they
won't be the third team swept in the World Series by the
cross-town Yankees. This time, it was Benny Agbayani
hitting the go-ahead double in the eighth inning as the Mets
won, 4-2, bringing them within one game, 2-1, of the Yankees
in the Series.
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10/25/00: While his courage
for coming forward should be commended, French cycling star Richard
Virenque not only admitted to doping before the 1998 Tour de
France - he said that athletes doing so in his sports is as
common as putting air in their tires. He raced on the
Festina team that has been at the core of the sport's biggest
drug scandal ever.
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10/24/00: Wow! What a
Monday Night Football game that was. Jets 40, Dolphins 37,
overtime. The game ended at 1:20 a.m. New York time, but those
who stayed up saw the game of the year in the NFL. The
fourth quarter began with Miami ahead, 30-7. Then it became
30-13; 30-20; 30-23 and 30-30. Miami scored quickly to go up,
37-30. The Jets then converted a critical fourth down play
with less than a minute to go, and tied it on a gutsy call: a
pass to offensive lineman Jumbo Elliott, who caught his first
TD (and first pass) of his career. It was the fifth TD pass of
the game for Vinny Testaverde.  The
game ended in overtime when the totally adorable John Hall
(left, wearing his necklace) kicked a 40-yard field goal.
Asked by ESPN what was going through his head before the kick,
Hall said: ``I was hungry. I wanted to eat.''
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10/24/00: For the last ten
years, the Pac-10 has been the purist of college
basketball. The season determines the conference champion,
not some silly post-season tournament where every team has a
chance. Until 2002. In two seasons, the men will
have an eight team tournament, and the women will have a ten
team tournament, to decide the conference champion and the
automatic berth in the NCAA tournament. This decision has
television money written all over it. When you have been
giving the best team the conference title for the last ten
years, why would you go back to a system that gives a team with
a 12-16 record a chance to win the conference? Or, worse
yet, take another quality team's spot in the NCAA
Tournament. Not only should the Pac-10 NOT do this, but
every other conference should scrap their conference
tournament. It just cheapens the entire season.
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10/23/00: Roger Clemens has
been a dirty player all his career. So, he probably did
try to throw that bat at Mike Piazza last night. And,
while that is getting the headlines, to us it was his eight, two-hit shutout innings that gave the Yanks a 6-5 victory and
a 2-0 lead in the World Series that stood out.
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10/23/00: Just five days
after setting a new NHL record for career wins, Colorado
Avalanche goalie Patrick Roy was arrested early Sunday
in response to a 911 call from his home. The police
stated that Roy and his wife were having an argument and that the house
was a wreck. Roy was arrested for investigation of
domestic charges.
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10/22/00: Nobody west of
the Appalachian Trail watched, but the two New York
baseball teams played a thrilling marathon of a game to
start the World Series that many are calling an "instant
classic." After 4 hours and 51 minutes, it was Jose
Vizcaino hitting a single and driving home the winning run for
the Yankees, 4-3.
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10/22/00: The team that Cyd
picked to win the Orange Bowl has simply fallen apart - but
Saturday was the worst of their season. Up by four with
just seconds left, the USC Trojans watched Stanford backup freshman quarterback Chris Lewis throw a beautiful pass
as time expired to the back right corner of the end zone to
receiver Jamien McCullum. The Trojans lost their fourth in a
row (32-30) and started 0-4 in the Pac10 for the first time.
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10/21/00: Colorado
Avalanche goalie Patrick Roy was honored on Friday
night as the winningest goalie in NHL history. With a
4-3 win over the Washington Capitals last Tueday, he garnered
his 448th career win - now one more than prevoius record
holder Terry Sawchuk.
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10/21/00: The wacky boxing
career of Mike Tyson continues to get wackier - but this time,
it wasn't really his fault. Before the third round of
his matchup with Andrew Golota on Friday night in
Auburn Hills, Michigan, Golota simply quit the fight. He
left his corner and, as the referee told him that his rest
period wasn't up, he just quit. Tyson left the ring
outraged that the match was not going to continue. For
once, he just might have been justified.
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10/20/00: New Detroit Lions
running back James Stewart finally had the game
everyone has been waiting for. Against a tough Tampa Bay
run defense, Stewart rushed for 116 yards and three touchdowns
Thursday night as his Lions improved to 5-2 with a 28-14 win,
avenging a blowout loss to the Bucs earlier this season.
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10/20/00: The rest of the
world was no match for the U.S. in Thursday's round of the
President's cup as the International Team got blanked
by the Americans, 5-0. It was the first round of the
Americans' revenge tour, as they suffered the worst defeat
ever in match play in 1998.
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10/19/00: It was finally a
Wild finish. 18-year-old Minnesota left wing Marian
Gaborik scored twice in the last 2:28 to give the
Minnesota Wild their first franchise NHL win, beating the
Tampa Bay Lightning, 6-5. Of the 18-year-old phenom,
Wild goalie Jamie McLennan said, "It's sick. He's
18 years old and he's a player right now and he's just getting
better and better.''
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10/19/00: Souksangouane
Phengsene, the man who killed Minnesota Timberwolf Malik
Sealy, was sentenced to four years in prison on
Wednesday. Phengsene was legally drunk when his pickup
smashed into Sealy's SUV on May 20.
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10/18/00: Well, New
Yorkers got what they wanted - a Subway World
Series. Unfortunately, the rest of America will be left
watching Seventh Heaven. The New York Yankees beat the
Seattle Mariners, 9-7, on Tuesday, to advance to the World
Series against the cross-town New York Mets.
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10/18/00: The big loser on
Tuesday night might just have been Fox. A Subway
Series? The ratings have been pretty bad for the
playoffs as it is. Now, you have the "same
old" Yankees, and the team from down the
street.
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10/17/00: The Tennessee
Titans own the Jacksonville Jaguars. They have beaten
them the last four times they've played, including last year's
AFC Championship game. On Monday Night, it was the
Titans rolling, 27-13. And it wasn't even that
close. Titans running back Eddie George ran for
165 yards and a touchdown and received for another 42 yards.
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10/17/00: St. Louis
Cardinals pitching went over the edge in Monday night's 7-0
loss to the New York Mets. First, it was rookie Rick
Ankiel, throwing two wild pitches (giving him nine in the
postseason) and
walking two batters in 2/3 inning. Then, it was Dave
Veres throwing a high inside pitch right at the head of
Jay Payton of the Mets that left Payton bleeding from the
blow. Things almost turned ugly as both benches emptied.
It was a totally classless move by Veres. These guys deserve to be sitting at home for the
next four months.
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10/16/00: Goaltender Tony
Meola made ten saves as the Kansas City Wizards took their
first MLS Cup on Sunday, 1-0, over the Chicago Fire.
Meola added the game's MVP trophy to the season MVP trophy he
won on Friday after posting a league-record 16 shutouts this
season and holding opponents scoreless at one point during the
season for 681 consecutive minutes. The MLS Cup is the
city of Kansas City's first major professional title since the
1985 Royals won the World Series.
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10/17/00: St. Louis
Cardinals pitcher Darryl Kile was lit up in the first
inning of the crucial Game Four of the NLCS, giving up five
doubles and four runs, as his team lost to the New York Mets,
10-6, and slipped to a 3-1 deficit in the series. He was
pulled in the second inning after giving up an additional
three runs. Kile was pitching on three days rest instead
of four, but he insisted that was not why he was so bad.
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10/15/00: The postseason
hasn't always been kind to Roger Clemens. But the
Yankee pitcher had a game for the ages, with an overpowering
1-hitter in New York's 5-0 win at Seattle. Clemens had an
American League Championship Series record 15 strikeouts as
the Yanks moved to within one game of their third straight
World Series appearance.
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10/15/00: Kansas State
showed that they didn't deserve to be ranked #2 in the
country. After an early-season schedule that featured
creampuffs like Louisiana Tech, Ball State and N. Texas, the
Wildcats finally played someone their own size in #6 Oklahoma.
The result? A 41-31 loss at home that saw the 'Cats defense
shredded for 374 yards passing. K-State coach Bill Snyder,
long accused of making easy schedules, has now played 20 games
in his career against Top 10 teams. With the loss Saturday his
record in those games is 1-19!
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10/14/00: Thousands of Indiana
Hoosiers fans filed into Assembly Hall at midnight Friday
night to get their first up-close glimpse of their 2000
basketball team. And, while a certain someone was on
everyone's mind, it seemed like a love fest as coach Mike
Davis presented his team to the crowd of Hoosier
faithful. And those faithful fans responded with love
and support - even without the chair throwing.
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10/14/00: As the Detroit
Lions enter a crucial stretch of their season, they will do so
without their star wide receiver, Germane Crowell, who
broke his foot in practice on Friday. Though they are
now in the middle of a ten day rest, the Lions have a huge
game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers next Thursday
night. Crowell will miss that game, and another five to
seven weeks after that.
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10/13/00: NBA Commissioner David
Stern apparently talked some sense into Allen Iverson
on Thursday. After refusing to change any of the
potentially offensive lyrics on his upcoming album, Iverson
announced that he will be changing some of what Stern called
"coarse, offensive and anti-social" lyrics.
While Iverson may be a bottom for performing the lyrics in the
first place, you've got to give credit to Iverson for
listening to the public's reaction and responding
intelligently and respectfully; and credit goes to Stern for
refusing to punish Iverson, but coaxing him in the right
direction at the same time.
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10/13/00: There isn't a
sports site out there that is more for equal rights on the
field than us. But, in the case of Heather Sue Mercer
vs. Duke University, the two million bucks stop here.
Mercer was released from the Duke football team saying that
she was not a good enough place kicker to play on the
team. Coaches and players (including six kickers)
testified that this was the case. Mercer said she could
kick 48 yard field goals, but was more comfortable within 43
yards. The jury believed Mercer and awarded her
$2 million in punitive damages. 43 yards and she gets $2
million? Though, Sebastian Janikowski gets about that
and he can't even kick them 40 yards - so maybe we're just off
on this one.
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10/12/00: While it was the
Yankees' bats that got the press in their 7-1 win over the
visiting Seattle Mariners, it was pitcher Orlando Hernandez
who deserved it most. On Wednesday, his birthday, El
Duque allowed only one run and six hits in eight
innings. He is now 7-0 lifetime in October with an ERA
of 1.21.
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10/12/00: All the King's
men couldn't keep the Blues from embarrassing them.
After taking a 4-0 lead into the third period, Kings
goaltender Jamie Storr allowed four goals in the final
period to give up the victory and settle for a 4-4 NHL tie.
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10/11/00: Freddy Garcia
pitched 6 2/3 innings on Tuesday at Yankee Stadium and gave
his Seattle Mariners the cushion they needed to win Game 1 of
the ALCS, 2-0. He allowed six hits, no runs, and struck
out eight, sinking the Yankees back into the doldrums that saw
them finish the season winning just three of their last 17
games.
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10/11/00: In the latest
chapter of the rash of college basketball players finding
trouble off the court, University of Kentucky basketball
player Jules Camara was found guilty of drunk driving
Tuesday. The 6-foot-11 Camara had been arrested Sept. 3
for swerving his car as he drove, and was given a field
sobriety test, which he failed. With the University's no
alcohol policy, Camara will sit the entire season due to the
conviction.
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10/10/00: The Dennis Miller
Mojo continues for ABC. Monday Night Football had
its fifth thriller out of six weeks as Minnesota outlasted
Tampa Bay in a classic, 30-23. In all five games the losing
team has had the ball last with a chance to win or tie. Tampa
Bay came thisclose to sending the game into overtime as a
last-play Hail Mary pass barely touched the ground as Jacquez
Green made a play for it. The fact that the refs blew a clear
pass interference on the play didn't help. And we loved Mike
Alstott trying to throw an option pass earlier on fourth down.
He had his man, tight end Todd Yoder, wide open but threw too
high and wide.
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10/10/00: With all of the
marketing geniuses out there you think someone would have come
up with better nicknames than those given to the two
new NHL teams: The Minnesota Wild and Columbus Blue Jackets.
Singular names are lame, and what the hell is a ``Blue
Jacket?'' We'll just start calling them the B.J.'s.
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10/9/00: In lifting his New
York Mets over the San Francisco Giants to reach the NLCS, Bobby
J. Jones became only the sixth pitcher to throw a complete
game one-hitter in the post season, and the first in the
Majors since 1967. The Mets beat the Giants, 4-0, and
won the series, 3-1. Until Sunday, not only was Bobby
Jones in obscurity, but he was one of TWO Bobby Jones's on the
Mets' roster - the other being pitcher Bobby M. Jones.
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10/9/00: What a bad weekend
for Bay Area sports teams. On
Friday, the San Jose Sharks lost their season opener to the
St. Louis Blues, 4-1. On Saturday, Stanford and Cal lost
football games by a combined score of 50-24. And on
Sunday, the A's and Giants got knocked out of the MLB
playoffs, after having home field advantage. Luckily, in
the NFL, the two Bay Area teams played one another - and two
teams haven't lost the same game in the NFL in a long long
time.
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10/8/00: Oklahoma Sophomore
RB Quentin Griffin ran for a school record six
touchdowns, all under eight yards, as the #13 Oklahoma Sooners
blasted the #11 Texas Longhorns, 63-14, improving to
5-0. The Sooners came within one point of the
biggest blowout in the storied rivalry's history (it was 50-0
in 1908).
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10/8/00: In Saturday's Los
Angeles Motion flag football game, it was a comeback for the
ages as Team Green let a 22-point lead slip away in the
final minutes of the game. After taking a commanding
40-18 lead in the third quarter, a touchdown by green
quarterback Jim Buzinski was called back and it was all down
hill after that, as Team Orange picked off two passes and
rolled over Green's defense in the second half of the game to
take the game, 42-40.
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10/7/00: In the offseason,
the Seattle Mariners lost their star player, Ken Griffey
Jr. They responded by not only making the playoffs, but
sweeping the team with the AL's best record in three
games. The final game was a 2-1 win on Friday that sent
the M's to the AL Championship Series off of a bunt by Carlos
Guillen, seeing his first playoff appearance of the year,
in the bottom of the ninth inning, that scored Rickey
Henderson.
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10/7/00: Marty McSorley,
the NHL thug who brutally hit Donald Brashear in the head with
his stick last February, was found guilty of assault with a
weapon for his attack. Unfortunately, he won't do jail
time - he will serve an 18 month probation in which time he
cannot, whether he is reinstated by the NHL or not, play in a
game against Brashear. McSorley maintained his innocence
despite his deserved reputation as an "enforcer" and
video that shows him skating at Brashear, aiming at his head,
and hitting him with his stick.
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10/6/00: Every run has to
come to an end. For Marshall, the losses of key talent
like Randy Moss and Chad Pennington were just too much to
handle. After setting the Division I-A record for most
consecutive home wins at 33, the Marshall Thundering Herd
finally fell to a visiting opponent, as the Western
Michigan Broncos ran all over the Herd in the second half
and won going away, 30-10. Marshall hadn't lost a home
game since the Division I-AA title game against Montana in
1995.
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10/6/00: With the two
highest paid players in Major League Baseball this season, but
no spot in the playoffs, the Los Angeles Dodgers had to
find a scapegoat. On Friday, they'll announce the firing
of manager Davey Johnson. Johnson led the team to an
86-76 record this season and a second place finish in the
relatively competitive NL West.
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10/5/00: Are the Yanks
back? After losing a shocking 16 of 19 games, the
Yankees got a great effort from pitcher Andy Pettitte,
who pitched 7 2/3 runless innings at Oakland in a
near-must-win game for New York, as the Yankees evened their
series with the A's, 1-1. Said Yankees shortstop Derek
Jeter after the game, "We know we can win, we know we can
beat great pitchers and we'll do it again."
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10/5/00: What is it with
the Wisconsin athletic program? First, they
suspend about a quarter of their football team for accepting
gifts in the form of sneakers. Now, three hoopsters have
been suspended for eight games each for accepting benefits
from Shoe Box, an athletic outfitter. In addition to
these suspended athletes, another 37 have been ordered to
close their accounts at the store to maintain their NCAA
eligibility.
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10/4/00: The
down-to-the-wire pennant race in the AL West seems to
have done the division's two playoff teams some good. In
the first game of their series, the Oakland A's and Seattle
Mariners captured crucial wins in defeating the defending
world champs and the AL's best record. The A's beat the
Yankees, 5-3, getting four runs off of pitcher Roger
Clemens. The M's won at the Chicago White Sox in the
tenth inning, off of an Edgar Martinez two-run homer, 7-4.
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10/4/00: OK, let's play a
game. Guess who said this on Tuesday: "It's
embarrassing to hear that an organization is thinking about
trading their franchise player because he's tardy to practice."
Most of you probably only need one guess. Yes, the NBA
season is starting up again, and so is 76er Allen Iverson's
mouth. The Philadelphia point guard went on the trading
block after last season after he continually broke team rules
- among them, showing up late to practice. After vowing
to turn a new leaf this season, Iverson clearly hasn't learned
anything in the offseason.
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10/03/00: We saw an amazing
moment Sunday on Fox Sports World's replay of English Premiere
League football. It came after Alan Smith had just
scored a goal for Leeds United. As Smith was celebrating,
teammate Gary Kelley came over, they drew close to each
other ... and kissed ... on the mouth ... lovingly. It wasn't
one of those Russian cultural ``a few pecks on each cheek''
deals. This was the real thing. Is this the start of a trend?
Our friend Jim, an enormous English football fan, says he's
never seen anything like it. We have it on video and will try
and get reprint rights.
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10/03/00: Two big thumbs
down to the new gay-themed film ``Broken Hearts Club,''
a lame romantic comedy set in West Hollywood. What pisses us
off is the ``sport'' angle. The characters in the film all
play on a softball team and embody every stereotype and cliché
of gays in sports. They can't run, they can't hit or can't
throw and play like, dare we say, a bunch of prissy queens.
The topper: In the film these guys are in a straight league.
It's something that would never happen; anybody this bad would
only play in a gay softball league. As for the rest of the
film, if you like poorly written, predictable plots with
unappealing characters, than this is a movie for you.
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10/2/00: Two teams had
their own fates in their hands on Sunday, and they did the
most with it. With playoff spots theirs to lose, the Seattle
Mariners and Oakland Athletics won their final games of the season to clinch playoff spots over the
lurking Cleveland Indians. The M's beat the Anaheim
Angels, 5-2, while the A's topped the Texas Rangers, 3-0.
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10/2/00: The Atlanta Braves
were one out away from hosting their first round playoff
series. Then came a two-out error by Chipper Jones,
and a home run on an 0-2 pitch by John Rocker, and the
Colorado Rockies beat the Braves, 10-5, sending the Braves to
St. Louis for their first round matchup.
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10/1/00: Lost in all the
hubbub over who can score the most points against weak
opponents is an unexpected 4-1 team in the Big Ten that is
making a real run at the Rose Bowl. The Northwestern
Wildcats won their second straight road game against a
ranked opponent, knocking off #18
Michigan State this week, 37-17. The last time the
'Cats started 4-1, they went to the Rose Bowl.
Presently, the only undefeated team in the Pac10 is Oregon
State, which knocked off USC on Saturday.
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10/1/00: The New York
Yankees have hit a slump at the wrong time. While
they have backed into the AL East crown because of the
ineptitude of the other division teams, they have lost six in
a row, and 14 of their last 17 games, just three days before
the playoffs start. The loss on Saturday was a 9-1
drubbing at the hands of the Baltimore Orioles, who are 15
games under .500. Luckily for the Yanks, no one chokes
in September better than the Red Sox.
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