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1 iinwt Jjgujfs kiKjaH Steeltrt I tug.H.7:30 1 Vp 3. 3 I Sep 10. 1 Sep.17,1 the proverbial wall when it marched into Cincinnati on Dec. 21 for the regular-season finale. "If we win," wide receiver Dave Logan said, "we win the AFC Central.
If we lose, not only do we not qualify as division champs, we don't even make the playoffs." Cleveland won a thriller, 27-24, in yet another fabulous performance by the "Kardiac Kids." Logan a third-round draft pick from Colorado in 1976 was often called "a Gary Collins with speed." The 6-foot-4, 216-pounder was critical to the Browns' success, leading the 1980 squad with 822 receiving yards. But he doesn't like to trumpet himself. He praised all of quarterback Brian Sipe's receivers. "Our whole receiving corps was special," said Logan, adding that tight end Ozzie Newsome and linebacker Clay Matthews were the best players he ever played with. "We kind of classified ourselves as blue-collar guys.
We were the first team ever that had five guys that caught 50 or more passes in one season." Fullback Mike Pruitt led the way with 63 catches, followed by Reggie Rucker (52), Logan (51), Newsome (51) and tailback Greg Pruitt (50). And what about those eight late-comeback wins in that incredible 11-5 season? "We got used to doing that," Logan said. Logan, 46, is the play-by-play voice of the Broncos on KO A-AM (850) radio in Denver. Chick Ludwig ON THE WEB www.activedayton.comsports20000723 rivalryfronthtml To) fiA Home games Away games TODAY ON TELEVISION TENNIS RCA Championships, 1 p.m., ESPN2 RCA Championships, 1 :30 a.m., ESPN2 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Cardinals at Cubs, 2: 1 0 p.m., WGN Yankees at Rangers, 7 p.m., ESPN Indians at Athletics, 1 0:30 p.m., ESPN2 LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES TBA, 6:30 p.m., ESPN2 SOCCER World Cup Qualifier Barbados at United States, 8:30 p.m., ESPN2 MORE LISTINGS ONLINE oiines Sporisllea ON RADIO AUTO RACING World of Racing, 6:45 a.m., WM0H-AM(1450) NASCAR Today, 6 p.m., WMOH-AMO450) MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Reds at Brewers, 8:05 p.m., WONE-AM (980) COMPILED FROM WIRE SERVICES MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Snappers at Dragons, 7 p.m., WHIO-AM EHCrevjReport Notes on Major League Soccer's Ohio franchise SOFTBALL INSIDER Local kids successful in tourneys Chalk one up for the younger crowd. While area adults are busy battling for supremacy in the Dayton city tournament and other weekend competitions, a group of kids from Beavercreek and Bellbrook quietly earned recognition in a couple of youth events.
Belmont Physicians, made up of players from the aforementioned towns, ventured to Alabama recently for the ASA Boys 14-and-Under National Tournament and claimed second place, losing to a team from Georgia in a 3-game series. The locals won the first game, 15-7 before losing, 8-2 and 22-9. Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia were represented. The team also finished second in the Ohio USSSA boys state tournament held in Cleveland and most recently finished 12-0 in league play in Beavercreek. For the season, the team was 19-7.
At the ASA national tournament, pitcher David Folino led the team with a .652 average going 15 for 23. Outfielder Kevin Teall batted .625 (15 for 24) and third baseman Brian Buschhit.607(17for28). Other members of the team are outfielders Chris Norman, Michael Conley and Tyler Fondriest, shortstop Tyler Hughes, second baseman Doug Burch, first baseman Brandon Laurito, catcher Chris Shaw and extra player Mark Gotcher. The majority of the players are from Ferguson and Ankeney middle schools in Beavercreek. SENIOR SOFTBALL Success in softball is not limited to youth and adults in their prime.
The City of Dayton recently hosted a qualifier for next year's World Championship Senior Olympics and some area teams performed quite well. Teams playing in 50-and-over, 55-and-over, 60-and-over, 65-and-over, 70-and-over and 75-and-over came to Dayton hoping to qualify for the Big Show. First- and second-place teams qualified. In the 50-and-up age group, Miami Valley Seniors (first) and Lima Softball Stars (second) earned a trip to the world championships. In 55-and-over action, St.
Louis Old Guns and Second Wind qualified while in the 60-and-over group AA Boos and Franciscan qualified. Ohio Title and Kettering 65 advanced in the 65-and-over bracket while FC Industries and Ohio Sycamore took honors in 70-and-over action. Ohio Diamonds was the only team to advance in the 75-and-up age group. Three first-place women's teams also advanced: Ohio Cardinals (50-and-over), Ohio Cardinals (60-and-over) and Dayton Diamonds (65-and-over). GREAT LAKES TOURNEY The USSSA Men's Church Great Lakes National tournament will be played Saturday and Sunday at Armco Park in Lebanon.
Last year's event featured 32 teams from Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky. This tournament has been held in southwest Ohio for six years running and continues to grow each year. There is still an opportunity to enter. Call Terry Folino, USSSA State Church Director, at 429-1046. CITY PLAY The city softball tournament winds down with championship games in Division rv tonight.
Co-ed and Division II and will battle for the championships Thursday evening at Kettering Fields. There should be some heavily contested games, especially in Division I. Contact Scott Halasi at 225-2250 or e-mail him at scotthalaszcoxohio.com Contact Us Late sports scores, call NewsLine at 463-4636, enter code 2454 Main sports desk, 225-2250 or 225-2405, sportscoxohio.com Sports editor, Dwayne Bray, 225-2478, dwaynebraycoxohio.com Deputy sports editor, Jennifer Smith, 225-2295, jennifersmithcoxohio.com Night sports editor, Greg Simms, 225-2160, gregsimmscoxQhio.com TTTVS. By Ted Pitts The numbers game: Most teams have at least six matches remaining in the 2000 regular season, so it may be a bit premature to start trying to figure out the playoff picture other than to say the New YorkNew Jersey Metrostars 1 3-6- 6) are probably going to make it and the San Jose Earthquakes (5-13-8) probably aren't. What is clear, however, is that every match remaining for the Crew is crucial.
A loss in tonight's game with the Miami Fusion (7:30 p.m. at Crew Stadium) would transform Columbus from aleam struggling to stay in the playoff picture to a team trying to get into the playoff picture. Miami is only three points out of the last playoff spot (currently held by the Crew) and is coming off a 4-1 drubbing of Colorado in which former Crew forward Andy Williams scored a goal and two assists. Healthy, hurt and hobbling: The Crew will soldier on without the services of Brian McBride (fractured cheekbone finally healed) and Ansil Elco*ck, both of whom will be with their national teams in World Cup qualifying matches speedy Brian West, is still out with a strained knee Steve Tua is guaranteed $3.5 million plus a percentage of pay-per-view profits for the Nov. 11 fight.
The fight will be an IBF mandatory title defense for Lewis, who said he could make more than $10 million from the fight on TVKO. Boxing promoter faces sanctions LAS VEGAS -Promoter Bob Arum would have his boxing license restricted for six months and pay a $125,000 fine for making a payoff to IBF founder Robert W. Lee under a proposed settlement to be considered by the Nevada Athletic Commission. In the settlement agreement, Arum admits to using poor judgment when he made an improper $100,000 payment to the IBF's Lee to sanction the April 22, 1995, fight between heavyweight champion George Foreman and Axel Schulz, which Foreman won. The athletic commission will consider the nonbinding agreement today.
Losingest horse to race base-stealer ROCHESTER, N.Y. Zippy Chippy has a 50-50 chance of finally winning a race this week. The competition: a fleet-footed, minor-league baseball player. The losingest horse in the recorded history of U.S. thoroughbred racing will line up for a 40-yard dash against Jose Herrera, the base-stealing center fielder for the Rochester Red Wings.
The "2000 Red Wings Derby" will be held Thursday before the Red Wings' game against Scranton Wilkes Barre. Herrera has stolen 155 bases during his 10-year professional career. The 9-year-old gelding, 0-for-86 in his career, has'been banned from competition at the Finger Lakes racetrack in nearby Farmington and, because of reciprocal agreements, just about everywhere else. Visit our online partner for the latest stats and information about the University of Dayton, Wright State, Ohio State and other area colleges. www.activedayton.com 1 290) Armas is sidelined with a bad quadriceps.
midfielder John DeBrito is nursing a groin pull but is listed as probable for the Miami match. Honored: Dante Washington was named MLS Player of the Month for July. Washington scored five goals in six games in July and ended the month by appearing in his second MLS All-star Game on July 29, in which he tallied a goal and an he was joined in that All-Star game by Brian McBride (his fifth) and Mike Clark (his first). McBride tallied a goal and Clark had a near-miss while playing almost the entire game for the victorious East squad in a 9-4 goal-fest. (That would be 63- 28 in American football scoring) Crew keeper Matt Napolean has been named as the alternate goalkeeper on the U.S.
Men's Olympic Soccer Team for the 2000 Sydney Summer Games. He will miss the Crew's final two games of the season and, if they qualify, the beginning of the playoffs. Polish player joins the Crew: Polish international Miroslaw Rzepa (pronounced ZHEH-puh), who was signed by The Crew and Major League Soccer on Aug. 9, is expected to join the team this week. The 31-year-old, 170-pounder can play sweeper or in the defensive midfield.
is to win home games and pick up points on the road, so the Americans hope they'll get nine points from their home games against Barbados, Guatemala (Sept. 3 at Washington) and Costa Rica (Oct. 11 at Columbus). Barbados and Guatemala are con sidered the weakest teams in the group. AGOOS, ARMAS, HEJDUK PICKED FOR OLYMPIC TEAM Defender Jeff Agoos and midfielders Frankie Hejduk and Chris Ar mas were picked Tuesday as the three "wild-card" players for the U.S.
Olympic soccer team. Unlike the Olympic women's soc cer tournament, which is contested by national teams, the Olympic men's soccer tournament is played by under-23 teams because FIFA, the sport's governing body, doesn't want it to infringe on the World Cup. Under pressure from the Interna tional Olympic Committee, FIFA decided before the 1996 Atlanta Games to allow each team three players over the age limit Agoos is 32, Armas is and Hejduk is 26. served with dinner. "We weren't aware of the markings on the faucets and we filled up five-gallon coolers," Cox said.
"That's what we washed down dinner with, not knowing." Tar Heels lose top basketball recruit CHAPEL HILL, N.C-Jason Parker's career at North Carolina is over before it even started. The Tar Heels said Tuesday that the 6-foot-8 power forward, the school's top basketball recruit, will not attend the university. School officials and the Parker family refused to explain. Parker was one of the nation's top high school prospects in 1999 and signed with the Tar Heels. But he didn't qualify academically and instead attended Fork Union Military Academy in Virginia.
Boycott in Softball World Series eyed KALAMAZOO, Mich. Arizona has played all of its games in the Little League Softball World Series so far. But with five males on the roster, future contests are in doubt. Three of four international teams and a Florida team have indicated they won't play Arizona. Little League national regulations do not close competition to boys, but teams expected an all-girls competition.
Coaches are taking issue with boys playing in the tournament because of safety concerns and cultural differences. Lewis and Tua agree to fight NEW YORK An agreement was reached Tuesday for Lennox Lewis to defend the WBC-IBF heavyweight titles against David Tua on Nov. 11 in either Toronto or Las Vegas. to speed game allowed two timeouts, down from three. Full timeouts will be reduced from 100 seconds to 60 seconds, except for the first two timeouts in each period and the mandatory timeouts in the second and fourth quarters.
Those will continue to be 100 seconds. Teams will be allowed unlimited substitutions during 20-second timeouts, a change from the old rule that permitted teams calling the timeout one sub with the other team allowed to substitute only if their opponents did so. A new rule allows an offensive team to call a regular or 20-second timeout in the final two minutes for the purpose of advancing the ball to midcourt. The team has the option of inbounding the ball in the frontcourt or backcourt. If it passes into the backcourt, the 10-second rule applies.
Blue Jackets to visit Dayton DAYTON The Dayton Bombers professional hockey team will have a special guest today, when the Columbus Blue Jackets visit the first-ever Dayton Bombers Hockey School at lpm. Forward Kevyn Adams and the "Voice of the Blue Jackets" Dan Kelly, Jr. will visit the Bombers as part of a day-long stop inDayton. This is the first time a Blue Jackets player has been in Dayton. On June 15th, the Bombers announced that they are the new ECHL affiliate of the NHL franchise.
This trip to Dayton is one of the many joint ventures that the Bombers and Blue Jackets have planned for the 2000-01 season. Adams will help Bombers Head Coach Greg Ireland with the Hockey School. Adams was a first-round draft pick of the Boston Bruins, 25th overall, in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft. Last season, he played 52 games with the Toronto Maple Leafs, tallying 5 goals and 8 assists for 13 points. He also appeared in 12 Stanley Cup playoff games with the Maple Leafs.
A Buffalo, N. native, Adams played college hockey at Miami University from 1992-96. E-coli sidelines prep football team HYRUM, Utah Two-thirds of the Mountain Crest High School football team became ill after drinking irrigation water at a team camp. Dr. James Davis of Intermoun-tain Health Care Sports Medicine said at least two players had a potentially fatal strain of E.
coli, but they were doing well and had only the same symptoms as the others: diarrhea, fever, chills and nausea. More than 100 players attended the annual team retreat at Paradise on Aug. 7. Coach Dan Cox said everyone was exposed when the water was New NBA rules Associated Press NEW YORK The NBA, concerned with quickening the pace of play late in games, announced a series of changes to timeout rules on Tuesday. The league also adopted a change giving a player fouled when he has a clear path to the basket one free throw and his team possession at midcourt.
The old rule gave the player two free throws. The modifications, recommended by the league's competition committee and approved by the Board of Governors, take effect next season. Instead of seven timeouts per game, teams will be limited to six with a maximum of three in the fourth quarter instead of the previous limit of four. During the last two minutes of the fourth period or an overtime period, teams will be Contact the Columbus Crew at (614) 447-2739 or online at www.thecrew.com. For Major League soccer news visit www.mlsnet.com.
Contact Ted Pitts at 225-2281 or e-mail him at Tedjittscoxohio.com SOCCER U.S. needs win over Barbados to get back in contention Associated Press Since 1972, the United States has lost only once in 21 home World Cup qualifiers. The Americans, desperate for a victory, are banking on that history when they play Barbados tonight at Foxboro, Mass. "The team obviously needs a win," said forward Joe-Max Moore, who rejoined the national team for the first time since November. "To me, we've got to win all our home games.
To me, this first home game in Boston is crucial." Following a 1-1 tie at Guatemala and a 2-1 loss at Costa Rica, the Americans are last in their four-nation group with one point. Only the top two teams advance to next year's six-team finals of the North and Central American and Caribbean region. Since a 1972 loss to Mexico, the United States is 14-1-6 in home qualifiers, including 94 since a 1985 defeat against Costa Rica at Torrance, Calif. In World Cup qualifying, the goal Panel to examine college sports Associated Press MIAMI The Knight Commission will meet after a four-year hiatus to see if recommendations it made have helped solve some of the problems that have plagued college athletics. The independent commission was formed in 1990 to address runaway athletic programs overseen by powerful coaches and athletic directors.
The panel is made up of university presidents, the president of the NCAA, corporate sponsors and other officials. The panel's major recommendation was placing control of athletic programs in the hands university presidents. The commission will hold its first meeting Aug. 28 in Washington D.C., then again on Oct18 and Nov. 28..
