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I A I :', 1 i=a: t I I ,', ...1 ..,„ ~,,,,f t ,f,. ~.!.1 , ,, , , i., NATIONAL SPORTS Pac-10 might end relationship with BCS over Oregon State snub by Chris Dufresne Los Angeles Times November 28, 2000 The Pacific 10 Conference, tired of being virtually snubbed by the major college football bowls other than the Rose for the last 15 years, is threatening to pull out of the Bowl Championship Series after its contract expires in 2006 if the Fi esta Bowl does not select Oregon State. "There is an extra burden on the Fiesta Bowl this year," Pac-10 Commissioner Tom Hansen said Tuesday. "I hope they feel that. I think the BCS has been very good for college football, but it has to be good for all the participants." After a disastrous 1999 season. the Pac-10 has rebounded strongly and now has three teams ranked in the top 10 - Washington at No. 4, Oregon State at No. 5 and Oregon at No. 10. Yet Oregon State may not end up in the Fiesta Bowl. If that happens? "The Pac-10 may be better off going back to the Rose Bowl and forgetting the rest," Hansen said. "I wouldn't want to continually sub ject our teams to the anticipation of being selected and fairly considered when it just doesn't happen." The formation of the BCS three years ago was made possible be cause the Pac- 10, Big Ten and Rose Bowl agreed to join the alliance in order to allow the No. 1 and No. 2 ranked teams meet in a "national championship" game. In 1994, 1996 and 1997, a title =SEE game between No. I and No. 2 was not possible because Penn State, Ari zona State and Michigan were con tractually obligated to play in the Rose Bowl. Hansen has been disappointed that, since joining the BCS, the Pac-10 has not placed a second team in a $13.5- million game and feels there may never be a more qualified participant than 10-1 Oregon State, ranked No. 6 in this week's BCS rankings. In truth, the BCS was formed only to assure a matchup of No. 1 vs. No. 2, leaving the other bowls to negoti ate pairings based on economic and regional ties. The Fiesta Bowl is very interested in Oregon State, yet there are com plicating factors, namely that ratings bonanza Notre Dame has qualified for one of two at-large BCS spots. "We've said all along we want to let the season play out," Fiesta Bowl spokesman Shawn Schoeffler said Tuesday. "Oregon State, we admit, is very deserving of a BCS bid, but we have to let it unfold and then we'll decide on Sunday." The key for the Fiesta is Saturday's Big 12 championship game in Kan sas City, Mo. If No. 1 Oklahoma defeats Kan sas State, the Jan. 1 Fiesta Bowl gets to choose both at-large selections and will be left with some tantalizing op tions. The Fiesta could pair No. 11 Notre Dame vs. No. 2 Miami in a game pit ting two of college football's most storied and fierce rivals. In that scenario, Oklahoma and Florida State would play in the Jan. 3 Orange Bowl for the BCS national on]. =IM 121112111111 title, but Miami could actually claim the Associated Press title with a Fi esta Bowl victory should Florida State defeat Oklahoma two days later in the Orange. In the Oklahoma-beats-Kansas State scenario, however, the Fiesta would be under great pressure to work Oregon State into the mix. The Fiesta could match Oregon State against Miami (Story line: Dennis Erickson coaches against the school he led to two national titles) and al low Notre Dame to go to the Sugar Bowl or it could match Oregon State against Notre Dame and let Miami play in the Sugar Bowl. The Fiesta Bowl has a much big ger problem if Kansas State upsets Oklahoma this weekend because the bowl is then required to take Big 12 champion Kansas State as the auto matic qualifier. That leaves the Fiesta to chose be tween Oregon State and Notre Dame as Kansas State's opponent. Oregon State obviously lacks Notre Dame's historical credentials, yet the Beavers are the better team this year on merit. In terms of national interest and television ratings, Notre Dame-Kan sas State is a far more attractive game for the Fiesta Bowl than Oregon State-Kansas State. But the Notre Dame-Kansas State pairing would create tremendous backlash at Pac-10 headquarters in Walnut Creek, Calif. Hansen understands the Fiesta Bowl is the only logical option for Oregon State. For geographical rea sons, the Sugar Bowl is not interested in Oregon State as an at-large selec tion. Safety board still uncertain on reason for Stewart tragedy by Don Phillips The Washington Post November 28, 2000 WASHINGTON - The crew of a pri vate jet that crashed and killed golfer Payne Stewart and three associates last year was incapacitated by a loss of cabin pressure, but the National Trans portation Safety Board said Tuesday it could not determine why the cabin depressurized or why the crew did not get supplemental oxygen. However, two of the scenarios that board investigators could not rule out were that the crew failed to don oxy gen masks quickly enough after a high-altitude depressurization or that the supplementary oxygen bottle was empty or only partially full before the plane took off. The Learjet 35, operated by the now-defunct Sunjet Aviation Inc. of Sanford, Fla., flew almost four hours on autopilot after taking off from Or lando on Oct. 25, 1999, before spiral ing into a field near Aberdeen, S.D., when it ran out of fuel. Military and National Guard F-16s shadowed the plane throughout most of its flight, reporting they saw no ex ternal damage but that the front windscreen and most of the other win dows were blocked by ice or other condensation. None of the pilots could see inside the plane. An Oklahoma National Guard pilot reported that the plane began rolling toward the ground, and "it looks like he's out of control." The board staff developed several theories for the crash and offered 10 recommendations to correct inadequa cies in the pressurization and oxygen systems and in pilot training that were found during the investigation. An 11th recommendation urged the Federal Aviation Administration to include smaller jets such as the Lear in its aging aircraft program. The jet that crashed was 25 years old. Safety board Chairman Jim Hall said that no matter what happened to the plane, it is time to start treating business aircraft the same as larger air liners. He noted that poor airline ser vice is leading to a proliferation of private charter operations and frac tional ownership plans in which nu merous individuals buy a "share" of a fleet of planes, usually based on time used. Jetliner cabins are generally pressur ized so that the inside never feels as if it is higher than 8,000 feet regardless FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2000 The Pac-10 has placed one school - Arizona in the 1994 Fiesta - in a major bowl other than the Rose since 1985, when UCLA defeated Miami in the Fiesta Bowl and Washington beat Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl. The knock on Pac-10 schools is that they don't travel well. UCLA, for example, brought only 3,000 fans to the 1995 Aloha Bowl in Ho nolulu. In 1997, No. 5 UCLA was by passed by the Sugar Bowl in favor of No. 9 Ohio State even after the Pac-10 offered to subsidize travel packages for UCLA to help secure the berth. UCLA went instead to the Cotton Bowl. Hansen and Mitch Barnhart, Or egon State's athletic director, have been working overtime to sell Or egon State the Fiesta Bowl. Barnhart was in Tempe, Ariz., this week to make his case for the Beavers, whose only blemish this season was a three-point defeat at Washington. "Our conference is very deserv ing this year of two teams in the BCS, and I'm proud of where our program is," Barnhart said. "Our kids deserve to be there. Having said that, we'll play wherever we're told to go." Hansen said that the conference, as it did with UCLA in 1997, has agreed to subsidize travel packages to Tempe for Oregon State fans. In terms of Oregon State's national appeal, Hansen notes the Oregon- Oregon State game on Nov. 18 out performed ABC's ratings average in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston and New York. what altitude the plane is flying. At 10,000 feet, the altitude warning horn sounds, and at 14,000 feet passenger oxygen masks drop. The last radio transmission from the aircraft came as it climbed above 14,000 feet, and air traffic radio tapes indicate no horn was sounding and the crew was not affected by hypoxia, altitude sickness. The next effort by controllers to ra dio the plane was made six minutes and 20 seconds later, with the plane at 36,500 feet. The crew did not re ply. Mitchell Garber, the board's medi cal officer, said that there is some minor human impairment even at 10,000 feet, but that at 15,000 feet there are reduced physical and men tal abilities. At 35,000 feet, a pilot would be incoherent within 12 to 14 seconds without supplemental oxy- gen, he said. The plane hit the ground with such force that few of its instruments or parts survived sufficiently to tell in vestigators what happened. The inves tigation also was hampered because the plane was not required to have a flight data recorder, and the cockpit voice recorder contains only the last 30 minutes of cockpit sounds. The voice recorder contained no human voices, only engine sound and a con stantly blaring altitude warning horn. Nonetheless, investigators were able to determine that a flow control valve that normally pressurizes the plane was closed. A closed valve alone-in the absence of any damage to the fuselage-would allow pressure to bleed off over about three minutes. However, investigators pointed out that one of the crew's troubleshoot ing duties in a depressurization is to close the valve and turn on an emer gency pressurization system. But there is no indication the emergency system was used. Board staff members said they looked at the possibility the crew failed to turn on the pressurization system, but that was unlikely because radio tapes indicate no early warning horns or crew confusion. The crew's oxygen masks were plugged into the emergency oxygen system, and the emergency oxygen bottle was depleted, but whether the crew ever wore the masks or the bottle was ever full "could not be deter mined," they said.
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