sports Lions and 'Canes have a chance to break a tie Will By HERSCHEL NISSENSON AP Football Writer NEW YORK The Fiesta Bowl is investigating the possibility of playing overtime if the national championship showdown between top-ranked Mi ami and the No. 2 football team ends in a tie. An NCAA spokesman said the Fiesta Bowl “is not totally out of the ballpark, that’s for sure,” in pursuing overtime play. But a member of the NCAA Football Rules Committee said the tie-breaker provision does not apply to major-college bowl games and violation of the rule could result in sanctions. “Most definitely we’re thinking about it (over time),” Bruce Skinner, executive director of the Fiesta Bowl, said yesterday. “We’re checking the rule book at>this time and checking the NCAA and checking with NBC to see if that possibility can be resolved if it ends up in a tie. “I know that a tie-breaker format’s in the rule book, but that’s really all that I know at this time. I’m not sure if you can do it or what the process is.” Bob Minnix, the NCAA’s liaison to the bowls, said that “off the top of my head I don’t see any reason they can’t do it (play overtime).” But Dave Nelson, secretary-rules editor of the NCAA Football Rules Committee, said the tie breaker provision applies only to Division I-AA, Division II and Division 111 playoffs and regular season play in conferences whose champions auto matically qualify for those playoffs. Major-college football is the only NCAA sport without an official playoff system. The national champion is determined by a vote of the 60 writers and sportscasters who participate in the Asso ciated Press poll. The rule book describes a “tie-breaker system to be used when it is necessary to decide a tie game for the purposes of determining a champion or a team’s progress in a tournament bracket.” “Since it’s an NCAA rule book, that means determining NCAA champions,” Nelson said. “The NCAA said if we wanted a tie-breaker for everybody we’d have to say that, and it doesn’t.” But, said Minnix, “It can be argued whether it means a national champion as well as an NCAA champion.” Nelson also quoted rules saying that “NCAA member institutions shall conduct' all contests under the official football-playing rules of the Association” and that “NCAA member institu tions not complying with NCAA football-playing rules .. . are subject to NCAA sanctions.” “You have to play by the rules,” Nelson said. “You can do anything you want as far as breaking the rules, but you may not get certified next year. The interpretation of the rules committee for years has been that the tie-breaker does not apply to bowl games.” UNLV to top By JIM O’CONNELL AP Sports Writer Nevada-Las Vegas took over the No. 1 spot in The Associated Press college basketball poll yesterday as previously top-ranked North Carolina fell to fifth, behind three teams from the Big Ten. The Runnin’ Rebels, 5-0, moved up from last week’s No. 2 ranking with, 39 first-place votes and 1,236 points from the nationwide panel of sportswriters and broadcasters. UNLV’s only game last week was an 80-77 victory at Memphis State. “I don’t know that we’re the best team in the country, but I know we’ve beaten five of the better teams in the country,” Nevada- Las Vegas Coach Jerry Tarkanian said when told of his team’s new poll position. In the preseason National Invi tation Tournament, the Runnin’ Rebels posted victories over Ari zona, Oklahoma, Temple and Western Kentucky. All but Temple have been ranked this season. “I don’t think anybody in the country has played five games like we have so far,” Tarkanian said. Tarkanian praised his players but also felt there were other rea sons for the perfect record. “We’ve won so many close games,” Tarkanian said. “We have great kids, they work hard. All our kids say no one works harder than we do. “We’ve been lucky too. You can say all you want about character but the ball has to bounce your way sometimes. We hit the clutch free throws, the clutch baskets.” The last time Nevada-Las Vegas held the No. 1' ranking was in February 1983. However, that lasted just one week as the Run nin’ Rebels, then 24-0, lost road games at Fullerton State and West Virginia. Nevada-Las Vegas’ next game will be Saturday at Nevada-Reno. Indiana is second with 14 first place votes and 1,144 points, fol lowed by Purdue, seven first-place votes and 1,126 points, and lowa, which had 1,029 points. Indiana, 3-0, beat Notre Dame and then-No. 13 Kentucky last week, while Purdue, 3-0, regis- Working Overtime? runs it way of cage poll .tered victories over Illinois State and Connecticut. lowa beat Mis souri-St. Louis before winning the Amana-Hawkeye Classic, which it hosts. North Carolina, 4-1, fell from the top spot it held in the preseason and first regular-season poll as it won two of three games last week. The Tar Heels, who had one first place vote and 1,012 points, lost 89- 84 at UCLA before posting home victories over Stetson, 100-64, and Miami, Fla., 122-77. Illinois, the fourth Big Ten team in the top six, jumped from last week’s No. 9 ranking with a 99-97 road victory over then-No. 12 Pittsburgh. The Fighting Illini, 4- 0, had one first-place vote and 857 points. Rounding out the Top Ten were Auburn, which also received one first-place vote and 779 points; Western Kentucky, 663 points; Ok lahoma, 627 points; and Navy, 547 points. Western Kentucky, 6-1, and Ok lahoma, 3-1, improved from 14th and 11th, respectively. Both schools’ only loss was to Nevada- Las Vegas in the preseason Na tional Invitation Tournament. Leading off the Second Ten is UCLA, 3-0, which received one first-place vote and 517 points. Following UCLA in the Second Ten were Syracuse, Georgetown, Kansas, North Carolina State, Georgia Tech, Pittsburgh, Ala bama, Kentucky and Arkansas. Syracuse jumped from last week’s No. 17 ranking after win ning its own Carrier Classic with a 94-74 victory over then-No. 19 Northeastern in the championship game. Northeastern and Arizona, which had been ranked 20th, were the only teams to fall from the ranks of the ranked. Arizona was beaten by Utah 68-67. Joining UCLA as the new teams in the poll was Arkansas. The Razorbacks, 4-0, beat then-No. 6 Kansas 103-86 and have won all of their games by at least 14 points. Alabama dropped from eighth to 18th after losing to Florida State 72-71 and Kentucky fell from 13th to 19th after losing to Indiana 71- 66. Miami quarterback Vinny Testaverde had better get used to seeing blue and white. If Fiesta Bowl officials get their way, and an overtime is instituted, the Helsman Trophy winner may be eying Lions defenders for more than 60 minutes. The tie-breaker provision does not cqll for sud den-death play like the NFL. An overtime period consists of possession of the ball on the opponent’s 25-yard line, first and 10, by both'Team A and Team B. If, after both possessions, there is no score or. the score is tied, there will be a second overtime period. The team scoring the greater number of points after an equal number of possessions is the winner. Lady cagers looking to rebound By DAVID SEAMON Collegian Sports Writer The women’s basketball team will attempt to rebound tonight, both literally and figuratively, when it travels to upstate New York to take on the Lady Orange of Syracuse. The Lady Lions are coming off a very disap pointing outing an 88-70 whipping at the hands of host Illinois in the finals of the Illini Classic. What may have been more painful than the actual results for Head Coach Rene Portland and her team was the Lady Lions inability to follow through on one of this season’s goals, to crash the boards more effectively. “We just did not rebound at all,” Portland said, in reference to the Lady Lions lackluster perfor mance on the boards. “It (the lack of rebound ing) hurt our running game. We are very concerned about our inside play, offensively and defensively, at this stage (of the season). Re bounding just needs to be a big, big part of our game.” Portland said the lack of productivity from inside the paint allows opposing defenses, such as Illinois, to concentrate on the vaunted Lady Lion outside shooters such as Lisa Faloon, Suzie McConnell, Laura Hughes and company. “It was difficult in the Illinois game to get our guards free for their shooting, because Illinois knew after watching us the night before (a 70-68 Lady Lion win over Washington) that we are not a big team inside,” Portland said. “They let the whole lane open; we just could not put the ball in the basket,” she added. As for tonight’s encounter, the Lady Lions will be trying to put the ball in the basket against a team they edged by three points, 82-79, last year at Rec Hall. The Lady Orange have never defeat ed Penn State in eight previous attempts, howev er, Portland knows that they will be primed for the upset. “From what we understand, they (Syracuse) have dedicated their entire pre-season to beating Penn State,” Portland said. “They have the ‘We are... Penn State’ signs in their locker room with slashes through them like ,Ghostbusters signs.” Too bad the Lady Orange, 1-3 in the early going, haven’t dedicated their pre-season to beating teams like New Hampshire. A power house in field hockey, but an also-ran on the hardwood, New Hampshire defeated Syracuse last Saturday by a score of 72-62. The-Lady Orange are led in the scoring and rebounding columns by a talented junior, Felisha Legette, who has averaged 13.5 points and ten caroms per contest. Also scoring in double digits for Syracuse are guard Sue Ludwig and forward Vera Jones. Both have averaged 12.5 points per outing. Also expected to contribute valuable playing time for Syracuse are guard Janice Long and front court players Becky Wright, Danene Hop son and Tonya Hopson. Tom Merritt, a spokesman for NBC-TV, which will televise the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 2 (8 p.m., EST), said the overtime suggestion “has pros and cons, like anything else. One of the considerations is the amount of time it would take our affiliates past 11 p.m. “We’d like to hear what the governing bodies have to say about it before we entertain such a proposal. Let it come through proper channels and we’ll evaluate it.” in Fiesta? AP Laserpl Penn Slate’s Lisa Lambert looks to pass the ball off in a game against Brock University earlier this season. The Lady Lions will be looking to hit the boards when the squad faces Syracuse tonight in New York. Syracuse is coming off a record of 19-10 overall and 12-4 in the Big East Conference last year. This peason the Lady, Orange are expected to challenge for the Big East title and a position in the Top Twenty. Rival head coaches in the Big East have labelled Barbara Jacobs’ squad as the second best team in the conference. Portland is cognizant of how gutsy and talented Syracuse really is, despite its struggles in the early portion of the season. “We’ve got to be concerned (about the Lady Orange),’’.Portland said. “They’re a great bal lclub the class of the Big East. They’re going to play with their hearts. They’ll play with a lot of emotion.” Landry not nervous despite death threat By KEN PETERS AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. - Although a bullet-proof vest bulged under his coat as he stood along the Dallas Cowboys’ sideline, Coach Tom Landry said he wasn’t nervous. Cowboys running back Tony Dorsett, however, found phoned threats against Landry a little unnerving. “It was a very eerie feeling being on the sideline after hearing what we heard,” Dorsett said af ter the Cowboys’ 29-10 loss to the Los Angeles Rams Sunday night. “Everybody’s looking around and over everybody’s shoulders and saying who’s standing behind whom,” Dorsett said of the Cow boys on the sideline. “Wait a minute, man, this is only a game. My life is more important than anything. “As far as concentration, you know you are going to keep your head in the game, as well as won dering, ‘Well, is something going to happen? Is there a sniper in here? Is he going for one individu al or is he going to spray the whole sideline?’ “It made for a very uncomfort able situation,” Dorsett said. Landry was escorted off the field after a man made two anony mous calls to Anaheim Stadium during the game, claiming that his mentally disturbed brother might try to shoot the Dallas coach. Landry was off the field briefly and returned wearing a bullet proof vest. Dick Beam, the Rams’ director of operations, said yesterday that Los Angeles Coach John Robinson also was threatened by the same caller, who phoned the stadium four times and the Anaheim Police twice during the game. According to Beam, after Land ry came back wearing a bullet proof vest, the individual called again and said since Landry was protected, “John Robinson is going to die.” “They didn’t have a flak jacket big enough to fit me,” Robinson The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Dec. 9, 1986 joked, although he found the whole incident less than amusing and downplayed it. “I wasn’t really nervous out there,” Landry said. “They (the security people) were nervous enough to try to do something about it.. They asked me if I wanted to stay off the field, but I put on the vest and went back out. “I don’t think much about those things. It’s just something you have to deal with in our society,” Landry said, adding, “When the security people are concerned, I’m concerned. “I know we had a threat in San Francisco once, too. You have it occasionally and you hope it’s not a serious thing because it’s sure to be bad. “It seems to happen out here in California.” “I haven’t heard a thing about it today,” Vanderwood said. The threats had no affect on the game’s outcome, said Landry, who credited the Rams with “making the plays, mostly in the passing game, that beat us.” The victory gave the Rams a 10- 4 record and put them to within one victory of clinching their sec ond consecutive NFC West title: They lead the San Francisco 49ers by IV2 games, and could win the title outright by beating Miami next Sunday at Anaheim. The slumping Cowboys, mean while, saw their hopes of a playoff spot virtually wiped out. Losers of their last three games and five of their last six, they have a 7-7 record heading into the final two games of the season. The Rams beat the Cowboys on Jim Everett’s passing, Eric-Dick erson’s running, and solid defense and special teams play. Everett, a rookie playing in just his fourth NFL game, threw for 182 yards and a touchdown in the first half as the Rams built a 20-10 lead. He finished the game 14 of 25 for 212 yards as he won for the third time in as many starts. Dickerson rushed for 106 yards on 28 carries. On the other side of the coin, Jacobs expects the Lady Lions to come out roaring after their loss to Illinois. “We expect them to be very angry when they get up here,” Jacobs said. “They have a very strong team. I hope it will be a good game.” The Lady Lions’ starting lineup will once again consist of Faloon and McConnell in the back court. The pair from Pittsburgh have averaged 18.7 and 10.7 points per game. Up front the Lady Lions will go with Hughes, Lisa Lambert and Vicki Link. Link, a 6-foot-2 senior, is the team’s leading scorer averaging 19.0 points per tilt. Bethany Collins, Shelly Caplinger and Adrie DeVries are also likely to see substantial playing time. Collegian Photo / John Playoff picture still By DAVE GOLDBERG AP Football Writer The race for the NFL’s 10 playoff spots moved into its final two weeks yesterday with the AFC in a mad scramble that could go down to the final game of the season. Kansas City’s 37-10 upset of Denver and Cincinnati’s 31-7 win over New England Sunday meant no new teams were added to the three that had already clinched playoff berths the Chicago Bears, New York Giants and Washington Redskins. But the Giants’ 24-14 victory over the Redskins moved them a small step away from the NFC East title and the Los Angeles Rams 29-10 win over Dallas left them equally close to the NFC West championship. The Rams’ triumph also left the Cowboys near elimination. Denver remained on the verge of the AFC West title a win by Seattle over the Los Angeles Raiders Mon day night would clinch it for the Broncos. The Indianapolis Colts, meanwhile, may have jeopardized their shot at Heisman Trophy winner Vinny Testa verde by beating Atlanta 28-23. That left them at 1-13 to 2-12 for Tampa Bay with a decent shot at another win this week at home against Buffalo. If Indianapolis and Tampa Bay tied for the worst record in the league at 2- 14, the first pick would go to the team with the easier schedule. Tampa Ueberroth By BEN WALKER AP Baseball Writer HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Commis sioner Peter Ueberroth renewed his call for baseball to spend wisely while a high-stakes battle over free agents began brewing yesterday. Ueberroth, in his “State of the Game” speech at baseball’s winter meetings, brushed aside the issue of expansion and also said the 1987 sea son should be dedicated to the mem ory of Jackie Robinson since it will be the 40th anniverary of the year he broke the major league color barrier. A few trade rumors, most of them involving Philadelphia pitcher Charles Hudson and New York Yan kees catcher Butch Wynegar, made the rounds and nine players were selected in the major league draft. But most of the scramble for talent concerned free agents, particularly ones who cannot sign with their 1986 teams until May 1. Ray Knight, the Most Valuable Player in the World Series with the New York Mets, 300-game winner Tom Seaver, Dave Kingman, Gary Ward and John Denny were among those looking for new employment. Their teams neither re-signed them nor offered the option of salary arbi tration, thereby losing the right to re sign them before May. “We’ve had conversations with a number of clubs,” sard Knight’s iagent, George Kalafatis. “It’s clear that some teams have certain needs Ray could fill.” Kalafatis declined to identify the teams showing interest, although one may be the Chicago Cubs. Last year, several free agents, in cluding Detroit slugger Kirk Gibson, complained they did not receive any offers other than from their own clubs a practice that prompted the play- NEW from ji*. Texas INSTRUMENTS TI-60 • 124 Powerful Functions • 84 Program Steps • 12 User Memories • 10 Digit Display •13 Mode or Status Indicators • Octal-Decimal-Hex Bases • Mean and Standard Deviation 'SB.it CAMPUS STEREO Bay’s opponents are currently 73-78-3 to 86-79-2 for Indianapolis, giving the Bucs the edge for Testaverde in the event of a tie. As for playoff berths, here’s the way the conferences break down: New England and the New York Jets, both losers Sunday, remain tied for the lead in the East at 10-4. The Jets can clinch a wild-card berth with one more win either at home Satur day against Pittsburgh or the follow ing week in Cincinnati. The Patriots, who are at home to San Francisco and at Miami on the final Monday night could clinch a wild card with a win and a loss by either the Raiders and Cincinnati. Miami, 7-7, needed an unlikely combination of circumstances to avoid missing the playoffs for the first time since 1980. If the Patriots and Jets each win their final two games, New England would win the division title because it would have a 7-1 record in the division to 6-2 for the Jets. If each loses the final two, the Jets would win the title because they would have a better conference record. The Central title may be decided Sunday when Cleveland, 10-4, visits Cincinnati, 9-5. If the Browns win, they clinch; if the Bengals win, they would have the edge in the tiebreaker because-they would have beaten the Browns twice. The loser remains in wild-card contention. urges fiscal sanity ers’ union to file a charge of collusion against owners. It still remains to be seen what kind of treatment this year’s crop will receive, particularly million-dollar players like Montreal outfielder Tim Raines and Detroit pitcher Jack Mor ris, whose clubs have offered salary arbitration and thus retained the right to sign them through Jan. 8. But, the battlelines are different for free agents who have been cut loose. That list also includes Danny Heep, an outfielder-first baseman with the Mets, is said to be interested in sign ing with Boston; Rick Burleson, for mer California infielder, is attracting attention from Baltimore and Texas; and catcher Rick Cerone, whose last club was Milwaukee, is possibly headed to Montreal. While Ueberroth said he would not tell teams how to spend their money, he urged them to develop sound finan cial policies. “Our goal is eliminating waste . .. When you’re paying $3 million to three players no longer playing and still paying $lB,OOO to a scout and looking to cut the scout, there’s some thing damn wrong with baseball,” Ueberroth said to the applause of team executives gathered for the draft. “This game was headed toward bankruptcy in 1984,” said Ueberroth, who took over in October of that year. “We’ve made great progress since then.” Ueberroth said he did not mind players getting high salaries that were “deserved,” yet emphasized teams had to watch their spending. The commissioner said “progress” had also been in the area of expan sion, but did not elaborate. “Please don’t ask me here to judge the chances of new cities for expan sion,”. he said. “We have to start to • Powerful program memory stores up to 150 keystrokes in 48 fully merged steps. • Seven multi-use memories provide addressable mem ory locations to store and recall data. • Comes with the Programmable Calculator Sourcebook with step-by step instructions and examples. • Powers, roots, log and trig functions, and much more. A Raiders’ win would eliminate Seattle and Miami from contention and require Denver to win one more game to clinch the division title. Kansas City, 8-6 is still in the running for a wild card. The only real races left are for the second wild-card spot and the home field in the playoffs, although the 49ers have a shot at the title in the West if they win both games. The Giants, 12-2, actually have a two-game lead in the East over 11-3 Washington because they’ve beaten the Redskins twice. One more win or one more Redskins loss gives New York its first title of any kind since 1963. The Giants also can get the home field advantage throughout the play offs by winning their final two games at home against St. Louis and Green Bay. If they lose one and Chicago, which clinched the Central title two weeks ago, beats Detroit and Dallas, the Bears get it. The Rams, 10-4, can clinch the West with one more win or a loss Sunday by San Francisco, 8-5-1. But if the Rams lose to Miami in Anaheim Sunday the 49ers win in New England, the race will be decided by the Rams-49ers game in San Francisco on Friday, Dec. 19. solve our own problems and fran chises first.” Ueberroth also said he hoped the 1987 season could be dedicated to Robinson. Ueberroth suggested arm patches bearing No. 42, the uniform number Robinson wore, or placing No. 42 emblems on second base, the position he played. • “We also have to look at ourselves’ ’ to see if baseball is providing “enough opportunities for minorities, particularly blacks,” he said. “I think the answer right now is now,” Ueberroth said. Hank Aaron, baseball’s all-time home run leader and currently vice president for player personnel for the Atlanta Braves, echoed Ueberroth’s call to honor Robinson. “It’s probably one of the greatest things that could ever happen to baseball,” said Aaron, the highest ranking black team official. “If it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t be standing here now.” Ueberroth’s speech was followed by,the draft, in which nine players on Class AAA rosters were taken for $50,000 apiece. Seattle took left-hand ed pitcher Tony Ferreira and Stan Clarke, while the Chicago White Sox took reliever Bob Gibson and Texas selected outfielder Cecil Espy. All players taken in the draft must spend the. entire 1987 season with their new major league team, or be offered for resale to the club they came from for half the price. Not taken in the draft with pitcher Ron Romanick, who went 5-8 for California before being sent to the minors in midseason. There was talk the Angels would send Romanick to the Yankees for Wynegar, although there were rumors the Phillies would try to get Wynegar for Hudson. Detroit and the San Diego Padres also were said to show interest in Hudson. TI-74 BASICALC • Both a Scientific Calculator with 70 functions and a Basic Programmable Calculator with 113 commands • 8K RAM Expands to 16K • 31 Character Alphanumeric Display that Scrolls Left or Right 80 Characters • Optional PC-324 Printer TI-57 A GREAT CHRISTMAS GIFT AT ONLY $22 95 muddled Four teams in the West remained alive going into last night’s game. 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