—The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Nov. 14, 1995 Bruno confident he will By STEPHEN WADE Associated Press Writer LONDON Frank Bruno lasted only five rounds the last time he fought Mike Tyson, but that was six years ago when nothing seemed to go right for the British WBC champion. "This time I've got the belt and I'm the cham pion," Bruno said Monday, confirming his March 16 title fight in Las Vegas with Tyson. "When I fought the last time, I wasn't right mentally, but now it's a whole new kettle of fish. "I feel confident and the time is right for me," he added. "Tyson's been in prison for three years and out of the ring for four. If peo ple think he's unbeatable, they need their heads examined. If they think that, they'll think I'm unbelievable when I beat him." "I'm not trying to fight Tom, Dick or Harry, I'm trying to fight the creme de la creme and Mike Tyson is No. 1. He's still up there. He's out of prison. He's the boxer to beat, to wipe him off the map and go down in history." Bruno, 33, make history when he defeated Orangemen look to rebound from loss of linebacker Ponds By WILLIAM KATES AP Sports Writer SYRACUSE, N.Y. Syracuse linebacker Antwaune Ponds is just one player. But the sophomore has been such a force for the Syracuse defense that it like ly will take the Orangemen several players to make up for the injured Ponds, who is out for the rest of the season with a broken left leg. "If you lose a high production guy, those are people that are tough to replace," coach Paul Pasqualoni said Monday. No. 23 Syracuse (7-2, 4-1 Big East) will have to work around the absence of its leading tackler on Saturday when it takes on Boston College (3-7, 3-2) in the Carrier Dome. Carr named official Wolverine coach By HARRY ATKINS AP Sports Writer ANN ARBOR, Mich. By tra dition, it is the seniors who lead Michigan in the singing "The Victors" after each victory by the Wolverines. But when athletic director Joe Roberson saw the players ask Lloyd Carr to lead them in song after a hard-fought triumph at Boston College, he knew he was on to something. He made up his mind that night to lift the "inter im" from Carr's title and make him Michigan's football coach. Yesterday, almost two months later, Roberson made it official at a news conference in Schem bechler Hall. "I can't tell you how thrilled I am," Roberson said. "But if you think I'm thrilled, you should have been there yesterday when I told the team. The whole room just exploded in applause." It is a job Carr, 50, did not seek. It was thrust upon him last spring after Gary Moeller was forced to resign in the wake of a drunken incident at a suburban Detroit restaurant. Despite the trying circum stances, Carr has led the Wolver ines to an 8-2 record so far. They have been as high as fifth in the weekly poll. The Wolverines are Penn State Outing Club Outdoor Adventure Jobs *** Work Study: Outdoor Trip Leader *** Instructors *** Assistant Instructors *** Trip Leaders Above positions available in rock climbing, backpacking, hiking and canoeing *** Internships Administrative Internship Field Internship For details see PSOC Board in SW corner of HUB basement or contact the PSOC office @ 865-2472 American Oliver McCall in September to become the first British heavyweight in 98 years to win the title in the ring. The British bookmakers William Hill remained unconvinced, listing Tyson as a 1-to-7 favorite Monday to take back the title. The WBC sanctioned the Bruno-Tyson fight last week in Thailand after British courts threw out a suit by Lennox Lewis contending he deserved the first shot at a mega-rich Tyson bout. •Lewis has filed a similar suit in a New Jersey trying to bar the Bruno-Tyson fight. Bruno's promoter Frank Warren said the suit was to be ruled on Nov. 28 and predicted it would fail, too. He also threatened a counter-suit against Lewis. "The WBC has sanctioned this fight," Warren said. "If Lewis continues with this he will find himself on the other side of a lawsuit." Warren said a contract for the bout was signed last summer. Tyson, who was to fight Buster Mathis Jr. last weekend, has postponed that fight until January because of a broken thumb. "I don't think anybody is in position to say The struggling Eagles know how injuries can impact a team. They have lost eight starters to season-ending injuries this sea son, including running back Justice Smith and wide receiver Kenyatta Watson. Ponds fractured the fibula of his left leg in two places and his tibia in one when he was blindsided on a block while chasing quarterback Matt Lytel in the first half of Saturday's 42-10 victory over Pittsburgh. Ponds also may have suffered ligament damage in his ankle. He was scheduled for surgery Tuesday. The full extent of the damage will not be known until after surgery, said team doctor Irving Raphael. "We thought it was a severely sprained ankle. But it was really bothering him after the game. There was significant "My mother told me you don't want to be where you're not wanted. I feel wanted here." Lloyd Carr Michigan football coach No. 12 this week with two games remaining, at Penn State and against traditional rival Ohio State. "Why now?" Roberson asked rhetorically. "Because I'm cer tain." In other words, there is no pressure on the players to win the final two games in order to secure Carr's position. Winning is important at Michigan, but other considerations have always been factors in Ann Arbor. "Winning is very important," Roberson said. "But it's the char acteristics that lead to winning and losing. If we have leadership like I've seen, we'll win." Roberson said he considered four or five others, but newr contacted any of them. He declined to say who else might have been on his short list. throbbing and pain afterward," Pasqualoni said. Ponds said he heard something pop but figured it was just a muscle. "I just fell wrong. To tell you the truth, I can't even tell you what happened," Ponds said. Raphael said Ponds will have a perma nent metal plant fastened around his ankle by screws. He will require a follow-up surgery in about six weeks. Ponds said he hoped to start running again by spring and plans to rejoin the team for the start of fall practice in 1996. The Orangemen will have to do some creative shuffling on defense to compen sate for Ponds' loss. Ponds had 111 tackles for the season, including eight for losses Carr was told Saturday, after guiding Michigan to a 5-0 victory over Purdue. The players were told the next day during a team meeting. "I took the assistants into a small room off our locker room in the stadium," Carr said. "There was an explosion in there, I can tell you that. It was emo tional. "Joe told the players at 3 o'clock. They got on their feet and hugged me. It was a very special moment in my life." Terms and length of Carr's contract haven't been discussed. He and Roberson will sit down after the regular season and work out the details. "My mother taught me you don't want to be somewhere you're not wanted," Carr said. "I feel wanted here." Carr had been an assistant for 15 years, serving under Bo Schembechler and Moeller, most recently as assistant head coach and defensive coordinator. He began his college coaching career as coach of defensive backs at nearby Eastern Michi gan in 1976 before joining Moeller's staff at Illinois in 1978. "I'm not Bo Schembechler," Carr said. "My way of doing things are probably very differ ent." beat Tyson exactly what Tyson will be like," Warren said. "He still appeared to have great hand speed in the (89-second) fight over Peter McNeeley in August. What I'm hoping is that the stamina isn't there and at the end this guy (Bruno) knocks him over." "We all know Mike Tyson can be knocked down." Warren added. "One thing for sure is that Frank Bruno is probably the hardest puncher of all of them." Bruno called the year-long leadup to the 1989 Tyson fight "the worst training period of my life." The fight was postponed several times. His trainer George Francis said he was over trained and tired by the time he fought. "The last time it was called off several times and Frank got down to his lightest weight he's ever been, 20 pounds below what he is now," Francis said. "We'll probably go back to the States again to train maybe in a high altitude site. Frank's in the best shape of his life, and that's our great advantage." Added Bruno, "I'm the champion and I can stand toe-to-toe, head-to-head with any heavy weight in the world," Bruno said. "Maybe I did n't feel that confident six years ago." ATP World Championships to move By NESHA STARCEVIC Associated Press Writer FRANKFURT, Germany With the ATP planning major changes in its ranking system, the top eight players in the world are in Frankfurt for the last time to compete in the World Championship. The only top player missing from the event that starts Tuesday is No. 2 Andre Agassi, who pulled out because of a chest muscle injury sustained at the Eurocard Open in Essen, Germany, last month. The traditional tour-ending tournament will stay in Germany for the next four years, but it will move to Hanover, where local organizers hope the event will help promote the "Expo 2000" World Fair that Hanover is staging. Hanover outbid Frankfurt's $l2 million offer to retain the tournament by several million and is able to provide a hall that seats 14,000, 5,000 more than Frankfurt's Festhalle. The event moved from New York to Frankfurt in 1990. "The financial offer was very attractive, but the decisive thing was that people from the Expo 2000 had a very convincing concept," said Mark Miles, chief executive officer of the Association of Tennis Profes sionals tour. "We also saw that they plan enormous sums for the advertising campaign that will include the ATP Tour World Championship," Miles told the German newspa per Sueddeutsche Zeitung in an interview published over the weekend. Germany provides the largest number of the IBM/ATP Tour sponsors and the game's biggest mar ket had natural priority when the venue for its show case annual event was picked, Miles said. In the interview, Miles also said that the tour was planning to change the computer ranking system and standardize indoor surfaces. 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Meyers, a junior, will likely start in Ponds' spot against Boston College, while juniors Dana Cottrell and Nate Hemsley, the unit's veterans, jump around as Pasqualoni tries to rotate seven players through eight linebacking spots. "We have depth at defensive end, where we are playing four and five people. That will help and let us drop some people back," Pasqualoni said. The Syracuse coach said the junior threesome showed against Pittsburgh that The Penn State Wrestling Club graciously thanks the following sponsors of the Inaugural Takedown Classic Golf Tournament which raised over $22,000 for the great sport of wrestling in the Centre Region area. Gold Medal Sponsors: Weinken & Assoc., Hershey N.A., Kenneth Pollock Silver Medal Sponsors: Tavern Restaurant, Tri County Oral Facial Surgeons, Trautman Kramer & Co., North American Comm., Fairways & Greens, Nittany Beverage, Joe Krufka, Tim Davies - NFL Prop., Lion's Pride British WBC Heavyweight champion Frank Bruno poses with a cutout of "Iron" Mike Tyson. The two will square off on March 16, 1996 for Bruno's title. pared to their previous year's performances. The sys tem is complicated and many fans complain they don't understand it. "It's important to finally develop rankings that everyone will be able to understand. We are working on a system in which points would be collected from January to December," Miles told Sueddeutsche Zeitung. During the Frankfurt tournament, ATP officials hoped to reach an agreement on an indoor surface that would be used in all future indoor events, and perhaps the same kind of balls, Miles said. Many sponsors and fans have complained that fast indoor surfaces make the game boring. In Essen, organizers used a slower carpet and heav ier, slower balls and clay-court specialist Thomas Muster won the first indoor title of his career. The surface in Frankfurt also is not the fastest car pet and Muster, the French Open champion who is ranked No. 3 in the world and second-seeded here, has a favorable draw. If he wins the tournament without a loss and Pete Sampras fails to reach the final, Muster will gain the No. 1 spot from Sampras. Muster, winner of 12 titles this year, is in the Red Group with Michael Chang, Jim Courier and Thomas Enqvist, all baseliners like the Austrian left-hander. In the White Group, Sampras, the 1991 and 1994 champion, faces 1992 winner Boris Becker, Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Wayne Ferreira, who replaced Agassi. Sampras, who won his third consecutive Wimbledon and third U.S. Open this year, regained the No. 1 rank ing from Agassi on Nov. 6 for the first time since April. If he finishes the season at No. 1, the American will become the first to hold the top spot for three straight years since Ivan Lendl in 1985-87. After round-robin play in each group, the two top finishers advance to the semifinals of the $3.3 million event. Major Corporate Sponsor: PRIMESTAR by TCI Contributors they can supply the leadership Ponds pro vided. In that game, Syracuse gave up a season-low 20 yards rushing to Pittsburgh. "I thought the leadership that Dana, Nate and George demonstrated in that game ... is what you would expect of a Division I linebacker. By the nature of the position, one of the prerequisites is that you have to be able to direct your team mates and lead ... Each of them in their own way took the responsibility to get that done." Syracuse has other injury problems that could limit Pasqualoni's options. Backup defensive lineman Dulayne Mor gan has been slowed by nagging leg injuries and tackle Jeff Danish has a sprained ankle and is questionable for the Boston College game.
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