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49ers forget easy victory
Lopsided odds don't assure win The Associated Press
MIAMI — Fans wondering if the betting line of 19 points — the longest odds in Super Bowl history — is enough to balance San Diego with San Francisco should remember that it wasn't sufficient the last time they played.
The Chargers, who had opened the season with six straight wins, were in the midst of a slump when San Francisco arrived in town Dec. 11. Banged-up San Diego was in a win one-lose one treadmill at the time, and turned out to be easy pickings for the 49ers.
Final score: San Francisco 38, San Diego 15.
It had all the trappings of a 49ers
blowout. Steve Young threw for 304 yards and two touchdowns in a 417-yard attack. Jerry Rice caught 12 passes and Deion Sanders returned an interception 90 yards for a touchdown. San Francisco led 21-0 before the Chargers scored with a 50-yard field goal by John Carney at the end of the first half.
Sound familiar?
Chargers quarterback Stan Humphries offers some explanation.
And it's not as if the Chargers lacked incentive. They needed the win to clinch the AFG West.
"We were missing some players," he said. "We had to play some rookies. We're not the same team now that we were then."
Tuesday, January 24, 1995
Among the missing that day were tight end Dwayne Young and left guard Joe Cocozzo. Tight end Al Pupunu, who caught the 43-yard touchdown that began San Diego's comeback in the AFC championship game against Pittsburgh, was sub par, recovering from a bad knee.
"I don't know if that benefits us at all," said tight end Brent Jones, who scored the first touchdown in that game on a 10-yard pass from Young. "And I don't know if it was that easy. We felt like they were one of the top teams we played all year."
co an edge the second time around?
Does the first win give San Francis-
Jones knows both teams will make adjustments for the rematch.
"Our players realized even when we played San Diego the first time that they had gone through a tough period," he said. "They no longer have the same injuries they had at that particular time."
"They're going to go back and look at film and see the areas they need to shore up," he said. "I don't know if it's any more of an advantage to us. I think it's more of a motivational factor for them."
San Francisco coach George Seifert insists the Niners won't take San Diego lightly.
After getting beat up by San Francisco the first time they played, the Chargers were 9-5 with two straight losses.
Krzyzewski out for rest of season
RALEIGH, N.C. — Duke will play the rest of this college basketball season without coach Mike Krzzeewski.
The Associated Press
Krzyzewski, nursing a bad back,
says he won't coach again this season
while he concentrates on his rehabil-
itation program.
The 47-year-old has given complete control to interim head coach Pete Gaudet and his two other assistants, Tommy Amaker and Mike Brev.
Krzyszewski announced his decision Sunday evening. He said he will return to coaching for the 1995-96 season.
"That allows the staff the freedom to continue to work the system, which is something that we've all been at for a long time," Gaudet said on Duke's radio call-in show Sunday night.
Krzyzewski underwent back surgery Oct. 22 for a displaced disc and returned to work about two weeks later.
On Jan. 10, Kryzewski was released from the hospital with instructions to put everything related to basketball aside and concentrate on his rehabilitation.
Two days after the Blue Devils lost their Atlantic Coast Conference opener to Clemson, Krzyezewski complained of exhaustion and was admitted to Duke University Hospital on Jan. 6.
When Krzzyzewski left, the Blue Devils were 9-3.
The team, now coached by Gaudet, has lost six straight games.
They'll try to break that streak at Notre Dame tonight, the second game of a three-game road trip.
Salt Lake City hopes to win Olympics bid
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Salt Lake City, the established front-runner in the race for the 2002 Winter Olympics bid, said for the first time yesterday that if it is not selected to play host to the 2002 games, it will not bid for Games in 2006.
The Associated Press
"We'll take a breather," said Tom Welch, chief of the Salt Lake bid committee. "We'll let someone else take the baton."
Salt Lake City is expected to be one of four finalists chosen today from the record field of nine candidates for the 2002 Games. The full International Olympic Committee will elect the winner in Budapest, Hungary, on June 16.
Salt Lake City has been the acknowledged favorite for some time as it seeks to bring the Winter Olympics back to the United States for the first time since the Games were held in Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980.
The three cities widely expected to join Salt Lake City in the final four are Ostersund, Sweden; Quebec; and Sion, Switzerland.
The five candidates facing likely elimination are Graz, Austria; Jaca, Spain; Poprad-Tatry, Slovakia; Sochi, Russia; and Tarvislo, Italy.
This is Salt Lake City's second consecutive Olympic bid and its fourth overall since 1966. In 1991, the city narrowly lost to Nagano, Japan, for the right to host the 1998 Winter Games.
Welch said Salt Lake City would not be willing to invest money in another bid for 2006.
"We talked the talk in the last campaign," he said. "Since then, we walked the walk. In 1991, we had great plans. In 1995, we have made these plans sporting reality."
that the city had completed all the venues and projects it promised during the previous bid.
But Welch said he expected the 2002 bid to be successful, noting
The panel will choose the four finalists today — by consensus if possible, otherwise by secret ballot.
All nine bidding cities made presentations Monday to the 10-member selection panel of the IOC.
This is the first time the IOC is reducing the list of cities before the final vote.
The move is designed to weed out the no-hope candidates and to cut down on the costs of the bidding process.
Today's decision is expected to be influenced by an IOC report issued last month which evaluated the technical merits of each of the bids.
Salt Lake City clearly earned the highest marks in the report, which found no major weaknesses in the bid.
Ostersund, which is making Sweden's ninth Winter Olympic bid, appeared to receive the second-best evaluation in the IOC report.
Four years ago, Salt Lake City was widely judged as having the best technical bid for the 1998 Olympics.
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Quebec and Sion were next.
Yet the city was nearly eliminated on the first ballot because of a sympathy vote for Jaca and eventually lost in the final round by three votes to Nagano.
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