2B
Thursday, November 3, 1994
SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
ANALYSIS
Miami, Syracuse to battle in Big East championship
Orange Bowl, Nebraska may await game's winner
By Rick Warner The Associated Press
The Big East Conference championship won't be the only thing at stake in Saturday's Miami-Syracuse game at the Carrier Dome. The winner also could get to play top-ranked Nebraska in the Orange Bowl.
If No. 5 Miami (6-1) wins its last four games, the Hurricanes would definitely be Nebraska's opponent on Jan. 1, assuming the Cornhuskers are still undefeated.
No. 10 Syracuse (6-1) would probably go to the Orange Bowl if it wins out and No. 8 Florida State loses to Notre Dame or Florida. Under that scenario, the Orangemen would likely be the highest ranked bowl-coition team available to play Nebraska.
Miami coach Dennis Erickson knows that his team has to beat Syracuse to have any shot at the national title.
"We've got to win it in order to get where we want to be on Jan," he said.
The Hurricanes have been in vintage form since losing to Washington 38-20 on Sept. 24, a defeat that ended their record 58-game winning streak at the Orange Bowl. They've outscored their last four opponents 120-32 and held No. 17 Virginia Tech to minus-14 yards rushing last week.
Syracuse has won six consecutive games since dropping its opener to Oklahoma by one point. However, the Orangemen have beaten only one ranked team (Virginia Tech) and have a porous defense that is giving up 417 yards and 25 points per game.
The Hurricanes, a 13 1/2-point favorite, will squeeze the Orange . MIAMI 34-14.
SATURDAY'S GAMES
Kansas (plus 20) at No.1 Nebraska
Jayhawk haven't beaten Cornhuskers since 1968.
NEBRASKA 31-7.
No.2 Penn St.(minus 24) at Indiana
Another laugher for the Nittany Lions ... PENN ST. 48-17.
East Carolina (plus 16/1/2) at No. 3 Auburn
Tigers have outscored Pirates 80-10 in two previous meetings... AUBURN 38-10.
Southern Mississippi (plus 281/2) at No.4 Florida
Oklahoma St. (plus 29) at No. 7 Colorado Buffaloes rebound from loss to Nebraska ... COLORADO 42-7.
Gators averaging 48 points a game ... FLORIDA 45-21.
No. 6 Alabama (minus 16) at LSU
No. 8 Florida St. (minus 23) at Georgia Tech Seminoles 22-10 in ACC games ... FLORIDA ST. 35-7.
No. 9 Utah (minus 7 1/2) at New Mexico Lobos 0-3 at home this season ... UTAH 31-24.
No. 11 Texas A&M (minus 4) at Texas Longhorns upset Aggies ... TEXAS 21-20.
No. 13 Washington (minus 6 1/2) at Stanford
Miami vs. Syracuse
The No. 5 Hurricanes (6.1) meet the No. 10 Orangens (6.1) Saturday in Syracuse, N.Y. Miami won the last meeting in 1993 and leads overall, 7-5.
No.12 Washington (minus 6 1/2) at Stanford
Offense
Knight-Ridder Tribune
17th, 225.8 Total 18th, 417.1
41st, 178.1 Rushing 15th, 235.1
19th, 187.0 Passing 68th, 182.0
11th, 34.7 Points scored 17th, 32.7
Defense
2nd, 218.1 Total 80th, 417.1
6th, 75.1 Rushing 45th, 143.1
1st, 77.69 Pass efficiency 79th, 133.75
4th, 11.4 Points against 59th, 24.6
SOURCE: National College Athletic Association
Huskies have won 10 straight over the Cardinal ... WASHINGTON 31-17.
No. 13 Virginia (minus 7 1/2) at No. 23 Duke Cavs have allowed only three touchdowns in last six games ... VIRGINIA 17-14.
Wyoming (plus 14) at No. 14 Colorado St.
Cowboys 0-4 on the road ... COLORADO ST. 38-21.
Iowa St. (plus 26) at No. 15 Kansas St.
Cyclones remain winless .. KANSAS ST. 41-14.
No. 22 Southern Cal (plus 1) at No. 16 Washington St.
Trojans have won 22 of last 23 vs. Cougars ... SOUTHERN CAL 17-14.
California (plus 18 1/2) at No. 18 Arizona Home team has won only four of 15 games in series ... ARIZONA 21-10.
Clemson (plus 11 1/2) at No. 19 North Carolina
Tar Heels lead ACC in rushing N. CAROLINA 28-10.
No. 20 Michigan (no line) at Purdue
Wolverines try to avoid second straight four-loss season ... MICHIGAN 27-24.
Arizona St. (plus 6 1/2) at No. 21 Oregon
Ducks haven't been to Rose Bowl since 1958.. OREGON 24-14.
Arkansas (plus 7) at No. 24 Mississippi St.
Teams tied last season ... MISSISIPPI ST. 24-21.
Northeast Louisiana (plus 35) at No. 25 BYU
NE Louisiana 0-7 vs. IA opponents ... BYU 38-14.
Last week: 10-6 (straight); 8-9 (spread)
Season: 110-35 (straight); 60-76 (spread)
Bulls retire Jordan's jersey
By Jim Litke
The Associated Press
Celebrities, coaches and comics bid farewell to basketball great
CHICAGO — He is still not coming back.
For those who didn't make it all the way through the short-on-substance, made-for-TV extravaganza that the Chicago Bulls and a handful of corporate sponsors threw for Michael Jordan last night, this was the slam-bang ending:
Nothing has changed.
Michael absolutely, positively, most assuredly, beyond the shadow of a reasonable doubt ... is... still... not... coming ... back ... to basketball.
I think
At least that was the last impression left by the nationally televised two-hour show Tuesday night on TNT. Frankly, the show was too much like a roast. It had a few real heavyweights on live — Julius Erving and Oscar Robertson — a few on tape — Larry Bird and Ervin "Magic" Johnson — and a few — Woody Harrelson and Kelsey Grammer — who shouldn't have been anywhere near the place.
There were too few video highlights of Jordan and far too much Ahmad Shradar, Larry King and Spike Lee. Not to mention too much scripted chitchat from coaches-auditioning-as-comics Dean Smith and Bobby Knight and tributes from comics-auditioning-as-coaches Sinbad and Bill Cosby. Go figure.
In any case, the production ended as a single spotlight fixed Jordan and his family at center stage. With young sons Jeffrey and Marcus at his side and baby daughter Jasmine tucked in the crook of his arm, Michael hoisted the familiar white No. 23 jersey high into the rafters of the new United Center.
ANALYSIS
That was apparently the point of the exercise — that and raising money for the construction of a boys' and girls' club on Chicago's west side.
As soon as the television cameras were turned off and the place cleared out, someone asked Jordan whether the retired-jersey party was something to provide him with a
sense of closure.
"Not really from my standpoint, but maybe from everyone else's," Jordan said.
He seemed to say that among all the people who filled the building to capacity on this night and the millions more looking on, he was the only one having no trouble sealing off the memories.
"When I made the decision I was fixed with it pretty firmly," Jordan said. "But a lot of things lingered on, and certainly there were expectations that I might come back."
"With that number hanging up," he added, motioning toward the roof where the proof was freshly hung, "that puts that to rest. I've got to move on."
In the most immediate sense, moving on means returning to Arizona Fall League and his teammates on the Scottsdale Scorpions. After that is a hoped-for assignment in spring training with one of the Chicago White Sox's Triple-Aaffiliates.
Needless to say, it doesn't hurt his cause that the man whose fortune he made as the owner of the Bulls, Jerry Reinsdorf, also happens to own the White Sox.
"I wouldn't be doing it just to be doing it. I love challenges. I want to continue to improve as a baseball player. If I'm not good enough," Jordan said, "I tried."
Some people, of course, still refuse to take him at his word. He will pass his likeness, cast in bronze, standing guard outside an arena he never played in and plead with it to come to life. Only a few days earlier, Bulls coach Phil Jackson did much the same thing by saying he wasn't convinced that Jordan's basketball career was over.
"I'm not going to think it's over, because of Tuesday night," Jackson said.
Frankly, Phil, neither are most of the rest of us. This baseball thing can't last forever and when it ends, he's still going to need something for that competition problem his family is always talking about.
Everybody saw the jersey go up, but the way sequels are selling these days, we just put together another made-for-TV deal in which Michael climbs into the rafters, brings it down and goes on to win one more NBA championship.
Somebody get George Lucas on the phone.
Top NBA pick turns down $60 mil
The Associated Press
MILWAUKEE — The agent for Glenn Robinson, saying the Milwaukee Bucks are portraying his client as a "greedy little black athlete," is angered with the club for going public with its contract offer.
Agent Charles Tucker initially said neither he nor Robinson, the top pick in the NBA draft, was bothered by the Bucks' decision to hold a news conference Oct. 17 to disclose their $60 million guaranteed offer. The Bucks also said Robinson was seeking $100 million over 13 years.
Tucker, referring to Robinson, said at the time, "His response was, 'They gotta do what they gotta do. If they can get some positive public relations for that, I'm not going to retaliate."
But in yesterday's editions of The Milwaukee Journal, Tucker said he and Robinson were indeed upset.
"If it was their intention for Glenn to jump up and come in and sign, it didn't work." Tucker said. "If they
want to portray Glenn as a greedy little black athlete, well, I look at it as a business. It was something that was not a very productive way of doing things. But you just try to remain positive."
The standoff has kept Robinson out of camp as the Bucks prepare to open the season Friday at Philadelphia.
Mike Durleavy, the Bucks' coach and vice president of basketball operations, said yesterday the club in no way wanted to disrange Robinson.
"We love Glenn Robinson," Dunleavy said. "We want Glenn to play here in the worst way. We would not do anything to harm Glenn Robinson in any way.
"our reason for holding the news conference was that there was a lot of speculation about our dealings with Glenn that was not correct.
"Some of the figures being written were not correct. There was a misconception that being a small market we could not pay him. We had to address that question. The only way
we could do that was to let our offer and what Dr. Tucker was asking for be known."
Tucker said Robinson was displeased by the resulting impression the public might have of him.
"Not saying that their intent was to do that, but it was not being very sensitive to how Glenn would be portrayed to society," Tucker said.
On Oct. 17, Dunleavy and John Steinmiller, the team's vice president of business operations, said the club had offered Robinson a nine-year deal worth a guaranteed $60 million. A non-guaranteed 10th year would increase the value of the package to $68.15 million.
Steinmiller said at the time the Bucks were reluctantly revealing the contract offers.
“It's a distasteful process to lay numbers out," he said. "An individual's salary is generally his business. But in this environment in sports, we felt this disclosure was necessary."
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