Thursday, October 26, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
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Yankees win, catch 3-1 lead in Series Strawberry jailed
The Associated Press
NEW YORK—Derek Jeter and the New York Yankees wasted no time sending a message: first pitch, first inning, home run.
Jeter led off with a drive over the left-field fence and the Yankees led the rest of the way, beating the New York Mets 3-2 last night in Game 4. The victory moved the Yankees within one victory of their third-straight World Series championship.
Derailed a day earlier, the Yankees got right back on track in taking a 3-1 lead in this Subway Series. Jeter honored and tripled, and Mariano Rivera finished off 4 L/3 scoreless innings by the Yankees bullpen.
A sellout crowd of 55,290 at Shea
Stadium seemed much more subdued than Game 3, possibly because of a much larger presence of Yankees fans.
The ballpark figures to be a lot louder — either way — tonight when the Yankees try to become the first team since the 1972-74 Oakland Athletics to win three titles in a row.
Andy Pettite will start Game 5 against the Mets' Al Leiter. Of the prior 40 teams to take a 3-1 lead in the World Series, 34 have gone on to win the championship.
Mike Piazza's two-run homer pulled the Mets within 3-2 in the third inning, and
there was no more scoring as both managers made early moves to the bullpen.
Yankees starter Denny Neagle was pulled after 4 2/3 innings, with David Cone coming in to retire Plazza on a pop-up to end the fifth.
Reliever Jeff Nelson pitched 1 1/3 innings and was credited with
the win, Mike Stanton struck out the only two batters he faced and Rivera pitched two innings for his first save of the series.
Losing pitcher Bobby J. Jones was lifted after five innings. Relievers Glendon Rusch, John Franco and Armando Benitez kept the Yankees from breaking away.
The Yankees scored single runs in each of the first three innings. They did it without a contribution from cleanup man Bernie Williams, who was hitless in four at-bats and dropped to 0-for-15 in the Series.
Jeter's home run in the first came with many fans still getting settled in.
It was a stunning blow, and only the eighth time a World Series game had started with a home run, and the first since Rickey Henderson did it for Oakland in 1989.
In the second, Paul O'Neill tripled for the second straight day — after not hitting any since July 23, 1999 — and, following an intentional walk to Jorge Posada, scored on Scott Brosius' sacrifice fly.
Outcome of Nebraska-Oklahoma game crucial
The Associated Press
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska coach Frank Solich isn't concerned about where the top-ranked Cornhuskers are in the Bowl Championship Series ratings.
Being No. 1 in the BCS as well as the polls certainly helps, but Solich said he wouldn't worry about it because there are at least four more games to go, starting with No. 3 Oklahoma on Saturday.
"I've got really no control over the BCS," Solich said Tuesday. "If we play well, if we win, the BCS takes care of itself."
The BCS, designed to bring college football a national championship game, will see its top two teams paired against each other earlier than expected this season. Oklahoma is ranked No.2 in the BCS. Saturday's loser will need some
help to get back into the national championship race.
"Losing sleep over where you are at in the BCS rankings or losing sleep that
you're at the top of the BCS rankings probably doesn't do you any good." Solich said. "There's a lot of things in this profession that you lose sleep over, and so
you don't really try to throw any more into that."
Nebraska is coming off a 59-0 shutout of Baylor that could have been a whole lot worse if Solich had not pulled most of his starters by halftime. That game
followed a 56-3 victory at Texas Tech. The two-week point total is the most for the Huskers since they scored 122 in wins against Missouri and Iowa State in
1997, the last time they won a national championship.
Receiver Matt Davison, a freshman on the '97 team, said the team's attitude was a lot like it was three years ago. He
said the team was confident but not cocky, which would help the team.
Nebraska-Oklahoma goes back to the days of the Big Eight Conference, which usually came down to the two teams in a game to decide who would play in the
Orange Bowl. The conference has expanded to the Big 12, but Nebraska-Oklahoma again has Orange Bowl ramifications. The Jan. 3 game is the BCS title matchup.
Therebirth of the old rivalry is not lost on Nebraska quarterback Eric Crouch, who grew up in Omaha and remembers the previous Sooners-Huskers games with national title implications.
"With the schedules changing year after year and not being able to play the same teams again and again, that makes it kind of tough," Crouch said. "And it makes it to where the rivalry can kind of get lost. You want it to be the biggest game of the year. You want it to be that rivalry match."
White Sox general manager steps down after breakout
CHICAGO — For years, Ron Schueler longed to leave the stress of the general manager's office for what he really loved to do - scout.
Following a season of unexpected success that capped his 10 years in the position, Schauer stepped down Tuesday as the GM of the Chicago White Sox.
The Associated Press
Since Schueler took the job Nov. 5, 1990, the White Sox gave Bo Jackson a try with an artificial hip, released Carlton Fisk, traded Sammy Sosa,
signed a player named Michael Jordan and brought in 'moody Albert Belle.
And they made one of the most controversial trades of the decade, dealing three established pitchers for a handful of prospects, even though at the time they were just 31/2 games out of first place with two months left in the 1997 season.
"After 35 years in baseball, this is the right time for me personally and professionally to step back a little," Schueler said.
Schueler was replaced as GM by Ken Williams, the team's vice president of
player development since 1997
Williams and Jerry Manuel give the White Sox the only black general manager-manager partnership currently in the majors.
Schueler's wife died of cancer nine years ago, and he remarried this season, giving him a new perspective.
He will stay with the team as a senior vice president and special consultant to White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf. And Schueler will also scout.
"Ron came to me three years ago to discuss moving toward scouting more," Reinsdorf said. "We agreed on a schedule that would have had him step down after the 1999 season, but I asked him to remain as general manager one more year to see our development along."
The White Sox surprised baseball this season with a young team that won 95 games and captured the American League Central title. But they were swept by Seattle in the first round of the playoffs.
Schuler, 52, was credited with transforming the White Sox into a contender, one that had a payroll of just $36.9 million. During the year, the White Sox featured 18 first- or second-year players.
Strawberry jailed for cocaine use
The Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. — Troubled slugger Darryl Strawberry, already on probation for a drug charge, was jailed yesterday after he was arrested for allegedly testing positive for cocaine.
Strawberry was arrested at a private treatment
center in Tampa and booked into the Hillsborough County Jail, where he was being held without bail, said C.J. Drake, a spokesman for the Florida Department of Corrections in Tallahassee.
Strawberry violated curfew by being away from the treatment center from 11 p.m. Saturday until about 3 a.m. Sunday, Drake said.
Strawberry his probation has yet to be determined
He said Strawberry tested positive for cocaine use.
Drake said the arrest was "without incident."
"Mr. Strawberry was very cooperative," he said.
Last month, the suspended New York Yankees star was sentenced to two years' house arrest after admitting that he violated probation by driving under the influence of medication and by leaving the scene of an accident.
Strawberry, who is fighting the spread of colon cancer, could have been sent to prison for that violation.
Instead, the private drug treatment center served as his residence, corrections officials said. Officials declined to identify the center.
Under the terms of his probation, Strawberry was supposed to get permission from his probation officer to leave the center. Normally, the only reason he would be allowed off the grounds would be for a doctor's appointment.
His legal status will be determined after his probation officer files a report with the judge who sentenced him in September. Corrections officials said yesterday that the report was expected to be filed later in the day.
The arrest is the latest legal problem for the 1983 National League rookie of the year and eight-time All Star.
In February, Strawberry was suspended for at least a year, his third cocaine-related suspension from baseball in five years.
He was arrested in September after trying to flee a minor collision while driving to an appointment with his probation officer. Strawberry said, and drug tests confirmed, that he was under in the influence of pain killers. A misdemeanor charge is pending from that accident.
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