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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, October 21, 1997
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Time: 10pm-1.30am
Venue: Kansas Room, Kansas Union
Price: $4.00 (member)
$5.00 (non-member)
($0.50 off for anyone who wears costume)
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--resumes after a split of the opening two games in Miami.
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Eardrum-splitting Jacobs Field will test Marlins' stuff
Indians return to rowdy home crowd
CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Indians are back where they want to be: in Jacobs Field, where the noise can rattle the decibel meter and high red socks are much in fashion.
The Associated Press
Those teal shirts and beach balls at Pro Player Stadium are cute, but these folks are rabid.
"You'd better get your earplugs because this place is really going to rock and shake," Indians fan Barbara McGraw said yesterday as she waited to get autographs before practice.
Florida Marlins, brace yourselves.
The stadium known as "The Jake" will be primed tonight for Game 3, when the World Series
The fans will stand from the first pitch. They'll beat a big bass drum. They'll wear those hiked-up socks in imitation of their heroes. They'll yell themselves hoarse by the third inning.
Anything to inspire the Indians in hopes of ending 49 years of frustration and bringing a World Series championship to the city.
While Jacobs Field is always packed — the 43,368-seat stadium sold out for all of Cleveland's regular-season games — the postseason has brought a new level of frenzy.
"I think it'll be the same as the other playoff games — only worse," said Carol Elkins, another autograph seeker.
Since the final two games of the divisional series against the New York Yankees — when Cleveland came back to win after being four outs from elimination — the sonic power of the Indians fans has given a sense of inevitability to the outcome of each game.
Indians players say it has been hard to lose with that kind of backing. They're expecting to get another boost because the next three games will be played in Cleveland.
"All the energy coming from all those people is awesome," outfielder David Justice said. "They're watching every pitch, every play, and they make you want to play better."
Matt Williams agreed.
"The fact that I stand out there at third base every night and go home with a splitting headache is a tribute to our fans," he said. "They've been tremendous. They're raucous, yet they're knowledgeable."
John Adams, the Cleveland fan who sits in left field pounding a bass drum during rallies, said the racket has its roots in a town waiting for its first World Series title since 1948.
"There's a long-suffering crowd here," said Adams, who has been banging the drum at Cleveland games for 24 years. "People here
Florida 7, Cleveland 4
Saturdays
World Series
Sunday
Cleveland 6, Florida 1, series tied 1-1
Today
Florida (Leiter 11-9) at Cleveland (Nagy 15-11), 7:20 p.m. [NBC]
Tomorrow
Florida (Saunders 4-6) at Cleveland (Wright 8-3), 7:20 p.m. (NBC)
have gone through the down times, so they savor and appreciate the good times. It isn't just a crowd that stands around and screams — any idiot can do that. Cleveland fans know the game."
The question now is whether Indians fans can top themselves. Can they actually get rowdier, noisier, more infatuated with their team?
Teams remain as unpredictable as ever
Sure, said Cleveland fan Joe Novosielski.
"This is Jacobs Field," he said.
By Dave Goldberg
The Associated Press
Last year, Carolina and Jacksonville demonstrated how quickly teams can succeed in an NFL where free agency and the salary cap are leveling influences.
The result? Eleven coaching changes by owners hoping new coaches could instantly turn their teams around.
There won't be 11 changes this season. But the same influences are having an effect — teams go up quickly (Jets, Giants and Bucs) and down quickly (Panthers, Bengals, Bears and Colts), and teams change coaches and remain as unpredictable as ever (Lions).
Some specifics:
Bill Parcels gets all the publicity in New York, but Jim Fassel has done as good a job with the Giants as Parcels has with the Jets.
On Sunday,
Fassel called
an up-and-out
against the
Lions on the
third play of
overtime, and
Danny Kanell
found Chris Calloway for a 68-yard touchdown play that won the game. That puts the Giants, 5-11 and 6-10 the last two years under Dan Reeves and at 5-3, a half game ahead of Dallas in the NFC East.
- Parcellis? "I wanted to change the tempo," he said about lifting Neil O'Donnell and replacing him with Glenn Foley in the second half against the Patriots. All Foley did was complete 14 straight passes, throw for 200 yards in a half and
lead the Jets to a 24-19 upset of New England that put them at 5-3, too. That's one more win than they had in two seasons under Rich Kotite.
But Tampa Bay has gotten all the attention this season.
The reason: Even the Jets haven't been as bad as the Bucs over the last 15 seasons, and the Giants won two Super Bowls in Parecalls' eight years in the other Meadowlands locker room. And despite two straight losses, they are 10-4 since midway through last season, when Tony Dungy began to turn things around. Now, look at the other side.
Bruce Coslet took over a Bengals team last season that was 1-6 under Dave Shula and led them to an 8-8 finish. That raised hopes for this
season — the playoffs at least. But they're 1-6, the same as they were last season when Shula was fired
What happened?
"I've been through this before," Wilkinson said after Sunday's loss to the Steelers.
Players are squabbling and guys like Dan Wilkinson; the No.1 overall pick in 1994, are trying to lead without performing.
The Panthers, who were 12-4 last year in just their second season and reached the NFC title game, are 3-4. The problems are injuries and internal tension, in part stemming from a racial slur Kerry Collins supposedly made during preseason.
Then there are the negatives.
Yup.
Commentary
"In the past couple months I've been called a drunk, a racist; I've been benched, booed," Collins said.
The Bears went for the quick fix in Rick Mirer. First, Mirer was hurt, then he bombed. Dave Wannstedt said Mirer was his quarterback through thick or thin. A week later, he demoted him to third string — bad for credibility. They're 0-7 on merit and Wannstedt's job is in jeopardy even though he gets a $3 million buyout if he's fired.
Last year, the Colts played through injuries and made the playoffs. This year, they lost Ray Buchanan and Tony Siragusa to free agency and are trying to get by with rookies at both offensive tackles.
Not good, and hazardous to Jim Harbaugh's health and Lindy Infante's job security. Why did they let Ted Marchibroda go after a trip to the AFC title game?
Of those 11 coaching changes this season, eight involved recycled oldsters — with Parcelles, Ross, Dick Vermell in St. Louis, Mike Ditka in New Orleans and Reeves in Atlanta being the biggest names.
Their combined record: 14-23, with Vermell 2.5, Dikta 2.6 and Reeves 1.6.
The three first-time coaches are Fassel, Steve Mariucci in San Francisco and Kevin Gilbride in San Diego.
- Five of the Cardinals' six losses are either in the final minute or in
Their combined record: 15-8, although Mariucci's 49ers (7-1) have the benefit of playing the NFC West with Vermeil's Rams, Ditka's Saints and Reeves' Falcons.
overtime — after losing 27-13 to the Giants last week, they reverted to form Sunday with a 13-10 overtime loss in Philadelphia..
same magic in the pros that he did at Arizona State.
He relieved Stoney Case, who had already alienated some teammates when he claimed he would have started even if Kent Graham wasn't injured and drove the Cardinals 98 yards to take a late 13-10 lead.
But they did discover one thing — Jake Plummer, their rookie quarterback, seems to be able to work the
Then, in overtime, he seemed to be driving his team into field goal range when he was called for intentional grounding, even though the ball he grounded landed right between the legs of fullback Larry Centers. Centers pointed at his feet, but referee Bob McElwee, who made the call, simply walked away.
"That call lost the game for us," Centers said.
Still, Pummer provided hope for a team that's started 10 different since leaving St. Louis (Neil Lomax, Gary Hogebose, Timm Rosenbach, Tom Tupa, Chris Chandler, Steve Beuerlein, Dave Krieg, Boomer Esiason, Graham and Case).
"Jake's got something inside him that's kind of contagious," coach Vince Tobin said about Sunday's game. "He had it at Arizona State, and he did it for us today. He's certainly a guy to be reckoned with."
Make that 11 quarterbacks.