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The University Daily Kansan
Friday, August 28, 1998
Rusty Wallace stays optimistic
NASCAR
The Associated Press
LOUDON, N.H. — A glance at his record would make it easy to say that Rusty Wallace's best days are behind him.
Those things are said when a driver dominates a circuit for a few seasons and then can't buy a win. And they are an easy sell to the skentics based on just one factor — 0-for-51.
But Wallace, whose 47 victories are surpassed by only two drivers still active on the Winston Cup circuit, won't let the second-worst drought of his career alter the thought that he will win again. And a close look at the standings backs him up.
Only Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin and Dale Jarrett are ahead of him, and three dozen others wish that they were doing as well.
"Failure is the path of least persistence," Wallace said, eliminating the notion that perhaps he isn't as hungry as he was four years ago when his position as the top driver on the tour was unchallenged.
"If we keep beating on the door, we're bound to knock it down sooner or later," Crew Chief Robin Pemberton said.
They hope that will happen as soon as Sunday when Wallace races in the CMT 300 at New Hampshire International Speedway. And even if the streak reaches 52 races, stretching back to March 2, 1997, in Richmond, Va., Wallace has some success to show in that span — 18 top-five finishes, including five seconds and six thirds.
"We finished fourth at Loudon in July with this car," Wallace said of the Ford Taurus he used in the Jiffy Lube 300. "And I think that we've hit on something that'll make the car much better."
Wallace won 18 times in 1993-94. He was so dominant that competitor Ricky Rudd once said that Wallace should win every race.
"I remember several races through the years where we had a car that was that dominant," Wallace said.
Such as two years ago, in Bristol, Tenn., where Wallace led for 353 of 500 lans.
"If not for us having to come back from a flat tire and the way a couple of green-flag pit stops sequenced around, we might have led the whole thing," he said. "There's no better feeling than dominating a race and bringing home the win.
"What happens is that you get out there and everything clicks. The car handles like a dream. You can stick the thing anywhere you want. You get a rhythm going, and it seems like the laps just fly by."
But it's been a bumpy flight recently for Wallace, who has won but once in the last two seasons. There have been races where he's dominated, but somehow, something — a flat tire, a broken engine, an accident, being outrun late — has left him frustrated.
"There's kind of an empty feeling that you get if you're dominant and fail to put the big numbers on the board," he said. "You get a little taste of what they say about second place just being the first loser."
Coronado's Quest Victory Gallop vie for Travers triumph
Owners hold high aspirations for horses
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Victory Gallop and Coronado's Quest will get a chance to vote themselves as champion 3-year-old! tomorrow in the Travers at Saratoga.
The Associated Press
"I think he should be champion if he wins," trainer Elliott Walden said yesterday after entering Victory Gallop for the 1 1/4-mile Grade I stakes, which drew an eight-horse field.
A victory in the Travers, called by Walden the biggest race for 3-year-olds after the Triple Crown, would be the colt's fourth win in seven starts this year, including the 1/2-mile Belmont Stakes. In his other three starts, he finished second to Real Quiets, out of training with an injury, in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, and to Coronado's Quest in the 1 1/8-mile Haskell Invitational Handicap Aug. 9 at Monmouth Park.
Coronado's Quest, who missed the Triple Crown races, would take the division leadership should he score his fifth straight victory and also would show he could win at the classic distance of 1 1/4 miles. He has yet to run farther than 11/8 miles.
Art Preston, who, with his brothers J.R. and Jack, owns Victory Gallop, and Stuart Janney, a co-owner of Coronado's Quest, have said they do not think a loss would knock their colts from the 3-year-old championship race.
However, Walden said should his colt lose tomorrow, "I think he would have come back and win the Breeders' Cup Classic (against older horses Nov. 7) or so something special in the fall." He modified that by saying a loss due to circumstances beyond Victory Gallop's control would not be as damaging.
Aross probably would hurt Coronado's Quest more because Victory Gal
lop and Real Quiet have both won major races beyond the 1/8-miles, and in the 1/4-mile Kentucky Derby, Victory Gallop was beaten by only a half-length after racing wide all the way.
Should both Victory Gallop and Coronado's Quest lose, Real Quiet, who might not race again this year, would still be the leader of a very shaken 3-year-old division.
McGaughey, for one, sees the Travers as anything but a two-horse race.
"There are three or four in the field who could be very tough," he said. "I think Grand Slam will be tough, and I'm definitely worried about Deputy Diamond. Victory Gallop and Coronado's Quest are the cream of the race, but we're at Saratoga."
The track is known as the "Graveyard of Favorites." Even Man o' War and Secretariat lost at Saratoga.
Grand Slam finished a good third in the Haskell. Deputy Diamond finished second a nose behind Favorite Trick, 1997 Horse of the Year, in the 1 1/8-mile Jim Dandy on Aug. 2 at Saratoga.
Weight could be a factor in Deputy Diamond's performance. Each starter will carry 128 pounds, and Deputy Diamond carried only 114 in each of his last three starts — wins in two allowance races and the second in the Jim Dandy.
Another contender is Archers Bay, winner of the 1/1-4 mile Queens Plate at Woodbine near Toronto but a disappointing sixth in the Jim Dandy.
Also entered are Dice Dancer, Raffie's Majesty and Sheila's Flag.
Sheila's Flag is owned by a the Preston brothers and trained by Walden. He would serve as a rabbit for his stablemate. Victory Gallop is a stretcher-runner, while Coronado's Quest runs on or near the lead, which gave him an edge in the Haskell on a speed-favoring track.
Walden said he wanted to be sure the race develops with enough speed for a realistic pace to set up Victory Gallop's closing run, but he added, "At this point we're not sure he (Sheila's Flag) will run. We'll make that decision Saturday morning."
Sports announcer Keith Jackson retires from position at ABC
Post time for the $750,000 Travers is 5:10 p.m. EDT. It will be televised by ESPN from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Few announcers are identified as closely with their sport as Keith Jackson is with college football.
The longtime ABC announcer, whose booming voice and catch phrases like "Whoa Nellie" that often have been imitated but never matched, begins his final college football season Monday night at the Kickoff Classic. Jackson, who turns 70 in October, will retire after the Fiesta Bowl.
"When you are flipping around the dial on a Saturday afternoon and hear his voice, you sit up and listen because this game must be important," said Bob Griese, Jackson's partner for the last 11 years at ABC. "If Keith Jackson is doing this college football game, this should be the one I watch."
Jackson joined ABC in 1962 and has covered the big events — the NBA, the NFL, baseball and the Olympics — and the obscure ones — like wrist wrestling on "Wide World of Sports." But it is the 32 years of calling college games from small towns like Tuscaloosa, Ala., and State College, Pa., that is Jackson's true love.
Jackson, a walking history book on college football, remembers the great coaches, such as Bear
Bryant, the great players, such as Johnny Rodgers, and the great games, like the 1979 Sugar Bowl. But he also remembers the little things, like the band director at Penn State or the press box attendant in Iowa City.
"I like the ambiance that goes with college football," Jackson said. "It is a wonderful festival. I go to the stadium three hours before the game and watch the bands practice and the stands fill with four generations of fans.
"I know a lot of people scoff at it and people always accuse me of selling it and promoting it, but it is a very warm friendly kind of fuzzy feeling you get in most places."
His unabashed promotion of the sport and his pet phrases "like a hit as hard as blackjack pine" probably would not fly with a new announcer. But they are vintage Jackson, and they define and shape his telecasts.
"When I did news, you wouldn't know where I'm from," said Jackson, a native of rural Georgia.
"But when I started doing Southern games, I decided it was a colorful language. I know the words, the homilies, the reactions and how to make up the phrases. It sort of just grew."
Despite his love for the game,
"When you are flipping around the dial on a Saturday afternoon and hear his voice,you sit up and listen because this game must be important." Bob Griese
ABC announcer
Jackson said he thinks the time is right to leave ABC, with a change in management at the company and his 70th birthday less than two months away. He looks forward to ending the grind of weekly travel and visiting places he has never gotten to see in September. October and November.
His career will end with the first Bowl Championship Series championship game — a system Jackson thinks is flawed and should have four teams. Between now and then, he just wants to do what he has done for 32 years, call the games without any extra attention.
"The basic function is still to cover football games," he said. "The American public couldn't care about where I am going."
Nebraska will test rival's confidence
The Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska coach Frank Solich told boosters yesterday that comments attributed to Louisiana Tech receiver Troy Edwards provided him with insight into the
um with insight into the player.
"Without question, to say the least, he's a confident guy," Solich said.
In yesterday's Omaha World-Herald, Edwards was quoted as saying Nebraska's secondary wouldn't be able to keep up with Louisiana Tech when the teams meet tomorrow in the Eddie Robinson Football Classic.
"I don't think they defend the pass really well. I honestly don't think they match up with our receivers," said Edwards,
Solich: Predicts his defense will be ready to face Tech
one of the nation's top receivers last season.
Solich predicted his defenders would be ready
"I've seen signs in them this week of being the kind of defense we think they can be in terms of speed and quickness and racing around and getting to the football," he said.
Nebraska will counter with a defensive line rotation that will give significant playing time to several reserves.
Louisiana Tech went 9-2 last season. Solich said Tech's pass-oriented offense, which often featured as, many as 60 passing attempts per game, helped the Bulldogs outlast many opponents.
"We're not going to have dead football players." Solich said. "We're going to have some fresh people coming after the quarterback in the fourth quarter."
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