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Poll ranks Big 12 football; Jayhawks fifth in division
The Associated Press
DALLAS — Texas and Nebraska, who met in last year's first Big 12 championship, were picked by the media to square off again in this year's title game.
In a preseason poll of reporters, Longhorns' tailback Ricky Williams was selected as the offensive player of the year and Cornhuskers defensive lineman linebacker Grant Wistrom was chosen as the defensive player of the year.
The poll was released yesterday in anticipation of the league's head coaches annual two-day gathering with the media.
Nebraska had a conference-best seven players on the preseason All-Big 12 squad. Texas had the next most with five.
The predicted order of finish in the
North Division was Nebraska, Colorado Kansas State, Missouri, Kansas and Iowa State.
In the South, the media predicted the finish to be Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Bavlor.
The Big 12 championship game is scheduled for Dec. 6 in San Antonio. Texas won last year's game 37-27.
Nebraska's other all-conference players are offensive lineman Eric Anderson, center Aaron Taylor, running back Ahman Green, defensive lineman Jason Peter, defensive back Ralph Brown and punter Jesse Kosch.
Texas' other picks are quarterback James Brown, place kicker Pilar Dawson, defensive lineman Chris Akins and defensive lineman-linebacker Aaron Humphrey.
The all-conference receivers are Colorado's Phil Savoy and Iowa State's Ed Williams. The tight end is Alonzo Mayes of Oklahoma State and the other linemen are Mike Morris of Missouri, Melvin Thomas of Colorado and Todd Weiner of Kansas State.
Ryan Olson of Colorado was picked on the defensive line and the other linebackers are Dat Nguyen of Texas A&M and Mark Simoneau of Kansas State.
The remaining defensive backs are nym Black of Colorado, R.W. McQuarters of Oklahoma State and Tony Blevins of Kansas
Maddux sets record in victory
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — Greg Maddux needed just 78 pitches to beat his former team — the fewest in a complete game in nearly seven years — as the Atlanta Braves beat the Chicago Cubs 4-1 in the opener of a doubleheader yesterday.
Maddux looked like the best pitcher of the '90s in winning the first game. In the second game, however, the Braves didn't resemble the NL's best team this decade.
Chicago won 5-4, scoring the go-ahead run in the eighth on consecutive errors by shortstop Jeff Blauer and third baseman Chipper Jones.
"The way we lost the second game put a damper on the day," said Atlanta manager Bobby Cox.
Maddux (14-3) pitched a five-hitter, needing just two hours, seven minutes to become the NL's first 14-game winner.
"He's a brilliant, brilliant pitcher. If my life depended on one game, I'd want him to throw it," Chicago's Mark Grace said of his good friend and former teammate.
Maddux threw 63 strikes. His pitch total, according to Stats Inc., was the lowest in a major-league complete game since Aug. 29, 1990, when Bob Tewksbury threw 76 for St. Louis against Cincinnati.
who threw just 86 pitches to beat the New York Yankees earlier this season.
"I hadn't heard that one." said Maddux.
Maddux won his seventh straight game and is 6-0 against the Cubs, the team
he left after the 1992 season, when he won the first of four straight NL Cy Young Awards. His ERA against his former team is 1.43.
"I've thrown some pretty good games against them," Maddux said. "We've scored a lot of runs against them. Four runs against them today was a lot."
The wind was blowing in at 12 mph, but that's not why the Cubs couldn't hit Maddux. He was just doing what he always does, which is throw strikes.
Maddux struck out six and walked none to outpitch rookie Jeremi Gonzalez (7-3), who had won five in a row.
"You have to get to him early in the count. If you go deep in the count, you are not going to see a lot of base hits," said Cubs manager Jim Riggleman.
Atlanta went ahead 2-1 in the fifth on Jeff
Blauer's lead- off double, an infield out and sacrifice fly by Chipper Jones. Michael Tucker hit a
two-out, two-run home run in the seventh. Gonzalez allowed four runs and seven hits in seven innings.
Atlanta pushed across a first-inning run on singles by Tucker and Jones, a fly ball by Fred McGriff that advanced Tucker and Ryan Klesko's two-out single.
The Cubs got even in the fourth when Shawon Dunston led off with a single and scored on an infield out by Sammy Sosa.
In the eighth inning of the second game, Dunston singled with two outs, and Blauser and Jones misplayed grounders by Kevin Orie and Ryne Sandberg, sending Mike Cather (0-1) to the loss.
Kent Bottenfield (2-2) won despite giving up the second of two home runs by Andruw Jones, allowing Atlanta to tie the score 4-4 in the eighth. Mel Rojas pitched the ninth for his 12th save.
Danny Bautista also homered for the Braves. Denny Neagle, aiming to join Maddux as a 14-game winner, gave up four runs and nine hits in six 2-3 innings.
SPORTS BRIEFS
Sampras, Agassi to vie for Grand Slam title
The Associated Press
TENNIS
NEW YORK - Michael
NEW YORK — Michael Stich of Germany won't be at the U.S. Open tennis championships next month. Neither will Stefan Edborg of Sweden or Russian Andrei Chesnokov.
But they are the only players of the top 100-ranked men who were not on the entries' list for the Grand Slam event. The list was released yesterday by the U.S. Tennis Association.
Stich, a former Wimbledon champion who is No. 46 in the computer rankings, and Edberg, No. 59, have retired. Chesnokov, ranked 100, has a broken leg.
Sampras also will be after his 11th career Grand Slam singles title, one victory from Australian Roy Emerson's record of a dozen Grand Slam singles titles.
Pete Sampras, the two-time defending champion and No. 1 in the rankings, leads the entries. Sampras will be seeking his fifth U.S. Open title, a feat achieved only by Jimmy Connors in the open era.
Andre Agassi, the 1994 champion, who has limited his schedule since marrying Brooke Shields in the spring, is entered and will be playing in his first Grand Slam tournament since he reached the semifinal of the U.S. Open last year and lost to Michael Chang.
Nuggets suggest trade for SuperSonics' Kemp
The Associated Press
SEATTLE — Seattle SuperSonics officials had no comment yesterday on a report the Denver Nuggets were considering a swap of Antonio McDyess for Shawn Kemp.
Allen Bristow, Denver's vice president for basketball operations, acknowledged talking with the Sonics. "They know we're interested," he said.
Sonics officials said they would not comment on rumors.
"I don't think we'll have any comment on that because it's coming out of Denver," said one Sonics official.
In June, Bristow said the Nuggets were committed to keeping McDyess, who was drafted in 1995. He said the 6-foot-9 power forward was essential to rebuilding the team.
But Bristow wants flexibility under the salary cap, so Denver could aggressively seek him in next summer's free-agent market.
Kemp has demanded to be traded, saying he'd never play for the Sonics again. He has six years left on a contract that would pay him $3.3 million next season, well below average for a player of his caliber.
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