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Is Mickey IV ready for the Can you believe that football season is only one month away? That's right Just one month until touchdowns are scored, pads are popping and fans are watching gridiron action. Just as the baseball pennant races, and the temperature, are heating up and golf is becoming a Uif fArvtknll in iunt uit niuit piuiuiu^iii) iwiuan ia judi lingiring around the comer waiting to pounce on those action-thirsty fans tired of slow baseball games. The college football season always seems to start early, with the Kickoff Classic held at the Meadowlands in New Jersey. But this season there is a new entry to the early ball game hysteria. Believe it or not, Mickey Mouse is going to dabble with football. That's right. The cute mouse we've all come to love will be holding a football game at his Disneyland home. It's the Pigskin , Classic in Anaheim, Ca. at Anaheim Stadium on Aug. 26. The game is scheduled for 1 p.m. The combatents in Mickey's Mouse Bowl are very formidable: the University of Colorado vesus the University of Tennessee. Both squads finished last year with 11-1 records, yet the Buffaloes had a bit more of the national spotlight. If you remember, Colorado was the nations top ranked team headed into their showdown with Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl. The Buffalo players had dedicated their season to their teammate Sal Aunese, who had died shortly after the 1989 season started. Eventhough they came up one game short of a national championship, they won the Big 8 crown and made college football a bit more interesting. Over in Knoxville, the Vols of Tennessee weren't expected to do much in 1989. Back at the start of 1988, the Vols lost their first five , games and head coach Johnny Majors was under extreme criticism. But his squad won their last six games to salvage the season. Then last season the Vols looked like contenders for the national championship. Tennessee \<dr 1115 Assembly Street B I Directly across from ] Buy one bi { get the nex ! for \ 1/2 I Plain Sausage Bacon < Ham I Add Cheese I Add Egg Lower priced biscuit is d Expires August 30th, i Try Chicken & louse i gridiron? ||^ FRED GONZALEZ ?? " ?? ???? A * Pep Talk wnn their fire I five parties of the season, including an impressive "win over a highly ranked Auburn team in front of a national Lv. audience. Then came their single loss to Alabama, after which the Vols responded with six more wins, including a Cotton Bowl victory over Arkansas, 31-27. Now heading into the 1990 season, this match up could have national title implications. The Buffaloes bring back quarterback Darian Hagan and tailback Eric Bieniemy. Hagan rushed for 1,004 yards and scored 17 touchdowns in Colorado's wish bone attack. Bieniemy rushed for 561 yards and scored nine toucdowns. Tennessee has a top running game led by sophomore Chuck Webb, who as a redshirt freshman last season rushed for 100-yards in five straight games. He set a school rushing record against Ole Miss with 294 yards and he rushed for 250 yards against the Razorbacks in die Cotton Bowl. n j. i i i JtJom squaas oring oacx sungy defenses led by Alfred Williams and Kanavis McGhee for Colorado and Shazzon Bradley and Darryl Hardy for Tennessee. So it looks like Mickey did his homework and came up with two formidable opponents for his Pigskin Classic. But are games like this really neccessary? Wouldn't it be beneficial for these student-athletes to not miss their first days of classes just for a ball game that will generate big bucks not only for Disneyland and Raycom Sports, but for each school? These schools will have to start their practices at an earlier date and play one extra ball game. On the surface, this project seems great to the fans and die t.v. people, but the whole ball of wax might not be what college football TECH ^ We Go \ ) Dj's For P? Sound! Open 7 A.M. reakfast a ONCH'S the State Capitol on Assemb scuit r _ i Fi ;t one \ ? i i i ce | Early 1.09 I g 1.09 ! 1.29 20 i d 29 | ^ iscounted. I 2990 I Expi 1 f Kinch's Delici l Burgers at Lt Open 7am - 4pm ^BL ^flflpr^ J|B|||jjl||||W I "Ilk V m mam m jammm jo jo USC basketball star Jo Jo English scores t against Cincinnati. This year he and his teammatt in the Diet Pepsi Tournamnet of Champions. Now ACC consid By The Associated Press GREENSBORO, N.C. ? The Atlantic Coast Conference will reopen expansion talks at a meeting of league athletic directors and faculty representatives July 25 in Greensboro, officials said. 'The meeting was set up particularly to talk about needs. As the sport grows more and more into a business, who is really benefitting from all of this? fl You try and answer that one. 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The event will tip off on Friday, Nov. 30 at the Charlotte A i SThe 1990 field includes UNC, USC, Houston of the Southwest Conference and Iowa State of the Nov. 30, Houston will face Iowa State at 7 p.m. and USC will battle 1, the two losers will play in the consolation match at 7 p.m. and the two winners will play in the championship game at 9 p.m. The tournament will be broadcast live Jimmy B'ack, a former Tar Heel, against his former mentor one c weel ifter the Gamecocks open J the season in the Great Alaska 1 File Photo Shootout in Anchorage, Alaska on t Nov. 23-26. In the inaugural Tournament of t wo last season Champions in 1988, UNC defeated 3S will face UNC Missourri 76-60 after getting by I Arizona 79-72 in the first game. ? ering expansion expansion," North Carolina athletic director John Swofford said. "This is a continuation of some of the informal talks we've been having in recent months." The ACC decided at its February business meeting to maintain the eight-team league's status quo rather than expand. But since then, the conference has watched as leagues around it began to vigorously pursue expansion. COME SEE WHAT WE'VE ( FOR YOU! mdry facilities \ 11 furnitureJVUHA ickage for <l^a M I immer Bmh imming pool XUjh I eping & studying lofts t shed and Unfurnished Apartn W PRE-LEASING FOR SUMMER 30-60-90 Day Leases for Sum A NEW LEASE ON UNIVERSITY LIFE =ICE HOURS: -F 9:30-5:30 "MAINST' 1 254-7801 face UNC tourney ESSZ9! DIET PEPSI TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS Iowa State Houston South Carolina North Carolina Arizona beat Temple 68-50 in the hird-place game. UNC's Rick Fox vas named tournament MVP. Last year N.C. State defeated >ittsburgh 100-87 to claim the championship after defeating Ohio State 68-54 in the first game. Okahoma State defeated the Buckeyes 81-59 in the third place game, tournament MVP last year was he Wolfpack's Tom Gugliotta. 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