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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
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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
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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.
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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
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GREENSBORO, N.C. ? The Atlantic Coast Conference
will reopen expansion talks at a meeting of
league athletic directors and faculty representatives
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if you thought the rivalry between
the University of North Carolina
and USC was dead, better
think again.
This fall the two squads will
face each other in the Diet Pepsi
Tournament of Champions.
The four-team college basketball
tournament in Charlotte brings
together three national powers to
take on the ACC's Tar Heels or
N.C. State. The event will tip off
on Friday, Nov. 30 at the Charlotte
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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
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Nov. 23-26.
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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. ?
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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.
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