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Dallas, Buffalo to meet again in Super Bowl
The Buffalo Bills will make their record fourth consecutive trip to
the Super Bowl after defeating the Kansas City Chiefs 30-13 for the
AFC Championship. Thurman Thomas led Buffalo with almost 200
yards rushing and three touchdowns.
The Bills will have to once again face the defending champion
Dallas Cowboys. The Cowboys defeated the San Francisco 49ers for
the NFC title, 38-21.
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Witt makes Olympic squad
Former Olympic Figure skating champion Katarina Witt has once
again qualified for the Games. Witt competed in the European Figure
Skating Championships Saturday in Copenhagen, Denmark. Based on
her performance, Witt made the German team that will compete in
February in Lillehammer, Norway.
College Basketball
The UCLA Bruins are set to assume the No. 1 position in the national
polls by themselves this week. The Bruins defeated California
Thursday and Arizona State Saturday. Tyus Edney and Ed O'Bannon
each scored 21 points to lead UCLA past the ASU Sun Devils.
Almost every other team in the top eight spots in the polls lost in the
past 10 days.
UCLA is the only undefeated team in the nation as the St. Louis
Billikens lost to the Marquette Warriors Saturday in Milwaukee.
Jim Mcllvaine led Marquette with 13 points, 10 rebounds and seven
blocks. St. Louis was ranked No. 23 in the nation prior to the loss.
The Indiana Hoosiers narrowly kept their nation's longest home
court winning streak alive as they slipped past the Northwestern
Wildcats 81-76 in Bloomington.
Damon Bailey scored seven straight points in the final minutes, and
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Aian Henderson scored a season-nign zo to leao iu.
Freshman DeJuan Wheat drilled a leaning jumpshot from just outside
the free throw line with 6.5 seconds remaining as Louisville escaped
the upset with a 70-69 come-from-behind win against Southern
Mississippi at home.
The Cardinals improved to 14-2 on the season.
Despite an acrobatic career-high 35 points from Bob Sura, Florida
State was no match for Duke Saturday. In Durham, the homestanding
Blue Devils raced out to a big first half lead and crushed the Seminoles
106-79. Antonio Lang and Chris Collins each scored career highs of 26
and 21 respectively to lead Duke and off-set the dunks and three-pointers
from Sura.
College Football
Two players from rival schools combined to lead the South against I
the North in the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala. I
Auburn's Stan White hit Alabama's Kevin Lee with a 50-yard scor- '<
ing strike with less than three minutes remaining to win the game.
White was MVP of the game after throwing three touchdown passes.
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Clipper forward Danny Manning. The Nuggets have permission to talk {
to Manning about the possibility of resigning him next year if they s
trade for him. Manning is an unrestricted free agent after the season. t
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forwards Stacy King and Horace Grant. Grant will also be a free agent [
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By TONY SANTORI through the hoop before spinning
Sports Editor out.
USC ? Thirty-six degrees. In With the score 58-46 in
Fahrenheit it is not quite cold Arkansas' favor the Razorbacks and
enough to freeze water. Williamson decided that it was time
But the Gamecocks were ice cold to end any hopes of a Gamecock
Saturday as they shot a season-low upset. Williamson scored 10 of the
36 percent from the floor in a 79-53 next 14 points and Arkansas put
loss to the Arkansas Razorbacks. USC away. The rest of the contest
Despite only turning the ball over was marked by sloppy, "garbage
15 times against the Razorbacks, time" play by the Gamecocks and
the Gamecocks struggled offensive- Arkansas substitutes. Razorback
ly most of the afternoon. And sub A1 Dillard buried a three-pointdespite
the poor shooting, USC er at the end to put the icing on
hung tough with Arkansas for the Arkansas' celebration cake,
first few minutes of the contest. USC head coach Eddie Fogler
However, Arkansas eventually was impressed with Arkansas'
pulled away from the Gamecocks spurts and runs, which eventually
with a 16-1 run, which led to a 42- ^ ^ Gamecocks jn "They're
31 talftime lead. explosive," he said.
Carolina fared somewhat better Whi,e ^ Gamecocks were mis_
in the first half when they shot 45 firi Qn ^ wasn>t
percent, but the Razorbacks seem- . ? . J, n ? . .
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Arkansas' Corliss Williamson Saturday. His assistant coaches
scored at will as his teammates fed were awa^ ?n recruitjn8 and scouthim
the ball in the right spots, near *n8 ^Ps- F?8ler also once again
the basket. The 6-foot-7 forward started sophomore Noim Greene in
from Russellville, Ark., hit 10 of 12 place of senior forward Emmett
shots on the day and all seven of Hariris
free throw attempts. The '?ss drops the Gamecocks
USC had a few chances to cut below .500 in conference play,
the Razorback lead to single digits They are now 2-3 in the SEC and
with less than 10 minutes left in the 5-9 overall,
game. Gamecock point guard Carey USC travels to Lexington, Ky., to
Rich launched a three-noint take on the nationally ranked
attempt, but the ball went halfway Kentucky Wildcats Wednesday.
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Forwrd Emmett Hall, shown against Florida, leads the SEC in
rebounding. He had seven rebounds against Arkansas Saturday.
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AftW PlnHinpr *n mec^ count, but will win a bronze medal
in hockey. In an interesting twist in the 'Ice
Escapades,' Tonya Harding will be beaten up by !
senior writer a gr0Up 0f hormone-crazed teen-agers hoping to
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to lose to Argentina in ity on matters of local interest. "How long will it
be before USC wins a championship in anymy
crystal ball (named thing?"
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it some bald chick on with a brilliant yellow hue. Then he began to
i future is not all bad for emit smoke from some unseen orifice,
r and female shotputters. Sometime later he replied, "As long as it takes
ti the medal count at the Eddie Fogler to convince the NCAA that, since
will be in no small part Moses Malone went straight from high school to
)n in such sports as luge the pros, Malone still has college eligibility "
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