This Week In Sports

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NFL draft selectionyields defensivepowerhouses

• Watching the draft was the natural pastime for last weekend. The round began with a defensive end, Mario Williams of North Carolina State to the Houston Texans, and concluded with the New York Giants taking Boston College's Mathias Kiwanuka. Seventeen other defenders were also selected, according to ESPN.com.

Of the top five selections, three were offensive players. However, once the first round got started, 14 ,---------, of the next 18 picks were for defenders.

Among those chosen were Southern Cal tailback Reggie Bush (New Orleans), Texas quarterback Vince Young (Tennessee) and left offensive tackle D'Brickashaw Ferguson (New York Jets) of Vrrginia with slot Nos. 2-4.

The final count for the round was 19 ::..___.._. defensive players and 13 offensive prospects. The emphasis continued into the second round, where eight of the first dozen selections were defenders.

ture and format, the sport has modernized the way fans participate and show enthusiasm.

"For its fans, the sport and the intense rivalries between top cricketing nations provide passionate entertainment and outstanding sporting achievements. It has even occasionally given rise to diplomatic outrage, the most infamous being the Bodyline series played between England and Australia," according to Wikipedia.

"I think going into the draft, most people felt the early quality was on defense," Buffalo Bills first-year head coach Dick Jauron said. His team used both its choices in the first round on defensive players, safety Donte Whitner and tackle John McCargo.

"Really, it pretty much fell in line with that thinking. You've got to play defense in this league," Jauron said, according to ESPN.com.

USC football ''needs to work harder"

The USC football program, surrounded by investigations, has been told by Coach Pete Carroll, according to the Los Angeles Times, that they need to "work harder to control outside influences on its players."

the end of the 17th century, it had grown to a large, organized sport, being played throughout all of England and there was much gambling surrounding it.

"The game underwent major development in the 18th Century and had become the national sport of England by the end of the century. Betting played a major

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In the 1963 and 1975 two things were developed, the Oneday International matches and the International Cricket Council. Both changes to the sport revolutionized how many people went to games and how the game was administered.

Presently, cricket has taken over England. With a new struc-

A match or game can take anywhere from six hours to five days, depending on the form of the game.

There are three forms: test cricket, one-day cricket Twenty20. and

To date, cricket is the secondmost popular sport overseas, just falling short of European football (soccer).

"We needed to see this coming, and we didn't," Carroll said. "It's gone beyond all the heads up, all the alerts, all the education we give these kids. We need to do more."

Housing arrangements for the family of Reggie Bush, who was taken No. 2 overall by the New Orleans Saints in the NFL draft, and whether an upscale apartment that wide receiver Dwayne Jarrett shared with former teammate Matt Leinart violated NCAA rules are both under investigation, according to ESPN.com. Also, the university has indefinitely suspended backup quarterback Mark Sanchez because he is alleged to have sexually assaulted a female student.

Carroll told the Tiqles that he needs to better educate his players about outside influences, especially now that USC has "become a college football powerhouse, and a target."

"Our guys are marked guys; they have had success and there's people trying to get in on that, and we need to do a better job of making them understand the problems there," he told the Times. "We have moved into very different territory now, all the hype, all the distractions, all the people who want to influence us, and we will be more aware of that. We will work harder to control that."

Leinart's father, Bob, put Jarrett and Leinart on the lease at the apartment after Leinart moved out of his former residence near campus, since fans bothered him incessantly.

Leinart, picked 10th by the Arizona Cardinals in the draft, and Jarrett each paid $650 a month for the apartment that cost $3,866 a month, according to the Times.

Leinart's father paid the difference and said he's been told Jarrett might have to repay him about $10,000, the Times reported. Officials of the university question whether the program received an unfair advantage, by one player's father helping another player.

"At this point, we're still gathering information," Tim Tessalone, USC's director of sports information, said to The Associated Press.

Also, the Pacific-to Conference is investigating the housing of Bush's family, who lived in a house owned by a man who reportedly wanted to market him while he played for USC last season. Receiving extra benefits is prohibited by NCAA rules.