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Women's volleyball team finishes 3-1 in tournament
By Darrell J. Weidner Bronchos took the next three (2-15, 2-15, 10-15) to claim the season opener.
The Bronchos offense was lead by middle-blocker Lex King.
The Midland, Texas sophomore earned 13 kills in the match.
King earned 155 kills in 119 games during the 1997 season.
The Bronchos defense was lead by outside hitter Adriana Crovador who earned 12 digs and two block assists.
Crovador also had ten kills Sportstoikr The Central
Oklahoma volleyball squad opened its home season competing in the Quality Inn North Invitational tournament over the weekend at Hamilton Field House.
On Friday, the Bronchos opened the tournament by defeating Adams State in a four game match.
The Grizzlies took the first game of the match with a score of 15-3, but the in the match.
Crovador, the 1997 AllLone Star Conference-North Division honoree earned 331 kills, 393 digs, 49 ace serves, and 45 blocks during the '97 season, finishing seventh in the LSC for kills.
The Texas A&MKingsville Javelinas handed the Bronchos their first defeat of the "98 season on Friday evening.
On Saturday, the Bronchos rebounded from the Friday evening loss when they won both of their matches.
Central Oklahoma then defeated Tarleton State in three straight games (11-15, 13-15, 9-15).
The Bronchos will try to build on their 3-1 season record when they face the Midwestern State Lady Indians at 7 p. m. tonight at Hamilton Field House. <
Adrianna Crovador, junior outside hitter for the UCO women's volley ball team
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Time for a quiz on 1998 college football By Andrew Bagnato Collegeress
CHICAGO - Summer seems to be overstaying its welcome, perhaps because the nation is obsessed with the Roger Maris home run-record chase, not to mention the daily drama of the National League wild-card race.
But don't be fooled, students. The harbingers of autumn are popping up on campuses across the land. Listen closely and you can hear the gentle hiss of grades being inflated. Or maybe the Delts are tapping a keg.
So crack open those loose-leaf binders and sharpen those pencils. It's time for a quiz on the upcoming college football season.
And please, scholars: No spitwads.
Question: Is this being graded?
Answer: Yes, Mr. Katzenmoyer.
Q: How does the new superalliance work?
A: Simple. The top two teams in the nation will meet in the Fiesta Bowl Jan. 4 in Tempe, Ariz.
Q: But what if only one team goes unbeaten? Who gets the other bid? And what if no one goes unbeaten, as happened in 1993? How will the superalliance sort that out?
A: It will use a complicated formula by which the major polls and computer rankings and strength of schedule are multiplied by the average SAT score for the starting lineup of each team, minus the number of chicken wings consumed on a weekly basis by the right guard.
Q: So there will be controversy again in the postseason. Is this a bad thing for college football?
A: No. And it's not a bad thing for society, either, if it keeps ESPN analyst Lee Corso off the streets.
Q: Speaking of ESPN, last year the cable network tried to hype its games by promoting "Judgment Day" in college football. What gimmick is on tap this fall?
A: "Appeals Day," with live coverage of Notre Dame's effort to get the Joe Moore verdict overturned.
Q: Why is Sept. 5 shaping up as an enormous day in college football across the country?
A: There are five games pitting preseason Top 25 teams. In the East, No. 1 Ohio State goes to No. 11 West Virginia, No. 10 Tennessee visits No. 17 Syracuse and No. 21 Southern Mississippi goes to No. 13 Penn State. In the Midwest, No. 5 Michigan plays at- No. 22 Notre Dame. And out West, No. 18 Washington visits No. 8 Arizona State.
Q: Why is Ohio State so worried about its season-opening trip to Morgantown?
A: Ever see "Deliverance?"
Q: Penn State coach Joe Paterno recently said the Big Ten shouldn't give "unreasonable" concessions in its ongoing effort to lure Notre Dame. What does he mean by that?
A: Some in the Big Ten believe the following could be construed as "unreasonable": a guaranteed slot for the Fighting Irish in the Rose Bowl in evennumbered years; scheduling byes against Michigan and Ohio State in odd-numbered years; and five downs for the Fighting Irish offense.
Q: Speaking of JoePa, he needs only two more victories to become the sixth coach to reach 300 wins for his career. If the Nittany Lions beat Southern Mississippi in the opener, the milestone is likely to come against Bowling Green Sept. 12 in Happy Valley. Paterno has said he planned to coach "four or five more." More what?
A: Decades.
Q: It wouldn't be August without speculation over the next round of coaching changes. Who's under the most pressure to produce this season?
A: Brad Scott of South Carolina, which has struggled to improve in the loaded (Florida, Tennessee and Georgia) SEC Eastern Division. And John Blake of Oklahoma had better win sooner than later.
Q: Why do Big Ten insiders believe this will be Hayden Fry's last year at Iowa?
A: The Hawkeyes open with Nebraska in 1999.
Q: Will Fry be missed?
A: Sorely. In an age of political correctness, the tall Texan speaks his mind unabashedly and colorfully. And he will always be remembered for racially integrating the Southwest Conference while coaching at Southern Methodist in 1966.
Q: Why did Army join Conference USA?
A: It couldn't resist that -natural rivalry with Houston.
Q: How bad is the Big East?
A: It lost its four bowls last year but kept Rutgers.
Q: Speaking of the Big East, has Temple ever considered dropping football?
A: Intentionally, at times.
Q: Who has the best cheerleaders?
A: Beside Notre Dame's?
Q: Is there really a player called Ben Gay?
A: He was considered the top prep running back in Texas last year, but there was a problem when he enrolled at Baylor.
The NCAA considers him a partial academic qualifier, which means he can't play as a freshman, though he may eventually regain a fourth season of eligibility if he makes progress toward a degree. Baylor is sore about the ruling, and it is appealing.
Q: Is Kansas State for real? A: Ask Nebraska on Nov. 14.
Q: K-State hasn't beaten the mighty Cornhuskers in a while, has it.
A: The last time it happened was four days after Richard Nixon's first presidential election victory.
Q: After belittling Tennessee for making repeated appearances in the Citrus Bowl, is Florida coach Steve Spurrier more humble after spending New Year's Day there?
A: Just as Bill Gates is poorer after taxes.
Q: Texas running back Ricky Williams is also a prospect in the Philadelphia Phillies' organization. Michigan .quarterback Drew Henson is also a prospect in the New York Yankees' organization. Florida State quarterback Chris Weinke played in the Toronto Blue Jays' organization. Is there anybody out there who can't play baseball?
A: Michael Jordan.
Q: Whom did Michigan call to perform the 5,500-seat expansion of Michigan Stadium?
A: Bandwagon Enlargements Inc.
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This photo taken in the 1930's by a campus photographer , shows the Bronchos of old roughing it up on the feild now occupoied by the Home Economics building and various sidewalks. Notice Murdaugh Halt in the background. (photo courtesy of Special Collections/Archives, University of Central Oklahoma.)
Bronchos should continue the tradition of dominance
By Darrell J. Weidner SportsWIlier
The Central Oklahoma Bronchos will begin their charge for the Lone Star Championship on Sept. 5, when they travel to Alva to face Northeastern Oklahoma.
The Bronchos will face the Rangers with 13 returning starters from last years 9-2 team that shared the LSC-North Division championship with the Southwestern Oklahoma Bulldogs.
The Central Oklahoma Brochos are picked to win the LSC-North Division.
Among the returning starters is juinior tailback Reggie Donner.
Donner has been picked as the pre-season LSC-North Division player of the year. "I look forward to the challenge of trying to be the Head football coach Gary Howard leader and player that the media says I am," said Donner. "I am coming into the year healthy," said Donner. "The only problem I had is with a little back stress during the first week of practice, but I am over that," said Donner.
Despite missing four games last season, Donner was second in the league in rushing, averaging 109.7 yards per game.
He rushed for 768 yards that lead to nine touchdowns in 107 carries, averaging 7.6 yards per carry. "I look forward to playing with these guys," said Donner.
Also returning to the Bronchos is starting linebacker Johnny Luter.
Luter sat out all last season with a knee injury that he suffered in pre-season drills last August. "I'm not worried about the knee," said Luter "I have worked it and I feel I am at 100 percent." Junior tailback Reggie Donner "I look forward to getting out on the feild and playing again," said Luter. "The Central Oklahoma Bronchos are looking forward to having a healthy year," said head coach Gary Howard. "We can't get over confident going into the first game, and I don't think we will," said Donner. "We overlooked Southwestern last year and I think we learned from that, not to go in thinking we have already won. We won't overlook Northeastern, because we are worried about Kingsville," said Donner.
The Bronchos will open their home season against Kingsville at 2 p.m. Sept. 12,, at Wantland Stadium. -41(
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By Paul Hagen CollegePtess
PHILADELPHIA — In the beginning, there was inside baseball. And it was good.
John McGraw, Little Napoleon, managing the original Baltimore Orioles. Wee Willie Keeler hitting em where they ain't. The holy trinity of the hitand-run, the bunt and the stolen base. Ty Cobb.
Baseball in the deadball era was a chess match. Managers played for one run from the first pitch, knowing that just might be the difference.
A cover of Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization featured a pen-and-ink drawing of men in straw boaters crowding around a city street corner as a kid on a stepladder posted inning-by-inning scores from around the big leagues. The date was Sept. 23, 1911, the caption simple yet eloquent: "The Ruling Passion."
There was no way of knowing that, eight years later, the first outlines of the Black Sox scandal would plunge baseball into crisis.
Rumors, later confirmed, that eight members of the Chicago White Sox had taken money to lose games to the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series shook the nation just as surely as accusations against O.J. Simpson did decadeslater. Fans were confused, angry, suspicious.
Then along came Babe Ruth.
Flamboyant, charismatic, Ruth became the perfect sports hero for what later would be defined as the Roaring Twenties.
He hit 29 home runs in 1919, then considered a flabbergasting number. He followed that in 1920 by hitting an incredible 54 homers.
Baseball had been saved.
And it never would be the same again.
Not everyone applauded this evolution, of course. The purists were appalled by what they viewed as an uncomplicated, unthinking, swing-from-theheels approach.
In his excellent biography, "Ty Cobb," Charles C. Alexander notes: "In the same years in which Ruth's prodigious home runs were helping to revolutionize the sport, Cobb's attitude toward the mighty Yankee slugger became increasingly contemptuous. It was more than the natural rivalry of two great stars competing within the same league. It was also the special rivalry of two men who represented radically contrasting approaches to the game.
Cobb appears to have grasped early and completely the fundamental threat Ruth posed to his whole set of values."
No matter. The owners couldn't help but notice that Ruth helped the Yankees draw a major league record 1,289,422 in 1920.
When the magnificent, new Yankee Stadium was dedicated in April 1923, the distance from home plate to the rightfield foul pole was just 296 feet, forming an inviting porch for the lefthanded-hitting Ruth to aim at.
This was not a coincidence.
Home runs now were the official elixir of major league baseball, guaranteed to cure whatever ailed the game.
Give the people what they want. "Home Run Derby," starring Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays and Harmon Killebrew and other stars of the era and filmed at cozy Wrigley Field in Los Angeles, still has the power to command our attention on The Classic Sports Network.
The home run contest that has become an official part of the All-Star experience drew as much interest at Denver's Coors Field this year as the game itself. Maybe more.
This has been a constant through the years. Did Bob Gibson have a mind-boggling 1.12 earned run average for the Cardinals in 1968, the same season that Boston's Carl Yastrzemski led the American League with a .301 average?
Quick. Lower the mound. Tighten up the strike zone.
And it was done.
Hall of Famer Earl Weaver, who managed the present incarnation of the Orioles, liked to cackle that his secret to success was "good pitching and three-run homers."
Periodically it is muttered darkly, mostly by pitchers, that the authorities have gone overboard in their zeal to see home runs disappear over distant fences.
Usually, the suspicion takes the form that the balls themselves have been made more jet-propelled. It is an accusation that is ritually denied.
Reporter to then-NL president Bart Giamatti at the 1987 AllStar Game in Oakland: "Is the ball juiced?"
Giamatti: "No more than I am, sir!"
Maybe. But this much seems certain. For the second time this century, the home run might just be saving baseball from itself.
After the crippling strike of 1994, the owners made a sobering discovery: The only thing worse than a World Series that might have been fixed is no World Series at all.
The 1994 Fall Classic was rubbed out by stupidity and greed. Labor woes dragged into the next spring training with the farce of replacement players in major league camps.
And when it was all settled, owners discovered to their chagrin that the fans weren't of a mind to forgive and forget, to compliantly file back into the stadiums to buy the warm beer and the cold hot dogs and mindlessly root, root,root for the home team.
Attendance fell drastically. Baseball, the pundits intoned, was in critical condition. The sport started to rebound last year when Mark McGwire and Ken Griffey made a run at one of baseball's most sacred records - 61 homers in a season, set by Roger Maris in 1961.
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