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Jwire
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d against non-conference
cesllast week. That brings the
®>n record to 22-7.
Dp not let the Northern Illi-
not is battles fool you. Of those
veh losses, one is to No. 1
pio State and another was the
s’ loss to then-No. 2 ranked
^la State.
fact, Big 12 schools have
well against ranked compe-
. Baylor defeated 20th-
d North Carolina State last
and Oklahoma State pound-
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and bosa n3SB U p McGwire’s 64th homer,
to go on s j x ti lj w ith two out, he hit a 2-2 fast-
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ed No. 25 Mississippi State.
Colorado came back to beat
then-ranked Colorado State in their
first game of the year.
It’s no wonder the Big 12 has
five ranked teams in the AP Top-25
College Football Poll.
“The Big 12 must be proud of
having two [Nebraska and Kansas
State] of the top five teams in the
nation this week,” Texas coach
Mack Brown said.
M*A*S*H, Lincoln style
The Nebraska Cornhuskers uti
lized their off week to heal their
walking wounded for their upcom
ing showdown with Washington.
The Buskers conducted only
non-contact drills last week, not
working much on offense, and
are expected to be near full
strength for Saturday’s nationally
televised game.
“We’re trying to get our players
healed up,” coach Frank Solich
said. “We’ve been able to move
the football, and we feel confident
with our offensive football team.”
Running back D’Angelo
Evans and quarterback Bobby
Newcombe are expected to be
fully healed, and defensive tack
le Jason Wiltz started practice
this week.
Quarterback Eric Crouch is still
questionable for this weekend,
but safety Clint Finley, a Cuero,
Texas, product, will begin practic
ing and will be used in the Wash
ington game.
“Clint is always behind,” So
lich said. “He hasn’t played all
year, but he will be available
some in the game.”
Cyclone-mania!
Break up Iowa State! First the
boys from Ames shocked in-state
rival Iowa.
Last week, the Cyclones
shutout Ball State 38-0..
“Shutouts are hard to record
on any level of college football,”
coach Dan McCarney said. “We
had to play 50 players on offense
and defense.”
It was their first shutout recorded
against a Division I opponent since
1980, when Iowa State, ranked No.
19, won 1-0 when Kansas forfeited.
The Cyclones are on a two-
game winning streak for only the
second time this decade.
McCarney said it was difficult
to refocus the team after the
Iowa win.
“We’ve not had many opportu
nities to come off a win in which
we were a 30-point underdog.”
Bishop takes Rook
Kansas State quarterback
Michael Bishop was forced to ac
tually exert himself to defeat
rookie coach Mack Brown’s Texas
Longhorns on Saturday.
Bishop, who claims former
Texas A&M signal-caller Bucky
Richardson was
his favorite col
lege player grow
ing up, said he
took great pride
in beating a
school from his
native state.
“It was good
bishop to get used to
playing a full
game,” Bishop said. “I was a little
winded, but that’s just condition
ing. It was a big game for me, be
ing from Texas.”
Brown said Kansas State
looked like the best team he had
seen all year, possibly even better
than UCLA.
“We ran into a buzz saw this
weekend,” he said. “They just
whipped us. They lined up and
went after us all afternoon.”
Jeff Webb is a senior
journalism major.
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Grissom retrieved it and tossed it to the infield.
Shortstop Mark Loretta then rolled it to Sosa in
front of the Cubs’ dugout.
As he did after hitting No. 64, Sosa took a quick
curtain call to chants of “Sam-my! Sam-my!”
Sosa had not gotten a hit and had struck out
eight times since hitting a grand slam last
Wednesday in San Diego for No. 63. He walked
his first two times up against Roque, then sent
a 1-0 fastball 344 feet to the opposite field, giv
ing the Cubs a 4-0 lead.
His second homer made it 7-0 and gave him
11 multihomer games this year, tying the ma
jor league record set by Detroit’s Hank Green
berg in 1938.
Sosa’s 156 RBIs give him the fourth-highest
single-season total in NL history.
On Ttiesday night, Sosa admitted this was the
worst he felt at the plate all year.
“But I have confidence in myself and I will
get out of this jam,” he said.
Sosa entered the game at sold-out County
Stadium two homers behind McGwire. The St.
Louis star hit his 65th against the Brewers on
Sunday.
The Cardinals faced Houston on Wednesday
night in St. Louis, where McGwire has hit a
Busch Stadium record 33 home runs this season.
The Cubs entered the day tied with the New
York Mets for the NL wild-card berth.
Earlier this month, Sosa connected for Nos. 59-
62 against Milwaukee during a three-game series.
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