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Page 12 • Thursday, September 23, 1999
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Emotional Emmitt
Cowboys back shares glory for career milesk
IRVING (AP) — Emmitt Smith’s latest milestone
was an emotional one — once he realized it.
Smith passed Tony Dorsett to become fourth on the
NFL’s career rushing list with a 7-yard touchdown run
in Dallas’ 24-7 victory over Atlanta Monday night.
Among the first to greet Smith on the sidelines was
Dorsett, who was at the game to help celebrate the
Cowboys’ 40th anniversary.
“He said, ‘Congratulations,’ and I said ‘Thank
you,”’ Smith said. “Then I kept on moving to go sit
down. 1 didn’t even realize what he was saying con
gratulations for.”
Smith was not seated long when he heard the good
news over the Texas Stadium loudspeaker. As fans
cheered, he went back to Dorsett, hugged him and
whispered a few words.
“I had to go tell him in his ear how much I great
ly appreciate what he’s done, the standards he has
set,” Smith, who last season passed Dorsett as the
leading rusher in team history, said. “I wanted him
to know that I greatly, really, truly in my heart ap
preciate him as a person, as a Dallas Cowboy and
as a football player.”
Smith was not done with his thank-yous.
He also sought Daryl Johnston, Smith’s lead block
er in 131 of his 142 games, but probably not for any
more. Johnston re-injured a neck injury in the open
er and will not return this season. Although he is go
ing to try coming back next year, the odds are long.
Johnston will remain with the team for moral sup
port and advice. On Monday night, the fullback af
fectionately known as “Moose" was walking the side
lines carrying a clipboard. Fans gave him a
“Moooooose” call when he was shown on the stadi-
Report: Dallas clti
to relocating cat
EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — The Dallas
boys are close to sealing a deal to me I
training camp to the Rio Grande Valley,raj
tion KURV reported yesterday.
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he could not confirm the radio report un.
er Jerry Jones makes an announcement.
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more air time when Smith hugged him folios
milestone.
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ing a brother almost. That’s an unfortunatep
business. He’s truly going to be missedbynel
Talking about Johnston made Smith
He ended a group interview with that resp
hurried off a podium.
Ryder’s Cup team
disputes criticism
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BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) —
They eat dinner together, wear the
same color shirts and play for the
same goal: to break the Europeans’
hold on the Ryder Cup.
Do the Americans have the pas
sion some said they lacked in 1997
in Spain, when they lost the glam
our event for the sec-
ond straight time? And
does it matter?
“I don’t believe it’s
that we are less pas
sionate than they are,”
Tiger Woods, the
world’s top-ranked
golfer, said. “We try
just as hard as they do.
I don’t go to a tourna
ment to lose.”
Desire and determi-
case, and I think it does a disservice
to the European team of the past,
past several teams that have won.
“1 think it’s a bit disrespectful to
their good play.”
With the 33rd Ryder Cup start
ing tomorrow at The Country Club,
the favored and more experienced
Americans are
“We [Americans] try
just as hard as they
do. / don't go to a
tournament to lose."
— Tiger Woods
World’s top-ranked golfer
nation are important. So are dri
ving the ball in the right spot and
pitching it close to the hole.
David Duval, ranked second,
said when Americans lose, people
go on an often misguided search
for reasons — perhaps they were
not as united or did not care as
much as the Europeans.
The answer might be more ob
vious than it seems at first.
“You play golf, and whoever
plays the best wins,” he said Tlies-
day. “A lot of stuff is made up in the
saying all the
right things —
they have de
veloped team
chemistry in
an individual
sport and want
to win for their
country.
On Monday
night they ate
together at a
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have eight games rernwls,
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downtown Boston restaurant. On
Tuesday, they practiced and wore
the same blue shirts. Tomorrow,
they will be rooting for players they
compete against on a weekly basis.
“We’re just going to have to reach
down inside, decide how bad we
want it and go do whatever it takes,”
team member Hal Sutton said.
The Americans have even put
behind them the issue of greater
compensation for their efforts,
which flared briefly last month and
is now in the hands of the PGA.
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least for one game — be*
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Texas Rangers and hashes!
as day-to-day.
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University Hospitals ofCle
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