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SPOILSPORTS September 2.200: THE BATTALION 3B Tuesday, September 2, 2003 ter ued from page then they would e after I scored >wn.” .• that game. Can: lions have taken^ urn. New football, {•'ranch ione anno, during s ot so fast: Nebraska’s demise ay have been exaggerated ■ By Stephen Hawkins ■ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS I ■ DALLAS — Rumors of ■Nebraska's demise may have ck. re tick. « has athletic ah, >ne said. "Withiv ands, he can be as I he w hole idea nr, •tic ability and pa; one when we necss ibute. He's ekm J instincts withik hands. He can i appen." • he switched post said she has bet i ic upsw ing in hr «■ s ready to give s j f said. 'L^asi yearM really ready to £i>;i ■been greatly exaggerated. The ■Comhuskers lead the Big 12 ■ North and are back in the AP ■Top 25. OK, so it’s just one game ■ into the season. But an opening ■ 17-7 Big 12 win over rising ■Oklahoma State and a return to ■ the rankings are important ■ steps for Nebraska after its first ■ non-winning record in 41 ■ years. •’ “I think it reinforces a lot of ■ things in our players’ minds,” ■ Nebraska coach Frank Solich ■ said Monday. “We went into this ■ game with the idea of truly ■ believing in ourselves. For that ■ to materialize the way you real- ■ ly want it to, coming off that ■ first game and playing well, cer- ■ tainly the win was big.” Oklahoma State coach Les ■ Miles has to worry about the ■ opposite reaction. The Cowboys ■ dropped out of the poll after ■their first preseason ranking since 1985. Even with the returning impressive trio of quarterback Josh Fields, receiver Rashaun Woods and running back Tatum Bell, the Cowboys scored against Nebraska only on their opening SOLICH drive. And they had five turnovers. “It is healthy for our guys to understand that they had a tremendous opportunity, opportunity was and that national prominence and rank ing,” Miles said. “That window of opportunity has closed tem porarily but could easily reap pear as the season moves for ward.” Not until Oct. 11 when they get back into Big 12 play against seventh-ranked Kansas State. Before then, they can’t slip up in their non-conference games against Wyoming, Southwest Missouri State, SMU and Louisiana-Lafayette. “Hats off to a great job by the Nebraska staff preparing for that game,” Miles said. “Their kids played hard. We were prepared for that game and ready to play. They got us.” The Comhuskers were 7-7 last season, the first time since 1961 they didn’t have a winning record. Their run of 348 appear ances in the Top 25 poll ended Sept. 29, 2002, after a loss to Iowa State, and they started the season unranked for the first time since 1969. “It’s something that this pro gram has been all about, being in the Top 25 and being a top football team in the country,” Solich said. “It’s great to be back in. I think it was obvious to everyone, including ourselves, that we had to prove that we deserved to get back in.” The Comhuskers will remain alone at the top of the Big 12 North for almost a month. The next conference game is Missouri at Kansas on Sept. 27, a week before the rest of the league’s eight teams finally play games that count in the stand ings. talked sometime! two in the mots just tell him to Scott dominates Deutsche Bank in there and By Doug Ferguson THE ASSOCIATED PRESS change.” that things if i. Carter said, he iif the regular phorc |*f ms with his f NORTON, Mass. — Adam Scott not only August tssoa. Jswings a golf club like Tiger Woods, he finishes r, the coincKititr -toff tournaments like him, too. L-nt tone. f With consecutive birdies to open a huge lead died him even nr rand clutch pars that kept anyone from making a • sure he was up tor serious run, Scott closed with a 5-under 66 on iquita said, lie h ' Monday to win the Deutsche Bank Championship, lock, but 1 still “Now it seems easy,” he said. “I was grinding it 4 o'clock in their ' really hard out there.” make sure." Scott led by at least three shots throughout a Carter, the powtH'rainy afternoon on the TPC of Boston, and a birdie has shown himaskk 5 ' on the final hole gave him a four-shot victory over and his .ittitu(k-*Rocco Mediate. t seen since donnin; - The 23-year-old Aussie, who finished at 20- and white. under 268, won for the first time on the PGA Tour finally get to u • and fifth time worldwide, all of them by protecting ge of my abilities. A a lead going into the final round. 'ootball is fun again “He’s as good as you can get,” Mediate said. ■ “At his age ... we’ve got our hands full.” Scott’s record is nothing like Woods, who is 28- 2 on the PGA Tour when he has at least a share of ■the 54-hole lead. I The swing, however, is eerily similar, and it PORTS IN BRIEF P s claims MVP rs from Biql carried Scott to a dominant performance over the last three rounds that left everyone else playing for second. Mediate did his best to make a charge with four birdies in five holes around the turn, and he closed with a 6-under 65. All that got him was second place. Justin Rose, Scott’s best friend on the European tour, birdied the last two holes for a 67 and finished third at 269. Vijay Singh was another stroke back after a 66 that could have been much better if not for a slew of short-range birdie putts that he missed. Scott earned $900,000 and a two-year exemp tion on the PGA Tour, although he is expected to continue playing a full schedule in Europe. Woods never had a chance in the tournament that benefits his foundation. He birdied his first three holes to get within five strokes of the lead, and consecutive birdies to start the back nine moved him into a tie for third. But a double bogey on No. 12 derailed any hopes of getting closer to Scott, and Woods had to settle for two birdies at the end for a 67. He fin ished at 273, tied for seventh. It was his fifth straight PGA Tour event without a victory dating to the Western Open on the Fourth of July weekend, although he has finished out of the top seven only once during that stretch. A&M outside hitter - : ' v 3S named the Big lip 3 layer of the Wee 1 ’'”' Monday. The sT 1 more A r I ing earned honor aft dominating'- formance^' season-op*^ 0 u kl Invitational . 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