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fMJ) THE COURIER-JOURNAL LOUISVILLE, KY. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1988. fter Ti UK left with tears a i 1- :10 rashes with crusher at 0 way i I a thought an illegal procedure penalty should have been called against Alabama's line) climaxed an 86-yard, 10-play drive that Sutton had already brought from the dead once with a fourth-and-seven scramble for 17 yards. "That was probably the greatest play of all for them," Claiborne said. The touchdown came four plays after Alabama wide receiver Todd Richardson had out-jumped UK cornerback David Johnson for a 45-yard bomb at the Wildcats' 5 with 1:05 left.

For three plays the same UK defense that had held Alabama to one first down in its first six possessions stopped the Tide, but on fourth down Sutton faked a pitch left to tailback Murry Hill that drew the whole UK defense, See UK LEFT PAGE 7, col. 1, this section dible although the ache emanating from his words was clear. "Don't know when," Claiborne whispered. "Don't know when." It had been a wildly entertaining game in which UK led or was tied for 59 minutes and 50 seconds. The Wildcats jumped to a 17-0 halftime lead and a 27-16 margin with 9:39 remaining, and most of the 53,442 UK fans in Commonwealth Stadium thought finally, finally we're going to win the big one, but UK once again followed its warped tradition by coming from ahead to lose.

It took the Crimson Tide 24 fourth-quarter points to keep their 66-year winning streak over the Wildcats intact, and they accomplished it with one of college football's most pulsating comebacks of the season. The pass from Sutton to Newberry (on which Claiborne By SCOTT FOWLER Staff Writer LEXINGTON, Ky. The question posed to University of Kentucky football coach Jerry Claiborne floated silently in the air, much like the fourth-down, 3-yard touchdown pass that 'Alabama quarterback Vince Sutton had just lofted to tight end Gene Newberry with 10 seconds left to bury UK 31-27. Claiborne looked wearily down at the floor, knowing the true answer but not wanting to give it. A reporter had asked him when any loss had hurt this much and, as Claiborne's mind fast-forwarded through his 113 other career losses in 27 years as a head coach, he knew none of them ever had.

After a long pause Claiborne spoke softly, so softly that his 60-year-old voice was barely au 5, 4tV 'Bama needs heroes, finds 3 unlikely ones DRiVINQ FOR VICTORY Alabama begins drive. with 2:44 left and one timeout Yard line, down: Play, time left Alabama t4, 1-10: Vince Sutton throws incomplete pass, 2:38 Alabama 14, 2-10: Murry Hill off right tackle for 6, 2:30 Alabama 20, 3-4: 'Bama penalized 5 yards for illegal procedure, 2:30 Alabama 15, 3-9: Sutton throws screen pass to Kevin Turner for 2. 2:15 Alabama 17, 4-7: Sutton scrambles for 17. 1:50 Alabama 34, 1-10: Sutton throws complete to Howard Clark for 16, 1:23 (Kentucky calls its last timeout) 1-10, 50: Sutton fires 45 yards down the right sideline to Todd Richardson, who cutjumps David Johnson for the ball at the UK 5, 1:05 1- goal, 5: Pitch to Hill left side, no gain, 0:48 2- goal, 5: Sutton quarterback sneaks for 3, 0:35 3- goal, 2: Tony Massey drops Hill for minus-1, 0:15 (Alabama takes its final timeout, substitutes in tight end Gene Newberry for his first offensive play of the game) 4- goal, 3: Sutton fakes the sweep left to Hill, then turns and finds Newberry all alone for the winning TD, 0:10 By PAT FORDE Staff Writer LEXINGTON, Ky. Eighty-six yards away, three points down and two minutes and 44 seconds from defeat, Alabama put out an all-points bulletin for heroes.

Problem was, Candidate former Heisman Trophy candidate Bobby Humphrey, was in Tuscaloosa with his foot in a cast. And Candidate former starting quarterback David Smith, was on the sideline in street clothes with an injured knee. No problem. These are the situations in which Alabama always seems to find a new hero, a new way, to produce the same old result a victory. This time it was at the University of Kentucky's expense in a 31-27 thriller that turned a goal-post-breaker into a heart-breaker for the Commonwealth Stadium crowd.

Despite the adverse circumstances, you could almost sense it was going to happen. The Tide has rolled over See TIDE NEEDS PAGE 7, col. 1, this section r9tt? STAFF PHOTO BY JAMES WALLACE UK coach Jerry Claiborne found Alabama's winning touchdown hard to take. Gaudy (or was it Biondi?) swims in at 1:12, sinks Cards By RUSS BROWN Staff Writer HATTIESBURG, Miss. There had been nine fumbles in the quagmire otherwise known as Roberts Stadium, but the most slippery thing on the field in the final minutes last night was Southern Mississippi tailback Shelton Gandy.

The hard-running senior powered over from the 3-yard line with 1:12 remaining to give Southern Miss a wet and muddy 30-23 victory over Louisville after a heavy rain turned the football field into a swamp. Southern Miss (4-1) took over on its own 34 with about five minutes remaining and used 1 1 plays to move to the decisive touchdown. Gandy carried six times during the drive for 33 yards and finished with 110 yards in 29 tries. He also scored two other TDs on runs of I and 3 yards. Southern Miss quarterback Brett Favre said that the conditions were the worst he Because Gandy did it, the Golden Eagles were able to record their seventh straight victory over of and drop the Cardinals to 2-3 heading into Saturday's homecoming contest with Tulsa.

Southern Miss also denied of revenge for last year's humiliating 65-6 thumping at Cardinal Stadium, despite halfback Deon Booker's third 100-yard game in a row and a record-setting performance by See GANDY'S SCORE PAGE 6, col. this section had ever encountered and that he issued a warning to Gandy before the final march. "I told Shelton in the huddle that he'd have to hold on to the ball," Favre said. "He looked at me and kind of smiled like, 'You don't have to worry about To Gandy the weather might as well have seen sunny and dry. "You can't worry about whether the ball is wet or dry," he said.

"You just have to hold on to it. Every running back knows what I'm talking about. You don't think about it; you just do it." Corrections clarifications Walden employed "dirty tactics" against him. That was not the intent of the story. In a story Thursday about Atherton soccer player Chris Yankee, the juxtaposition of several paragraphs might have implied OLYMPIC MEDALS Soviets have the system to crank out the medals GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL Soviet Union 55 46 i 30 I RICK BOZICH SPORTS COLUMNIST East Germany 11 IE LI Z22 United States 35 f1 97 Pi SEOUL, South Korea Capitalism breathes in the strangest places.

Check the locker room of the Soviet Union's men's basketball team. On the morning after the Soviets dispatched Yugoslavia for the Olympic title, Valery Tikhonenko, a veteran forward, awaited the first $3,000 payment of the $20,200 bonus every Soviet champion earned for winning a gold medal in Seoul. A man wondered if Tikhonenko, 24, intended to take the money home to Moscow or spread a few dollars across Itaewon, the local bargainnight club center. "If there is time," Tikhonenko said, "I go shopping." His dark eyes danced. "I hope there is time." There certainly will be rubles and vodka flowing within the Soviet delegation.

With smaller bonuses also guaranteed for silver and bronze medalists, this Soviet team may take the Politbu- STAFF CHART BY JOANNE MESHEW ro's budget to the limit. The Big Red Machine certainly took the rest of the world to that point. The final numbers are not available, but they're unnecessary. We've already collected enough medal data to declare the Soviets the real heavyweight champions of the Olympic world. Choose your measurement.

Quantity in total medals, it's USSR (131), East Germany (102), USA (93). Or quality in gold medals, it's See SOVIETS PAGE 14, col. 1, this section Coach Alexander Gomelsky was tossed in the air by his team after the Soviet Union defeated Yugoslavia 76-63 Friday night to win the basketball gold medal in the Olympic Games in Seoul. ASSOCIATED PRESS Tainted decision against Jones spoils Maynard's golden bout Jones, at 19 the youngest member of the U.S. team, seemed in complete control as he rocked Park several times and made him take a standing eight count in the second round.

CompuBox, a company that keeps track of punches thrown and punches landed for NBC-TV, credited Jones with landing 86 punches to 32 for the Korean. The Hungarian and Soviet judges scored it 60-56 for Jones. But judges from Uruguay and Morocco each scored it 59-58 for Park. A Ugandan judge scored it 59-59 but tabbed Park. as the winner.

"My father wanted me at the Olympic Games. It was his dream to get a gold medal. It was my dream also to get a gold medal, but I think that's the end of the line for boxing. The only way I was going to turn pro was if I won the gold medal. I did my best, but sometimes your best don't do it for you." "I've never seen him shed a tear before and he was shedding tears, said Roy Jones a former pro middleweight who See MAYNARD PAGE 14, col.

1, this section The Americans in the crowd booed loudly and at the medal ceremony, when Jones got the silver for the U.S. team, some European journalists applauded him loudly. "I won all three rounds," Jones said. "What can I do? There's nothing I can do about it. To me, I'm a gold medalist.

To America, I'm a gold medalist." After the decision was announced, Jones put his face in his towel, obviously shocked and upset with the decision. "I thought I had beaten him to a point where I couldn't be robbed," Jones said. "Unfortunately, I was. and South Korea each won two. Asked how he it felt to win an Olympic gold medal, Maynard said, "I don't know what it actually feels like.

I'm trying to imagine what Roy Jones feels like." Jones, Maynard's teammate, lost a controversial decision to Park Si-hun of South Korea. Another American, Riddick Bowe, was stopped in the second round of the super-heavyweight final bout by Canada's Lennox Lewis. Jones scored at will with left hooks and right hands to the head of Park but still lost a 3-2 decision in the 156-pound final. Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea Andrew May-nard, an Army cook stationed at Fort Carson, won a battle of infighting over Nourmagomed Chanavazov of the Soviet Union today (last night EDT) and earned an Olympic boxing gold medal in the 178-pound class. Maynard, beating a steady tattoo on Chanavazov's body and head in close, scored a 5-0 decision and gave the U.S.

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