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NCAA Baseball Sun Devils Former Arizona State shortstop Dustin Pedroia was named the Boston Red Sox Minor League Offensive Player of the Year. Pedroia hit .293 with 28 doubles, three triples and 13 home runs and drove in 64 runs while splitting time between Double-A Portland and Triple-A Pawtucket. THE HOME TEAMS NFL Cardinals The team named Maricopa running back Adrian Fierro Cardinals High School Player of the Week for his 286-yard, six-touchdown performance against San Pasqual. Mesa Westwood coach Roger Suchomel was named Coach of the Week for his team's 24-7 victory over St. Mary's.

More Cardinals, CI, C11 NBA Suns Dusty Driggs, a New Orleans University point guard who lost his belongings and was displaced along with all his teammates by Hurricane Katrina, told his hometown paper, the Kokomo (Indiana) Tribune that the Seattle Super-Sonics and the Suns "are going to provide clothes for the entire team, which is pretty unusual." NHL Coyotes Evidently unimpressed by the Heat Index's suggestions, the team is asking fans to name their new mascot in a "Name the Mascot" contest. Visit or mail your entry to Phoenix Coyotes, 5800 W. Glenn Drive 350, Glendale, AZ 85301. Winner will get four seats on the glass to the Oct. 29 against Dallas.

More Coyotes, C3 Jul uah) THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 29, 2005 C2 LOCAL CALENDAR MM 4 4 nau D.HSSSD Produced by Bob Young The AtiAjiui RrpubU 3 burning issues The top-ranked Trojans can be beaten by following this foolproof Heat Index Game Plan. 2. Ponder this: Is a loss still a loss if nobody sees it? 3. We got the pow-er! ViVimrC Radio: Radio: FOOTBAU. 620 AM 620.860 AM Radio: Radio: 1400 AM- 710 AM" 1060 AM 620,860 AM (spjnish)' (Spanish)" 93.3 FM Tickets: Tickets: Tickets: Tickets: 602.514.8400 602.379.0102 480.5637825 480.965.2381 Today Sunday Friday Saturday LA Dodgers vs.

San Fran. San Jose USC 7:10 p.m. ffMencoCiiy 7:30 p.m. 12:30 p.m. Ch.3 Ch.

3. ESPN Ch.15 Friday Oct. 9 Saturday Oct 8 San Francisco Carolina Anaheim Oregon 7:15 p.m. 115 p.m. 7Pm 7:15 p.m.

Ch.3 FSNAZ FOOTBALL FOOTBALL Radio: Radio: 960 AM 1060 AM Tickets: Tickets: 1.800.452.2287 1.800.523.5661 Saturday Saturday California Sacramento St. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. TBS KAZ-TV Oct. 8 Oct 8 USC E.

Washington 12:30 p.m. 3 p.m. FSNAZ KAZ-TV Oct IS Oct. 22 Stanford Portland St. 4 p.m.

6 p.m. 9" Saturday Oct. 23 San Francisco Tennessee 1:05 p.m. 1:15 p.m. Wednesday Vancouver 7 p.m.

FSNAZ Oct. 22 Stanford 2 p.m. TVTBA TBA to be announced. -home game. (DH)--doubleheader.

preseason game. TODAY'S TV A A I Jff 11 EVENT TIME TV BASEBALL White Sox at Tigers 10 a.m. ESPN Diamondbacks at Dodgers 7 p.m. Ch. 3 COLLEGE FOOTBALL Air Force at Colorado State 4:30 p.m.

ESPN GOLF Dunhill Links Champ. cont. from 5:30 a.m. 6 a.m. GOLF PGA Chrysler Classic of Greensboro 4p.m.' TD.USA Dunhill Links Championship (Fri.) 5:30 a m.

GOLF HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL Maryvale at Peoria Centennial 7 p.m. COX 7 MOTORSPORTS NASCAR Nextel Cup replay noon TSPEED FRIDAY'S TV EVENT TIME TV BASEBALL Yankees at Red Sox 4 p.m. ESPN Diamondbacks at Giants 7 p.m. 3 BOXING Johnson vs. Jones light heavyweight 7:30 p.m.

FSNAZ COLLEGE FOOTBALL Pittsburgh at Rutgers 5 p.m. ESPN2 GOLF Dunhill Links Champ. cont. from 5:30 a.m. 6 a.m.

GOLF Champions SAS Championship 10:30 a.m. GOLF LPGA Office Depot Championship 1:30 p.m. GOLF PGA Chrysler Classic of Greensboro 4 p.m. TD.USA Dunhill Links Championship (Sat.) 5:30 a.m. GOLF HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL Mesa Mountain View at Tucson Sunnyside 7 p.m.

COX 7 MOTORSPORTS NASCAR Nextel Cup UAW-Ford 500 qual. 1 p.m. SPEED Mm i EZRA O. SHAWALLSPORT Maybe the Sun Devils can get Southern California coach Pete Carroll to revert to his days with the New England Patriots on Saturday. A game plan way outside the box We've read enough of this stuff Whew! And you thought there was a lack of interest in the Cardinals down in Mexico City.

Power Outage We're a little confused about a list of 30 Arizona sports "Power Brokers" that appears in the September issue of Arizona Sports and Leisure magazine. Jerry Colangelo is ranked No. 1, which makes perfect sense if you're looking at who has put us where we're at today. Daily listings start at 6 a.m. Listings are for TV and cable only.

Satellite programming may vary. TD tape-delayed. taped. TV channels are listed numerically, cable by channel name. Spanish broadcast.

Cox and most cable companies delay sports broadcasts on USA network. However, some providers including satellite TV will broadcast live. Consult your provider. OTHER EVENTS Today Horse racing: Simulcast only, at Turf Paradise, 9 a.m. Women's soccer: Brigham Young at Arizona State, 7 p.m.

Dog racing: Live, at Phoenix Greyhound Park, 7:30 p.m. Friday Horse racing: Live, at Turf Paradise, 12:25 p.m. Women's soccer Cal State Bakersfield at Grand Canyon, 5 p.m. Auto racing: Super stocks and factory stocks, at Manzanita, 7:30 p.m. Dog racing: Live, at Phoenix Greyhound Park, 7:30 p.m.

OTHER RADIO Sports Illustrated covers inside Bush's locker next to Reggie's measly two. Since Leinart reportedly has been linked romantically to Jessica Simpson's assistant CaCee Cobb, USC hoopster Brynn Cameron, Charmed actress Alyssa Milano and Kristin Cavalleri of MTV's La-guna Beach, arrange to have all four flown in for the game and seated next to each other. Let's see him audible out of that one. Remodel visitors locker room at Sun Devil Stadium into exact replica of New England Patriots home locker room, where Pete Carroll went from 10-6 to 9-7 to 8-8 to out the door. Arrange another flyover for start of second half with banner that reads: "Hey, Reggie! If Dennis Green doesn't get Leinart, he's going to draft YOU." Borrow Cal uniforms for Sun Devils.

Place sticky note on Dirk Koetter's game plan: "No fake punts!" When ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit predicts a big USC victory, do not at any cost allow Lee Corso to pull a Sparky Sun Devil head from beneath the GameDay desk, place it upon his shoulders and utter the most damning words a football team can hear: "Not so fast, my friend." Barely a blip Last Sunday's Patriots- Steelers NFL game drew fc ,1 a 10.2 rating and 20 share JL, in the Valley. TttjflJl Meanwhile, the Cardi-rvicMAi nals-Seahawks game drew UiirVlAL anemjc 6 4 rating and 13 share. about "How to beat the Trojans." It's always, "Stop Reggie Bush" or "Establish your own running game" or "Pray to heaven that Matt Leinart doesn't go for 550." Hey, that X's and O's stuff hasn't worked in 25 straight games. Heck, Oklahoma is still so shell-Trp shocked from the Orange Bowl that the Sooners are playing like Slippery fe. .1 Rock.

No, if our Arizona State SIZZLIN boys are going to pull off the Upset of the 21st Century, we need to think outside the box, and we don't mean where the defensive linemen and linebackers line up. Fortunately here at the Heat Index, we live outside the box. We've got a game plan for the underdog Sun Devils that could lead to the worst day in USC history since O.J. was spotted in the back seat of that white Bronco. It goes something like this: On the night before the game, have copies of Playboy's "Girls of the Pac-10" issue dropped off at each Trojan's hotel room by all those ASU coeds who appear in it.

Arrange a first-quarter flyby towing a banner that reads, "Hey, Leinart, keep it up and you'll be playing half your games in Glendale next season." Bring in the Pittsburgh Steelers timekeeper. If he can add 52 seconds to a game, maybe we can get him to lose 52 minutes. That ought to keep it closer. Place a stack of Leinart's six DICEY But Arizona State Athletic Director Lisa Love is ranked 19th, and she just got here. Ken Kendrick, the Diamondbacks managing partner is ranked 23rd.

Didn't he oust Colangelo? Jeff Moorad, the CEO and general partner of the Diamondbacks who works for Kendrick, is ranked eighth. Robert Sarver, who owns the Suns and for whom Colangelo now works, is ranked No. 9. We do get a kick out of Arizona Republic sports columnist Dan Bickley being ranked ahead of ASU's Koetter. That's got to sting.

We also noticed that Bill Bidwill, who owns the Cardinals, didn't make the list but his son Michael, and his coach, Green, are on it. The elder Bidwill's probably the only one of the three who could not care less. However, we're a little miffed that Harold Slemmer, the executive director of the Arizona Interscholastic Association, made the list and somehow the Heat Index was overlooked. Friday High school football: Goldwater at North Canyon, 7 p.m., (860) NFL ON TV Time Channel This week's games Sunday Chargers at Patriots Sunday Rams at Giants Sunday Cowboys at Raiders Sunday 49ers vs. Cardinals Monday Packers at Panthers 5 10 10 3, ESPN 15 10 a.m.

10 a.m. 1 p.m. 5:30 p.m. 6 p.m. BRIEFS Wheels fall off Champ Car's event in South Korea The Champ Car World Series called off its Grand Prix of An-san, scheduled for Oct.

16 in South Korea, a blow for a series struggling to regain its place in the top echelon of racing. But series Executive Vice President Joe Chrnelich said Wednesday that dropping the race, even two weeks before the event, is not a big setback for the American-based open-wheel series. "At first blush it would appear to be a step backward, but what it really demon strates is that we are going to do whatever it takes to ensure that every Champ Car race is a world-class event," he said More auto racing A race car that killed two spectators when it crashed into the bleachers last month at the Mwjnt Vernon (111 Raceway has been found to be mechanically sound even though the driver said its throttle stuck, an investigator said. Illinois State Police Trooper Les Vancil told the Associated Press he believes the quarter-mile dirt track's high banking "definitely was a safety issue" that contributed to the car hurtling over a retaining wall and through a chain-link fence. NBA Center Vlade Divac remains an unknown in Lakers plans, although a decision on his status could be extended beyond a Friday deadline, Divac's agent said.

The Bucks signed free agents Andre Barrett and Tommy Smith. Terms were not disclosed. Smith, a fVToot 10 forward from North High and Arizona State, averaged 13 4 points and six rebounds last season for the Yakima Sun Kings iS the CBA. Wizards nx)kie Aodray Blatchc will miss that will play Australia on Oct. 16.

The roster also features gold medalists Heather Mitts, Cat Reddick, Shannon Boxx, Aly Wagner, Angela Hucles and Abby Wambach. In addition, forward Tiffeny Milbrett returns. Wrestling Turkey's Aydin Polatci won the gold medal in the 264 pound freestyle class at the Wrestling World Championships at Budapest, Hungary. Tolly Thompson of the United States won a bronze medal in the event, beating Kuramagomed Kurama-gomedov of Russia. Arena football The New Orleans VooDoo will not play the Arena Football league season because of damage to the New Orleans Arena from Hurricane Katrina.

Wire srfvices training camp while he recovers from gunshot wounds from an attempted carjacking. The Grizzlies signed rookie free-agent guard Kennedy Winston. Tennis Defending champion Roger Federer advanced to the second round of the Thailand Open, defeating Marcos Daniel 7-6 (3), 6-4 at Bangkok. Lleyton Hewitt of Australia also won his first-round match, defeating Lukas Dlouhy fr3, 3 6, 7 5. Top-seeded Kim Clijsters beat Klara Koukalova 6-3, 6-0 to reach the quarterfinals of the Fortis Championships at Luxembourg, Belgium.

Top-seeded Jeiena Jankovic beat Scott sdale's Meghann Shaughnessy 7-6 (2), 6-2 in the Korea Open at Seoul, South Korea. Zina Garrison will remain captain of the U.S. Fed Cup team through 2(KK. Mariano Puerta, Thomas Johansson and Radek Stepanek advanced at the Vietnam Open in Ho Chi Minn City. Colleges The North Dakota Fighting Sioux will remain on the list of college nicknames the NCAA doesn't want used in postseason play.

The university's appeal was rejected by an NCAA review committee because it did not have the support of the three federally recognized Sioux tribes of North Dakota. Josh Betts passed for 359 yards and three touchdowns, leading Miami (Ohio) to a 44 16 victory over Cincinnati at Oxford, Ohio. Soccer Eight 2004 Olympic gold medalists, including veterans Kristine Lilly and were chosen to the IfcS. squad ictrViiTtri do tec Defending champion Roger Fe-derer (above) of Switzerland defeated Marcos Dao.el of Brazil on Wednesday in t1. first round of the Thailand Opei in Bangkok.