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GAMES EVENTS PEOPLE SECTION .2. SPORTS SUNDAY OCTOBER 16, 1994 CCt Cos AngeUs Slimed oi HIGHLIGHTS PRO FOOTBALL TODAY'S GAMES Bruins Sink to New Low in 23-14 Loss UCLA: Fifth consecutive defeat this one to Oregon State leave's Donahue's team in the conference cellar. Walters Fuels USC, 27-20, Past Stanford Trojans: Sophomore carries 31 times for 234 yards and two touchdowns. Johnson suffers ankle injury again. RAIDERS vs.

MIAMI By EARL GUSTKEY TIMES STAFF WRITER Site: Joe Robbie Stadium. Time: 10 a.m. PDT TV: Channel 4. Radio: KFI (640). Story: C2 12 Jo 1 -At is 3 By JIM HODGES TIMES STAFF WRITER It's still a four-speed offense with third gear missing, and, because of that, UCLA is looking up at the rest of the Pacific 10 Conference.

The Bruins lost for the fifth consecutive week, this time to Oregon State, 23-14, in a game at the Rose Bowl on Saturday that matched teams that were winless in the conference and looked like it. UCLA's mission was not necessarily victory, but avoiding a loss, which is not so much a matter of semantics as of approach to offense. The Beavers run the wishbone, seeking to grind out yardage on the ground, and did so because quarterback Don Shank-lin was able to pick the UCLA defense apart. Shanklin finished with 159 yards in 17 carries, including a 72-yard play that was the sixth-longest by an opponent in UCLA history and a five-yard run for the game's final touchdown. When he wasn't carrying the ball, he was pitching it to J.J.

Young, who scored the game's first touchdown on a 16-yard run and finished the night with 157 yards in 23 carries; fullback Sedrick Thomas, who bulled 12 times for 56 yards; and Cameron Reynolds, who scored on a one-yard dive to make it 16-6 and blocked all night for Young. Please see UCLA, C8 PALO ALTO-Shawn Walters doesn't look much like Marcus Allen, but his numbers are starting to. The USC sophomore tailback had another yard-plus game, including a 61 -yard touchdown run in the waning moments, a play that would prove decisive in a 27-20 Trojan victory over Stanford before 60,345 on Saturday. USC (4-2 overall, 3-1 in the Pacific 10) has now won two in a row on the road, both games decidedin the final minutes. This was another expensive victory, however.

The sprained right ankle that kept senior quarterback Rob Johnson out of last week's victory "at Oregon State was injured again, and once again his relief man, sophomore Brad Otton, came on lo become the winning quarterback. Johnson was injured when hit by linebacker Jason White with 8:40 left in the second quarter. At that point, he had completed seven of 10 passes for 109 yards and a touchdown. Otton, the 6-foot-6 sophomore transfer from Weber State, was 10 for 20 for 1 1 4 yards. Stanford (1-4-1, 0-3), lost despite a 27-for-44, 344-yard night by its senior quarterback, Steve Please see USC, C0 RAMS vs.

NEW YORK GIANTS Site: Anaheim Stadium. Time: 1 p.m. TV: Blacked out in L.A. Radio: KMPC (710). Story: C2 NFL Capsules: C14 COLLEGE FOOTBALL ROBERT DURELL Los Angeles Times "We wanted to take the pressure off the quarterbacks by getting first downs on the ground, and we did that," Shawn Walters said.

use STANFORD 27 20 In the End, It Proves to Be No Contest Auburn Wins 23 14 OREGON STATE UCLA AROUND THE NATION i Auburn (6) Florida (1) 36 33 17 6 urday at Florida Field. Why, asked Auburn's players with a smirk, did some Gator rocket scientist in the coaches' booth a.k.a. defensive coordinator Bob Pruett decide free safety Michael Gilmore could cover the Southeastern Conference's third-best wide receiver, Frank Sanders, one on one? Gilmore is listed at 5 feet 11, 180 pounds. He was a Rhodes Scholar finalist last year but is not to be confused with anyone who can actually jump. Sanders is 6-2, 200 pounds, and the player Florida Coach Steve Spurrier had identified earlier in the week as Auburn's go-to player, especially on lob passes.

So what happened? With 36 College football: Tigers capitalize on mismatch in Final minute and beat No. 1 Florida, 36-33. Unbeaten streak reaches 18. By GENE WOJCIECHOWSKI TIMES STAFF WRITER GAINESVILLE, stopped short of calling Florida's coaches stupid, but not by much. The words formed on their lips, the temptation to rip never more appealing than after the Tigers' last-minute 36-33 shocker over the No.

1-ranked Gators on Sat- i Nebraska (2) Kansas State (16) seconds to play, Auburn trailing by four points, the ball on the Florida eight-yard line, Sanders trotted into position and saw Gilmore poised in front of hirfi. Worse yet for the Gators, AuburVi quarterback Patrick Nix saw him too. Sanders sprinted for the ejid zone. Nix lofted the ball toward the left corner. Gilmore and the Gators died.

"I have to question their defensive strategy on that one," said Nix, who completed 28 of 1 passes for 319 yards and three touchdowns. "They put JGilmotfe) over Frank and blitzed us cln the eight-yard line. We caft't throw the ball too far down the Please see AUBURN, C7 1 31 24 iPennState (3) i Michigan (5) 45 7 Colorado (4) Oklahoma (22) 41 21 i Texas (7) i Baylor 35 14 i Washington (9) i Arizona State 17 13 Alabama (10) Tennessee nf I fv V1, VJ 1 i Colorado State (13) i Texas El Paso Penn State 47 9 10 7 0. i Arizona (14) Washington State (20) Arizona Is One Kick Better, 10-7 Has Its Way i North Carolina (15) i Maryland at Michigan i Brigham Young i Notre Dame (17) 41 17 21 14 27 20 14 3 Virginia Tech (19) i East Carolina o) By CHRIS DUFRESNE TIMES STAFF WRITER i Utah (21) i Hawaii Complete coverage: C4-11 NEWSWIRE By LONNIE WHITE TIMES STAFF WRITER PULLMAN, and Washington State played in a Pacific 10 Conference showdown Saturday that lived up to its billing. Defense, defense and more defense.

That's what was expected and that was what was played as Arizona held on to defeat the Cougars, 10-7, to take sole possession of first place in the Pac-10 before a standing-room-only crowd of 37,600 at Martin Stadi-Please see COUGARS, Cll ANN ARBOR, these teams were advertised as Big Ten identical twins'it was no surprise that Saturday's game came down to a quarterback throw-down featuring Collins vs. Collins, p- Michigan had Todd, Penn State had Kerry. i When all was said and ruia, Kerry made the play that counted and Todd didn't, helping third-ranked Penn State escape with Ja 31-24 victory over fifth-ranked Iii wl -T i Associated PresB BIG MONEY: Anfernee Har-daway signed a nine-year contract with Orlando, estimated at $70 million, one of the richest pacts in the NBA.C12 Penn State's Willie Smith (52) hits Michigan quarterback Todd Collins and causes a fumble that helped stop a late drive. I 1 Associated Press Frank Sanders, taking advantage of a mismatch against smaller Michael Gilmore, goes high to give the Tigers the upset victory. Please see MICHIGAN, When Events Dictate Coverage, All Suffer INDEX The Day in Sports C16-19 Horse Racing C15 JIM MURRAY 11 Line" While, basically, few things in the world of sport shock me anymore, I must confess to being taken aback by the actions of one of my favorite golfers, Tom Watson.

If you've been paying attention, you know that Watson is the poison-pen letter writer who started the chain of events that got announcer (and fellow golfer) Gary McCord fired from his post as one of the broadcasters of the Masters golf room not registered as a Repub- lican. But the shocking story is not that Watson objected to McCord's presence, it's that the Masters, acting on Watson's protest, got CBS to remove McCord. It's that the network acceded to pressure. First of all, it's a violation ol the Fourth Amendment, free-; dom of the press. McCord is entitled to the same Constitu- tional protection as, say, Arthur Krock would be.

Or George Will. Please see MURRAY, C19 I identify as a card-carrying member of the Moral Majority. Stanford graduate Watson has mostly been identified as one of the Liberal Minority on the golf tour, where the political persuasion of most players is to the right of Rush Limbaugh. Your average touring golfer is more interested in removing Bill Clinton than Gary McCord. Watson is one of the few in a golf locker Tom apparently sent the letter to the Masters chairman, Jackson Stevens and to McCord's bess, network golf producer Frank Chirkinian complaining about McCord's commentary and likening him to shock jock Howard Stern and urging, "Get rid of him now." Now, what makes this extraordinary is that Tom Watson has never been one you might Dial 808-8463 To use The Times' 24-hour news and information service, call 808-8463 from the 213, 310, 714, 818 or 909 area codes, then press the key and a four-digit code.

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