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2F NFL Tuesday, October 30, 2001 Montgomery Advertiser The Bus, Burress pound Titans' defense MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL: STEELERS 34, TITANS 7 SX tw flpL The Associated Press PITTSBURGH A whole lot of Jerome Bettis and Plaxico Burress and a new-found bag of tricks kept the surprising Pittsburgh Steelers in first place and put the Tennessee Titans in big, big trouble. Bettis ran for two short-range touchdowns and the Steelers, helped by two grievous B07U errors by Ten- 4 nessee reserve With Eddie George hobbling on a hyperextended left knee that limited him to 13 yards on 10 carries, the Titans didn't have enough offense to keep up as Steve McNair went 14-of-27 for 175 yards and was intercepted twice. The Steelers, who had easily driven down the field on their opening possession for Bettis' 1-yard touchdown run, pushed it to 17-7 at the half on Brown's 42-yard field goal just before halftime. Brown kept that drive going by running for 6 yards on a fourth-and-5 play, but wound up kicking a field goal anyway. Pittsburgh also scored on its opening drive of the second half, with Burress' stolen catch setting up Bettis' 7-yard touchdown run.

Brown later kicked another field goal, and Stewart scored on a 2-yard run before leaving early in the fourth quarter. kles as the Steelers (5-1) stayed atop the AFC Central by beating the defending champion Tennessee (2-4) for the first time in eight games since 1997. The Steelers ran kicker Kris Brown, a former high school quarterback, for a first down on a fake field goal, and had wide receiver Hines Ward also a former QB throw a pass into the end zone that fell just beyond Burress. But their best trick was getting the long-missing Burress, their 2000 first-round draft choice and a huge disappointment until now, heavily involved in an offense in which Kordell Stewart picked on the NFL's next-to-worst pass defense for only his second 200-yard game in two years. Stewart was 13-of-22 for 232 yards, threw for a touchdown and ran for another.

Bettis didn't get to 100 yards he got 62 yards as Tennessee held him below 100 yards for the ninth straight time but Burress did, making six catches for 151 yards in his first career 100-yard game. He punctuated every catch by dropping to his knee and signaling a first down as the Steelers improved to 9-0 in Monday night home games under coach Bill Cowher. Burress' best catch, a 43-yarder early in the third' quarter that set up Bettis' second touchdown run, was a ball he stole out of Phenix's hands as the Titans safety appeared to make an interception, only to juggle the ball away. It was the second big mistake by Phenix, who is on his second tour of duty with Ten nessee this season after being cut by Carolina and Cleveland. Phenix was playing only because Blaine Bishop has a left foot injury and, judging from Titans coach Jeff Fisher's look of disgust and angry words when Phenix gave the ball away, he might not be playing for them by next week.

Phenix's biggest mistake, however, came when he was called for a drive-extending personal foul penalty on a third-and-9 play in the second quarter with the score tied at 7. Rather than attempting a 52-yard field goal or punting, the Steelers got a first down at the Titans 20, and it took them only four plays to score as Stewart hit Bobby Shaw for 19 yards ahead of a 3-yard scoring pass to Ward that made it 14-7. mv ueiensive uacK ft! 11 Perry Phenix, JJ ended a nearly four-vear losing The Associated Press streak against the Titans with an unexpectedly one-sided 34-7 victory Monday night. A Pittsburgh offense that was Bettis, Bettis and more Bettis until Monday showed off some surprising new wrin- Pittsburgh running back Jerome Bettis ran over Tennessee's defense Monday night to cruise to victory. SCOREBOARD Sports briefing READERS SOUND OFF! 5.

Texas 6. Michigan 7. Tennessee 8. Oregon 9. UCLA 10.

Stanford 7-1 1,522 7 6- 1 1,374 8 5- 1 1,323 9 7- 1 1,218 11 6- 1 1,214 4 5- 1 1,074 20 6- 1 1,012 13 11. Washington New Jersey at Boston, 6 p.m. Cleveland at Charlotte, 6 p.m. Toronto at Miami, 7 p.m. Indiana at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

Golden State at Portland, 9 p.m. Thursday's games Washington at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m. Detroit at Memphis, 7 p.m. Dallas at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. LA.

Clippers at Houston, 7:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Utah, 8 p.m. Milwaukee at Denver, 8 p.m. San Antonio at Seattle, 9 p.m.

Phoenix at Golden State, 9:30 p.m. 12. Virginia Tech 6-1 981 5 13. BYU 8-0 972 16 14. Florida St.

5-2 822 19 15. Maryland 7-1 659 10 16. Washington St. 7-1 605 14 17. South Carolina 6-2 598 12 18.

Georgia 5-2 462 15 Just call 240-9255, and in a few sentences, let us have it. All responses must include name and phone number for verification. Responses will be printed on Sunday. Or write: The Advertiser, 200 Washington, Montgomery, AL 36105; fax (334)261-1548. HOCKEY 19.

Syracuse 7-2 459 20. Purdue 5-1 428 24 21. Illinois 6-1 406 22 22. North Carolina 5-3 319 23 23. Georgia Tech 5-2 316 21 24.

Texas A8.M 7-1 279 25. Coloraoo 6-2 218 25 Others receiving votes: Mississippi 200, Auburn 1 10, Clemson 32, Michigan St. 21, Louisville 19, Fresno St. 17, Toledo 8, Marshall 6, Boston College 5, LSU 5, Iowa St. 3, Miami (Ohio) 2.

27. Billy Mayfalr 28 $1,633,002 28. Stewart Cink 28 81,624,028 29. Steve Strieker 19 81,588,229 30. Kenny Perry 25 $1,583,566 31.

Jesper Parnevik 25 81,574,208 32. Kevin Sutherland 30 51,523,573 33. Paul Azlnger 20 $1,509,130 34. Jose Coceres 19 $1,502,888 35. Jerry Kelly 30 81,482,247 36.

Rocco Mediate 21 $1,474,435 37. Shiaekl Maruyama 27 $1,441,455 38. Kirk Triplet! 25 $1,366,842 39. Tom Pernlce, Jr. 32 $1,313,866 40.

Billy Andrade 26 81,313,047 41. Brian Gay 31 $1,293,329 42. Nick Price 20 $1,286,756 43. Steve Flesch 32 $1,207,552 44. Chris Riley 29 $1,186,865 45.

Joel Edwards 29 $1,176,568 46. Retlef Goosen 10 81,126,985 47. BobTway 28 $1,116,746 48. Fred Funk 32 81,073,804 49. Robert Damron 27 81,059,187 50.

Rory Sabbatlnl 23 81,038,590 51. Dudley Hart 25 (1,035,710 52. John Cook 53. Stuart Appleby 29 $1,004,528 54. J.J.

Henry 27 $1,001,247 55. Tim Herron 29 (945,441 56. Lee Jonzen 28 $896,268 57. Mark Brooks 26 $894,716 58. Brett Qulgley 20 $860,934 59.

Chris Smith 29 $860,210 60. John Daly 25 $828,914 61. Olln Browne 30 $815,636 62. Dennis Paulson 25 $811,105 63. Harrison Frazar 24 $792,456 64.

Briny Balrd 30 $779,521 65. Skip Kendall 32 $748,349 66. Paul Stonkowskl 27 (743,603 67. Matt Gogel 26 (729,783 68. K.J.

Choi 28 $727,726 69. David Gossett 14 $726,766 70. Brent Geiberger 25 $711,194 71. Glen Day 27 $706,420 72. Jeff Maggert 26 $698,647 73.

Greg Chalmers 27 $692,170 74. David Berganio, Jr. 25 $665,082 75. Jonathan Kaye 33 $683,210 Today's sports Top 25 schedule Thursday's games No. 13 BYU vs.

Colorado State, 8:45 p.m. No. 22 North Carolina at No. 23 Georgia Tech, 6:30 p.m. ON THE AIR Saturday's games 1 Miami vs.

Temple, 1 1 am. 2 Nebraska at Kansas, 6 p.m. 3 Oklahoma vs. Tulsa, 2 p.m. 4 Florida vs.

Vanderbllt, 1 1:30 am. 5 Texas at Baylor, 1 1:30 am. 6 Michigan at Michigan State, 2:30 7 Tennessee at Notre Dame, 1:30 8 Oregon vs. Arizona State, 9:15 p.m. No.

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No. 21 Illinois, 1 1 am. 24 Texas at Texas Tech, 1 p.m. 25 Colorado vs. Missouri, 2 p.m.

NHL standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division OL Pts GF GA N.Y. Islanders 8 0 1 1 18 36 21 N.Y. Rangers 6 5 1 0 13 30 39 Philadelphia 4 3 3 0 11 34 28 Pittsburgh 4 5 1 1 10 25 31 New Jersey 4 3 0 1 9 23 24 Northeast Division OL Pts GF GA Toronto 6 3 1 1 14 35 27 Boston 5 3 3 1 14 26 22 Buffalo 5 5 1 1 12 30 31 Montreal 5 4 1 0 11 26 25 Ottawa 5 6 1 0 11 37 33 Southeast Division OL Pts GF GA Carolina 6 4 0 2 14 31 32 Washington 5 5 1 0 11 29 28 Tampa Bay 4 5 1 0 9 22 23 Atlanta 3 3 1 2 9 21 26 Florida 2 6 2 1 7 22 34 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division OL Pts GF GA Detroit 9 2 0 0 18 37 27 Chicago 6 3 3 0 15 38 32 St. Louis 4 3 3 0 11 30 26 Nashville 3 6 2 0 8 25 31 Columbus 1 6 4 0 6 20 37 Northwest Division OL Pts GF GA Calgary 8 2 0 2 18 35 25 Edmonton 8 4 1 0 17 41 31 Colorado 7 5 0 0 14 33 28 Minnesota 3 2 3 1 10 25 28 Vancouver 3 8 1 0 7 34 40 Pacific Division OL Pts GF GA San Jose 4 3 3 1 12 26 29 Dallas 4 4 2 2 12 28 31 Phoenix 4 3 2 1 11 21 23 Anaheim 4 6 1 0 9 23 31 Los Angeles 3 6 1 2 9 31 31 Two points for a win, one point for a tie and overtime loss. Sunday's results N.Y.

Islanders 3, Dallas 2 (OT) Carolina 3, Los Angeles 2 (OT) Florida 2, Pittsburgh 2 (tie) Boston 3, Chicago 3 (tie) Colorado 3, Anaheim 2 Monday's result N.Y. Rangers 4, Dallas 2 Today's games Phoenix at Buffalo, 6 p.m. New Jersey at Boston, 6 p.m. Florida at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 6 p.m. Detroit at Carolina, 6 p.m. Ottawa at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m. Tampa Bay at Toronto, 6:30 p.m. Minnesota at Nashville, 7 p.m.

Lps Angeles at Chicago, 7:30 p.m. Montreal at Edmonton, 8 p.m. Columbus at Vancouver, 9 p.m. Wednesday's games Florida at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m. St. Louis at Colorado, 7 p.m. Nashville at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Detroit at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

San Jose at Anaheim, 9:30 p.m. TENNIS ATP money leaders Through Oct. 28 1. Gustavo Kuerten $2,312,104 2. Lleyton Hewitt $2,233, 1 1 8 3.

Andre Agassi $1,861,766 4. Yevgeny Kafelnikov $1,585,889 5. Patrick Rafter $1,580,592 6. Juan Carlos Ferrero $1,501,421 7. Tommy Haas $1,234,640 8.

Marat Safin $1,089,452 9. Pete Sampras (994,331 10. Goran Ivanisevic (987,540 11. TlmHenman (901,199 12. Max Mlrnyl (866,069 13.

Roger Federer $847,925 1 4. Albert Portas $802,804 1 5. Alex Corretlo $786,652 16. Sebastlen Groslean (784,584 17. Jonas Blorkman $780,476 1 8.

Jan-Michael Gamblll $765,976 19. Andrei Pavel (756,514 20. Arnaud Clement $750,849 21. Jlrl Novak $749,393 22. Andy Roddick $729,004 23.

Sleng Scholken $693,680 24. Nicolas Lapenttl $655,857 25. Thomas Johansson $639,742 COLLEGE FOOTBALL East Carolina at TCU, espn2, 7 p.m. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL World Series, Game 3, Arizona at N.Y. Yankees, WCOW FOX, 7 p.m.

NBA Washington at New York, TBS, 6:30 p.m. Atlanta at Houston, Fox Sports Net, 7:30 p.m. Portland at LA. Lakers, TBS, 9:30 p.m. SOCCER UEFA Champions League, group phase 1, matchday 6, Liverpool vs.

BV Borussia Dortmund, at Liverpool, England, ESPN, 1:30 p.m. TENNIS Women's, Sanex Championships, early round coverage, at Munich, Germany, espn2, 7 a.m. Women's, Sanex Championships, early round coverage, at Munich, Germany (same-day tape), espn2, 10 p.m. TV TALK SHOWS Prime Time Sports, John Longshore and Roger Shultz, WMPV-TV 3 (Charter Communications Channel 3), 6 p.m. RADIO TALK SHOWS The Starting Lineup with John Longshore and Barry McKnight, WMSP-AM 740, 6 a.m.

The Wake-Up Call with Michael Butler and Timm Timmer-man, WTLS-AM 1300, 6:30 a.m. MorningLine with Doug Amos and Jim Fyffe, WACV-AM 1170, 7 a.m. The Tony Kornheiser Show, WMSP-AM 740, 9 a.m. The Jungle with Jim Rome, WMSP-AM 740, 11 a.m. The Dan Patrick Show, WMSP-AM 740, 2 p.m.

The Paul Finebaum Radio Network, 3 p.m. SportsCall, WQNR-FM 99.9, WAUD-AM 1230, 4 p.m. The Alabama Sports Page with Chris Stewart and Ray Me-lick, WTLS-AM 1300, 4 p.m. Conference Call with Tim Brando and Terry Bowden, WMSP-AM 740, 6 p.m. ESPN GameNight, WMSP-AM 740, 8 p.m.

The Alabama SportsPage, WAUD-AM 1230, 8 p.m. ESPN Morning Show with Tony Bruno and Mike Golic, WMSP-AM 740, 5 a.m. WTATour money leaders Through Oct. 28 I.Venus Williams $2,522, l. jennirer lapnan 1 4 1 GOLF COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL Lady Eagles fall to Martin Methodist Hannah Kilpatrick had 15 kills and Britney Hough had 29 digs, as Faulkner (25-12) lost to Martin Methodist 35-33, 22-30, 30-20, 30-22 in Pulaski, Monday.

Tanya Jones followed with 11 kills and Carrie Johnson had 26 assists. The Lady Eagles travel to New Orleans to take on Loyola and Dillard in a tri-match Saturday. WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL Firm sponsors SEC TV games Worldspan, an Atlanta-based travel technology firm, will be the official sponsor of all Southeastern Conference women's athletic events televised beginning Thursday, the league announced Monday. Worldspan, which provides technology for travel agents and Internet travel companies, will be featured on all women's events televised as part of the SEC TV package. These include regular season and conference championship events in soccer, volleyball, basketball, gymnastics, softball, golf, tennis, track and Field and swimming and diving.

Financial details were not released. TENNIS Rusedski's season ends early Greg Rusedski ended his last tournament of the season with a first-round exit Monday, losing 7-6 (3), 6-4 to Belgium's Xavier Malisse at the Paris Masters. In other action, Ecuador's Nicolas Lapentti saved a match point before beating French qualifier Anthony Dupuis 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5), 7-5, while Sweden's Andreas Vinciguerra defeated Spain's Tommy Robredo 3-6, 6-1, 6-2. The $2.95 million Paris Masters is the last tournament before the season-ending Masters Cup in Sydney and could help determine the final places for the Nov. 12-18 event.

Germany was picked Monday to replace the United States in next week's Fed Cup finals in Madrid. The two-time defending champion Americans, citing security risks, withdrew last week from the top team event in women's tennis. Argentina, Australia, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Russia and Spain complete the eight-team field for the Nov. 7-11 competition. Germany was selected by the International Tennis Federation to replace the United States because it has the highest ranking of the four teams which lost Fed Cup playoff ties.

The others were Slovakia, Italy and Switzerland. CYCLING Team inquiry yields no evidence Tests on Lance Armstrong's team from the 2000 Tour de France have so far revealed no evidence of doping, a French judicial official said Monday. U.S. Postal says it respects anti-doping rules and Armstrong, who this year won his third straight Tour title, has repeatedly denied taking banned substances. He has never failed a drug test but has been dogged by suspicions.

Franchi said the tests looked for all doping substances, including EPO, a banned performance-enhancer that was at the center of a drug scandal that nearly wrecked the 1998 Tour. HOCKEY Lemieux undergoes surgery Mario Lemieux had arthroscopic hip surgery Monday and is expected to miss the next 3-to-4 weeks of the season. The Penguins announced Monday that Dr. Marc Philippon of the UPMC Center for Sports Medicine in Pittsburgh operated on Lemieux as an outpatient, removing torn and damaged cartilage from his hip. Lemieux first noticed the pain during a Sept.

22 exhibition game and missed three games because of the injury. Recent tests indicated evidence of torn cartilage. The 36-year-old Lemieux left Saturday's game in Toronto after playing less than seven minutes. CROSS COUNTRY Trojan named Freshman of the Year Chris Batista was named the men's freshman runner of the year after his sixth-place finish this past week at the Atlantic Sun Conference Championship meet. Batista ran a personal best in the men's 8K race to better his mark by more than 40 seconds.

Batista was named to the All-Conference team as well to the All-Freshman team. Troy State will compete in the NCAA South Region Championships on Nov. 10 in Birmingham. Arkansas again dominated the Southeastern Conference cross country championships Monday, winning the men's title for the 11th straight year and the women's for the fourth straight. Alabama's David Kimani won his second consecutive SEC individual title, while Arkansas' Adreina Byrd came in first in the women's run.

Arkansas, which claimed five of the top eight finishers in the race, won the men's championship with a point total of 24 and an average time of 24:18.74. Alabama was second with 85 points and an average time of 25:02.06. In the women's race, Arkansas had the first two and three of the first six finishers to win easily with 35 points and an average time of 19:49.29. Tennessee was second with 71 points and an average time of 20:16.85. From staff, wire reports World golf ranking 3.

Lindsay Davenport $1,550, 4. Martina Hingis 5. Serena Williams $1,336, 6. Kim Clusters $1,127, 7. Jeleno Doklc $1,058, 8.

Justine Henin $898, 9. Amelie Mauresmo $822, 10. Lisa Raymond $796, 11. Nathalie Tauzlat $733, 12. Sandrlne Testud $559, 13.

Monica Seles $552, 14. Meghann Shaughnessy $547, 15. Rennae Stubbs $536, 16. Arantxa Sancher-Vlcario $512, 17. Elena Dementleva $508, 18.

Elena Likhovtseva $497, 19. Amanda Coetzer $452, 20. Magdalena Maleevo $435, 21. PaolaSuarei $427, 22. Silvia Farina Ella $426, 23.

Al Suglyama $413, 24. Anke Huber $396, 25. Barbara Schett $395, Division l-AA poll PHILADELPHIA The top 25 teams In the Sports Network Division l-AA football poll, with first-place votes In parentheses, records through Oct. 28, points and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Montana (61) 7-1 2,315 2 2.

Furman(23) 6-1 2,272 3 3. Grumbling State (8) 7-0 2,022 6 4. Georgia Southern (2) 7-1 1,983 1 5. Hofstra 7-1 1,951 7 6. Eastern Illinois 6-1 1,805 9 7.

Western Kentucky 6-2 1,801 10 8. Lehigh (1) 7-0 1,767 8 9. Rhode Island 7-1 1,472 4 10. Yaungstown State 6-2 1,440 5 11. Appalachian State 5-3 1,416 12 12.

Northwestern State 6-2 1,319 15 13. McNeese State 5-3 1,110 17 14. North Carolina AS.T 6-1 990 19 15. Tennessee State 6-1 943 13 16. Northern Iowa 6-2 904 11 17.

Northern Arizona 6-2 811 21 18. Pennsylvania 60 763 20 19. Sam Houston State 6-2 717 14 20. Florida 6-2 618 23 21. Eastern Washington 5-2 342 22.

Stephen F. Austin 4-3 303 24 23. Western Illinois 4-3 300 16 24. Maine 5-2 219 25. Eastern Kentucky 5-2 206 NR NFL standings AMERICAN CONFERENCE East Pet PF PA Miami 4 2 0 .667 130 131 N.Y.

Jets 4 3 0 .571 141 166 Indianapolis 3 3 0 .500 170 183 New England 3 4 0 .429 161 150 Buffalo 1 5 0 .167 108 165 Central Pet PF PA Pittsburgh 5 1 0 .833 110 65 Cleveland 4 2 0 .667 111 91 Baltimore 4 3 0 .571 128 119 Cincinnati 4 3 0 .571 120 1 36 Jacksonville 2 4 0 .333 90 87 Tennessee 2 4 0 .333 101 156 West Pet PF PA Oakland 5 1 0 .833 151 105 San Diego 5 2 0 .714 179 114 Denver 4 3 0 .571 164 144 Seattle 3 3 0 .500 104 131 Kansas City 1 6 0 .143 139 152 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East Pet PF PA Philadelphia 3 3 0 .500 124 91 N.Y. Giants 3 4 0 .429 121 116 Arizona 2 4 0 .333 92 145 Dallas 2 4 0 .333 92 120 Washington 2 5 0 .286 84 179 Central Pet PF PA Chlcaoo 5 1 0 .833 135 74 Green Bay 4 2 0 .667 147 85 Tampa Bay 3 3 0 .500 119 98 Minnesota 3 4 0 .429 138 165 Detroit 0 6 0 .000 97 176 West Pet PF PA St. Louis 6 1 0 .857 207 115 New Orleans 4 2 0 .667 139 118 San Francisco 4 2 0 .667 153 142 Atlanta 3 3 0 .500 125 127 Carolina 1 6 0 .143 112 146 Sunday's results N.Y. Jets 13, Carolina 12 New Orleans 34, St. Louis 31 Chicago 37, San Francisco 31 (OT) Cincinnati 31, Detroit 27 Baltimore 18, Jacksonville 17 Tampa Bay 41, Minnesota 14 Dallas 17, Arizona 3 Washington 35, N.Y.

Giants 21 Miami 24, Seattle 20 Oakland 20, Philadelphia 10 Denver 31, New England 20 San Diego 27, Buffalo 24 Open: Green Bay, Atlanta, Cleveland Monday's result Pittsburgh 34, Tennessee 7 Nov. 4 gomes Dallas at N.Y. Giants, noon Carolina at Miami, noon New England at Atlanta, noon Baltimore at Pittsburgh, noon Tampa Bay at Green Bay, noon Jacksonville at Tennessee, noon Indianapolis at Buffalo, noon Detroit at San Francisco, 3:05 p.m. Philadelphia at Arizona, 3:05 p.m. Cleveland at Chicago, 3:15 p.m.

Seattle at Washington, 3:15 p.m. Kansas City at San Diego, 3:15 p.m. N.Y. Jets at New Orleans, 7:30 p.m. Open: Cincinnati, Minnesota, St.

Louis Nov. 5 game Denver at Oaklond, 8 p.m. ETC FOOTBALL Bowl Championship Series List Through Oct. 27 Kofi comp 1. Tiger Woods USA 18.46 2.

Phil Mlckelson USA 10.42 3. David Duval USA 7.97 4. Davis Love III USA 6.77 5. Ernie Els SAf 6.45 6. Vllay Singh Fl 6.24 7.

David Toms USA 5.92 6. Sergio Garcia Spn 5.91 9. Darren Clarke Nlr 5.33 10. Relief Goosen SAf 5.10 11. Colin Montgomery Sco 4.92 12.

Scott Verplank USA 4.67 13. Bernhard Longer Ger 4.63 14. JlmFurvk USA 4.53 15. Padraig Harrington Ire 4.49 16. Jose Coceres Arg 4.42 17.

Scott Hoch USA 4.34 18. Mike Weir Can 4.32 19. Chris DIMarco USA 4.27 20. Bob Estes USA 4.21 21. Toshl Izawa Jpn 4.19 22.

Paul Azlnger USA 4.13 23. Thomas Biorn Den 4.13 24. Mark Caicavecchla USA 3.98 25. Lee Westwood Eng 3.94 26. Tom Lehman USA 3.91 27.

Robert Allenby Aus 3.89 28. Rocco Mediate USA 3.85 29. Michael Campbell NZI 3.77 30. Jesper Parnevlk Swe 3.75 31. Nick Price Zim 3.66 32.

Stewart Cink USA 3.63 33. Hal Sutton USA 3.56 34. Angel Cabrera Arg 3.47 35. Kenny Perry USA 3.38 36. Kirk Triplet! USA 3.06 37.

Justin Leonard USA 3.05 38. Shlngo Kotavama Jpn 3.04 39. Niclas Fasth Swe 3.01 40. Joe Durant USA 2.99 41. Steve Lowerv USA 2.98 42.

Paul McGlnley Eng 2.98 43. Frank Llckliter II USA 2.64 44. Brad Faxon USA 2.61 45. Charles Howell III USA 2.57 46. Pierre Fulke Swe 2.48 47.

Steve Flesch USA 2.46 48. Billy Andrade USA Z45 49. Miguel Angel Jimenez Spn 2.45 50. Dudley Hart USA 2.41 51. Scott McCarron USA 2.37 52.

Stuart Appleby Aus 2.36 53. John Daly USA 2.35 54. Phillip Price Wal 2.32 55. Toru Tanlguchl Jpn 2.25 56. Paul Lawrie Sco 2.25 57.

Bob May USA 2.25 58. Billy Mayfalr USA 2.24 59. Steve Strieker USA 2.24 60. Jose Mario Olazabal Spn 2.23 AP U-E AP U-E Avg. Avg.

Str Rank Total QWIn Tot. 2 2 2.0 1.00 8 0.32 0 3.32 2.02 3 4 3.5 3.83 0.36 1 8.69 7.S9 1 1 1.0 3.67 76 3.04 0 7.71 7.71 6 6 6.0 4.83 3 0.12 1 11.95 11.75 5 5 5.0 7.17 27 1.08 1 14.25 14.25 10 13 11J 3.33 1 0.04 1 15.87 .1.3 14.57 7 7 7.0 7.17 5 0.20 1 15.37 15.37 4 3 3.5 10.58 34 1.36 1 16.44 16.44 9 11 10.0 7.17 79 1.16 1 19.33 18.83 8 9 8.5 8.33 36 1.44 1 19.27 18.87 11 10 10.5 12.33 48 1.92 1 25.75 24.55 16 19 17.5 11.50 55 2.20 1 32.20 31.30 13 8 10.5 17.83 110 4.40 0 32.73 32.73 20 15 17.5 14.83 15 0.60 1 33.93 33.93 12 12 1Z0 20.17 43 1.72 1 34.89 34.89 1. Nebraska 2. Oklohomo 3. Miami 4.

Michigan 5. Texas 4. Stanford 7. Tennessee 8. Florida 9.

UCLA 10. Oregon 11. Washington 12. Washington St. 13.

Brlgham Young 14. Purdue 15. Virginia Tech Explanation Key Poll Average The average of The Associated Press medio poll ond USA Todav-ESPN coaches poll. Others receiving votes are calculated in order received. Computer Average The average of Anderson Hester, Collev Matrix, Richard Bitl-fngslev, Kenneth Massev, David Rothman, Jeff Sagarin, Matthews Scripps-Howard, ond the Peter Wolfe computer rankings.

The computer component will be determined bv averaging six rankings. The highest and lowest will be disregarded. Schedule Rank Rank of schedule strength compared to other Division 1-A teams divided bv 25. This component Is calculated bv determining the cumulative wonloss records of the team's opponent (M.6 percent) and the cumulative wonloss records of the team's opponent's opponents (33.3 percent). Losses One point for each loss during the season.

Quality Win Component The quality win component wilt reward to varying degrees teams that defeat opponents rooked among the top 15 in the weekly standings. The bonus point scale will range from a high of 1 .5 poinfs for a win over me top ranked team to a low of 0.1 for a victory over the 1 5th-ranked BCS team. The final BCS standings will determine final quality win points. If a team registers a victory over a team more than once during the regular season quality win points will be awarded lust once. Quality win points arc deducted from the team's total of poll average, computer average, schedule rank and losses.

Transactions AUTO RACING NASCAR Named Lee Roy touring di rector for the Busch North series. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association BOSTON CELTICS Waived Chris Herren. Placed Randy Brown ond Ro shown McLeod on the Inlured list. CHARLOTTE HORNETS Waived Tim James. Placed George Lynch.

Jerome AAoiso and Kirk Haston on the lnured list. CHICAGO BULLS-Troded Jake Vos-kuhl to Phoenix for Soumolla Samake ond a 2003 second-round draft pick. Waived Samake. CLEVELAND CAVALIERS-Placed Zvdrunas llgauskas, Tyrone Hill and Jeff Trepognier on the inlured list. DALLAS MAVERICKS-Waived Kha-lid El-Amin.

DETROIT PISTONS -Signed Damon Jones. Placed Brian Cardinal and Rat-ko Varda on the injured list. INDIANA PACERS-Waived Derrick McKey. NEW YORK KNICKS Ploced Marcus Com by and F-G Larry Robinson on the Injured list. ORLANDO MAGIC Placed G-F Mike Miller and Jeryl Sasser on the Inlured list.

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS Promoted Bree Jones to manager of community relations. Named Julanl Ghana manager of community relations. Placed Eric Snow, Alvin Jones and Samuel Dalembert. PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS Troded Will Perdue to the Los Angeles Clippers for the rights to Dor on Sheffer. Waived Johnny Taylor and Priest Lauderdale.

TORONTO RAPTORS Placed G-F Dell Curry, Mamadou N'diave and Michael Stewart on the injured list. Waived Don MacLean. HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM MIGHTY DUCKS-Recolled Andy McDonald from Cincinnati of the AHL. CALGARY FLAMES Assigned Oieg Saprykin to Saint John of the AHL. COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS Sent LW Martin Spanhel to Syracuse of the AHL.

WASHINGTON CAPITALS Recalled RW Chris Corrlnet and Trent Whitfield from Portland of the AHL. Re-assigned RW Peter Ferraro and RW Stephen Peat to Portland. TENNIS SANEX WTA TOUR Named Kevin Wulff chief executive officer. COLLEGE BARUCH Named Heather Schaffner women's assistant basketball coach. CORTLAND STATE-Named Robert D.

McBee director of athletics. PFEIFFER Named Erin Domeneeh director of swimming and women's swim coach. SOUTH CAROLINA-Suspended freshman WR Andrea Gouse Indefinitely from the football team after his assault arrest last week. 17. Texas 7-1 411 24 18.

Illinois 6-1 402 23 19. Washington State 7-1 386 15 20. South Carolina 6-2 360 14 21. Georgia Tech 5-2 330 21 22. Syracuse 7-2 286 23.

Georgia 5-2 239 16 24. Clemson 5-2 160 25 25. Coloraoo 6-2 145 Also receiving votes: Mississippi 103, North Carolina 103, Auburn 81, Louisville 68, Marshall 46, Boston College 28, Fresno State 12. Michigan State II, LSU 5, Iowa State 3, Arkansas 2, Toledo I. BASKETBALL PGA Tour money leaders Through The Buick Challenge Trn Money 1.

Tiger Woods 18 $5,568,777 2. Phil Mlckelson 23 (4,403,883 3. David Toms 27 $3,406,595 4. Vllay Singh 25 $3,338,829 5. Davis Love III 19 $3,061,463 6.

Scott Hoch 23 $2,794,319 7. David Duval 19 $2,635,094 8. Bob Estes 25 52,628.810 9. Scott Verplank 25 $2480,901 10. Sergio Garcia 17 52.51 3,635 11.

Chris DIMarco 28 $2,458,534 1 2. Jim Furyk 23 $2,374,067 13. JoeDuront 24 $2,245,017 14. Robert Allenbv 28 $2,218,029 15. Ernie Els 18 $1,951,456 16.

Mark Caicavecchla 22 $1,893,576 1 7. Mike Weir 22 $1 ,877,936 16. Brod Faxon 25 $1,868,412 19. Frank Llckliter II 28 $1,846,91 1 20. Tom Lehman 22 $1,799,660 21.

JeffSlumon 29 $1,746,952 22. Scott McCarron 24 $1,693,506 23. Justin Leonard 29 51,692,842 24. Bernhard Longer 16 $1,673,696 25. Steve Lowerv 27 $1,652,820 26.

Hal Sutton 25 $1,640,946 USAESPN Top 25 poll The Top Twenty Five teams In the USA TodayESPN college football poll, with first-place votes In parentheses, records through Oct. 27. total points based on 25 points for first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Miami (46) 6-0 1,486 1 2. Nebraska (14) 9-0 1,454 3 3.

Florida 6-1 1,308 6 4. Oklahoma 7-1 1,263 2 5. Texas 7-1 1,259 7 6. Michigan 6-1 1,186 8 7. Tennessee 5-1 1,112 9 8.

Brlgham Young 8-0 999 10 9. Oregon 7-1 964 13 10. Washington 6-1 953 11 11. UCLA 4-1 936 5 12. Virginia Tech 6-1 925 4 13.

Stanford 5-1 719 22 14. Florida State 5-2 704 18 .15. Purdue 5-1 541 20 16. Maryland 7-1 510 12 NBA schedule Today's gomes Boston at Cleveland, 6 p.m. Toronto at Orlando, 6:30 p.m.

Indiana at New Jersey, 6:30 p.m. Washington at New York, 6:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Atlanta at Houston, 7:30 p.m. Detroit at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 7:30 p.n Milwaukee at Utah, 8 p.m. Denver at Phoenix. 8 p.m. Seattle at Sacramento, 9 p.m.

Portland at l.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m. Wednesday's gomes The AP Top 25 The Top Twenty Five teoms In The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes In parentheses, records through Oct. 27, total points based on 25 points for a first place vote through one point for a 25th place vote and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Miami (55) 6-0 1,783 1 2.

Nebraska (17) 9-0 1,745 3 3. Oklahoma 7-1 1,596 2 4. Florida 6-1 1,587 6.