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SPORTS The Manhattan Mercury B4 Sunday, October 16, 1994 Nebraska 17, K-State 6 Dallas, KC to post wins (1) Continued from Page Bl 1 i ft A 1 "There were a lot of times they were throwing the ball and there was no one there," said NU linebacker Ed "I think we did fluster them'a little bit." Still, the score stayed at entering the final quarter when NU accounted for 134 of its 262 yards on the day. Getting the majority of those was backup fullback Jeff Makovicka (7 for 56), who scored on a 15-yard run at the 11:01 mark, and added yardage in a drive that resulted in a 24-yard field goal by Darin Erstad with 1:32 to go. "They're called 'The said Makovicka in reference to his offensive line. "We've got one of the best lines in the country." The Wildcats' deepest second-half penetration was their own 42-yard line as they netted just 49 yards on 36 snaps. Until the final second half series, K-State's 10 1st down snaps in the second half generated just seven yards.

"If you had told me we'd hold Kansas State to six points, I wouldn't have believed you," said NU defensive coordinator Charlie McBride. "In the past three years we moved the ball on Nebraska because we got big plays," said Snyder. "We didn't get those today, which is a tribute to Nebraska." Up next for the 4-1 Wildcats will be the No. 4 ranked Colorado Buffaloes Saturday in Boulder. 20 in a 14-play drive that netted nothing as Gramatica's kick faded wide-right.

"Obviously, that was pretty big. Playing against that football team, at this present time, with the lead is a lot different than playing without the lead," said Snyder. But the 'Cats weren't done playing give-away. With a 1st and 10 from the NU 21, May threw his worst pass of the season a softy over the middle to a wide-open Troy Dumas, who had earlier blocked Gramatica's kick. "I was throwing to Mitch," said May.

But Mitch was nowhere to be found. "We didn't capitalize, but we still had 30 minutes to play in a 7-6 game," said May, who had thrown 188 straight non-interceptions dating back to last year. "It didn't make a difference." "That interception just threw all of his momentum off," said NU cornerback Barron Miles, who batted down six May passes on the afternoon. "We proved today to the nation that we can cover, and that our defense is probably the No. 1 defense in the nation." May was met with Red Wave after Red Wave in the second half as he managed just 10 completions out of 27 throws for 76 yards.

Oh (4) Continued from Page Bl want him to miss the airplane out of Kansas City." For all of Schottenheimer's futility in Denver, he actually has a better record than his team, which has lost its last 11 games here. not coming," Schotten-heimer joked. "I'm staying home. Bob Moore, our PR guy, will be in charge of all sideline operations." Asked if Moore has any coaching experience, Schottenheimer said, "No, but he can't be any worse than I've been in Denver." If it's a jinx, the Broncos will take it. Near desperation, they posted their first victory of the season last week with a 16-9 win at Seattle.

At 1-4, they still face a long uphill climb, which won't be helped by the fact their near-invincibility at home has vanished. Despite owning the NFL's best home record since 1976, Denver has lost its last three home games and five of its last eight. 1 The Broncos' last home victory, naturally, came against the Chiefs last Dec. 12 as John Elway outdueled Joe Montana by throwing three TD passes to Shannon Sharpe in a 27-21 decision. "Some of it is feeling," Broncos coach Wade Phillips said of Denver's long winningstreakoverthe Chiefs here.

"Confidence comes from winning, and it's hard for a team to have confidence if you haven't won any. It's just a feeling you can win. And it's in the back of the other players' minds that, 'Gosh, this has always happened to us when we play in "It's become a problem for Kansas City, just like it's a problem for us against the Raiders." After a promising start, the Chiefs (3-2) have dropped their last two games, failing to score a touchdown in either. Schottenheimer attributes that scoring drought to "lack of efficiency in the scoring zone. 2 KSU quarterback Chad May tries to escape NU's rush.

What a difference a year makes (3) Continued from Page Bl And of May's first interception, which was thrown in the second quarter after 148 attempts in 1994 without one a new Big Eight record May said, "I didn't see (Troy) Dumas. I was throwing to Mitch across the middle. I threw it right to him (Dumas). It was a gift." ping out of my hands. I don't usually throw the ball end-over-end," said May.

"But I can't make excuses because of the weather. It's gonna be like that K-State's 'talk' gets attention of Nebraska Comhuskers (j Continued from Page Bl this to us, and we didn't stand a chance. They've improved a lot, but they're not up to our level." Stewart, who said he was bothered by the amount of trash-talking K-State's players did on the field, put it another way. "Nebraska is still Nebraska, and K-State is still K-State." he said. "I think that's about right," said defensive tackle Terry Con-nealy.

"At least they talked a better game today. I think those fellas might want to keep their mouth shut on the field when they play us next year." thrower as we've seen in a long time," Osborne said. "They have a good offensive concept, but our defense has stepped it up the last two weeks." And with Berringer at the controls, Nebraska tacked on a 15-yard scoring run by fullback Jeff Makovicka on a trap play for a 14-6 lead to start the fourth quarter and then added a field goal at the 1:32 mark. "On that last scoring drive they had nine guys within two yards of our line, and we're still running right over them," Wiegert said. "I was reading all week how they were going to do ter passing threat," Osborne said.

"I called the game in such a way that unless something went wrong, he wasn't going to get hit." Doing the second half hitting was Nebraska's defense that held May to 79 yards. "We just came out and stuck it to him," said NU cornerback Barron Miles. Nebraska sacked May three times in the second half, not including forcing him into a intentional grounding call to bottle K-State up in its own end-zone. "I think Chad May is as good a ing on its first three series. "Offensively I think they knew we were handicapped when Matt Turman was in at quarterback that we weren't going to throw too much," Osborne said.

"They adjusted accordingly, and we were out of sync a little bit." So Nebraska made a change, sending in Berringer in the last series of the first half and all of the second half. "We felt he could see the field a little better and was a little bet AMERICAN CONFERENCE East Pet. PF PA .667 117 116 .667 160 129 4 2 0 4 2 0 Buffalo Miami Rumor has Reeves thinking about Panthers Dave Goldberg AP Football Writer Rich Kotite is testy. For years, he's been trying to find a full time running back for the Philadelphia Eagles. Now he's got one in Charlie Garner and is being second- guessed about using him too much.

Why quibble? After losing their first game, the Eagles go into Dallas Sunday tied with the Cowboys at 4-1. A win and they take control of the NFC East for the time being. In some ways, the Eagles are lucky this game is being played in Dallas. Two years ago, the same scenario played out on a Monday night in Philadelphia when the Cowboys (3-0) came in to face the Eagles (3-0). The city went bonkers the pre-game show came on at 6 a.m.

and the Eagles won 31-7. They never recovered. Philadelphia lost its next two games, lost in Dallas, then lost again there in the playoffs. Dallas went on to win the first of its two Super Bowls. Does that mean to the losers go the spoils? No, the spoils go to the better team and the odds say Dallas, which is favored by 8 points.

OK, Emmitt Smith has a sore hamstring, but Garner, the rookie with two 100-yard games in two starts, is still recovering from a stress fracture in the uppermost rib underneath the collarbone. "If Charlie Garner is ready to play, he's going to play, and I'm going to give him the ball," Kotite says. Barry Switzer says the same thing about Smith. COWBOYS, 21-16 San Francisco (minus 5) at Atlanta A win and the Falcons take the undisputed NFC West lead for the first time in nine seasons. The 49ers are still just hanging on.

FALCONS, 27-25 Kansas City (plus 1) at Denver (Monday night) Two streaks the Chiefs would like to end: They haven't scored a touchdown since Sept. 18 and they're 0-11 at Mile High Stadium since 1982. They'll score a touchdown. Make it two. CHIEFS, 20-16 Raiders (plus 4) at Miami Tenth anniversary of the Raiders' 45-34 win at the Orange Bowl, the last year Miami made it to the Super Bowl.

DOLPHINS, 45-34 San Diego (minus 3) at New Orleans The Chargers have to lose some time, don't they? No. CHARGERS, 17-9 Indianapolis (plus 9) at Buffalo The Bills have won eight of the last nine, most by scores like 38-0, 35-7 and 42-6. BILLS, 35-8 New England (plus 2) at New York Jets Bill Parcells gets the home field advantage at the Meadow-lands, even if it is draped this week with ugly green bunting. PATRIOTS, 24-17 New York Giants (minus 2') at Los Angeles Rams Let's delve into thetheory of the coast-to-coast road trip aftera short work week. RAMS, 20-12 Arizona (minus l'j) at Washington At least Norv Turner knows the name of his quarterback.

Buddy Ryan doesn't even know the name of his kicker these days. Did anyone say Jim Bakken? REDSKINS, 8-5 Cincinnati (minus 13) at Pittsburgh The Bengals are just good enough to keep it boring. STEELERS, 23-13. Last Week: 3-9 (spread); 7-5 (straight up) Season: 3243-3 (spread); 44-34 (straight up) Emporia St. loses Associated Press ST.

JOSEPH, Mo. Dess Dou-glas rushed for 197 yards and three touchdowns as Missouri Western came from behind to beat Emporia State 28-21 on Saturday. Quincy Tillmon put Emporia State (3-3, 2-3) up 21-7 at the half on an 11 yard scoring pass from Brian Hill with 11 seconds left Tillmon finished with 155 yards rushing on 22 carries. After a scoreless third quarter, Missouri Western scored three times in the fourth quarter on runs of 16 and 1 1 yards by Douglas and a 32 yard pass from Ian Page to Marcus Bridges. NewEngland 3 3 .500 158 159 Jets 3 3 0 .500 92 105 Indianapolis 2 4 0 .333 113 128 Central Cleveland 5 1 0 .833 129 66 Pittsburgh 3 2 0 .600 100 101 Houston 1 5 0 .167 87 134 Cincinnati 0 5 0 .000 78 129 West SanDiego 5 0 0 1.000 134 84 KansasCity 3 2 0 .600 90 80 Seattle 3 3 0 .500 130 86 LARaiders 2 3 0 .400 116 141 Denver 1 4 0 .200 108 146 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East Pet.

PF PA Dallas 4 1 0 .800 135 56 Philadelphia 4 1 0 .800 127 82 N.Y.Giants 3 2 0 .600 111 117 Arizona 1 4 0 .200 49 111 Washington 1 5 0 .167 112 165 Central Chicago 4 2 0 .667 113 108 Minnesota 4 2 0 .667 134 95 GreenBay 3 3 0 .500 107 84 Detroit 2 4 0 .333 106 129 TampaBay 2 4 0 .333 80 118 West Atlanta 4 2 0 .667 138 112 SanFrancisco 4 2 0 .667 154 131 LARams 2 4 0 .333 84 109 NewOrleans 2 4 0 .333 97 138 Thursday's Game Cleveland 11, Houston 8 Sunday's Games Reeves loves the South and the idea of building another powerhouse as he id in Denver. Go Figure After averaging 46.6 points a game in the first week of the season, last week teams averaged nearly a touchdown less, at 34.7 points a game. That is even less than last season's mark of 37.4. Anybody seen that new no-chucking edict by defensive backs enforced lately? Who says the officials aren't embittered by the new labor agreement? Some other observations: The Kansas City Chiefs, who play in Denver Monday night, haven't won there since 1982. Their coach, Marty Schotten-heimer, has yet to win there in seven tries.

Monday is one day shy of the one-month anniversary of the Chiefs' last touchdown. The Indianapolis Colts have been outscored, 66-3, in the fourth quarters of games this year. They haven't scored a point in the final 10 minutes of any contest. Running back Craig "Iron-head" Heyward said this about his Atlanta Falcons without Deion Sanders, who visits there with the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday: "This is a new team. We got rid of some things.

It's not a one-man show anymore like it used to be, when they'd go out and da this little prime-time thing." How would Heyward know? This is his first year there. On announcing that the Green Bay Packers will no longer play at Milwaukee's County Stadium, where they have appeared sporadically for the last 62 seasons, General Manager Ron Wolf said 1 994 Los Angeles Times Amid all the talk that the expansion Carolina Panthers will give their coaching job to the University of Miami's Dennis Erickson, we bring word of this darkhorse: Dan Reeves. Believe it or not, there is talk around the league that football's best active coach is tired of quietly sparring with football's best general manager, George Young. Reeves' New York Giants, who visit the Los Angeles Rams this weekend after two consecutive losses, have recently engaged in locker-room back-stabbing and finger-pointing while realizing that their young defense and quarterback Dave Brown may not be good enough to lead them to the playoffs. this of Lambeau Field: "I think we've got the best facility there is in the National Football League.

You still get a chill when you go out there to play. I don't know if that's true when you go play in Milwaukee." He's obviously never been to Milwaukee in December. Charlie Garner, who will play for the Philadelphia Eagles this week in their showdown with the Dallas Cowboys, despite a rib injury, has a chance to become the first rookie in NFL history to rush for 100 yards in each of his first three games. Since blowing a lead and losing to the Detroit Lions on a Monday night, the Cowboys have outscored their last two opponents, 72-10. They have scored on the first drive of each of their five games.

And the Rams and Arizona Cardinals are still the only teams in the league that have yet to score 20 points in a game. Arizona at Washington, 12 p.m. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh. 12 p.m. Indianapolis at Buffalo, 12 p.m.

Los Angeles Raiders at Miami, 12 p.m. New England at New York Jets, 12 p.m. San Francisco at Atlanta, 12 p.m. New York Giants at Los Angeles Rams. 3 p.m.

Philadelphia at Dallas, 3 p.m. San Diego at New Orleans, 3 p.m. OPEN DATE: Chicago, Detroit, Green Bay, Minnesota, Seattle. Tampa Bay Monday's Game Kansas City at Denver, 8 p.m. Evert sees as turnaround year for tennis 1 994 N.Y.

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"And Steffi will be out to defend her ranking. If they come back you'll have better rivalries," Evert said. "You can't have a vintage year every year." And 1994 was far from vintage as women's tennis suffered from Capriati's personal problems, Seles' slow recovery, the stories of Pierce's abusive father and a dropoff in marquee names. Seles has not played a tour event since she was stabbed on 2. BOCA RATON, Fla.

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