The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 803

4 i mmm wmm COLLEGE FOOTBALL HOW THE AP TOP 10 FARED Complete cdieoe football report 6-130 SC0REB0ARD17D H0RSES16D SPORTS F0RUM18D SUNDAY SEPT 17 1989 THE MIAMI HERALD SECTION Seminoles seesaw past LSU 31-21 returns Ismail runs 88 92 yards to lead Irish "kiss By GARY LONG Herald Sports Writer BATON ROUGE La In their third national television appearance in three weeks Florida Seminoles finally performed like ready-for-prime-time players Saturday night Quarterback Peter Tom Willis scrambled seven yards for the go-ahead touchdown in the fourth quarter and directed the struggling Seminoles to a 31-21 victory before 75524 at Tiger Stadium He subsequently rolled out of trouble to complete a miracle third-down pass to tailback Dexter Carter that kept alive a clinching TD drive The two plays climaxed a remarkable performance in which Willis a fifth-year senior completed 25 of 35 pass attempts for 301 yards and outperformed heralded Tom Hodson Relief poured from Coach Bobby Bowden had forgotten how des- PLEASESEE SEMINOLES 10D the first time any school has done that in Bo 21 seasons as Michigan coach faster than the speed of sound" Schembechler said may be the best ever seen We tackle No one had returned a kickoff for a touchdown against Michigan since Ron Engel ran 95 yards Oct 26 1957 I make one person miss we usually do pretty said Ismail a 175-pound sopho- PLEASESEE NOTRE DAME 6D From Herald Wire Services ANN ARBOR Mich Raghib Ismail returned two kickoffs for touchdowns in the second half Saturday to help top-ranked Notre Dame defeat No 2 Michigan 24-19 and take a major step toward successfully defending its national championship in college football Ismail the leading kick returner last season ran back the opening kickoff of the second half 88 yards and added a 92-yard return with 12:46 left to give Notre Dame its third straight victory over the Wolverines United Press International ONE MORE TIME: Raghib Ismail (25) celebrates his second kickoff-return TD with Rodney Culver mnin DAVE HYDE 3 TD passes 4 pickoffs for Erickson va i 4 ft Imagine this: Canseco is all grown up BOSTON We interrupt regularly scheduled Jose Canseco Column the one where David Letterman lists Top 10 Driving Tips to report the rumor that Canseco has grown up Honest true The rumor that is But get too excited because last week a different rumor had Canseco getting another speeding ticket was Canseco said But this All-Grown-Up rumor? Jose believes this rumor Jose blesses this rumor Jose also started this rumor to several dozen reporters Saturday in Fenway Park before his Oakland Athletics lost to the Boston Red Sox 5-2 think aged 10 years in the last six months" the right fielder from Miami said between dips into the batting cage And: going to see me act differently now be more out of the spotlight really a conservative And: who can bounce back from what bounced back from at my age is only going to be stronger for it" age? With those additional 10 years he mentioned see that puts him at what 21? No really 25 But 21 25 or 35 imagine this: Jose Canseco grown up What a concept What a thought What a What What are you laughing at? Did you i f- CRAIG ERICKSON RELIEVED 12D UM'S RUSH RATTLES CAL QB 12D By ARMANDO SALGUERO Herald Sports Writer Denny Creehan stormed into the losing locker room in the Orange Bowl Saturday and boldly summarized the University of performance against California in this manner: are five teams in the Pac-10 better than said the Cal linebacker coach that" So much for the No 3-ranked Hurricanes impressing a team they had just vanquished 31-3 before an announced crowd of 56931 in the home opener On the scoreboard the game was the rout it was supposed to be UM (2-0) clearly was the superior team But on the field it was ugly So ugly that even in victory the taste of failure lingered in the mouths of some UM players in Bangladesh who see this score will think it was a blowout but right now I feel like we blew them said offensive lineman Mike Sullivan kind of feel like they blew us out" There were some saving graces in the otherwise uninspired performance The defense played at its angry stingy best Cal quarterback Troy Taylor an All-American candidate before the game exited having completed only nine of 23 passes for 77 yards defense which limited Cal to 10 first downs also kept its opposition from scoring a touchdown for the second time in two games There was even an offensive bright spot as running back Leonard Conley gained 89 yards (and scored a touchdown) on a career-high 22 carries But overall it was a forgettable three hours and nine minutes of football UM had 11 penalties quarterback Craig Erickson threw four interceptions and was sacked four times under a wave of Cal blitzes were inconsistent offensively and I am concerned over said UM Coach Dennis Erickson turned the ball over too many times We need to learn and continue to get Between drives stalled by turnovers and poor execution the Hurricanes did manage a six-yard touchdown run by Conley and Erickson touchdown passes of two 18 and 33 PLEASE SEE UM 13D JOE RIMKUS JR Miami Herald Staff PLEASE SEE HYDE 2D SACK MAN: Cortez Kennedy sacks Troy Taylor one of two consecutive UM sacks on drive to its only score a first-quarter field goal 153 HRsfl55 RBITi FI Even flat Hurricanes still can flatten Canseco projection At Jose Canseco's pace this year he would have finished with 53 homers and 1 55 RBI if he had the same number of at-bats as last season AB Avg HR RBI 1988 totals 610 307 42124 1989 totals 173 266 15 44 Projection 610 266 53 155 Baseball inside Toronto keeps grip on AL East when Indian error in 1 1th gives Blue Jays 3-2 victory 2D And UM still won by four touchdowns and ran its two-game aggregate against Wisconsin and Cal to 82-6 Anyone looking for a title for the barely-begun season might try Players and Plenty of They are so good they take all the suspense out of games with ordinary opponents They are so numerous they can come out flat and still flatten a solid courageous Cal "They have such great said Doug Parrish who stole two Erickson passes So what does it tell UM Coach Dennis Erickson when the OL breaks down so often and the Hurricanes still win in a trot? we have outstanding defense blame their quarterback Troy Taylor for only passing for 77 yards Credit our defense said all along we have to play great defense early until our offensive players get the feel" If all the defense and parts of the offense played any better there be any point in playing at all The defense given up a touchdown in three games going back through PLEASE SEE POPE 12D If Hurricanes stalking a third national championship there a drop of sweat in the Orange Bowl this monstrously muggy Saturday I know! Some UM pass-blockers looked like cats chasing their tails in the 31-3 conking of California may be the first college offensive line to get put on waivers as a tackle Mike Sullivan said after they let Craig Erickson get sacked four times tell me! Even when he had time Erickson often seemed to be throwing a medicine ball instead of a football He put four passes right into Bear mitts EDWIN POPE SPORTS EDITOR 34-7 whipping of La Tech soothes troubled Gators The case Trial certain to hurt Gator reputation that Tech come back this year Florida overcame a sluggish start Saturday to pound the Bulldogs 34-7 in front of a crowd of 65109 That was the smallest crowd since the stadium expansion of 1982 possibly because of the outmatched opponent possibly because of heavy pre-game thunderstorms and possibly because some fans might have thought the team ready had been given the death penalty by the NCAA needed this one bad" defensive back Richard Fain said needed something positive to hap-' PLEASE SEE GATORS 8D By GARY SHELTON Herald Sports Writer GAINESVILLE This just The University of Flonda football team no longer has any problems It solved every one of them Saturday afternoon No not really But for one brief soggy moment the Gators could forget about fan unrest the pressures on Coach Galen Hall and quarterback Kyle Morris and even the threat of NCAA disciplinary action For one afternoon the Gators discovered a panacea in the outmatched form of Louisiana Bulldogs For the Gators only a shame ry that the agents had paid them while the athletes were still playing for Florida jeopardizing their collegiate eligibility But a defense motion released last week indicates the agents Gerald Gratenstem Gregory Latimer John Kasbar and Glenn Haft of Professional Athletes Fmancial Advisors Inc will try to shift the blame to the university Using the testimony of the athletes' who were granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for their testimony the agents will try to show that UF coaches and boosters paid the players long before the agents got in- PLEASESEE TRIAL 8D By RONNIE RAMOS Herald Staff Writer GAINESVILLE The University of Florida athletic department is about to go on trial Regardless of the verdict the university seems sure to lose will be another five-year punch in the gut to our reputation" said Joe Little a UF law professor like this just make it hard for us to rise above the level of being a Four sports agents from Broward County were indicted May 22 by a federal grand jury in Tallahassee on charges of racketeering conspiracy mail fraud and wire fraud Former UF athletes had testified before the grand ju JOHN WALTHER Miami Herald DIVING GATOR: Florida receiver Tony Lomack stretches for a catch in the first quarter.