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Crouch Corrals Heisman Knicks Need a Coach SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9,2001 ;;A HOLLOW VICTORY The Post-Standard tephan Eberharter (left) of Austria won f Saturday's World Cup season-opening race at Val D'Isere, France, but the event was marred by a high-speed crash involving i^ilvano Beltrametti of Switzerland. ^Beltrametti, 22, was permanently paralyzed fwhen he lost control on the icy course and SPORTS ^suffered a fractured spine Labor strife again looms on baseball's horizon STORY, PAGE C-3 Crunch stops skid with 6-0 win over Phantoms HIS Irish Crouch corrals Heisman In o close vote, Nebraska Crouch won the award Satur- ultimate individual pnze, Crouch eyes on quarterback becomes the day night, beating out Florida edged Grossman by 62 points, quarterback Rex Grossman. 770-708. Dorsey was next with third Cornhusker to win. Crouch, a 6-foot-1, 200-pound 638 points and Harrington had The Associated Press senior from Omaha, Neb., ran for 364 points in the balloting. The O'Leary 1,115 yards and 18 touchdowns, winning point total was the New York — Eric Crouch al- passed for 1,510 yards and seven smallest since Oregon State's Notre Dame reportedly most quit the team, now the Ne- scores and even caught a 63-yard Terry Baker won in 1962. braska quarterback is the Heis- touchdown pass in a big win over makes offer to former SI) man Trophy winner in one of the The Heisman ceremony was Oklahoma. He's one of only held at a midtown hotel, the first assistant and Liverpool coach. most unpredictable races in the three major college quarterbacks history of the award. time it's been away from the The Associated Press to run for 3,000 yards and pass Downtown Athletic Club. The Crouch, who briefly left the for 4,000 yards hi a career. George O'Leary might be team three years ago when he club was damaged in the Sept. 11 Grossman was second, with terrorist attacks. close to becoming the next foot- lost the starting job* capped a Miami quarterback Ken Dorsey ball coach at Notre Dame. sensational career by keeping the third and Oregon quarterback The closest Heisman vote was New England Cable News re- Huskers in the national title race Joey Harrington fourth in the Bo Jackson's 45-point victory ported Saturday night that Notre all season. A 62-36 loss to Colo- fourth-closest race in the Heis- over Chuck Long in 1985. Other Dame offered the job to the rado two weeks ago ended Ne- man's 67-year history. than the first Heisman, when The Associated Press Georgia Tech coach and hoped to braska's run at a perfect season. TJJ winning college football's CROUCH, PAGE C-9 NEBRASKA QB EricCrouch poses with the Heisman Trophy. make an announcement within 48 hours. Notre Dame athletic di- rector Kevin White was not available for comment. "We've stuck to this all week. Knicks Regardless of what comments people have made, Kevin said we won't .confirm, deny or discuss any of them. The next time there is something official from him is need a when we are ready to announce a coach," John Heisler, Notre SU fizzles Dame's associate athletic direc- tor, told The Associated Press. in all phases coach On Friday, Oregon coach Mike, Bellotti said he met with Jeff Von Gundy suddenly White but was not interested in of 82-68 loss the job. quits in the middle of his " Oklahoma's Bob Stoops and to N.C. State seventh season in New York. NFL coaches Jon Gmden of By Mike Waters The Associated Press Oakland and Steve Mariucci of Staff writer San Francisco also have said they Jeff Van Gundy resigned un- are riot candidates for the posi- This one might "have put Jim expectedly as head coach of the tion, which opened up Sunday Boeheim back in.the hospital. New York Knicks on Saturday, when Bob Davie was fired. Notre The Syracuse' Orangemen, saying he had lost his focus and Dame also reportedly received playing their second straight thought about quitting since the permission to meet with Stanford game wirnourathek coach; fell summer. coach Tyrone Willingham. " -", apart in an 8^1|Jo|sAt<^Noifti The stunning O'Leary is 52-33 in seven sea- Carolina State m^^front of decision came son at Georgia Tech, including a 20,150 fans-at trie 'Carrier as the Knicks 7-5 mark this year. The Yellow Dome Saturday night. were playing Jackets will play Stanford in the Syracuse' s^ .iheir.^best. .bas- Seattle Bowl. - .complete and^-t^ ketball of the O'Leary was an assistant ^defense, phy'sjfcaT"and menial. season, win- coach at Syracuse University The Orangemen'loo'ked in dis'-' ning five of six from 1980-86, working withJhe array on offense, committed 17' games to get Orangemen's defensive line costly turnovers and allowed' above .500 Van Gundy throughout his tenure. ' the Wolfpack/to shoot 53.8" after a poor start. From 1977-79, O'Leary was , percentfrom the field. head coach at Liverpool High '-"' Beriiie 'Fine',' Boeheim's Van Gundy was in his sev- School. longtime assistant who has enth season with New York, the •filled in as Boeheim underwent longest tenure by a Knicks head surgery on his prostate earlier coach since Red Holtzman -this week, expressed dissatis- guided the team for 10 seasons 'faction with - Syracuse's per- beginning in 1968. NFL exec •formance as much as he did "In my heart I knew what was the team's first loss of the sea- right, but it was still a difficult son. decision to come to," Van Young . "I'm embarrassed and I'll Gundy said at the Knicks' prac- take the blame for this because tice facility. .Coach Boeheim does not teach COACH, PAGE C-10 dead at 71 to play1 basketball like this. Former New York Giants ' That's not a Syracuse team the way we played. We did not do Knkfcs under Yon Gundy general manager returned the a good job. franchise to glory. "I wouldn't be-this upset if Jeff Van Gundy was in his seventh i we came and played Syracuse season with the New York Knicks The Associated Press when announced his resignation. i basketball and lost the game," • George Young, who turned the He took over as head coach Fine said. "That's not what we during the 1995-96 season after floundering New York Giants did tonight.'' Don Nelson was fired. into a two-time Super Bowl win- Syracuse (9-1) suffered its Van Gundy, 39, took the Knicks to ter and was one of the NFL's top first home loss to an unranked, the playoffs in each of his first six executives for more than two non-conference foe since a seasons, including a trip to the decades, died Saturday night 61-55 loss to Ohio on Dec. 4, 1999 NBA Finals and two trips to 'after a short illness. He was 71. 1998. North Carolina State the Eastern Conference finals. Stephen D Cannerelli/Staff photographer Young left the Giants after 19 (7-2) earned the second road He leaves as the third-winmngest DESHAUN WILLIAMS of Syracuse shoots over North Carolina State's Josh Powell (33) during coach in team history with a years following the 1997 season OFFlNSS,M«C-8 Saturday's non-conference game at the Carrier Dome. and became the NFL's executive record of 248-172, including 10-9 vice-president for football opera- this season. tions. He died in Baltimore, where he was born and where he began his NFL career in 1969 with the then-Baltimore Colts after teaching history and coach- Olympic hopeful begins with modest goals ing high school football. "He was in essence a teacher, Fulton native Maureen Hangac focused," said her mom, Kathie. country and tapering for the trials, It's no wonder, then, that when she looks forward to finishing the both in the history class and in eyes spot on U.S. women's football who helped people at all the nation's top 23 women short- season with a flourish. levels," said commissioner Paul snort-track speedskatmg team. track speedskaters gather Friday in "I just want to make the top 16 Salt Lake City to determine the and then after thflt, T think it'll he Tagiiabue, who spent Thursday By Donna Ditola and Friday with Young. Staff writer makeup of this year's Olympic more fun for me," she said. "Just to team, Maureen Hangac will be have the racing opportunity and the "No one cared more about the he was always the plucky sort. among the aspirants. Now 19, she experience of doing that — there's game of football than George When her mother dropped her has been training at the Saratoga not many people who get to do it." Young. He loved it and lived it Soff at kindergarten amid the Winter Club under the watchful eyes Hangac's been speedskating since for his entire life." frantic children who clutched their of Pat Maxwell, the longtime United she was 7. Her family would drive mom's legs and wailed at the States national coach and 1992 to Syracuse a couple times a week Index | impending separation, little Mau- Olympic coach. to skate at Sunnycrest reen simply waved her hand and dis- Hangac has set modest goals for UflTMfM-n C-2 missed her mom with an insouciant the trials, which will produce six CoHigebosVetUl'. C-6,C-7,C-8 "OK, see ya later." Olympic team members.
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