Numbers Game Thorpe Scores All the Points for Carlisle
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THIS DAY IN SPORTS 1911 — Carlisle Indian School of Carlisle, Pa., led by Jim Thorpe, beats nationally ranked Har- vard 18-15 before 25,000 in Cambridge, Mass. Numbers Game Thorpe scores all the points for Carlisle. Antelope Valley Press, Wednesday, November 11, 2020 C3 Women’s College Basketball | Top 25 Poll NASCAR | In the Pits South Carolina No. 1 in NASCAR closes stabilized, energized AP preseason hoops poll By JENNA FRYER winner of the fan-selected most the award, too, but Bill Elliott in time, NASCAR seems to have sta- By DOUG FEINBERG Mississippi State was Associated Press popular driver award but never 2001 removed his name from the bilized. Associated Press sixth. Arizona was sev- AVONDALE, Ariz. — Drivers, won a championship. Elliott took ballot and encouraged fans to hon- The series for at least a de- NEW YORK — enth, the first time since finally, stop your engines. the reins in 2018 after Earnhardt or his late rival, Dale Earnhardt Sr. cade has been adjusting to an ev- Dawn Staley already has 2004 that the Wildcats NASCAR has waved the retired and rewarded his loyalists Chase Elliott, who turns 25 lat- er-changing economic landscape, accomplished so much have been ranked in the checkered flag on its frenetic 2020 in just his fifth full season at NA- er this month and is NASCAR’s an aging fan base, declining tele- SCAR’s top level. third-youngest champion, is very vision ratings and attendance, and at South Carolina. Now preseason poll. North season, a whirlwind of rescheduled and relocated races, some held He has faced quixotic expec- much like his dad: soft-spoken out- a dearth of star power. When the she can add the first pre- Carolina State, UCLA with lots of fans, some fans and tations since he was 14 — that’s side of the car, calm and calculated pandemic put NASCAR on a 10- season No. 1 ranking in and Oregon rounded out school history to the list no fans at all. The effort to com- when Rick Hendrick gave him a behind the wheel. The family has week pause in March, the series the top 10. of achievements. plete all 38 races during the pan- driver development contract — never left its Georgia hometown could have collapsed. The Gamecocks re- RESPECTING THE demic was rewarded with a new from peers who saw his heritage of Dawnsonville — a small town Instead, NASCAR was one of ceived 29 of the 30 first- CATS champion, who just happens to be as a means to re-energizing a sport of less than 3,000 people an hour the first sports to resume competi- place votes in The Asso- Northwestern was NASCAR’s reigning most popular that saw its biggest stars trickle out outside of Atlanta — and they still tion, first to get fans back into the ciated Press preseason ranked in the preseason driver. of the driver’s seat the last five sound the siren at the local pool stands and first to complete its en- women’s Top 25 released poll for the first time Chase Elliott won three of the years. Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, hall whenever an Elliott wins. tire schedule. A new car originally Tuesday. since 2015, coming in at final five races, including Sunday’s Carl Edwards and Earnhardt have When Harvick was asked in scheduled for 2021 was postponed “It’s pretty cool to be No. 17. Joe McKeown’s winner-take-all finale at Phoenix all retired, and seven-time cham- 2017 what NASCAR needed to a year, but expectations of the car the first to do things at a squad was in the AP Raceway, to claim the first Cup of pion Jimmie Johnson joined the re-energize its base, he pointed di- improving the business model has group Sunday. rectly to Elliott. ignited interest among new team place, where you can feel Top 25 for the final nine his career. His late-season surge up- staged Kevin Harvick and Denny Elliott’s instant popularity was “NASCAR needs Chase El- owners. the love for our team in weeks last season, climb- Hamlin, the two most dominant ordained not for what he did in his liott to win,” Harvick said. “Chase NASCAR President Steve this town,” said Staley, ing to No. 11 in the final who has won a national drivers this year, and elevated the Chevrolet, but because of his fam- Elliott is the tie to the traditional Phelps called 2020 “the single most poll. There is a lot of ex- championship and five second-generation NASCAR star ily tree, which dates to a NASCAR NASCAR fan. It’s the only shot difficult year that we’ve faced as a SEC Tournament ti- citement around the pro- alongside his Hall of Fame father some fans still yearn for. Bill Elliott they’ve got with the traditional sport,” but a year in which the in- tles since coming to the gram because of senior as NASCAR champions. won the 1988 Cup title, 44 races NASCAR fan. His dad, the histo- dustry unified to keep cars on the school in 2008. “They’ve Lindsey Pulliam, who It was a promising close for NA- and fans voted “Awesome Bill from ry and heritage of the sport, there track. Next year’s season-opening been along this journey was first team all-confer- SCAR, which very much needs Dawsonville” the most popular isn’t anybody else in the lineup that Daytona 500 is still on schedule with us and allowed us to ence last year, and junior its young stars in the spotlight. driver a record 16 times. I can think of.” for Feb. 14 and plans now include do things like this.” Veronica Burton, the Big Dale Earnhardt Jr. was a 12-time He would have kept winning He’s won now. And at the same spectators in the stands. The Gamecocks, who Ten Defensive Player of had been second twice the Year. MLB MLS COLLEGE FOOTBALL NFL MOTORSPORTS in the preseason poll, Western Conference AMERICAN CONFERENCE CONFERENCE AL Managers of the The AP Top 25 NASCAR Cup Series in 2014 and 2015, fin- W L T Pts GF GA The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press West SUPREMECY Year x-Sporting KC 12 6 3 39 38 25 college football poll, with first-place votes in W L T Pct PF PA Schedule-Winners Selected by the Baseball Writer’s Kansas City 8 1 0 .889 286 183 Feb. 9 — x-Busch Clash at DAYTONA (Erik ished last season at No. Association of America: x-Seattle 11 5 6 39 44 23 parentheses, records through Nov. 7, total The Southeastern x-Portland 11 6 6 39 46 35 points based on 25 points for a first-place Las Vegas 5 3 0 .625 218 229 Jones) 2020 — Kevin Cash, Tampa Bay Denver 3 5 0 .375 174 217 1 for the first time. Sta- x-Minn. United 9 5 7 34 36 26 vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, Feb. 13 — x-Bluegreen Vacations Duel 1 at Conference, Big Ten and 2019 — Rocco Baldelli, Minnesota L.A. Chargers 2 6 0 .250 205 216 DAYTONA (Joey Logano) x-FC Dallas 9 6 7 34 28 24 and previous ranking: ley hopes that this year’s 2018 — Bob Melvin, Oakland East Feb. 13 — x-Bluegreen Vacations Duel 2 at Pac-12 each have five 2017 — Paul Molitor, Minnesota x-LAFC 9 8 5 32 47 39 Record Pts Pv team will get a chance to 1. Alabama (59) 6-0 1547 2 W L T Pct PF PA DAYTONA (William Byron) 2016 — Terry Francona, Cleveland x-San Jose 8 9 6 30 35 51 Buffalo 7 2 0 .778 242 233 Feb. 16 — DAYTONA 500 (Denny Hamlin) teams in the preseason 2015 — Jeff Banister, Texas x-Colorado 8 6 4 28 32 28 2. Notre Dame (2) 7-0 1464 4 compete for a national 3. Ohio St. (1) 3-0 1449 3 Miami 5 3 0 .625 222 161 Feb. 23 — Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy 2014 — Buck Showalter, Baltimore Vancouver 9 14 0 27 27 44 poll. The ACC has four, 4. Clemson 7-1 1355 1 New England 3 5 0 .375 166 194 Lube (Joey Logano) championship after last 2013 — Terry Francona, Cleveland LA Galaxy 6 12 4 22 27 46 N.Y. Jets 0 9 0 .000 121 268 March 1 — Auto Club 400 (Alex Bowman) 2012 — Bob Melvin, Oakland 5. Texas A&M 5-1 1223 7 season’s NCAA Tourna- with the Big East and Big Real Salt Lake 5 10 7 22 25 35 6. Florida 4-1 1213 8 South March 8 — FanShield 500 (Joey Logano) 2011 — Joe Maddon, Tampa Bay Houston 4 10 9 21 30 40 W L T Pct PF PA March 15 — Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, 2010 — Ron Gardenhire, Minnesota 7. Cincinnati 6-0 1208 6 ment was canceled be- 12 each having two. The Eastern Conference Tennessee 6 2 0 .750 232 201 Hampton, Ga. 2009 — Mike Scioscia, Los Angeles 8. BYU 8-0 1101 9 cause of the coronavirus Missouri Valley and West W L T Pts GF GA 9. Miami 6-1 958 11 Indianapolis 5 3 0 .625 208 160 March 22 — Dixie Vodka 400, Homestead, 2008 — Joe Maddon, Tampa Bay Houston 2 6 0 .250 193 242 Fla. 2007 — Eric Wedge, Cleveland x-Philadelphia 13 4 5 44 42 20 10. Indiana 3-0 956 13 pandemic. Coast Conference each x-Toronto FC 13 4 5 44 32 24 11.