MONDAY, DECEMBER 17,2001 TIGER, ONE MORE TIME The Post-Standard iger Woods gave his fans one final Ttreat for 2001, making five consecutive birdies on the back nine to blowl by Vijay Singh and capture the Williams World Challenge on Sunday at Thousand Oaks, Calif. Woods tied the Sherwood Country SPORTS Club record with an Bears steamroll into playoffs for first time since 1994 8-under-par 64. STORY, PAGE D-2 Knicks stumble to fourth consecutive loss under new coach Digest Corcoran graduate Browns fans brew near riot leads the 'Dawgs Players are forced from the the Browns, who were out of timeouts, .quickly rushed to the "" "Former Corcoran High field by when thousands of MoreNFLonD-4,D-5 line of scrimmage. On first 'School star Camille Murphy • Controversy creeps into Bills loss plastic bottles are thrown. down, Couch spiked the ball with came through in overtime as No. to Patriots. .••';,• 48"seconds' 'to gcv-i and'^y/a's ; 10 Georgia held off No. 16 North The Associated-Press • Jets recover td'siib past ' 'Is. 1 .'.-V ••!,!;.,. • • ^T . headed' to 'the .sideline '-when the • Carolina State for a 68-63 win. Cleveland —vAn pVertumed officials began -tti discussi. Mor- Murphy made Georgia's only : call in thermal; ^minute helped decided to resume-play, •bringing gan's catch. "... V field goal in overtime and hit six give the Jacksonville Jaguars a Cleveland's defense and Jack- : of the Bulldogs' 12 free throws ';" After several confusing min-'. 15-10 win : over • Cleveland and sonville's offense out of the lock- • lite's, referee' Terry 'McAulay an- in overtime. er room. .;' ' caused a near riot: by, bottle- nounced: that the officials -were "On our comeback, it was all throwing Browns,fins. ."I've never seen a .game, reviewing the play. When' McAu- Camille," Georgia coach Andy The fans pelted the field with heard of a: game anything like lay finally emerged from :the .TV Landers said. this," Browns;, coach Butch . review ;mohitor, he announced: In the day's biggest game, No. thousands of plastic^bottles — many of them filled with beer — Davis said.; "It'^ disappointing. -- that' Morgan did -not' catch the " 2 Tennessee defeated No. 6 Stan- It put bur players in as much ."•ball.;' .'• / • ".'.'•;' '.-•- V-:\ "i\, ford 68-62. and other debris before, the game was stopped with 48 seconds left: jeopardy as theirs." -. ...Replays showed that Morgan- STORY, PAGE D-6 A few fans tried to run on the . was hobbling the ball;as he fell: The fans' ugly behavior came tp';gr6urid. ' , v .-••'..'•' '• .'•/': field but were quickly caught by after the Browns had a first down , As Cleveland's bench erupted . Local skater advances security personnel. .". > at Jacksonville's 9-yard line taken away despite running:, a •'., in protest, Browns -fans in. the, in US. Olympic trials The Jaguars had to dodge fly- "Dawg Pound'': bleacher, section ing objects as they; sprinted off play before the officials reviewed Liverpool's Adam Duncan closest to ,the-'play "began hurling :''''•''•'. •. '--.('' • The Associated Press will continue his quest to qualify the field, and the officials, were it. bottles,, and:other objects frdhi the'.. THE JACksdNyiiLE JAGUARS' Kyle Brady hurries off the field with for the U.S. Olympic speedskat- doused with beer and cups of ice Browns quarterback Tim stands;/- ''.".•• • . '... ' .;; ••.-..,; ; 48 seconds/tQiplay.Sunday after Cleveland Browns fans began •ing team. as they tried to run for safety. Couch had apparently completed . ." The Jaguars .moved away .from. Kurlihg plastic beer bottles and cups of ice. The fans reacted after . Duncan finished 14th in Fri- . Nearly 30 minutes later, offi- a fburth-and-2 pass to wide're- .' then; bench to: avoid getting hit, an apparent clutch .catch by the Browns was overturned by day's time trials. The top 16 ath- cials.— under orders of NFL; ceiver Quincy Morgan with 1 : and McAulay announced' the referees: Theigame. resumed 30 minutes after the near-riot and letes moved on in the trials, commissioner Paul Tagliabue — minute, 8 seconds remaining, and . game was over/; . •;. .; • .'.-•' Jacksonville hjjng.Qn to win 15-10. which will, conclude next week- end.:puncan, 19, trains at North- ernMichigan University. The top six men and women from the trials will make the U.S. team. Fulton's Maureen Hangac fin- ished 23rd in time trials and did not move past the first stage Nets stay busy, trade SU Strait-Jacketed for starting pitcher •-- JThe New York Mets made ."another deal Sunday, trading out- Orangemen fielder Tsuyoshi Shinjo and m- fielder Desi Relaford to the San squeezed dry Francisco Giants for pitcher „ Sha^vfi'Estes Shinio and Relaford were nice in second surprises for, the Mets in 2001, but the opportunity to trade them straight loss for a proven starting pitcher was ' too gpodto pass up., f. __ By Pete Thamel . Estes} 28,( was 9,-ft with a 4 02 Staff writer "ERA in 27 starts for the Giants Atlanta — Eight days after The lefty was-ian AllTStar in 1997 an embarrassing loss to North when he worf/19 games. , ; Carolina Stale, nothing. ' '""if.'' ' ,. '.':'• '!-" ''..'' ' • •'•'' changed Sunday for the Syra- Student alleges sexual cuse University basketball assault at recruit party team. »>"••«•--. -.-• vV - '• •'. f^u '.-.'.*. Mercurial guard DeShaun -,^_City and campus police in ; Williams still played undisci- •Boulder, Colo., will determine plined, playground-style bas- whether charges should be filed ketball, and the Orangemen in-thejinvestigation of an alleged again' looked disheveled with- gang rape thatmight have in- out head coach Jim Boeheim. 5«)lyed University of Colorado In routing SU 96-80, un- football recruits. .v. ._•.,:..•.' ranked Georgia Tech (4-5) cap- " A Colorado student, whose italized on the Orangemen's name has been withheld, reported sloppy offense and lethargic to campus police that she had defense in front of 7,116 fans at been sexually assaulted by a sev- Philips Arena. eral people at an off-campus Nine turnovers by Williams party for football recruits on Dec. proved to be the lowlight of the 7. It was unclear if any players or Orangemen's second consec- recruits was directly involved in utive loss — one which show- the alleged incident. cased SU's struggles without Boeheim, who is out until Dec. Tar Httls hold off 29 following prostate surgery. Ifcatantoa upset bid "He left and it hasn't gone, ""; Jason Capel made the go- well," said associate coach ahead 3-ppinter with 58 seconds Bemie Fine, Boeheim's interim left as North Carolina edged replacement. "I put a lot of this Binghamton 61-60 Sunday at on myself. The coach is re- Chapel Hill, N.C. sponsible for how the team '."'What had been a miserable plays." season so far for North Carolina And for a second consec- (2-4) TT with losses to Hampton utive game, the Orangemen and Davidson — almost got un- (9-2) played lousy. bearable as the Tar Heels needed Stephen D. Cannerelli / Staff photographer SU's passive zone defense «late rally to hold off the Bear- SYRACUSE'S KUETH DUANY is double-teamed by Georgia Tech's Marvin Lewis (24) and Clarence Moore during Sunday's game at allowed Tech to jump to an cats (3-6) in the Smith Center. Philips Arena in Atlanta. Duany led SU with 20 points but the Orangemen were trounced 96-80. JACKETS, PAGE D-6 ""Binghamton, a Division I new- comer, hung close by tying a school-record with 12 3-pointers. A*d we qtote Spotlight turns back O'Leaiy lie included ! Detroit receiver Desmond Howard, after the Lions defeated Minnesota 27-24 on Sunday for on Knight's behavior on a bio form at SU their first victory of the season in 13 games: The Associated Press 2000 as coach at Indiana after a HM coach was qikk to offer and sad set of events," Louis M. ....'.'You gotta give these guys — Houston — An arena manag- series of outbursts, was unavail- his resignation after the form Nanni, vice president of public fad the coaches — credit. It ain't er says Bob Knight cursed him able for comment. ' affairs and communication, said easy getting a team up for a game and offered to fight when he con- Team spokesman Randy Far-, was disclosed. Sunday. when you're 0-10,0-11." fronted the Texas, Tech coach ley said he watched — but didn't The Associated Press Notre Dame's sports informa- ... ',' Staff, news service reports over remarks about the build- hear.— the conversation between ' • - • The Associated Press tion office got a call Wednesday ing's locker rooms. Knight and MacDonald. "At no TEXAS TECH COACH Bobby South Bend, Ind. — The lies from The Union Leader of Man- Index | Jerry MacDonald, general time did coach raise his voice or Knight, shown during a game George O'Leary lived for 21 chester, N.H., about a story on manager of the Compaq Center, respond unprofessionally to a sit- in Houston's Compaq Center on years unraveled in a'. span of the new Notre Dame football D-6 said Sunday that he approached uation that. was. foisted upon Friday, allegedly became about 30 hours, leaving him job- coach, whose biographical sketch Knight after the coach criticized him," Farley said. involved in a verbal less and Notre Dame embarrass- said that he had earned three let- ed and without a coach. the size of its locker rooms fol- After Tech defeated Houston confrontation with the arena's ters as a UNH football player. ____ D-7 lowing a game Friday night 71-64 Sunday, Knight used his manager after the game. It began 6 p.m. Wednesday with a question about O'Leary's The Union Leader interviewed __ D-7 Knight responded with a flurry of news conference to criticize the.