Sailg 3ar Hppl SPORTSRRIEFS Field Hockey Correction North Carolina field hockey senior cap tain Kimberly Schroll was omitted from the list of UNC’s 1995 All-America play ers that ran in Monday’s DTH. Schroll garnered second-team honors after leading the Tar Heels with 22 assists this season. Schroll joins Tar Heels Kate Barber, Joy Driscoll and Nancy Pelligreen on the CFHCA All-America teams. The DTH regrets the error. Clemson, Cornhuskers Could Meet in '97 and '9B CLEMSON, S.C. Clemson and Ne braska are looking for a rematch of their 1982 Orange Bowl contest that gave Clemson its only national championship. School officials are discussing the possi bility of a two-game, home-and-home se ries in 1997 and 1998, Dwight Rainey, Qemson’s senior associate athletics direc tor, said Monday. Rainey called the potential for the series a “long shot, ” but Assistant Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner Tom Mickle gave better odds. “I’d say it’s 50-50," he said. “If they want to play, we can get this thing done." Clemson would have to buy out one of its existing contracts with a nonconference opponent to be able to fit Nebraska in its schedule. Clemson plays Appalachian State and Texas-El Paso in 1997 and Furman and Missouri in 1998. ABC and ESPN have expressed interest intelevisingtheClemson-Nebraska games, Mickle said. Clemson beat Nebraska 22-15 in the 1982 Orange Bowl. Also, the 24th-ranked Tigers received an invitation to play in this year’s Gator Bowl. Clemson is expected to face either No. 13 Virginia Tech, No. 22 Miami or Syracuse. Clemson coach Tommy West was presented with a plaque Tuesday by Gator Bowl officials as a formal invitation to the New Year’s Day game. Phillies Mascot Sued PHILADELPHIA The Phillie Phanatic, the wild, cartoon-like mascot who entertains Philadelphia baseball fans, has cost the Phillies $128,000. The big green character knocked down a 68-year-old man at a 1991 church carni val, and a Common Pleas Court jury awarded Carl G. Seidel SIOO,OOO in com pensatory damages Monday. The jury awarded Seidel’s wife $28,000 for the loss of his companionship. The Philadelphia Phillies baseball team, which owns the rights to the Phanatic, was ordered to pay the settlement. Seidel, now 72, a retired bus driver, called the award “peanuts.” He had asked for at least $525,000 and claimed that the Phanatic committed assault and battery. “I think the verdict stunk,” Seidel said. “I don’t think the jury took into consider ation the pain and suffering I have been goingthrough.... I can’t sleep at night. My bills are more than they allotted me.” Seidel’s lawyers said their client was talking with a group of men at the carnival when the tall mascot hugged him aggres sively, then hit him with either his belly or his nose, knocking him over. Seidel said the fall aggravated a previ ous back injury. William Keffer, who was portraying the Phanatic at the event, said he could not remember bumping into Seidel. FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS Calvin and Hobbes PVJE DONT TRUST THE GOVERNMENT, ’INTERESTING” X \TS UKE K VIE DONT TRUST THE LEGAL St STEM, IS A MILD WM SIX •'fEAR-OLD'S VIE DONT TRUST THE MEDIA. AND OF PUTTING IT. J DREAM COME j VIE DONT TRUST EACH OTHER; VV TRUE 1 . NEVE UNDERMINED ALL AUTHORWV, AND \ | Wt™ IT, THE BISKS FOR SEPUKWS IT.' THE Daily Crossword by Frances Burton ACROSS 1 Criticize harshly 5 Playwright Hart 9 “Two Years Before the —” 13 Dover’s fish 14 Encore 15 Noodles 16 Mix a salad 17 Italian money 18 Go in 19 Celebrated person 22 Greek god 23 Goof 24 avis 27 Creature with flippers 30 Rhyme scheme 34 Playwright Neil 35 Vicinity 37 Legal matter 3B Fist 42 Double curve 43 Squirrel away 44 Full of hazards 45 Cry 47 Take time out 49 Dark 50 54 52 Sandy's bark 54 Practical 62 Greene of TV 63 Troubles 64 Bakery enticement 66 Leaves out 67 Algonquian 68 Face the day 69 Decade numbers 70 “ Make a Deal” 71 Shortcoming DOWN 1 Fast plane 2 Boodle 3 Too 4 Plateau 5 Mediterranean island 6 Liver and— -7 Peon 8 Hit, as a fly ■T ¥ 1 r I e B a I t I m W Tt| e rHI i o N T O me M N O |e t'R B|n ECKSI ■ and I E O 0181 |S|E N T E N C E lo R Q sUw A a Inis eßt a r a Te ■SIT a V E D E N T E N T EjTBTJT nJMJII ■ ■■a SjH E S Tnc A R|A V A In a c aTr v e v jO[N Ej H EN S MnMNtHo] Bowl Invite Hinges on NCAA Rulings BY JAMES WHITFIELD SENIOR WRITER Four days after seemingly wrapping up a Carquest Bowl bid, the North Carolina football team’s postseason hopes remain up in the air. After postponing announcements twice, a Carquest Bowl spokesman now says that the bowl matchup will be finalized by the end of the week. After downing N.C. State 30-28 last Friday, UNC expected to re ceive a formal invitation on Monday, but the 15-member committee derided to wait. “We’ve been in contact with the Carquest Bowl regularly,” said UNC Di rector of Athletics John Swofford. “You just reach a point where the bowl has to extend a formal invitation. There’s noth ing else we can do on our end.” The Carquest, held Dec. 30inJoeRobbie Stadium in Miami, matches the ACC No. 4 or SEC No. 5 team against the Big East No. 3 team. The guaranteed payout is $750,000 per school. Portland Soccer Skipper Faces Long Journey THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORTLAND, Ore. When it comes to national football powers, the University of Portland ought to be on the list. This quiet Catholic school on “The Bluff” above the Willamette River in north Portland has not one, but two, powerful teams, and they’re both coached by Clive Charles. No, this school doesn’t play that bar baric American football with helmets, end less huddles and all those protective pads. This is “real” football, the kind they play in England, where Charles grew up and played professionally before moving to Portland as part of the Timbers of the old North American Soccer League. Charles will be racking up the frequent flier miles this week. His No. 2-ranked Wildcat Faithful Come Out In Wake of Rose Bowl Bid THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EVANSTON, 111. There’s only a week to go until final exams at Northwest ern, the school known for having the brains of the Big Ten. The buzz on campus, how ever Jsn’t about tests, it’s about Rose Bowl tickets. And how to get them. With the once-hapless Wildcats head ing to Pasadena for the first time in over 40 years, pigskin fever has hit with a ven geance. “Students are talking about football. That hasn’t happened in nearly 50 years,” said John Paynter, the school’s director of bands who, as a student, cheered on the Wildcats at their last bowl appearance the 1949 Rose Bowl. The campus bookstore had to add more cash registers to handle all the sales of Northwestern sweatshirts, hats, pompons and T-shirts. Vases of roses are plentiful around sub urban Evanston. University flags flap in store windows. Former students, including Charlton Heston, Cindy Crawford and Ann- Margret, have voiced their support for the Wildcats on television. And on Monday, so many Califomia dreaming fans jammed the phone lines to inquire about bowl tickets that the 33 Pale 34 Distort 36 Without direction 39 Insect stage 40 Night before 41 Triumphed 46 Herbage 48 Scratch pad 9 Hindu chanted word 10 Regarding 11 Do a slow burn 12 Mountain lake 15 Squint at 20 Punishes, in a way 21 —of Troy 24 Wash cycle 25 Tickle 26 Legendary bird 28 Abates 29 Altar in the sky 31 Block of baked clay 32 Ms. Sharp of "Vanity Fair” I 2 3 [4 Hs pi |7 pi ■■■p - 110 111 1 2 ■p- ■■■23 mm 25 26 ■Bp|2B 29 M M 34 ~ 3^*p7 38 39 40 41 42 ■■43 ■MB44 45 ~" ■■ ■■so“ 51 ■■■52~53 HM 54 55 56 |57 58 62 ■■63 ■■64 65 |Hi,h 69 ■■■■7 o ' guEsi The Tar Heels’ fate appears to hinge on the fortunes of two other schools. Both Alabama and Miami’s bowl eligibility re main uncertain. The Crimson Tide’s postseason standing has not been made public. TheNCAAhasn’truledonMiami. Even though neither school would go to the Carquest Bowl, the Bowl Alliance and other bowls pick ahead of the Carquest. “As soon as the Alliance shakes out their teams and Miami and Alabama are women’s soccer team plays No. 3 South ern Methodist on Friday in the NCAA Final Four at Chapel Hill, N.C., and his 13th-ranked men’s team plays at Santa Clara on Saturday night in the NCAA quarterfinals. If the women win, he’ll be back on a flight across the country in time to make it to Sunday’s national championship game. Portland’s nickname, the Pilots, seems entirely appropriate for the coach who might be making four cross-country flights in four days. “I hope I go to bed Monday a very tired and happy person,” he said. This year, Charles’ teams have a com bined 34-2-4 record. The women (19-0-1) haven’t lost since a 1-0 defeat to Notre Dame in the semifinals of last year’s Final university’s voice mail system broke. That was the first day the university was open after Michigan’s victory over Ohio State handed the Wildcats the Rose Bowl bid. Mary Doi, a senior and self-described fair-weather fan, was among those trying to get tickets. “It’s a once in a half-century chance,” she said. Until this season, when the Wildcats became the nation’s favorite underdogs, racking up a 10-1 record and capturing the Big Ten championship, the average SAT scores ofNorthwestem freshmen was more often a source of pride than the football team —especially during a 34-game losing streak between 1979 and 1982. But this year’s team was different, and students started attending games in droves although this was the first season they had to pay for tickets. Dyche Stadium, which seats 49,256, sold out three times this year; the school’s last sellout was in 1983. In six home games this season, 229,380 seats were sold, com pared to 171,909 last year. Charles Chun, a senior, remembers his reaction last spring when told he’d have to pay for his tickets. “I thought, ‘why should I have to pay to go see us lose?,”’ he said, smiling. “But it all worked out all right.” © 1995 Tribune Media Services, Inc. All rights reserved. 51 —of March 53 Red herrings 54 Mark 55 It. city 56 Land of leprechauns 57 Salt 58 Calamitous 59 Ripped 60 Singer Adams 61 Fragrant flower 65 Danger color SPORTS JOHN SWOFFORD said UNC doesn't want a Syracuse rematch. ruled on by the NCAA, (we will make a decision),” said Mitch Morrall, the director of com munications for the Carquest. That leaves four Carquest Bowl sce narios on the table. Keep in mind, these aren’t official, just educated guesses. The major assump tions are that Florida will beat Arkansas this Saturday in the SEC Championship Game, and the Carquest doesn’t want Maryland. ■ If Miami and Alabama are ruled in eligible, then UNC would receive a bid to play Georgia. Since only two Big East teams would be available, the Carquest would have to pair an ACC and SEC team. ■ If Miami is ruled eligible and Ala bama isn’t, then UNC would receive a bid Four, which was played at the 5,000-seat field built on the Portland campus five years ago. The men (15-2-3) are a bigger surprise, to everyone but Charles, at least. They weren’t ranked at the start of the season but advanced to the quarterfinals with a 4-1 victory over Butler last weekend. The women are led by Shannon MacMillan, a three-time all-American who has 22 goals this season and 86 in her career. She scored the only goal in last weekend’s 1-0 quarterfinal victory over Maryland. MacMillan marvels at how Charles can get everything done in running two teams. “We do not know how this guy does it,” she said. “He’s out there on the field four hours a day in practice, and he’s in his Average Baseball Salary Declines THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK The average baseball salary went down by nearly $58,000 this year, the first substantial decline in 30 years. The average salary was $1,110,766, ac cording to final figures released Tuesday by the Major League Baseball Players As sociation at its annual meeting in Aventura, Fla. That was a five percent drop from the 1994 average of $1,168,263. i Clubs spent more money on players this year—about $924 million, an increase of sls million from 1994. And the New York Yankees became the first club with an average to top $2 million 52,000,271. But the average declined because there were far more players in the majors on Aug. 31, the last day before rosters ex panded. While there were 762 players in the majors in Aug. 31,1994, there were 824 on Aug. 31 this year. The increase was caused by more players on the disabled list. This year’s decline also was due to the huge increase in rookies, caused by the teams’ desire to reduce payrolls following the 232-day strike that paralyzed major league baseball in 1994. There were 238 players with less than one year of major league service on Aug. 31 rosters, an increase of 100 from last year. A Triangle Women's Health Clinic Low cost termination to 20 weeks of pregnancy. Call for an appointment Monday - Saturday. FREE Pregnancy Testing "Dedicated to the Health Care of Women." 942-0011 101 Connor Dr., Suite 402 Chapel Hill, NC across from University Malt ABORTION TO 20 WEEKS FEDEBALTHEATER^^ 967-4737 All Auditorium* SURROUND STEREO CASINO 1 L Pally 3;IS, 7;3Q , J IT TAKES TWO (ml L Pally 3:Ofl, Blip, 7:1 B, 9:20 POWDER IEH3 Dairy at AlrpaM 84. 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Morrall said that isn’t necessarily the case, but Swofford knows it’s a factor. “Syracuse would probably prefer not to have a rematch,” Swofford said. “We would prefer not to have a rematch and the bowl would not prefer to have a rematch. ” If the Carquest Bowl bid falls through, UNC looks to be out in the cold. The only other bowls which couldhaveinvitedUNC have already announced their matchups. Justin Scheef contributed to this article. office the rest of the time recruiting and doing everything else he does. It just shows how hard he works in the performances he gets.” Portland, which has an enrollment of just 2,700 and is run by the same Catholic order that operates Notre Dame, had an unspectacular athletic heritage until Charles came along. He led thementotheNCAAFinalFour in 1988 and has built two programs that lure some of the best in the sport to the Northwest. Charles, 43, insistsit’sno big deal coach ing two teams. He even finds time to serve as an assistant coach of the U.S. men’s national team. “I’m used to it. I don’t find that it’s that difficult now,” he said. Since the union began tracking salaries in 1967, the only previous decrease in the average was in 1987, when the average declined a meager $66 to $412,454 during the collusion era. The median salary the point where an equal number of players make above and below the figure plunged 39 per cent, from $450,000 to $275,000, accord ingtocalculationsbymanagement’sPlayer Relations Committee. Atlanta, which won its first World Se ries title in October, had the second-high est average at $1,917,599, according to the union figures. Cincinnati was third at $1,585,876, fol lowed by Toronto at $1,534,355, Balti more at $1,498,623 and Cleveland at $1,493,959. Cleveland was beaten by the Braves in the World Series. The eight teams that advanced to the playoffs all had average salaries among the top 13 in the league. 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Virginia coach George Welsh, whose team brought an end to Florida State’s domination of the Atlantic Coast Confer ence, was named the Associated Press ACC coach of the year. W elsh was one of four people to receive individual awards during the league's an nual banquet in Atlanta on Tuesday night. Seminole quarterback Danny Kanell was a double-winner, capturing offensive player of the year honors as well as player of ffie year. Simmons was picked rookie of the year. Welsh was a runaway winner in ballot ing by the Atlantic Coast Sports Writers Association. He captured 52 of the 86 ballots cast, far ahead of Clemson coach Tommy West, whogot 19. George O’Leary of Georgia Tech was third with 13 and Bobby Bowden of Florida State was next with two. The Cavaliers suffered tough last-sec ond losses to Michigan and Texas, and were knocked off by North Carolina in- Chapel Hill. Before a national television audience, Virginiaranouttoacomfortable leadovertheSeminoles, then made it stand in a fourth-quarter comeback that ended inches short of the goal line. “The players should get most of the credit because they have to do the work, and my assistant coaches should get the remainder of the credit,” Welsh said. “I’m more ofasupervisorand I delegate now, so they’re the ones doing the work. I think it’s something they can appreciate too.” Kanell received 40 votes for the offen sive player award, beating Virginia run ning back Tiki Barber’s 25. Seminole run ning back Warrick Dunn was third with 18 votes, followed hyMaanftand wide receiver Jermaine Lewis with three and Pooh Bear Williams of Florida State with one. The player of the year voting was a little closer, with nearly thesame orderoffinish. Kanell got 31 votes, Barber received 23 and Dunn collected 13. Lewis was fourth with three, Jones was next with two, and Simmons and Will Brice of Virginia each got one vote. Kanell was the league’s most efficient passer and 13th-best in the nation. He also was the ACC’s total offense leader. Only three players were considered for rookie of the year. Simmons got all but 11 of the 87 votes cast. He was the ACC’s third-leading tackier. Engagement Rings . ■\[/ 10%-15% OFF’ Official Wholesale Price List! S.A. Peck & Cos. 55 E. Washington, Chicago, IL 60602 For a FREE 32-Page Color Catalog Toll-Free (800) 922-0090 FAX (312) 977-0248 Internet Catalog at http: //www.sapeck.com/sapeck TJ-TE A M E _RJ_C AN PRES IDE N T 967-8665 | 11 .EE

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