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B-14 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2010 THE NEW MEXICAN

SPORTS Favre down: Vikings QB’s

status uncertain after stress
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NBA NFL GIANTS 41, COWBOYS 35

Miami
set for
Big 3 Alexi Ogando practices Sunday in
Arlington, Texas. The Texas Rang-

debut
ers will face the San Francisco
Giants in the World Series.
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WORLD SERIES
All eyes will be on
Heat, Celtics opener Giants,
Rangers
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MIAMI — Before leaving for the

airport Monday and catching the flight
to Boston, Dwyane Wade had a con-
versation with the friend he calls Larry.
As in, the Larry O’Brien Trophy.
The one they give out for winning an
NBA championship.
“I asked him where he’s been,”
Wade said. “He’s eluded me. He’s
been missing for a while.”
Tonight, the Miami Heat will take
what they hope is their first steps
toward winning him when a season
of title expectations finally opens in
Boston. Miami squares off against the
reigning Eastern Conference cham-
pion Celtics in a matchup loaded with
story lines.
LeBron James’ opener with Miami
after seven seasons in Cleveland.
Wade’s first time with James and
Chris Bosh as his Heat running mates.
Shaquille O’Neal — once a teammate
to both Wade and James — playing
his first game in Celtics’ colors. Paul
Pierce, Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett
motivated by a Game 7 loss to the Lak-
ers in last season’s finals. Miami’s new
Big 3 vs. Boston’s not-so-new Big 3.
The Heat practiced one last time in
Miami on Monday morning, followed
by coach Erik Spoelstra gathering his
team in the locker room for a meeting.
“We’re all ready for this because of
get serious
Texas has to overcome
home-field advantage
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SAN FRANCISCO — Not only
have the Texas Rangers never been
to the World Series before, they are
winless in nine games at AT&T Park.
And make that an 11-game losing
streak in San Francisco dating back to
the windy, cold nights at the Giants’
former home of Candlestick Park.
The Rangers must find a way to
win in San Francisco’s pitcher-friendly
waterfront ballpark at least once,
because the Giants have home-field
advantage in the Series. Game 1 is
Wednesday night — and the Giants
know Texas manager Ron Washington
will have his team ready with postsea-
son ace Cliff Lee on the mound.
“I keep saying the same thing over:
It’s not the best team that wins, it’s
New York wide receiver Hakeem Nicks is tackled by Dallas cornerback Alan Ball during the first half the team that plays the best on that
Monday in Arlington, Texas. Despite valiant efforts, the Cowboys got clobbered. LM OTERO/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS day,” Washington said after his club
reached its first World Series by beat-

Stomping Dallas
ing the defending champion New
how long the summer has seemed,” York Yankees. “Well, that was quite a
Spoelstra said. “Seemed like it’s taken few days that we played better than
forever to get to this point. But it’s the teams we played and that’s why
finally here.” we are headed to the World Series.”
The Giants returned to the Bay
Area on Sunday afternoon following
their Game 6 victory Saturday night
Giants crush Romo’s collarbone — and the Cowboys’ hopes at Philadelphia that sent the fran-
chise to its first World Series since
The Associated Press 2008, when he was part of Detroit’s winless season. the Barry Bonds-led 2002 team that
finished runner-up to the Angels.

From left, Miami Heat players
Chris Bosh, LeBron James and
Dwyane Wade are interviewed in
September. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO
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PREP CROSS COUNTRY
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RLINGTON, Texas — Tony Romo’s season
might be over, and the Dallas Cowboys’
season might as well be.
As for Eli Manning and the New York
Giants, everything’s clicking.
Romo broke his left collarbone in the second quar-
ter, then his teammates let a 13-point lead turn into a
41-35 loss Monday night that helps send both teams in
opposite directions in the NFC East.
The Giants (5-2) won their fourth straight and
moved a full game ahead in the division.
Dallas slumped to 1-5, its worst start since 1989. That
was the year Jerry Jones bought the team, Jimmy John-
son took over as coach and the Cowboys went 1-15.
Everyone knew that team would stink. This club, how-
ever, had Super Bowl hopes.
Any chance of turning this season around ended
when Romo was drilled by blitzing linebacker Michael
Whether it was the long layoff, being 38 or both, he
sure looked rusty. This squad is so different from that
His first and third passes were tipped. The next time 2002 team. There is no superstar in
he dropped back, he was sacked for a 10-yard loss, forc- this gritty bunch.
ing Dallas to punt from its own end zone. The Giants “We fought,” said left fielder Pat
took advantage of the short field to score the go-ahead Burrell, one of several new faces to
touchdown. His next pass was fumbled by Jason Wit- come along during the course of the
ten, setting up Tynes’ long field goal. It got so bad that year. “We scratched and clawed. I don’t
there was a mock cheer when he completed a pass for know how we did it but we did it.”
a first down early in fourth quarter. Giants manager Bruce Bochy
Kitna ended up throwing a pair of touchdown
announced his rotation before the
start of Monday evening’s workout.
passes to rookie Dez Bryant in the final 3;17, but Dallas
Two-time reigning NL Cy Young
failed to recover onside kicks after each. New York got
Award winner Tim Lincecum will
another field goal from Tynes after the first, then ran
start the opener, followed by Matt
out the clock after the second.
Cain in Game 2. When the series
With the Super Bowl coming to Cowboys Stadium, shifts to Texas, Jonathan Sanchez will
and his club coming off a division title and a playoff start Game 3, followed by Madison
victory, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones knew he was Bumgarner.

S.F. High Boley in the second quarter. Recovery time is generally headed toward a season he’d never forget. Now, he Texas was scheduled to get into
8 to 10 weeks and, by then, there may not be any rea- wishes he could — and he still has 10 games left. town early Monday evening, opting to
son to rush back. The craziest part about this game was how many wait until today to hold its first work-

sets sights Romo went down hard on his left shoulder and things the Cowboys did right: A club that had only four out on the field where it has endured
remained flat on his back. X-rays showed the break takeaways all season snatched five. A special teams so many defeats. Yet since AT&T Park
before halftime, but he was back on the sideline for the group that was getting known for giving up big plays opened for the 2000 campaign, Nolan

on state
second half, his arm in a sling and covered by a jacket.
He wore a headset and trying to encourage teammates,
but there wasn’t much to cheer about.
The Cowboys actually were up only 10-7 when
Crucial District 2AAAA Romo left and stretched it to 20-7. Then New York
scored on its next five possessions, a 31-point flurry
made a huge one — a 93-yard punt return for a touch-
down by Bryant. They drew only five penalties.
But they also went 0 for 10 on third downs. And Romo
wasn’t the only guy lost to injury. Defensive end Jason
Hatcher and left guard Montrae Holland hurt groins.
Romo set the franchise record for yards passing in a
Ryan’s Rangers have at least made
things interesting. Of those nine losses
to the Giants, five were by two runs
and three by one run. The only some-
what lopsided score was 5-1.

race will decide fate that sent home much of the crowd by the middle of season last year, making the Pro Bowl for the third time.
WEDNESDAY ON TV
the third quarter. The Giants were ahead by the time In his brief action Monday night, he broke his own club
By Pancho Morris Romo’s injury was diagnosed. record by throwing for a touchdown in his 18th straight u World Series Game 1: Texas at San
The New Mexican Dallas backup Jon Kitna hadn’t played since Oct. 5, game. He was 5 of 7 for 39 yards. Francisco, 5:30 p.m. on FOX.

Peter Graham searches the

archives of his memory for faces.
He knows if he can picture a face,

Marion Jones regrets lying about drug use to feds

he can attach a date. After a couple
minutes, the screen inside his mind
remains blank of numbers.
“Let’s just say it’s long enough to
where it’s not fresh in my mind,” Gra-
ham says.
Graham, Santa Fe High School
cross country head coach, can’t put a
date next to the faces that last com-
peted as a team at the New Mexico
State Cross Country Championships.
“The state meet was still in Gallup
the last time I took a boys team,” Gra-
ham says. “It’s been at least 10 years,
if not more.”
The Demonettes’ last state appear-
ance is just as fuzzy, though 2000
comes into focus.
Please see STATE, Page B-3
Former Olympian
pens memoir
The Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas — Marion
Jones wants you to know she’s
sorry.
Not so much about the per-
formance-enhancing drugs she
took — unknowingly, she says —
when she was the most famous
and lauded track athlete in the
world, a winner of five medals
at the 2000 Sydney Olympics
— medals she no longer owns.
What Jones really wants you
to know is she’s sorry for lying
to federal investigators about
her drug use. That, and her role
in a check-fraud scam, are what
landed her in prison for six
months in 2008, during which
she spent a month and a half
in solitary confinement after
fighting another inmate.
“I surely wish that I could go
back and change certain things
in my past, on one hand, but
then I wouldn’t be who I am
today, someone who I’m actually
really proud of,” Jones said in
an interview with The Associ-
ated Press, her gaze steady. “If
I hadn’t gone through certain
things, and because I had those
six months or whatever — just
a lot of quiet time — if I hadn’t
gone through it, I don’t know if I
would ever have that much time
to reflect. A lot of people don’t.
“My story is unique, in that
the first part of my life, my
journey, I hit the pinnacle of my
career, and it was a very public
career, and then I made deci-
sions that cost me all of that,”
Jones said. “And so I was at that
low point. But I didn’t give up. I
kind of developed a way to get
out of that, and I’m on my way
back up.”
Her 213-page book, written
with Maggie Greenwood-Rob-
inson, is based in part on letters
Jones wrote to her husband, Marion Jones’
Obadele Thompson, while she memoir On the
Right Track is in
was in a federal prison in Fort
Worth. stores today.

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