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1921 - The United
States defeats Japan in five
straight matches to win the
Davis Cup.
1932 — Ellsworth Vines
wins the men's singles title
in the U.S. Lawn Tennis
Association championships
with a three-set
over France's
Cochet.
1944 — Frank Parker
wins the men's singles title
with a four-set victory over
Bill Talbert in the U.S.
Lawn Tennis Association
championships. Pauline
Betz captures her third
straight women’s title with
6-3, 8-6 victory over
Margaret Osborne.
1945 — Frank Parker
defends his U.S. Open title,
defeating Bill Talbert 14-
12, 6-1,6-2 in the final of
the first postwar U.S. Open.
1956 — Jockey John
Longden surpasses Sir
Gordon Richards' then-
record number of wins by
riding Arrogate to victory
in the Del Mar Handicap at
Del Mar Racetrack to attain
his 4,871st victory.
1975 — Eighteen-year-
old Martina Navratilova
defeats 33-year-old
Margaret Court, competing
in her 11th and final U.S.
Open, 6-2, 6-4. in the
women's quarterfinals.
1977 — Ken Rose wall,
two months shy of his 43rd
birthday, is beaten by 24-
year-old Jose Higueras, 6-
4, 6-4. The in a best-of-
three-set third-round match
marks Rosewall's final U.S.
Open singles match.
1989 - Chris Evert
defeats 15-year-old Monica
Seles 6-0,6-2 for her 101st
and final U.S. Open singles
win.
1994 — Terry Dean of
Florida tosses an NCAA
record-tying seven TD
passes in the first half of
the Gators' 70-21 victory
over New Mexico State.
1994 — Miami beats
Georgia Southern 56-0,
breaking an NCAA record
with its 58th consecutive
home victory. The
Hurricanes surpass
Alabama's record of 57
wins in a row at home set
from 1962-82.
2001 — Jockey John
Velazquez becomes the
first jockey to ride six win-
ners on a single card at
Saratoga Racecourse.
Velazquez guides Starinc to
a 514-length victory in the
Diana Handicap, a 1 1-8
mile turf race, for his sixth
win.
2001 - No. 1 seed
Gustavo Kuerten finishes
off a two-sets-to-love
comeback at 12:17 a.m
defeating Max Mimyi, 6-7,
5-7, 7-6, 7-6, 6-2, to
become only the third No.
1-seeded man to come back
from two sets down in the
Open Era at the U.S. Open.
2006 — Annika
Sorenstam ties the LPGA
record for the lowest final-
round score by a tourna-
ment winner with a 62.
Down five strokes at the
start of play, Sorenstam
shoots 10 under for the day
to finish 19 under, two
strokes ahead of Cristie
Kerr in the State Farm
Classic.
2007 — Pedro Martinez
completes his comeback
from major shoulder sur-
gery, becoming the 15th
pitcher to strike out 3JOOO
batters in his career. The
New York Mets' right-han
der fans Aaron Harang for
the milestone as the Mets
post a 10-4 win over
Cincinnati.
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#4 James Hughes, #5 Mark Marshall, *7 Jared Bruton, *8 Frank
Covington, #9, *10, *11 Casey Williams, *12Devyn Diffee, *13
Paytin Lucas, *15 Trenton Stark, *16, *17, *20 Blake Rogers,
*21, *22 Mason Marcus, *23 Brendon Stites, *24 Dillon
McGuire, *25, *30 Matthew Marshall, *32 Jaiden Wingo, *33
Hayden Hutchins, *34, *36 Jordan Clark, *40 Jacob Crall, *41
Gavin Sharp, *42 Charlie Robinson, *44 Kolton Peterson, *45
Hunter Phillups, *50 Caleb Robb, *54 Timmy Roth, *55 Caleb
Guinn, *56 Jonathan Olson, *57 Hunter Smith, *58 William
Peterson, *60 Riley Masterson, *61 Jared Thompson, *63
Ted Schenk, *65 Bryce Murray, *66 Matthew Vaughan, *68
Deavin Hancock, *70 Patrick Tidwell. *72, *73, *74 Randy
Chavez, *75, *76, *77, *81 Tristan Gregory, *82 Carson Beem, *83,
*85 Dylan Yarnell, *88 Lance Davis and Freshman Chris Jones.
Central Michigan, QB
Rush have OSU's attention
CLIFF BRUNT
AP SPORTS WRITER
The final quarter of Central Michigan's
2014 season has Oklahoma State's attention
heading into their matchup on Thursday
night.
The Chippewas trailed
Western Kentucky 49-14 in
the fourth quarter of the
Bahamas Bowl last year,
yet had a chance to win
after scoring a wild touch-
down with time expired.
After the play, which included a Hail
Mary and several laterals, the Chippewas lost
49-48 when they failed on a two-point con-
version.
"They're never out of a ballgame. at least
they've shown that in the past," Oklahoma
State defensive coordinator Glenn Spencer
said. "So they're used to coming back and
used to not getting down when things go had.
They've moved the ball against a lot of good
defenses this past year, and a lot of those kids
are back."
The quarterback who threw that Hail Mary.
Cooper Rush, is back. He passed for 27 touch-
downs last season, including seven in the
Bahamas Bowl loss. He ranked among the
Mid American Conference leaders in touch-
down passes, pass efficiency, passing yards
per game and total offense last year.
Rush, who will start his 24th consecutive
game, said no matter the quality of the oppo-
nent, it comes down to basics.
"We’ve got to be smart, play smart — that's
always the key," he said. "Don't beat yourself,
and you have a chance to beat anybody. That's
just how football is everywhere. The team that
makes the least amount of mistakes usually
comes out on top."
Figuring out exactly what Rush will do will
be a challenge for the Cowboys because
Central Michigan has a new coach in John
Bonamcgo.
"We really just can't go 100 percent off film
from what you've seen last year, so that's the
biggest question," Spencer said.
"We're always uneasy
about the first game. On
our side of the ball you
could get any formation,
you could get anything.
They haven't shown what
their favorites arc. It's
nerve-racking."
The Cowboys counter Central Michigan's
offense with a defense that has its share of star
power, starting with two experienced defen-
sive ends. Emmanuel Ogbah was a first-team
All Big 12 honoree last season after notching
11 sacks and 17 tackles for loss last year. He
has at least one sack in six of his past eight
games. Jimmy Bean had 42 tackles last sea-
son and six tackles for loss. Both have started
26 consecutive games.
If Rush gets his passes off, he'll deal with an
experienced secondary. Comerbacks Kevin
Peterson. Ashton Lampkin. Michael Hunter
and Ramon Richards and safeties Jordan
Stems and Tre Flowers all have been starters.
Peterson, a senior who is on the Jim Thorpe
Award watch list, is the top returnee. He had
13 passes defended and two interceptions a
year ago. Hunter, a senior comerback, is a
transfer from Indiana who started the past two
seasons for the Hoosiers. .The talent gives the
Cowboys confidence that they can handle
whatever Central Michigan brings.
"I feel like we have an advantage because
we have speed, so we re going to run to the
ball," Ogbah said. "That makes it less space
that the offense has to make plays happen."
College football starts, playoff talk begins
No sports season starts better than college football. With lit-
tle competition right before the baseball pennant races heat up
and the middle weekend of U.S. Open tennis, college football
opens with a long holiday weekend of games, concluding w ith
No. 1 Ohio State trying to avenge its last loss at Virginia Tech
on Labor Day night.
True, many of the matchups are of the hammer vs. nail vari-
ety, with Power Five teams facing low-level Group of Five
foes. Or those FBS vs. FCS matchups, which produce about 10
blowouts for every upset (Villanova over UConn if you're
looking for an FCS upset).
But there are plenty of enticing matchups in Week I. And
even in this playoff era where second chances are more plenti-
ful. one loss can be one too many. Just ask TCU and Baylor.
We start the season by introducing a new feature to the
picks, reaching into the Twitter bag to answer a few questions
from readers and take requests on games to pick outside the
Top 25:
Q: How bad is the Illinois job? — @BSargent()KC
A: My perception of Illinois is a program that should be
more successful than it is. That if it can just get the right coach
it should be able to match the type of success Iowa has had
through the years. Hawkeyes fans may he tired of Kirk
Ferentz, but if you offered Illinois fans 12 bow l games and
four double-digit-win seasons in 14 years. I'd bet most would
sign up.
The reality is during the 17 seasons Ferentz has been at
Iowa, Illinois has had five winning seasons and won more than
seven games three times — which strongly suggests there is
more than just a coach problem in Champaign.
Q: What are the chances there will be four or more unde-
feated teams at season's end? — @Jamie_crane
A: An unbeaten team from one of the Power Five confer-
ences not getting into the College Football Playoff would
almost certainly create the greatest outcry and calls to expand
it.
The good news for the selection committee is the odds are
stacked against that happening. During the 12-year BCS era.
only twice (2004 and '09) did more than four teams go into the
bowls unbeaten, and never were the five teams from what we
now consider the Power Five (Big Ten. Big 12. Atlantic Coast
Conference. Pac-12 and Southeastern Conference).
Q: Sleeper team to make a push for the CFB playoff’ -
@SydneyCartonl
A: Defining a dark horse is the first step.
. We'll make the line outside the AP preseason
top 15 for this discussion and offer up
Oklahoma. The Sooners are coming in with
relatively low expectations after sink-
ing to 8-5 last season. The combination
of new quarterback Baker Mayfield
and new offensive coordinator Lincoln
Riley should drastically improve the
passing game. The running game with
Samaje Perine is already strong. The
pass defense needs to be better, but I
have a hard time buying that the Sooners
are simply no match for TCU and Baylor in the Big 12.
The picks:
THURSDAY
No. 2 TCU (minus 14 1/2) at Minnesota
Gophers could use some snow to slow down the Homed
Frogs. Forecast calls for a low of 70 degrees.... TCU 34-17.
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Bielema confident about Arkansas defense despite turnover
BY DARRELL SUMNER
HERALD WRITER
"I think it's a defense that's built on a
system, not a name," he said. "It's the
sum of 11 parts."
Leading the way for Arkansas' resur-
gence a year ago was a defense that
ended last season as the lOth-best in
the country at 323.4 yards per game,
second in the Southeastern Conference
behind LSU. It improved dramatically
during the season, earning shutouts of
LSU and Mississippi and holding
Texas to 59 yards of total offense in
three of its final four games.
The No. 18 Razorbacks begin this
season with similar defensive hopes
under second-year coordinator Robb
Smith, though they lost defensive stal-
warts Trey Flowers, Darius Philon,
Martrell Spaight and Tevin Mitchel to
the NFL.
Bielema's continued confidence is
fueled by the presence of Smith at the
top as well as the added depth and
experience that comes with having
three of his recruiting classes on cam
pus.
And that depth starts
on the defensive line,
where Bielema said
the Razorbacks have more
talent than at any other time
in his three seasons.
Among those options, only two of
Arkansas' top defensive linemen —
DcMarcus Hodge and Mitchell
Locwcn arc seniors. The rest arc
either juniors or underclassmen,
including freshman Hjaltc Froholdt.
and all are eager to show they can fol-
low in the footsteps of Flowers and
Philon.
"The guys that played behind those
guys learned so much from them that
even though those guys left, we aren't
going to miss a beat," junior defensive
end Deatrich Wise said. "That
sense of proving people
wrong is going to be a
big thing with us."
Finding a way
to replace
Spaight's production has been
one of Arkansas' biggest missions
during the offseason. The outside line-
backer led the SEC with 128 tackles
last season, and Smith is counting on
junior Brooks Ellis to fill his role after
spending last season at middle line-
backer.
Also, Mitchel's departure has been
easier to handle thanks to a secondary
led by senior safety Rohan Gaines and
experienced comerbacks Jared
Collins, DJ Dean and Henre' Tolliver,
among others.
Regardless of who takes over as the
top defensive playmakers. the
Razorbacks believe they won't have a
letdown following last season — when
they ended a school-worst 17-game
SEC losing streak with the shutouts
over LSU and Ole Miss.
"We always said We want to taste
that first win.' and once we did. we
realized what we were capable of and
what we had to do to get it." sopho-
more defensive end Tevin Bcanunt
said. "Now that we realize it's well
within our grasp to accomplish that I
think we re just steamrolling now.'
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