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To: Nittany Lion who wrote (1708)	2/10/2000 5:49:00 PM
From: Joan Osland Graffius	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11146

Gary, Heck, if someone is going to throw money your way..you might as well take it. Besides, I have no problem with attending one more game. <g> Now, I wonder what kind of a team USC will bring to this game. Joan

To: Nittany Lion who wrote (1708)	2/11/2000 7:31:00 AM
From: MythMan	Respond to of 11146

>>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida State will begin its defense of the national championship Aug. 26 in the Pigskin Classic against Brigham Young University. The game, which will be broadcast by ABC, matches two of America's most successful college coaches. It will be played on the homefield of the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars. Florida State, which has played in three of the last four national championship games, has won 21 straight regular season games. Brigham Young was 8-4 in 1999. Florida State coach Bobby Bowden ranks fifth with 304 career victories while BYU coach LaVell Edwards is No. 7 with 252 wins. The Seminoles defeated BYU 44-28 in their only previous meeting in Los Angeles in 1991.<< CAn't they play anyone decent?

To: Nittany Lion who wrote (1708)	2/16/2000 4:26:00 PM
From: MythMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11146

Spartans having more problems... DETROIT (AP) -- A second Michigan State University football recruit has been accused in a teen-age girl's sexual attack that already has produced a felony charge against one of his former prep teammates. Damon Dowdell, 17 and Henry Ford High's quarterback last season, was charged in a warrant Monday with third-degree criminal sexual conduct in last July's alleged assault of a 13-year-old girl. Dowdell's prep teammate, tight end Eric Knott and one of the nation's most-sought recruits, has pleaded innocent to and is to be tried next month on a related first-degree criminal sexual conduct count, which carries a possible life sentence. Dowdell faces up to 15 years in prison on the lesser charge. A Michigan State representative said Tuesday the recruit has denied any involvement in the alleged assault, The Detroit News reported Wednesday. Knott's high school coach has said the university will give Knott a scholarship if he is cleared of the charges. Michigan State spokesman Terry Denbow said the school will delay any admissions decision on Dowdell "until we can reasonably ascertain the facts." Dowdell earlier this month signed a letter-of-intent to accept a scholarship from the school. Knott has not signed such a letter, barring Michigan State from discussing his case under NCAA rules. Former Michigan State coach Nick Saban, hired by Louisiana State in December, said he had not heard Dowdell's name mentioned in the case. Last month, Saban told the Detroit Free Press that he and Bobby Williams -- an assistant under Saban and Michigan State's coach now -- knew last season of the charges pending against Knott. "I wasn't sure what the kid was charged with," Saban has said. "I knew it was some kind of sexual deal, but what I was told was very vague. ... I didn't think it was that serious of a deal, and I certainly wasn't aware that it was rape." Williams knew nothing of Dowdell's alleged involvement in the case, and "we are convinced that [that coach] did due diligence in recruiting this prospect," Denbow told the News. "He asked the prospect and others very directly about this case, and all those parties maintained that the prospect was not involved," Denbow said. Last season, the 6-foot-2, 190-pound Dowdell passed for 2001 yards and 23 touchdowns in leading Henry Ford to the Public School League title. His favorite target was Knott, a 6-foot-4, 245-pound tight end recruited by top schools, including Michigan, UCLA and Tennessee. Those schools stopped recruiting Knott once they learned of the charges. Henry Ford's coach, Mike Marshall, has said he knew of the charges against Knott and allowed him to play last fall, given no state or city high school athletic rules that prevent players accused of a crime from competing. Marshall called the charges "allegations." "He didn't rape nobody," he said of Knott. "In March, the truth will come out. I hate that he has to go through the humiliation of this." Controversy over the Knott case prompted Wayne County prosecutors to take a third look at the role of two young men said to have been Knott's accomplices during the alleged assault. Two previous prosecutors had split on whether charges should be brought. The case began about 1 a.m. July 25, when a Detroit woman told authorities her daughter had been abducted and forced into a car by four men, police said. Police who responded were interviewing the mother when Knott allegedly let the girl out of his car nearby. Knott -- then 17 -- gave police a statement in which he admitted sexual contact with the 13-year-old, the News said.