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PRO FOOTBALL REPORT : WEEKDAY UPDATE : RAIDERS

By CHRIS DUFRESNE
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Cincinnati cornerback Rod Jones, who dragged Bo Jackson down from behind after an 88-yard run Sunday, did not win the NCAA 400-meter title in 1984, but you wouldn’t know it reading his biographical information in the 1990 Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ media guide, which states Jones “ . . . also won individual NCAA championship rings for first-place finish in the 1984 400-meter race (44.94) and as a member of the 1986 NCAA champion 1600-meter relay team. . . .”

Jones was Tampa Bay’s first-round draft choice in 1986 from Southern Methodist. He joined the Bengals this season.

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

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