Coach Had a Victory Speech, but No Victory

With his Weber State team leading the University of Nevada, 42-14, at halftime Saturday, Coach Dave Arslanian was thinking about his victory speech.

“I was going to say that these were two great football teams and we were fortunate to win,” Arslanian said.

It turned out that Weber State wasn’t so fortunate, after all.

After Weber State scored early in the third quarter to make it 49-14, Nevada scored 41 consecutive points to win, 55-49, in the greatest comeback in NCAA history.

So Arslanian had to scrap his postgame speech. All he could say was: “I didn’t think they could come back from that far down.”

Who would?

Trivia question: Who is the NCAA’s career college passing leader? Hint: He is a Heisman Trophy winner.

Opposites attack: Mike Tyson both loves and hates boxing, according to Wallace Mathews of Newsday.

“I wish I didn’t feel that way,” said Tyson, refering to his fits of rage in the ring. “It scares me. It makes me think like there’s something wrong with me. It’s a miserable feeling. I hate it. But I also love it.”

Words gone awry: A letter to the editor scolded bicycle magazine VeloNews for misquoting Chuck Bednarczyk, “If not Europe, I would be going to waste.” What Bednarczyk really said, was: “If not Europe, I would be going out west (to race in Colorado or California).”

Business, as usual: Mark your calendars for these impending baseball dates:

Nov. 11--Free agent filing period ends.

Dec. 7--Last day for a team to offer a salary arbitration to its former players who became free agents.

Dec. 19--Last day for free agents offered arbitration to accept or reject offers.

Dec. 20--Last day to tender contracts.

Jan. 5-15--Salary arbitration filing period.

Jan. 8--Last day for clubs to negotiate with their players who have become free agents and have rejected arbitration.

Jan. 18--Salary arbitration figures exchanged.

Blame it on Rio: Brazilian Dani Reis, the starting setter for the Louisiana State women’s volleyball team, is homesick. She told the NCAA News: “I come from Rio. It’s a real big city. I used to live by the beach. How do I say this? I mean Baton Rouge is nice, but . . . “

Trivia answer: Ty Detmer of Brigham Young.

Quotebook: New York Knick veteran Kiki Vandeweghe on an age-old NBA tradition: “How can you haze (rookies) when they all make more money than you do?”