College Football / Spotlight

LOSS LEAVES THEM SORT OF AT A LOSS

After being thoroughly dominated by the Huskies in the second half, some of the Hurricanes described their feelings after the game.

“I’m really sort of sick,” Miami Coach Dennis Erickson said. “I’ve never been around a game like that, what happened in the second half.

“At the end of the half, I thought we had control of the game. In the second half they dominated the game physically.”

Said receiver Chris T. Jones: “I’m ashamed. I’ll have to look the former ‘Canes and coaches in the eye and know that my class is known as the class that lost the streak. I’ll have to live with that.”

ONE MAN TRAVELIN’ ‘BAMA BAND STILL A HIT

Sherman Williams continues to be the Alabama offense.

Williams went over the 100-yard mark for the fourth consecutive game, rushing for a career-high 191 yards as the otherwise lackluster Crimson Tide edged Tulane, 20-10.

Williams carried the ball 31 times and accounted for nearly half of the team’s 389 yards. The week before, against Arkansas, the senior tailback was responsible for 234 of Alabama’s 276 yards.

MCNAIR GOES TO AIR, BUT WILL HE BE GROUNDED?

Alcorn State’s Steve (Air) McNair lived up to his nickname again on Saturday, completing 33 of 56 passes for 395 yards and two touchdowns in a 48-23 loss to Sam Houston State.

But McNair’s bid to become the first Division I-AA player to win the Heisman Trophy may have suffered a blow.

The quarterback reportedly suffered a seperated shoulder during Saturday’s game and left with his throwing arm in a sling with about 10 minutes to play.

“I don’t know exactly when it happened,” McNair said. “I took a lot of hits . . . some that I thought were unnecessary shots.”

It was not immediately known if or for for how long McNair might be sidelined.