Arizona State’s Krohn Is Cleared to Practice

Arizona State quarterback Jeff Krohn has been cleared to practice and should be ready to start Saturday’s game against 11th-ranked Washington State, Coach Dirk Koetter said.

“He ran the team yesterday and right now everything’s full speed ahead,” Koetter said.

Krohn was hit in the head on a first-quarter slide in the Sun Devils’ 42-24 loss at Oregon. He didn’t play any more in the game because of concussion-like symptoms.

Redshirt freshman Andrew Walter went the rest of the way for Arizona State.

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Michigan Coach Lloyd Carr was still waiting--and fuming--over a call that might have cost the Wolverines a shot at the national championship.

While the Big Ten Conference was silent on whether game officials had blown a call that helped Michigan State defeat the Wolverines on the final play Saturday, Carr said he remained convinced the decisive play never should have been run.

“I said what I meant, and I meant what I said,” he said.

On Saturday, Michigan State’s Jeff Smoker, scrambling and off-balance, lobbed a two-yard touchdown pass to T.J. Duckett as time expired to give the Spartans a 26-24 victory. The play was set up after officials ruled that one second should remain on the clock after Smoker spiked the ball following a one-yard scramble.

Michigan fell from sixth to 12th in the Associated Press poll and from fourth to 10th in the bowl championship series standings.

Northwestern tailback Damien Anderson has a dislocated left shoulder and will miss the first game of his four-year career when the Wildcats play Iowa on Saturday.

Anderson, currently the No. 6 rusher in Big Ten history, injured the shoulder in the second half of last week’s loss to Indiana. He played in 43 games since 1998, starting the last 32.

A Heisman Trophy candidate when the season started, Anderson will undergo further tests and treatment this week to see if he can return before the season ends.