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FOOTALL SATURDAY
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David Den Herder
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Stephanie Offen ..........Football writers
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FOOTBALL SATURDAY
Football Saturday. to those titho0 know the Nlichigan
athetic tradtion,.is an institution unparalleled in
excitement and spirit. From the action on the field to
the "I) ing niarshmallov.s in the stands. the Big House
becomes the center of life in Ann Arbor each Fall.
every tine the Wolvernes tak~e the field,"
And So read the introduction to the first edition of
Footbal Saturday published in 1997. Merely freshmen
during that memorable season, your nevwest cast of
Daly football writers represents the last ie to those
student-journal sts who had the courage to innovate.
Stil the best part of Footbali Saturday? Easy. The
vters. photograhers and producers are students-
just lik.e the players on the pages ahead. Enjoy.
- The Football Writers
TEAM
1. Nebraska (66)
2. Virginia Tech (1)
3. Oklahoma (4)
4, Miami (Fla.)
5. Clemson
6. Florida State
7. Oregon
8. Florida
9. Washington
10. Kansas State
11. Texas Christian
12. Georgia
13. Mississippi State
14. Ohio State
15. Southern Miss
16. Michigan
17. Purdue
18. South Carolina
19. Oregon State
20. Notre Dame
21. Arizona
22. Minnesota
23. UCLA
6-0
6-0
6-0
4-1
7-0
6-1
5-1
6-1
5-1
6-1
5-0
51
4-1
5-1
5-1
5-2
52
6-1
51
4-2
5-1
5-2
4-2
PTS
1,770
1.656
1.603
1.546
1.523
1.439
1.290
1,242
1,147
1,118
1.042
898
865
854
845
737
586
517
493
458
378
227
210
183
146
P VS
1
3
8
4
5
7
9
10
11
2
12
14
15
6
16.
21
24
23
20
22
NR
13
NR
17
OCT_.2000 ARTS EN ADNfrAr
'Dr. T,' 'Ladies Man' find that F -ma
By Leslie Boxer
Da.ily A-rts Writer
w.
Thr-oughout his career. Robert A\ltmantl
has never portray-ed women well. In fact,
AIL
History points to
the winner as the
team that wins*
,the running game.
That puts the
pressure on
Michigan's
Anthony Thomas.
DAW V OLOSH-OIX D ,
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Dr. T& the
Women
Grade: F
At Showcase
and Quality 16
his films have cr'e-
ated such awful
womeni characters
that hie has been
accused of being a
Altmnan's latest
film, "Dr. T. & the
Women," is all
about women --
there is even an
attempt to glorify
them to a certain
degree. In his
vel - it is long-,horng, and niowhere
near entertaini 112.
Richard Gere plays Dr. Sully Travis, a
Dallas gy necologist, whose life is comn-
pletely lfocused on w omen. lieI is a dot-
ino and loving husband, w~ho loves his
wife (Farrah Fawcett) so much that she
becomes mentally ill. His eldest daitizh-
ter (Kate Hudson), a cheerleader, is get-
ting married even- though she is a les-
bian, his youngest dauglhter (Tara, Reid)
works at the JFK conspiracy museum
and must be involved in all of the wed-
ding decisions and his sister (Laura
Dern) is a drunken-divorced mother of
three girls. In addition, he is the most
popular gynecologist in town and seems
to Service every Dallas socialite. His
staff is all women and his head nurse
(Shelly Long) has a crush on him.
All of the women in Sully's life are
identical: They are upper class, well
dressed, non-discript ladies, That is, until
hie meets Bree (Helen Hunt), the one
woman who is different from all of the
rest. B~ree is an assistant gYolf-pro w ho
knows what she wants and does not just
want to be taken care of by a man- she
actually has a mind of her own. Sully is
refreshed by this women and falls for her
effortless charms.
Of tihe many characters in this film,
only four at-c men: Richard Gere and his
three golfing/bunting friends. The three
friends are indistinguishable and essen-
tially have no role other than to show that
Sully does know some men. Needless to
say, these men fade into the background
easily amidst the brightly colored, ani-
mal print wearing, fur toting, Dallas
w~omen.
Sully seems to truly revere women. He
names his hunting rifle after a women,
he believes that each one is special,
unique and should be ci
seems to be Robert Altura
with respect to x".0men. Yetc
of his deference to thef
Women, hie sees them as cl
need to be w~atched over at
of. This is wThy Bree, a s(
women, is so amazing to St
most disturbing is the
patients conduct themselves
ing room. Altman has made
women revolting- they an
and impatient and whine lik
Each of the office scenes at
Regardless of the way)
trays women, the film is tern
The plot is suspect, the
pretty poor and the endinl
sense. Overall three prettyr
tures for the film. I belie
movie is simply a vehicle ft
capture a live birth on carr
24. North Carolina State 5-1
25. Northwestern 5-2
Dropped Out: No. 19 Auburn, No. 25 Texas
New leaders compete
for Bunyan trophy
I
By Stephanie Offen
R )aiv Sports Lditr
With lMlitlncsota absent from the
\Vol\ critics' Schedule once again this
seasonl, fans miss the annual tradin. of
the Brown Jutg.
But this Saturday, those fans w~ill be
relieved, as a lcsscr-kno\v i trophy will
be awarded. A tradit ion of o1\ 1in10a
Paul Bunyan statue to the w\inner of
the in-state rivalry ilame began w hen
Michigan State joined the Big Ten.
The small wooden statue Was donat-
ed ill 1953 by Gov ernor G. NMennen
Williams and depicts a largae lumber-
jack holding an a~x over a map of the
state.
The trophy currently belongs to the
Spartans.
Last season Michigan State beat the
WVolverines in East Lansing. 34-31,
giving then-No.3 Michigan its first
loss of the season.
Its hard to forget that game or tw\o
specific Spartans -~ Plaxico Burress
and Bill Burke. The quartetback-wide
receiver duo combined for 235 reedy=-
ing var-ds and a touchdown I and B~urke
had 400 total passing y ards.
But neither of those Spartans are
back this season. Instead, the
Spartans hav e had similar problems
to the Wolverines at the quarterback
position.
Junior Rvan \''.n1Dyke, who was
projected rbelbre tihe season~ as
Michigan State's starting quarterback.
sprainled his thumb in the first quarter
of the Spartans' debut game against
MarsihallI.
Who took his place'' A f'reshiman,
with no game experience. Sound
familiar'?
Van Dyke, a nativ e of Mlarshall,
located on the west side of the state,
anld Brighton nativ e Drew H-enson
were two incredibly well-known
prospects in the state wxhen they gradu-
ated high school in 1998.
They never played against each
other but H enson said that they were
mladle vcrv aware of one another fromi
rcrfuiting0 Illagazies and mledia
inquiries.
"Those twxo wxere the imost higwhl\
touted players to come out olf this state
at the same tulle - mlax be Lce'er,
Michigan coach Lloyd Cloar said.
H enson struggled last season in thec
loss to the Spartans. Down 11by 1 0.
Hlenson wa intercepted as thle
WVolverincs tried to mount thecir come-
back. lie was replaced by TomnlBrady.
who11 went 30-for-41, but Bradyv did not
have ellotich time to et the \ Ictorv.
Van Dvkc will face the \Volxernnes
after losing his first complete ga.tm
last weekend to Wisconsin.
But the focus of' Michigan State this
season hlas been thle defenise. xxhich is
currently leading the Big Tcn. Despite
their 0-3 coniference record, the
Spartans arc only gixving tullanlax erage
of 297 vard s per gamie.
"~Give those guys a lot of credit and
it's nice to look at the stats and see that
this unlit leads thle Big Teti in total
decfense;"'N;Mich iganl State coach Bobby
Williams said. "Hopefully. wxe can
continlue to play xwell on defenlse but
most imlportantly, xve need to vv in
some football games."
The Michigan State defense stopped
Michigan's runlning gamei last season.
allowing the W\olverines just six rush-
ing yards. But things ha\ve chatnged fior
;Michigan's runing backs anid often-
siyc line this season.
'A'e have more yards rushimnt noxx
thatn we had all last year'. That means a
lot;' offensive lineman .leff'Lackus salid.
Anlother statistic that may c iw etile
WVolverines confidence is that the
Spartans have riot beaten Michligan ill
back-to-back games since the 1966- '67
seasons.
But nothing is forl sure in this game.
The only thing that aill the planers can
ag!ree in is that the records can be
tlirowtn Out the window.
Whloever- wanlts it 11101-e Saturday wxill
take home tile victorV - and a fOurI-
foot tall wooden statue.
attempt to painlt a more realistic portrait
of women, Altnmn has lost his ability to
tell a good story "Dr. T." is mindless dri-
By Chris Kula
Daily Arts Editor
Umn yeah, this mlovie is wxhat I call
niasty.
I had the lights turnied down low,
I ihad my bottle of Carvassier. I even
had a lady -- 0011, it's a lady - by
my side. I wxas all ready for "The
L~adies Mail," the newest film inth ie
proud tradition of "Saturday Niglht
Live" sketches-turned-mnovies.
Instead. I got a slit sanidwich.
"The I adics Matn" just mlighlt be
thle nmost unfunny of any SNL film,
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Grade: F
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one of tile three
and that
inceludes the
Stuart Smalley
picture and the
"'It's fPat"
movie. The
script Xwas
attrocious, the
jokes «were
stale and the
plot is one of
cookie -cutter
fashion. Even
Will Farrell,
or four funniest
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men in thle xorld, turtned in a pitiful
showxinlg.a
As long periods of laugh-less MIkB
silence passed, I started to feel
sorry for Tim Meadow is, who stars Cs
as smooth-talking ladies man Leon
Phelps, because after toiling as "the
black guy" on SNL for like 10
years, you'd like to see him find
some success, right'? But then I
remembered that Meadows co-
wrote the script, so he really has no
one to blame for its "Night at the
Roxbury" level of ineptitude but
himself.
This film has all the quality of a t
bus station skank.
- Daily A ,ts Editors Gabe Fajtw'i
and Matthew Barrett contributed to
this review-
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