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Saturday 8 december 2018
Heisman Trophy: Stock soared for 1st-time starting QBs

By RALPH D. RUSSO That season, the Heisman said. "Just trying to get bet-
AP College Football Writer finalists combined to pass ter." Murray fielded numer-
NEW YORK (AP) — Tua Ta- for 9,726 yards and 100 ous questions about his fu-
govailoa rolled across touchdowns, complet- ture in baseball. He was a
the floor of the New York ing 70.9 percent of their first-round draft pick by the
Stock Exchange on a black passes at 9.1 yards per at- Oakland Athletics in June
scooter with a little Ala- tempt. This season's finalists, and has already signed
bama sticker on the front, each still with at least one $4.66 million contract. This
his sprained left ankle in a more game, have passed will be his one and only
gray plastic boot, safely for 11,986 yards and 124 season as a college start-
propped up as he pushed touchdowns, completing ing quarterback.
off with his right foot. 69.7 percent of their passes "My future's already kind of
The Crimson Tide quarter- at 10.6 yards per attempt. been decided as of right
back and fellow Heisman There is also a good now," Murray said. Asked if
Trophy finalists Kyler Murray chance that for just the he could see himself trying
of Oklahoma and Dwayne second time in the 83-year to play both sports, Murray
Haskins of Ohio State were history of the Heisman, the said: "I would love to do be
on Wall Street on Friday to top-five vote-getters will able to do both if that was
ring the closing bell on a be quarterbacks, too. West possible. I don't know how
day the Dow Jones Indus- Virginia's Will Grier and possible that is."
trial Average closed down Washington State's Gard- The question Haskins will
558 points. ner Minshew II were the face is whether to return to
Stock for the three first-year other contenders, but nei- college for another season
starters has been soaring ther drew enough support or enter the NFL draft. He
this season. A year ago to earn a trip to New York. could be a first-round pick.
they were second on their Heisman Trophy finalists, from left, Dwayne Haskins, from Ohio In 2001, when Nebraska's "After the bowl game I'll sit
State, Kyler Murray, of Oklahoma, and Tua Tagovailoa, from
team's depth chart. On Alabama, pose with the Heisman Trophy at the New York Stock Eric Crouch won the Heis- down with my family and
Saturday, one of them will Exchange, Friday, Dec. 7, 2018, in New York. man, the top six in the vot- talk about it," Haskins said.
win the Heisman Trophy. Associated Press ing were quarterbacks. The sixth-ranked Buckeyes
Tagovailoa picked up During a 30-minute inter- face No. 9 Washington in
where he left off in the sec- take over a team, transfer- win college football's most view session with reporters the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1 in
ond half of last season's na- ring from Texas A&M after coveted individual award at the Stock Exchange, what will be coach Urban
tional championship game a rocky freshman season, and that should not be a Tagovailoa was asked a Meyer's last game before
victory against Georgia to taking a redshirt year to surprise this season. This has lot about his health. He retirement.
lead the top-ranked Crim- satisfy NCAA transfer rules been the year of the quar- sprained his ankle in the Tagovailoa spent most of
son Tide back to the play- and then backing up Baker terback, with FBS records Southeastern Conference the season as the Heis-
off as a sophomore. Mayfield in 2017. for completion percent- championship game last man front-runner, but Mur-
Haskins, a third-year sopho- "I think sitting down and age, yards per pass and week and said he expects ray kept bailing out Okla-
more, stepped in after the watching is kind of impor- yards passing per game all to be fine for the playoff, homa's faulty defense and
departure of a four-year tant," Murray said. "I know within range as bowl sea- when No. 1 Alabama faces gaining ground in the race.
starter and smashed Ohio Dwayne got to sit and son arrives. For the first time No. 4 Oklahoma and Mur- It seems Murray might have
State and Big Ten passing watch. Tua obviously got to since 2008, when Oklaho- ray in the Orange Bowl on taken the lead last week-
records. sit and watch. I think it just ma's Sam Bradford, Texas' Dec. 29. Alabama trainer end, when Tagovailoa
Murray, a fourth-year junior, helps you with your growth Colt McCoy and Florida's Jeff Allen is traveling with threw two interceptions
replaced last season's Heis- and maturing on and off Tim Tebow were the Heis- Tagovailoa on the awards against Georgia and could
man winner and had an the field. I think that's a big man finalists, only quarter- circuit this week. not finish the game.
even better season than part." backs were invited to New "Life throws problems at you "If I win it that's awesome,"
his predecessor. Murray For the 16th time in the last York for the trophy presen- sometime and it's how you Tagovailoa said. "If not, it's
waited the longest to finally 19 years, a quarterback will tation. deal with it," Tagovailoa not the end of the world."q

German skier could lose 1st win for getting extra oxygen

By GRAHAM DUNBAR man won by retaining his mental oxygen adminis- in Saturday's giant sla-
AP Sports Writer first-run lead. The victory tered by inhalation, but lom in Val d'Isere, France,
ST. MORITZ, Switzerland ended runner-up Marcel not intravenously," though pending the investigation,
(AP) — Days after getting Hirscher's five-race winning notes that sports bodies FIS said.
his first career World Cup streak in the event. could choose to prohibit it. The incident could poten-
win, Stefan Luitz could be Hirscher, the Olympic "Athletes must check the tially add to Luitz's reputa-
disqualified for breaking champion in giant slalom, rules that apply to supple- tion as an unlucky skier.
skiing's doping rules by us- could yet be awarded his mental oxygen use with At the 2014 Sochi Olym-
ing an oxygen mask. 60th World Cup race win. the sporting authorities pics, he was poised for
The International Ski Feder- FIS anti-doping rules state governing the events they the second-fastest time
ation said Friday it is investi- oxygen tanks cannot be compete in," WADA guide- in the first run of the giant
gating an incident that oc- brought to race venues, lines state. slalom. He then hooked a
curred last Sunday in Bea- Germany's Stefan Luitz cel- and "competition results Germany team director ski around the simple final
ver Creek, Colorado. ebrates after a first place fin- achieved after the use of Wolfgang Maier acknowl- gate and fell over the fin-
ish in a Men's World Cup giant
Racing in the giant slalom slalom skiing race Sunday, the equipment shall be au- edged to the DPA agency ish line as the ski flew away
started at an altitude of Dec. 2, 2018, in Beaver Creek, tomatically disqualified." that the team made a mis- from his boot. He was dis-
10,340 feet (3,152 meters) Colo. The World Anti-Doping take but had not cheated. qualified for straddling the
and the 26-year-old Ger- Associated Press Agency allows "supple- Luitz will be eligible to race gate.q