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'jr " " ‘ _ ^ " > v * --- - Mike Muck Once a hero, Farley’s life turns tragic William Shakespeare would have a heyday with the Nebraska football team. Who needs tragic figures like Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth when you have players like Lawrence Phillips, Tyrone Wil liams, Christian Peter and Terrell Farley. Shakespeare’s plays — which exploited tragedy and the weak nesses of his characters by using a tragic hero literary device — have similarities to the woe and suffer ing besieging the Comhuskers. Individuals with imperfections. That’s what Stephen Buhler, asso ciate English professor at UNL, termed one of the tragic character’s many definitions. “The basic formula of a tragic hero is of a gifted, even good indi vidual that has some kind of flaw,” Buhler said. “That flaw leads the individual to undermine the good that he or she has achieved.” In the past week, three Huskers have been in the news, not for their goodness, but for their flaws that have led to their undoing. Wiliams, a former Nebraska comerback, was sentenced Tuesday to six months in jail and three years of probation for shooting a gun at a car. Peter, a former Husker defen sive tackle, has entered contract ne gotiations with the New York Gi ants. But instead of discussing the NFL future of this talented football ' player, the press again trashed Pe ter because of his past brushes with the law and poor reputation. And now Farley. The preseason All-American was arrested on Aug. 30 for suspi cion of driving while intoxicated. He was suspended from the NU football team, sent to counseling and given a second chance. But his drinking was a fault too big for him to master, and because of his flaw, Farley will never play college football again. His profes sional stock will drop and he will be scrutinized constantly. Despite all he has lost, Farley should consider himself fortunate. Fortunate that he didn’t kill someone, lucky that he still has the support of Tom Osborne and his teammates, and relieved that this is real life, not a Shakespeare play. Because aShakesperean tragic boo does not recover. So just like Phillips, Williams and Peter, all of whom will recover from their woes, Farley has an op portunity to end this tragedy and create his own happy ending. “The play is the thing,” Hamlet said. But not for Farley. For Farley, real life is the thing. IQuck is a graduate student in journalism and a Daily Nebras kan senior reporter. . . '.. Scott Bhuhn/DN BECKY HOGAN (right) struggles with Minnesota’s Allison Johnson during NUs 3-2 first-round NCAA Tbumament win. The Huskers play host to Duke on Sunday at 1 p.m. i-1 Young Huskers . - Huskers carry the nation’s longest streak into Austin. By Trevor Parks Senior Reporter Heading into Saturday’s season opener at Texas, the Nebraska bas ketball team has at least one advan tage on its side. NU carries the nation’s longest winning streak—five-consecutive wins in last year’s National Invita tion Tournament — into its 3 p.m. game at the Erwin Onto- in Aus tin, Texas. But the advantages may stop there. Nebraska faces a team with more depth, more experience and more leadership in a game that will not count in the Big 12 Conference standings because it was scheduled as part of a four-year package be fore the conference existed. Texas Coach Tom Penders, whose team is ranked No. 17, said he doesn’t know what to expect from the Comhuskers, who have only eight healthy players, four of whom are playing in their first game forNU. Sophomore forward Andy Maifcowski, who is recovering from arthroscopic knee surgery, will not play. “Your opening game is always different, because you don’t really know what is going to happen,” Penders said. “It’s like the opening night of a Broadway play in that | F Laity Florence 6-5 225 So. | gi §|S P9l kM you don’t know %ib'is going to show up. So youjjusthave to ex pect the unexpected. - “I’m more concerned about what our team i$ doing andnot what Nebraska will be doing. Let’s just throw it up and play.” UT was 2-4 in jfte exhibition season with a Ite-jTO win over season Wooden Award candidate Please see HORNS on 8 Experienced Duke team seeks revenge over perfect NU. By Vince D’Adamo Staff Reporter It’s like d6ja vu all over again. In the second round of the NCAA Tournament Sunday, the fifth-ranked Nebraska soccer team (22-0) and Duke (10-9-3) renew acquaintances at the Abbott Sports Complex at 1 p.m. On Sept. 8, Nebraska came from behind to defeat Duke 3-1 in Durham, N.C., scoring three second-half goals. That marked NU’s first-ever win over a ranked opponent. Duke advanced to the second round by defeating Virginia 1-0 last Satur day. The following day, the Comhuskers beat Minnesota 3-2 in sudden-death overtime ip Lincoln. While the drama was great for the fans last Sunday, NU Coach John Walker said he’s not hoping for another cardiac finish against the Bine Devils. “It’s exciting,” Walker said of the sudden-death format. “But I don’t think I want to go through it again. It’s definitely different from playing until the final whistle.” . Walker said Duke played the most difficult schedule in the nation. The Blue Devils played 17 games against tournament teams and 18 games against teams that were at one point ranked this season. tt j Uppmghouse, who scored the game Please see DUKE on 8 NU seniors cherish last home matches ' liik-r. ^ ' — ’SSF. '■%<&'** ‘S&r-^*-V *tr^SS?"!*8is By Sharon Heffelfinger Staff Reporter the Nebraska volleyball team en ters this weekend focused on aveng ing its only Big 12 Conference loss. But for seniors Kate Cmich and Maria Hedbeck, the matches carry an added importance. * Cmich and Hedbeck will play their final regular-season home matches to night at 7:30 when the fifth-ranked Comhuskers play host to No. 21 Texas Tech and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. against Baylor at the NU Coliseum. Both seniors, who will be honored before Saturday’s match, are excited about the chance to gain revenge againstTech, which handed die Husk ers a five-game upset toss four weeks ago in Lubbock, Texas. “Lsva&have my parents and friends and family hoe,” Cmich said, “So that will give me an extra incentive to play well. ■ Playing the Red Raiders (23-6 overall and 10-6 in the Big 12) in her final weekend at home is an added bonus, Hedbeck said. “This weekend will be sad,” Hedbeck Sfrid, “But it will also be fim because ^ are playing a team like Texas Tecgt^l’m excited for Friday.” Tech enters tonight’s contest hav ing won three of six matches since beating Nl§| With their win over Ne braska m October, the Raiders became the first Big i2team to record 20 wins. NU Coach Terry Pettit said the Huskers (23-3 and 15-1) did not play well in the first matchup. “Even if we’d won the match, I would have bad the feeling that it was not one of our better matches of die VfHlWrMM I 1 year,*p I ; ' .€5 Following its rematch with the Red Raiders,NU will be challenged Satur day night by Baylor, which left the Huskers in sole possession of the con ference lead after handing Texas A&M a four-game upset loss Nov. 9. - The Bears (18-12 and 7-9) — who have posted 11 more wins than they did last year — will bring a three match winning streak into the coli seum. Pettit said his team is in a must win situation. ‘It* s the end of the year, and we need to win these games for confer ence,” Pettit said. FOr Cmich and Hedbeck, this weekend means more than just main taining the conference lead. Although Please see TECH on 8
