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Read the greatest satirist of our time, Neal Obermeyer, in... The Daily Nebraskan. Where things go from God to Jerry to Kurt to the cleaners... to US. ating 100 Years pi graduate Education, Research and Creative Activity at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln entennial Concert Honoring Graduate Education & Creative Activity Thursday, January 27 8 PM, Kimball Hall Free Admission Featuring performances by Alumni: Richard Drews, tenor (top right); Lawrence Gwozdz, saxophonist (lower right); NU Faculty: George Ritchie, organ; Moran Quintet; and Graduate Students: Milvia Rodriguez, (D.M.A.), piano; Charles Saenz, (D.M.A.), trumpet. Nebraska UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN nit is the policy of the Univenity of Nebnaka-Lincoln not to discriminate on the >««■« of sex, age, disability, race, color, religion, marital status, Vietnam an veteran's status, national or ethnic origin, or sexual orientation. New year. Know more 9 ■ : ' ~ '’pgi 1 in FREE t-shirt* with purchase of any Step by Step title! tM - ■ 9 IMV UmI, Habfrfwi (Mm • 471-7100 Immt Uv*l, ImI IWm • 471-1740 Ml %omrtnmrmt ^fUlsttCMIl. Ffriend does it all in NU win FFRIEND from page 20 _ was just a matter of time before I broke out,” Ffriend said. “Well, now my con fidence is getting better, I’m not feel ing the jitters any more and I’m just playing basketball. I’m doing a pretty good job right now.” Both Coach Danny Nee and team mate Cary Cochran said Ffriend’s playing was growing by leaps and bounds. Cochran, who dished out a career high eight assists, many of them to Ffriend, said the center’s physical abili ty was amazing to him. “Kimani’s athleticism, on the Richter scale, is off of it,” Cochran said. “He has so much athleticism out there that it’s almost scary.” Nee praised his center’s improved maturity but cautioned against unbounded optimism. “A lot of it for Kimani is mental makeup. If he can come with his ‘A’ game and stay focused, the talent and potential is there. “It’s going to be a process, though, three steps forward and one step back. But he does have the potential and abil ity to be a dominating player in this league.” By the end of the Huskers 14-point win in front of 8,644 fans at the Bob Devaney Sports Center, the only thing in doubt was if Ffriend would reach the unusual 20-point, 20-rebound plateau, one he missed by only a single board. But Baylor was able to remain •within striking distance of Nebraska (9-7 overall and 2-3 in the Big 12 Conference) for most of the contest, because of the long-range bombing of Jamie Kendrick and Tevis Stukes. Kendrick, who did not score in the first half, but had 16 points in the sec ond, single-handedly kept BU (9-7 and 0-5) in die game for much of the sec ond. His 3-pointer drew Baylor to within five, 43-38, with 13 minutes remaining. The Bears were still down only five with eight minutes to play, but the Huskers, sparked by a block and alley oop lay-up by Ffriend, went on an 11-2 run to put the game away. For the game, Baylor put up 34 3 pointers, while shooting only 24 times from inside the arc. Stukes hit five 3 pointers in the opening half before cooling off after halftime. Nebraska took a different approach in getting its second consecutive con ference win - hit the offensive glass with a vengeance. The Huskers had more offensive rebounds (21) than the Bears had defensive rebounds (18) while outrebounding the Bears 50-27 overall. Ffriend was the only Husker to fin ish in double figures in rebounds. But the NU star said the game was won on the boards and was a total team victory. He claimed that his own improvement was matched by the improvement of the team. “It seems like die team is so much better now,” Ffriend said. “We’re com ing together, talking to each other more on the court. The chemistry has gotten a lot better. We’re hitting the boards hard and finding the hot hand, and I hope we can continue this-winning streak.” 1 itans, Rams move onto to Super Bowl SUPER BOWL from page 20 NFC championship. “It didn’t matter who did it,” the quarterback said. “As long as he was wearing a Rams jersey, it didn’t matter. “But when it comes down to mak ing a play, we’ve made plays all year long. Ricky came through today.” Proehl had six catches for 100 yards. None of those - or the 33 recep tions he made this season, or the 467 of his entire 10-year career - meant any thing close to his leaping grab over backup comerback Brian Kelly. It will be the second Super Bowl appearance for the Rams -the first came in 1979, when the team lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-19. This was the third step in a long, strange trip to the Super Bowl for Tennessee. The Titans won their first playoff game on the most improbable of plays -a lateral by Wycheck on a kickoff return that Kevin Dyson took 75 yards for the winning touchdown against Buffalo with three seconds left. Last week, Tennessee shut down Peyton Manning and the high-powered Colts and won 19-16 in Indianapolis. And this week it continued its mas tery over the Jags, who had the NFDs best regular-season record at 14-2 and crushed Miami 62-7 in its first playoff game last week. Tennessee won Sunday as it has all season: a little offense, a lot of defense and a big contribution from special teams. All of it turned during the 16 point spurt in 4 minutes, 28 seconds in the third quarter. It began with a six-play, 76-yard drive that ended with the go-ahead touchdown on a sneak by McNair. Forty-three of the yards came on penalties - 15 on a roughing-the-pass er call when McNair somehow ducked out of a 10-yard sack by Kevin Hardy, rolled left and completed a 15-yard pass to Eddie George. “You can’t play sloppy in a game like this and win,” said Jacksonville tight end Kyle Brady, who caught a touchdown pass but fhmbled twice. Brady’s first fumble came on the next sequence. Jason Fisk recovered at the Jaguars’ 35, then Wycheck returned the favor by fumbling back to the Jaguars. Two plays later, Fisk and Josh Evans sacked Mark Brunell in the end zone for a safety, and the score was 19 14. It was the sixth safety this season for Tennessee and second in the play offs, an NFL record. It also set up seven more points: On the ensuing free kick, Derrick Mason, who earlier set up a score with a 44-yard kickoff return, went 80 yards for a TD to make it 26-14. Tennessee’s trip to the Super Bowl follows three straight 8-8 seasons, one in Houston, one in Memphis and the third at Vanderbilt Stadium in Nashville. This year, in its new home at Adelphia Coliseum, it went 13-3 and qualified as a wild card, a game behind Jacksonville in the AFC Central even though it beat the Jaguars twice. The Titans’ success is especially remarkable considering how close they c;ame to losing in the» wild-card game against Buffalo. “I never thought that it would hap pen - reaching the Super Bowl,” said Bruce Matthews, the 17-year veteran who has played his entire career with the Oilers-Titans and holds the record for most games played by an offensive lineman (264). Celebrating 100 Years of Graduate Education, Research and at the_ University of ... . Nebraska-! inmln Nebraska ™,WWI1’ PMVSMITT or WWUBA- uwcoui Inaugural Symposium Reflecting on the Contributions of Graduate Education, Research and Creative Activity Thursday, January 27,2000 2-5 p.m. * Kimball HaH Speakers: Robert Knoll, NU professor emeritus of English; Karen Kune, NU professor of art; James Olson, historian and president emeritus of die University of Missouri; Kennedy Reed, NU graduate and an atomic physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Labora tory; and Clayton Yeutter, NU graduate, former president of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and U.S. Secretary of Apiculture, 1989-91. All Events Free and Open to the Public B^ University of Nebraska-Lincoln NU is an affirmative action/equal opportunity Institution.