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Highs and lows

By CHRIS COSENZA, JASON LUSK, ANTHONY PEREZ, MIKE STEPHENSON and JAMAL THALJI

© St. Petersburg Times, published November 26, 2000

High

LAVELL EDWARDS: The 70-year-old coach steps down after 39 seasons at BYU, the last 29 as head coach. He had one losing season and ranks sixth on the NCAA's career victories list. He changed the face of college football with his relentless passing attack (his QBs passed for more than 57 miles) that gave us the likes of Nielsen, Wilson, McMahon, Young, Bosco and Detmer. He won a national title in 1984 and took the high road despite a bevy of criticism (remember, former Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer accused BYU of playing a "Bo Diddley Tech schedule."). And through it all, he did it legally. Chew on that, Barry.

WARRICK DUNN: His annual holiday house giveaway is one of the best things any pro athlete does.

TIGER WOODS: El Tigre takes the PGA Grand Slam of Golf for his 11th win this year. But it wasn't the victory that was so impressive; it was how he won it, of course. Needing eagle on the final hole to tie Vijay Singh, Woods hit a 231-yard 6-iron to 8 feet. Any 6-iron shot that travels that far ought to have flight attendants. Woods made eagle and then eagled the hole again in the playoff to win the 36-hole tournament.

Low

THE BU...YUCS: Now about that other holiday giveaway. You know, the one in Chicago.

SHAUN KING: A career-low 91-yard pass game against the Bears might keep the Bucs home for the playoffs.

JOHNNIE WALKER CLASSIC: When the Golf Channel showed highlights of the tournament's Tiger Woods clinic, there were hundreds of children watching their hero. And what were most of these impressionable kids wearing on their heads? Free hats with the Johnnie Walker logo splashed across the front. What kind of message does this hope to send? Guess you're never too young to learn . . . about the 19th hole.

RACEHORSES BURNED: Twenty horses, including record-holder Cam Knows Best, died in a barn fire in Manalapan, N.J., because a stablemate improperly left an electric water heater in a plastic bucket, police said. The water evaporated, the barn caught fire and all but one horse perished. That style heater had been banned at the facility for three years.

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