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College football

Knight clocks Sooners

Texas Tech basketball coach Bob Knight said Oklahoma fans now know how he felt after his team lost a game at OU three years ago when a late-starting clock gave the Sooners extra time to score a game-tying basket.

Knight called for Oklahoma to forfeit its basketball game with Texas Tech on Jan. 20, 2003, when the Sooners won 69-64 in overtime after two clock controversies in the final seconds of regulation.

“Maybe now those people at Oklahoma understand what I was talking about,” Knight told The Oklahoman. “Had Oklahoma forfeited that game against us like I suggested, they would have gotten far more positive publicity out of that than if they had gone to the Final Four that year. Now I guess the ‘duck’ is swimming in the other pond.”

Oregon scored two touchdowns late to beat Oklahoma 34-33, including the winner that came after the Ducks recovered an onside kick. Video replay showed Oregon touched the ball before it went the required 10 yards.

The replay official, Gordon Riese, who was suspended by the Pac-10 for one game, requested a leave of absence for the rest of the season.

Coming Saturday

Spokane Chiefs season preview

With nowhere to go but up, the Spokane Chiefs have high expectations for the coming season. Look for staff writer Jeff Bunch’s season preview in Saturday’s paper.

Baseball

Reporters could end up in jail

Two San Francisco Chronicle reporters were ordered jailed, pending an appeal, for refusing to testify about who leaked them secret grand jury testimony from Barry Bonds and other elite athletes.

Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada published a series of articles and a book based partly on the leaked transcripts of the testimony of Bonds, Jason Giambi and others before a grand jury investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative.

Federal prosecutors asked U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White to send the reporters to prison for 18 months – the length of a typical grand jury term – or until they agree to testify.

If the reporters refuse to cooperate, they could remain in prison until the current grand jury expires, which could be as late as October 2007.

College volleyball

NIC moves to No. 2

The North Idaho College volleyball team (22-4) moved up one spot to second in the nation in the National Junior College Athletic Association Division I poll. Western Nebraska is No. 1