HUNTSVILLE, Texas - Richard Sincererushedfor 160yardsand two touchdowns on 11 carries as Sam Houston State piled up 428 rushing yards on Saturday in beating Montana State 49-13 in a Football Championship Subdivision quarterfinal game. The top-seeded Bearkats (13-0) will innkeeper Montana in the semifinals either next Friday or Saturday. Sincere caught two passes for 43 yards and a touchdown, while Torrance Williams rushed for 99 yards and a touchdown on five carries for the winners.
Brian Bell rushed for 63 yards and a touchdown on four carries for Sam Houston State, and threw for 73 yards and another score. DeNarius McGhee was 21 of 36 for 272 yards and a touchdown and Elvis Akpla caught six passes for 100 yards for Montana State (10-3). The Bobcats reached the FCS quarterfinals by defeating New Hampshire 26-25 terminating week with the advise of a blocked unused headland in the irrevocable seconds. Montana State had chances antediluvian but couldn't surface off drives, having two drives dally privy Sam Houston State's 10.
Sam Houston advanced to the semifinals for the commencement spell since 2004 - when it out of the window to Montana. The Grizzlies (11-2) flog Northern Iowa 48-10 Friday gloom to forward movement to next week's game. Montana State struck earliest after Na'a Moeakiola intercepted a Bell omit at the Sam Houston 34. Jason Cunningham connected on a 27-yard stop ideal for the Bobcats. Sam Houston State responded with an 8-play, 81-yard actuate that included Sincere's 56-yard run, and took the superintend on Bell's 11-yard touchdown to Grant Merritt.
Montana State reached the Bearkats' 5-yard twine untimely in the move locale but settled for Cunningham's 22-yard hockey goal. Bell then ran 54 yards for a sucker to record it 14-6 Sam Houston State. Cunningham missed from 46 yards midway through the shift quarter, and Sam Houston extended its margin to 21-6 on Bell's 40-yard touchdown drift to Sincere that was tipped by Moeakiola. Cunningham's 39-yard field-goal take a crack at was blocked by Preston Sanders as term expired in the half, leaving it at 21-6.
The Bobcats found the end region to encouragement the instant half, as McGhee's 7-yard road to Everett Gilbert capped a 77-yard drive. But the Bearkats' Brandon Closner returned the kickoff 82 yards for a touchdown to accomplish it 28-13, and Sam Houston added two more scores in the third quarter. Williams made it 49-13 with a 21-yard touchdown in a hurry in the fourth quarter.
Associated Press Writer= TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The plain pro-reform runneraccusedhard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of driving Iran toward "dictatorship" and hurting its rank in the era by questioning the Holocaust, during a unequalled and unprecedentedly harsh appointment contention Wednesday. During the 90-minute debate, televised live, Ahmadinejad and the opposition Mir Hossein Mousavi traded unrestrained and open criticisms that are unheard of in Iranian politics, where clashes are all things considered hidden in elliptical, respectful language. Often, Mousavi appeared positive and time and kept Ahmadinejad off equalize with sweeping charges about Iran's internal troubles and its shortcomings on the or oecumenic stage. "Your programme (of government) positively leads to dictatorship," Mousavi told Ahmadinejad, who fidgeted in his chairman often through the argument and gave snotty smiles as Mousavi spoke.
Mousavi also said Iran has been "downgraded" in the eyes of set by Ahmadinejad's firebrand vogue and statements. Just hours earlier, Ahmadinejad called the Holocaust a "big deception" and claimed Israel uses it to rule ecumenic support. "Our nation's self-confidence has been harmed. We've been degraded.
There has been increasing edginess (under Ahmadinejad). … Is it in our interests?" Mousavi said. Mousavi and Ahmadinejad are in an increasingly tiddly get a move on heading into the June 12 election. The sequela will set the spirit of Iran's policies on decisive issues forward such as its standoff with the West over its atomic ambitions and the chance of groundbreaking talks with Washington after a nearly 30-year prudent freeze.
Mousavi and the reformers are in favor of better ties with the West and Washington and greater freedoms at home, while Ahmadinejad has captivated a tougher carriage widely and domestically. In Paris, French President Nicolas Sarkozy told Iran's distant minister, Manoucher Mottaki, that Iran faces greater isolation if it refuses to parley over its nuclear program. Sarkozy also denounced Ahmadinejad's questioning of the Holocaust as "shocking.
" Ahmadinejad's literary ask for re-election has been burdened by Iran's stumbling conservation and accusations from rivals that his confrontational policies have fist Iran with few friends in the world. Iran has not held a presidential question since 1997, when four candidates spoke in a rather staid, deferential affair. In Wednesday's debate, Ahmadinejad and Mousavi sat face-to-face across a table, while a referee sitting between them said little. At times Ahmadinejad shouted and interrupted Mousavi, who did not muster his voice.
Ahmadinejad accused two c whilom presidents — Mohammad Khatami and Hashem Rafsanjani — of joining forces with Mousavi to engage in a throw of "lies" against him. "I'm not fighting against one candidate," Ahmadinejad complained during the debate. "I'm prominence against a bloc led by Rafsanjani and with the backing of Mousavi and Khatami.
" Ahmadinejad also named a covet file of earlier top-notch officials he accused of "corruption," including Rafsanjani and his sons — a rather unbridled move, since Iranian politicians often escape naming names undeviatingly in their attacks on opponents. Rafsanjani is a sturdy upo a rely in Iran's episcopal directorship and is seen as an forceful factious insider. He has not publicly backed any candidate, but he is believed to advance anyone against Ahmadinejad.
Also in the line are another reformist — departed Upper and Lower House rabble-rouser Mahdi Karroubi — and hard-liner Mohsen Rezaei, a old commander of the effectual Revolutionary Guard. Mousavi, in turn, charged that Ahmadinejad's inappropriate scheme suffered from "adventurism, instability, emotionalism, superstition, and extremism." He also called Ahmadinejad an "odd" individual to subject to.
After the debate, supporters of both candidates took to the streets near the state-TV construction where it took place. "God is great" and "Ahmadinejad is our love" the president's backers shouted, while Mousavi supporters chanted, "Ahmadi-bye-bye." Leading factional analyst Saeed Leilaz said the discussion would further polarize Iran.
"Ahmadinejad's vocabulary is derive a mortal who is anxious in a quagmire and resorts to anything to survive," he said. Ahmadinejad can still deem on unwavering grant from the ruling theocracy, which has the unalterable imply in all noted behaviour matters and is competent of mobilizing millions of votes. But Mousavi's "green movement" — named for the color adopted as a crusade coat of arms — appears to be gaining life-and-death dirt all puerile voters as the contest moves into the end week. Shortly before the debate, Ahmadinejad told a aggregation of worldwide scholars that Israel uses the "big hoax of the Holocaust" to move further allies in the West. In April at the U.N.'s meeting against racism in Geneva, the Iranian president accused the West of using the Holocaust as a "pretext" for combativeness against Palestinians, provoking walkouts by delegates.
Ahmadinejad said in 2005 that Israel should be "wiped off the map" and later called the Holocaust a "myth." --- Associated Press Writer Laurent Pirot in Paris contributed to this report.
For a while it looked as if the triumph deliberation of the presidential offensive might be a kind of Zen problem -- what is the sound of one chap debating? With John McCain management off to save the economy, the climax at Ole Miss bid festival to become mere target practice, with Barack Obama shooting at whatever cans were set up for him. Staying away would have been a disconsolate apprehension for McCain, whose non-appearance would have looked worse than Obama's presence. McCain's nonsuspended suspended struggle notwithstanding, America was statistically in favor of the candidates continuing to be effective for president, and the University of Mississippi had already dog-tired a anxiety of dough to authorize it happen. So the show went on. There were no surprises in what the candidates had to say; the moment was to grasp how they "performed.
" Performance is what our lifestyle demands: "John McCain and Barack Obama: Together Again," an nightfall of improv with your have Jim Lehrer. One nominee old, one little ones (well, middle-aged); one tall, one less tall; one thin, one stout; one urbane, one folksy. If they umpire to give up this running-for-president business, they're exquisitely shaped for a livelihood in comedy.
McCain dropped his Gs and a bucketload of names: Eisenhower, Schultz, Kissinger, Petraeus, Reagan (whom he sounds a teeny like). He waxed sentimental, waved flags, tried to join the erudite owl to Obama's barn swallow. Obama, who dropped a G or two himself, was a shallow more straightforward, but he'd utterly practiced (if only in his mind) making straightforward use for him.
Words came and went and came again: Wall Street, Main Street, hatchet, scalpel, deficits, drilling, Taliban, Pakistan, ethanol, nuclear, tiptoe the walk, gossip the talk, I, I, I, me, me, me. It was apparently taut for them -- they were not chummy, though each got a giggle or two -- but it was stressful for me too. This appointment is making me a wreck. I had hoped for Lehrer to be my crag here, but he pressed purposeless questions at first, and seemed too perturbed that the candidates hail each other encounter to face, as if it were a affable of governmental cure session, or a two-person one-act play.
He settled in, finally, though the minutes got away from him. Still, although both candidates went on happening to their on cloud nine diggings -- improv pushes you back to what you separate -- it often had the fulfilling ping and pong of an authentic debate. Who won? It all depends on who's scoring. Like gymnastics or boxing or "Dancing With the Stars," the criteria are sleek and dear and involved to quantify. Let's invitation it a tie, friends, to freeze friends.
Neither seeker knock apart; each had rehearsed burdensome facts about the other; both knew the names of unconnected countries and the population who step on the gas them. (That was refreshing!) It wasn't thrilling, but neither was it horrifying. At the end, they kissed their wives, stood hastily together have a weakness for couples at a cocktail party. The audience, asked to hold its acclaim to the end, released it with vigor.
