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AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas running back DOnta Forman is quietly having a big season.While the Longhorns three-game losing skid keeps raising the pressure on coach Charlie Strong, Foreman keeps pounding away at opposing defenses and racking up some of the best rushing numbers in the country.Foremans 148.8 yards per game ranks second nationally and hes averaging nearly seven yards per carry as Texas (2-3, 0-2) heads into a Saturday night matchup against Iowa State (1-5, 0-3). At his current pace, Foreman could rival Ricky Williams of 1997 when Williams ran for 1,800 yards on a 4-7 team the season before he won the Heisman Trophy.What no one realizes (is) how strong and how fast he is, Strong said. Its maybe a 1-yard gain, maybe a 2-yard gain and he just keeps grinding. And then all of a sudden its going to be a six yard pop and then a 20 yard pop.Foreman is a 250-pound battering ram whos fast enough to have eight touchdown runs of 19 yards or longer the last two seasons, including bursts of 93, 65 and 62 yards.Foreman ran for 159 yards and two scores in a loss to Oklahoma last week despite an abdominal muscle injury from a week earlier. He also missed Texas win over UTEP with a leg injury although Texas has said he could have played that game if needed.Sometimes we dont even block it the right way, he just finds a way where he can bounce back outside and drop his pads and just run through people, Strong said.Heres some things to watch for when Texas hosts Iowa State:FOURTH QUARTER FOLLIES: Iowa State is a rapidly improving team mostly because the Cyclones cant hold a lead in the fourth quarter. Iowa State has taken double-digit leads into the fourth quarter its last two games only to lose both .The Cyclones are averaging 39 points in their last three games and now face a Texas defense thats given up at least 45 four times this season.BIG-PLAY CYCLONE: Texas defenses have been allowing career games by big-play wide receivers all season and Iowa States Allen Lazard or Trever Ryen could be next. Those two caught three touchdown passes last week against Oklahoma State. At 6-foot-5, 223 pounds, Lazard is a handful for any defensive back to handle.STRONGS MUST WIN: Texas has never started 0-3 in the Big 12 and losing to an Iowa State program that has just two wins in the history of the series likely seals Strongs fate. 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Scott Kazmir allowed four hits in seven shutout innings, Michael Brantley hit a two-run homer in a three-run first inning and the Indians maintained their hold on an AL wild-card spot with a 4-1 win over the Houston Astros on Saturday night. RIO DE JANEIRO -- Yigrem Demelash arrives for a training session and right away gets into an argument with one of the coaches.The coach has an idea of how this session should go. Demelash, short, slight, 22 years old and yet to run at the Olympics, has a different idea and isnt afraid to say it.With a wave of his arm, Demelash dismisses the instructions, turns his back and jogs off down the track.I dont have a good feeling about the current coaches, he said in an interview with The Associated Press in Ethiopia a couple of weeks ago.Such is the style of Ethiopias new hope for a return to its former glory in the 10,000 meters. That glory slipped away with the retirement of the great Haile Gebrselassie and the fading of world-record holder Kenenisa Bekele, and was then wrenched away with the arrival of current Olympic champion Mo Farah.Ethiopia used to own the 10,000 meters.Between 1996 and 2008, the mens 10,000 at the Olympics was an Ethiopian procession, with back-to-back golds by Gebrselassie and then his protege Bekele. At the world championships, the dominance reached another level. Ethiopians won gold in nine of the 10 worlds between 1993 and 2011. Four straight titles for Gebrselassie (1993-99), four straight for Bekele (2003-09) and one for Ibrahim Jeilan in 2011.Since then, nothing.Farah crashed the party, and its mighty tough to replace runners of the caliber of Gebrselassie and Bekele. But Demelash thinks there are also problems with the way Ethiopia plans for big events these days. The coaching, he contends, is one of them. Demelash says Ethiopia will never have another Woldemeskel Kostre, the legendary coach who trained Gebrselassie and Bekele and who died this year.In the past, when the running greats like Haile and Kenenisa were in the national squad, everything was good. There were good coaches and a good environment, Demelash said from Ethiopias new sports academy in Addis Ababa. Athletes and coaches should agree on many things but thats not the case here.Theres another reason for Ethiopias slide, he said.ddddddddddddRoad races, where the competition is more regular and the money better, are draining Ethiopias best track talent.The 10K and 5K events are neglected, Demelash said. Other athletes (could) have an even better performance than Haile and Kenenisa if the sport is given due attention. But thats not the case at the moment. All the attention is where the money is. ... Thats road races.The emergence of Demelash, the 2012 world junior champion, has coincided with what appears to be a messy end for the 34-year-old Bekele, the holder of the world and Olympic records in the 5,000 and the 10,000. Bekele was set on running the marathon in Rio de Janeiro only to be told by Ethiopian track officials that despite making the Olympic qualifying time he hadnt run enough big races over the last year.Clearly unprepared for the shorter distance, Bekele then tried and failed in Ethiopias 10,000-meter trial, dropping out of a race that was won by Demelash in a personal best and world-leading time of 26 minutes, 51.11 seconds. Thats more than two seconds faster than Farah has run this year.Bekele had strong criticism of the officials and their qualifying criteria after his snub, but they stood by their decision to exclude the world-record holder. As Demelash sees it, thats another reason to doubt those in charge.It would have been a boost of morale for everyone if he was in the team, Demelash said.But hes not, and the youngster now carries a heavy weight on his skinny shoulders. He must carry on after Gebrselassie and Bekele, two of the greatest distance runners ever and two who created an aura of Ethiopian power in the sport.If its any consolation for Demelash, the track coaches back him and rate his talent highly. The feeling is not mutual.---Associated Press writer Elias Meseret in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, contributed to this report. ' ' '