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SPORTS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2015 Sports shorts New York bans daily fantasy sports NEW YORK (AP) — New York¶s attorney general on Tuesday ordered the daily fantasy sports companies DraftKings and FanDuel to stop accepting bets in the state, saying their operations amount to illegal gambling. In a pair of letters sent to the companies, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said that after a one-month investigation, his of¿ ce had concluded that the daily contests promoted like a lottery are essentially games of chance, not skill. He drew a sharp distinction between the operations of daily fantasy sports sites and traditional fantasy leagues, which he said remained legal. Schneiderman said the daily contests are “neither harmless nor victimless” and carry the same social and economic costs of other forms of gambling. Luck out with lacerated kidney INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two days after cele- brating their biggest win of the season, the Indianapolis Colts dealt with their biggest loss. Franchise quarterback Andrew Luck FACES is expected to miss at least two to six weeks with a lacerated kidney and a partially torn abdominal Luck muscle, inMuries he sustained late in Sunday¶s victory over Denver. Coach Chuck Pagano said he believed Luck was inMured in the ¿ rst minute of the fourth quarter when he tried to scramble for a ¿ rst down near the Denver goal line. Linebacker Danny Trevathan squared up on Luck from the front while defensive end Vance Walker hit Luck hard on the side of his left shoulder, bending him over awkwardly. Luck broke the 17-17 tie on the next play with an 8-yard pass to Ahmad Bradshaw, his second TD throw of the game. He never came out and continued to take some big hits. “It was kind of B.S. what they were doing on the defensive line. All these false starts and stuff on our offensive linemen, it wasn’t on them.“ — Josh Rosen UCLA quarterback on the team’s seven false start penalties in a 41-0 win over Oregon State. Rosen said the Beavers were simulating the UCLA snap count and yelling out cadences in an effort to get the offen- sive line to jump, which is against NCAA rules. THIS DATE IN SPORTS 1911 — Carlisle Indian School of Carlisle, Pa., led by Jim Thorpe, beats nationally ranked Harvard 18-15 before 25,000 in Cambridge, Mass. Thorpe scores all the points for Carlisle, a touchdown, extra point and four ¿ eld goals. 2001 — In his sixth career start, Shaun Alexander has 266 yards rushing on 35 carries and an 88-yard touch- down run as Seattle beats AFC West-leading Oakland 3-27. It¶s the fourth-best rushing game in NFL history. Contact us at 541-966-0838 or sports@eastoregonian.com 1B FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @EOSPORTS College Football Adams ¿ nding groove after early inMury Oregon still clings to Pac-12 North title hopes By ANNE M. PETERSON Associated Press EUGENE — With four touchdown passes in each of Oregon¶s past two games, Vernon Adams Jr. is looking like the quarterback the Ducks had anticipated before his untimely inMury. Oregon quar- terback Ver- non Adams Jr. (3) throws the football during the fi rst half of an NCAA col- lege football game against California, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015, in Eugene, Ore. The Ducks (6-3, 4-2 Pac-12 ) will no doubt need him in top form on Saturday when they visit No. 7 Stanford (8-1, 7-0) in a game that could decide the Pac-12 North. Stanford sits atop the standings but Oregon could still defend its division title with victories over the Cardinal and in the ¿ nal two games of the season, combined with a Stanford loss to Cal in the Big Game. It seems unlikely, but it¶s still possible. See ADAMS/2B AP Photo/ Ryan Kang OUR VIEW CBC Football Learning Mustangs edge Tigers on the Mob in postseason honors D Staff photo by E.J. Harris In this fi le photo, Stanfi eld’s Tyler Monkus dives through the scrum as Heppner’s Patrick Collins (67) and C.J. Kindle move in for the tackle in the Mustang’s win against the Tigers on Friday, Oct. 16, 2015, in Stanfi eld. Heppner leads CBC with 19 all-league selections Stanfield looking loaded for next year East Oregonian The balance of power in the Columbia Basin Conference may be headed for a shift next season. The Heppner Mustangs have enMoyed a two-decade run of domi- nance in Eastern Oregon football, but when the CBC coaches released their 2015 all-league selections on Monday one trend stood out among the 83 names on the ¿ rst, second and honorable mention teams. While the Mustangs, which again won the CBC title this season with an undefeated 5-0 record, earned the most ¿ rst-team and overall votes, it¶s runner-up Stan¿ eld that looks all Muniors and were selected to poised to come back loaded next ¿ rst team offense and defense. Add season. ¿ rst-teamer Noe Sanche], second- The Mustangs accounted for 19 teamer Hunter Barnes and honor- of the all-league selections, with able mention Trevor Shockman, several players • All-league teams can be all Munior offensive honored on offense linemen, and submitted to and defense, but the sports@eastoregonian.com honorable mention maMority of those are sophomore running seniors, with only ¿ ve eligible to back Justin Keeney, and the state¶s return to the ¿ eld next season. No. 3 offense will return seven The Tigers, which came in starters will all-league recognition. second in overall selections with Kicker Enoel Angel, a Munior, was 18, will conceivably get nine of also ¿ rst team. their all-league players back next The only all-league players the year and should have all the maMor Tigers lose will be on defense and positions locked down. special teams as senior lineman Quarterback/linebacker Dylan Jared Warren and punter Jason Grogan, running back/defensive Fit]patrick were each voted ¿ rst back Thyler Monkus, and offensive/ See CBC/2B defensive lineman Jose Garcia are oes time go by fast or what? Just over three months ago I packed up my car and drove more than 2,000 miles across the country for my ¿ rst µreal Mob¶ and now my ¿ rst fall sports scene in eastern Oregon is dwindling by the day. $s it stands, Must two area schools remain in competition ² +eppner and 6tan¿ eld football ² and we¶re already beginning to turn our attention towards the fast- approaching winter sports season. As I am Eric writing this, Singer I am putting Comment the ¿ nishing touches of my last day of work for the next 2 days. I¶m traveling back to Ohio today to get married over the weekend ² and I¶m hoping one or both of those teams are still alive by the time I get back. %ut I¶ve had some time to reÀ ect on what has happened over my ¿ rst prep sports season here in Oregon, and I thought I would share some thoughts from the season. First off, I quickly came to reali]e Must how good the Heppner Mustangs football team is. I had heard the talk from other sports reporters here at the EO about how good they were and how much support the team gets from the town, but I wasn¶t familiar enough with the landscape yet to grasp their dominance. As the season went along, it became more and more clear seeing blowout after blowout and seeing numerous players ¿ ll up the stat sheets night-in and night-out. See SINGER/2B Doping scandal threatens Russia’s storied sports legacy A Soviet style statue of a discus thrower is seen at Moscow’s Gorky Park in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015. A report Monday by a commission of the World An- ti-Doping Agency accused Russia of widespread, state-sponsored doping and cov- er-ups by sports offi cials and track and fi eld athletes, including Olympic medalists. WADA recommends suspension of track and field program By LYNN BERRY & JAMES ELLINGWORTH Associated Press MOSCOW — The day after the 2014 Sochi Olympics ended with Russia atop the medals table, a beaming President Vladimir Putin presented his athletes with state awards for “defending the honor” of their country by showing that its “great and glorious” sports tradi- tions were still strong. From its decades of dominance in the 1960s to the 1980s when the Soviet Union was known as the “Big Red Machine,” international sports has held outsized importance for Russians as a way to measure their country¶s standing in the world. That¶s why accusations of cheating — widespread, state-spon- sored doping — drew such a harsh reaction Tuesday in Moscow. It would be a huge embarrassment for Russia if its track and ¿ eld athletes AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin were kept out of next summer¶s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Russian of¿ cials have sought to discredit the report by a commis- sion from the World Anti-Doping Agency, saying it failed to prove its main points and suggested the exis- tence of an anti-Russian conspiracy. “As long as there is no evidence, it is dif¿ cult to consider the accusations, which appear rather unfounded,” said Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. The acting head of the Russian athletics federation, Vadim Zeli- chenok, said the report¶s conclu- sions appeared to have been “made to order.” Putin has called a meeting Wednesday with the heads of Russia¶s sports federations to discuss preparations for the 2016 Olympics. Zelichenok told The Associated Press the doping allega- tions could be discussed. Monday¶s report alleged Russia engaged in systematic doping and cover-ups affecting its track and ¿ eld athletes, including Olympic medalists. It said that agents from the FSB intelligence service inter- fered with the work of a doping lab at the Sochi Games. The WADA commission recommended that track and ¿ eld¶s governing body, the IAAF, suspend the Russian federation from compe- tition. IAAF President Sebastian Coe gave the federation until the end of the week to respond to the doping allegations. The International Olympic Committee said it would be ready to strip medals from any Russian athletes found guilty of doping violations. Russia also has been threatened with suspension from track and ¿ eld competitions, including the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Zeli- chenok appealed to the IAAF to See DOPING/2B