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Softball
continued from page 9
Vidlund earned her second-straight
Pac-10 second-team honor. Laux
earned her second-consecutive Pac
10 honorable mention.
Three Ducks joined Laux on the
honorable mention list. Freshman
right fielder Beth Boskovich, Haij and
Harris each earned their first honor.
Pac-10 Championship?
Four Pac-10 teams start play in the
2003 Women’s College World Series
on Thursday. Arizona earned the No.
1 seed overall and will play No. 8 Al
abama. No. 2 UCLA faces No. 7 Cali
fornia in the only first round matchup
featuring two Pac-10 teams.
No. 6 Louisiana-Lafayette will play
No. 3 Texas, while No. 4
Oklahoma matches up against
No. 5 Washington.
The Ducks beat UCLA, Washing
ton, Louisiana-Lafayette and Califor
nia at least once this season.
Contact the sports reporter
at mindirice@dailyemerald.com.
Prefontaine
continued from page 9
of the world’s 10 best milers will be in
Saturday’s field, with one notable ab
sence in world record holder Hicham
El Guerrouj, who raced at the last two
Classics but will spend this month
preparing to make an attempt at the
5,000 world record in June.
Jordan said that the tough field
should actually benefit Webb in his
first year as a professional.
“All the races he’s had last year
and this year, he’s been expected to
win,” Jordan said. “It’s an enormous
amount of pressure. The great thing
about the Pre is that he should be
able to settle in, and the crowd won’t
pressure him into trying to win.”
Webb’s race at the Pre was, in
deed, a memorable moment. Run
ning in the same race but not exactly
alongside El Guerrouj, Webb broke
one of the oldest records in high
school sports, Jim Ryun’s 37-year
old mile record. Webb ran the race in
3 minutes, 53.43 seconds, and
Webb, who ran under four minutes
twice last season, could do it again
on Saturday.
Two other athletes will try to go
under four minutes. The two high
schoolers should battle for the un
der-four crown.
“They both have legitimate
chances to do it,” Jordan said.
Magness has a mile best of
4:01.58, while McGrath ran a per
sonal-best 4:05.28 at the recent Ore
gon Twilight.
Mighty Micah returns
for Pre
Micah Harris must be jealous of
freshman Eric Mitchum, who’s com
ing up on Harris’ Oregon record in
the 110-hurdles and stealing Harris’
Duck headlines.
That could be why Harris, who
graduated last year, is coming back for
Saturday’s Pre to take on some of the
world’s best hurdlers.
Legendary hurdler Allen Johnson,
the 1996 Olympic gold medalist who
holds the Hayward Field record at
13.12 seconds, headlines the field.
He’s joined by Larry Wade, who holds
the second-best time in the country
this season and finished last season
ranked third in the world.
But don’t think Harris doesn’t be
long in the field. At the Modesto Re
lays on May 8, Harris finished second
to Wade. Harris ran 13.43, his fastest
time since he set the Oregon record
last year at 13.67.
The Pre 110-hurdles field also in
cludes Haiti’s Dudley Dorival, who
took bronze in the event at the 2001
World Championships, as well as Du
ane Ross, Ron Bramlett, Mark Crear
and Robert Kronberg.
Contact the sports editor
atpeterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
Tennis
continued from page 9
Gordon/Julia Scaringe and San
Diego State’s Indra Erichsen/Silvia
Tornier. Gordon/Scaringe are
fresh off an upset win over Stan
ford in the National Team
Championships.
In second-round singles action,
Panova takes a 10-match tourna
ment winning streak into her
matchup with No. 25 Christina Fu
sano of California. The streak dates
back to the Pacific-10 Conference
Indoor Championships in January.
Panova faced Fusano earlier this
year in the quarterfinals of the ITA
Regionals. Panova lost the match
in straight sets at the preseason
tourney. The loss was the last time
Panova fell in tournament play be
fore winning the Pac-10 indoor
and outdoor championships.
The weather in Gainesville is ex
pected to change slightly for the sec
ond round with a forecast of tem
peratures in the 80s and a chance .of
light rain and thunder storms.
Barring an upset, Panova will take
on the winner of the match between
North Carolina’s Marlene Mejia and
Southern California’s Jewel Peter
son in the Sweet Sixteen.
Panova begins play at 9 a.m.
EST this morning.
Ryan Heath is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
FCC
continued from page 1
national television market — an in
crease from the existing 35 percent
cap—and allowing companies to own
both a newspaper and a radio or TV
station in the same market.
A bipartisan group ofU.S. represen
tatives and senators, including Sen.
Ron Wyden, D-Ore., are mobilizing in
response to the increased concentra
tion of media ownership and have in
troduced legislation in both houses of
Congress to prevent television net
works from owning television stations
that reach more of the United States
than law currently allows.
“Media concentration has been on
the rise for some time as the big con
glomerates grab up more and more of
the television outlets Americans de
pend on for news and entertainment,”
Wyden said in an e-mail interview.
“Some of these conglomerates have
amassed large holdings of TV stations,
and you can bet that if the Federal
Communications Commission rolls
back the caps on the number of sta
tions a company can own, they will
continue to gobble up more. The result
would be that locally-owned broadcast
television—with real owners who live
in the communities they’re serving—
would all but disappear. ”
All but one of the six television
broadcast stations in Eugene are
owned by corporations outside of Eu
gene. Although KEZI is the only sta
tion with Eugene-based owners, the
others are owned by media groups far
smaller than giants such as Viacom or
Walt Disney Co., and are still able to
produce local programming.
Experts in the arena of politics spec
ulate that members of Congress will
be unable to push for the passage of
legislation before the FCC votes on the
rule changes on June 2.
The FCC’s two Democrat com
missioners have been critical of the
proposed changes as well, and
asked FCC Chairman Michael Pow
ell to delay the vote by a month.
FCC Commissioners Jonathan
Adelstein and Michael Copps ar
gued for the postponement, con
tending that the commission need
ed to set aside time to better
examine the public interest impli
cations of loosening ownership reg
ulations by publicly airing the pro
posed rule changes.
“The commission is considering
significant changes that could unalter
ably remake our media landscape for
yearn to come,” Adelstein and Copps
said in a statement. “We believe it is
prudent to have a transparent process
that ensures we understand the full
implications of our decision.”
But Powell dismissed their request
for a delay, siding with the commis
sion’s two Republican members, by
saying that the FCC must follow the
directive to revise its media ownership
regulations in a timely manner.
“What all of this could translate
to is less local control in broadcast
ing and more dominance by the
networks who make their program
ming and scheduling decisions on
a nationwide basis,” Wyden said.
“That’s the wrong path to go down,
and it’s why I’m pushing legislation
to prohibit any company from own
ing broadcast stations reaching
more than 35 percent of the view
ing population nationwide. This ap
proach would effectively prohibit
the big media conglomerates from
snapping up all of the small televi
sion broadcast stations and com
pletely dominating programming
and news coverage with a mono
lithic, one-size-fits-all approach.”
Contact the senior news reporter
at jenniferbear@dailyemerald.com.