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Joey Bracamonte beat his Oregon State counterpart Sunday, 14-7. The Ducks still lost
to the Beavers, 30-12, in the second Civil War match of the season.
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got to a point where we are carrying
baggage from every outing we've had,
and we have to put down that bag
gage, and just deal with what the task
at hand is. We want them to focus on
the task at hand, but it's hard, especially
when you have a bunch of freshmen
and sophomores."
The Ducks will wrap up their regu
lar season Wednesday against Port
land State in Portland, before heading
to the Pac-10 Conference tournament.
Scott Archer is a freelance reporter
for the Emerald.
NEWS BRIEF
Blue Devils suffer
first ACC loss
RALEIGH, N.C. — Julius Hodge
hurdled the press table to embrace
family members in the crowd Sun
day night as N.C. State fans stormed
the floor.
Top-ranked Duke had fallen 78
74 at the RBC Center, and it was
time to celebrate.
Marcus Melvin stood atop the scor
er's table and tossed a red towel into
the crowd. Mike O'Donnell jumped
on Scooter Sherrill's back.
"Great job, baby," O'Donnell said.
Great job, indeed. No.21 N.C. State
(16-5, 9-2 ACC) snapped Duke's 18
game winning streak and pulled with
in a game of the Blue Devils (21-2,10
1) in the ACC standings.
"It just felt really good," Sherrill
said. "(O'Donnell) is a freshman. For
him to be in an atmosphere like this,
for him to realize that it can be done,
we can beat anybody in the country, it
felt really good."
Hodge and Melvin each scored 18
to lead the Wolfpack, and Melvin
grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds.
N.C. State outrebounded Duke 35-27
and shot 52 percent of the field, be
coming the first Blue Devil opponent
to shoot better than 50 percent in 28
games dating back to last season.
Duke trailed 36-26 at halftime but
drew back within two points on a
Chris Duhon three-pointer with 16:11
remaining. Hodge responded with a
rebound basket and a driving bank
shot over Duhon.
N.C. State went 12-for-12 from the
foul line in the final 1:10 to hold on
for the victory.
"We just have to learn from this
feeling and not let it happen again, 1
guess," said Duke guard J.J. Redick,
who scored 28 points. "Of course I
was surprised we came out like this.
We just didn't play the way we had the
last couple of months."
N.C. State improved to 2-5 against
No.l teams in Sendek's tenure. The
Wolfpack defeated top-ranked
North Carolina 86-72 on Feb. 21,
1998 in Chapel Hill under coach
Herb Sendek.
Most of N.C. State's offense came
in the paint as Duke's ball pressure
was outstanding and limited the
Wolfpack to six three-pointers and
just 12 attempts.
"Coming into the game we knew
they were going to try to limit our
three-pointers," Hodge said. "Coach
said we were going to go inside and
stick to our program."
— KenTysiac
Knight Ridder Newspapers
Rodriguez heads to Yankees
after New York, Texas talk
The superstar goes
to New York after almost
landing in Boston last month
By Evan Grant
The Dallas Morning News (KRT)
ARLINGTON, Texas — The Texas
Rangers have waited all winter to
trade Alex Rodriguez, so, hey, what's
one more day?
Making sure that everyone in base
ball knows nothing happens until he
says it does, commissioner Bud Selig
put the Rangers' blockbuster deal of
Rodriguez to the New York Yankees
on hold Sunday.
The Rangers had been hoping to
have an afternoon press conference
to announce the acquisition of versa
tile infielder and potential outfielder
Alfonso Soriano, a minor leaguer to
be named and significant cash relief.
The Rangers are expecting to save ap
proximately $ 120 million over the fi
nal seven years of Rodriguez's 10
year, $252-million contract.
Though Selig issued no statement,
a baseball official said the commis
sioner was simply taking time to re
view all the legal language with Ma
jor League Baseball's lawyers. The
official said Selig's delay should not
be interpreted as a red flag.
"I've been around the world long
enough to know that nothing is
done until it's done," Rangers owner
Tom Hicks said. "But I think all
along the Texas Rangers have been
consistent in what we would and
would not do."
The deal has apparently already
deared the most significant hurdle,
gaining approval from the Major
League Baseball Players Assodation.
Other than the players assodation,
the biggest obstacle in the way of the
deal was Hicks.
After the December trade to send
Rodriguez to Boston fell through,
Hicks started Rodriguez and the
Rangers on the road to reconciliation.
That induded naming Rodriguez cap
tain during a five-hour dear-the-air
session in New York.
After that Hicks said he was intent
on moving forward with Rodriguez.
The two met last week to again talk
about the team's direction before the
deal with the Yankees appeared.
"I really struggled with it" Hicks
said. "But a window started develop
ing. Alex dedded it was an opportuni
ty for him. And once we got the dollars
right we dedded it was an opportuni
ty for us. But we had turned this thing
down three times before we even start
ed taking it seriously.
"Once we got the dollars right I
asked both (GM) John Hart and (assis
tant GM) Grady Fuson separately if
they thought this would hdp make us
better faster. They both said it would."
While Selig approved the pro
posed trade of Rodriguez to Boston
for Manny Ramirez, the union
squashed the deal.
That deal, however, was far more
complicated because Ramirez had al
most $100 million iemaininggjaianteed
money. The proposal with Boston
called for Rodriguez to give back $28
million in salary. The players associa
tion viewed that as significantly di
minishing the contract's value and
wouldn't lend its approval. Ro
driguez deferred to the union.
Soriano is in a different situation.
He will make $5.4 million this year
and will have two more years of be
ing eligible for salary arbitration be
fore free agency.
The drastic difference in salary al
lowed the Rangers to give the Yan
kees money and still end up with
savings of more than $ 100 million.
The Rangers have agreed to pay the
Yankees $40 million over the next sev
en years (about $5.7 million per year)
and to assume the remaining deferred
money (about $27 million) in Ro
driguez's contract. Rodriguez has
agreed to allow the start of those de
ferred payments to be pushed back
from 2011 to 2016. He has also agreed
to lower the interest rate on the defer
ments from 3 percent to 1.5 percent.
For those concessions, the Yankees
reportedly will pay for a hotel suite for
Rodriguez on the road and allow a
link from the Yankees' web site to Ro
driguez's site. While Rodriguez often
got a suite while with the Rangers, the
club paid only for a standard room.
Rodriguez picked up the rest of the tab.
(c) 2004, The Dallas Morning News.
Distributed by Knight Ridder/
Tribune Information Services.
Thomas makes waves with
latest New York acquisitions
The Knicks received Tim
Thomas and Nazr
Mohammed from Atlanta on
Sunday in a three team trade
By Frank Isola
New York Daily News (KRT)
LOS ANGELES — Tim Thomas is
no Latrell Sprewell, but he's no Keith
Van Horn, either. And that was appar
ently good enough for Isiah Thomas.
Open season on Scott Layden's
players continued Sunday when
Thomas, the Knicks' president, stole
the spotlight at Sunday night's All-Star
Game by acquiring forward Tim
Thomas from the Bucks and Nazr Mo
hammed from the Hawks in a three
team deal that sent Van Horn to
Milwaukee. Atlanta received
Michael Doleac from the Knicks and
Joel Przybilla from the Bucks.
The New York Daily News first re
ported Sunday that the Knicks and
Bucks were discussing a Van Hom-for
Thomasdeal. ■
"It's a good day for us in New York
simply because we wanted to get more
athletic," Thomas said. "I think any
time you have the opportunity to trade
one player and potentially get back
two starters...it's very difficult to do
nowadays with the salary cap and the
players that we have."
The trade doesn't necessarily make
the Knicks better. And it comes at a
time when they were playing as well as
any team in the Eastern Conference,
having won five of their last seven.
Also, Van Horn's game had begun
to flourish since the arrival of Stephon
Marbury. Overall, Van Horn averaged
16.4 points and 7.3 rebounds this sea
son, while Thomas was averaging 14.1
points and 4.9 rebounds for Milwau
kee. Most executives rank Sprewell
ahead of both Thomas and Van Horn.
"The only reason why we made the
trade was because we got both play
ers," Thomas said. "When you add
Tim Thomas and Nazr Mohammed to
our team, it makes us a much more
athletic team. I think we've become a
better defensive team, a better re
bounding team and it also helps our
future just in case Kurt Thomas leaves
or Doleac wasn't coming back and
(Dikembe) Mutombo is 38.
(c) 2004, New York Daily News.
Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune
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