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It wasn't easy.
"It was very hard and when I first got
back, I couldn't take my mind off of it"
Reed said. "When I got back, I don't
think I played in a game throughout the
end of the season. Most of that had to
do with me not
being able to eat
just not having
the energy to
even be able to
get out on the
field playing."
More than six
months later,
Reed still faces
days when he
doesn't feel like
going out onto
the field. But
penciled in as
Oregon's No. 1
Ramone
Reed
Senior Oregon
linebacker
weakside linebacker, he's expected to
be out there a lot.
It's still hard.
"1 just try to think about the reasons 1
play this game," Reed said. "I try to
think about all the days when I was six,
seven years old and I used to go outside
and play by myself. I used to make foot
balls out of socks or whatever I could."
He said it's slow going in terms of
getting tilings back to normal. Maybe
that day will come. Maybe it won't.
Regardless, the consensus is that Reed
is improving, both on and off the field.
"He's changed a lot," said senior
linebacker Jerry Matson, a close friend
of Reed's. "You can see the joy in his
eye instead of just dealing with all of
the outside pain. And he can finally
focus on things that are fun and (has)
conducted to better himself in foot
ball and school.
"Before, family has got to come
first, so he wasn't very enthusiastic
about anything in his life. But now,
you can tell he's changed his outlook
SPORTS BRIEFS
Women in Sports Business
Symposium returns to UO
After a one-year absence, the
Women in Sports Business Sympo
sium returns to Eugene today.
The symposium, which begins at
1 p.m. in 282 Lillis Business Com
plex, is a half-day conference with
the theme, "Motivate, Inspire, Ele
vate: The Future of Women in Sports
Business."
Lucy Activewear CEO Sue Levin
will give the opening address and two
panel discussions will follow at 2 p.m.
The panelists include Sonja Hen
ning, former president of the players'
union for the Women's National Bas
ketball Association; Jolynn Ovington,
director of Adidas Women; and Erin
Hubert, a former executive vice presi
dent for the Portland Trailblazers.
The panels are designed to be inter
active discussions with the audience
members. Following the panels, there
will be a reception in the Lillis Atrium.
Admission to the symposium,
which is hosted by the Warsaw' Sports
Marketing Center, is free to the pub
lic, but space is limited.
The symposium will also be web
cast live at http://www.warsawcen
ter.com/events/wsbs_webcast.htm.
— Mindi Rice
Clarett denied in bid
for NFL by Supreme Court
NEW YORK — The Supreme
Court threw Maurice Clarett for an
other loss on Thursday, justices twice
denying his appeal to enter Satur
day's NFL draft.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reject
ed the 20-year-old running back's re
quest to overturn a lower court's stay,
and Justice John Paul Stevens
promptly turned down a second
emergency appeal. Clarett's attorney,
Alan Milstein, had no plans for a
third appeal.
USC wide receiver Mike Williams,
who entered the draft after the origi
nal decision in favor of Clarett, is also
ineligible and has told the NFL that
he will drop his legal challenges, ac
cording to the league's executive vice
president, Jeff Pash.
Williams' agent, Mike Azzarelli,
was still hoping for the possibility of
a supplemental draft but that would
occur only if Clarett prevails in his
ongoing challenge to the league by
laws that requires players to wait
three years after high school before
turning pro.
The two Supremes did not rule on
the merits of Clarett's case against the
NFL. They refused to interrupt the
stay because the NFL will provide a
supplemental draft if Clarett wins his
lawsuit.
Milstein, who was optimistic about
prevailing back in February, had no
comment on Thursday's ruling. There
is no timetable for a three-judge panel
that issued the stay to reach its final
opinion. That decision by the 2nd
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could
take weeks. The simple issuance of a
stay is an indication that it will side
with the league, because the court has
already agreed that the league can win
its case.
Clarett, meanwhile, is in limbo. His
chances of regaining his NCAA eligi
bility and returning to Ohio State
would be "far-fetched," according to
Buckeye coach Jim Tressel.
Tressel told The Associated Press
that "(f)rom an academic standpoint,
unless the NCAA really changes its
posture about academics, I think it
would be difficult."
Clarett, a freshman sensation, lost
his sophomore season after accepting
money from a family friend, then try
ing to deceive investigators. He has
since dropped out of school.
Clarett would be eligible for the
2005 draft if the current rules stand,
but his value probably would go
down. The 20-year-old was out of
shape and unimpressive at the com
bine workouts.
Williams, however, would have
been a sure-fire first-round pick and
was being projected as Michael Vick's
playmate in Atlanta. Williams hired
an agent, which usually prohibits a
player from returning to college. Still,
the door is open for him to apply for
NCAA reinstatement because this is
such an unusual situation. USC coach
Pete Carroll has said the national
champion Trojans would welcome
him back.
— Hank Gola
New York Daily News (KRT)
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on a lot of things and he's getting back
to having fun."
"I just try to think about
the reasons I play this
game. 1 try to think about
all the days when 1 was
six, seven years old and 1
used to go outside and
play by myself."
Ramone Reed
Oregon linebacker
Reed did play in three games after
Fite's passing. He participated, but did
not figure statistically, in Oregon's 35
0 victory over Stanford almost two
weeks later.
Reed, 21, recorded three tackles
against UC1A in November. In the Civil
War, he was credited with one tackle.
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the Ducks for the Sun Bowl.
"He wasn't even in good enough
condition to come in and partici
pate," Matson said.
Much like a number of spots in
Oregon's defense, Reed does not have
the weakside linebacker position
pinned down. 1 Ie knows that, and he
understands it.
He wants to get better. He wants to
be another Kevin Mitchell for the
Ducks, even though the two play dif
ferent styles.
At least he wants to make Mitchell's
kind of impart.
"I am pleased, probably more
pleased just for Ramone personally,
that he is here with us," Oregon head
coach Mike Bellotti said last week. "1 Ie
is committed. His personal life has
been really difficult in the past two to
three years and I think he has come
through it a stronger person. I think he
has finally found a focus. And I'm ex
cited because he's a very good football
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player and he seems to be back.
"I'm not going to say he's totally
there or anything like that because
there's a lot of room for improve
ment, but he's making plays. He
seems to be enjoying himself at prac
tice and playing the game of football.
He is back in his adopted family."
Scrimmage No. 3
Oregon players will participate in
their third and final scrimmage of the
spring today at Autzen Stadium.
Bellotti said the team will proba
bly go through 60 plays — much like
the previous two scrimmages — but
that "we're hoping to get more but
it's going to depend on the health of
the lines."
The Ducks practice on Tuesday and
Thursday next week before playing
the annual spring game next Saturday
at Autzen.
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