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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2015
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Poyer football, Astoria Ford baseball camps coming
The Daily Astorian
The second annual Jordan
Poyer Football Camp is 1-5
p.m. June 28 at Columbia Me-
morial Field.
The Astoria High School
graduate, former Oregon
State All-American and cur-
rent member of the Cleveland
Browns, along with the Astoria
High School football coach-
ing staff, will be conducting
a one-day camp for any child
entering kindergarten through
eighth grade next fall.
The cost of the camp is
$40. Instruction will include
individual techniques of all
offensive, defensive and spe-
cial team positions; recom-
mended nutritional training;
off-season and in-season
training; the importance of
goal-setting; and the impor-
tance of team-building.
Preregistration is pre-
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thorization
form,available
at Astoria High School, and
returning it to school, 1001
West Marine Drive, to the
attention of Howard Rub by
June 12.
Checks should be made
payable to Astoria Football –
Jordan Poyer Camp.
If preregistration is not
possible, campers may regis-
ter the day of the camp from
noon to 12:45 p.m.
Campers should wear cloth
shorts and T-shirts, and pref-
erably a rubber molded pair
of shoes (metal cleats are not
allowed).
Daily Astorian File
Poyer signed autographs
and posed for pictures with
fans in last year’s camp.
SCOREBOARD
PREP SCHEDULE
TODAY
Baseball — 4A Quarterfinal:
Astoria at Hidden Valley, 5 p.m.;
2A Quarterfinal: Dufur at Knap-
pa, 4 p.m.
Softball — 2A Quarterfinal:
Knappa at Pilot Rock, 4 p.m.
Daily Astorian File
Jordan Poyer’s annual Astoria football camp is scheduled for June 28 at CMH Field.
For more information,
contact coach Rub at 503-
325-3911, ext. 317, at hrub@
astoria.k12.or.us.
All participants will re-
ceive a T-shirt and can take
one photo with Poyer.
The camp is for any play-
er in the Lower Columbia re-
gion, age 8-15. Players from
Washington and all surround-
ing schools in the Astoria area
are welcome.
Astoria Ford’s Baseball
Summer Day Camp is 6 to
Astoria Ford Baseball
8:30 p.m. July 19.
Camp in July
The next three days, the
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Baseball Summer Day Camp olds at camp 9:30-11:30 a.m.
will take place July19-22 at and 13-15 year olds from 1-3
CMH Field.
p.m.
The camp is to improve the
skills and baseball IQ’s of all
participants, and encourage
young people to play baseball.
The camp will be run by
Astoria High School coach
Dave Gasser and his staff.
Small groups of players will
be coached by current and for-
mer Astoria baseball players.
The cost is $100 for
the week. It includes camp
T-shirts and some surprises
during competitive drills.
To hold a spot and make
sure the camp is staffed prop-
erly, an RSVP is required. All
checks will be made out to
“Astoria Ford Junior Base-
ball.”
Coaches from youth teams
can collect registration forms
and make a $20 deposit to
register players in advance.
Parents can contact coach
Gasser directly at 503-758-
2195, and send the registra-
tion form and $20 deposit to
249 W. Exchange St. Forms
will be available through
players’ leagues or can be sent
electronically or by mail.
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Pharoah’s trainer grows into racing’s grateful elder statesman
The Associated Press
AP Photo/Tony Dejak
Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James poses for a
selfie with fans after the Cavaliers defeated the Atlanta
Hawks 118-88 in Game 4 of the NBA basketball Eastern
Conference finals for a sweep Tuesday in Cleveland.
And now, we wait: Cavs,
Warriors get time to rest
“We decided a few years
ago that it was important to
Golden State coach Steve lock in a start date given the
Kerr was chatting with assis- global nature of the NBA,
tant Luke Walton a few min- with TV and digital partners
utes before what became the and 215 countries and territo-
Warriors’ clinching victory in ries airing the games,” league
the Western Conference Fi- spokesman Michael Wade
nals, and a realization popped said Thursday. “While it’s
into his head.
rare for our teams to have a
“You know what we do week off prior to The Finals,
now?” Kerr asked, somewhat the time allows for both teams
rhetorically. “We wait.”
to rest up and get healthy.”
Now, we all wait.
And just about everyone
The NBA Finals won’t needs the rest.
start until June 4, meaning
Start with LeBron James,
both the Cleveland Cavaliers who has made playing
and the Warriors will have through aches and pains at
more than a full week to rest, this time of year an annu-
recover, scout and plan for al occurrence. The athletic
Game 1 of the title matchup. trainer who has worked in
It’s the same sort of break that tandem with him for years,
Golden State had to deal with Mike Mancias, is basically
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rounds, and for Cleveland, one else as the playoffs go
these mini-vacations are now deeper, tending to whatever
the norm — the Cavs also is ailing the four-time MVP.
had layoffs of about a week
“I will, as a leader, have
following their wins in each our guys ready,” James said.
of their opening two series.
Cleveland guard Ky-
So both teams were off rie Irving has been playing
Thursday.
through pain in both legs,
At the Cavaliers’ complex and this break will determine
in Independence, Ohio, some basically if he reverts to his
players arrived for treatment, usual form or if he’ll still be
but nary a basketball was limping his way through the
bouncing in the facility — ¿QDOV
that resumes on Friday. The
Golden State’s Klay
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nals that he had not given any league’s protocols for such
thought to Cleveland.
matters. And Andre Iguodala
“There’s plenty of time to was shaken up late in Game
get to Cleveland,” Kerr said. 5 against Houston, so he also
Not that’s necessarily a can use a little extra rest.
good thing.
Golden State guard and
It’s unprecedented in the league’s reigning MVP
league history for both con- Stephen Curry took a nasty
ference champions to be sit- spill against Houston and was
ting around for so long before playing with a sleeve to pro-
the NBA Finals. There’s in- tect his elbow in the clincher.
stances of one Finals-bound
“We’ve got to take a week
team having longer breaks, off to get ready,” Curry said,
but not both in the same year. “and get our minds right and
There has been so-called our game plan right for how
“move-up dates” for The Fi- we’re going to beat Cleve-
nals in the past, but no more. land.”
The Associated Press
ARCADIA, Calif. —
Bob Baffert came blasting
into thoroughbred racing in
Southern California talking
smack. Wearing a cowboy
hat and boots, he had already
conquered the quarter horse
world and was ready to take
aim at the bigger money and
prestige offered by training
regally-bred thoroughbreds.
It wasn’t long before he
piled up 11 wins in Triple
Crown races — two behind
leader D. Wayne Lukas —
and ditched his big hat but
kept the boots.
Baffert’s quick success
rubbed rival trainers the
wrong way in a business rife
with jealousy. But after a
heart attack and the death of
close family members, the
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grown into the premature cap
of white hair that has been his
trademark for years.
“When you start out,
you’re hungry and you’re am-
bitious. Ambitious can give
you an edge that people don’t
like,” said Baffert, who will
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since 1978 when American
Pharoah runs in the Belmont
Stakes next Saturday. “Now
I’m still hungry, but not am-
bitious to the way where I’m
easier to deal with.”
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In the beginning, Baffert
thrived in the spotlight. He
was quick with a quip and
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ning back-to-back Kentucky
Derbies with horses that had
shots at winning the Triple
Crown in 1997 and 1998 will
turn someone’s head. He won
a third Derby in 2002 before
War Emblem stumbled out of
the starting gate at the Bel-
mont and lost his Triple try.
“I thought I was so smart,”
he said.
Then life kicked Baffert in
the behind. His mother died
in 2011, and he survived a
heart attack in Dubai and the
death of his father within a
six-month span the following
year. Then, seven horses in
his barn at now-closed Holly-
wood Park died for inconclu-
sive reasons.
The heart attack prompt-
ed diet and lifestyle changes
(cheeseburgers were out and
chicken was in), but losing
his parents was life-chang-
ing. During TV interviews, he
would play to them watching
back home in Nogales, Ariz.,
pulling son Bode into the shot
so Ellie could see her young
grandson.
“Now there’s nobody out
there,” he said, sitting track-
side on a recent quiet morning
at Santa Anita.
AP Photo/Garry Jones, File
Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert walks American Pharoah
around the stakes barn at Pimlico Race Course in Balti-
more May 13.
4uarter Korse world
Bill Sr. loved horses and
racing, but with seven kids he
was duty-bound to his ranch.
Nicknamed “The Chief,”
he got Bob interested in the
sport, and his son took it from
there, starting out as a jockey
in the braggadocious world of
quarter horses, where pickups
and those big cowboy hats
were the signature style.
“Everything starts out,
‘I’ll tell you what, I’m going
to kick your (rear).’ We’re
going to the OK corral with
guns blazing,”’ Baffert said,
mimicking a drawl. “The
thoroughbred world isn’t that
way. It’s more of a gentle-
man’s skill; we’re going to
take 10 paces and turn around
and shoot each other.”
Baffert has trained for
Ahmed Zayat, who owns
American Pharoah, since
2007. They’ve built trust and
a bond that makes it easy
for their families to spend
time together away from
the track. Zayat noticed a
change in Baffert’s hard-
charging ways after his heart
attack and surgery to insert
three stents.
“He’s more content. He
doesn’t have to get every-
thing done perfect,” the
Egyptian-born businessman
said. “His demeanor is tell-
ing me that ‘I’m happy to
have a second chance and
now I’m going to try to en-
joy it and try not to stress
myself.”’
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