THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2016
Philomath football
misconduct case
headed to DA’s offi ce
Alleged incident
occurred at
Camp Rilea
By BRAD FUQUA
Gazette-Times
A student misconduct
investigation involving the
Philomath High School foot-
ball team and its July trip to
Camp Rilea was scheduled to
be forwarded late last week
to the Benton County District
Attorney’s Offi ce, an Oregon
State Police public informa-
tion offi cer said.
“They have a meeting in
the morning with the DA,”
Oregon State Police Sgt. Kyle
Hove said Thursday afternoon.
“They will brief the DA on
what they found out today.”
Benton County District
Attorney John Haroldson
could not be reached for com-
ments on possible charges that
could be fi led.
Hove said the case had been
narrowed down only to an
incident involving Philomath
High School students. The
investigation has been ongo-
ing this week, including inter-
views wrapping up Thursday.
Law-enforcement sources
and Philomath School Dis-
trict offi cials have been quiet
about any possible allegations
involving the students.
“We’re in a holding pat-
tern until we hear from law
enforcement,”
Philomath
School Board chair Tom Klip-
fel said. “Then we’ll start our
investigation.”
Melissa Goff, Philomath
superintendent of schools, said
Thursday that the suspension
of football-related activities
had been extended to Aug. 12.
The Oregon School Activities
Association allows fall sports
teams to begin practice Aug.
15.
The Warriors participated
in football scrimmages and
drills at Camp Rilea for the
eighth straight year. During the
camp, players stayed overnight
in the National Guard facility’s
barracks. PHS took 35 players
to the July 9-13 camp.
Other fall sports at PHS
had been suspended this week
along with football but those
sanctions were lifted. Goff said
she could not share any infor-
mation about the allegations
that involve the PHS students.
“First and last, our concern
is student safety and students’
health and well-being,” Klipfel
said, “and so that’s what we’re
going to focus on through this
process to address whatever
this incident was and to pre-
vent occurring elsewhere.”
Goff said all overnight
camps and the football camp
that had been scheduled for
Aug. 8-10 were canceled.
AP Photo/Kathy Willens
New York Yankees designated hitter Alex Rodriguez reacts
after striking out in a baseball game against the Detroit Ti-
gers at Yankee Stadium in New York in June. Rodriguez’s
complicated relationship with the people of New York City
comes to an end Friday when he plays his last game for
the Yankees.
A-Rod cost Yankees
$317 million for one
World Series title
By RONALD BLUM
AP Baseball Writer
NEW YORK — By the time
Alex Rodriguez collects his
last payment as a player from
the Yankees next year, he will
have received $317,368,852
from New York, according to a
review of his contracts by The
Associated Press.
Luxury tax caused by his
deal totaled an additional $132
million through this year,
although the Yankees could
have spent more money on other
players had A-Rod not been on
the roster.
Was it worth it, given that the
Yankees have won one World
Series title during his years in
pinstripes?
“One individual is not
responsible for winning only
one world championship,
because that’s part of the team
effort,” general manager Brian
Cashman said Wednesday. “He
had a big piece of that success
and in most cases more so than
most.”
New York acquired Rodri-
guez from Texas in February
2004 for infi elder Alfonso Sori-
ano and a player to be named,
who turned out to be Joaquin
Arias — an infi elder who drove
in 95 runs over eight big league
seasons.
In all, Rodriguez will earn
about $448 million as a player,
including $119 million from
Texas and about $12 million
from Seattle.
Heading into Friday night’s
fi nale, the last game before New
York releases him, the 41-year-
old Rodriguez has hit .284 with
351 homers and 1,094 RBIs for
the Yankees, helping them win
their 27th Series title in 2009 but
often failing in other postsea-
sons. He won AL MVP awards
in 2005 and 2007, raising his
total to three.
“The trade with Texas was
a tremendous move,” Cash-
man said. “We added one of
the game’s greatest players at a
discounted price because there
were considerable offsets of sal-
ary, and we got a lot of produc-
tion from him for quite some
time.”
A-Rod cost the Yankees $61
million in salary from 2004-07
plus an additional $3.5 million
in award bonuses. An additional
$22 million he earned over those
four seasons was paid by New
York and reimbursed by the
Rangers.
Rodriguez opted out of
the remainder of his deal to
become a free agent, giving up
$72 million in salary over three
seasons. On Dec. 13, 2007
— the same day the Mitch-
ell Report on drugs in base-
ball was released — Rodri-
guez fi nalized a $275 million,
10-year contract to remain with
the Yankees.
He was suspended by Major
League Baseball for the entire
2014 season for violations of the
sport’s drug agreement and labor
contract, and an arbitrator cut his
$25 million salary for that sea-
son to $2,868,852, taking away
162/183rds of the total.
Rodriguez’s Yankees con-
tract pays him in monthly install-
ments, and the last payment is
due on Dec. 31, 2017. How-
ever, he still will receive money
from the Rangers; at the time
of the trade, the $36 million in
deferred money from the $252
million, 10-year deal he signed
with Texas in December 2000
was converted to an assignment
bonus, which accrues interest at
a 2 percent annual rate.
SPORTS
7A
Gray skies and green water
at the Rio de Janeiro Games
By ARNIE STAPLETON
AP Sports Writer
RIO DE JANEIRO —
Skies and pools both dark-
ened Wednesday as the sun-
splashed Olympics in Rio
de Janeiro gave way to gray
clouds and murky green
waters.
The Rio Games were
drenched in rain and con-
tinued questions about why
the diving well and water
polo pools look so much like
neglected aquariums.
The fi rst American male
basketball player to appear
in four Olympics, Carmelo
Anthony passed LeBron
James as the national team’s
most prolifi c scorer. The
U.S. men’s basketball team
needed every one of his 31
points as they got their fi rst
good test in fending off Aus-
tralia 98-88.
Katie Ledecky’s strong
fi nal leg helped the U.S.
women win the 4x200 free-
style relay over silver medal-
ist Australia.
Brazil fi nally found its
scoring touch in the men’s
soccer tournament at the
Olympics, the host country
advancing to the quarterfi -
nals by beating Denmark 4-0
and avoiding an embarrass-
ing elimination in front of
the home fans. Brazil plays
Colombia in Sao Paulo on
Saturday.
The third day of the
men’s water polo tournament
began in green-tinged water,
though not nearly as dark as
the neighboring diving pool
at the aquatics center. It was
crystal blue the day before.
Water quality has been a
major issue surrounding the
Rio de Janeiro Olympics, but
in the ocean and lagoons, not
pools.
A decrease in the alka-
line level in the diving well
Tuesday afternoon led to the
green color, organizing com-
mittee spokesman Mario
Andrada said. He added
that the pool for water polo
As of Thursday morning, Aug. 11
TOP 10 MEDAL
WINNERS
AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano
Cyclist Ellen van Dijk of Netherlands rides along Pontal beach
during the women’s individual time trial event at the 2016
Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday.
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1.
United States
11 11 10
2.
China
10 6
3.
Japan
6
1 11
4.
Russia
4
7
4
5.
Australia
6.
5
United Kingdom 3
3
4
5
6
7.
Italy
3
6
3
8.
South Korea
4
2
3
9.
Hungary
5
1
1
10.
Germany
4
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AP Photo/Wong Maye-E
Britain’s Jack Laugher and Chris Mears compete during
the men’s synchronized 3-meter springboard diving fi-
nal in the Maria Lenk Aquatic Center at the 2016 Summer
Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday.
and synchronized swimming is
being affected in the same way
but “we expect the color to be
back to blue very shortly.”
Rio organizers insisted the
athletes weren’t at risk in the
green pools.
They were on the waters and
slippery roadways, though.
Strong winds rattled palm
trees along the coast and
whipped up waves on the scenic
lagoon where rowing was post-
poned for a full day for the sec-
ond time this week. With winds
too blustery, rowers packed up
their oars for the day as cyclists
hit slick roads on skinny time-
trial bikes unsuited to harsh
weather conditions.
Under dark skies, the cyclists
faced lashing rain and wind on
You
name it,
we’ve
banked it.
the time-trial course along Rio’s
southern coast. The conditions
might have cost Ellen van Dijk
of the Netherlands a medal. She
slid off the road and got tangled
in weeds before fi nishing fourth.
American Kristin Armstrong
won the race.
With the cooler weather,
away went the bare skin and out
came the full leggings and long-
sleeve shirts in beach volleyball
as temperatures dipped into the
lower 60s after sunset, the cold-
est night yet.
Other highlights from Day 5
at the Rio Games:
SWIMMING SHOCKER:
Kazakhstan has its fi rst Olym-
pic swimming medal, and it’s
golden. Dmitriy Balandin pulled
off a stunning upset in the men’s
200-meter breaststroke, win-
ning from the eighth lane to
put his central Asian country
on the swimming medal stand
for the fi rst time. Yosuhiro
Koseki of Japan went out fast
and was more than a second
under world-record pace at
the fi nal turn but faded to fi fth.
Josh Prenot of the United States
claimed silver and Anton Chup-
kov of Russia landed the bronze.
EBNER ELIMINATED:
Nate Ebner, the safety for the
New England Patriots who took
a break from training camp
to fulfi ll his Olympic dream,
sprinted from almost halfway
to score a try in the right cor-
ner against Fiji to make it 24-19,
piling the pressure on Madison
Hughes. But the U.S. captain
and goal kicker missed the con-
version from out wide, leaving
the margin at fi ve. Less than that
and the Americans would have
advanced.
ROWING AT RISK:
Twenty-two races, including the
fi rst two medal races, were post-
poned in the regatta but interna-
tional rowing federation direc-
tor Matt Smith said there’s still
room on the schedule without
having to resort to drastic mea-
sures — even if competition is
also called off Thursday.
LIFE’S A BEACH: The
American beach volleyball team
of Jake Gibb and Casey Patter-
son were eliminated from the
Olympics on a tiebreaker.
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