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September 16, 1992...The Portland Observer...Page 5
Trail Blazers Announce 1992
Preseason Schedule
Portland Trail Blazer’s Terry Porter
Urges Library Usage In New TV PSA
T rail Blazers are supporting l i
braries in a new national television
public service announcement (PSA)
produced in cooperation w ith the Na
tional Basketball Association (N B A )
and the American l ibrary Assixaation
(A L A ).
The 30-second PSA, shot at the
Tigard (Orc.) Public Library, stars Trail
Blazers’ guard Terry Porter and en
courages children and adults to "check
out the action” at the public library.
“ I was pleased to rediscover the
public library,” said Poler. “ I had fo r
gotten how much is there and sec that
now, there’ s so much more besides
books that you can use lo r free. I have
to say I was impressed.”
The initial idea olThe T ra il Blaz
ers PSA came from the Washington
County Cooperative Library Services
(W C C LS), a network o f 11 local l i
braries in Oregon, governed by seven
cities, a nonprofit association and the
county. W CCLS also includes school
and special libraries.
“ WE felt that the image o f a much -
admired professional athlete on a w ell-
known team, talking about the useful
ness o f public libraries, would impact
both here in the Portland area and
else w he re ,” said Peggy F o rc ie r,
WCCLS coordinator. “ We hope that
the PSA w ill inspire more people to
lake advantage o f the resources o f
today’ s public libraries.”
A L A w ill distribute the spot to the
top 50 television stations nationwide.
It w ill be available to local stations, by
request, from the A L A Public In fo r
mation O ffice, 50 E. Huron St., C h i
cago, IL 60611.
Jefferson Opens PIL
With Easy Win
Photo by Veronica Green
BY JOHN PHILLIPS
John Charles, PSU Vikings' QB, lead his team to a 24-21 victory over
Eastern Washington. Charles completed 25-36 passes for 390 yards,
and 3 touch downs. The 2-0 Vikings take on Texas A&l 7:00 pm
Saturday at Civic Stadium.
The Democrats opened the 1992
Football season by running past Lincoln
34-6. Mark Burke led the way by scoring
three touchdowns on runs o f 10,4, and 2
yards. Burke also kicked two extra points.
In other highlights for Jefferson,
Thomas Jacob ran 19 yards for a touch
down,and Hakecn M cCallister had a 35-
yard k ic k o ff return. The Democrats w ill
face Cleveland High School at Cleve
land on Friday, September 18.
In other PIL action, Benson just got
by Grant 20-18 on Rashid R ichey’s 5-
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yard run in the fourth quarter. Marshall
shut out C leveland 20-0, as Darin
Kow alski opened the game w ith an 80-
yard k ic k o ff return. And Madison upset
W ilson for the second straight year 9-6
in overtime, when James Fow ler kicked
a 24-yard field goal.
In a nonleague game, Roosevelt
lost to Parkrose 34-20.
In other games next week: Grant at
Madison, W ilson at Marshall, and in a
nonleague game, Benson plays Canby at
C ivic Stadium, all games w ill be played
on Friday.
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Meet The Newest Blazers!
In the next four weeks I w ill cover
the newest players to jo in the Portland
T ra il Blazers this summer. And now,
introducing:
Rod Strickland
Rod Strickland, ranked among the
N B A ’ s top point guards the past two
seasons, signed a free agent contract
w ith the Portland T ra il Blazers in June.
Strickland ranked fifth in the league
in assists last season w ith an 8.6 aver
age, to go along w ith a scoring average
o f 13.8 points in 57 games as the San
Antonio Spurs’ flo or leader. The 6-
foot-3 four-year veteran tied fo r 12th
w ith Terry Porter on the league’ s assist
lis t w ith an 8.0average during the 1990-
91 season.
“ Rod Strickland has proven to be a
very good point guard, one o f the best
penetrators in the game and terrific on
the fastbreak,” said G e o ff Petrie,
Portland’ s senior vice-president o f op
erations in making the announcement.
“ His presence in our lineup gives us
much more fle x ib ility among our guards
than we have had before. He has made
strides on an o ff the court during the
past year and should have a bright fu
ture w ith the Blazers.
“ O bviously, w e’re excited to be
able to sign a player o f Strickland’s
a bility. We are always seeking to im
prove our team and the addition o f Rod
Strickland is a significant step in that
ongoing process.”
In four seasons w ith the New York
K n ic k s and San A n to n io Spurs,
Strickland has averaged 11.4 points,
6.3 assists and 27.4 minutes, shooting
.464 from the fie ld and .669 at the foul
line, in 278 games. His 3.67 assist/
turnover ratio through four seasons was
bettered by only six players during the
1991-92 N B A season.
A fter sitting out the first 24 games
o f last season w ith a contract holdout,
Strickland averaged 13.8 points, 8.6
assists, 2.07 steals and 36.0 minutes for
the Spurs. He poured in a career-high 28
points against Indiana on February 6
and distributed a career-high 19 assists
at Minnesota on March 3. He charted 22
double-doubles and scored in double-
figures 48 times, including topping the
20-point mark on eight occasions.
“ A t the end o f this past season one
o f the needs we identified fo r our team
was someone who could play point
guard behind Terry Porter,” said Blaz
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in Newark, NJ. He as born July 11,
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October 21. T hey’ ll meet the Blazers at
M cA rthur Court in Eugene tw o nights
later. Portland hosts the Denver Nug
gets at the Coliseum on Monday, Octo
ber 26. The T ra il Blazers plan to hold a
team scrimmage open to the public at
Lew is and C lark College on a date to be
determined later.
Portland’ s preseason opens w ith a
pair o f games against the Los Angeles
Lakers at their training camp in Hono
lulu, HI on October 16 and 17. Other
excursions include an encounter with
Charlotte at Las Vegas and Sacramento
at Arco Arena.
Tickets fo r the preseason game in
Eugene are now available, (effective
Tuesday, September 8) at all G I Joe’s
Ticketmaster out and at the Oregon
Athletic Department ticket office. That
game w ill be a homecoming fo r Cleve
land guard Terrell Brandon, who starred
for the U niversity o f Oregon before
moving to the N B A prior to last season.
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ers’ head coach Rick Adelman. “ Rod
Strickland gives us a player who can
play behind Terry and Clyde Drexler.
W e’ re fortunate that our point guard,
Terry Porter, has the a bility to be e f
fective at the off-guard position. The
only other player like that is Joe Dumars
o f Detroit. M ost teams don’ t have that
fle x ib ility . Strickland is a quality point
guard who should really helpour team.”
Strickland was the 19th pick o f
the first round in the 1988 D raft by the
New York Knicks fo llo w in g an out
standing three-year career at Depaul
U niversity that culminated w ith his
being named First Team A ll-A m e ri
can by The Sporting News. He was
named to the N B A all-Rookie Second
Team before being traded to San A n
tonio in exchange for veteran guard
Maurice Cheeks on February 21,1990.
He enjoyed a strong post-season in
1990 in which he averaged 12.3 points
and 11.3 assists in 10 games. His assist
mark ranked third among all p la yo ff
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nounced Tuesday that they w ill play a
schedule o f eight preseason games this
fa ll, highlighted by the annual Basket
ball H all o f Fame game in Springfield,
Massachusetts.
The Blazers and Charlotte Hornets
meet in the 20th annual N B A Basket
ball Hall o f Fame on Tuesday, Novem
ber 6 at the Springfield C ivic Center in
Springfield, M A , birthplace o f basket
ball and site o f the Basketball Hall o f
Fame. The game w ill be telecast na
tionally on T N T.
The T rail Blazers w ill play three
games in Oregon as part o f the Bank o f
American Portland T ra il Blazers Pre
season Tour, T w o in Portland and one
in Eugene. The Cleveland Cavaliers,
who tied Portland w ith the N B A ’ s sec
ond-best record last season before los
ing to the Chicago Bulls in the Eastern
Conference championship series, visit
M em orial Coliseum on Wednesday,
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