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December 3 0 , 1992...The Portland Observer...Page 5
SPORTS
No Play, No Pay
and having to create offense on the
defensive side of the ball.
Also Santa it would be nice to have
our health back. The blazers, for the
most part, have been injury free the last
three years. Not having Drexler at full
form (5-18 from the field), and missing
those Jerome Kersey hustle plays has
really hurt the Blazers overall scheme
so far this season.
C liff Robinson seems to be carry
ing the team ’s offensive load coming
off the bench this year. Against the
Sonics, Robinson was 11 -22 from the
field and had another career high with
16 caroms.
Derrick McKey is another player
coming into his own this year. McKey
led the Sonics with 26 points on 7-11
shooting while dropping in 12 for 14
from the charity strike.
Saturday night’s game against the
Philadelphia 76cr’s was the night the
Blazers were supposed to bring those
presents (shooting and health) to the
game. And they did. The 121 -115 over
time win was one of the most exciting
games of the year. The Blazers played
well the first half and when it really
counted in overtime. The first half was
controlled by Robinson and the Blaz
ers. Going into the lockcroom at half up
67-51 on 8-10 shooting by the probable
all-star Robinson things looked good.
The second half was the old Blazer
BY ERIC NOON
For all those fans who drove up to
Seattle to watch the Portland T railblaz
ers get manhandled by the Seattle Su-
personics (126-109) in front of 36,000
tans, last Friday night, it was payback
time.
The best thing when talking about
a rivalry, is getting the last word. All the
Blazer fans could say was just wail until
Tuesday, after the Sonics had taken the
Blazer fans out o f the game with their
solid play.
On that note, the Northwest rivalry
was in full bore as the Sonics, winners
o f three in a row, rolled into Portland
last Tuesday for their payback. A l
though the Sonics were w ithout their
leading scorer Shawn Kemp and re
serve center Benoit Benjamin, their
stellar outside shooting set the lone for
the game again in Portland.
The 107-96 final score sent Blazer
fans home for the holidays wondering
w hat Santa needs to bring to the Blazers
for their championship drive in 1993. It
would be nice if Santa would drop off a
case or two of outside shooting to
Blazerland. Their defensive intensity
hasn’t been there at times. It would be
nice to take a little pressure o ff the
defense with some outside scoring.
The Blazers, who shot 41 percent
versus 52 percent for the Sonics, are not
getting their shots to fall consistently
nemesis Jeff Homacek show. Homacek
went 11-19 in the second half leading
the Sixer com eback. Horny hit on five
for eight from the three-point strike,
one a contested 28-footer with time
running down. Sixer Ron Anderson
hit a three-pointer with three seconds
remaining in regulation to send the
Blazers into their second overtim e of
the season.
After allowing the Sixers to score
the first four points, the Blazers went
on a 6-0 run to lake the lead for good.
W ith time running down, down by
three, who does the S ixers w ant shoot
ing the three? Jeff H om acek, Hersey
H aw k in s, Ron A n d e rso n , rig h t?
Wrong! Manute Bol, the seven-foot-
seven long-range specialist. Bol was
able to gel the shot off with his height.
He was unable to connect from the top
o f the key for the tie as K evin
Duckworth nabbed to rebound to ice
the victory for Portland.
The Blazers are still banged up
pretty good as Drexler and Kersey
didn’t play Saturday and probably
won t play for another week against
Utah. Tonight the Blazers host the (2-
20) Dallas M avericks. It’s not even a
rebuilding year for die Mavs as they
look for only their third win of the
season. Look for those three guys on
the end o f the bench licking their lips
at an opportunity to play in this one.
Applications Now Available For
Adelman’s “ Hoop Heaven”
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Applications are now available for
“ Rick Adelm an’s Blazers Hoop Heaven
Basketball Cam p.” T hecam p, now in its
fourth year, is sponsored by Bank of
America and is open to boys and girls,
age 8-18, and will take place in July at
Lewis and Clark College and Tualatin
High School.
Campers will receive personal in
struction from Trail Blazer head coach
Rick Adelman, who will be assisted
throughout the camp by leading college
and high school basketball coaches. In
addition, current and former NBA play
ers will be on hand to discuss and answer
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about the C fundamentals
of
basketball and specific game situations.
Three sessions are scheduled this
year, with “day cam p” and/or “over
night accom m odations” offered at each
session. Tw o boys camp sessions are
scheduled for July 12-16 (day) or July
11-16 (overnight). The fee is S200 per
person for day camp and $310 per per
son for overnight. Deposits of $ 1 (X) for
day campers, or $150 for overnight
participants, is required with their ap
plication. Final payment for all ses
sions isdue June 11,1993. Deposits arc
non-refundable after May 7, 1993.
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namnnre
w ill will
rf receive a “ Hoop
cam pers
Heaven’’ sports bag, sports water bottle,
a cam p handbook, an official cam p f-
shirt, shorts and a cam p photo. Prizes
will be awarded for individual and
team cham pions. Meals will be pro
vided for all campers with overnight
accom m odations.
Applications for “Rick A delman’s
B lazers H oop H eaven B asketball
Cam p” are available at the Trail Blaz
ers office, 700 NE M ultnomah, Suite
600, Portland, O regon, 97232. For
more information, please call (503)
234-9291.
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Seattle Supersonics' third year guard Gary Payton is off to a great start
this season Payton has directed his team to second place in the Pacific
Division. One of the knocks against Payton his first two seasons in the
NBA was inconsistent outside shooting, but a lot of hard work this past
summer helped Payton overcome this problem.
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Cellular One To Donate Money On Behalf
Of Subscribers Cellular Long Distance
Charges Help Children
Every long distance call made by a
Cellular One subscriber through the
month of December will result in a 25
cent donation to the children’s wards of
four Oregon hospitals.
Cellular One of Oregon and SW
W ashington anticipates raising about
$40,000.00 to benefit children through
donations to Doernbcchcr C hildren’s
Hospital-Portland, Sacred Heart G en
eral Hospital-Eugene, Rouge Valley
M edical C e n te r-M e d fo rd and St.
Charles M edical C enter-Bend. Last
year, Doernbcchcr C hildren's Hospital
received $30,050.00 trom C ellular
O ne’s holiday giving program. The
contribution to the hospital went to
ward the purchase o f a neonatal m oni
tor.
“Our holiday giving program is a
means for our customers and employ
ees to help children throughout O r
egon. The program is also a way for
Cellular One to say thanks to our sub
scribers and our community for being
very good to us,” said Rich Begert,
General Manager o f Cellular One for
Oregon and SW W ashington. The pro
gram is in its fourth year.
Volunteers from Cellular One will
Cavalcade
For Peace
On January 1, 1993 beginning at
11:0ö A.M., Oregonians are invited to
join in a strong and eloquent expression
o f a desire for peace throughout the
world, and most particularly in the
Middle East.
The Cavalcade for Peace will be
g in
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C o n g re g a tio n
N cveh
Shalom...will move on the Portland
Rizwan Mosque...and conclude at First
Christian Church. The entire program
will last approximately ninety minutes.
C o -sp o n so re d by the O regon
Interrcligious Com m ittee tor Peace in
the Middle East, Mercy Corps Interna
tional and Ecumenical M inistries of
Oregon, the program offers an opportu
nity to begin the new year with a clear
and united call for the resolution ot
world conflicts through peaceful, con
structive means, as Jews, Muslims and
Christians join together in prayer.
Congregation Neveh Shalom
2900 SW Peaceful Lane
Portland, Oregon
(just North o f the intersection of
Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy and Dosch
Road)
Portland Rizwan Mosque
9925 SW 35th Drive
Portland, Oregon
First Christian Church
1314 SW Broadway
Portland, Oregon
(Parking in the Park Blocks)
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BY PROF. MCKINLEY BURT
W hereas my last two articles in this
scries were about the inventors o f hard
ware and m achines that made life safer
and/or more convenient for mankind,
the lollow ing men and women of m edi
cine deserve our honor and apprecia
tion for their contribution to the Health
Sciences. They will be included in my
presentations as 1 am invited into the
schools during Black History Month
(and at other times).
Wc may begin with the American
Red Cross Center on North Vancouver
Avenue where the canteen is named
after Dr. Charles Richard Drew, the
black physician to whom so many tens
of millions around the globe have owed
their lives; “Every'blood bank in the
country and in the world is a living
memorial and a tribute to the genius of
this brilliant m an” (Black Pioneers o f
Science and Invention, Louis Haber,
1970, Harcourt. Brace & W orld, Inc.).
Given the scope and breadth ol the
doctor’s pioneering and seminal devel
opments in his chosen field, one might
wonder why the Red Cross might not
have named the entire center after this
com passionate and dedicated m an—
rather than just the “cafeteria' Think
of what that could mean to the m otiva
tion and self esteem o f passing north-
cast school children whose teachers
and parents could build on this w on
drous American story. Is it too late to
ask? Shouldn’t some of ourcom m unily
organizations be pursuing this issue?
Dr. Drew was educated in the W ash-
ington, D.C. School System and then
went on to prestigious Amherst and
then to M cGill U niversity Medical
School in Canada. It was in 1931, a
depression year that he was fortunate
enough to win a Rosen wald Foundation
scholai ship which enabled him to com
plete his medical education-placing
second in a class o f 137 and a prize in
ncuroanatomy; also elected to Alpha
Omega Alpha, the medical honorary
scholastic fraternity.
The turning point in D rew ’s life—
and in the affairs of m ankind-cam e in
1940 when he was granted a research
Scholarship by the Rockefeller Foun
dation. This was the real beginning of
the work that led to the first effective
method of separating and preserving
blood and the convincing of the w orld’s
medical fraternity that this m ethodol
ogy was the key to “banking” and ship
ping p lasm a-as opposed to shipping
whole blood which quickly deterio
rated.
W orld War II had begun and Dr.
Drew went to Britain to supervise the
formation of blood banks in that coun
try (you would have thought that, later,
he would have been given a parallel
position in this country). However,
many millions o f soldiers on both sides
of the conflict survived their wounds
because of the compassion and dedica
tion o f this African American genius, In
the irony of all ironies, wc find that in
1950, Dr. Drew, severely injured in an
auto accident, died from loss o f blood
while three physician com panions (all
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visit children in the pediatric wards of
the four hospitals during the holidays.
The children will be able to call Santa
Claus or friends and relatives on por
table cellular phones. Santa Claus will
be answering the calls from the Cellu
lar One Service Center in Bend.
Cellular One of Oregon and SW
W ashington is a wholly-owned sub
sidiary o f McCaw Cellular com m uni
cations, the leading cellular com m u
nications provider in the United States.
Cellular One employs over 265 people,
managing operations throughout O r
egon and SW W ashington.
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Compassionate Black Healers; Physicians
Of Today And Yesterday
CABBAGE
g ree n solid heads
BY JOHN PHILLIPS
1 have been around the National
Basketball Association for more than
twenty years and I must say that things
have not changed very much. Yes, the
level of play is better, the attendance all
over the league is way up, but the one
thing that remains the same is the plan
tation mentality of the N BA ’s front
office located in New York City, New
York.
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Years ago I was in New York hav
ing a disc ussion with one Gary Bettman
of the NBA about a summer basketball
game in the Bahamas he did not want an
NBA player to play without the N BA ’s
approval. Bettman made a statement to
me to the effect that the NBA players
were “his property.” I inquired, “ Your
‘property’? A ren’t they human be
ings”?” Then he countered, “W ell, I
didn’t mean it that w ay.” Nevertheless,
he did say it. 1 felt then, and 1 hold to the
same opinion now, that he did indeed
mean it.
That scenario made me think of
what has gone on lately regarding the
fines assessed by the NBA that has been
inflicted upon certain players because
of what they have said concerning NBA
officials, better known to the fans as
“refs.”
The quality o f refs has not been
commensurate with thequality of play
ers. The quality of refs has diminished
greatly. Michael Jordan and Scottie
Pippin o f the W orld Champion C hi
cago Bulls team were fined $5,000each
for comments both made aboutthepoor
job o f officiating the refs did in a game
a few weeks ago.
The Portland Observer encourages our readers to write
letters to the editor In response to any articles we publish.
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black) searched for an Alabama hospi
tal whose emergency room would ad
mit him. Yes, I say name that local Red
Cross Center after him --never mind the
“coffee and donut room ” .
An interesting aside is that in the
recent special fashion edition of “E s
sence M agazine” you will find an ar
ticle on the famed black blues singer,
“Bessie Smith.” You will get the “blues”
when her son describes his m other’s
death under the same tragic circum
stances as Dr. D rew -sh e bled to death
while the am bulance crew searched for
a hospital that would adm it her. This
sometimes happens to people today
when they look like a possible indigent
with no health in surance-the am bu
lance crew has to decide where to take
you-hopcfully based on their interpre
tation of your condition.
Earlier this year I had an artery to
burst in my nose from a sudden surge of
elevated blood p re ssu re -o ff the scale
at 300. A fter dialing 911,1 thought, “oh
ho, Dr. D rew ”. 1 w ent downstairs to
wait on the am bulance (9 m inutes flat),
sitting in the doorway with “my health
insurance card in my hand.” 1 aint no
fool! After a w eek o f specialists o f
assorted disciplines and finally Provi-'
dent Hospitals best surgeon, 1 rackcdup
$14,500 worth of attention. You may or
may not get that kind o f attention w ith
out health insurance. D on’t gamble if
you don’t have to.
This scries on African American
(and African) contributors to the health
sciences continues next week.
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