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S eptember 20, 1995 • T he P ortland O bserver
BANNISTER EXPECTS NEW RECORD IN MILE
BASEBALL
Peninsula Little
League Meeting
Set
A planning meeting for next
year’s Peninsula Little League will
be held Saturday, Sept. 30 at 7
p.m. at the Lutheran Inner City
M inistries at Skidmore and Martin
Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Coaches, new board members
and various committees are en­
couraged to attend. For more in­
formation, call Pierre DuBoise at
283-3582.
BASKETBALL
Ainge Retires After
14 Seasons
Danny Ainge, a native Orego­
nian who played on two National
Basketball Association champions
and six conference winners, an­
nounced his retirement from the
Phoenix Suns to join the broad­
casting team o f Turner Sports.
The veteran guard from Eu­
gene played 14 seasons with Bos­
ton, Sacramento, Portland and
I’hoenix after being a second-round
draft pick out Brigham Young
University.
Ainge was a member o f the
1984 and 1986 NBA champion
Boston Celtics and was a member
o f four other teams that advanced
to the NBA Finals. He averaged
11.5 points over his career and
played in 183 playoff games, third
all-time among NBA players.
FOOTBALL
Oregon Stumbles
At North Texas
Jason M ills’ four-yard touch­
down pass to Troy Redwine with
nine seconds to play capped a 14-
point rally as North Texas edged
Oregon State, 30-28, Saturday, for
its first-ever win at tne Division I-
A level.
N orth T exas (1 -2 ) trailed
2 7 -1 6 but W illis H udson re ­
c o rd e d the te a m 's seco n d sa fe ­
ty w ith 6 :2 6 to p lay, pullin g
w ith in 2 7 -1 8 . On the resu ltin g
p o sse ssio n , the M ean G reen
c lo s e d to 2 7 - 2 4 on Bo
H a rris o n ’s tw o -y ard run A fter
O re g o n S ta te (1 - 2 ) p u n te d ,
N o rth T ex as w ent 72 y ards on
I I plays, capped by M ills’ third
to uchdow n pass. M ills finished
l9 -o f-3 7 for 220 yard s with
fo u r in te rc e p tio n s and th ree
to u ch d o w n s, all to R edw ine,
w ho had 10 ca tc h e s for 123
y ards.
Q uarterback Don Shanklin
had 14 carries for 123 yards for
Oregon State Mark Olford added
100 yards and touchdowns runs o f
three, 27 and four yards. O lford’s
third touchdown gave the Beavers
a 27-16 lead with 10:22 to play.
Nike Gives Away
Pride Tickets
Need a ticket or two for the
Sept. 28 professional indoor soc­
cer game between the Portland
Pride and San Jose Grizzlies game
at Coliseum? Nike Town is giving
away 100 tickets No purchase is
necessary, limit tow tickets per
person. The giveaway will start at
4 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 25. Nike
Town is located at 930 S.W. Sixth
Ave.
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The world mile record could be
brought down to three minutes 30
seconds, the first man to break the
four-minute barrier said last week.
Britain’s Sir Roger Bannister
told a science conference much o f
the
improvement since his 1954
record o f 3:54.4 had been due to
factors such as synthetic tracks, bet­
ter shoes and huge increases in train­
ing. But there was still room for
improvement.
“ I think that some day next cen­
tury, a three-and-a-half minute mile
might be possible,” Bannister told a
news conference after addressing the
conference. The current m en's mile
record o f 3:44.39 was set in Italy in
1993 by Noureddine Morceli o f Al­
geria.
But Bannister said there was a
limit to how low the record could go
“No-one can run a mile in three
minutes unless, by some freak of
genetic engineering, the structure of
the lung and heart are changed to
deliver vastly greater amounts of
oxygen,” Bannister said. Efforts to
boost training could lead to over­
load, Bannister said, citing Briton
Sebastian Coe who in the middle of
his career suffered a rare lung infec­
tion which normally affects only peo­
ple whose immune system is dam­
aged.
Coe, who had earlier set the 800
meters world record of 1:41.73 which
still stands 14 years on, recovered
and went on to set another world
record in the mile.
“There comes a point however
when training for more than two hours
a day, often in two sessions, com­
pared with my paltry 30 minutes a
day in the 1950s, can bring its own
problems. Some runners are over­
trained,” Bannister said.
THE KING OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACHES
The All-time winningest coach
in c o lle g e fo o tb a ll, E d d ie G.
Robinson o f Grambling State Uni­
versity, roars into his 55th coaching
season in S e p te m b e r. C oach
Robinson, who is fast approaching
his record 400th victory, has led the
Grambling Tigers to 397 wins over
his nearly five and one-half decades
with the school. His team’s next three
victories will take him and them over
the top and that much deeper into the
record books.
The Coach will be 77 years
young in February and he continues
to thrive on his insatiable love for the
game and his dedication to the young
men who play it. Over 54 years.
Coach Robinson has shared his per­
sonal wisdom, his unswerving pur­
suit o f excellence and his zeal for
football with everyone who comes
into contact with the team.
Coach Robinson has been laud­
ed as a statesman, a legend, the Heir
to the Bear (He broke Alabama Coach
Paul (Bear} Bryant’s record 323 wins
in 1985), and an American Dream
come true. This son o f a sharecrop­
per and a domestic worker has been
inducted into Hall o f Fames estab­
lished for the National Association
o f Intercollegiate Athletics, Sugar
Bowl, Pop Warner, Louisiana Sports,
Northwest Louisiana, National As­
sociation o f Sport and Physical Edu­
cation, Southwestern Athletic Con­
ference and Grambling State Uni­
versity. He has been praised, recog­
nized and awarded by organizations
from coast to coast.
Bu, the C oach’s professional
legacy entai Is more than Hall o f Fame
inductions, tributes and aw ards.
Coach Robinson has served as an
inspiration, father, friend, counselor,
teacher and coach to hundreds o f
NETWORKS SPLIT WORLD
SERIES COVERAGE
o f the World Series as part o f The
Baseball Network partnership.
ABC will televise Games 1, 4,
and 5 and NBC will air Games 2, 3
and 6. ABC and NBC will alsojointly
cover the divisional playoffs and the
League Championship series.
OREGON SCORES HUGE WIN AT UCLA
Coach Eddie Robinson, Grambling. The all-time winningest coach in
College Football, Eddie G. Robinson Of Grambling State University,
Roars into his 55th coaching season in September. Coach
Robinson is only three victories shy of his 400th college football win.
young men, helping to shape their
character and their careers - both on
and off the field.
M ore than 300 o f C oach
Robinson’s players have been to pro
football camps. More than 200 have
played in the NFL and seven were
drafted in the first round.
The Coach’s list o f outstanding
graduates includes pro football Hall
o f Fame inductees Willie Brown
(L.A. Raiders). Willie Davis (Green
Bay Packers) and Buck Buchanan
(K ansas C ity C hiefs). Plus, he
coached Paul Tank Younger (L.A.
Rams), Doug W i I liams (Washington
Redskins), Louisiana State Rep.
Raymond Jetson and even former
Grambling President Dr. Josheph B.
Johnson.
What does the King o f Coaches
have to say about his amazing win­
ning record?: “The real record I have
set for over 50 years is the fact that 1
have had one job and one wife (Doris,
who he married in 1941, the same
y e a r he b egan c o a c h in g at
Grambling].”
cal sto res from prosecuting shop­
lifters.
The issue arose after two Arme­
nian wrestlers taking part in prelim­
inary events in July were arrested tor
shoplifting at a department store.
After an Olympic official intervened
on their behalf, they left the country
and failed to appear for a court hear­
ing.
“ We w ill not ask for special
tre a tm e n t from law o ffic ia ls or
o th e rs ,” Payne said. “ We will
b rie f a th le te s on the laws and
ad v ise them o f the conseq u en ces
o f any w ro n g d o in g .”
Payne said his committee would
not try to discourage shop owners
from prosecuting, but would help
“ facilitate communications — espe­
cially when there are language barri-
ers.
EXPECT FLURRY WITH END OF NDA LOCKOUT
A flurry o f activ ity is e x p e c t­
ed now that the N atio n al B a sk e t­
ball A ssociation lo ck o u t has o f­
ficially ended.
N B A o w n e r s F r id a y a p ­
proved a six -y ear c o lle c tiv e b a r­
gaining ag reem ent alread y ra ti­
fied by the p lay ers, c le a rin g the
way to end the first w ork sto p ­
page in league history.
The lockout o ffic ia lly ended
on M onday at noon
T he o w n e rs a p p ro v e d the
deal, 24-5, d u rin g a vote by te l­
ex. A th re e -q u a rte rs m ajo rity , or
at least 22 votes, was needed for
approval since the vote was done
by telex.
If the v o tin g was done in
person, only a sim ple m ajority
w ould have been needed for a p ­
proval.
P ersonnel a c tiv ity such as
The Harlem Globetrotters lost their first game in 24 years last week
to a team o f professional All-stars led by NBA Hall o f Famer Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar. The Globetrotters were defeated, 91-85, in Vienna, Aus­
tria.
The All-stars charged back from a seven-point deficit with less than
two minutes to play to record the win. Abdul-Jabbar scored 34 points.
Former NBA player Bo Kimble had 13 points and eight rebounds.
The Gloetrotters had recorded over 300 wins in exhibition series
played worldwide during the run. The last loss came to Red Klotz and his
New Jersey Reds, 100-99, in Martin, Tenn. in January 1971.
ABC Sports last week won the
rights to broadcast the seventh game
o f the 1995 World Series, if neces­
sary.
Major League Baseball an­
nounced previously that ABC and
NBC would split the first six games
ATLANTA OLYMPIANS GET CRIME WARNING
Olympic athletes cannot expect
special treatment if they are caught
shoplifting or breaking other laws
during next year’s games here, the
head o f the Olympic organizing com­
mittee says.
Billy Payne, p re sid e n t o f the
A tlanta C om m ittee for the O ly m ­
pic G am es, issued the w arning
last week to deny re p o rts that
organ izers w ould d isc o u ra g e lo-
GLOBETROTTERS SUFFER
RARE LOSS
trad es and signing o f free agents
and draft choices has been on
hold since the ow ners declared
th e ir lockout on July first.
“ The trad in g activity that has
been pent up at this point will
p ro b a b ly start to explode, e sp e ­
c ia lly involving the expansion
te a m s,” said C om m issioner D av­
id S tern. “ And we expect free
agent m oves to be b risk."
T he salary cap will rise to
$23 m illion in 1995-96.
NBA p layer rep resen tativ es
had voted, 25-2, W ednesday to
ratify the deal. The player reps
met in C hicago one day after play­
ers soundly re je c te d a bid to d e­
c e rtify th e ir union, giving the
league and C o m m issioner Stern
a decisiv e victory.
P la y e r
v o te s
on
d e c e rtific a tio n w ere counted last
T u esday at the N atio n al L abor
R elatio n s B oard office in New
Y ork and the final total was 226-
134 ag ainst d e c e rtific a tio n o f the
union.
In essen ce, the vote against
d e c e rtific a tio n w as a vote for the
te n ta tiv e s ix - y e a r a g re e m e n t
re ach ed last m onth.
If there are no o b jectio n s,
the vote is co n sid ered to be c e r­
tifie d by the N LRB If there is a
c h a lle n g e , the stan d ard tim e for
re so lu tio n is four to six w eeks.
The overw helm ing vote to re ­
je c t the d ecertification m ovem ent
led by su p e rsta rs M ichael Jordan
o f the C h icag o B ulls and Patrick
E w ing o f the N ew Y ork K nicks
and agent D avid Falk, who re p ­
re se n ts them , v irtu a lly assures
th at the 1995-1996 season w ill
sta rt on tim e.
Tony G raziani’s three-yard
to u c h d o w n p a ss to C ristin
McLemore with 1:02 left snapped a
tie and 20th-ranked O regon’s de­
fense made a last-second goal-line
stand to preserve a 38-31 Pac-10
Conference victory Saturday over
12th-ranked UCLA.
G raziani’s second touchdown
pass capped an eight-play, 79-yard
drive as the Ducks (3-0, 1-0 Pac-
10) recovered after blowing a 2 1 -3
second-quarter lead. Graziani, who
missed last w eek’s win over I llinois
with a shoulder strain, finished 19-
for-35 for 256 yards, two touch­
downs with one interception.
“ McLemore just made a great
coach,” Graziani said. “ He was so
wide open I just kind o f lobbed it to
him. Ididn'tm akeareal good throw
but he made a real good catch for
me. This was a really close game
and we can’t have too many more
like this or it’s going to kill me.”
“We all want to come back
here on the first o f the New Year
and w e're going to,” McLemore
said. “They called me to run an out
and I knew Graziani was going to
put it there. All I had todo wascatch
it. It was right there and I caught it.”
UCLA, taking over on its own
14 after the ensuing kickoff, used
two long passes from freshman Cade
McNown o f West Linn to get to the
Oregon 4 with 32 seconds left.
McNown hit Derek Ayers with a
37-yard pass to the Oregon 49 and
split double coverage to find Kevin
Jordan for 45 yards.
Figueras figured in a decisive
play for the second consecutive
game. Last week, he forced a fum­
ble by Illinois quarterback Johnny
Johnson and recovered it in the end
zone as the Ducks rallied for a 34-
31 victory.
Ayers had two touchdowns for
UCLA (2-1, 0-1), which played
without starting quarterback Ryan
Fien. Fien suffered a concussion
and shoulder separation in last
w e e k ’s v icto ry o v e r B righam
Young.
“We anticipated the game to be
really tight and really close, but we
expected to win it,” said UCLA
Coach Terry Donahue.
“The fact that we didn’t get
into the end zone is obviously dis­
appointing but the fact is that they
gave us a hard 60 minutes.”
UCLA scored two third-quar­
ter touchdowns eight minutes apart.
M cNown had a three-yard
touchdown run and Skip H icks raced
52 yards to give the Bruins a 24-24
tie with 1:28 left in the period.
McNown was 12-of-24 for 183
yards and an interception. Jordan
finished with six catches for 109
yards. A bdul-Jabbar carried 32
times for 127 yards.
It was the first time the teams
had played one another since the
1992 season, a 9-6 victory by the
Bruins.
FOOTBALL STANDINGS
AMERICAN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE
YY L I ELEA
Eastern Div.
NATIONAL FOOTBALL CONFERENCE
Eastern Div.
YY L I EEEA
Miami
Buffalo
Indianapolis
New England
NY Jets
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Dallas
Arizona
Philadelphia
Washington
NY Giants
Central Div.
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Houstin
Jacksonville
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2
2
2
1
Western Div.
Kansas City
Denver
Oakland
San Diego
Seattle
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1 2 0 65 89
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SUNDAY RESULTS
Buffalo 20. Indianapolis 14
St. Louis 3 1, Carolina 10
Arizona 20, Detroit 17
Green Bay 14, NY Giants 6
Cleveland 14, Houston 7
Kansas City 23. Oakland 17 (OT)
Atlanta 27. New Orleans 24 (OT)
San Diego 27, Philadelphia 21
Denver 38, Washington 31
NY Jets 27. Jacksonville 10
Seattle 24. Cincinnati 21
San Francisco 28, New England 3
Chicago 25, Tampa Bay 6
Dallas 23. Minnesota 17 (OT)
Central Div.
Chicago
Green Bay
Minnesota
Tampa Bay
Detroit
Western Div.
San Francisco
St. Louis
Atlanta
Carolina
New Orleans
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UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Sunday, Sept. 24:
New Orleans at NY Giants
Minnesota at Pittsburgh
Chicago at St. Louis
Washington at Tampa Bay
NY Jets at Atlanta
Houston at Cincinnati
Kansas City at Cleveland
Arizona at Dallas
Philadelphia at Oakland
Denver at San Diego
(ireen Bay at Jacksonville
Monday, Sept. 25:
San Iransisco at Detroit
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