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• » • »• : - » r i- ,— ; • 5 , <- •C l-V ? I m P oru AN i ) O ksi KVLk « M arcii BRIEFS W a lto n , Lucas, R am say and o thers to be on hand Tickets for the dinner gala and silent auction portion of the 1977 Blazers Reunion Party, “The Big gest Thing That Ever Happened (in Portland, Oregon),” went on sale Friday. March 7, at the Rose Quarter Ticket Office. Proceeds from the event, which will be held Thursday, April 3 at Memorial Coliseum, benefit the Boys and Girls Clubs of Portland. Tickets are $77 each and include pre-gala reception, silent auction and seat ing on the arena floor. Tables for eight people may be purchased for $616. It IS becoming a rite of the NHL trading deadline: Kirk Muller has been dealt again. There were 16 deals at T uesday's .3 p.m. EST NHL trade deadline, including one that sent Toronto Maple Leafs center Kirk M uller to the Florida Panthers for rookie center-right wing Jason Podollan. h i S eto n H all to nam e Tomm y A m a k e r head hoops co ach K e n tu c ky G Anderson p ra c tic e s , could retu rn Form er M e m p h is s ta r B a s k e rv ille H olm es dead Former Memphis State basket ball star Baskerville Holmes and his long-tim e g irlfrien d w ere found dead Tuesday in Memphis. A medical examiner in Memphis confirmed the death o f Holmes, 32. and Tanya Franklin, 28. According to Memphis television sta tio n W HBQ, H o lm es acciden tal shot Franklin at the couple’s residence and then turned the gun on him self in a back bed room. Following the initial shoot ing, Holmes placed a 9 1 1 call at 7:35 a m. EST and said that he accidentaly shot Franklin. Au thorities found three children in the house along with the bodies o f Holmes and Franklin. Dolphins a g re e to te rm s w ith DE S tub bs The Miami Dolphins and de fensive end Daniel Stubbs have agreed to terms on an undisclosed contract. The 6-4, 272-pound Stubbs has gotten his career back on track after starring under Dol phins coach Jimmy Johnson while at the University o f Miami. The 32-year-old Stubbs, an u n re stricted free agent, is coming o ff perhaps the best season o f his career. He was second on the Dolphins and matched a career high with nine sacks, three be hind Trace Armstrong, and played in all 16 games as the Dolphins went 8-8 in Johnson's first sea son. Stubbs added 47 tackles and started all but one game. Doors open at 5:30 p in. for din ner gala and silent auction patrons The silent auction will feature memo rabilia from the Blazers past and present. Bill Walton, Maurice Lucas, and Jack Ramsay are among the players and coaches expected to attend Master of Ceremonies for the evening will be the long-time voice of the Blazers, Bill Schonely. ABC sports caster, Brent Musberger, who pro vided play-by-play for CBS during the 1977 NBA Finals, is also sched uled to make a special guest appear ance. The evening will be filled with video flashbacks, music videos, memorable moments and colorful re m in isc in g o f the b irth o f Blazermania and the Portland’s in credible march to the 1977 World Championship. For more information fans are encouraged to call the 1977 Blaz ers Reunion Hotline at (503) 797- 9626. The 1977 team will also be hon ored the following night, Friday, April 4, during the Blazers vs. Mil waukee Bucks game at the Rose Garden. B3 60L0TA TO FIGHT MERCER Andrew Golota. whose disquali fication against Riddick Bowe last July at Madison Square Garden re sulted in a full-scale brawl, will re turn to the New York arena on May 16th to fight Ray Mercer Madison Square Garden officials announced the bout between the two heavy weight contenders today. Golota. a native o f Poland, was disqualified from a July I Ith bout with Bowe in New York, sparking a riot that re sulted in numerous arrests. Golota also was disqualified in a rematch with Bowe in December and is 28-2 with 25 knockouts. RUSSIAH LEAD FIGURE SKATIHG The tandem o f Oksana Grishuk and Evgeni Platov o f Russia, in their quest for a fourth consecutive dance title, have the lead after today’s compulsories at the World Figure Skating championships in Lausanne, Switzerland Grishuk and Platov, who also led after the first dance, earned three scores o f 11.8 and ranked first in ordinals by six o f seven |udges. The 1994 Olympic cham pions picked up three scores o f 11.7 and were ranked first by all seven judges in the first dance. In second place are 1996 silver medalists Anjelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsiannikov o f Russia. Extreme fighting raises issues Seton Hall University report edly will hire D uke assistant Tommy Amaker as its new head basketball coach. The university has scheduled a news conference for Wednesday at II a.m. EST and WEAN Radio in New York is reporting that A m aker will be named as the successor to the fired George Blaney. The Blue Devils were eliminated from the NCAA Tournament on Sunday with a loss to Providence. Derek Anderson, the leading scorer on d efen d in g national cham pion K entucky, practiced Monday and is contemplating a miracle return from a complete tear of the anterior cruciate liga ment in his right knee. Kentucky, the top seed in the West Region, faces fourth-seed St. Joseph’s of Pennsylvania on Thursday night in San Jose, California and Ander son might see action. He was in uniform for K entucky’s 75-69 defeat of eighth-seeded Iowa on Saturday, but did not play. Coach Rick Pitino said on his radio talk show Monday night that if Ander son was needed, he would play him. St. Joe’s plays a three-guard offense, meaning Anderson would be need ed as m uch for that matchup as any, but Pitino said that he would wait until the day o f the game to make his decision. P a g í 19 77 BLAZERS REUNION TICKETS ON SALE Leafs tra d e M u lle r and M urphy in NHL d e adline deals I 19. 1997 j One of the most controversial is sues raging in sports right now is "Extreme Fighting,” a pay-per-view event that pits two competitors in a ring with an "anything goes” fight ing formal. Battlelines have been drawn be tween the promoter. Ivy League attor ney Donald Zuckerman and New York Governor George E. Pataki and New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani over the event scheduled for March 28. Politicians have won this round, with Zuckerman searching for a new avenue. Fhe state of Oregon has no official policy on these types of com petition. But the questions arise: Should it be banned? What rights if any, are violated? Is it simply a “po litically correct" stance by politicians? And organizers are finding a way around the ban. Zuckerman is now being forced to move the event to another city in a lightining quick move that will catch outraged politicians and civic leaders by surprise. At the center of all this is the debut of two Black Olympic Gold medalists who will participate on March 28th. Kenny Monday, who won the Gold in 1988 in Seoul and a Silver medal in 1992 and Kevin Jackson, a seven-year USA Team member and Gold Medalist at the 1992 Olympics will take on other martial arts world champions. C ur rently Maurice Smith, also Black, is the Extreme Fighting heavyweight champion. E x tre m e F ig h tin g has been banned in num erous states, but former New York State Athletic C om m issioner and former world light heavyweight boxing champion Jose Torres had come out in favor of the event and has been selected to oversee its rules and insure it’s safety record. In three previous events, no one had been either permanently injured or killed in Extreme Fighting. In fact Extreme Fighting has gained national recognition and exposure for athTetes competing in judo, jiu- jitsu, kickboxing and other less-cel ebrated sports. Is it more dangerous than boxing or football? Should it be outlawed'.’ Are state athletic commissions ca pable o f overseeing and regulation Extrem e Fighting? Should it be banned from television? It is clear that Extreme Fighting is gaining in popularity. Lightweight champion Ralph G racie’s increasing popular ity is solely attributed to his success as an Extreme Fighting champion. Not long ago, he offered three-time world boxing champion Roy Jones, Jr. $1 million for every minute Jones would stay in the ring with him. Jones declined. Monday, Jackson and Smith are articulate, intelligent and talented athletes. Monday and Jackson have proudly represented the U S. in three Olympic Games competitions. I can assist you in getting other people to interview on Extreme Fighting, both pro and con. OLYMPIC WRESTLERS HIGHLIGHT EXTREME FIGHT Battlecade Extreme Fighting IV, a pay-per-view event scheduled to be held on March 28th. has signed 1988 Gold Medalist, Kenny Mon day and 1992 Olympic Gold Medal isl Kevin Jackson to appear and do battle against separate opponents. Both com batants represented the United States in wrestling. "Adding fighters of this stature to Battlecade’s Itneupenables Extreme Fighting to continue it’s growth as a sport,” said Battlecade’s Executive Producer, Donald Zuckerman. “Sup- “A S ervice To Youth” OREGON GOLDEN GLOVES At this time there are 65 box ers entered in the open class. There are 16 with National, Interna tional, PanAm trials, Olympic trials experience. Eleven have major Golden Gloves titles and 4 are defending champions. Very special guest is former light-heavy weight champion and member of International Boxing Hall of Fame, Joey Maxim. Joey was cham p d u rin g b o x in g ’s golden era (1950-52); was the only boxer to K.O. Sugar Ray Robinson; and was managed by the legendary Jack "Doc” Kearns, who also guided Jack Dempsey to prominence. The Oregon Veteran Boxer’s Association will host a casual dress Buffet Dinner in Jo ey ’s honor Thursday March 20th, 6 P M , Grand Cafe, 832SE G rand, Portland. All the old champs, con tenders and legendary ringsmen from through-out the West Coast will be there. wrestlers d on't get enough recogni tion for being adept in the art of self defense.” Newly crow ned Heavyw eight champion Maurice Smith takes on Murakami Ka/unari, the 1996 Judo Champ in Japan, who shocked Ex treme Fighting III viewers with his defeat over ISFA Heavy weight cham pion Bart Vale. Sm ith eclipsed former undefeated Extreme Fight ing Heavyweight champion Conan Silviera in a hard fought, technical battle. plying fans of our events with the greatest fighters is our number one priority.” Monday is a three-time Olym pian, who will be fighting in the welterweight division. 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