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• ’^ < 7 * - * ^ * «-. >-y - \ :T¥*J P age A 7 T he P ori land O bserver • A pril 2, 1997 B R ILLS k h B elle m a k e s in s ta n t im p a c t w ith W h ite Sox Major League Baseball opens its 1997 season Tuesday with a major ity of the games at warm weather sites and indoor stadiums. Twelve games were on T uesday's sched ule, but one was postponed due to inclem ent w eather. T u e sd a y ’s scheduled game between the Kan sas City Royals and Baltimore Ori oles at Camden Yards has been postponed due to high winds, wind chill and dropping temperatures. Lankford, H o n e y c u tt on disabled lis t The St. Louis Cardinals pared their roster Tuesday by placing out fielder Ray Lankford and left- handed pitcher Rick Honeycutt on the 15-day disabled list. The dis abling of Lankford was expected since the star outfield is not ex peeled to be in the lineup until May due to a rotator cuff injury. Fortson to e n te r NBA draft University of Cincinnati junior forward Danny Fortson, Confer ence U SA ’s Player of the Year (he last two seasons, will forego his senior year to enter the NBA draft. The 6-7, 260-pound Fortson aver aged 21.4 points and nine rebounds to lead the Bearcats in both catego ries this season. M a rc Jacks&n to e n te r NBA d raft Temple University junior center Marc Jackson will reportedly forego his senior year and enter the NBA draft. Knight-Ridder newspapers is reporting Jackson will hold a news conference at Temple within the next 48 hours to announce that he plans to enter the draft. S kin n er a g re e s to th re e-y ear e x ten sio n PAMPLIN CONDUCTS YOUTH SUMMIT Continued from Metro • He also talked about having friendly relationships with people today and not burning bridges, cit ing the example o f his relationship with a middle school teacher who helped him when he became an adult. Donald Dixon, Jefferson High School counselor and Portland Com munity C ollege head basketball coach. Presented "Step Into the Fu ture,” a review o f community col leges and how they help young people reach goals. He stressed the importance o f fin ishing high school, taking the right classes and preparing for college entrance exams. Dixon explained that the first two years at a community college could be beneficial, both financially and in preparation towards a four year de gree. "A four year degree is a four year degree, regardless o f how you get there,” said Dixon, comparing the experiences o f one student who started at a four year school, but returned to a community college before continuing on, and another student who started at the com m u nity college and was actually first to complete the four years o f college. “The things they talked about I can use in following my aspirations and goals,” said Pamplin Fellow Shauna Dixon, a senior at Benson who plans to use some o f her new found knowledge when she goes to Atlanta, Georgia, for college in the fall. “ H elping to plan com m unity events is what drew my attention," said Pamplin Fellow Tolu Sosanya, who sang the Black National An them to start o ff the events Saturday. One student, Krystal Hayes, said she felt better prepared with “some o f the tools I need to go to the next An action packed Friday night March 28, 1997 basketball game between SEI staff members and Portland all star high school athletes was part of the Pamplin Fellows first annual youth summit. Dennis Nathan, Sr. Gresham High School up for shot and Steve Adams, SEI Coordinator and staff member - Humboldt Elementary School. Photo by Neil Hellpern level.” The Pamplin Project was founded in 1995 with the help o f entrepre neur Bob Pamplin, and now includes 45 students from Benson, Jefferson and Grant high schools. They are learning how to use their natural abilities to persuade peers to make positive decisions in life. The project is administered by Self Enhancement, Inc. A basketball game in SEI’s new NEGRO LEAGUES LIVING LEGENDS’ Left to Right: Merle Porter, Negro Leagues' Player (NLP); Nate Holden, Los Angeles Cityu Councilman; Luther Branham (NLP); Andrew Porter (NLP), “Buck" O'Neil (NLP); Don Motley, Executive Director of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum; Ross Davis (NLP); Lonnie Summers (NLP). Seated: Francis Mathews (NLP); Sammie Haynes (NLP). A1 Skinner, the m en’s head bas ketball coach at Rhode Island since 1988, has agreed to a new three- year contract with a one-year op tion with the school. Skinner led Rhode Island to the NCAA Tour nament this past season. The Rams finished 20-10 and were beaten by Purdue, 83-76, in overtime in the first round of the Southeast Re gional. NBA P layer of M o n th Utah Jazz forward Karl Malone, vhorecently moved into lOth-place in the N BA ’s all-time scoring list Tuesday was named NBA Playerol he Month for March. Malone av- :raged 31.0 points, 9.0 rebounds tnd 4.2 assists while leading the lazz to a franchise-best 14-1 mark. Malone, a 12-year veteran, sur passed Jerry W est (25,192) on March 19th to move into the top 10 ind is 294 points behind Alex En j|ish (25,613) for ninth-place. He ilso joined Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, Moses Malone and Elvin Hayes as the only players in NBA history to score 25,(XX) points and grab 10,000 rebounds. USA W o m e n ’s Team P rogram co ach Nell Fortner, whocoached Purdue to a share of the Big Ten title in her first year as a head coach, 1 uesday was named head coach ol the United States W omen's National Basket ball Team Program. NHL P layer o f M o n th Center Mike Modano, the cap ain of the surprising Dallas Stars, vas named Tuesday as the Na- ional Hockey League’s Player ol he Month for March. Modano had ’ive goals and 13 assists for 18 points, in addition to a plus-13 ating, as the Stars went 8-1-2 and Ttoved within three points of clinch- ng the Central Division. Dallas tas 98 points, three less than the eague-best Colorado Avalanche in >ne less game. gymnasium Friday night pitted SEI staff members against a team o f all star high school players from Port land schools. The more experienced SEI staff was ahead by 14 points at one time, but a concerted fourth quarter drive by the students was only able to come within a point at the final buzzer. The game was offered to entice Portland youths to attend the Satur day session as well. Coors Brewing Com pany served up honors for the “ Living L eg e n d s" o f th e N e g ro B a se b a ll League at a February reception. The event dem onstrated C oors' ongoing support for Black H istory Month and other contributions to the African Am erican com m unity. C oors an n o u n ced in January a three-year alliance with the N egro Leagues Baseball Museum to high light the achievem ents o f black baseball stars and to celebrate A f rican A m erican culture. H onored were legendary play ers Sammie Haynes, Lonnie “Carl S u m m e rs, L ou “ S w e e t L o u ” Johnson. Andrew "P u llm an ” Por ter. and John “ Buck" O 'N e il. All, except O 'N eil, lived or played in the Los Angeles area. Haynes, who has lived in Los Angeles for 47 years, was one o f the prem ier players o f the early 1940s, leading his A tlanta Black Crackers to a pennant in 1942. He was both a player and m anager before glaucom a prem aturely cu r tailed his play ing career. “C arl” Sum m ers was a peren nial all-star catcher in the late 1930s and 1940s. He had the abil ity to hi, for pow er during his playing days in both the Tam pico Mexican League and for the C hi cago Am erican G iants o f the N e gro A merican Baseball League. Johnson was known to his fans as “Sweet Lou for his dram atic home run in G am e 7 o f the 1965 World Series that drove the Los Angeles D odgers to a W orld Se ries victory. He also was instru mental in leading the D odgers to the N ational League pennant the follow ing year SAVING THE BEST FOR LAST The NCAA Tournam ent has come and gone. It w on’t be remem bered as one of the most exciting tournaments in history, but the fi nale sure was special. Arizona's in credible run highlights the I997 Tournament one which featured a few lasting memories. It took Lute Olson four times to notch a win in the Final Four, and once he did gain a victory he got a little greedy he got two! It was a season o f firsts for the Arizona W ¡Id- cats. The school won its first men’s basketball national championship, 84-79, in overtime over defending- champion Kentucky. The Wildcats became the firs, team to defeat three No. I seeds and will go down as the first fourth-seeded squad tocut down the nets. All this after finishing in fifth place in the Pac-IO, the lowest finish for Arizona in the L.ute Olson era. The most historical moment of the Tournament occurred in the sec ond round, when North Carolina beat Colorado, 73-56, giving Dean Smith victory No. 877, moving him ahead o f A dolph Rupp as the NCAA’s all-time winningest coach. To get a full appreciation o f what Smith has accom plished in his coaching career, one has to look beyond the championship banners hanging in the building named after him and take note o f the number of former North Carolina players and. coaches who made their way down to Winston-Salem, N.C. to celebrate the monumental victory with their mentor. While the national championship game will go down as the most exciting o f the Tournament, the Stanford/Wake Forest tilt in the sec ond round of the Wes, Regional was equally as dramatic. Although there was no trophy at stake, the play ¡ng careers of two o f the last great re maining seniors were on the line. Wake Forest center Tim Duncan, who garnered every Player ot the Y ear aw ard this seaso n , and Stanford’s AII-America point guard Brevin Knight engaged in as much of a one-on-one battle as can exist without two players guarding each other Duncan’s career would come to a premature end, as the Cardinal advanced to the Sweet 16 with a 72- 66 win. Knight’s career would only be prolonged for one more game, however, as his collegiate career concluded against Utah in the Re gional semifinals. It’s hard to imagine a 35-2 season being a disappointment, but that’s how many college hoops tans are going to view the plight of the 1996- 97 Kansas Jayhawks. Roy Williams has won more games in his first nine seasons than any other coach in NCAA history , but he’s still go, that gorilla hanging to his neck. Roy will get his national championship one day, but Williams knows that’s no, the most important part o f being a coach. The Dean Smith protege had tears in his eyes after his team lost to Arizona, 85-82, in the Southeast Regional semifinal, but they were almost tears o f joy. He knows the short-term pain o f not winning a title will disappear soon enough, but the memories of being part of such a great team will last forever. His post game speech, in which he said he wouldn’t trade places with any other coach in the game, gave us an indi cation of just how genuine the KU coach is. 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