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B elle m a k e s in s ta n t
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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
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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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