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Suns re-sign
Chapman, Williams,
Llamas
The Phoenix Suns re-signed
their second, th ird and fourth free
agents Tuesday, as guard Rex
Chapman, forw ard/center John
Peninsula
all-stars
H ot Rod” W illia m s and center
H oracio Llam as all agreed to
one-year contracts. Chapman av
eraged 13.8 points and 2.8 as
sists in 65 games last season, but
exploded du rin g the p la yo ffs fo r
The Peninsula minor league all
stars pose for a picture before
going on to 28-7 victory Monday
night in a first round game
against Kenton at a Little
League tournament in
Scappoose.
(Photo by Michael Leighton)
24.2 p o in ts in fiv e contests.
W illia m s has spent the last tw o
years w ith the Suns after p laying
his first nine seasons w ith the
Cleveland Cavaliers. Llamas, the
firs t M e x ic a n -b o rn p la y e r in
N B A h is to ry , was o rig in a lly
signed to a 10-day contract on
February 20th from Sioux Falls
o f the C B A
Sampress wins 4th
Wimbledon title
T op seed Pete Sampras o f the
U nited States captured his fourth
W im bledon title in the last fiv e
years, s to rm in g past unseeded
Frenchman C edric P ioline, 6-4,
6-2, 6-4 today in the final o f the
Tiger
Woods
back on
top
$9.62 m illio n tournam ent at the
A II-E n g la n d C lu b .
T h e 2 5 - y e a r - o ld S a m p ra s
needed ju s t one hour and 34 m in
utes to earn his 1 Oth career Grand
Slam title , w hich ties B ill T ild e n
fo r fourth on the a ll-tim e list. Fie
picked up $667,250 fo r his sec
ond Grand Slam title o f the year,
h a vingw on the Australian Open in
January.
Sampras, becomes the seventh
Zealand. Woods leads the PGA Tour
T ig e r W oods, fresh from a week
away from g o lf, had three birdies
over a fo u r-h o le stretch on the back
nine today to claim his fourth v ic
w ith fo u r w ins and padded his lead
a to p th e
m oney
lis t w ith
the
$360,000 first prize.
Justin Leonard, tied w ith Woods
and Loren Roberts after Saturday's
to ry o f the year, a three-shot w in at
the $2 m illio n Western Open in
67.
It was another stroke back to Jim
Furyk, w ho matched Leonard's 72.
Woods broke a three-way tie w ith
Low ery and Leonard w ith a birdie on
the par-3 12th hole
B irdies at the 14th and 15th holes
Lem ont, Illin o is .
W oods began the day in a three-
way tie fo r the lead, but fire d a 4-
under-par 68 fo r a fo u r-ro u n d total
th ird round, never got untracked and
his even-par 72 left him tied for
th ird w ith Steve Low ery and J e ff
S lu m a n a t9 -u n d e r2 7 9 . Low ery had
helped N o b ilo catch Woods at 11-
under b e fore W oods d u p lic a te d
N o b ilo ’ s feat w ith back-to-back b ird
o f 13-under 275 that was three shots
a I-u n d e r 71, w h ile Sluman recov
ered from a th ird -ro u n d 74 w ith a
ies to open a tw o-shot lead.
“ T w e lv e w a s p r e t t y
better than Frank N o b ilo o f New
W o o d s sa id . " A f t e r m is s in g an
o p p o r tu n ity on I I and b o g e y -
in g 10, I needed s o m e th in g
p o s itiv e to get me sta rte d on
the b a ck n in e .”
N o b ilo bogeyed the 18th, g iv
ing Woods a three-shot m argin
“ I b irdied 14 and 15, so did he."
N o b ilo said. “ He seems to birdie
the holes he needs to. T iger, when
he’ s in p o sitio n, he doesn’ t go
b ig ,”
backwards.”
male to w in W im bledon at least
fo u r times.
State Games of Oregon open Friday
Johansson falls,
Larsson advances
T he S tate G am es o f O re g o n , a
m u lt i- s p o r t f e s t iv a l, o ff e r s a
v a rie ty o f sp o rts fo r a th le te s o f
T o p -s e e d e d
Thom as
Johansson was an upset v ic tim to
a fe llo w Swede, q u a lifie r Marcus
S a rs tra n d , w h ile th ir d seed
a ll ages and a b ilit y le v e ls . Team
and in d iv id u a l s p o rts w il l be o f
fe r e d . M e d a ls a re g e n e r a lly
a w a rd e d fo r f ir s t , se c o n d and
th ir d p la ce fin is h e rs in the fin a l
Magnus Larsson won in straight
sets today to advance to the sec
ond round o f the $303,000 Swed
ish Open in Bastad.
The 1 8 -ye a r-o ld Sarstrand.
c o m p e titio n .
K ic k o f f a c tiv itie s b e g in at
n o o n on F rid a y , J u ly I I at the
p la yin g his first-ever A T P l o u r
event, knocked o f f Johansson, 6-
T u a la tin H ills A t h le t ic C e n te r
in B e a v e rto n and in c lu d e : P acket
P ic k -u p fo r p re -re g is te re d a th
letes, a H e a lth and F itn e s s F a ir,
4, 3-6, 6-2. Sarstrand w ill next
m eet
c o u n try m a n
P a trik
Fredriksson
Tyson title yanked
lengers,” Sarm iento said.
Tyson, w ho un til the ill-fa te d title
fig h t occupied the num ber one chal
said Tuesday.
The decision to remove Tyson from
the July 28 rankings followed the Ne
vada State Boxing Commission's deci
sion to suspend the former world title
holder and withhold his $30 m illion
purse pending a final ruling on the case,
W B A c o m m itte e m em ber Israel
Sarmiento told Reuters.
" O u r g u id e lin e s in d ic a te that
w h ile a boxer is suspended he is
m ile s ) and
O p e n in g C e re m o n ie s .
O p e n in g C e re m o n ie s b e g in at
7 pm and w il l c lo s e w ith the
V o lu n te e r s are n e e d e d f o r
S tate G am es o f O re g o n . Each
v o lu n te e r w il l re c e iv e a fre e t-
s h irt. S p o n so rs in c lu d e G ra n d
lig h t in g o f the to rc h .
S a tu rd a y m o rn in g the c o m p e
P a tro n : N IK E , G o ld Patron Pa
c if ic P o w e r, K O IN C h a n n e l 6,
titio n s w i l l b e g in at v a rio u s v e n
ues th ro u g h o u t the P o rtla n d M e t
r o p o lita n area. C o m p e titio n w ill
c o n t in u e
th ro u g h
Sunday
and S a fe w a y.
State Games o f Oregon is another
e v e n in g .
E n try fo rm s are a v a ila b le in
N a u tilu s P lus F itn e ss C e n te rs,
area s p o rtin g g o o d sto re s and
S a fe w a y S to re s.
program o f the Oregon Amateur Sports
Foundation, Inc., a program participant
o f the United States Olympic Commit
tee.
F o r a d d itio n a l
in fo r m a tio n
c o n ta c t S tate G am es o f O re g o n
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rem oved from the list o f title chal
The W orld B o x in g A ssociation
has strip p e d h e a v y w e ig h t M ik e
Tyson o f his ranking fo llo w in g the
notorious e a r-biting incident w ith
Evander H o ly fie ld , a W B A o ffic ia l
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le n g e r s p o t b e h in d c h a m p io n
H o ly fie ld , could be re-assigned a
ranking after com pleting any sus
pension handed down by Nevada
com m ission, w hich is expected to
render a fin a l ru lin g on Wednesday.
“ Tyson is Tyson and his ranking w ill
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