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P agi B? OCT. 22, 1997 • I ni P ortland O bsirvir ifR ir c s Field goal lifts Bills past Colts Monday Night Football games this season have been long but exciting Monday night the Buffalo Bills and Indianapolis Colts gave us short and simple. In a game that featured no turnovers or touchdowns — just the second such contest in league history the Bills got a last-second field goal from Steve Christie and kept the Colts winless, 9-6. In a game that took just 2:44 to play, neither team showed much offensively. But it was the Bills (4-3) who managed to do just enough to keep their playoff hopes alive Buffalo also saw a pair o f its leg endary veterans reach another pair o f milestones. Jordan out after toe surgery C h icag o B u lls su p e rsta r Michael Jordan reportedly will miss the remainder o f the pre season after undergoing minor toe surgery, dealing the defending NBA champions another blow. Website CBS Sportsl.ine reported Monday that Jordan will miss five to seven days after having sur gery Sunday to remove ingrown toenails on both feet. According to the report, the toes became infected during the Bulls' visit last week to Paris, where they won the McDonald’s Champion ship. Rodman balks at signing contract Forward Dennis Rodman, who agreed to a one-year contract worth at least $4 million with the Chicago Bulls less than two weeks ago, is reportedly balking at sign ing the deal because he believes the incentive clauses are unfair. The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Rodman, the NBA’s rebound ing champion the last six years, refuses to sign the deal because he agreed to terms before it was revealed that All-Star forward Scottie I’ippen would besidelined three months and most o f the clauses are tied to Chicago victo ries. Cavs deal Douglas to Nuggets The Cleveland Caval iers traded Sherman Douglas and a future draft pick to the Denver Nuggets for Greg Graham Monday night as both teams shuffled their point guard positions. Both p layers join their third team in a month. Dennis Johnson charged Former Boston Celtics guard and a ssista n t co ach D en n is Johnson was arrested and charged with aggravated assault on his wife and domestic violence on Monday Johnson, a member o f three NBA championship teams, was arrested Monday afternoon at his home after a 9 11 call was placed from the house, according to the Orange County S h eriffs Department. Pepper Johnson out for season The New York Jets pulled out a thrilling victory over the New England Patriots Sunday, but lost inside linebacker Pepper Johnson for the rest o f the season with a ru p tu re d ten d o n in his left quadricep. CATLIN GABEL RUMMAGE SAU OCT. Î0-M 0V. 2 Thursday, October JO, Spin -9p.m (Opening Day 2S% markup) Friday, October J 1, 10a m 9p.m Saturday. November I, 10« m -6 p m Sunday, November 2, 10a m - Ip.m Don't m lu the great deab on »port* equip ment. tool», treasuret, linen*, houarwarei, elec trcnx». toys, per and garden nipplie*. furniture, booii and clothing It all FT"! fATIJM Cleveland basks In series glory, urban triumph Skeptics said it would never hap pen: Get past the world-champion Ness York Yankees in the Division Series. No way! Beat the Baltimore Orioles, the winningest team in the league this season, to capture the A merican League pennant? Dream on! But during two weeks in early October, the Cleveland Indians epito mized the spirit o f teamwork in de feating both o f those post-season foes. And this week, the ballclub play s in front o f a worldwide audi ence once again as it hosts its second World Series in three years. The Indians' hometown ofC leve- land is playing out a similar story o f triumph again despite countless naysayers. The same we-can-do-it attitude that won the Tribe a spot in baseball's Fall Classic has Cleve land itself on a rally, with the public and private sectors teaming up over the past decade to produce one o f the nation'sm ost remarkable civic come backs. And sports has been a key player in C leveland’s formidable lineup, according to the New Cleve land Campaign, the marketing and communications organization serv ing Greater Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. New venues and the renowned passion o f its fans have built Cleve land intoaw inning location for sports The Catlin Gabel School. IAJ 8MB L U SCHOOL M U L T N O M A H C O U N T Y 1X FO C IN T B K ■ r . ,.T . efit for the city. As a matter o f fact. Jacobs Field is becoming a familiar sight to televi sion audiences, as the venue for post season play for three straight years as well as for the 68th Major League Baseball All-Star Game this past July. Next door to Jacobs Field stands Gund Arena, home o f the Cleveland Cavaliers and host o f the NBA All- Star Game in February with fes tivities that attracted more than 100,000 participants. Cleveland is one o f only two cities ever to host two All-Star games in the same year and the only city to do it twice. (Cleveland also enjoyed the honor in 1981.) Guild Arena and Jacobs Field cited as key reasons for bringing the All- Star events here will soon be joined by a state-of-the-art football stadium In May , Cleveland broke ground for the $247 million stadium that will be home to a new Cleveland B row nsteam in 1999. The facility is a result o f an unprecedented cam paign by the city and its sports fans, w ho fought to w in an N IL team after Art Modell took his franchise to Baltimore. The new stadium is rising on the site o f the former Municipal Sta dium on the downtow n lakefront and is scheduled for completion by Au- gust 1999. DUVAL VICTORY PUTS EVEN MORE YOUTH IN PGA’S WINNERS CIRCLE It's a Tiger Woods fraternity The fraternity of 20-something stars on the PGA Tour has a new member. Make room for David Duval. Fi nally. While Tiger Woods and Justin Leonard were winning their first majors, and Phil Mickelson was win ning everything but majors, the 25- year-old Duval had become the bridesmaid of the tour. In 92 tournaments, he was run ner-up seven times. In five tourna ments. he took the lead into the final round only to blow up on Sunday or watch someone else blow by him. What a difference two weeks - and two victories - can make. "I always felt like I could win golf tournaments out here," Duval said “It just boils down to finding your comfort level and realizing that you don't need to play excellent golf to win a tournament. You just need to play well and smart, and not make mistakes." That used to be the voice of pa tience - Duval never showed any hint of frustration during the close calls and relentless questions about whether he would ever win. Now. it is the voice of experience. Duval won his first PGA event in 93 trie s last w eek, taking the Michelob Championship in a three- way playoff over Gram Waite and Duffy Waldorf. Sunday, at the Disney Classic, he was at it again. He eaught Dan Loi sman with four birdies on the back nine, then beat him on the first playoff hole by making a 15-fixit par putt. “I proved to my self I could handle the pressure before winning." he said. ‘Things just haven't gone my way.” Duval became the first player to win his first two tournaments in consecutive weeks since Billy Andrade in 1991. Youth leagues give positive experience Saturday's action sees excitement on the football field as Pop Warner teams match up in the Whitaker and Jefferson school districts. (Photo by M. Washington) Oregon smashes Utah Seahaw ks fa c e R a id e rs Sunday Two teams fighting to break out of the pack in the AFC West tangle in the Kingdome as the Oakland Raiders visit the Seattle Seahawks. Napoleon Kaufman rushed fora career-high and fra n c h ise -b est 227 yards, including an 83-yard touchdow n run w ith 7:54 left, as the O akland R aiders handed the D enver B roncos th e ir first loss o f the seaso n , 28-25, in p erhaps the s e a s o n ’s biggest upset. Kaufman, who had 28 carries, rumbled 83 yards off right tackle to give the Raiders (3-4) a 2 8 -17 lead. The win snapped O akland's four- game losing streak against the Broncos. Kaufman rushed for 117 yards in the first half as Oakland built a 14-10 lead behind two touchdown passes from Jeff George, who threw just 12 passes, completing nine for 96 yards. C h ris W arren and S teve Broussard each had touchdown runs in the second half as the Jason Maas was 20-of-36 for 369 yards and three touchdow ns and Blake Spence caught six passes for 214 yards as Oregon defeated Utah, 31-13 in a non-conference game. Oregon extended its lead to 2 4 -13 when Maas found Spence for a 39- yard scoring strike 5:20 into the sec ond half. The Ducks capped the scoring with 30 seconds to play in the third quarter when Maas hit McCullough for a 13-yard touch down. Spence fell just 20 yards short of the school's single-game receiving record. Silas McCullough carried 23 times lor I 14 yards with one touch down and also caught a scoring pass. Oregon (4-3) got on the board 1:24 into the game on a 30-yard field goal by Jo sh u a S m ith. Juan Johnson’s six-yard TD run gave Utah (3-4) a 7-3 lead at the end of the first quarter. Johnson, playing for the injured Chris Fuamatu-Ma'afala. ledtheUtes w ith 190 yards on 32 c a rrie s. Fuamatu-M a’afala. hampered with a bad right ankle, gained just 43 yards on eight carries. Beavers fall hard to UCLA Call it ugly, if you’d like. UCLA coach Bob Toledo and Bruins quar terback Cade McNown called it a win they'll happily take. McNown and the UCLA offense shrugged off a woeful start Saturday Seattle Wide Receiver Joey Galloway Som e Thing's Never Change Happy Birthday , Chaka - V 7 1 J as the I7th-ranked Bruins extended their winning streak to five games by beating stubborn Oregon State 34- 10. McNown, completed one of eight passes before he started clicking late in the second quarter. i n ic f a c e s c r i s i s Seahawks (4-3) handed the St. Louis Rams their third straight loss. 17-9. Joey G allo w ay played for the first tim e since spraining his right ankle in an o v e rtim e loss to K an sas C ity on S ep tem b er 28th and cau g h t eig h t passes for 75 yards. benefit* financial aid at OCT. JG-NOV. 2 events o f all kinds from the big leagues to kids' leagues. I his year alone, major sports events held in Cleveland, including two All-Star games and two post-season baseball championships, have pumped an es timated S I 20 million into the local economy. This w eek, the eyes o f the sports world all told, more than 100 million television viewers in 205 countries are on Jacobs Field, regarded as one o f the country's best ballparks since it opened as pail o f Cleveland's heraldedGatew ay sports complex in 1994. With the World Series comes an estimated S2I.7 million in additional economic ben O ak lan d leads the a ll-tim e se rie s, 2 0 - 1 7. T he tw o team s have sp lit th e ir tw o gam es in each o f the la s t th r e e s e a s o n s . The S e a h a w k s v isit the O ak la n d C o liseu m in W eek 16. t 1 flj it Continued from Front quality o f services at this clinic. A Ithough Tay lor’s patient load has been somewhat steady over the past years, her financial resources have dwindled, especially corporate sup port and pharmaceutical company support. Approximately 95 percent o f the people who come to the clinic are needy families who have no medical insurance and are unable to cover the full cost for services received. Managed health care patients make up a small percent o f families seen while the majority are uninsured, low-income, medically poor, work ing poor, or no income. The clinic has been funded by monies from United Way, churches, private donations and community members. Gn-going strategic planning, re source development, and grant-writ ing must be undertaken to continue being a viable entity in the commu- nity. The clinic has secured the ser vices of a professional grants-writer and plans for continued resource development is being considered to maintain future services. Unless the clinic receives $7,000 in donations by Nov. 15, the ser vices may be reduced or patients referred out to meet the shortfall o f resources available at this clinic. “ I think it will be a real loss to the community to have services scaled down" said Taylor. I believe the ounce o f prevention is worth more than a pound o f cure if we act now to support this cause." Please remember this is a non-profit clinic, if you can help, send your tax exempt contributions to N K HC, 5311 N. Vancouver Ave. Portland,OR97217. Taylor urges you to call the clinic at (503) 284-5239 for answers to your questions and to offer support for a Portland population o f worthy children and families.
