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recorded 19 points and seven assists.
This time, he will undoubtedly draw
the w rath o f the R ockets fans
throughout this contest.
Prior to the season, Pippen publicly
criticized Rockets forward Charles
Barkley, questioning his desire to
win an NBA title and refusing to
apologize to Barkley. He was sent to
the Trailblazers for six players,
including Kelvin Cato, Walt Williams
and Carlos Rogers.
“I’m not disappointed we didn ’ t talk,"
Pippen said after the first game
b etw een the team s. “ I ’m not
interested in apologizing to (Barkley).
As far as T m concerned, it’s over and
it’s behind me.”
Portland is in the midst o f its first
losing streak o f the season after a 97-
88 setback at Denver on Monday.
Damon Stoudamire scored 19 points
for the Trail Blazers, who shot just 40
percent from the field and committed
18 turnovers.
Houston snapped a five-game losing
streak with a 100-94 victory over
Boston on Saturday. Cato had a
A ssociated P ress
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Houston Rockets (8-17).
Scottie Pippen makes his return to
Houston after orchestrating his trade
to Portland in the preseason.
Pippen had the support o f the Blazers
fans in his first game against the
Rockets last month, a 9 1 -88 overtime
victory on Nov. 26 in which he
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as he more than compensated for the
absence o f injured center Hakeem
Olajuwon, hitting 11 -of-13 shots from
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“We had a lot o f great passing and
that made a difference,” Cato said.
“The coaching staff had a game plan
and we ran out and ran it. It ’ s the same
plan w e’ve had all season but this
time we just ran it.”
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have already given more than half
that amount.
All this activity has also brought
more traffic and parking demand than
the narrow streets and the school’s
160-space parking lot can handle. “It’s
a little difficult to go from something
that had no activity at all to something
that is so active,” says Melissa Darby,
a neighbor and one o f the staunchest
su p p o rte rs o f the b u ild in g ’s
preservation. “But we’re getting used
to it.” The McMenamins have helped
by paying to paint nearby driveways
to indicate no parking, and have a
security guard outside. Asked if she
had any second thoughts about the
school’s conversion Darby says,
“Never, not for a nanosecond."
If nothing else, they need only
remember what this neighbor was like
before restoration. Prostitution in the
the doctors are reaching, checking to
see if a pulse is there, it’s very, very
scary,” Suns coach Scott Skiles said.
W hile h o sp ita liz e d , G u g lio tta
underwent a CAT scan and an EKG,
both of which turned up nothing out
o f the ordinary.
“Tom is feeling very good, although
somewhat fatigued,” Emerson said.
“What we can’t tell you is what
caused it. Sometimes you never
know.”
Emerson added: “All tests that were
done, the typical routine tests that
you do for someone who had a seizure
— CAT scans, EKGs, the lab work—
everything is completely normal at
this time.”
The eight-year veteran forward is in
his second season with the Suns, his
fourth NBA team.
Even without last season s
Class 4A p la yer o f the year,
the Crusaders are No. 2 in
the state coaches p o ll
area was “blatant,” as one neighbor
recalls, and used condom s were
regularly deposited in yards. The
exterior contained piles o f used
syringes, and rats were abundant.
The restoration involved more time,
e ffo rt and m o n ey than th e y ’d
bargained for, Michael McMenamin
says, but the end result is “more than
w e c o u ld h av e im a g in e d .” In
particular, he is gratified by the
extensive community use ofthe place.
“This has raised our horizons for all
our places,” he says.
Recalling the early plans Ron
Fossum says, “N one o f us got
everything we wanted, but most o f us
got most o f what we wanted. I can’t
speak highly enough o f two men who
have turned a run-down derelict
building into an asset with no cost to
the taxpayer. ”
is " a p i p e d r e a m "
R eiters
Cincinnati Reds general manager Jim
Bowden said he has broken o ff trade
talks with the Seattle M ariners
regarding Ken Griffey Jr., but there
were a couple o f trades at the winter
meetings on Saturday.
“We have a much better chance of
bringing Goofy back than Griffey,”
Bowden said at baseball’s annual
meetings, taking place several blocks
from Disneyland.
One o f the trades involved Bowden’s
Reds, who acquired outfielder Kimera
Bailee from the Detroit Tigers for a
player to be named. In the other deal,
the Chicago Cubs acquired outfielder
Damon Buford from the Boston Red
Sox for infielder Manny Alexander.
But Bowden ruled out any chance of
obtaining G riffey, the superstar
outfielder who has asked to be traded
to a team closerto his Orlando, Florida
home.
“No chance at all, zero. It’s behind
us,” Bowden said. “We h aven’t
moved a centimetre in talks, let alone
an inch. The next time we pursue him
will be in 2000.”
The Reds had been seen as the front­
runner in the sw eepstakes since
Griffey is from Ohio and his father is
the team’s bench coach. However,
five weeks o f negotiations brought
almost no movement and Bowden
decided to give up after meeting with
Seattle general manager Pat Gillick
Saturday m orning for about 30
minutes.
One deterrent to a deal with any team
is Gillick’s refusal to allow suitors to
negotiate a contract with Griffey, who
becomes a free agent after the 2000
season and could demand $20 million
per year, a huge number for a small-
market club like the Reds.
But Bowden said the main stumbling
block was the inability to agree on
players, including Gold Glove second
baseman Pokey Reese, a favorite o f
m anager Jack M cK eon. W hile
refusing to mention Reese by name,
it was obvious that the Reds did not
want to part with him.
“There was a certain player, a key for
them, that we would not trade,”
Bowden said. “We didn’t want to
have a player for one year, not sign
with us, and then set us back three
years.”
Gillick seemed surprised that trade
talks regarding arguably baseball’s
best player could stall on one
individual.
“How could they not do that? W e’re
talking about a Hall o f Famer, an All-
Centuiyplayer,” Gillicksaid. “They’re
going to let this one player hold up
the deal?”
Reese, first baseman Sean Casey and
Rookie o f the Year reliever Scott
Williamson were among the players
believed to be involved in talks. That
nucleus o f young players enabled
the Reds to win 96 games before
losing a one-game playoff to the New
YorkMets.
Bowden said the Reds made several
offers ranging from three to five
players and they included both major
league and minor league talent.
“We made significant offers to them.
Considering that he (Griffey) was a
free agent in 2000,1 would have made
the deal in their shoes,” said Bowden,
who added his talks with Gillick broke
off cordially.
“It was certainly an opportunity for
them to acquire one o f the best players
in the game,” Gillick said. “Ifyou had
been unsuccessful, I think you would
be frustrated or upset. I don’t think
you can close the door on anything.”
Jesuit is still a contender
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and neighborhood leaders also felt
the b ro th ers, already n o ted for
converting historic buildings into
entertainment venues, had the best
chance o f actually making their plan
happen. It was a critical point; the
original cost estimate to repair 20
years worth o f neglect and convert it
to something useful was more than $3
million, and the actual cost was nearly
50 percent higher.
“We grew up in the neighborhood,”
M ichael McM enamin says. “We
didn’t go to school there, but some o f
our relatives did, so we were familiar
with the building. The neighborhood
seemed to be underserved (with retail
services), so it seemed like a good
fit."
Today the school contains a
theater, two restaurants, two bars,
meeting rooms a gym, a soaking pool,
and 35 sleeping rooms available for
n ig h tly acco m o d atio n s w ith a
complementary breakfast. One room
is set aside for use by the Concordia
Community Association and other
non-profit groups to use at no charge,
and other space has been donated at
times to groups such as the Urban
League o f Portland and the Oregon
Arts Committee.
The soaking pool is available free o f
charge to Concordia neighborhood
re sid e n ts, and gym tim e as
apportioned by random selection
from among the many who seek it.
The facility also periodically donates
half the proceeds o f its restaurant for
a given night - an amount equal to as
much as $2,000 - to a local chanty.
They also make a practice o f hiring
neighborhood residents
The M cMenamin’s were required
to provide $600,000 of such services
in lieu o f payment for the property
during their first 15 years o f operation,
according to PDC’s David Nemo.
However, he adds, the McMenamins
Phoenix Suns forward Tom Gugliotta
was released from a Portland hospital
late on Saturday, although doctors
have yet to determine what caused
the seizure that landed him there
Friday night.
Suns owner Jerry Colangelo and team
physician Dr. Richard Emerson told a
news conference that Gugliotta was
headed home after a barrage o f tests
showed nothing abnormal.
Gugliotta, who turned 30 Sunday, is
expected to undergo further tests to
try and figure out what caused the
frightening seizure he suffered on the
team bus following Friday’s victory
at Portland.
“When you see somebody that you
know very well as a teammate and as
a friend and he has his head back and
R e d s s a y G r iffe y
Michael Dunleavy, the state’s Class
4 A player o f the year in 1998-99, is
gone. He is a college freshman and
the first player off the bench at Duke.
Two more o f the starters on Jesuit’s
first state championship team, Justin
Buckmaster and Mikey Gatlin, also
have graduated.
And still, here are the Crusaders, No.
2 in the state coaches poll and looking
like a team that is capable o f repeating
its state championship.
Jesuit coach Gene Potter guided the
Crusaders to a 26-2 season last year
that concluded with a 65-39 victory
over North Salem in the state title
game.
But the drop-off, despite heavy
y o u r d e g re e
losses, has been minimal.
“W e’ve had a lot o f people step up,”
Potter said. “We continue to have
some pretty good players. I think we
can play with just about any team in
the state.”
Starting Saturday, Jesuit will find out
if it can compete with some top teams
from outside the state. The Crusaders
expect to measure themselves against
some o f the country’s top talent at
the 16-team Les Schwab Oregon
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