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June 7, 2000
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Lakers win over blazers spurs
NBC’s basketball ratings
Redskins sign Deion Sanders
won in four straight games over
Portland. Previously, the highest-
rated Western Conference final Game
7 was Seattle’s 90- 86 win over Utah
in 1996, which drew a 13.7.
“W e’ve been saying all along that
with good stories and close games
the people will be there,” said Kevin
Sullivan, an NBC spokesman.
Los Angeles trailed by as many as 16
points late in the third quarter. Coming
o ff the bench, Shaw, who averaged
4.1 points during the regular season,
scored 11 points, including three
three- point baskets.
The Lakers’ wingamereda42.0rating
with a 69 share in Portland and a 27.5
rating with a 49 share in Los Angeles,
said Nielsen Media Research Inc.
During the regular season, NBC’s
ratings for its NBA telecasts dropped
21 percent from the previous season.
The best-of-seven NBA finals begin
Wednesday in Los Angeles at 9 p.m.
New York time.
Ratings measure the number o f U.S.
h o u se h o ld s w ith te le v isio n s
watching the event, while share is the
percentage of households with the
TVs turned on watching the event.
Deion Sanders, center, with Redskins owner Dan Snyder, left, and head coach Norv Turner, right, holds his
new Redskins jersey at a press conference at Redskins Park Monday. June 5, 2000 in Ashburn, Pa., just
outside o f Washington. Sanders signed Monday with the Washington Redskins to a seven-year, $55 million
contract.
R e it e r s
The Washington Redskins added to their off-season
spending spree Monday when they announced they
had signed flashy star defensive back Deion Sanders to
a seven-year, $55 million pact.
J ust three days after the electrifying defensive back, kick
returner and part-time receiver was cut by the Dallas
Cowboys for salary cup purposes, the eight-time Pro
Bowl selection landed in Washington and was greeted
with an $8 million signing bonus.
“We were very excited when we first heard Deion was
available. We wanted to move on it right away,” said
Redskins owner Daniel Snyder.
“This is something special. Deion is the ultimate weapon
in football,” Snyder added.
“It’s wonderful to be a Redskin,” the 32-year-old Sanders
told reporters at a news conference to announce the
team ’s latest high-profile acquisition. “They’ve always
had something special. There’s nothing like these fans,
this tradition. There’s nothing like Redskins football.”
Already a title contender, the Redskins have been making
bold and expensive moves this off-season that could
turn them into the NFC’s leading Super Bowl candidate.
Washington previously signed four major free agents
— defensive end Bruce Smith, safety Mark Carrier,
quarterback Jeff George and running back Adrian
Murrell.
The Redskins also had two o f the first three picks in the
April draft and took Penn State linebacker LaVar
Arrington and Alabama tackle Chris Samuels.
“W e’ve had some big press conferences here over the
last few months. But none as exciting as this,” Redskins
coach Norv Turner said before recounting the numerous
times he has watched Sanders bum him as an opposing
player.
“I was on the Rams staff (in 1989) when Deion returned
his first punt for a touchdown,” Turner said.
Sanders, the only athlete ever to play in both basebal 1 ’ s
World Series and the Super Bowl, won back-to-back
Super Bowls in 1995 and 1996.
After spending his first five NFL seasons with the
Atlanta Falcons, Sanders won the NFL championship
with the San Francisco49ers following the 1994 season
and repeated with the Dallas Cowboys after the 1995
campaign.
Prep V Pinners
1999-2000 Champions
Boys Cross Country
Class 4A: Klamath
Class 3A: Wilsonville
C lass2A /l A: Neah-Kah-Nie
Girls Cross Country
Class 4/A: Jesuit
Class 3A: Rogue River
Class 2 A /1A : Oakridge
Volleyball
Class 4A" Westlinn
Class3A: Marist
Class 2A: Amity
Class 1 A: Lone
Girls Soccer
Class 4 A: Jesuit
Class 3A/2A/1 A" Catlin Gabel
Boys Soccer
Class 4A: Mountain View and
Jesuit (co-champions)
Class3A /2A /l A: LaSalle
Football
Class 4A: Beaverton
Class3A: Sisters
Class 2 A: Amity
Class 1 A: Dufur
Boys Swimming
Class 4A: Lakeridge
Class3A /2A /l A: Sweet Home
GirlsSwimming
Class 4A: Sheldon
Class 3A/2A/1 A: Wilsonville
Wrestling
Class 4A: Crater
Class 3A: Cascade
Class 2A/1 A: Nyssa
Girls Basketball
Class 4A Westview
Class 3A: Philomath
Class 2A: Goldbeach
Class 1 A: Condon
Boys Basketball
Class 4 A: Jefferson
Class3 A: Creswell
Class 2 A Oakland
Class 1 A: Dufur
Girls Golf
Class 4A: Jesuit
Class 3 A: Taft
Class 2 A71A : Enterprise
GirlsTennis
Class 4A: Lakeridge
Class
1 A: Wilsonville
Boys Tennis
Class 4A: Jesuit
Class3A /2A /l A: Catlin Gabel
Girls Track and Field
Class 4A. Benson
Class 3A: Henley
Class 2A: Pilot Rock
Class 1 A: St. Paul
Boys Track and Field
Class 4A: Gladstone
Class 3A:Cascade
Class 2A: Oakridge
Classl A: Powder Valley
Softball
Class 4A: North Eugene
Class 3A: Marist
Class 2 A /1A : Harrisburg
Baseball
Class 4A: Crater
Class 3 A: Mazama
Class 2 A /1A : Glendale
Schools with multiple titles:
5 - Jesuit (girls cross country
girls soccer, boys soccer, boys
golf, boys tennis)
3 - Wilsonville (boys cross
country, girls swimming, girls ten
nis)
3 - Marist (volleyball, girls
golf, softball)
3 - Lakeridge (boys swim-
ming, girls golf, girls tennis)
2 - Oakridge (girls cross coun-
try, boys track)
2 - Amity (volleyball, football)
2-Catlin Gabel (girls soccer,
boys tennis)
2 - Dufur (football, boys has-
ketball)
2 - Crater (wrestling, baseball)
2 - Cascade (wrestling, track)
Portland Trail Blazers forward Scottie Pippen (33) fires fo r the hoop as
Los Angeles Lakers guard Ron Harper defends. Photo by Associated
Press.
A ssociated P ress
Brian Shaw did more than key Los
Angeles’ win against Portland in
Game 7 o f the National Basketball
Association’s Western Conference
finals on Sunday. He helped spur
NBC ’ s prel iminary ratings.
NBC Sports said about 40 million
viewers watched some or all o f the
game.
General Electric Co. ’s NBC generated
a 14.5 rating with a 13 share for the
Lakers’ 89-84 win, which was the
highest-rated Western Conference
final game ever, the network said.
The record-setting rating more than
doubled the 6.9 average overnight
ra tin g o f last y e a r ’s W estern
Conference final, which San Antonio
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PGA Tour money leaders
PGA Tour money leaders through
the Kemper Insurance Open, which
ended June
Rank Name
Events Money
1 Tiger Woods
10 4,149,731
15 2,433,173
2 Hal Sutton
3 Phil Mickelson
13 2,355,264
4 Jesper Pamevik 12 2,135,700
5 Davis Love III
13 1,860,180
6 Tom Lehman
12 1,661,073
7 Vijay Singh
16 t m w
8 Ernie Els
12 1,579,405
9 David Duval
12 1,340,634
10
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12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
Stewart Cink
15 1,328,252
Kirk Triplett
14 1,261,056
14 11,228,059
Jim Furyk
Carlos Franco
14 1,217,961
Robert Allenby
15 981,874
Tom Scherrer
17 935,958
12 870,229
Dudley Hart
Shigeki Maruyama 14 867,811
Steve Flesch
15 835,260
815,636
Paul Azinger
9
13 804,049
Stuart Appleby
John Huston
13 803,244
Jim Carter
16 776,145
23 Mike Weir
24 Justin Leonard
25 Loren Roberts
14 758,237
14• 756,214
13 748,901
Stanford dunks coach
after track title
A sset UTEftiRESS
Melvin Lister was slumped in a chair, his head bowed, his voice barely audible.
The end o f Arkansas’ eight-year reign as NCAA outdoor track and field
champions hit the star o f the Razorbacks hard.
“We expected to win, that’s the only reason we come to the nationals,” said
Lister, whose victory in the triple jump and part o f a second-place finish in the
1,600-meter relay weren’t good enough to catch new champion Stanford.
“I guess it was meant for them to have this win,” Lister said late Saturday night
at Duke’s Wallace Wade Stadium. “I know I gave it my all. My heart is left on
this track. I have nothing left."
The Cardinal had nothing left to give either, their fabulous distance runners
spent, but heroes of the school’s first outdoor title in 66 years. The team still
had enough energy for a victory lap in the rain and then a dunking o f coach
Vin Lananna in the steeplechase pit.
“Whenever you do anything eight years in a row it’s a heck of a program,”
Lananna said o f Arkansas. “You figure if you spin the w heel so many times
one of them is going to come up right for us.”
Indeed, Stanford was due. The Cardinal finished second five straight times to
the Razorbacks in the indoors and outdoors championships dating to 1997.
“We were working on six consecutive second places in my career. I can’t tell
you how this feels to win," said Stanford's Michael Stember, who finished
second to teammate Gabe Jennings in the 1,500 - the 1 -2 finish that al I but sealed
up Stanford’s title. “This is something we all looked forward to. It is kind of
surreal.”
In races from 800 to 10,000, the Cardinal outscored the runner-up Razorbacks
64-16.
Stanford’s distance runners appeared to thrive o ff a group of rabid Cardinal
fans, who pounded bongo drums and urged the runners on during every lap
The runners seemed to keep pace with every increased beat near the end o f
their races.
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