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Som e P ortland area kids and
th eir p arents w ill have the
chance to enjoy spring break
this year w ith a M ajor League
Baseball gam e. For others, the
gam e has already been sold
out. T he Seattle M ariners have
scheduled an exhibition gam e
against the San D iego Padres
on M arch 29th at Portland’s PGE
Park. T he gam e w ill take place
at 1:05 p.m., during Spring Break
week.
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T he P ortland Trail Blazers
will televise the M arch 16 home
gam e against the W ashington
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will be the first tim e that Blazers
forw ard Scottie Pippen and
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m ake an appearance in P ort
land since their cham pionship
run with the Chicago Bulls. The
tw o N BA all-stars will m eet for
the first tim e as opponents on
Feb. 27 w hen the Blazers visit
W ashington, D.C. The Blazers
host the W izards in the Rose
Garden in a 7 p.m. matchup. The
Chevy Trailblazer Pregame show
starts at 6:30 p.m.
Seahawks Plan 2002
Schedule
T h e N a tio n a l F o o tb a ll
L eague has released the S e
attle S eahaw ks 2002 o p p o
nents fo r their inaugural sea
son as m em bers o f the N FC
W est division and first season
in the te am ’s new dow ntow n
stad iu m . S e a ttle w ill have
hom e-and-hom e gam es versus
division opponen ts A rizona
Cardinals, San Francisco 49ers
an d St. L o u is R am s. T h e
S eah a w k s w ill h av e hom e
gam es versus the W ashing
ton R edskins and Philadelphia
Eagles from the NFC East, while
traveling to play the N ew York
G iants and D allas C ow boys.
(A P) - The plucky N ew E n
gland Patriots will face the St. Louis
R am s’ high-octane offense in the
Super Bow l Sunday after both
team s w on their respective cham
pionship gam es.
D rew Bledsoe replaced an in
ju red T om B rady and led the New
England Patriots to the Superbowl
gam e in N ew O rleans with a 24-17
upset over the Steelers in the AFC
cham pionship gam e in Pittsburgh.
Bledsoe got plenty o f help from
Troy B row n, w ho returned a punt
55 yards for a touchdow n and was
the middle man on a 60-y ard return
o f a blocked field goal that put
N ew E ngland ahead 21-3 early in
the third quarter.
B ledsoe threw 11 yards to
D avid Patten for a touchdow n
shortly after Brady injured his left
leg late in the first half, putting the
P atriots in p osition for A dam
V in atieri’s fo u rth -q u arter field
goal, and allow ing N ew England
to hold the ball enough to avoid
constant pressure late in the g am e.
N ew E n g la n d , w h ich w ent
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reg u la r seaso n , h ead s to its th ird
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b oth tim es.
T he R am s earned their second
trip to the S uper Bow l in three
years with a 29-24 victory overthe
P hiladelphia E agles in St. Louis.
The trip south d idn’t look likely
early in the gam e as the E ag les’
stingy defense kept the R am s off-
balance. But in the second half,
K urt W arner, the league’s M V P;
M arshall Faulk, a three-tim e O f
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Things turned in the third q uar
ter w hen the R am s dom inated the
clock and scored 10 points. They
ran 22 o f the 28 play s in the period,
getting Je ff W ilkins’ third field
goal, a 4 1 -yarder, and F au lk ’s 1-
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W ith his helm et ripped o ff on
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So did the St. Louis defense, which
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