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Jordan Erratic in All Star Defeat
Franklin Girls
Swamp Roosevelt
(AP) — The one thing missing
in Michael Jordan’s second come
back has been the spectacular,
highlight-reel dunk. G iven a
chance to do one on the ultimate
show boat stage he made the
blooper tape instead.
On a solo breakaway late in the
firs, quarter of the All-Star game,
with no player within 20 feet of
him, Jordan’s one-hander rattled
off the back rim and ou, of bounds
like a rookie’ s bad do-over candi-
date at the slam dunk contest.
Players, fans and everyone else
gasped in disbelief while Jordan
Michael Jordan
got a lot o f
media attention
in the NBA All
Star game
Sunday, but it
was Laker Kobe
Bryant (far left)
who won the
game MVP
award. (AP
photo)
Injury Gives Venus
Williams Title
Franklin's Jennifer Speakmon shoots over Roosevelt's Terri
Robinson in a girls PIL basketball game Friday on the
Quakers home court. Franklin made an easy game o f it by
scoring a 6 9 to 2 5 victory.
photo by D avid G iezyng /T he P ortland O bserver
Venus W illiams claimed her
second title of 2002 when Jelena
Dokic withdrew from Sunday’s
final of the Gaz de France tourna
ment with a strained right thigh.
“It’s not really like you’ve won.
But I suppose you’re the last one
standing,” Williams said.
It was her 23rd career WTA
Tour title.
The fourth-seeded Dokic said
she was hurt during Saturday’s 6-
3 ,3 -6 ,6 -4 semifinal victory over
Monica Seles and aggravated the
injury in a doubles match later that
day.
“I w asn’t able to move this
morning,” Dokic said Sunday. “It
seems to be a lot more serious
laughed at himself — what else
could he do? — and he took a lot
of playful grief from anyone who
went near him during the next five
minutes.
The flub was the climax to a
sometimes spirited, sometimes
passive Jordan performance in his
13th All-Star game. Unable to sup
press his competitive juices, he
played 23 m inutes — nearly
double what he vowed he would
play in the name of needed rest —
and scored eight points on 4-for-
13 shooting Sunday in the East’s
135-120 loss to the West.
B lack H igtork H oiitii l onoo
H a n k A a r o n E a rn s B la c k H is to ry H o n o r
Home Run King
Hammerin ’ Hank Aaron is
honored with his picture
on a box o f Wheaties in a
special-edition Black
History Month promotion.
The box will be available
nationally throughout the
month o f February.
Aaron's 755 career home
runs smashed Babe
Ruth 's record o f 714.
Venus Williams returns a
backhand in this AP photo.
than we originally thought.”
Williams, who has won both
the U.S. Open and Wimbledon
each o f the last two years, beat
Justine Henin at the Gold Coast
tournament in January for her firs,
title in 2002.
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