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Athlete Breaks Olympic Color Barrier
(AP) - A 28-year-old woman
became the first African Ameri
can athlete ever to win a gold
medal at a Winter Games last week.
Bobsled breakm an V onetta
Rowers joined Portland native Jill
Bakken to win the gold medal Feb.
19 in the inaugural w om en’s
bobsled competition at the Olym
pics.
Bakken was bom in Portland
and grew up in Bend. She now
lives in Park City, Utah, and regu
larly makes runs on the Olympic
track.
She and Rowers surprised ev
eryone by beating the favored Ger
mans and the much-hyped Jean
Racine in the other American sled.
The victory ended a 46-year
drought for the United States.
Vonetta Flowers (left)
and Jill Bakken
celebrate a gold medal
at the Salt Lake
Olympics. Flowers
became the first African
American athlete ever
to win gold in the winter
games.
Salt Lake Games End in Harmony
Ducks Set
Spring Game
in Portland
(AP) - America bade farewell to
the W inter Olympics with a final
show of harmony, a cathartic end
to an event that was exciting,
troubled, wonderful and frustrat
ing all at once.
The games went out Sunday
night with a flourish o f Ameri
cana, an eclectic dose of Vegas
kitsch with stars like Donny and
Marie Osmond, Kiss and Jon Bon
Jovi highlighting the three-hour
stadium party.
The Americans won 34 medals,
Portland Family Entertain
ment and the University o f O r
egon a n n o u n c e d th a t the
Ducks will play their annual
football Spring Game at PGE
Park on Saturday, April 27 at
1:05 p.m.
T ick ets for the O regon
Spring Game go on sale Satur
day, March 2 at 9 a.m. At that
time, tickets will be made avail
able at PGE Park in addition to
all
W e ste rn
O reg o n
Ticketmaster outlets, includ
ing select Fred Meyer and G.I.
Joe’s locations. Also, tickets
may be purchased by phoning
Ticketm aster at (503) 224-
4400
or
o n -lin e
at
www.ticketmaster.com.
It marks the second year in
a row that the Ducks will have
contested their popular Spring
Game in the Portland area after
playing to a capacity crowd at
Hillsboro Stadium in 2001.
This year’s final scrimmage
will simulate the activities that
normally take place for an O r
egon home gam e, with the
O regon M arching Band, the
team ’s rally squad and the
D uck m ascot all being in at
tendance.
Fireworks over Salt Lake
City's Rice-Eccles Olympic
Stadium during the closing
ceremonies Sunday night. (AP
photo)
shattering their previous record
of 13. It still wasn’t enough to put
them ahead of Germany (35) in the
total medal count, but these still
were A merica’s games.
B on Jo v i p la y e d , H arry
Connick Jr. sang, and so did Earth,
Wind and Fire and Gloria Estefan.
Dorothy Hamill, Katarina Witt and
Scott Hamilton skated. Willie
N e lso n san g “ B rid g e O v er
Troubled W ater,” a quiet coun
terbalance to the glitz of the rest of
the show.
Slephen School
Williams Charged in
Limo Driver’s Death
(A P) - Form er NBA star
Jayson W illiams surrendered
Monday to face charges in the
fatal shooting of a limousine
driver at his sprawling mansion.
The NBC Sports commenta
tor, accompanied by two men,
walked through a back entrance
into the state police barracks.
W illiams’ attorney, Joseph
Hayden, said his client was
charged in the death of Costas
Christofi.
"The death of Mr. Christofi
was a tragic accident, but it was
an accident,” Hayden said. "We
are very confident that after a
full, fair and thorough explora
tion of all the facts, it will be clear
that Mr. W illiams is innocent of
recklessness and innocent of
any criminal conduct.”
Christofi, 55, was found shot
to death at W illiam s’ 65-aere
estate in Alexandria Township
on Feb. 14. C hristoffs nephew,
Chris Adams, said his family
could not confirm earlier pub
lished reports that Williams was
playfully tw irling a shotgun
while giving a tour of his 30,000-
Jayson Williams arrives at
the New Jersey State Police
barracks Monday to
surrender in connection with
the shooting death o f a
limousine driver. (AP photo)
square-foot home when the
weapon fired, hitting Christofi.
His death originally was re
ported as a suicide. After an
autopsy, the medical examiner
ruled the shooting a homicide.
The 6-foot-10 W illiams was
once among the N BA ’s best
rebounders, but leg injuries
ended his basketball career. He
retired from the New Jersey Nets
in 2000 and now works for NBC
as an NBA studio analyst.
NBC Sports vice president
Kevin Sullivan said the network
would not comment.
Beavers, Timbers Tickets Available
Individual game tickets for the
2002 Portland Beavers’ and Port
land Tim bers’ seasons go on
sale Saturday, March 2 at 9 a.m.
At that tim e, tickets will be
made available at PG E Park in
addition to all Portland-area
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ing select Fred M eyer and G.I.
Jo e ’s locations. A lso, tickets
may be purchased by phoning
Ticketmaster at (503) 224-4400
or
o n - lin e
at
w w w .ticketm aster.com .
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