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d |t ' 53orUanb ©bseruer M a y 29, 2002 ortlanò b»eruer Page B3 S pohts /METRO Chinook Winds Hosts Televised Boxing Fire Guard Traded to Miami Chinook Winds Casino and Convention Center and Sugar Ray Leonard recently an nounced changes that are sure to keep audiences at the edge of their seats during the Lin coln City casino’s “Commo tion at the Ocean HI’’ boxing card on Friday, May 31. B ecause o f in ju ries to fighters in a previously an nounced schedule, the 10- round M ain Event will now f e a tu r e fo r m e r NBA C ru ise rw e ig h t C h am pion Michael Rush against former four-tim e world champion Jam es ‘Lights O u t’ Toney. Rush goes into the ESPN2 televised m atch w ith three c o n se c u tiv e w in s and is ranked 19lhin th e W BC, 16lh in the IBO and will enter the USBA ratings at 13lhinJune. His overall record is 23 wins, five losses, and one draw w ith 14 knockouts. The co-m ain event - also, carried live on ESPN 2 - will now feature a spectacular Junior M iddlew eight bout be tw een Tony Badea and NBA Junior M iddlew eight Champion V erno Phillips. O rig in ally from R om ania, Badea is currently rated 16th by the W BC and 10,h by the IBO and has been rated as high as (AP) — The Portland Fire tra d e d fo rw a rd V a n e ssa Nygaard to the Miami Sol on Wednesday for guard Marla Brumfield. Portland also received for ward Katrina Colleton, but she was waived immediately. The Fire also waived guard Mandy Nightingale, a rookie from Colorado, to trim their roster to 15 players. Nygaard was among the most popular players on the Fire, and one of the original players from its 2000 expan sion season. She played in all 32 games and started 28 that year, but after the acquisition o f forw ard K ristin Folkl, N y g a a rd ’s p la y in g tim e slipped. She averaged just 8.4 minutes a game last season, and h er sco rin g a v erag e dropped from 7.9 points to 2.5. Brumfield will begin her third WNBA season after ap pearing in 27 games with Mi ami last year. She averaged 1.6 points and 1.2 assists. Sugar Ray Leonard promotes the “Commotion at the Ocean " at the Chinook Winds Casino in Lincoln City. ninth in the world by the WBC andW B O . The Com m otion at the Ocean III under card will also feature four exciting bouts. D oors open Marion Jones wins the women's 100 meters, ahead o f third place finisher Chryste Gaines, at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene. (AP Photo) Blazers’ Pippen Has Knee Surgery (A P)— Portland Trail Blazers jrward Scottie Pippen had minor urgery on his right knee and is xpected to be ready to workout y the Fourth of July. The operation, performed last peek in Chicago by former Bulls :am doctor John Hefferon, took bout 30 minutes. Pippen, who will be 37 in Sep- :mber, missed 17 games this sea- on because o f a deep bruise in his right knee. It began to swell at the end of the regular season, and a postseason physical revealed that surgery was needed. “His knee had been sore com ing down the stretch, and we thought this was something we should do,” team president and general manager Bob W hitsitt said. “It was basically just a clean ing-out of the knee. But we are glad he got it done early and will be ready for the beginning of the season.” Pippen will be entering the final year of his contract and will earn $19.7 million. He averaged 10.6 points, 5.9 assists and 5.2 rebounds in the regular season and 16.3 points, 5.7 assists and 9.3 rebounds in the Blazers' three playoff games against the Los Angeles Lak ers. Nets Bounce Back, Tie Series (AP) Players applauded be hind the closed door of the New Jersey locker room, where 48 hours earlier they hung their heads after their historic col lapse. On M onday night, the an guish was in the other room as the Boston Celtics contemplated how to re c o v e r fro m Paul Pierce’s failure to snatch an other win away from the Nets. “That w on’t bother him one bit,” Antoine W alker said. Pierce missed a free throw with 1.1 seconds left, deliber ately m issed the second, and New Jersey held on for a 94-92 v ic to ry M o n d ay n ig h t th at evened the best-of-seven East ern Conference finals at 2-2. Game 5 is W ednesday night in New Jersey. Now it’s the C eltics’ turn for a com eback in a series filled with them. t T h ere w as B o sto n ’s rally from a 21-point deficit entering the fourth quarter, when Pierce scored 19 points, to win Game 3 Saturday 94-90. No team had won a playoff game after trail ing by more after three quar ters. There was M onday’s com e back from that embarrassment — the Nets led 19-8 by hitting five 3-pointers and never trailed — to regain hom e-court advan tage. And there was Boston’s surge from six points down with 3 m inutes left that had raucous fans in the FleetCenter antici pating another comeback win. But Jason Kidd and his team m ates didn’t let it happen. “W e were the same guys that we were in Game 3,’ ’ he said. “It was just a matter of us knocking down shots, us being aggressive instead of being passive.” for the >ove of ^azz 89.1 M ontgom ery, Jones W in Classic Tim Montgomery, running a relatively slow 9.97 seconds, won the 100 meters in the Prefontaine Classic Grand Prix in Eugene. Marion Jones had a better day at Hayward Field, running the fastest 100 in the world this year at 10.00. Competing in her first 100 of the season, Jones won easily to extend her unbeaten streak in the Prefontaine to seven races — including three 100s — over the last five years. Montgomery finished ahead of Kim Colli ns of St. Kitt’s, who ran a nine-point-nine-eight. Maurice Greene, the world record-holder in the 100 meters, camped out at the finish line to watch the race. Greene did not compete in the race because he just signed a contract with Adidas and Nike, the main sponsors of the meet. km h d tiilve rlise in jjnrtlanii lOlisrrnrr 5 0 3 . 2 8 8 .0 0 3 3 at 4:30 p.m. and the first tele vised fight w ill start at 6 p.m. For tickets, call 1-888-MAIN- A CT (624-6228) or Fastixx, 1- 800-992-TIXX(8499). USA Basketball Sets Portland D ate An elite international bas ketball event will take place at the Rose Garden this summer. The USA Basketball team will match up against the G er man National Team on Aug. 25 at 7 p.m. Players currently on the US A Team include Ray Allen, A n to n io D av is, M ich ael Finley, Jason Kidd, Shawn Marion, Reggie Miller, and Jermaine O ’ Neal of the NBA; and Jason Williams of Duke University. The German National team is lead by Shawn Bradley and Dirk Norwitzki of the Dallas Mavericks. 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