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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.
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Portland
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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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Rose Quarter Ticket Office, on
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