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City commissioner Jim Francesconi (from left), Charles Jordan o f the Portland Parks and Recreation Department, and Gary
DeStefano o f Nike join kids at Grant park to introduce the company's donation o f new world-class cushioned surfaces at 90
basketball courts in the city's park system.
N ike will help the cash-strapped
Portland Parks Bureau by using
recycled shoes to resurface the
w eed-infested basketball courts
at 35 parks.
The donation is estim ated to
cost more than $2 mi I lion and could
also include the replacem ent o f
roughly 130 backboards. It repre
sents N ike’s largest one-time sports
surface donation in the world.
T he project should begin in
sum m er and be com pleted by late
fall. W orkers will resurface the
courts using a material that’s m ade
from ca st-o ff shoes. The shoes
are ground up and pressed into a
m aterial that will be laid over the
courts.
T he sam e quality o f surface is
featured at the A ustralian O pen,
S ydney’s tennis venue for the
G am es o f 2000 and our co u n try ’s
m ost prom inent outdoor basket
ball court, H olcom b R ucker Park
in Harlem.
N ike said it w as m aking the
donation to celebrate its 30lh anni
versary as a Portland area em
ployer.
“ By refurbishing the courts
w ith a w orld-class, cu shioned
surface, w e hope that the A nni
versary Project will not only help
young people becom e more physi
cally active, but serve as a cata
lyst for bri ng fami 1 i es and com mu-
n iti e s t o g e th e r ,” s a id G a ry
D eStefano, N ik e’s president o f
U SA operations.
Famed Soccer Teams
to Play in Portland
Jackie Stiles. (AP photo)
Fire Player Slowed
by Injured Heel
(A P ) — Portland Fire coach
Linda H argrove is searching for
an an sw e r to Ja c k ie S tile s ’
troubles.
Stiles, the W N B A ’s rookie o f
the year last season, has been
slow ed by bursitis pain in her
right heel through the F ire’s first
eleven gam es. A t one point,
Stiles even sat out four gam es to
rest her heel.
But since com ing back June
15th, she has only averaged
seven-point-five points a gam e,
far from the 15 points per gam e
she averaged as a rookie last
year.
H argrove says that perhaps
the best w ay to m axim ize S tiles’
perform ance in gam es would be
to lim it her tim e practicing, thus
keeping the Fire star from hav
ing to use her heel m ore than
necessary.
In
p r e p a r a tio n
fo r
W ednesday’s gam e against the
Utah Starzz, w ho are m aking a
run at the W estern Conference,
Stiles only practiced lightly.
H argrove, the Fire, and o f
course Stiles, hope less practice
equals m ore points in the game.
A w orld class international
soccer m atch between C hivas o f
G uadalajara and Cruz A zul o f
M exico City will be played at PGE
Park on Sunday, July 7 at 1 p.m.,
Portland Family Entertainment, the
Lotus Satellite Network and Port
land O regon Sports A uthority
announced last week.
The match is part o f the Chivas
preseason tour o f select U.S. cities.
The tour begins in Los Angeles.
“ PFE is thrilled to play host to
such a w orld class soccer match
featuring tw o o f the top team s in
M exico,” said Jim Taylor, general
m anager o f the Tim bers. “ It’s es
pecially rew arding in that it’s a
W orld Cup year and fans w ill be
seeing players that played with
the M exican National T eam ."
Tickets will be m ade available
at PG E Park inaddition toall Port-
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includingall Fred M eyerandG .I.
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available by calling Ticketm aster
at (503) 224-4400 or on-line at
www.ticketmaster.com.
“A s M ayor, I am delighted that
Portland will play host to such a
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