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August 21, 2002
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Beaverton Girls #2 in
Little League Series
(A P ) — M a n d y T a m e z
scored the first run on a single
by A ly ssa R am irez to sta rt
W aco, T exas, on the road to a
6-1 victory over B eaverton and
the L ittle L e a g u e S o f tb a ll
W orld Series title last W ednes
day at A lpenrose D airy.
It was the ninth W orld Series
title in the past 11 years for the
Midway Little League, coached
by M a n d y ’ s f a th e r, J a v ie r
Tamez.
It also m arked a strong com e
back for the girls from W aco,
who lost 4-3 in the 2001 cham pi
onship.
“This is so am azing,” M andy
Tam ez said. “Everyone has the
biggest smile on their face.”
The B eaverton runners-up,
how ever, w e re n ’t too d isa p
pointed by the loss. The team
made an unexpected winning run
through the tournam ent after
being selected as the host team
from D istrict 4.
Beaverton defeated M idway
and the defending cham pion,
Latin Am erica, in pool play and
didn’t lose until the cham pion
ship game.
“The m ost im portant thing
here is the m em ories these girls
will have,” said Mic Bowman,
Beaverton m anager. “This is a
whole week of hoopla about soft-
ball. It was a really special week
and they will alw ays rem em ber
it.”
Blazers Give Up Kemp in Contract Deal
Shawn Kemp, the form er
NBA All-Star whose career has
crum bled because of weight
and drug problem s, was to be
waived Tuesday by the Port
land Trail Blazers, according
to a published report.
Kemp has agreed to forfeit
more than $25 million of the
$46.5 m illion left on his con
tract, The O regonian said in its
Tuesday editions.
In the agreement, the Blazers
will pay Kemp about $20 mil
lion over more than 10 years.
The B lazers’ front office
contacted by The A ssociated
Press Tuesday would not con
firm or deny the report.
The move has im portant fi
nancial im plications for the
Blazers, with the team likely to
save at least $40 m illion in
NBA luxury taxes.
Shawn Kemp
Sabonis Eyes Return to NBA
(AP) — Arvydas Sabonis said last week that he
wants to return to the NBA. More to the tune of
Trail Blazer fans, Sabonis said he wants to return
to Portland.
Sabonis played for the Blazers for six years
before deciding not to renew his contract last
season. Now he is reportedly looking for a one-
year a contract between six and eight million
dollars.
The Blazers have no salary cap restraints on
how much they can offer Sabonis because they
retained the rights to him when he left the league.
But Portland is not the only team interested in
suiting Sabonis up.
A team in Spain has already made the seven-
foot-three center an offer believed to be for $10
million over two years.
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The Bucs, consisting of former professional, college and high
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Kemp, 33, signed a seven-
year, $107 m illion contract in
1997 before he was traded from
Seattle to the C leveland C ava
liers, then traded to the B laz
ers before the 2000-01 season.
He never regained his All-
Star level of play in Portland,
averaging 6.3 points in two sea
sons.
Kemp entered a drug reha
bilitation centerfor cocaine use
in April 2001, near the end of
his first season as a T rail
Blazer. He returned for the
2001-02 season but was sus
pended for five gam es in Feb
ruary for failing to comply with
his aftercare program.
Kemp appeared in six con
secutive All-Star gam es start
ing in 1993, five with the Se
attle SuperSonics and one with
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