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February 20. 2008 Page B8 S ports State Farm* Providing Insurance and Financial Services Home Office. Bloomington. Illinois 61710 Michael E Harper Agent We moved to our new location at: 9 7 13 S.W. Capitol, Portland, OR 503-221-3050 Fax 503-227-8757 Leisure Hour Jr. Golf Program Portland, Oregon www, eteainz. com/LeisureHourJrGolf/ Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy goes for two o f his 18 points playing on the West team in Sunday's NBA All-Star game. Trail Blazers forward LaMarcus Aldridge goes up for a shot against Sean Williams o f the New Jersey Nets in Friday's Rookie Challenge. Aldridge scored 18 points in the Sophomore's 136- 109 win. (AP photos) Roy, Aldridge Post Triumphs Tee It Up F°re FunH Mailing Address: 3920 N.E. Higldand Portland. OR 97211 Meeting Site-Maple Mallory Apts 3800 N.E. Mallory Portland, OR 97212 (503) 320-0123 Primary (503) 936-8568 Secondary A 501(c) (3) Non-Profit Organization All-Star weekend glows for Blazers Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy perform ed quite well as the first Portland player nam ed to the N a tional Basketball Association West A ll- S ta r te am sin c e R a sh e e d W allace in 2001 and one o f only three new players selected to the team this season. T he East A ll-Stars beat the W est team 134-128 on Sunday in New ginning o f the second quarter and O rleans, but Roy tied with team m ade his first shot— a 16-foot mates Carm elo Anthony and Amare ju m p er ju st right o f the free throw Stoudem ire by scoring 18 points. line. Roy m ade his next three After C lyde D rexler’s 25 points in shots— a reverse layup, a driving 1992, R oy' s point total was the sec layup and a 24-foot three-point shot ond-highest in Blazers’ history for from the left corner. He finished the first half with a team -leading 11 the NBA A ll-Star game. B la z e rs fo rw a rd L e M a rc u s points by making 5 o f 7 shots. “ I w asn ’t relaxed, but once that Aldridge also scored 18 points and Roy logged another 17 in helping first one goes down, you kind o f get the Sophom ores past the Rookies confident,” Roy told the Orego- 13 6 - 109 Friday in the NBA Rookie niari new spaper. “1 d o n ’t think the jitters ever went away. I was ner Challenge. Roy entered the game at the be vous, but 1 tried to be as relaxed as Blood, Sweat and Tears Exhibit tells story of black college football Bas** If your youth 6th-8th grade are still looking to play basketball, they still have time through the Portland Parks and Recreation team. We are still looking for a few young men to come and play. Our practice time is Tuesdays and Thursdays 6:50 p.m. until 8 p.m. at Vernon K-8 School. Location: 2044 N.E. Killingsworth St. Contact Person: Coach Miller. 503-933-1763 The struggle, hard work and triumph of African Americans who made pio neering contributions to the sport of foothal I and our country are profiled in a new exhibit at the College Football Hall o f Fame in South Bend, Ind. V isitors to the exhibit will have the opportunity to walk through a his toric locker room filled with m em ora bilia representing all 50 historic black colleges and universities, including the rich pageantry o f the black m arch ing bands, the hallow ed black college A ll-A m erica team s, and a tribute to the black college national champions. Legendary Grambling head coach Eddie Robinson and his An interactive video game, Black ubiquitous hat are on display in a new Black College Exhibit College Footbal I: The Xperience. marks at College Football Hall o f Fame in South Bend, Ind. the centerpiece of the exhibit. The video Samurai helmet from the first college gam e ever enables visitors to com pete against each other in played outside of the United States in Japan, a the unique world o f black college football. gam e coached by the legendary Robinson, a 1997 “ Black college football plays an integral role in inductee into the Hall o f Fame. the history o f our sport," said Kent Stephens, O ther Hall o f Famers with m em orabiliaon dis C ollege Football Hall o f Fam e M useum curator play include Tyrone M cG riff from Florida A&M ; and historian. “W ith its own unique history and Jerry Rice from M ississippi Valley State; and traditions, it’s important for us to share the story Coach B i 11 y Joe from Chey ney State ( Pa. ), Central o f black college football with visitors to the Hall, State (Ohio), and Florida A&M. engaging them in the pow er o f our sport to posi T heexhibit also highlights the groundbreaking tively transform student-athletes and the com m u contributions o f African Am ericans at other uni nities in w hich they live and w ork.” versities throughout the country and the o b G ram bling head coach Eddie R obinson's ubiq stacles that they faced as football helped inte uitous hat that he w ore in alm ost every photo is grate our society. part o f the exhibit as well as an ancient cerem onial much as I could.” Roy, w ho shot 8 o f 10 from the field (including 2 o f 3 on three- pointers), said he enjoyed his first A ll-Starexperience aside from one- handed dunk attem pt that bounced o ff the back o f the rim and straight up into the air. Now the Blazers have to get back to the business o f getting back on track to show that their 13-game win ning streak w asn't just a mid-season fluke. The team will have fierce com petition for the eighth and final play off spot over the coming months. Senior Excels in Three Sports Lincoln High School Senior Jordan Polk is a true three-sport star and one of the sta te 's top sprinters and all around athletes. He will be attending the U niver sity o f W ashington in Seattle on a full- ride football scholarship under Coach T yrone W illingham . A first team all-state selection in football this year, Polk had 73 catch es, o ver 1,200 yards, averaging 17 yards for 21 scores. H e’s only the second receiver in state his tory to have over 1.200 or m ore receiving yards in consecutive years. Polk spread his wings in track and field this past spring when he ran an im pres sive 4.46 in the 4 0 yard dash. He also had a 39.3-inch vertical ju m p , earning his se lection to the A ll-N ikeC om bineTeam . He is the defending 100-m eterdistrict cham pion from the Portland Interscholastic League, clocking in at 10.8. A year earlier, he was the 100- and200-m eterP IL cham - pion. Currently, Polk plays point guard and is the leading scorer on his C ardinals basketball team averaging 15 points a game. W ith his lock-dow n defense and speed, Polk helped the C ardinals win the 2007 PIL basketball cham pionship. ______________ THE______________ SPINAÏCOLUMN An ongoing series of questions and answers about Amenca's natural healing profession Part 6. HEADACHES: Why Chiropractic is nature’s long-lasting pain reliever. : /always seem to he plagued nerve-related and therefore, stand W h a t's m ore, d ru g s have seri with headaches. They come a very good chance of being re ous sid e effects. T he only side effects o f C h iro p ractic are relief lieved by C hiropractic. up over my head and seem to stop from pain and a h ealin g o f the at my eye. What can Chiropractic cau se o f pain. T o find o ut how : WTiy should I go through a possibly do to help me ? C h iro p rac tic co u ld help relieve full course o f Chiropractic : About 7O9f o f all people y o u r h ead ach es o r for answ ers when drugs often relieve my head experience headaches of to any q u estio n s you m ight have aches? one sort or another. T he type you Q A describe is quite typical . The pain can range anyw here from m oder ate to nauseating. The top three nerves in the neck go up over the back o f the skull in a very sim ilar pattern to what you describe. Any type o f pressure or irritation on these nerves can cause extrem e pain. 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