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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
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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
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looking to play basketball, they still have
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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.
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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.
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