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B atter A dm its Steroids Use
Good Start with Tourney Win
The boys ’ basketball team at Riverdale High School in southwest
Portland got a good start to the season with a tournament victory
Dec. 29-30 in Gervais by beating Gaston, 53-49. The team is
coached by Michael Harper (left) and Mark Washington (right).
(AP) - Ending more than a decade of
going to come. I didn't know when.”
denials and evasion, Mark McGwire admit
In a quavering voice, McGwire apologized
ted Monday that steroids and human
and said he used steroids and human growth
growth hormone helped make him a home
hormone on and off for a decade, starting
run king.
before the 1990 season and including the year
“The toughest thing is my wife, my
he broke Roger Maris' single-season home run
parents, close friends have had no idea that
record in 1998.
I hid it from them all this time,” he told The \
“I wish I had never touched steroids,”
Associated Press in an emotional, 20- 2
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M cGw ire said. “It was foolish and it was a
minute interview. “I knew this day was
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Taking Home the Trophy
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Congratulations to the Riverdale High School g irls ’ basketball
team with head coach Kevin Modica and assistant coach Ashley
Carlisle. The southwest Portland team won a Dec. 29-30 tourna
ment in Gervais by beating Gervais 47-43 in double overtime in
the championship round.
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