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March 29, 2017
S PORTS
Oregon guard Dylan Ennis (left) celebrates with teammate Dillon Brooks as the Ducks won the Mid-
west Regional final against Kansas Saturday in the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament and
advance to the Final Four. (AP photo)
Ducks in Final Four
Another Winning Season
Congratulations to the Trinity
Lutheran Christian School girls
who finished their season by go-
ing undefeated during the regular
season and winning the Portland
Metro Christian League champi-
onship and playing in the National
Lutheran Basketball Athletic As-
sociation Tournament in Valpara-
iso, Indiana.
The Lady Tigers entered the
national tournament last week
undefeated for the second year in
a row, but were eliminated in the
consolation round on Saturday af-
ter two losses.
Oregon faces North Carolina
in the NCAA tournament Satur-
day, the first trip to the Final Four
for the U of O since 1939 when
Oregon won college’s first na-
tional basketball championship.
The semifinals game is set for
tipoff at 5:49 p.m. PDT, following
the other Final Four matchup, pit-
ting Gonzaga against South Car-
olina which is scheduled to start
at 3:09 p.m. Both games will be
broadcast on CBS TV.
Oregon advanced by beating
Ken Burns to Make Ali Film
(AP) - The late Muhammad
Ali is getting the Ken Burns treat-
ment.
The PBS documentarian an-
nounced Tuesday that he and two
partners will make a two-part,
four-hour film about the former
heavyweight champ, who died
last June. Burns, his daughter Sarah
and David McMahon collaborated
for a PBS documentary on Jackie
Robinson that debuted last year.
The tentative plan is to air the
Ali film in 2021.
Sarah Burns said the outpour-
ing of good will at Ali’s death
Kansas, 74-60, last Saturday night
in Kansas City, Mo. Tyler Dors-
ey poured in 27 points, Dillon
Brooks added 17 and Dylan En-
nis added 12 points for the Ducks
(33-5), who took the lead with 16
minutes left in the first half and
never trailed again, giving coach
Dana Altman his first trip to the
Final Four.
made it easy to forget how di-
visive it was when the former
Cassius Clay took the Ali name
when he converted to Islam and
refused to join the Army during
the Vietnam War. She said film-
makers want to examine what
influenced Ali’s choices and how
he stuck with them despite public
condemnation.