WEEKEND, JANUARY 3-4, 2015
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BRISTOL, Conn. (AP)
two largest audiences in
cable television history.
ESPN had a 15.2 rating
and averaged
28,271,000
viewers for
its Sugar
Bowl broad-
cast Thurs-
day night
after drawing a 14.8 rating
and averaging 28,164,000
viewers for the Rose Bowl,
Nielsen said Friday.
cant increases from last year
on ESPN when the Rose
Bowl had a 10.2 rating and
averaged 18,636,000 view-
ers and the Sugar Bowl had
a 6.6 rating and averaged
11,304,000 viewers.
SPORTS
College Basketball
Payton II seeks to
make own mark
at Oregon State
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
CORVALLIS — Earlier
this season against Missis-
sippi Valley State, Oregon
State guard Gary Payton II
appeared to swoop in out of
343 rd Civil War
Oregon St.
(9-3)
Oregon
(10-3)
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• at M. Knight Arena, Eugene
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• OSU leads series 185-157
nowhere for a one-handed
put-back dunk.
The fans at Gill Coliseum
began his career with the
Eagles as an unpaid intern
in 2000.
Kelly has led the Eagles
to consecutive 10-6 seasons.
the 53-man roster. Now he’ll
hire a new personnel execu-
tive who will answer directly
to him.
“We are aware of
the inappropriate
behavior in the
postgame. This
is not what our
program stands
for, and the
student-athletes
will be disciplined
internally.“
— Mark Helfrich
Oregon football coach
responding to a video
released online of sev-
eral players celebrating
their 59-20 win in the
Rose Bowl by mocking
Florida State QB Jameis
Winston with chants of
“No means no” to the
tune of “Warchant”used
by FSU fans. Sexual
assault allegations
have followed the 2013
Heisman Trophy winner
the last two years.
1920 — Boston Red Sox
owner Harry Frazee sells
to the New York Yankees for
$125,000 plus a $350,000
loan.
1973 — A 12-member
group headed by George
Steinbrenner buys the New
York Yankees from CBS for
$10 million.
1993 — The Buffalo Bills
stage pro football’s biggest
comeback to beat the Hous-
ton Oilers 41-38 in overtime
playoffs.
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Oregon
State’s Gary
Payton II,
right, runs
down the
court pur-
sued by
Grambling
State’s Carl-
ton Lowe,
left, during
an NCAA col-
lege basket-
ball game at
Gill Coliseum
in Corvallis,
Ore. Monday,
Dec. 15, 2014.
were momentarily stunned
before erupting into cheers.
It was almost like old times,
when the junior guard’s
crowds while confounding
opponents.
But make no mistake, the
younger Payton is his own
man.
“We’re two totally dif-
ferent players. We play two
AP Photo/The Cor-
vallis Gazette-Times,
Jesse Skoubo
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College Football
Preps
Bulldogs
nip Viks
Nyssa completes
comeback, tops
Umatilla in OT
Kelly takes larger
role with Eagles
PHILADELPHIA —
Chip Kelly has gained
control of the Philadelphia
Eagles’ player personnel
department after Howie
Roseman was promoted
from general manager to
executive vice
FACES president of
football opera-
tions.
The shake-
up announced
Friday ends
speculation
about Kelly’s
Kelly
future in Phila-
delphia following a turbu-
lent week that included the
dismissal of vice president
of player personnel Tom
Gamble two days ago.
The 39-year-old Rose-
man had been the youngest
GM in the NFL and held the
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East Oregonian
SALEM — The reign-
ing Eastern Oregon League
champion Nyssa Bulldogs
AP Photo/The Register-Guard, Andy Nelson
Katie Marie Snyder folds sweatshirts before packing them in boxes to be shipped from McKenzie
Sew On in Springfi eld, Ore., on Friday, Jan. 2, 2015, to The Duck Store on the University of Oregon
campus. Production was ramped up for the sweatshirts and other commemorative wear after Or-
egon’s 59-20 Rose Bowl victory over Florida State. Oregon will face Ohio State in the fi rst College
Football Playoff championship game, on Jan. 12.
Oregon looks to
add another win to
statement season
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
Within moments after winning
the Rose Bowl for a spot in the na-
tional championship, the T-shirts
were up on Oregon’s website.
“Won Not Done,” the shirts read.
The sentiment — also on tees
made for opponent Ohio State —
was perfect for the Ducks, who are
a win away from proving once and
for all that they belong among the
nation’s elite. It’s a position they’ve
been in once before, when they
faced Auburn for the national title
to cap the 2010 season and came up
short.
We’re one step closer to achieving
everything we ever worked for, ev-
erything we ever wanted,” senior
linebacker Derrick Malone Jr. said.
Oregon has never won a national
championship. The Buckeyes have
seven national titles dating back to
1942.
Just a decade ago, the Ducks
Here the second-seeded Ducks are,
following a 59-20 victory over Flor-
ida State in the Rose Bowl. Ohio
State defeated Alabama 42-35 in
the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans lat-
er Thursday night.
The loss in college football’s
2001 when quarterback Joey Har-
rington helped lead Oregon to the
Fiesta Bowl.
Then Chip Kelly arrived in Eu-
gene in 2007 and reworked Or-
egon’s offense into a distinctive
29-game winning streak by the
third-seeded Seminoles, and Or-
egon emphasized its dominance
by piling up the most points ever
scored in a Rose Bowl game. It was
speedy Ducks have been consistent-
ly ranked.
Kelly was promoted from of-
fensive coordinator to head coach
before the 2009 season and the next
played for the title. Oregon fell to
Auburn 22-19 on Wes Bynum’s 19-
Afterward Kelly vowed, “We’ll
be back.”
Kelly’s successor, Mark Hel-
frich, made good on the promise:
— and maybe only, if he decides to
go to the NFL — college loss.
“They were undefeated the last
two years, and I mean just that in
itself says a lot about what they’ve
been able to do. Coming in, we
didn’t focus on that,” quarterback
Marcus Mariota said. “We just
wanted to focus on ourselves and
really just trying to execute to the
best of our abilities.”
But in the midst of the game, Or-
egon also took a huge step in chang-
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Bowl Roundup
Houston shocks Pittsburgh
Cougars complete
third-largest comeback
in bowl history
teamed with Demarcus Ayers on a 29-
yard scoring play on fourth-and-13 with
1:58 left.
Houston’s onside kick didn’t go 10
Associated Press
the ball was touched by the same Pitt
FORT WORTH, Texas — Greg Ward
nal 3:41 of the Armed Forces Bowl, two
after Houston recovered onside kicks,
and completed a winning 2-point con-
version in the Cougars’ 35-34 victory
over Pittsburgh on Friday.
Pitt (6-7) took a 31-6 lead on James
Conner’s touchdown run with 14 min-
utes left, but Houston (8-5) had the big-
gest comeback in an FBS game this sea-
son and matched the third-largest ever in
a bowl game.
Ward threw an 8-yard TD pass to
Deontay Greenberry, the Cougars re-
one and Houston running back Kenneth
Farrow jumped on it at the Cougars 43.
Greenberry started the drive with a 38-
yard catch, then on third-and-16 had a
25-yard touchdown catch with 59 sec-
onds left. Interim coach David Gibbs
opted for a win-or-lose 2-point conver-
sion try, and Greenberry made a leaping
catch in the back corner of the end zone.
Gibbs, the defensive coordinator, was
Levine. The Cougars’ new coach is Ohio
State offensive coordinator Tom Her-
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defeat league rival Umatilla
68-66 in overtime on the sec-
ond day of the Salem Acade-
my Tournament Friday.
The Vikings (6-6) held a
10-point lead with two min-
utes remaining in regulation,
but the Bulldogs (4-4) upped
the defensive pressure and
tied the game on a Damien
Olvera rebound-basket with
10 second remaining in regu-
lation. Olvera was fouled on
the shot, but failed to convert
the potential game-winning
free throw.
The basket capped a
24-point fourth quarter for
Nyssa.
Nyssa senior Jacob Huff-
man, last year’s league Play-
er of the Year, repeated Ol-
vera’s effort in the waning
seconds of overtime, snag-
ging a teammate’s miss and
converting it for two to earn
a jump shot from the top of the
key at the buzzer, but the shot
found rim instead of net.
Tristan Sanguino led
Umatilla with 15 points. Gar-
cia added 13 and Juan Coria
had 12.
The game acts as a pre-
view of next Saturday’s EOL
conference premiere, which
will pit the school’s against
each other at Nyssa.
Umatilla looks to avoid
a winless trip to Salem this
morning at 10:30 a.m. when
they’ll face third-ranked Cre-
swell.
———
NYSSA 68, UMATILLA 66 (OT)
UHS (6-6) 11 17 15 19 4 — 66
NHS (4-4) 10 17 11 24 6 — 68
UMATILLA — D. Ayala 7, J. Ramirez 4, E.
Garcia 13, J. Coria 12, K. Webb 2, A. Jaime
4, Tristan Sanguino 15, A. Simmons 7, E.
Morales 2.
NYSSA — D. Olvera 8, Jacob Huffman
16, M. Lazo 9, Freddy Pascacio 16, J. Simp-
son 7, A. Chavez 4, A. Gonzalez 8.
3-point fi eld goals — UHS 9. Free
throws — UHS 17-25. Fouls — UHS 14.
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Houston
Markeith
Ambles
(21) and
DeMarcus
Ayers (10)
celebrate
after Ayers
caught a
touchdown
pass during
the second
half of the
Armed
Forces Bowl
NCAA
college
football
game
against
Pittsburgh,
Friday, Jan.
2, 2015, in
Fort Worth.
Texas.
Houston
won 35-34.
AP Photo/Sharon
Ellman