WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2015
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Cardinals slip in
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women’s basketball team
dropped four spots to No. 8
in both the AP Top 25 and
USA Today
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this week
after losing
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game of the season.
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fell behind then No. 17 Flor-
ida State 21-1 and couldn’t
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Thursday in Tallahassee,
Florida.
Jude Schimmel, of Mis-
sion, had 10 of her 14 points
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back to beat Miami 68-55
with Schimmel contributing
three points, three rebounds
and four assists.
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game at Duke will be broad-
cast on ESPN2 at 4 p.m.
Yankees consider
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NEW YORK (AP) —
The New York Yankees are
thinking about not making
a $6 million payment to
Alex Rodriguez if he hits six
home runs and ties Willie
Mays at 660 for fourth place
on the career list.
Rodriguez signed a $275
million, 10-
FACES year contract
with the team
in December
2007 and
a separate
marketing
agreement
that called for
Rodriguez
$6 million
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milestone accomplishments
designated by the Yankees
nd thought to be related to
home run milestones. The
Yankees are thinking of
letting any accomplishment
pass without declaring it a
milestone.
Rodriguez returns to the
team next month after a
season-long drug suspension
and has three seasons and $61
million in guaranteed money
remaining in his contract.
“I know what
happened to the
sport of cycling
from 1990 to
2005. I saw its
growth, I saw its
expansion. I know
what happened to
the industry ... do
all those people
want to, do we
want to take it
away? I don’t
think anybody
says yes.“
— Lance Armstrong
Banned cyclist to BBC
Sport explaining why he
would again choose to
use performance
enhancing drugs if he
was allowed to go back
to 1995 and make the
decision over. The
interview was part of an
upcoming documentary.
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“I’m here so
I don’t get
fi ned.”
— Marshawn Lynch,
Seahawks running back
to reporters at Tuesday’s
Super Bowl XLIX media
day. Lynch repeated vari-
ations of the response
29 times in a fi ve minute
interview session.
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Seattle Seahawks’ Marshawn Lynch, right, talks to
teammate Brandon Mebane as he makes his way out
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per Bowl XLIX football game Tuesday in Phoenix.
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Senior center
nets 29 points
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Pendleton’s
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up a shot
over La
Grande’s
Zack Jacobs
in the Bucks’
58-50 win
against the
Tigers on
Tuesday in
Pendleton.
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East Oregonian
Upon Pendleton coach Bri-
an Broaddus’ howling instruction
Buckaroo center Wes Persinger
planted himself at the block and
waited for the rock.
His teammates found him there
time and time again, leading to a
career-best 29 points and a needed
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La Grande in a nonleague contest
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said guard Kai
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goals.
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shots were wide
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Persinger said. “I didn’t really do
much. I just set up at the block,
they’d get me wide open... it kept
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hard for 19 rebounds and defended
the tin to the tune of three blocked
shots.
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two-game losing streak with Fri-
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lingering.
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in the second half when he netted
21 of his 29 points including two
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points.
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Persinger said. “We had a big talk
at halftime about how we needed to
play together and we needed to do
differently to come out and compete
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Tuesday night
in Stanfi eld.
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ing center — held out with illness.
La Grande star guard Jake Powell
— who had 18 points in the team’s
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stop Wes was Wes or our guards
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Broaddus. Just when it looked like
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15-point lead in the fourth period,
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ing the double digit edge into a
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remaining.
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said. “We’re content to win when
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team that’s used to winning — like
an Irrigon — they’re going to put
the hammer down and beat you by
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that killer instinct.
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Tuesday by holding off the Ione
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girls basketball win.
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surged into the lead on a 19-10
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up for good with three min-
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huge, and it happened lightning
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coach Daniel Sharp. “It shows
what they can do when they’re
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