WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 2015
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Newton lands
record contract
CHARLOTTE, N.C.
(AP) — Carolina general
manager Dave Gettleman
believes
Cam
Newton
can lead the
Panthers
to “the Promised Land”
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quarterback the highest-paid
player in franchise history.
Newton signed a fran-
chise record $103.8 million,
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on Tuesday, capping 11 days
of negotiations.
He will earn $67.6
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years, the most money
ever paid to an NFL player
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of a contract, said a person
familiar with negotiations.
Newton’s contract is
the largest ever doled out
by Panthers owner Jerry
Richardson since the team
started in 1995 and will keep
the 26-year-old quarterback
under contract through the
2020 season.
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stepping down
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MILTON-FREEWATER
Pioneers bury Tigers in semis
Mac-Hi breaks
state record with
blowout win
Mac-Hi’s
Rachael
Lyon slides
safely
into home
Tuesday
against
Yam-
hill-Carlton
in Mil-
ton-Free-
water.
By ERIK SKOPIL
East Oregonian
4A Softball: Semifi nals
Mac-Hi
24
Yamhill
0
seeded Yamhill-Carlton 24-0
Even the Yantis Park to advance to the school’s
scoreboard couldn’t keep up third consecutive Class 4A
state championship game.
with Mac-Hi Tuesday.
It was nothing anyone
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run counter fell behind the they turned in to watch two
Pioneers’ pace in the fourth of the state’s top softball
inning. The end tally was programs compete in with a
24, the most ever scored in title berth on the line.
“Did I think that would
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ever
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Oregon high school history,
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Staff photo by
Kathy Aney
PENDLETON
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ZURICH (AP) — The
end for Sepp Blatter came
suddenly, just days after he
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hold on FIFA.
The 79-year-old leader
of the world’s
popular
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global
animosity last
week to win
four more years
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his re-election
Blatter
only increased
the pressure from colleagues,
sponsors, athletes and fans
for Blatter to step down as
FIFA’s president.
At a hastily arranged
news conference Tuesday,
Blatter announced he
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months and called for a
fresh election to appoint a
successor.
“I cherish FIFA more
than anything and I want
to do only what is best for
FIFA and for football,” said
Blatter, who could still be a
target of U.S. investigators
delving into decades of
corruption and bribery
accusations against FIFA
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Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Pendleton’s Tiah Grass is greeted at home plate by her teammates after hitting a home run in the Bucks’ 10-0 win against Silverton on
Tuesday in Pendleton.
“I made a
mistake. I’m not
taking it lightly at
all. It’s something
I regret. My son
knows that.“
— Adrian Peterson
Minnesota Vikings RB in
his fi rst interview after
returning to team activ-
ities on Monday. Peter-
son, who was placed on
commissioner’s exempt
list last season after he
whipped his 4-year-
old son with a wooden
switch. Peterson has
gone through counseling
and therapy sessions as
part of is plea agree-
ment. He had been hold-
ing out of team activities,
and said he considered
retirement and switching
to track before deciding
to return to the NFL.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1992
—
Chicago’s
Michael Jordan scores a
record 35 points, including
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beat Portland 122-89 in the
opening game of the NBA
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39 points and Chicago is only
two points shy of the largest
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Pendleton continues postseason tear, beats Silverton in five
to re-write the state
the yard. It’s just fun
5A Softball: Semifi nals
record book, and
to watch them go out
Kiersten
Murphy
and have fun playing
softball.”
The
Pendleton
Buckaroos was backed by nearly
Silverton
Morrison
and
announced their return to the state ÀDZOHVVGHIHQVHIRUD Pendleton
no-hitter.
Grass
bombed
championship loud and clear.
“We have a lot
Silverton
pitcher
The defending 5A softball
Daisy
Hernandez
champions outclassed the Silverton of quality hitters out
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do take a lot of batting practice and many games they’d accomplished
Cary Field.
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Darian Lindsey all hit home runs see how many they can hit out of season total past the record 36 long
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
10
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balls it hit last season.
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great hits, either on the ground, in
the air or out of the park, it gets me
pumped,” Grass said. “It’s just one
of those things where it’s a duo for
us. Once she hits one, it’s just, ‘Oh,
I bet Tiah will hit one.’”
Morrison’s was a two-run shot
that scored Payton Hergert, who
had just driven in the eventual
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PENDLETON
Hood River eliminates Pendleton on walk-off
Harvey breaks up
scoreless game with
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defeat at the hands
hit was a double to
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of the league rival
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Eagles (21-8). The
The smack brought
loss concluded the
Peterson
around
Buckaroos (14-15) Hood River Pendleton second and then
season one game
third, but the junior
East Oregonian
short of the state
was thrown out at
championship game
home by Walker’s
HOOD RIVER — Patrick for the fourth time in 10 seasons.
heave from second base.
Harvey halted Pendleton’s string
“The turnaround in postseason
“The way the Ward kid was
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inning walk-off single Tuesday.
Greg Whitten said. “We played the chance,” Whitten said of the
Harvey’s hit brought Kam some great baseball this postseason decision to send him home. “In
Walker home for the game’s only — today included.”
hindsight, you say you might do it
run, sending Hood River Valley to
Pitchers Quinn Cockburn and differently, but we probably do the
the Class 5A state championship Ryan Ward kept the opposition off same.”
game with a 1-0 victory and the the board through seven innings to
Pinch hitter TJ Hancock walked
Buckaroos back to Pendleton for IRUFHH[WUDEDVHEDOO
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the summer.
Each pitcher ran into trouble in with one out, but neither Kyler
Pendleton was seeded fourteenth H[WUDV
Lunny or Tony Papol could bring
in the 4A tournament, but knocked
Ward allowed consecutive hits them home.
off better-seeded Corvallis and to Jack Peterson and then Wyatt
Cockburn failed to get an out in
Crescent Valley before meeting Morris to open the eighth. Morris’ his portion of the eighth, loading
1
0
the bases by hitting a batter, over-
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bunt attempt and then an intentional
walk.
Harvey took three balls and
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winning run.
“It was a well-played intense
high school game,” Whitten said.
“Really tough to lose it, but really
well played by both teams.”
Neither side truly threatened
during the opening seven innings.
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but that was the only Buckaroo in
scoring position.
Cockburn was the hard-luck
loser, going the distance, while
allowing just four hits and walking
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