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Women’s National
Team adds Brazil
to victory tour
ORLANDO,
Fla.
(AP) — The U.S. women’s
national team
has added
a
match
against
Brazil to its
World Cup
victory tour.
Of¿ cials in
Orlando announced Monday
that the reigning champions
will face the Brazilians in
a friendly Oct. 25 at Citrus
Bowl stadium. It is the latest
addition for a 10-game tour
following the World Cup.
The Americans will open
the tour Aug. 16 against
Costa Rica at Heinz Field
in Pittsburgh. There are also
matches set for Chattanooga,
Tennessee; Detroit and
Birmingham, Alabama.
The U.S. team defeated
Brazil in a November 2013
friendly at the Citrus Bowl.
The stadium was also the
training base for the U.S.
team for both the 1995 and
1999 World Cups and 1996
Olympics.
AFL loses two, as
Las Vegas & New
Orleans fold
LAS VEGAS (AP) —
The Arena Football League
has folded franchises in Las
Vegas and New Orleans.
A
league
announcement
Sunday
says
the Las Vegas
Outlaws
and
New
Orleans
VooDoo organi-
zations had ceased operations
immediately. The decision
leaves the league with 10
teams.
The
league
board
removed the Las Vegas team
from postseason play after a
5-12-1 season, and moved
the 5-13-0 Portland Thunder
into the playoffs against the
17-1-0 San Jose Sabercats
on Friday. New Orleans went
3-14-1.
The league says Las
Vegas and New Orleans
players under continuing
contracts with either team
would be reassigned during
the offseason.
“Sometimes its
better to walk
away when you
hear that voice
talking to you,
then to wait and
they push you out
the door. “
—Steve Smith
Baltimore Ravens wide
receiver posted this
statement on his Twitter
account after announc-
ing that 2015 would
be his last season in
the NFL. Smith, a 15-
year veteran, currently
ranks 14th all-time with
13,262 receiving yards
and 33rd all-time with
73 touchdown catches.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1974 — Lee Trevino beats
Jack Nicklaus by one stroke to
capture the PGA Champion-
ship.
1995 — Michael Johnson
wins the 200 meters in 19.79
seconds in the World Track
& Field Championships to
become the ¿ rst runner to
capture the 200 and 400 meters
in a major championship.
2008 — In Beijing,
Michael Phelps gets his
second gold medal — thanks
to a late comeback in the
400-meter freestyle relay by
Jason Lezak, who lunges to the
wall just ahead of the French
anchor. The U.S. team’s time
of 3:08.24 shatters its world
record of 3:12.23 set the night
before in preliminaries.
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DUCKS FOOTBALL
Camp starts without a starting QB
Ducks RB
to miss
season with
shoulder
injury
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
Andy Nelson/The Register-Guard via AP
Oregon quarterback Jeff Lockie answers questions from the press during Media Day at Autzen Stadium
in Eugene on Monday. The Ducks started their fall camp Monday and will open their season Sept. 5.
Lockie hopes to
emerge for Ducks
with EWU transfer
Vernon Adams still
absent
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
EUGENE — Oregon opened
fall camp with ongoing uncer-
tainty about who will replace
Marcus Mariota as starting quar-
terback.
Jeff Lockie was the backup
last season, but saw little playing
time as Mariota led Oregon to the
championship game of college
football’s first playoffs. Now,
Lockie is the top player in camp
to succeed Mariota — at least
until the anticipated arrival of
former Eastern Washington star
Vernon Adams.
Adams is supposed to join the
Ducks as soon as he finishes the
last course he needs to graduate.
The fifth-year senior can’t play
for the Ducks until he’s got a
diploma.
He was supposed to arrive
in June, but that
was pushed back. As the Ducks
opened practice on Monday,
Adams was still a few days away
from completing a final math
class. He may join the Ducks this
week.
Lockie,
meanwhile,
was
making the most of the extra time
to make his case, especially when
it comes to leading a team he
already knows well.
“The main thing I’ve been
focused on is improving myself
and doing all the natural leader-
ship things that I can do,” he said.
In 19 career games, Lockie has
completed 29 of 41 passes for 264
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EUGENE — Oregon
running back Thomas Tyner
is out for fall camp and is
expected to miss the season
after shoulder surgery.
Coach Mark Helfrich
con¿ rmed that Tyner would
not take part in fall camp,
which opened on Monday.
Oregon does not announce
injuries as a policy.
But players con¿ rmed that
Tyner had surgery on his left
shoulder and his return this
season was doubtful.
Tyner appeared in 11 games
last season, gaining 573 yards
and scoring ¿ ve touchdowns,
primarily serving as backup
to breakout freshman Royce
Freeman while he struggled
with injuries.
The 5-foot-11, 215-pound
Oregon native was originally
injured in the Ducks’ victory
over Washington on Oct. 18.
He missed the next game, and
also sat out the regular season
¿ nale against rival Oregon
State and the Pac-12 champi-
onship game against Arizona.
But he rebounded with a
commanding performance in
the Rose Bowl, rushing for
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Pac-12 loaded with talent in 2015
Ducks, Trojans
picked to win
respective divisions
By GREG BEACHAM
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — When Gary
Andersen left Big Ten powerhouse
Wisconsin for Oregon State and the
Pac-12 last December, the veteran
coach made a move that would have
been unthinkable — or at least a bit
illogical — just a few seasons ago.
Andersen knew exactly where he
was going and what he was doing.
It’s not because the Big Ten is
declining, he said. The Pac-12 is
on the rise, and it just might be the
peak of college football this fall.
“I absolutely have felt a huge
swing in the last two years, and
that’s me being in the Midwest
for two years, that the Pac-12 has
gained a ton of respect nationally,”
AP Photo/Don Ryan, File
Oregon State coach Gary Anderson walks onto the fi eld with the orange squad before their spring
game in Corvallis in April.
said Andersen, the league’s only
new coach this year. “The Pac-12
has gotten better and better and
better.”
Indeed, the West Coast’s
premier conference is stacked with
elite talent in wealthy programs
committed to contending for
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Ninth-inning rally falls short for Mariners
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Chris Davis hit a
go-ahead single and his 30th home
run, and the Baltimore Orioles pulled
within two games of the second wild-
card spot in the American League with
a 3-2 win over the Seattle Mariners on
Monday night.
Adam Jones launched his 18th
homer in the ¿ rst inning off Seattle
starter Vidal Nuno (0-1) and scored
on Davis’ base hit in the fourth. Davis
then hit a line drive out to center ¿ eld
off reliever Mayckol Guaipe in the
sixth that landed in nearly the same
spot as Jones’ shot.
Davis reached 30 homers for the
third time in four years. He led the
majors with 53 in 2013.
Seattle slugger Nelson Cruz
extended his hitting streak to a career-
high 20 games with an opposite-¿ eld
single leading off the fourth. His
streak of nine straight games with an
extra-base hit came to an end.
Wei-Yin Chen (6-6) won for the
second
time since July 1, pitching
AP Photo/Elaine Thompson
into
the
eighth inning as the Orioles
Seattle Mariners’ third baseman Kyle Seager fl ips his
bat after striking out with a pair of runners on base inched closer to the Los Angeles
to end the eighth inning against the Baltimore Orioles Angels in the race for the second wild
card.
Monday in Seattle.
Chen allowed only Franklin Guti-
errez’s home run leading off the second inning
that barely eluded the leap of Junior Lake in left
¿ eld. It was Guti-
MLB
errez’s ¿ fth homer
of the season, but
all Seattle could do
Orioles
Mariners
against Chen.
The lefty gave
up just three hits.
He struck out ¿ ve
and retired 13 of his ¿ nal 14 batters.
Mark Trumbo walked on a 3-2 pitch with one
out in the eighth, Chen’s last hitter. Kyle Seager,
who doubled in the ¿ rst inning, was the only
batter other than Gutierrez to reach second base
against Chen.
=ach Britton got ¿ ve outs for his 24th
straight save, but it wasn’t simple. He gave up
a two-out double to Gutierrez in the ninth and,
after a wild pitch, Gutierrez scored when catcher
Caleb Joseph missed Austin Jackson’s swinging
third strike. Jackson was safe at ¿ rst, but Britton
rebounded and fanned Jesus Montero for the ¿ nal
out.
UP NEXT
Orioles: One-time Seattle prospect Chris
Tillman (8-7) looks to win his seventh straight
decision. Tillman last lost on May 31. Since then
he is 6-0 with four no-decisions.
Mariners: Taijuan Walker (8-7) goes for his
ninth win. Seattle manager Lloyd McClendon
said he’s starting to get worried about the number
of innings Walker is projected to throw this
season.
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