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Seahawks down
two starters for
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Ducks, Frogs ready for bowl battle
RENTON, Wash. (AP) —
The Seattle Seahawks will
be without starting tight end
Luke Willson and starting
right
guard J.R.
Sweezy for
Sunday’s
season
¿ nale at
Arizona due to concussions.
The Seahawks announced
their injury report prior to
the completion of practice on
Friday. Willson’s concussion
was known after taking a
hit to the head during last
Sunday’s loss to St. Louis,
but Sweezy’s concussion
didn’t become known until
he was listed on the injury
report Wednesday.
Seattle also listed starting
left tackle Russell Okung as
doubtful, strong safety Kam
Chancellor (pelvis/tailbone)
as questionable, while
Michael Bennett (toe) and
Cliff Avril (back) were both
probable.
Pitino addresses
UofL sex scandal
LOUISVILLE, Ky.
(AP) — A frustrated Rick
Pitino said the NCAA has
not interviewed him about
an escort’s book allegations
of sex parties at Louisville
players’ dormitory and
doesn’t believe the scandal
will be
FACES resolved until
summer.
Katina
Powell has
alleged former
Louisville
staffer Andre
McGee hired
Pitino
her and other
dancers to strip and have sex
with recruits and players.
Pitino has denied knowledge
of the allegations but said
Friday he believes one
person did “some scurrilous
things.”
Pitino didn’t mention
McGee as the person in
question.
But the coach said,
“Did one person do some
scurrilous things? I believe
so, from what I know now.
The only thing I don’t know
is why he did it. For the life
of me, I can’t ¿ gure it out.
.... He knew better and was
taught better by his parents
and by me.”
“I woke up the
morning of the
Detroit game
and, almost
immediately, I
was like, This is
it. What hit me
in that moment?
I guess I felt like
if somebody
would’ve called
and said ‘the
game’s actually
been canceled,’ I
would’ve been all
right with it.“
— Charles Woodson
The Oakland Raiders’
39-year-old
defensive back
rel ecting on ESPN.com
on what made him de-
cide to i nally call it quits
after 18 years in the
NFL. Woodson will play
in his 254th and i nal
NFL game on Sunday
when his Raiders take on
the Kansas City Chiefs.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
2011 — Seattle becomes
the ¿ rst sub. division
champ in league history with
a win over St. Louis.
The Seahawks clinch the
NFC West at , the ¿ rst
playoff team with a losing
record since the merger in
.
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TCU without
recordbreaking 4B
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — Gary
Patterson is like the fans. TCU’s
coach wanted to see the matchup of
bigplay quarterbacks in the Alamo
Bowl, with Trevone Boykin for his
No. 11 Horned Frogs and Vernon
Davis Jr. for No. 1 Oregon.
But Boykin won’t play Saturday
night. His college career abruptly
ended when Patterson suspended
the onetime top Heisman Trophy
contender, who left his room after
curfew in San Antonio and then got
charged with assault on a public
servant.
“Sometimes you have to make
decisions you don’t want to,”
Alamo Bowl
Oregon
TCU
Ducks
Horned Frogs
(9-3)
(10-2)
Today, 3:45 p.m.
At Alamodome, San Antonio, TX
TV: ESPN
Patterson said Friday. “My feelings
went out to him. My feelings went
out to the team. He’s our starting
quarterback. I’m a fan. I wanted
to see him against Vernon Adams.
That’s the disappointing thing, just
for the kids, and for him, all of
them.”
Boykin, who broke NFL quar
terback Andy Dalton’s passing
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(AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Oregon head coach Mark Helfrich, left, and TCU head coach Gary
Patterson, right, shake hands following a news conference for the
Alamo Bowl on Friday, Jan. 1, 2016, in San Antonio.
MLB
Griffey awaits call to ‘Hall’
(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File
FIn this Sept. 15, 2009, fi le photo, Seattle Mariners’ Ken Griffey Jr. smiles in the dugout during a baseball game against the Chicago White
Sox in Seattle.
Mariner great a lock for Hall of Fame, results released next week
By TIM BOOTH
AP Sports Writer
SEATTLE — The perfect swing that we could
never emulate. The diving, leaping catches we
only dared to copy with the protection of pillows
and couch cushions on the À oor. The smile that
told us baseball could be fun for even the best
player of our generation.
For those of us who grew up in the Paci¿ c
Northwest, Ken Griffey Jr. was the ¿ rst transcen
dent star of our youth we could claim as our own.
He was the guy that kids in Chicago, New York
and Los Angeles were emulating. Yet we had the
chance 81 times a season to go inside the dreary
concrete con¿ nes of the Kingdome and watch
Griffey perform.
He was ours.
Griffey will almost assuredly be voted into
the Hall of Fame next week, potentially with
the highest percentage ever. It will be a rein
forcement of what we were able to watch up
close. The ultimate accomplishment to go with
all the numbers, awards and the fact that if not
for Griffey’s greatness — and the success of the
franchise in 1 — Safeco Field never gets built
and baseball may have left Seattle.
When Griffey takes his place in Cooperstown,
he’ll take the entire Northwest with him.
Griffey wasn’t from our region, but we
adopted him as ours. He grew into an adult before
our eyes and he taught us we could play the game
College Football
with joy. Wear your hat backward. Smile. Laugh.
Play with the same delight as if you were playing
wifÀ e ball in the driveway with your buddies,
arguing whether the À y ball cleared the power
lines and landed for a home run.
If The Kid played baseball like a kid, then it
was OK for us to play that way.
There had been other fantastic players to
come through our region: Steve Largent, Gary
Payton, Shawn Kemp to name a few. None of
them matched what Griffey meant to us.
Naughty By Nature’s “Hip Hop Hooray,” will
always lead to À ashbacks of watching Griffey
stroll to the plate.
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Prep Wrestling
McCaffrey leads Stanford Bulldogs 5th at
Day 1 of Clash
over Iowa in Rose Bowl
Hermiston goes 1 in duals to
Heisman runnerup sets
two records in win
By GREG BEACHAM
AP Sports Writer
PASADENA, Calif. — Stan
ford barely missed out on the
College Football Playoff, and
Christian McCaffrey almost won
the Heisman Trophy.
McCaffrey and the mighty
Cardinal didn’t miss a thing in their
Rose Bowl romp over Iowa.
McCaffrey caught a yard
touchdown pass on the opening
snap and returned a punt 66 yards
for another score while setting
the Rose Bowl record with 68
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Stanford
running
back
Christian
McCaffrey
celebrates
after
scoring
against
Iowa
during
the fi rst
half of the
Rose Bowl
NCAA
college
football
game, Fri-
day, Jan.
1, 2016, in
Pasadena,
Calif.
(AP Photo/Mark
J. Terrill)
start Minnesota tournament
East Oregonian
ROCHESTER, MINN. — The Hermiston
Bulldogs ¿ nished strong on the ¿ rst day of dual
matches at The Clash ;IV to take ¿ fth place in
their initial bracket.
Hermiston went 1 on the day, but found
itself in the consolation portion of the tournament
early thanks to a loss to Park Hill of Kansas
City, Missouri, in its ¿ rst dual.
Hermiston led that match after senior Sam
Colbray picked up his ¿ rst pin of the afternoon
in seconds over Park Hill pounder Nate
Smith, but the Trojans went on to win the next
¿ ve bouts to take a 1 edge with six weights
to contend.
Consecutive wins by Adrian Tuia and C.J.
Hendon at 1 and 18, respectively, got the
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