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Tri-City Americans
prospect selected
for Team Canada
Brooks leads
Oregon over Utah
KENNEWICK, Wash,
— Tri-City
Americans
prospect
Carson
Focht
has been
named to
Team Canada for the Youth
Olympic Winter Games,
as announced by Hockey
Canada today.
Focht was the Americans’
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in the 2015 WHL Bantam
Draft. Focht played in one
game for the Americans this
season on Nov. 24 against
Moose Jaw.
LeBron James to
produce, appear in
new reality show
CLEVELAND (AP)
— LeBron James will
co-produce and appear in
a reality TV series called
“Cleveland Hustles.”
James and his close friend
and business
FACES partner,
Maverick
Carter, are
producing
the series that
will debut this
summer on
CNBC. James
James
also will make
some cameo appearances.
On the show, James and
Carter will give four aspiring
local entrepreneurs the
chance to realize their own
dreams while revitalizing a
neighborhood in Cleveland.
James and Carter will
get assistance from business
experts, who will invest in and
mentor the entrepreneurs. The
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businesses to create local jobs.
It’s the latest entertain-
ment venture for the Cava-
liers star. James appeared as
himself in Amy Schumer’s
comedy “Trainwreck” last
summer and recently signed
a movie development deal
with Warner Bros.
Ducks take control of
game from opening tip
By MATTHEW COLES
Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY — The Oregon
Ducks have struggled with slow starts
on the road this season. If Utah was
expecting that on Thursday night, they
had another thing coming.
“We were really aggressive right
from the start,” Dillon Brooks said. “We
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Utah
77
59
Oregon
forward
Elgin Cook
dunks
the ball
over Utah
forward
Brekkott
Chapman
during the
second
half of
an NCAA
college
basketball
game in
Salt Lake
City, Thurs-
day, Jan.
14, 2016.
Oregon
defeated
Utah 77-
59.
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Brooks had 21 points and eight
rebounds and the Ducks had the Utes
reeling from the opening tip on their
way to a 77-59 victory.
“Wow, that was a fun game. To play
AP Photo/George
Frey
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PENDLETON
Buckaroos bounce Tigers
Adams nets 20 points to
continue scoring tear
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
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“We’ll i nd out on
Saturday. I can
just Xerox you a
copy of the game
plan, you can
send it over to
Kansas City. That
might be easier
for all of us.“
— Bill Belichick
New England Patriots
coach when asked if DE
Chandler Jones would
be benched against the
Kansas City Chiefs in
this weekend’s playoff
game. The Boston Globe
reported a bad reaction
to synthetic marijuana
caused a disoriented
Jones to show up at the
Foxborough Police sta-
tion seeking assistance
on Sunday morning. He
was taken to the hospital
and released later that
day. He has not missed
any practices or team
meetings this week.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1965 — In one of the
most notable trades in NBA
history, the San Francisco
Warriors deal Wilt Chamber-
lain to the Philadelphia 76ers
for Connie Dierking, Lee
Shaffer and Paul Neumann.
1967 — The NFL’s Green
Bay Packers open the Super
Bowl series by defeating the
Kansas City Chiefs of the
AFL, 35-10.
2004 — Michelle Wie
shoots a respectable round of
2-over 72, leaving her nine
strokes behind the leader
after one round at the PGA
Sony Open in Honolulu.
Wie, 14, is believed to be the
youngest player ever on the
PGA Tour.
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Pendleton coach Kyle Tedder knew senior
Daniel Adams had the potential.
“I always knew he was a scorer,” Tedder said.
“I resonate with him as a player because that’s
how I was. He’s a kid who loves to score, loves
the game, and loves the spotlight.”
After starting the season buried in Pendleton’s
bench rotation, Adams has since developed into a
dependable scoring option for the Buckaroos, and
Thursday night’s game against
La Grande only emphasized
that.
Adams buried six 3-pointers
La Grande
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team’s non-league slate.
“I’m feeling really good,”
Adams said following the win.
Pendleton
“A lot of the plays I have to be
patient, let the offense run, and
trust the offense, and that’s what
I did.”
Tedder and the Buckaroo (6-6) coaches have
been searching for a consistent No. 2 scoring
threat behind Caden Smith, who scored 22 points
Thursday, and over the last few weeks Adams has
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each of the last four games, helping the Bucks to
wins in three of those four.
“He has been huge for us lately, and that’s
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“It’s fun to watch and I just hope he continues to
take shots and make them and we have to have
that to be successful.”
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game, hitting nothing but the bottom of the net on
a long 3-pointer which set his rhythm in motion.
He nailed one more 3-pointer in the quarter to
help push the Bucks to an early 18-9 lead.
But in the second quarter, Adams took off.
Over the eight minute period, he nailed four of
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the coaches smiling, the bench cheering, and the
Pendleton students going crazy.
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game when Adams caught a cross-court pass
about three feet behind the 3-point line, when
he squared up, saw the space his defender gave
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Pendleton’s Caden Smith shoots the ball over La Grande’s Zack Jacobs in the Bucks’ 62-
48 win against the Tigers on Thursday in Pendleton.
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NFL
Seahawks overcame early collapses to reach this point
Seattle gets rematch
with Carolina in
divisional playoffs
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
RENTON, Wash. — They sat
around in the aftermath of a fourth
loss in six games, this vaunted group
of Seattle Seahawks defensive
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could make such a costly mistake.
It was Week 6 and Carolina had
just walked out of CenturyLink
Field with an unlikely victory over
the Seahawks thanks to two fourth
quarter touchdowns. It left the
likes of Richard Sherman and Earl
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make corrections before the season
slipped away.
“It’s more so our standard than
anything else. That’s what it comes
down to. We’ve played a lot of
AP Photo/Jim Mone
Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman (25) points up
during a post game news conference after an NFL wild-card foot-
ball game against the Minnesota Vikings, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, in
Minneapolis. The Seahawks won 10-9.
football around here and there were
no excuses for what happened then
and there,” Seattle defensive coordi-
nator Kris Richard said. “We didn’t
play up to our standard. We know
it and thank God we have another
opportunity to go out there and do
something.”
Seattle gets its chance to make
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meeting with the Panthers on
Sunday when the teams meet in an
NFC divisional playoff game. At the
time in mid-October, that loss was
a crushing blow, the second straight
week the Seahawks had let a
double-digit fourth-quarter lead slip
away and another late collapse that
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But the Seahawks corrected
those early mistakes — problems
that were on both sides of the ball
— and have won nine of 11 games
since. And yes, there has been some
luck involved in avoiding any more
late collapses, most notably last
week’s frozen escape in Minnesota
when Blair Walsh missed a 27-yard
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Seattle’s season.
“We’ve grown a lot since that and
this is an opportunity to show how
much we’ve grown since the last
time we played them,” linebacker
Bobby Wagner said.
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