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NHL to expand to
Las Vegas
Stan¿ eld sZeeps 3A¶s top honors
(AP) — A person with
direct knowledge of the
NHL’s decision says the
league has
settled on
Las Vegas as
its choice for
expansion,
provided
organizers
can come up with a $500
million fee.
Quebec City was also
considered for expansion.
The 2017-18 season would
be the earliest the league
would expand.
The franchise would be
the NHL’s 31st team and
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sports franchise in Las
Vegas, the rapidly growing
gambling center of the
American West.
The bid says it has
secured more than 13,200
season-ticket deposits for
the new team, which will
play in T-Mobile Arena, the
sparkling new multipurpose
building on the south end of
the Las Vegas Strip.
Broncos sign
Marshall to 4-year
extension
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.
(AP) — As the Von Miller
contract stalemate drags on,
the Denver Broncos locked
down another key defender,
signing linebacker Brandon
Marshall to
FACES a four-year,
$32 million
extension.
Marshall
will make
about $2.5
million in 2016
and his new
Marshall
deal kicks in
the following year and runs
through 2020.
Marshall has posted back-
to-back 100-tackle seasons
for the Broncos, who signed
him to their practice squad
after he was cut twice by
the Jacksonville Jaguars in
2012.
His 101 stops last season
came despite a broken
screw in his right foot and a
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required offseason surgery.
“It sounds like in
Japan, they’re
trying to make me
the Hit Queen. I’m
not trying to take
anything away
from Ichiro —
he’s had a Hall of
Fame career —
but the next thing
you know, they’ll
be counting his
high school hits.“
— Pete Rose
MLB all-time hits leader
in comments made to
USA Today Sports re-
garding Miami Marlins
outfi elder Ichiro Suzuki’s
career hits total. Suzuki
is one hit shy of tying
Rose’s career mark of
4,256 hits, but Rose said
he doesn’t believe Suzu-
ki should get the record
since 1,278 of those hits
came while Suzuki was
playing in Japan.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1938 — Johnny Vander
Meer of the Cincinnati Reds
pitches his second straight
no-hit game, defeating the
Brooklyn Dodgers 6-0 in the
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Ebbets Field.
2001 — Los Angeles
beats Philadelphia 108-96 in
Game 5 of the NBA Finals to
complete the best playoff run
in NBA history. The Lakers,
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to go through the playoffs
undefeated on the road.
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Stanfi eld
pitcher
Dylan
Grogan
watch-
es the
ball zip
toward
home
plate
against
Nyssa
on Friday
in the
Eastern
Oregon
League
baseball
district
champi-
onship in
Stanfi eld.
Grogan
pitched
a perfect
game
and
Stanfi eld
won 14-0
in fi ve
innings.
Contributed
photo courtesy
of Katie John-
son
Grogan named Player of the Year, Johnson picked as top coach
Johnson being named Coach of the
Year.
“It’s great, it’s a good feeling
Just one week after capturing the that all of the hard work paid off,”
Class 3A state championship, the Grogan said, “but honestly I didn’t
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a few other really good seniors, but
victory.
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It’s been well-documented on the
Dylan Grogan and head coach
Bryan Johnson both earned the top dominance of Grogan this season,
all-state honors in 3A, with Grogan as he went 10-1 with a school-re-
being named Player of the Year and cord 0.71 ERA with 133 strikeouts
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
in 68.1 innings pitched as well as
hitting .516 with 5 home runs and
45 RBI at the plate. The record-
breaking ERA topped his brother
Quin Grogan’s record of 1.21 dating
back to 2011.
Grogan was a solid player for
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his career, but took a giant step in
2016 to become the best in the state,
something he said he owes to a lot
of offseason work.
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and stronger,” he said. “During the
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played more baseball, and saw more
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of his development to Johnson, and
said he couldn’t be happier to see
him earn the honor in his last year
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PENDLETON
MLB
Rays rally to beat Mariners Williams
Longoria hits 3-run
keeps
blast in seventh
T-Wolves
in lead
By MARK DIDTLER
Associated Press
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.
— Surging Evan Longoria and
slumping Corey Dickerson
helped
the
Tampa
Bay
Rays get a
nice comeback
Seattle
victory.
Longoria
and Dickerson
had three RBIs
apiece and the
Rays
rallied Tampa Bay
from an early
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to beat the
Seattle Mari-
ners 8-7 on Tuesday night.
“That was an awesome win,”
Rays manager Kevin Cash said.
“We haven’t had too many like
that.”
Tampa Bay, 4-22 when
trailing after six innings, has won
eight of 10 overall. It matched
the Rays’ biggest comeback win
this season, which came April
21, at Boston.
Longoria’s seventh homer in
his last 10 games, a three-run shot
off Nick Vincent, tied it at 7 in
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front in all-around
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Seattle Mariners third baseman Kyle Seager, left, second base-
man Robinson Cano, center, and shortstop Ketel Marte react
after Tampa Bay Rays’ Evan Longoria hit a three-run home run
off relief pitcher Nick Vincent during the seventh inning of a
baseball game Tuesday in St. Petersburg, Fla.
the seventh. Mike Montgomery
(2-2) entered and walked two
straight before Dickerson’s RBI
single put Tampa Bay ahead 8-7.
“We never gave up,” Dick-
erson said, “We kept battling.”
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in June despite Tuesday being his
second three-hit performance of
the month.
Ryan Garton (1-0) got the
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Cedeno had a perfect eighth
before Alex Colome worked the
ninth to get his 19th save in as
many chances.
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Walker left with one out in the
fourth with what the team said
was aggravation of his right
Achilles tendon.
“It’s a tendon or something
in the side of his foot,” Seattle
manager Scott Servais said. “He’s
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NFL
Bennett shows but doesn’t participate
Seahawks open
mandatory minicamp
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
RENTON, Wash. — Even
though Michael Bennett has
expressed complaints over the
past year about his contract with
the Seattle Seahawks, he’s not
one to freely forfeit money.
Which is why after staying
away during Seattle’s voluntary
team activities over the past
month, Bennett was back at the
Seahawks facility on Tuesday
as the team opened mandatory
minicamp.
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Johnny Andrews/The Seattle Times via AP
Seattle Seahawks safety Earl Thomas (29) participates during
NFL football practice, Tuesday, June 14, 2016, at the Virginia
Mason Athletic Center in Renton, Wash.
The Blue Mountain Community
College women maintained their lead
in team points and claimed their second
round win at the College National
Finals Rodeo on Tuesday.
Sophomore Danyelle Williams’
2.1 seconds in
breakaway from
Monday’s slack
tied her for the
Round 2 win, and
her 14.04 run in
barrel racing on
Tuesday at the
Casper
(Wyo.)
Events Center was
good for second
Williams
in the round.
Williams
also
leads the women’s all-around standings
with 155 points.
The BMCC women also got points
on Tuesday from Lauren Leyva, who
tied for sixth in Round 2 of goat tying
with 6.4 seconds, and the T-Wolves
have 260 total to lead Gillette College
by 25 points.
As evidence of how narrow the
margin for error is in barrel racing,
Round 1 winner Jessica Lewis failed
to place in the second round with a
time of 14.28 during Tuesday’s slack,
which completed the second round for
all events.
She’s still in the lead in the aggregate,
though, with 28.23 on two. Williams is
third with 28.38, and Emily Sorey is
tied for 27th with 29.43 after posting
14.92 in her second run. In another
event that will be decided by fractions
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.4 off the lead. Quincy Pendergrass is
tied for 12th with 13.7 and had a 6.7 on
Tuesday.
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attempt and is 26th in that event.
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