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Olympics
Lochte issues apology for incident
Professional
career could now
be in jeopardy
By BETH HARRIS
Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO — U.S.
Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte
apologized Friday for his behavior
surrounding an incident at a Rio
de Janeiro gas station, saying he
should have been more “careful and
candid” about how he described
what happened after a
night of partying with his
teammates.
But he didn’t explain
why he embellished details
of an encounter with armed
security guards and called
it a robbery, and why he
omitted to say that he
and three teammates had
vandalized a gas station Lochte
restroom.
“Regardless of the behavior of
anyone else that night, I should have
been much more responsible in how
I handled myself and for that am
sorry,” Lochte said in a lengthy post
on his Instagram account.
“This was a situation that
could and should have
been avoided. I accept
responsibility for my
role in this happening
and have learned some
valuable lessons.”
Whatever they were,
for now, he’s keeping
them to himself.
The situation raises
questions about the future for
Lochte, who is planning to take time
off from swimming but wants to
return to compete in the 2020 Tokyo
Olympics. Usually known for his
party boy image and love of the
limelight, he now is facing a line of
nervous sponsors, the possibility of
legal charges in Brazil and sanctions
from USA Swimming and the Inter-
national Olympic Committee.
The robbery fl ap deeply hurt
Brazilians, who were eager to prove
they could get street crime under
control and host a safe Olympics.
And it overshadowed the efforts of
U.S. Olympians, who have domi-
nated the medal count. Swimmers
alone piled up 16 golds and 33
medals total at the games.
Known for his outsized person-
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MLB
Mariners hang on for victory
Seattle wins
seventh straight
game at home
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Kyle Seager got
Seattle started with a solo home
run, and Robinson Cano added
a two-run shot, and the Mariners
continued their surge at home with
a 7-6 victory over the Milwaukee
Brewers on Friday night.
The Mariners won their seventh
straight at Safeco Field, ignited by
Seager’s
23rd
home run of
the season and
Cano’s 28th.
Adam Lind
Milwaukee
added a solo
home run in the
eighth inning and
Seattle also got
RBI hits from
Seattle
Stefan Romero,
Nelson Cruz and
Ketel Marte as
it pulled within
two games of
Baltimore for the second wild card
in the American League.
Ryan Braun had a two-out,
two-run single in the ninth off
Seattle closer Edwin Diaz to pull
the Brewers within 7-6 after Diaz
walked the bases loaded. But Diaz
struck out Hernan Perez to close out
his ninth save with the tying run at
third.
Chris Carter hit the longest
recorded home run in Safeco Field
6
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AP Photo/Elaine Thompson
Seattle Mariners’ Robinson Cano, right, celebrates with Kyle Seager after his two-run home run
against the Milwaukee Brewers during the fi fth inning of Friday’s game in Seattle.
history, estimated at 465 feet after
hitting the batting backdrop in
center fi eld for the fi rst of Milwau-
kee’s three home runs. Jonathan
Villar and Keon Broxton added
back-to-back homers off Seattle
starter Wade LeBlanc leading off
the sixth inning.
LeBlanc (3-0) was able to limit
the damage to those three solo
homers, although he lasted just
5 1/3 innings and added stress to
Seattle’s bullpen.
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Seattle Mar-
iners closing
pitcher Edwin
Diaz throws
against the
Milwaukee
Brewers in the
ninth inning
of a baseball
game Friday,
Aug. 19, 2016,
in Seattle.
AP Photo/Elaine
Thompson
T-Wolves
get fi rst
tune-ups
Blue Mountain
women’s soccer,
volleyball host
scrimmages
By MATT ENTRUP
East Oregonian
The
Blue
Mountain
Community College women’s
soccer and volleyball teams
hosted their fi rst opponents of
the season for scrimmages on
Friday.
Per Northwest Athletic
Conference (NWAC) regu-
lations, scoreboards were
turned off and BMCC Athletic
Director Brett Bryan said
coaches would not be allowed
to comment, but the many
fans in attendance were able
to see both coaches’ initial
impressions play out.
Women’s soccer coach Art
Mota said during a practice
earlier this week that he
expected his team to take its
lumps early, and physical
fi tness was going to be their
key due to a small roster.
Those statements rang true
against Western Wyoming,
which found the net often
while holding onto a shutout
during their 90-minute exhi-
bition.
The Timberwolves were
able to keep up with Western
Wyoming, but the difference
in experience and skill level
was evident and BMCC spent
most of the scrimmage on
defense.
Blue Mountain was able to
get a few chances on offense
and display some of the
short-pass possession style
Mota hopes can help level
the playing fi eld in games this
season, but too often passes
were hit without much pace
and Western Wyoming was
able to keep the action in front
of it without much diffi culty.
Goalkeeper Jessica Adams
had a few nice diving saves,
but faced several one-on-one
situations due to breakdowns
in defense.
Also earlier in the week,
volleyball coach Dave Baty
expressed excitement over
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College Football
Beavers pleased with progress from latest scrimmage
Andersen pleased
with effort from
young guys
By KEVIN HAMPTON
Albany Democrat-Herald
CORVALLIS — Thursday’s
Oregon State football scrimmage
was a prime opportunity for
some of the younger players to
show their stuff.
Coach Gary Andersen said
the idea was to get the players
who are in position to be in the
two-deep depth chart on the fi eld.
“We’re interested in targeting
guys that need to be targeted
to put the ball in their hands.
The same thing on defense,”
Andersen said. “Put them in
position to be able to make plays
with guys who haven’t had to do
that.”
The Beavers got in 70 reps
overall with 30 involving the
starters.
Andersen said the team got
what it wanted out of the scrim-
mage.
“I thought overall the tackling
was decent. There were some
guys running the ball hard in
there. It will just be fun to sit
back and watch that tape from
a distance, sitting back and
listening,” he said.
“The communication was
much better. The sideline situa-
tions were much better with those
young kids as far as getting on
and off the fi eld, understanding
what a game scenario is. So that
was much, much improved. We
handled pace better as far as
when our offense was going a
little bit faster at times.”
Andersen said the coaches
were pick and choose on what
they wanted to do with the fi rst-
team offense when they were
facing the No. 1 defense.
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Oregon
State
head
football
coach
Gary An-
derson
pass-
es on
instruc-
tions
during
Thurs-
day’s
scrim-
mage in
Corval-
lis.
AP Photo via
Gazette-Times
Sports shorts
‘The Kid’ to be guest analyst for
Mariners game on ESPN
SEATTLE — ESPN announced on Friday
that Ken Griffey Jr. will serve as a guest analyst
when the network broadcasts the
game on Aug.
FACES Mariners-Yankees
23 from Safeco Field.
It is the fi rst time that ESPN
will broadcast a Mariners home
game since 2011.
Griffey will be in the booth for
the entirety of the game, and will
join play-by-play man Jon Sciambi
Griffey Jr.
and analysts Doug Glanville and
Rick Sutcliffe for the call. The
game is set for a 7 p.m. fi rst pitch.
The game adds to the list of summer festiv-
ities for Griffey and his Mariner roots, starting
with his induction to the National Baseball Hall
of Fame in July and then having his number
‘24’ retired by the team earlier this month.
“I want to see how
aggressive we are on
the line of scrimmage,
how physical we tackle.
See if we do a good job
with leveraging tackles
and those kind of things
that are part of football.
I think we are getting
better.“
— Brady Hoke
Oregon Ducks defensive
coordinator following Friday’s
practice speaking on the
steady improvement of the unit in
camp, though he’s anxious to see
them in a game setting.
New Orleans picked as 2017
All-Star Game replacement
NEW ORLEANS (AP) The NBA has
chosen to hold the 2017 All-Star Game in New
Orleans after taking the midseason
event away from North Carolina
because of a state law that limits
anti-discrimination protections
for lesbian, gay and transgender
people.
The league announced Friday
that New Orleans would replace
Charlotte, which had been set to host the game
until the NBA decided last month to move it
elsewhere.
Unlike several other Southern states,
Louisiana has not been swept up in legislative
efforts to pass laws similar to that in North
Carolina.
The All-Star Game is scheduled for Feb. 19,
which falls during the fi rst weekend of Mardi
Gras parades.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
2000 — Tiger Woods
wins the PGA Championship
in a playoff over Bob May,
becoming the fi rst player
since Ben Hogan in 1953 to
win three majors in one year.
He’s the fi rst player to repeat
as PGA champion since
Denny Shute in 1937.
2008 — In Beijing, Usain
Bolt of Jamaica becomes the
fi rst man since Carl Lewis in
1984, to sweep the 100 and
200 gold medals at an Olym-
pics. Bolt is the fi rst man to
break the world marks in
both sprints at an Olympics
— a feat that neither Lewis
nor Jesse Owens accom-
plished.
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