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WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 2017
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Little League Softball
Football
Oregon
stuns
Hawaii
A frightening truth
In this 1974
fi le photo,
Oakland
Raiders
quarterback
Ken Sta-
bler looks
to pass.
Research on
the brains of
202 former
football
players has
confi rmed
what many
feared in life
— evidence
of chronic
traumatic
encephalop-
athy, or CTE,
a devastat-
ing disease
in nearly all
the samples,
from ath-
letes in the
NFL, college
and even
high school.
Stabler
is among
the cases
previously
reported.
Pendleton all-stars
rally to advance
East Oregonian
The Pendleton 11/12-year-old
all-star softball team came to
bat in its half of the fi fth inning
staring at 2-0 defi cit, with its
opponent Hawaii just six outs
away from advancing in the
Little League Softball West
Regional and Pendleton six outs
from heading back to Eastern
Oregon.
Through the fi rst four
innings, Team Oregon had
managed just one hit and
squeezed on four baserunners,
but not able to grind out any
scoring chances. But in its half
of the fi fth, Oregon found some
two out magic.
The No. 6 seed Oregon
rattled off six hits and scored
six runs in the fi fth to stun No.
3 Hawaii with a 6-2 victory
at Al Houghton Stadium in
San Bernardino, California,
advancing Oregon into the
regional semifi nals.
In the fi fth, Charlie Mae
Franklin started the inning
with a walk and Brielle Youncs
followed with a single but then
two straight outs put Oregon’s
threat in danger.
However, Youncs scored
from second on a Hawaii error
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AP Photo/File
Brain disease CTE seen in most football players in large study
By LINDSEY TANNER
AP Medical Writer
Former NFL tight
end Frank Wy-
check worries
that concussions
during his nine-
year career have
left him with
chronic traumatic
encephalopathy
and he plans to
donate his brain to
research. “Some
people have heads
made of concrete,
and it doesn’t
really affect some
of those guys,” he
said. “But CTE is
real.”
CHICAGO — Research on 202 former football
players found evidence of a brain disease linked
to repeated head blows in nearly all of them, from
athletes in the National Football League, college
and even high school.
It’s the largest update on chronic traumatic
encephalopathy, or CTE, a debilitating brain
disease that can cause a range of symptoms
including memory loss.
The report doesn’t confi rm that the condition
is common in all football players; it refl ects high
occurrence in samples at a Boston brain bank
that studies CTE. Many donors or their families
contributed because of the players’ repeated
concussions and troubling symptoms before they
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AP Photo/Roberto Borea
WNBA
Sparks top Storm in low-scoring affair
Associated Press
Photo courtesy of Jeanine Youncs
Team Oregon (Pendleton)
11/12 all-star Brielle Youncs
crosses the plate during Or-
egon’s 6-2 win over Hawaii
at the Little League Softball
West Regional on Tuesday in
San Bernardino, California.
LOS ANGELES — Candace
Parker scored 14 of her 17 points in
the fi rst half, Nneka Ogwumike had
13 points and 10 rebounds, and the
Los Angeles Sparks beat the Seattle
Storm 68-60 on Tuesday night.
Ogwumike hit a baseline jumper
at the end of the shot
clock to extend Los
Angeles’ lead to
Seattle
65-54 with 2:06 left
and Seattle didn’t
get closer than seven
points the rest of the
way.
Jantel Lavender added 14 points
60
for Los Angeles
(15-6).
Los
Angeles
Los Angeles started the second
quarter on a 16-2
run for a 37-21 lead.
But Seattle opened
the third on a 17-4 run, capped by
Noelle Quinn’s fast-break layup
68
to give the Storm their fi rst lead,
46-44, since 13-12.
Breanna Stewart led Seattle
(9-12) with 23 points and a career-
high six blocks. Sue Bird moved
past Lauren Jackson for the most
fi eld goals in team history and she
also became the eighth player in
WNBA history with 600 steals.
College Football
’Wrecking’ Nall leads inspired Beavers’ backfi eld
Portland native aims
to build on strong
sophomore year
By ANNE M. PETERSON
AP Sports Writer
AP Photo/Timothy J. Gonzalez, File
In this Nov. 26, 2016 fi le photo, Oregon State running
back dives over Oregon’s Danny Mattingly for a touch-
down in the second half a game in Corvallis.
CORVALLIS — Last
time fans got a look at
Oregon State’s Ryan Nall,
he was bounding into the end
zone against the rival Oregon
Ducks.
Four times.
That 34-24 victory in last
season’s fi nal game is still
fueling the Beavers as they
prepare to open fall camp
Tuesday.
“It was positive for us
because we’re going in (to
camp) knowing that we can
compete,” Nall said. “We’re
ready. This offseason was
defi nitely a shift in attitude
and momentum.”
The victory in the Civil
War snapped an eight-game
losing streak for Oregon
State in the series. Nall, then
a sophomore who had been
dogged by a foot injury, ran
for 155 yards — and those
four scores — against the
Ducks.
Afterward, fans stormed
the fi eld at Reser Stadium
and a few hoisted Nall on
their shoulders to celebrate.
His four TDs were the most
for a Beaver in a single game
since Jacquizz Rodgers ran
for three and caught another
against Washington in 2010.
Steven Jackson had the last
game with four rushing TDs
in 2003.
The Beavers fi nished 4-8
overall, a two-game improve-
ment over the previous
season, and won three Pac-12
games after going winless in
the conference in 2015.
Nall, a native Oregonian
who played at Portland’s
Central
Catholic
High
School,
fi nished
last
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Sports shorts
Dwyer traded in record MLS deal
(AP) — Sporting Kansas City forward Dom
Dwyer has been traded to Orlando City for what
could be a MLS-record $1.6 million.
Orlando traded $900,000 in guaranteed
allocation money, plus more based on perfor-
mance in the deal for Dwyer, who
recently got his fi rst call-up for the
U.S. national team after becoming
a citizen.
Dwyer was selected by Kansas
City in the 2012 MLS SuperDraft.
He ranks second on the team with
fi ve goals this season, and he has 57
Dwyer
goals over 128 career games.
He scored in his national team debut
against Ghana this month. He also scored
against Panama in the opening game of the
CONCACAF Gold Cup.
MLS says the previous record was Orlando’s
trade of Kevin Molino to Minnesota United for
$650,000 in allocation money.
“You’re getting everything
you want. You get all the
shots you want, you’re
playing for a great coach
who’s letting you go to
work, when the game is on
the line they’re coming to
you, you’re playing on TV
every week. To me, I don’t
get it. Everybody has their
own desires.“
— Chauncey Billups
The former NBA guard on Cleveland’s
Kyrie Irving demanding a trade out
of Cleveland. Billups, in this interview
with Altitude Sports 950 AM in Den-
ver, said he knew of Irving’s request
while interviewing for Cleveland’s GM
position earlier this month.
Trail Blazers ship Crabbe to
Brooklyn in salary dump
PORTLAND (AP) — The Portland Trail
Blazers have traded Allen Crabbe to the
Brooklyn Nets in exchange for forward
Andrew Nicholson.
The deal, fi rst reported
by ESPN, comes a year after
the Nets offered Crabbe a
four-year, $75 million deal as a
restricted free agent. The Trail
Blazers matched that offer.
A 6-foot-6 wing, Crabbe averaged 10.7
points, 2.9 rebounds and 1.2 assists last
season in Portland. He hit 44.4 percent of his
3-pointers.
Nicholson, who was traded from Wash-
ington to the Nets at the deadline in February,
averaged 2.6 points and 1.6 rebounds last
season. Portland is expected to waive the
6-foot-9 power forward.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
1859 — The fi rst inter-
collegiate Regatta is held
in Worcester, Mass., with
Harvard beating Yale and
Brown.
1996
—
American
swimmer Amy Van Dyken
wins the 50-meter freestyle
to become Atlanta’s fi rst
quadruple gold medalist and
the fi rst U.S. woman to win
four in a single Olympics.
2005 — Greg Maddux
records his 3,000th career
strikeout against San Fran-
cisco, striking out Omar
Vizquel in the third inning of
a 3-2, 11-inning victory for
the Giants.
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