SPORTS
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
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U.S. women’s hockey players ‘taking in the win’
By STEPHEN WHYNO
Associated Press
ANNAPOLIS, Md. —
Twenty years after a cereal
box changed her life, Meghan
Duggan is pictured on one.
When the United States
won the gold medal in
1998 at the first Olympics
with women’s hockey, an
11-year-old Duggan met
Gretchen Ulion and got the
forward to autograph her
Wheaties box and still has it
in her parents’ house and a
copy of their photo together
with sister Katelyn on her
phone. After winning gold
at the Pyeongchang Games,
the 30-year-old captain is
featured on her own cereal
box as the attention flows
for the latest U.S. women’s
hockey champions.
“We’re just taking in
the win,” Duggan said at
the NHL Stadium Series
game at Navy between the
Washington Capitals and
Toronto Maple Leafs. “We
were out in L.A. on ‘Ellen’
and coming and being a part
of all these big NHL games
and things like that, we’ve
got some stuff coming up in
New York City next week,
which will be really fun.”
Appearing on the “Today”
show and Ellen DeGeneres’
show and being feted at Los
Angeles Kings and Tampa
Bay Lightning games and
then outdoors at Navy-Ma-
rine Corps Memorial Stadium
is an impressive victory tour.
The next step is for Duggan,
shootout hero Jocelyne
Lamoureux-Davidson and
their teammates to extend
the traditional 15 minutes of
fame and sustain the kind
of long-lasting stardom that
soccer player Mia Hamm,
basketball player Lisa Leslie
and other previous U.S.
Olympic gold medal and
World Cup winners were
able to generate.
A cereal box is a nice
start, and Duggan and several
teammates have endorsement
deals with Dunkin’ Donuts
with more opportunities on
the horizon.
“Some of us that are out
of college can capitalize on
the opportunities,” Monique
Lamoureux-Morando said.
“Hopefully exposure for one
of us is exposure for all of us
and it helps grow the game.
If someone gets an amazing
opportunity that a lot of
people are a part of and get to
see, then it benefits all of us.”
Agent Brant Feldman,
who represents Duggan
AP Photo/Nick Wass
Meghan Duggan, of the gold medal winning US wom-
en’s Olympic hockey team, listens to a question from
the media before an outdoor NHL hockey game be-
tween the Washington Capitals and the Toronto Maple
Leafs, Saturday, March 3, in Annapolis, Md.
and the Lamoureux twins,
is trying to get his clients
mainstream attention beyond
hockey. Hilary Knight was
the only player not at the
outdoor game, but she had a
great reason: She appeared
on “Saturday Night Live”
in exactly the kind of
mainstream spot that could
make the gold medalists true
household names.
Around
hockey,
they’re very well-known,
taking photos with Navy
Midshipmen and youth
players and drawing chants
of “U-S-A! U-S-A!” from
tailgating fans in the parking
lot Saturday before the
NHL Stadium Series game.
Capitals defenseman John
Carlson said he and his team-
mates were watching closely
during the Olympics.
“It was cool to see the
fans’ reaction to them,”
Carlson said. “They’ve been,
especially the women’s team
has been doing a lot of stuff
media-wise throughout the
country but also in DC the
Pro Basketball
Rockets top Thunder for 16th straight win
Associated Press
NBA
OKLAHOMA CITY — Chris
Paul scored 25 points and the
Houston Rockets beat the Okla-
homa City Thunder 122-112
on Tuesday night for their 16th
straight win.
James Harden had 23 points and
11 assists, and Trevor Ariza added
15 points for the Rockets, who are
on the second-longest win streak in
franchise history.
Russell Westbrook scored 32
points and Carmelo Anthony added
23 for Oklahoma City, which is in a
logjam of teams trying to fight their
way into third place in the West.
Oklahoma City had beaten
several of the league’s top teams
this season. The Thunder have two
Houston
Oklahoma City
122
112
wins over Golden State, a victory
over Toronto and a win over
Cleveland this season. The Rockets
avoided that fate by going 17 of 33
on 3-pointers and 29 of 34 on free
throws.
The Rockets led 54-45 at half-
time as Harden posted 13 points,
seven assists and five rebounds.
Anthony had 19 points for the
Thunder and Westbrook had 14,
but All-Star Paul George went 1 for
7 from the field before the break.
The Thunder closed the gap to
three in the opening minutes of
the third quarter, but the Rockets
dominated the rest of the way and
led 87-74 at the end of the period.
Houston made 7 of 10 3-pointers in
the quarter.
Houston extended its lead to 19
midway through the fourth quarter.
TIP-INS
Rockets: Improved to 33-1
when Harden, Paul and Clint
Capela all play in the same game
Thunder: Anthony passed Jerry
West to move into 20th in NBA
history in scoring.
UP NEXT
Rockets: Play at the Milwaukee
Bucks on Wednesday.
Thunder: Host the Phoenix Suns
on Thursday.
past couple of days. So to see
the rise they got out of a lot
of fans and all that kind of
stuff throughout the area was
really cool.”
U.S. players earned
headlines in a non-Olympic
year when they threatened to
boycott the world champion-
ships on home ice and came
to an agreement on a better
contract with USA Hockey.
The deal allows players
to make up to $129,000
in Olympic years when
combined with contributions
from the U.S. Olympic
Committee — the kind of
living wage previous gener-
ations of players couldn’t
earn.
“It’s a great step for our
sport,”
Lamoureux-Da-
vidson said. “That’s going
to help support our team. ...
Sponsorships, if those come,
that’s great and that’s supple-
mental income, but what we
were able to create with USA
Hockey is the biggest step.”
The next step for players
could include speaking
engagements along with
some more endorsement
deals. But they hope for a
bigger change: one profes-
sional women’s league in
North America instead of
the competing Canadian
Women’s Hockey League
and National Women’s
Hockey League.
“They currently don’t
work together,” Lamou-
reux-Morando said. “It’s two
completely different entities.
So I think moving forward,
there needs to be some sort
of collaboration, whether
they merge or start working
together. There needs to
move forward in that direc-
tion.”
It appears that’s a cause
that players want to use their
platform to promote. They’d
also like to spur further
growth of women’s hockey
across the U.S. like Ulion
and the 1998 team did.
“That team, those girls, lit
the fire in my heart to want to
compete for my country and
to want to play on this team,”
Duggan said. “Fast-forward
20 years to have the oppor-
tunity to really inspire the
next generation or to have
little girls see that photo or
see that Kellogg’s cereal box
or see what our team did and
want to dream big, it fills my
heart. It’s why I am who I
am and why I’m here today
is because of those girls,
and we definitely want to
have that impact on the next
generation.”
CRISTOBAL: Spring game set
for Apr. 21 at Autzen Stadium
Continued from 1B
there’s a lot of hope, a lot of new
players, some guys that have
developed and it’s their time,”
Cristobal said. “You certainly have
an opportunity to set your goals for
your team, to improve, to elevate
the standards.”
Both Herbert and Dye are atop
the spring depth chart, as is running
back Tony Brooks-James and
safety Ugo Amadi.
Center Jake Hansen and safety
Nick Pickett are injured but are
expected to return before the end
of the spring. Linebacker Sampson
Niu is out for the entire session.
The focus, Cristobal said, will
be on fundamentals aiming to
reduce penalties and turnovers.
Consistency is another point of
emphasis.
“You can never be good enough
at technique, you can never have
enough polish on your craft,” Cris-
tobal said.
The Ducks will practice on April
7 at Franklin High School in Port-
land. The annual spring game is set
for April 21 at Autzen Stadium.
Overall, the Ducks want to
“establish a culture of excellence.”
“We want to develop an intol-
erance for anything or anyone that
does not uphold the standards of
our culture,” he said. “It’s important
to our guys to make being a Duck a
very important, a very difficult club
to be a member of, because of the
sacrifices that we make and how
hard we work.”
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