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Basketball • Ref suspended for throwing ball at fan: Referee Joe DeRosa has been suspended without pay for throwing a ball at a fan during halftime of an NBA playoff game in Orlando. DeRosa will miss the next game he would have been scheduled to work. At halftime of Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals between Orlando and Boston, DeRosa was walking to the scorer’s table to get the warm-up jackets for his crew. A fan behind the table approached DeRosa, gesturing with his arms and appearing to be shouting at the veteran official. DeRosa flipped the game ball to the fan, who tossed it back. • NCAA mulling options for bigger March Madness: After a meeting last week, the Division I men’s basketball committee met is reviewing various options for the four opening-round games that will take place before the round of 64, and members said they are receptive to concerns that the same leagues would be penciled in for those slots year after year. The NCAA has approved a 68-team format for the men’s tournament, beginning next March, and there are three basic plans under consideration for the opening games. One would slot the bottom eight teams in the tournament into the opening round and have them play for the right to move on to the round of 64 — an expanded version of the current format. Another option would put the last eight at-large teams to make the field into the play-in games. There’s also talk of a hybrid plan that could include both at-large teams and automatic qualifiers. • 76ers agree to terms with Collins: The Philadelphia 76ers agreed to terms with TV analyst Doug Collins to become their new coach, two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. The people spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity because the announcement has not been made public. An official announcement was likely to come today. One of the people familiar with the deal said Collins agreed to a four-year contract. Collins is 332-287 in coaching stints with Chicago, Detroit and Washington. The 76ers made him the No. 1 overall pick in the 1973 draft, and he played eight seasons with the team.
should stay out of the college football business. BCS executive director Bill Hancock responded Thursday to a letter from two U.S. Senators who are unhappy about the way the sport determines its champion. Hancock wrote that “decisions about college football should be made by university presidents, athletics directors, coaches and conference commissioners rather than by members of Congress.” Hancock went on to respond to the senators’ questions about how the BCS operates. His answers are unlikely to satisfy Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, who home state team didn’t get to play for the national title at the end of the 2008 season despite going undefeated.
Auto racing • Rain ends Indy 500 practice early: Tony Kanaan ran a fast lap of 226.775 mph Thursday before rain ended Indianapolis 500 practice about 45 minutes early. Paul Tracy had the second-fastest lap at 226.322 mph, Hideki Mutoh was third at 226.230 and Marco Andretti was fourth at 226.108. Scott Dixon had the fastest lap the previous two days, but was just the 13th-fastest on Thursday. There were only a couple hours of action before a 2-hour, 14 minute delay. Drivers got about another hour of work before track officials ended the session.
Horse racing • Dublin no longer a Belmont prospect: Trainer D. Wayne Lukas says Dublin will not be entered in the Belmont Stakes, eliminating the chance of any horse running in all three Triple Crown races this year. Dublin finished seventh in the Kentucky Derby behind Super Saver and fifth in the Preakness behind Lookin At Lucky. The trainers of Super Saver and Lookin At Lucky have already said their colts are bypassing the Belmont on June 5. The other Derby-Preakness runners Jackson Bend and Paddy O’Prado are not being considered, either. It will be the first time since 2006 that no horse competes in all three classics and that neither the Derby nor Preakness winner runs in the Belmont. Top Belmont contenders include Derby runner-up Ice Box and Preakness runner-up First Dude.
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• Jets coach says Super Bowl should be in N.Y.: Rex Ryan thinks it’s time for a coldweather Super Bowl. The New York Jets coach said Thursday there should be no question whether the NFL’s showcase event should be played at the new Meadowlands Stadium in 2014. The league’s owners are voting on the site next week at their meetings in Dallas. “The game should be played here,” Ryan said, “and it would be a great Super Bowl.” If the owners vote in favor of the joint bid by the Jets and Giants, it would be the first Super Bowl to be played outdoors in a cold-weather locale. Miami and Tampa, Fla., which have hosted 14 Super Bowls between them, also bid. • Favre: He’ll return to NFL if team returns to CWS: Brett Favre says he still isn’t sure what he’s doing next season, but he may have given some indication after visiting with the Southern Miss baseball team. The Minnesota Vikings quarterback told the Golden Eagles on Thursday morning that if they can make it back to the College World Series for the second straight year, he will return for one more season in the NFL. Southern Miss players have a lot of work to do if they want to force Favre into action. They are 30-20 and need wins to earn a postseason invitation. • Las Vegas Bowl on through 2013 season: The Las Vegas Bowl has been licensed through the 2013 season by an NCAA committee. The decision by the NCAA Football Issue Committee was announced Thursday. Tickets for the 19th Las Vegas Bowl go on sale June 2. The game will be played Dec. 22 in Sam Boyd Stadium. This year the game will feature teams from the Mountain West Conference and Pac-10. In the 2009 game BYU beat Oregon State 44-20. • BCS head: Colleges, not Congress, should run sport: The head of the Bowl Championship Series is standing firm in his belief that Congress
• Congress urges more attention to H.S. concussions: Young people who suffer concussions are at greater risk of long-term physical and mental consequences, lawmakers were told Thursday at a House Education and Labor Committee hearing on head injuries to high school athletes. Last October the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on head injuries in football, but the focus there was on life-altering injuries to professional football players. “It was clear to us that if the NFL was paying attention to concussions at the professional level, we should be doing the same at the high school level,” said Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., chairman of the education committee.
Hawks in first after opening day of Sky-Em track and field meet Bulletin staff report COTTAGE GROVE — La Pine is in first place in the boys track standings after launching a successful start to the Sky-Em League district championships in Cottage Grove on Thursday. “It’s a great place to be,” said Hawk coach Gary Slater. Action resumes Saturday after today’s rest day, and marks the second and final day of the district showdown. Ty Slater recorded the day’s best mark in the discus, taking the win for the Hawks. La Pine claimed the top two spots in the pole vault as Jake Logan cleared 14 feet to take first and Deion Mock took second with a vault of 13-6. Competitors finishing in first or second place qualify for next week’s Class 4A state meet at the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field in Eugene. Sisters, which finished the day in second-place overall, trails La Pine by 4 1⁄2 points entering Saturday’s finals. “We’re battling for second (place),” said Sisters coach Bob Johnson, who calls the Marist boys, with more than 40 kids at the district meet, the “clear favorite.” “They just outnumber us,” he added, noting that Sisters has only 18 boys at the seven-team meet. Parker Bennett grabbed a win in the 3,000-meter race for the Outlaws — his fourth victory of the season in the event — finishing 11 seconds ahead of teammate Taylor Steele, who took second after shaving eight seconds off his previous personal best.
On the girls side, Sisters ended Thursday in third with 36 points while La Pine finished fourth with 30 points. Marist finished the first day of the league meet with 47 points, giving the Spartans a two-point lead over current runner-up Cottage Grove (45 points). For the Hawks, Kassi Conditt tallied a win in the shot put while Laura Jackson just missed qualifying for state in the 3,000, finishing third. The Outlaws advanced two girls to state in field events as Sara Small won the pole vault and Annie Mutchler placed first in the triple jump. In other prep action Thursday: TRACK AND FIELD Panther boys in first at CVC meet SALEM — Redmond High ended the opening day of the Central Valley Conference district meet in first place in the boys standings. The Panthers will go into today’s second and final day of competition at Sprague High with 53 points, eight points more than first-day runner-up South Salem (45 points). Ron Perkins, Tanner Manselle and Matt Miyamoto all qualified for next week’s Class 6A state meet with their performances on Thursday. Perkins placed second in the shot put, Manselle recorded a runner-up finish in the javelin and Miyamoto finished second in the pole vault. Redmond’s girls team ended the first day of competition in sixth place with 14.5 points. South Salem led the seven-team field with 53 points. Haley Jordan was the lone Panther to post a state-qualifying finish on the girls side Thurs-
day. Jordan finished second in the javelin. The CVC district meet continues today at 4 p.m. GIRLS TENNIS Redmond doubles falls into consolation round BEAVERTON — The Redmond High doubles team of Karli Christensen and Kayla Woychak was knocked into the consolation round of the Class 6A state tournament after a firstround loss at the Portland and Tualatin Hills tennis centers. In round one, the team was defeated by Riley Stevenson and Molly Morgan of Central Catholic 7-6, 6-0. Today, Christensen and Woychak will play Mackenzie Fraser and Lauren Mann of Sprague in the first round of the consolation bracket. Storm doubles advance to 5A state quarterfinals BEAVERTON — Hannah Shepard and Jesse Drakulich of Summit battled into the quarterfinal round of the doubles bracket at the Class 5A state championship at the Tualatin Hills Tennis Center. The duo rallied to win a pigtail matchup against Heidi Niu and Stephanie Wang of Crescent Valley (4-6, 6-3, 7-5) before claiming a 6-2, 6-3 victory against Chloe Deckwar and Katie Patton of Ashland. The Storm duo will face Elizabeth Patterson and Hannah Rondeau of Corvallis today for a state semifinal berth. The Storm’s other doubles team at state, Mackenzie Sunborg and Natalia Harrington, fell to Catherine Miolla and Gretchen Jernotedt of Wilsonville 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 in Thursday’s pigtail round. Crook County’s doubles team of Braiden Johnston and Katie
Brown, the tournament’s No. 2 seed, lost their first-round match against Patterson and Rondeau (5-7, 6-4, 6-4), but will face Deckwar and Patton in today’s consolation round. In singles play, Bryn Oliveira of Bend High slipped into the consolation round after losing to Charlotte Fisher of Crescent Valley 1-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the first round. Today, Oliveira will face Intermountain Conference rival Sydney Hege of The Dalles-Wahtonka in consolation play. Courtney Lindgren of Madras also lost her first match of the state tournament, falling to Anna Braun of West Albany (6-1, 6-0) in the pigtail round of play. In another pigtail matchup, Crook County’s Erin Crofcheck lost to Liberty High’s Ayaka Terakawa. Outlaw advances in small-school tourney EUGENE — Playing a pigtail match at the University of Oregon in the Class 4A/3A/2A/1A state championships, Sisters senior Marine Tresnie defeated Kellie Hodges of Umatilla 6-0, 6-0 to advance to today’s first round. Tresnie will face Ontario senior Sarah Bond for a shot at the state quarterfinals. BOYS TENNIS Sisters senior wins opener at state EUGENE — Sisters’ Ben Fullhart won his pigtail match against Jordan Curtis of Baker 7-6 (7), 6-1 at the Class 4A state championships at the University of Oregon and will advance to play in today’s first round. Fullhart, a senior, will play La Salle Prep’s Maximilian Hey for a berth in the 4A quarterfinal round.
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Canadiens finally score, win in East finals By John Wawrow The Associated Press
MONTREAL — Michael Cammalleri and the Montreal Canadiens finally solved Michael Leighton. Cammalleri scored in the first period to end Montreal’s twogame drought against Leighton, leading the Canadiens to a 5-1 win over the Philadelphia Flyers in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference final on Thursday night. Tom Pyatt and Dominic Moore had a goal and assist apiece for Montreal, which earned its first win in the series. Brian Gionta and Marc-Andre Bergeron also scored as Leighton’s shutout streak was snapped at 172:05. “It’s a big deal for us, don’t get me wrong,” Cammalleri said. “But for us, we like the way we play, and we thought the goals were going to come.” Philadelphia’s Simon Gagne
foiled Jaroslav Halak’s shutout bid by scoring 8:22 into the third period. Leighton stopped 33 shots. The Flyers had won six straight, dating to their secondround series win over Boston during which they overcame a 30 series deficit. It was Leighton’s first loss in five starts since taking over after Brian Boucher hurt his knee. Cammalleri got it started with his team-leading 13th goal, opening the scoring 7:05 into the game. Halak finished with 25 saves. The eighth-seeded Canadiens are proving to be very resilient this postseason. Montreal already
has rallied to eliminate top-seeded Washington and Pittsburgh. “We are a much better team when our backs are against the wall,” Gionta said. “We’ve dealt with it all year.” The seventh-seeded Flyers know something about bouncing back, too, after rallying to beat Boston in the second round. Referring to the loss to the Canadiens as “a wake-up call,” Flyers defenseman Chris Pronger said it’s their turn to respond. “I don’t think you want to forget it. I think you need to use it and feed off it,” Pronger said. “They answered the bell, and now it’s our turn to get back at it
in Game 4.” The best-of-seven series resumes on Saturday in Montreal. Playing their first game at home in 10 days, the Canadiens outshot Philadelphia 28-13 in building a 3-0 lead on Moore’s goal midway through the second period. Moore’s score sent the raucous sellout crowd of 21,273 into a fury.
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Baseball • Mariners LHP Bedard may not debut until late June: The Mariners are tempering their optimistic hopes for Erik Bedard’s return. Seattle manager Don Wakamatsu on Thursday described a plan for the former Baltimore ace that suggests his season debut following shoulder surgery may not come until late June. The Mariners had been so excited about Bedard’s progress that they had raised the possibly of him returning this month. But he had a setback last week when he felt discomfort while throwing 30 pitches in a simulated game.
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Cycling • Italian takes Giro stage: Filippo Pozzato won the 12th stage of the Giro d’Italia on Thursday, while Richie Porte of Australia maintained the overall lead. The Italian national champion edged French duo Thomas Voeckler and Jerome Pineau in a sprint finish. Pozzato finished the 128-mile stage from Citta Sant’Angelo to Porto Recanati in 5 hours, 15 minutes, 50 seconds. Porte leads David Arroyo Duran of Spain by 1 minute, 42 seconds. — From wire reports
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