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THE BULLETIN 0 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2013
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Rose Garden gets new name
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The Portland Trail Blazers announced a10-year agreement with insurance provider
of reach for Elks in 2013
Moda Health on Tues-
day to renamethe Rose Garden. Blazers President Chris McGowan said
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season's homeopener on Nov. 2 against San
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Antonio. At the request of
team owner PaulAllen, the new logo will
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named the arenathe Rose Garden. "The RoseGarden is not going away. It's going to be apart of our history and heritage," McGowan said. "The
Moda Center is going to
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Golfers putt on the10th green at River's Edge Golf Course in Bend last week. Through the first two months of Central Oregon's peak golf season, courses are reporting noticeable growth in the number of golfers enjoying the region's facilities.
take us into the future." Moda Health, founded
in 1955 andbasedin Portland, offers medical,
dental, pharmacyand vision plans to 2 million members in Oregon,
played. "Obviously we didn't ac-
complish our goal of getting
W ashington and Alaska.
Formerly known asODS, the companychanged its name in May. Williams Johnson, president of Moda Health, would not dis-
close terms of the deal. The partnership also will
include other enhancements to the RoseQuarter district. — The Associated Press
GOLF
Tours dismiss takeover reports PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla.— PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem says two Brit-
ish newspaper reports of a bid to take over the
European Tourare inaccurate. The Telegraph and The Daily Mail reported Tuesday that the PGA
Tour made an"audacious" bid to acquire the
• Central Oregon's courses appear to be onthe upswing sofar this season By Zack Hall The Bulletin
Golfers throughout Central Oregon might have noticed a few more foursomes to play through. This, apparently, is not just a product
of slow play. After years of economic struggles that kept many golfers away, anecdotal evi-
dence suggests that this golf-happy region has a little more to be happy about so far this golf season. "Overall, everybody is pretty consistently up over last summer, which is always good news for us to hear after so
many tough years in golf," says Alana Hughson, president and CEO of the Central Oregon Visitors Association, which coordinates much of this region's golf marketing programs. And the gains appear to be nearly across the board, from municipal golf courses around the area to high-end resorts. Just how much are the courses up so far this year over last'?
ville golfers starting to play a little more frequently," says Zach Lampert, head pro and facility manager at Meadow Lakes. "We've also seen a lot of new f aces from Bend w it h some of o u r specials." Meadow Lakes is far from alone. many tough years in golf." Resort facilities Brasada Canyons Golf — Alana Hughson,president and CEO, Club in Powell Butte and Eagle Crest ReCentral Oregon Visitors Association sort in Redmond, both owned by Northview Hotel Group, report that rounds are up through July about 6 percent and 10 "What we're hearing is a (year-over- percent, respectively. Facility improvements at both Eagle year) differential of anywhere from 4 percentto as much as 12 percent," says Crest and Brasada and specials designed Hughson. to attract families have helped, says Apparently, golfers are in a bit better Brent McLean, vice president of sales and marketing for Northview. mood than in recent years. COVA's anecdotal evidence seems to Improved marketing strategies have be supported on the course. also helped, he says, particularly the coMeadow Lakes Golf Course in Prine- operative "Legends Collection" effort beville, for instance, has reported hosting tween COVA and high-end resorts Black 11 percent more rounds of golf through Butte Ranch, Brasada, Pronghorn Club July this year than it did in the first seven near Bend, Sunriver Resort, and Tethmonths of 2012. erow Golf Club in Bend. "We've been seeingour local PrineSeeGolf /C4
"Overall, everybody is pretty consistently up over last summer, which is always good news for us to hear after so
European Tour. Finchem said three
years ago that men's professional golf might one day have aworld tour, though he did not say how that would take shape or when. He says the International Federation of PGATours has worked together to create the World Golf
Championship sandto help get golf back into the Olympics. He says the tours continue to explore "collaborative efforts." Keith Waters, the chief operating officer of the European Tour, told the BBC that the notion ofthe U.S.tour acquiring the European Tour is
incorrect. — The Associated Press
TRACK & FIELD
Newlywedsshineat World Championships By Christopher Clarey New York Times News Service
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MOSCOW — Exactly one month after their marriage, Ashton Eaton and his wife, Brianne Theisen-Eaton, have two shiny new wedding presents. Eaton, the American from Central Oregon who holds the world record in the decathlon, won his gold medal in the World Track and Field Championships here Sunday night. The next morning he made a mad dash for the bus from the hotel to Luzhniki Stadium and took on the role of motivator-in-chief as TheisenEaton competed in the heptathlon for Canada. "I think it's more nerve-racking to watch, because it's out of your control," Eaton said. Theisen-Eaton, just 11th in last year's Olympic heptathlon, handled the moment just fine, however: winning her
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Morgan Pressel speaks during a news conference for the Solheim Cup on Tuesday in Parker, Colo.
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Needing just one win in their final six regular-season contests to advance to the postseason, the Bend Elks lost six consecutive games between Aug. 5 and Aug. 11 and missed out on the West Coast League playoffs for the second straight year. Bend and the Medford Rogues ended the season with matching 30-24 records in the WCL South Division, but the Rogues owned the tiebreaker to get into the postseason, having defeated the Elks four out of six times the two teams
— a silver — and the newlyweds soon shared an embrace on the edge of the blue track. "I always watched him, and I watch him get his medals, and I say, 'I wonder what it feels like? I can only imagine,'" Theisen-Eaton said. "So I'm getting a little taste of it." Track and field has not seen anything quite like the Eatons for more than 50 years. The last married couple to win medals in the same week at one of the sport's showcase events is believed to be the Czech couple of Emil Zatopek and Dana Zatopkova. At the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki,
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American Ashton Eaton, left, a graduate of Bend's Mountain View High School, speaks with his wife, Canada's Brianne Theisen-Eaton, after she placed second overall to win silver following the 800-meter run in the heptathlon at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow on Tuesday. Zatopek, one of the best distance runners in history, won gold in the 5,000 meters. Minutes later, Zatopkova took gold in the javelin. The Eatons have yet to manage that sort of love double. Ganna Melnichenko of Ukraine won the gold medal in the heptathlon with 6,586 points, while
Theisen-Eaton took second with 6,530 and Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands came in third with 6,477. But what makes the Eatons distinct is that they excel in the same family of events, known as "the multis" in the track and field world. SeeNewlyweds/C4
into the postseason," Bend owner and general manager Jim Richards said Monday, a day after a 14-12 home loss to Walla Walla sealed the Elks' fate. "Losing six games at the end of the season, that's not what we anticipated." The Elks kicked off the 2013 WCL season on fire, winning 13 of their first 16 games. The team faded down the stretch, though, going just 7-10 after the league's all-star break. SeeElks/C4
SPORTS INFORMATION
Hefore the Internet,
there were complete handbooks By Pete Croatto New York Times News Service
NEW YORK — Zander Hollander sat silently on his couch. Rows of books — a large portion of them ones he created,edited and nurtured — hovered abovehim, dominating a wall in his Manhattan apartment. From 1971 to 1997, Hollander edited sports yearbooks, bricklike tomes known as Complete Handbooks, which in the pre-Internet era were almost holy objects to a certain type of sports-crazed youngster. Here, in one glorious place, was information — statistics, team rosters, records, schedules, predictions for the coming season and more — freed from the restrictions of newspaper column inches and far beyond what a still embryonic cable system was
providing. In black and white were photos and detailed profiles of players from every team, players whom even the most devoted fans might glimpse only in a rare nationally televised network game of the week or an All-Star contest, if at all. The work was Hollander's driving force. Then he had a stroke, and Alzheimer's followed shortly after. SeeHandbooks /C4