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TENNIS: FRENCH OPEN
Na a mu ss ort's uturea erwin By Chris Lehourites
an, Dominic Thiem, who is one of
ridiculous that kind of prognos-
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the men who could start winning
tication sounds after his 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 win over Thiem. It was, however, quite a contest on Court Philippe Chatrier, the main stadium at Roland Garros
ning for the 61st time in his 62nd
the major titles that have been so elusive to almost everyone out-
match on the red clay at Roland
side that famous quartet.
P ARIS — Shortly after w i n -
Garros, Rafael Nadal took a moment to look at the future of L
tennis.
the last 36 Grand Slam titles. But, to drive home his point,
And the top-seeded Spaniard doesn't see himself in the pic-
Nadal notes he's almost 28 while Djokovic and Murray are 27 and
ture. Or Roger Federer. Or Novak
Federer is "I don't know, 32."
Djokovic. Or Andy Murray. True, Nadal advanced to the third round of the French Open Darko Vojihovic/The Associated Press
Spain's Rafael Nadal reacts after a winning point against Austria's Dominic Thiem during his 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 on Thursday.
Concussions Continued from C1 Watching all the pomp, it was hard to ignore that an
Together, they have won 34 of
on Thursday, beating a 20-yearold Austrian in straight sets. But it's that same 20-year-old Austri-
"(We're) not going to be here for 10 more years," he said. The eight-time French Open champion followed that last statement with a chuckle, probably because he quickly realized how
and Nadal's favorite place to play. Thiem broke Nadal's serve twice, once in the first set and
"He has very powerful shots," saidNadal,who can become the first man in history to win five straight French Open titles with
another victory this year. "Very powerful forehand and good backhand, too."
Good, for sure, but not yet good enough to take down NadaL "It's really important to play
once in the third.
The first time, Nadal was serving for the set at 5-1 and lead-
against these guys a lot, against these top guys because it's more
ing 40-30, but Thiem hit t h ree
important than every practice,"
straight thundering shots into the same corner, the first a backhand
said Thiem, playing in only his
the next two forehands, to make it 5-2.
second Grand Slam tournament. "I hope I can take a lot with me
from this match."
Ducks
ucationregarding sports-rel ated concussions, will b e named after Tisch, which is
all good and wonderful un-
Continued from C1 "She was under (for-
til you realize that he and
mer D u ck s
A l l - A meri-
event billed to be a signifi- so many others in football cant advance in concussion should have been proactive
can) Jessica Moore's wing last year," Oregon coach
research was actually heart-
Mike W h ite said a bout Hawkins. "This y ear,
about the issue decades ago.
breaking. Where were all But at least Tisch is doof these people and entities ing something directly. That 20 years ago, when the NFL cannot necessarily be said formed its first committee on
she's stepped up huge. Going back to our very first game of the season,
for the owners of the other 31
mild traumatic brain injuries teams. Then again, it might — the main subject of the summit?
be stomach-turning to see a
Where were they when Troy Aikman was knocked out and could not even rem ember playing i n t h e game? Or when Merrill Hoge w as forced toretire after learning that another concussion might kill him? Or when former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue called concussions "a pack journalism issue'?"
city named after an ow ner. The Jerry Jones Brain
Back then, did no one powerful realize that someone
to worry about the safety of
besides the NFL — which perennially was studying the issue, while more players had their "bell rung"-
it didn't look that way to start off, but she's shown
hospital wing in every NFL
g reat composure a n d worked very hard.... She loves to have the weight
Study Center'? The Bob Kraft
on her shoulders and carries it extremely well."
Center for the Treatment of Concussions'?
Florida S t at e
Lacey Waldrop (38-6), the Division I player of the
are just commodities. If they were not, this White House summit would h ave h ap-
year, did not make it out of
penedyearsago. It makes no moral sense your own little soccer player or tiny left tackle when on weekends you still put on
your jersey, plop down on your couch and watch players
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the first inning for Ore-
Archery
should look into this'? I guess not. The organization that
clean eachother'sclocks for hours at a time.
made billions from players
When I asked Tisch when
Puckett said. "I also just found
he became aware of the con-
out there is a little competition
cussion problem in the NFL, the way its game was played he said, "I think full ownerwas causing permanent ship was made aware of these damage to its players. Now it problems, and players comis obvious that no one should ing forward, I think it goes have ever trusted the league back four or five years." to examine the safety of its That seems about 20 years own moneymaker. too late, considering the NFL
after. It's an all-stars tournament. So there's still stuff that
Now c oncussions h ave
formed its first committee on
become a national issue, ap- concussions in 1994. By then, parently out of selfishness. countless players were batIt is not the NFL people care tling brain injuries, among about — it is their own chil- them Hall of Famers like dren who got everyone think- Mike Webster, Harry Carson ing something monumental and Rayfield Wright, a formust be done about head in- mer Dallas Cowboys tackle I juries in sports. interviewed this year. White House officials said
thatObama and Jay Carney, his press secretary, were talking about their children
and concussions one day
Obama briefly character-
ized NFL players like them as "grown men who choose to accept some risk to play a game that they love and that they excel at," making a dis-
when they came up with the idea for the summit. Jennifer tinction between those playPalmieri, the White House ers and children who play communications di r e ctor, sports. said the president was "conBut to talk to Wright, who
cerned about the safety of his is 68 and is coping with own daughters." w orsening dementia, is t o Tisch, the Giants' co-owner, said that at nearly the
realize that he did not know
the risks of the game when same time he was deciding he played. He said that if he to donate $10 million to the knew that his multiple condepartment of neurosurgery cussions would lead to headat the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He said
aches and seizures — or even
wanted to protect children
boiling water on the stove
blacking out when driving he was doing so because he or forgetting why he started — he would have stuck with basketball. that UCLA's program and So it is all well and good Obama's initiative address that the subject of concus"many concerns that par- sions is now so important from concussions. Tisch told me Wednesday night
ents of kids who play contact
that even the White House
sports share with me." His donation came after years of his family's involvement in pro football, a sport in which concussions have been a problem for decades. Today, though, Tisch has a son who plays wide receiver in high school and a daughter who plays lacrosse. Concus-
has put it on its to-do list. But for those players who came before — or even those playing now — the future is not likely as promising. During Thursday's discussion about how children should be kept
sions, it seems, have become
safefrom concussions,itw as
almost like those men had been forgotten. T hat is wh y
t h e W h i te
a big deal to him now that House summit, though a big they could happen to his own step in the fight for concuskids. sion, still had a dark cloud Now UCLA's BrainSport looming above it. Program, which is involved in For so many athletes, it is research, treatment and ed-
too little, too late.
I'm finding out that I'm really excited for."
gon, and Peterson singled and scored on a single by
"Wedidn't go to nationals for tickles and giggles. As far as the team goes,we finished among the top 40 percent — which doesn't sound impressive, but we only had 12 kids and had to
Nikki Udria — the Ducks' No. 9 h i t ter — i n t h e second. Koral Costa and Peter-
count every score.A lot of other teams had 24
son hit successive doubles down the left-field line in the fifth.
kids and got to throw out their bottom 12 scores.
So wehad to count everybody.So hopefully they'll listen to me whenI say, 'You guys really did well.' "
— Bend High coach Jon Brickiey Puckett was an unlikely prospect to become a worlddass high school archer. She had never even picked up abow much of the credit for the team's ed with a sixth-grader, which until last September, when she improvement goes to assistant is cool because there are all heard a school announcement coach Ed Creasy. these things that had to fall "He is able to find those tiny into place to make it happen." for Bend High's new archery dub. things that they're doing wrong While Puckett was the top "After winning my first ar- and fix it," Brickey said. "I really competitor for the Lava Bears chery tournament I was really probably attribute the success at nationals, several Bend surprised," Puckett said. "Then of what Amy has, and all these High archers finished respectI was excited that we decided as kids have, to him. Because ably as well. Mahaney was a whole team that we would go he can take them to that next 198th and Sakasegwa was to state. Then we did really well level." 219th in the High School Girls at state and it qualified us for Following the state victory, Division, Jewett was 282nd nationals." the team spent weeks raising out of 2,024 entries in the MidPuckett found i m mediate funds so the entire group could dle School Girls Division, and success in the sport. She won travel to Louisville to compete. Dickenson was 515th among everycompetitionuntil the state The Lava Bears finished 1,684 contestants in the High tournament in G rants Pass, 74th out of the 164 high school School Boys Division. "The coolest part about all where she was edged by team- teams represented at the namate Caitlin Wulf. Wulf also tional competition. Accord- of this is knowing that most competed at the NASP national ing to Brickey, the standings of us are going to come back tournament, placing 479th in do not accurately reflect his (next year) and be twice as the High School Girls Division. team's performance. good," said Mahaney, a soph"We didn't go to nation- omore. "We're going to actualWith the state victory, the Bend High squad of 12 — Puck- als for tickles and giggles," ly try and place (at nationals) ett and Wulf, along with Kyle Brickey said. "As far as the next year. It's cool to think Riper, Trenton Dickenson, Jil- team goes, we finished among about that. Now that we've lian Dean, Wyatt Scott, Aman- the top 40 percent — which had the experience, we know da Mahaney, Emma Jewett, doesn't sound impressive, but what to look for." Cody Hill, Moriah Fernald, we only had 12 kids and had to With the national tournaSumi Sakasegwa and Dylan It- count every score. A lot of oth- ment concluded, Puckett is nyre — qualified for the nation- er teams had 24 kids and got focusing all of her energy on al tournament.The Lava Bears to throw out their bottom 12 fundraising and practicing for competed in a field of eight at scores. So we had to count ev- the world tournament. "I would like t o a t l e ast state and had to win in order to erybody. So hopefully they'll move on. listen to me when I say, 'You match my score from nation"I remember when these kids guys really did well.' " als, if not do better," she said, first came in to start shooting, Brickey noted that neither "because that would be pretty and I told them how good they Puckett's individual success awesome. I'm really looking were," said Bend High coach at nationals nor that of t he forward to (the tournament in Jon Brickey. "Then they kept Bend Highteam would have Wisconsin) and meeting peoimproving, kept improving, been possible without Jewett. ple from all over the world." then they went to state and we The sixth-grader at Westside — Reporter: 541-383-0375, had a goal set for how many Village Magnet School was aleol jerl tbendbuiietin.com points we wanted to do, and we lowed by NASP rules to comtopped that and won, which al- pete at nationals so long as lowed us as a team to go to the she was representing the high national shoot. In fact, Amy wasn't the top shooter at state, it was Caitlin. And that's that
son why (Amy) was able to whole team aspect, where any do what she was able to do," given day someone could get Brickey said. "It actually took hot." more thanBend High School. Brickey, who owns Competi- ... If we look at everything that tive Edge Archery in Bend, said has happened, it kind of start-
NHL PLAYOFFS
crease with his hands raised as stream-
ers were fired off from the rafters.
in the second period, Henrik Lundqvist
round for the first time since winning it
bounced back from his w orst perfor-
all in 1994.
mance in the playoffs and the New York Lundqvist needed to make only 18 Rangers beat the Montreal Canadiens saves in his team-record tying ninth 1-0 on Thursday night to advance to the
postseason shutout. Lundqvist had been
Stanley Cup finals. The Rangers are in the championship
0-5since 2009 in non-Game 7 clinching games. He leaped several times in his
Montreal's Dustin Tokarski, who re-
placed injured No. 1 goalie Carey Price after Game 1, was solid in making 31 saves.
The Stanley Cup finals will begin Wednesday at either Chicago or Los Angeles, which leads the Western finals 3-2.
portunity to help out and
do my part, it's what I like to do. They worked really hard and scored some runs, which is really nice." Florida State ( 55-8), m aking its f i rst W C W S
appearance in 10 years, will face Baylor on Saturday in a n
e l i m ination
game. The Seminolesrecoveredfrom a 17-3lossto Michigan in the first game of their super regional to win two straight to quali-
fy for the WCWS. Also on Thursday: Florida 11, Baylor 0: Hannah Rogers threw a complete-game t h r ee-hit shutout for No. 5 Florida.
Rogers (27-8) threw her fourth shutout of the post-
season for the Gators, who have won six of their seven NCAA tournament games
this season by shutout. A two-run double by Bailey Castro staked Florida to a
3-0 lead after one inning against Baylor s t arter Whitney Canion (31-11). K irsti Merritt hi t a
solo
home run in the fourth for Florida an d
p i n ch-hitter
Chelsea Herndon capped the game with a walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the fifth. Weekly Arls St Entertainment Inslde 56lgAZBI~E
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the sixth inning after giving up 10 hits. Alyssa Gillespie singled and scored on a ground out by Janelle Lindvall in
Bend High archery team members, from left, Amy Puckett, Kyle Riper, Trenton Dickinson, Jiiiian Dean, Wyatt Scott, Caitlin Wulf, Amanda Mahaney, and Emma Jewett.
Continued from C1 "I'm super excited to just be able to go (to the world event),"
hitting each other was left to determine, on its own, if
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