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The Portland Tribune - Sports
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Portland and surrounding area community news and information
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Winterhawks get ready for playoffs
This weekend, the Portland Winterhawks conclude their most successful regular season in years. But the coaches and players hope that was only a beginning.
The playoffs await the Hawks for the first time in four years. They are likely to finish fifth in the Western Hockey League’s Western ...
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Talking Blazers: Oakland woes, playoff positioning, fourth-quarter scorers, fastbreaks and more
Talking a little NBA, Trail Blazers and other hoop-la as we head into the weekend ...
• Of all the bad streaks the Blazers have amassed in various arenas throughout the NBA — Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Pepsi Center in Denver, TD Garden in Boston, US Airways Center in Phoenix, ...
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Transfer makes big impact at Jeff
The 1992 movie staring Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes popularized the expression “white men can’t jump.”
The movie-makers did not happen to see Jefferson’s 6-5 Stephen Madison toss an alley-oop to himself off the glass and throw down a windmill dunk, as he has been known ...
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Royals flush out all 2A challengers
The number 54 was lucky for Portland Christian High basketball Saturday night.
The girls defeated St. Mary’s of Medford 54-31, while the boys topped Central Linn 54-38 as each won a Class 2A state championship at the Pendleton Convention Center.
With the victories, Portland Christian will add ...
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Sports talk-show host Dawson plans move to Dallas FM station
Gavin Dawson, host of the Morning Sports Page segment on KXTG (95.5 FM The Game), is leaving to accept a job in Dallas.
Dawson, 34, will play host to an afternoon drive show on KRLD (105.3 FM The Fan).
A graduate of Mountain View High in Vancouver, Wash., Dawson worked seven years at KFXX (1080 AM ...
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Showing what he can do
Not everything has gone smoothly for Marcus Camby since he became a member of the Trail Blazers on Feb. 16.
The veteran center, acquired in a trade with the Los Angeles Clippers, sprained his right ankle and missed a Feb. 24 game against Toronto. He sprained his left ankle and missed last ...
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Miller gives an assist to young readers
Andre Miller was never much of a reader as a kid. “Read my schoolbooks,” says the Trail Blazers’ point guard, “and that was about it.”
Later, Miller says, he got into magazines and newspapers and the occasional book for recreational purposes. And somewhere along the ...
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Prep Watch
The Class 6A boys and girls basketball tournaments are on the big stage at the Rose Garden for the first time this week.
The big-school boys tourney hasn’t been played in Portland since 2003, when Redmond won and capped a 38-year run at Memorial Coliseum. The last six big-school boys tourneys ...
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South Eugene nips Ram girls at the end 49-46
Central Catholic’s girls lost a heartbreaker in the final minute of their Class 6A quarterfinal at the Rose Garden on Wednesday afternoon.
Leading 46-45, the Rams watched South Eugene's Mackenzie Kerins hit a jump shot in the paint after retrieving her own rebound with 43 seconds remaining. ...
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Jesuit uses size to overcome Schimmels, Franklin
The Franklin High girls’ dream of a Class 6A championship ended Wednesday afternoon with an 83-70 loss to Jesuit at the Rose Garden in the state tournament quarterfinals.
As the game clock hit zero, the Quakers' two biggest stars, sisters Shoni and Jude Schimmel, watched from the bench, and ...
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UO's Masoli, James face court hearings
The two most prominent players in a tumultuous offseason for the Oregon football team will be making court appearances Friday.
Running back LaMichael James, charged with four misdemeanor counts after a domenstic violence dispute, will appear at a change-of-plea hearing at Lane County Circuit ...
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Notes on WWE, Luke, Miller's dunk, Roy's picks, football and more
Touching on a number of subjects in our local sporting universe ...
• It’s not how you win, it’s only if you win that counts.
Vince McMahon emphasized his favorite creed again in the feature match during a Monday Night Raw show before a sellout crowd at the Rose Garden.
Pro ...
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No masterpiece, but Blazers get past Kings
For a player heralded as a bit of a savior since coming to the Trail Blazers in a trade with the Los Angeles Clippers three weeks ago, Marcus Camby had been an early disappointment.
Until Tuesday night.
For the first time, Camby displayed the game that made Portland target him before the ...
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A big deal in Baker City
BAKER CITY – It’s 5:30 p.m. Saturday, and the Baker High gym, capacity 2,500, is packed to the gills.
It’s an hour before the Class 1A girls basketball championship game, and there’s not an empty seat in the house.
In fact, there is overflow seating available in the ...
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It's Nuggets over Blazers, by a mile
DENVER — It was an uphill struggle all Sunday night in the Mile High City for the Trail Blazers.
Denver jumped in front 34-21 after one quarter and held off every Portland rally en route to a 118-106 victory at the Pepsi Center.
Carmelo Anthony scored 30 points to lead the Nuggets ...
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