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SP OKI NFL: 2D Baseball: 3D College football: 4D Statesman Journal Salem, Oregon Saturday, August 21 1 993 if MBA players do their part for athletics 'Jti Today's Slam 'N Jam event in Portland will help benefit Oregon 3igh school programs. The Statesman Journal Some NBA player? will be slamming and jam- ihing today in a Portland Trail Blazers' benefit for Oregon high school athletics. Jam '93, featuring an NBA celebrity basketball game and a 3-point shootout, begins at 3:80 p.m. at Portland's Civic Stadium. from the event will go to Oregon Ligh school athletics.

The Blazers have guaranteed a jninimum donation of $100,000. Portland coach Rick Adelman said the Blazers A tine HOB are trying to use this event to inspire other Clem 'N Jam Xho Assoc idt oct Pross HE'S NO. 1 Oregon native Dan O'Brien celebrates his decathlon victory Friday at the track and field World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. What: A day of basketball, music, fireworks and fun. The main event is an NBA Celebrity Classic, featuring members of the Portland Trail Blazers and players from other NBA teams.

Where: Portland's Civic jStadium. When: Today. Gates i open at 3 p.m.; music and Interactive field events begin at 3:30 p.m.; NBA Celebrity Classic at 7 p.m., with a 3-point shootout at halftime. Tickets: Starting at $13 for adults, $8 for age 18 and younger. Field passes are another $10.

Tickets subject to user fees and service businesses to help finance the state's high school athletic programs. Tax-limitation legislation has led to the reduction or elimination of athletic budgets at many high schools. Tonight's feature event is the 7 p.m. Celebrity Classic basketball game, including members of the Blazers and other pro teams. At halftime of the game, one person will compete against NBA players in a 3-point shootout, with a $5,000 first prize.

Qualifiers were held throughout Oregon earlier this month. Contestants paid $1 to try to make three consecutive 'DctelJD SIM ft I Results: Colin Jackson and Gail Devers have red-letter days. Page 2D charges. The music: Includes Tom Brant at 3:30 p.m., Curtis Salgado at 5 p.m. The Oregonian overcomes last year's failure and wins the decathlon at the World Championships.

Statesman Journal news service STUTTGART, Germany In an ironic reversal of fortune, the pole vault was a key element of Dan O'Brien's courageous decathlon victory Friday night in the fourth annual track and field World Championships. A year after failing to make the U.S. Olympic team in one of the biggest upsets in track and field history, the Klamath Falls native overcame leg injuries and set a meet record with 8,817 points. Eduard Hamalainen, 24, of Byelorussia, challenged O'Brien in nearly every event and finished 93 points behind him with a personal-best score of 8,724. Local favorite Paul Meier, 22, of Germany, was third with a personal best of 8,548.

O'Brien, 27, put away the meet with good performances in the pole vault and javelin. His score here raised by five points his winning mark in Tokyo in 1991. "Dan tied his decathlon best in the vault (17-OV)" Mike Keller, his running coach, said. "So this ought to put it to rest. I hope this settles the pole vault deal." On Thursday, the first day of decathlon competition, O'Brien ran 10.57 in the 100 meters, long jumped 26-2, put the shot 48-10, high jumped 6-10V4, ran the 400 meters in 47.46 and finished four points ahead of Meier.

He came back Friday to run 14.08 in the hurdles, throw the discus 157-2, vault 17-0, throw the javelin 205-4, and run the 1,500 meters in 4:40.08. The "pole vault deal" refers to him failing in 1992 to clear his opening height at the U.S. Olympic Trials. He rebounded from that defeat a month after the Barcelona Olympics, setting the world record, 8,891, in Talence, France, last September. A prostate infection and leg injury almost kept him out of the U.S.

championships in June. Although he has talked of raising the record to 9,000 points, O'Brien said he never seriously intended to chase that standard at the World Championships. "I wasn't really thinking world record," he said. "At the World Championships, the (12-hour) days are too long. World records come in places like Gotzis (Austria) and Talence, where the situation is set up for the athletes, not for television." NBA 3-point shots.

Those who were successful received two tickets to the Slam Jam and qualified to participate in this afternoon's 3-point elimination round. One person will advance from that contest to the halftime shootout. The contest will be followed by music from Andy Stokes, Linda Hornbuckle and Dennis Springer. Local musicians Tom Grant and Curtis Salgado will have solo performances in the afternoon before the celebrity game. A fireworks display will conclude the day's events Adelman relaxes at namesake tourney Seminoles' new season brings the same goals More inside4D PAC-10 PREVIEW: Defense is the name of the game.

FABULOUS FAULK: Marshall Faulk shoots for the Heisman. DISNEY Disney wants to stage a postseason football extravaganza. The third annual competition benefits the nChemeketa Community College Foundation. By Joe Petshow TJte Statesman Journal -Rick Adelman was using a simple game plan. Portland Trail Blazers' coach didn't have to worry about how to defend NBA greats like 'Michael Jordan and David Robinson.

He didn't have to worry about keeping his own millionaire players happy. There were no Xs and Os to map out on a chalkboard. 7 All Adelman had to do Friday was grip it and rip it. "This is fun, strictly fun," Adelman said of the charity golf tournament that bears his name. "No pressure." The tourney, at Salem Golf Club, benefited the Chemeketa Community College Foundation.

Adelman, an ex-NBA player, was the men's basketball coach at Chemeketa before graduating to the pro coaching ranks. The tourney entry fee was $100 a player, and players could buy into other on-course contests, like longest drive and closest to the pin. And the feature event: the Rick Adelman Challenge. For $20, players could challenge Adelman for closest-to-the- pin honors on Salem's par-3, No. 6 hole.

That's where Adelman spent Friday morning, hitting 8-iron shots at the pin tucked behind a bunker. The $20 earned a player five chances to win a trip for two to Mexico. Players who hit their ball closer to the pin than Adelman earned five more chances. And those who hit their ball within a marked area circling the cup received five additional chances. Adelman, who plays to about a 10-handicap, helped keep the number of Mexico hopefuls to a minimum.

Mike Roberson of Roberson Motors Inc. was one of those able to outshoot the coach. Roberson's tee shot almost rolled into the cup before stopping just above the hole. Adelman, who had dead-panned a few minutes earlier about a stiff back, was short of the green with his tee shot, enabling Roberson to pick up a few extra contest tickets. But most of the golfers suffered a fate similar to Gary Heer, Marion County commissioner.

Heer badly pulled his tee shot to the right of the 152-yard hole. "What was that?" Heer asked himself. "Twenty dollars," Adelman quipped. The Portland coach then hit his tee shot safely on the green. The Associated Press Alabama wants back-to-back national championships.

Florida State would gladly settle for its first. Florida State's motivation is to finally win a national title that has barely eluded the Seminoles the past six years. Although they've finished in the top four every season since 1987, the Seminoles always have come up just short, twice losing to Miami by missing last-second field goals. This year could be different, though. With a strong cast returning from last year's 11-1 team that finished No.

2, the Seminoles are the consensus preseason pick to win it all. "Naturally, being No. 1 puts more pressure on you," coach Bobby Bowden said. "But we've been there before. We know everyone will be gunning for us." To win the national title, Florida State will have to overcome the loss of six defensive starters, most notably Marvin Jones, winner of the Butkus and Lombardi awards.

The Seminoles also must overcome a hazardous schedule that includes non-conference games against Kansas, Miami, Notre Dame and Florida. "No one will be able to say we backed into it," Bowden said. "If "MA I III 2r) 1 ".) vi we end up doing it, it will be with a great ballclub." The Seminoles' most dangerous weapon is quarterback Charlie Ward, who broke the school's total offense record in his first year as a starter. Ward, a point guard on Florida State's basketball team, is an elusive scrambler, a good passer and a cool leader under pressure. "Charlie is like a vapor," Bowden said.

"Just when you think you can reach out and grab him, he's gone." Despite the departure of Ail-American defensive ends John Copeland and Eric Curry, Alabama has a good shot to win consecutive championships. Other top contenders for the national title include Michigan, Texas Syracuse, Miami, Notre Dame, Florida, Tennessee, Colorado and Nebraska. Ron CoopsrStatesman Journal COACH IN TOWN: Ward Paldanius (left), former athletic director at Chemeketa, and Rick Adelman watch Adelman's shot. Quotable Scores Hot Spot: Golf tournament Spotlight: George ends holdout The Associated Press Quarterback Jeff George of the Indianapolis Colts The late, legendary Don Drysdale, on the changing times in major league baseball: we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes." 'his 36-day hold out Friday, but it was hardly a triumphant I American League: New York 7, Kansas City 2 Seattle 4, Toronto 1 Oakland 7, Detroit 6 Cleveland 7, Boston 6 Chicago 4, Minnesota 2 Baltimore 10, Texas 5 Milwaukee 7, California 2 (10) See roundup: Page 3D I National League: Chicago 6, Atlanta 3 Cincinnati 4, Montreal 2 Philadelphia 6, Houston 4 Los Angeles 3, St.

Louis 2 Pittsburgh 7, San Diego 6 Florida 5, San Francisco 4 See roundup: Page 3D George didn't even attend the Friday news conference to announce his arrival. Instead, he issued a statement: "I am back to play football and to help the team in any possible way. The next several weeks obviously will take intense concentration to prepare for the upcoming season." Colts' coach Ted Marchi-broda said Friday that he will stick with Jack Trudeau as quarterback for now: "Jack will be the quarterback until he possibly loses it, but at this particular time, we certainly don't foresee that." What's hot: The Fred Meyer Challenge golf tournament. Where: Oregon Golf Club, West Unn. When: Sunday through Tuesday.

Sunday: 11:45 am, pro-am tournament Monday: 11 a.m., first round of tournament. Tuesday: 8 a.m., final round of tournament. Tickets: Sunday, $21; Monday, $31; Tuesday, $31. The event: Twelve two-player teams in a best-ball event. The teams and Monday tee times: 11 a.m., John Cook-Mark O'Meara, Steve Elklngton-Tom Purtzer; 11:10 am, Chi Chi Rodriguez-Joey Sindelar, Brad Faxon-Rick Fehr; 11:20 am, John Daly- FYI If you have suggestions or questions about sports news, call sports Roy Gault at 399-6723.

He lost his starting job and $144,000 in fines nnrl Vip Fuzzy Zoeller, Bob Gilder-Rocco Mediate; 11:30 a.m., Fred Couples-Davis Love III, Jay Haas-Jeff Sluman; 11:40 am, Ben Crenshaw-Craig Stadler, Jim Gallagher Uetzke; 11:50 a.m., Billy Andrade-Tom Kite, Peter Jacobsen-Amold Palmer. JeffGtorgt failed to get Colts' officials to budge on his demand to be traded..