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PORTLAND – USA Football announces 11 youth football leagues spanning nine states to pilot Rookie Tackle – a bridge game between flag football and 11-player tackle. Rookie Tackle, a bridge game between flag football and 11-player tackle, is designed to introduce young athletes to tackle football.

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Hood River Valley High School sophomore Sean FitzSimons has been invited by US Snowboarding to represent the United States in the International Ski Federation (FIS) Snowboard Junior World Championship for slopestyle in Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic. The FIS Snowboard Junior World Championship is a slopestyle event by invitation only taking, place March 26 to April 2.

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But the most important motto for his 2013 Seahawks didn't come from the head coach. It was the idea of his players, tired of the team getting more notice for its problems with suspensions than the talent the Seahawks display on the field.

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PORTLAND — It didn’t matter that it was the Rose Garden. The “M-V-P!” chant for Kobe Bryant was loud and clear. Bryant scored a season-high 47 points and carried the Los Angeles Lakers closer to a playoff berth with a 113-106 victory over the short-handed but tenacious Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday night.