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Job Title: Student Worker Start Date: ASAP Duties: Surplus & inventory duties in a purchasing & inventory office, Central receiving duties, mailing out property decals, maintaining vehicle Mileage log report, inventory spot checks as needed. Must be able to lift 50 pounds. Blocked schedule, must be able to work 1:00P.M. to 5P.M. every afternoon. Must have driver’s license. ROSACEA STUDY (ADULT ACNE) Volunteers, ages 18 and older, needed to participate in a 12-week research study with an investigative topical medication for the treatment of rosacea (facial redness and pustules). Eligible volunteers will be compensated. Call for information: J&S Studies 846-5933 all season,” Damon Stoudamire said. “But the good thing about this is ... we’ve got three days to regroup, and then they’re going to come into a hostile environment in Portland.” DUNLEAVY The Blazers could not help but be rattled by Monday night’s 86- 85 loss to San Antonio in Game 2. After all, they did not trail in that game for 47 minutes and 51 sec onds. Then Sean Elliott stood on his tiptoes, his feet barely in bounds, and hit the 3-pointer that gave the Spurs a 2-0 lead in the best-of-7 series. It seemed to Portland’s players that fate just would not let them beat San Antonio. Four times this season the Blazers have taken the Spurs to a tight finish, only to lose. “It took incredible shots to beat us,” Portland coach Mike Dunleavy said. “I’d give (Elliott) 100 bucks to see him make that shot again. It was one of those shots you dream about making ... I told the guys they have nothing to hang their heads about. It’s getting harder and harder for this team to beat us.” San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich says the momentum of the miracle comeback from an 18-point third-quarter deficit probably will not last until the weekend. “If we were coming back and playing tomorrow it would be huge,” he said. “But Friday is like 2 1/2 weeks from now. Nobody will even be able to remember this game.” The Spurs will not fly to Portland until Wednesday after noon, after they have worked out in San Antonio. The Spurs’ eight-game playoff winning streak will be tested in the noisy Rose Garden, where the Blazers lost just three times dur ing the regular season and are 5- 0 in the playoffs. Still, Portland must win four out of five, including at least once in the Alamodome, to advance to the finals. “I don’t see why we can’t,” Greg Anthony said. “We’re a real confident basketball team. We’re a real talented basketball team.” The Blazers are at least comfort ed by the fact they were not run out of the Alamodome. They lost the opener 80-76 and had a chance at the tying shot with six seconds to go. They led Game 2 comfort ably most of Vbe way and lost only because of an amazing shot. “They had a chance to win NBA playoff schedul Friday, June 4 San Antonio at Portland, 9 d i: r v Saturday, June 5 elief. 1 Indiana at New York, 6:30p|nforce Sunday, June 6 San Antonio at Portland, 6:30: | nes Monday, June 7 Indiana at New York, 9p,n Tuesday, June 8 Portland at San Antonio, 9 (if necessary) Wednesday, June 9 New York at Indiana, 9 p.r^tirrx (if necessary) ■USA Bt she Friday, June 11 bis Indiana at New York, TBAshows i (if necessary) If Now San Antonio at Portland,ISlBlenc (if necessary) md pre Is bee Sunday, June 13 Bved, New York at Indiana, TBA : o[ a ki (if necessary) lr Jen Portland at San Antonio, TBileft?' (if necessary) per si h Jen Bki L both games, but people seeru not give us credit,-Spurs; v | r| y Mario Ehe said. They what Portland did wrong, the Lakers did n^keot ht per wron g- i /or i t e want to hear what the Spurt B f-,, ill that It is oi Spri Agassi romps in French semis PARIS (AP) — Two years ago, Andre Agassi considered retirement. Two weeks ago, he almost pulled out of the French Open. Now he stands within two victories of what he calls “the greatest thing I could achieve’’ — win ning a Grand Slam title that has escaped the grasp of his rival, Pete Sampras, and that defied the likes of Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe. Agassi barely broke a sweat in reaching the semi finals Wednesday as he mercifully put injured qualifier Marcelo Filippini of Uruguay out of his mis ery 6-2, 6-2, 6-0 in 72 minutes. The ever-changing Agassi — he started the tournament sport ing a goatee, came out clean shaven for the second round and grew a full beard by the quarters — played his most punishing ten nis yet. He yielded only four eturn i lays. Befc turn to side, “S Hrbaty has claimed two big scalps soianr Final! French: No. 1 Yevgeny Kafelnikov, the kwere ii champion, in straight sets in the second to®tive an and former No. 1 Marcela Rios in four setsWhope o ijuarters. such a: The women’s semifinals will feature three:; rial rel ers who own a combined total of 11 French aild rai titles, though the favorite to win it all is tlr-dren in player who has none — No. 1 Martina Hingii, Klux Kl Hingis, like Agassi, will be seeking to com; a fter th a career Grand Slam as she goes into the . ; as die s against defending and three-time champ: Pointed Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario. Hingis breezed pa^fster, Austrian qualifier Barbara Schwartz 6-2, while Sanchez-Vicario beat another Austrh Sylvia Plischke, 6-2, 6-4 Five-time French Open champion Steffi Gfi will meet her longtime rival, Monica Seles, fThis sell its : he cos ame is AGASSI three-time champ, in the other women’s semi::: q. 1 Graf advanced with a 6-1, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3 victof^^ over No. 2 Lindsay Davenport. Seles beat Conchy en Martinez 6-1, 6-4. ;e | e( j f. points in the first four games, nine points in the whole third set. “He killed me on the court,” Filippini, who had not lose a set in the first four rounds, said. “I had no chance. It’s not nice to get booed on center court.” Filippini, ranked No. 140, said a strained abdom inal muscle limited his serving motion and hurt him on every backhand. Even if he were well, he said, Agassi probably still would have destroyed him. Agassi, who last reached the French semis seven years ago, is not likely to have it so easy in his next match against Dominik Hrbaty, a blithe 21-year-old Slovakian who beat him in the Lipton Championships in March. None of those women’s semifinaUsts is isf ■tage ai prise. But when it comes to the men, AgassiY| um p e( tainly is. The Agassi almost did not show up tor the French. Spring quit in the middle of the World Team Cup thewe;;i S j on f before because of a chronic right shoulder injur)' “I was probably a day away from not coming Agassi said. “Had my shoulder kept me fromhiMjjM ting the ball another day, I would have feltliHl^l that would have put too many checks in ft wrong column. There would have been too mat things against me to try to really pull it off.” Umpire’s use of replay criticize! Ed i tori NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball told umpires to keep their eyes on the ball, not the videotape. Umpire Frank Pulli’s decision to view a replay and change a home run to a double in Florida’s 5-2 loss to St. Louis was wrong, NL president Len ever, the umpires too will make mistakes; that is also part of the game.” Floyd originally said his drive Monday was a homer because it bounced off the facade behind the left-field scoreboard Miami. in Coleman said Tuesday. Commissioner Bud Selig and AL president Gene Budig immedi ately echoed that view. “Use of the video replay is not an acceptable practice,” Coleman said. “Part of the beau ty of baseball is that it is imper fect. Players make errors. Managers are constantly second- guessed. But the game is played and determined by two teams between the white lines.” Baseball, the NBA, NCAA football and soccer do not allow officials to use replays, while the NHL permits it to determine goals and NCAA basketball allows it in a few specific instances. The NFL had replay from 1986-91 and reinstated it on a limited basis last March after several game-turning calls that replays showed were incorrect. “Traditionally, baseball has relied on the eyes of the umpires as opposed to any artificial devices for its judgments,” Coleman said. “I fully support this policy. Occasionally, how- “Use of the video replay is not an acceptable practice. Part of the beauty of baseball is that it is imperfect/ 7 — Len Coleman National League president Second-base umpire Greg Gibson thought the ball hit off the scoreboard and called it a double, but after the Marlins argued, the umpires conferred and Pulli — the crew chief and third-base ump — changed the ruling to a homer. The Cardinals then protested, and the game was delayed for more than five minutes while Pulli studied replays on a TV the edi fleet ti Texas , camera near the Marli' t y° rsl dugout. After consulting !e | c P res replay, Pulli changed the ■ back to a double. Coleman said Pulli, who* 28 years is second in seniff among NL umpires, was “Mm in good faith” but made a take. Coleman did not Florida’s written protest. rj Because the Marlins ^ have gained only one more if the play had been r u i e: mri ,■ homer, it is unlikely the p4. ac will be upheld. >riate c Floyd, speaking in Miftph Si before Tuesday night’s ge'ic Sen agreed with Coleman’s derivill pre He said allowing replays tff lead to more arguments. 0 seve “You set yourself up f° rl! lIlc j t | happen again, and you’reg', le to have tons of people thr * 131 1,11 out of the game,” Floyd r 'der “They’ll be arguing until thfqegislai green in the face. 3ush S( “Most guys make histoi ate ent hitting two grand slams iqi e on ] game or something. I make •, tory by hitting a ball ik reviewed on instant replay’ A th Kent Bottenfield, the wini lave pi pitcher thought priate. “I’ve football,’ in the replays game, 0 sepa were inapf*lain net never cared for i he said. “I’m kind traditionalist, and I’d rather' see it in baseball.” i