And a peek ahead at that all-important Friday right now back to Seaman Day.
Thanks David. Coming up, but the Major League owners waste no time in appointing a temporary commissioner.
Michael Bryan will be along to join us with that story and all the rest of the day's sporting news.
We'll be back with an important warning for Mount Hood hikers and still ahead, the vice president changes his mind on family values?
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Hikers are warned to stay off some Mount Hood trails after a cougar stalked two people.
The hikers escaped unharmed after another group of people scared away the mountain lion.
Sharon Holland talked to wildlife experts today who say humans may be threatened more as Oregon's cougar population grows.
Two people hiking on Mount Hood told forestry officials a cougar stalked them for nearly four miles.
They turned around and saw him on the trail and they scared him, he scared them. I think everybody just got a little over anxious.
Forestry official Barbara Cot doubts the cougar was going to attack the hikers. She believes the animal was protecting his territory.
We know we have a dead deer carcass up there in the woods that the cougar is probably protecting.
And cougars are just inquisitive animals.
You know, they'll follow people through the woods and people don't even know they're being followed.
Cot says the hikers probably would not have walked out of the woods alive if the animal had attacked.
These caged mountain lions may look docile, but in the wilderness cougars have attacked humans,
though there have been no such reports in Oregon in recent years.
As a precaution, forestry officials will keep hikers away from the cougar's area for about two weeks.
Only a small portion of the trail near Ramona Falls is actually closed. The rest has been rerouted.
Forestry officials made the decision after the deer kill was spotted up there this past weekend.
No other hikers have reported seeing the cougar. If that does happen, wildlife experts say there are some ways that might help survive the encounter.
Making loud noises, picking up rocks or sticks and throwing them, you know, something to protect yourself.
But, you know, if a cougar is intent on attacking you, you better fight back.
But no, I wouldn't say you have much chance against a cougar unless you have, you know, a weapon.
Cot says don't run. The cougar may think you're prey. Forestry officials don't plan to trap this cougar.
Sharon Holland, The Ten O'Clock News.
Singer Carole King joined environmental activists in Washington, D.C. today for the introduction of a new wilderness bill in Congress.
King says she believes it's not too late to save our forest land.
The bill, introduced by Pennsylvania Congressman Peter Kosmeier, would ban logging across 13 million acres in five western states from eastern Oregon to Wyoming.
The bill would establish a three million acre national park on the Oregon-Idaho border. Singer Carole King has a ranch in Idaho.
Well, the sale of some trees that are apparently beyond saving should be wrapped up quickly, thanks to President Bush.
He has ordered federal agencies to speed the sale of dead or dying timber on government-owned lands here in the Northwest.
Also, a more controversial timber sale involving Oregon's biggest stand of old-growth ponderosa pine is off again, at least temporarily.
A Portland drive to collect clothing and household supplies for the victims of Hurricane Andrew is over tonight, and according to organizers, it was enormously successful.
In just 10 days, Quality Moving and Storage of Tigard collected 10 truckloads of goods, including new clothes, cases of diapers and baby food, towels, dishes, and furniture.
Organizer Bev Wells says members of the Oregon Truckers Association have volunteered to drive the goods to Dade County, Florida, where they'll be distributed by the Salvation Army.
But this is the last day, and we want to thank all the hundreds of volunteers who have come out here every day, some of them, and for the people who have donated the goods that they've donated. It's just been phenomenal.
Wells says individuals were responsible for most of the contributions.
Well, Mike O'Brien joins us now with all the news is fit to print and speak of.
Robin Yacht did it. Yes, he did. They are partying in Milwaukee. So good for them. Robin Yacht leaves them dancing in Milwaukee right now. And what's it like to follow a legend?
Well, the successor to Ed Rutchman is finding out right now on the gridiron at Linfield College.
Like working at Gunnarsen faculty have a steady steady work. The money and the benefit and the people are really good here. I like the fairness of Gunnarsen. They've always treated me really, really well. You got a problem there right there to take care of it. They seem real fair to their employees.
I like the people. I enjoy working with my boss. They treat you as an individual here. I like the money. The benefits. It's a good job. Dirty, but I like it. Gunnarsen has been part of this community since 1919. Today we employ over 1200 people building rail cars and ships and barges here in Portland, Oregon.
And we build over 4000 of them a year. The reason that we've been successful is because of our people. They produce quality product. They care about their work. They work hard and the work is hard. So we just want to salute you today. Gunnarsen's workforce. Congratulations for a job well done.
I want to go see my granddaughter. Thank you.
Robin Yount is the toast of Milwaukee. Nobody seems to mind that the Brewers lost because Yount is now the 17th player to reach 3000 career hits. Yount has been quietly consistent his entire career, but now he's in a club which from top to bottom starts to read like this.
Pete Rose, Ty Cobb, Hank Aaron, and Stan Musial. Yount reaching 3000 in the bottom of the seventh tonight against Cleveland. Base hit to right field coming up here. Yount also got hits 1000 and 2000 against the Indians as well.
The two-time MVP now tied with Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente at 3000 career hits.
Meantime Toronto's David Cohn doing what the Blue Jays want him to do. Pitch shutout baseball. He gets some help from Kelly Gruber here. Nice catch by Gruber. Toronto shuts out Kansas City 1-0.
And it's a lonely old night as John Mellencamp might say, but Jose Canseco serves up something to keep the fans company. Canseco's second home run in two nights. A free run shot as Texas beats Boston.
Cleveland over the Brewers 5-4. Cohn is 2-1 with Toronto. New York beats Baltimore as Tartable hits another home run. Minnesota beats Dave Fleming and the Mariners 6-2.
Oakland has shutout California 3-0. Canseco has three hits for Texas. And Chicago's on a roll. The White Sox beat Detroit tonight.
Atlanta's Tom Glavin trying to become the National League's first 20-game winner. Glavin on the mound. It's a rough night, but he gets lots of help from his friends. That was Biff Roberts drilling it to the wall, but Lonnie Smith and the relay take care of that second runner trying to score.
He is out at the plate. Only one run in there. Glavin gets roughed up, but pitches well enough to win number 20. And Atlanta now leads the Reds by eight and a half games in the West.
San Francisco and the Astros are tied in the sixth. The Padres and the Dodgers, it's L.A. leading in the fifth. Jeff King gets a grand slam to beat the Cubs. The Cardinals wrap Montreal and Curt Schilling. One hits the Mets.
Major League owners will be reworking the powers of baseball's commissioner in the weeks and months ahead. And in the meantime, the executive council has named Brewers owner, Bud Seeleague, as chairman and essentially have given him the powers of commissioner.
He has the duties of the commissioner's office and Bud has the authority, 100 percent, to act on the executive council's behalf.
Seeleague, though, says the council will be working as a body in deciding major issues. It's advantage Beavers tonight in the PCL North playoffs. David McCarty slamming two home runs. Marlo Gozzo gets the win.
The Denver's taking game one at Vancouver. It's a best of five series at the U.S. Open tonight. Top seed Jim Courier has advanced. He takes care of Andre Agassi in four sets earlier today.
Third seed Pete Sampras at the bottom of the screen makes a great run to save the point and win the point at the net. Look at this reach. He drops it in. And with the balance of a gymnast, Sampras stops just before touching the net.
The 1990 U.S. Open champ beats Volkov in straight sets. On the ladies side, meantime, second seed Steffi Graf working on her swing. That's not a good sign in the midst of a quarterfinal match against Arantia Sanchez Vacario.
Graf just falls apart. Sanchez Vacario keeps the ball in play and Graf keeps making mistakes. This will be the last one. 49 unforced errors. It's Sanchez Vacario winning in straight sets.
It is hard to follow a legend in sports. Just ask the next Blazer Radio play-by-play announcer or anybody who has followed John Wooden at UCLA. Linfield's football program going through a similar transition after the retirement of longtime coach, Ad Rutchman.
Bill Cassidy profiles the new boss.
The glory days of Ad Rutchman will be hard to beat. There were 24 straight winning seasons and three national titles.
Let's go. Tell. Quickly down at this end. Let's go.
47-year-old Ed Langsdorp is the man in charge now. He was an offensive assistant under the legendary Rutchman for 12 years.
Let's go, man. Let's go. Let's bounce into this.
There's obviously some expectations that I feel, not by anybody outside, but just I kind of want things to continue.
He's not going to replace him. He's just going to start a new program under his name. I wouldn't want to be in his shoes, but he's got a great thing going right now. I think no one could do a better job than he is right now.
Go.
There you go. Do it again.
Nothing really changes in terms of game plan for Linfield. The Wildcats will keep it wide open on offense, always looking for balance.
There will be a difference in coaching on game days here at Linfield College. Ed Rutchman used to direct his team from the press box. Ed Langsdorp will do all his work right here on the sidelines.
The approach to practice changes a little. The new head coach, it seems, has a longer fuse.
We were all real terrified of Coach Rutchman. If you made a mistake, you were pretty much scared about what he was going to do to you, but Coach Langsdorp more lacks and he'll take your side. If you do it once, it's okay. If you do it twice, it's just like Coach Rutchman.
Linfield has the longest string of winning seasons of any college team ever. It's 37 going on 38. At least that's what the new head coach is hoping.
If we lose a bunch of games, that's going to be real. That's going to be real different. And I think that's probably the thing that drives me the most. I don't want that to happen.
In McMinnville, Phil Cassidy, the Ten O'Clock Sports.
Linfield will open with Pacific Lutheran September 19th at home.
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The Ukrainians are playing football and tonight at Civic Stadium they meet the Thunderbolts.
The Scythians from Donetsk, Ukraine are champions of their 12-team league, but tonight the Scythians in the yellow are out of their league against the Bolts.
But one day down the road a team from over there just might come to the States looking for a Super Bowl title. At least that's the dream.
So maybe in several years when we become older and our young players will become older as well, they can play and we will work as coaches.
Then we shall come with them to the United States and we shall show a good game here.
The Ukrainians may not be up to speed with the American game of football, but the term souvenir stand is much easier to understand. The first ever Ukrainian vendor at Civic Stadium tonight.
And we now have proof that golfers are athletes. LPGA Pro Laurel Keene with a nice catch in left field.
Several of the LPGA golfers playing a little softball against the Portland Blues tonight. The golfers play a game just about every week on tour.
And here's proof that those LPGA golfers are easily fooled. It's the old Grapefruit Ball and Loretta Alderetti is the victim. She just tears the cover right off it.
It's a loss though for the golfers tonight. They've never beaten this Portland softball team. The Lady Pros in town for the pink tournament that gets underway Friday at Columbia H.W.
And what was the score in the Ukrainian game? I believe it was 55-0 at last report.
But they made it up at the confession. They did. They did big business at halftime. Stacking dog.
And Robin Yant hitting number 3000. How many people in that? He's number 17 and he has about 1200 to go when he could catch Pete Rose.
I don't think he's going to make it. Thanks. Well the candidates are coming. We'll be back with their Northwest travel plans in just a minute.
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