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Baseball
Larsen will watch perfection on TV
In a notion foreign to the TiVo generation, former New York Yankees pitcher Don Larsen will watch the NBC-TV broadcast of his World Series perfect game for the first time this month, 51 years after pitching it.
Larsen, who lives in Hayden, Idaho, and his catcher, Yogi Berra, will attend the first public viewing of the telecast of his historic 1956 performance against the Brooklyn Dodgers on Feb. 23 at the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center in Little Falls, N.J.
The event, a fundraiser benefiting the Don Larsen Foundation and the Learning Center, is open to the public but limited to 80 people in the small theater.
College athletics
New Ducks A.D. brings bucks
The University of Oregon has hired insurance executive Pat Kilkenny, a prominent school booster, as its new athletic director.
Kilkenny replaces Bill Moos, who will step down next month.
Kilkenny is chairman emeritus of San Diego-based Arrowhead General Insurance Inc., which he acquired in 1984 and sold in 2006.
Kilkenny, an Oregon native who is close to Ducks booster and Nike co-founder Phil Knight, went to the University of Oregon for four years until 1974 but is not a graduate.
University President David Frohnmayer said Kilkenny has agreed to return his salary to the school for “academic and athletic purposes.”
He has been spearheading Oregon’s plans to replace venerable McArthur Court, and contributed $1.5 million to finance the design of a new basketball arena.
College basketball
Game day alert: Zags start at 3
Saturday’s non-conference men’s basketball game between No. 8-ranked Memphis and Gonzaga University in Veterans Memorial Arena has officially been declared a sellout.
But those 9,000-plus fans planning to attend might not want to trust the tip-off time printed on their tickets.
The game starts at 3 p.m., but all preprinted tickets mistakenly list the start time as 1 p.m.
In addition, the Bulldogs’ Feb. 24 West Coast Conference road game at the University of San Francisco will start at 12:30 p.m. instead of 3:30 p.m., the time listed on GU’s schedule. The mix-up, according to GU officials, was the result of a miscommunication between ABC-TV, which will televise the game, and the WCC, which handled the television contract negotiations.