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NHL Training Camps Open Today and Tomorrow
Published 9/14/2007 by Jason Cohen at Can't Stop The Bleeding

Oden injury fallout: ESPN
Published 9/14/2007 by Casey Holdahl at Blazers Blog - OregonLive.com
... know, I can't talk now," said Rodriguez, who had hoped to be lobbing alley-oop passes to the 7-foot Oden for the next seven months. [snip] The news of Oden's surgery traveled around the world relatively quickly, but it didn't reach the ears of Spain's Rudy Fernandez until ESPN.com let him know about it in the hallway leading to the players' locker room at Madrid's Palace Arena. Fernandez's eyes shot wide open when he heard. "Really? Greg Oden is a really good player. I look forward to playing with him one year from now," said Fernandez, whose rights were traded from Phoenix to Portland on draft night in late June. He plans to play one more year in Spain before going to the NBA, and now it appears Fernandez will be a rookie in Portland the same season in which Oden is a rookie in Portland. I'm sure that everyone on the team is upset about Oden's injury, but the point guards have to really be stinging. He was going to make Jarrett Jack, Steve Blake and Sergio look real good. -- ...