BY WILL SOUTHWOOD
September 4, 2008
The ninth-ranked Grants Pass football team is ready to make a statement up at Centennial Friday.
The third-ranked South Medford football squad is bracing for a mighty challenge from Evergreen, Washington.
The North Medford volleyball team sweeps Crater.
The Ashland boys' soccer team edges Grants Pass, 5-3.

National Sports

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BC's Jagodzinski meets with New York Jets Boston College's Jeff Jagodzinski met with New York Jets officials Tuesday to discuss their head coaching vacancy—an interview that was expected to cost him his job with the Eagles.

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