Event calendar: March 9-15

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

TODAYCENTRAL OREGON SPORTSMEN’S SHOW: Featuring vendors and a variety of resources for outdoor recreation, with a head and horns competition, a kids trout pond, cooking demonstrations and more; $10, $5 ages 6-16, free ages 5 and younger, $15 for a two-day pass; noon-8 p. m.; Deschutes County....MORE

Going out

Looking for something to do? Check out our listing of live music, DJs, karaoke, open mics and more happening at local nightspots. Find lots more at www.bendbulletin.com/events.

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

TODAYARRIDIUM: Rock; 6 p. m.; Taylor's Sausage Deli & Pub, 913 N. E. 3rd St., Bend; 541-383-1694. BELLAVIA: Jazz and blues; 6 p. m.; 750 Wine Bar & Bistro, 427 S. W. Eighth St., Redmond; 541-504-7111. THE PRAIRIE ROCKETS: Americana and bluegrass; 6 p. m.; Slick's Que Co., 212 N. E. Revere Ave., Bend; 541-....MORE

Elliot celebrates new album tonight

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

All has been relatively quiet around the Elliot camp in recent months, and now we know why: The Bend-based quintet has apparently been hard at work prepping the release of a new album, “Borderlines,” which they'll celebrate with a free show tonight in the Student Center at Westside....MORE

Winter sports

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

• Central Oregon cyclist wins 350-mile race in Alaska: Bend’s Pete Basinger won Alaska’s 2012 Iditarod Trail Invitational, finishing the 350-mile race this past Sunday on his snow bike in six days and 15 hours. Competitors in the Iditarod Trail Invitational can bike, ski, or hike....MORE

Winter sports

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

• Zirkle, two former champs lead Iditarod: Led by Aliy Zirkle, four mushers who have already taken their mandatory 24-hour layovers have left the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race mid-point of Cripple, Alaska, en route to the next checkpoint at Ruby, on the Yukon River. Listed in second place....MORE

Syrian oil official reportedly defects from Assad government

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

BEIRUT — Syria’s deputy oil minister reportedly defected from the government of Bashar Assad on Thursday, and a high-level peace envoy seeking a cease-fire in Syria warned against further “militarization” of the bloody conflict. The reported defection of Abdo Hussameddin....MORE

Top 25 men s college basketball roundup

Syracuse survives UConn in Big East tourney

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

NEW YORK — Dion Waiters had 18 points and James Southerland scored all 10 of his points in the final 8 minutes to lead No. 2 Syracuse (31-1) to a 58-55 victory over Connecticut on Thursday in the quarterfinals of the Big East tournament, snapping the Huskies’ 13-game postseason....MORE

Sisters board member quits

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

SISTERS — Sisters School Board Vice Chairman Glen Lasken said he’s resigning from the school board. Lasken announced his decision Wednesday night at the school board meeting. He’ll be staying on until June, when the school year is complete and budget planning is finished. Lasken,....MORE

Golf roundup

Scott, Dufner share early lead at Doral

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

DORAL, Fla. — Playing only his sixth round of the year, Adam Scott faced a strong test Thursday at Doral and never looked better. In fierce and relentless wind on the TPC Blue Monster at Doral, Scott kept the ball in play and then hung on for dear life for a 6-under 66 that gave him a share of ....MORE

Scoreboard

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

On Deck Today Boys basketball: Class 5A consolation, Mountain View vs. Churchill at Matthew Knight Arena, Eugene, 9 a. m.; Class 4A semifinals, Sisters vs. Phoenix at Gill Coliseum, Corvallis, 8:15 p. m. Girls basketball: Class 5A semifinals, Bend vs. Springfield at Matthew Knight Arena, Eugene, ....MORE

Owens, Lewis in new Hall of Fame

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

ISTANBUL — Jesse Owens was posthumously made an inaugural member of the IAAF Hall of Fame on Thursday, more than 75 years after he won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and showed up Adolph Hitler’s idea of Aryan supremacy. Owens joined Carl Lewis, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and....MORE

NHL roundup

Ovechkin scores in overtime, Caps defeat Lightning

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

WASHINGTON — Alex Ovechkin scored on a wrist shot at 4:09 of overtime, and the Washington Capitals came back to beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-2 Thursday night, snapping a three-game losing streak. Ovechkin celebrated the end of his four-game point drought by racing over to leap into the....MORE

On the Air

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

TelevisionTodayGolf10 a. m.: World Golf Championships, Cadillac Championship, second round, Golf Channel.3:30 p. m.: PGA Tour, Puerto Rico Open, second round, Golf Channel. BASKETBALL9 a. m.: Men’s college, Big Ten tournament, quarterfinal, Michigan State vs. Iowa, ESPN.9 a. m.: Men’s....MORE

News of Record: Police Log

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

Police Log The Bulletin will update items in the Police Log when such a request is received. Any new information, such as the dismissal of charges or acquittal, must be verifiable. For more information, call 541-383-0358. Bend Police Department Criminal mischief — An act of criminal....MORE

NBA Scoreboard

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

Standings National Basketball Association All Times PST———EASTERN CONFERENCEW L Pct GBd-Chicago 33 9 .786 —d-Miami 30 9 .769 1½Orlando 26 15 .634 6½d-Philadelphia 23 17 .575 9Indiana 23 14 .622 7½Atlanta 23 16 .590 8½Boston 20 18 .526 11New....MORE

NBA roundup

Magic stop Bulls’ winning streak, 99-94

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

CHICAGO — Dwight Howard had 29 points and 18 rebounds to lead the Orlando Magic to a 99-94 win over the Bulls on Thursday, snapping Chicago’s eight-game winning streak. Chicago twice overcame double-digit deficits and led 91-89 with 2:56 to play after Derrick Rose passed to Carlos....MORE

Cross-country skiing

Local captures national title

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

Isabel Smith, a member of the COCC Nordic Ski Club, won a national title and placed second in another event this week at the United States Ski and Snowboard Association National Championships. The championships began this past Saturday in Sunday River, Maine, and will conclude this coming Sunday.....MORE

Japan’s nuclear industry nears shutdown

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

OHI, Japan — All but two of Japan’s 54 commercial reactors have gone off-line since the nuclear disaster a year ago, after the earthquake and tsunami, and it is not clear when they can be restarted. With the last operating reactor scheduled to be idled as soon as next month, Japan....MORE

Iran pressed on nuke inspector access

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

The six world powers that have agreed to resume negotiations with Iran over its disputed nuclear program issued a blunt request Thursday that the Iranians allow international inspectors unfettered access, most notably to Parchin, a large restricted military complex that the inspectors suspect may....MORE

Feather cells tell of a tiny dinosaur’s crowlike sheen

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

Sexual drive, not flight, may have been the main reason for the feather color and pattern of the microraptor, a four-winged dinosaur that lived some 130 million years ago in what is now northeastern China. New research by U. S. and Chinese scientists shows that the animal had a predominantly glossy....MORE

Earth weathers solar storm fine, so far

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

WASHINGTON — Our high-tech world seems to have easily weathered a solar storm that didn’t quite live up to its advance billing. While some experts think the threat from the solar storm passed by Thursday afternoon, space weather forecasters said it’s still too early to relax.....MORE

Developer forfeits claims to mine gold

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

GRANTS PASS — Authorities said Tuesday a Washington developer whose plans for mining gold on a premier Oregon salmon river inspired a bill in Congress to stop him has forfeited his claims. Federal records show Dave Rutan and his Chetco River Mining & Explorations LLC of La Center, Wash.,....MORE

Cyclist in crash drunk, police say

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

An allegedly intoxicated bicyclist was injured Thursday afternoon when he rode into the path of an oncoming vehicle, according to Bend Police. Officers responded to the intersection of Southeast Centennial Street and Southeast Woodland Boulevard at about 4:20 p. m. upon receiving reports of a bicycle-....MORE

Cycling

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

• Wiggins still leads Paris-Nice: Lieuwe Westra attacked late in the final climb of the day to win the fifth stage of the Paris-Nice race on Thursday in France, while Bradley Wiggins extended his overall lead to 10 seconds over his main rival Levi Leipheimer. Westra moved into second place,....MORE

GOP campaign GOP campaign

Conservative primacy may come down to Deep South

March 9, 2012 4:00 am

For Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, the Deep South primaries in Alabama and Mississippi on Tuesday will be a race for conservative primacy in the battle for the Republican presidential nomination. Unless one of them decisively puts the other away, however, Mitt Romney could be the big winner no....MORE