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Brandon Roy

...that Portland Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy (pictured) won the 2007 Rookie of the Year Award by a near-unanimous vote despite missing almost a third of his first season in the NBA due to injuries?
...that Malheur Reservation in Oregon was set aside for Native Americans in 1872 and opened to European American settlement by Ulysses S. Grant in 1876?
...that the Willamette Collegian, the college newspaper of Willamette University in Oregon, was named an all-star publication by the National Pacemaker Awards a record 16 times in a row?
... that Oregon cattle baron Peter French was murdered near the Sod House Ranch in 1897?

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