Oden is better the second time

Top pick Greg Oden’s second summer league game with the Portland Trail Blazers was better than his first, but still not up to the high-profile center’s expectations.

Two days after he was disqualified with 10 fouls in 20 minutes, Oden had 13 points, five rebounds and nine fouls Sunday in Portland’s 72-68 loss to the Dallas Mavericks at Las Vegas. Summer league rules allow for 10 personals.

“I felt more comfortable, but we lost so it doesn’t matter,” Oden said. “I’m all about winning.”

Oden picked up his ninth foul with 3 minutes 23 seconds to play, but didn’t foul out. Fouling out twice, with double the amount of fouls at his disposal from this winter at Ohio State, would have been embarrassing, he said.

“The guys tell me it won’t be like this during the regular season,” said Oden, who scored four points in the final minute. “They are trying out new guys [referees] who are trying to make a good impression.”

Oden had six points, three rebounds and three fouls in 14 first-half minutes. He picked up his first foul 36 seconds into the game, but appeared more comfortable.

He had three fouls in the first 2:59 on Friday and spent most of the game on the bench.

The 7-foot, 250-pound Oden had three blocks in the first quarter and took out some frustration with a backboard-rattling dunk that resulted in a technical for hanging on the rim. He finished with four blocks.

“I need to start bringing it to guys and establish how I will play in the regular season,” Oden said.

MISCELLANY

NASCAR truck driver Fike is arrested

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver Aaron Fike was arrested in an amusement park parking lot at Mason, Ohio, after authorities found a substance believed to be heroin in his sport utility vehicle, police said.

Mason police said Fike, 24, and his fiancee, Cassandra Davidson, were arrested Saturday afternoon on charges of possession of heroin and drug paraphernalia. Bond hadn’t been set and both remained in Warren County Jail late Sunday.

Fike, who is eighth in points with 1,487, trails series leader Mike Skinner by 566 points.

“We are working with NASCAR to obtain further information on the incident and will release more information as the facts become available to us,” team owner and General Manager Mike DeLoach said in a statement.

Chris Greisen threw for 301 yards and seven touchdowns and rushed for a touchdown to help the Georgia Force defeat the Philadelphia Soul, 65-39, in an Arena Football League playoff game at Atlanta. The Force (15-2) will play host to the Columbus Destroyers for the National Conference championship Saturday.

Mike Lambert and Stein Metzger held off Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers, 23-21, 15-21, 15-13, to win the AVP beach volleyball tournament at Seaside Heights, N.J. The final match marked the second consecutive time that the two teams matched up, both won by Metzger and Lambert.

Elaine Youngs and Nicole Branagh fought off match point to defeat April Ross and Jennifer Boss, 21-19, 18-21, 16-14, to win the women’s title.

Polish fans stormed the field and clashed with riot police at halftime of a soccer game between a Polish team and a Lithuanian team at Vilnius, Lithuania.

Lithuanian TV footage showed police in riot gear using tear gas to disperse the fans. About 100 fans were arrested, Lithuanian police said. Most of those arrested were later released. One officer and a handful of fans received minor injuries, police said.

Vetra FC, based in Vilnius, led, 2-0, in an Intertoto Cup game when hundreds of Legia Warsaw fans ran onto the field during the break, trying to tear down the goal nets and vandalizing billboards. Players and officials had left the field, and the referee abandoned the game.

Crews from Harvard and California were among the winners at the Henley Royal Regatta at Henley-on-Thames, England.

Harvard won the Ladies Plate for elite eights by a length over a composite crew from England’s Molesey Boat Club and the New York Athletic Club.

In the Temple Cup final for student eights, Cal defeated Cornell by 1 1/2 lengths.

In the Princess Royal Cup final for international women scullers, Michelle Guerette from the Radcliffe crew from Cambridge, Mass., defeated Jenny Goldsack from England’s Wallingford Club.

A man who attended the Ultimate Fighting Championship event at Sacramento’s Arco Arena died Saturday night after plunging an estimated 30 feet from the arena’s upper deck, authorities said.

The man, who was not immediately identified, was transported at 8:27 p.m. to UC Davis Medical Center and was declared dead at 10 p.m., Sacramento County Sheriff spokesman Sgt. R.L. Davis said late Saturday.

A crowd of 14,371 attended the UFC 73 event at Arco Arena, the second time the mixed martial arts organization has appeared at the home of the NBA’s Sacramento Kings.

-- Lance Pugmire