Softball

Ducks drop 12th straight — Washington scored six runs in the second inning and took down Oregon 8-0 Monday night in Eugene. The five-inning win for the Huskies completed a sweep of the three-game Pac-12 series against the Ducks (0-6 Pac-12, 11-16 overall), whose losing streak reached 12 games. Sami Reynolds and Noelle Hee had two-run singles for Washington in the second inning, and Kaija Gibson hit a solo home run in the third. Oregon managed just three hits against Huskies pitcher Taran Alvelo.

RUGBY

Bend club rolls to victory — Mike Gamm scored three tries to lead the Bend Rugby Club to a 44-7 league win over the Eugene Stags in a match played Saturday in Medford. The win boosted the Roughriders’ record to 7-3 in league and 10-4 overall. Their next match is this Saturday in Salem against the Salem Spartans.

Football

Packers to play Bears to kick off NFL season — As part of the celebration of its 100th season, the NFL will break from tradition and feature the Packers vs. the Bears in its season opener Sept. 5. Usually, the Super Bowl champion is the home team for the prime-time opener, but the league wants to salute historic rivalries in 2019. None fits better than Chicago-Green Bay. The teams have met 198 times since 1921, when the Bears were the Chicago Staleys. Green Bay leads the series 97-95-6, including the clubs splitting two postseason games. Staging the Thursday night game at Chicago’s Soldier Field adds to the theme. There will be a free fan festival and concert in nearby Grant Park and, for the first time, the league has approved a free viewing event of the game in the park.

Basketball

Former NYU, Knicks star Ramsey dies at 81 — Cal Ramsey, who starred at NYU in the 1950s and went on to play and broadcast for the New York Knicks, died Monday. He was 81. The Knicks said Ramsey died of cardiac arrest at The Riverside Premier Rehabilitation and Healing Center in Manhattan. After his playing career, Ramsey worked for the organization as a color analyst and later in community relations. He served as a Knicks ambassador for the last 28 years and had remained on NYU’s basketball staff since 1983. Madison Square Garden chairman James Dolan called Ramsey “one of the greatest ambassadors in New York City basketball history.”

Skiing

1st woman to win Olympic aerials gold medal dies — Lina Cheryazova, the first woman to win an Olympic aerials skiing gold medal, has died. She was 50. Officials in the Russian city of Novosibirsk, where Cheryazova was living for the last two decades, said she died “following a lengthy illness,” without giving further details. Competing for Uzbekistan, Cheryazova won gold with a triple flip when aerials skiing debuted on the Olympic program in 1994 in Lillehammer. Shortly after winning, she learned her mother died three weeks before. Cheryazova’s career was derailed later that year when she suffered a serious head injury while training in the United States, and spent days in a coma. She retired after failing to qualify for the 1998 Winter Olympics.

— Bulletin staff and wire reports