By Kevin Goff That day is finally upon us: Greg Oden (7-foot shot blocker with a developing inside game) or Kevin Durant (6-foot-9, about 100 pounds dripping wet with a jump shot so smooth a baby’s backside would be jealous). Since there is no Sam Bowie Jr. in this year’s draft, these are the two [...]
By KRIS HENRY The great thing about having an in-state college rivalry is that there’s seemingly always room for debate. The latest issue involving the University of Oregon and Oregon State University involves the recent success of the Beavers’ baseball program, and the lack of a competing entity in Duck land. Oregon dropped baseball as [...]
Browsing around the AM dial the other day, I came upon what I thought was a faint whisper of a sports talk radio show. Fuzzy as it was, I swear I made out a Dan Patrick or a rack ‘em (a common phrase on the Jim Rome Show). Turns out I was hearing things. Or, [...]
By TIM TROWER CORVALLIS — Oregon State baseball coach Pat Casey is big on the idea of a team being a family and forever connected. You can have your highlights and your stats, but it’s what kind of teammate you are, how tough you are, how much you’re willing to sacrifice that will be remembered [...]
CORVALLIS — If we’ve learned anything about Oregon State baseball over the past couple seasons, it would be to never count the Beavers out. Never. Their struggles were well-chronicled through the meat of season, when they were only 10-14 in the Pac-10 and were in danger of not making it to the postseason. Then they [...]
Some of you may have opened up Sunday’s paper and thumbed through to the Sports section to see how the area’s teams did in the state championship games, and when you got there, you may have noticed it was sideways. In fact, I hope you did notice it was sideways, because that was the intention. [...]
