I knew it was going to be a bad day even before I took my first sip of coffee. My wife, a diehard Duck fan, got to the paper first Monday morning and lobbed the first shot over my bow. She was far more civil than the look in her eyes suggested, showing uncommon restraint. [...]
I said in a recent post this is our voting season for various stories of the year: national, state, local. My votes are in for the Oregon awards, which is organized by the Portland Tribune. The winners will be announced Feb. 8 at the Tiger Woods Center on the Nike campus. There were 28 nominees [...]
There are a couple of football items that seem timely. With Notre Dame playing tonight in the Hawaii Bowl, it should be noted that former St. Mary’s player John Leonis has been involved with the Fighting Irish program for three years. Leonis, a cornerback, plays on the scout, or “show,” team and gives the starters [...]
This is an interesting time of the year in that we take a look back at 2008. We’re putting together top-story lists and, soon, will be looking over sections and stories for contest entries. So, I’ll make this blog the first of a series about choosing the best stories of 2008. This one will be [...]
The weather didn’t impact only scheduled sports events this week. It took a toll on us via what probably was our earliest deadline since we went to an a.m. paper in the early 1990s. It happened Thursday night, which is our earliest off-the-floor deadline (last page OK’d before it goes to the press) of the [...]
Weather has again created havoc with area sports schedules, particularly the Cascade Christian Wachovia Christmas Classic. What began as 32 boys and girls basketball teams convening for a three-day tournament at four Rogue Valley gyms has been whittled significantly, but it presses on. Similarly, other teams are trying to get games in despite cancellations elsewhere, [...]
Random thoughts: The recent wintry weather has done to high school schedules what spring rains do for baseball, softball and tennis. It’s made a mess of them with cancellations. If anyone needs an aspirin because of it, it’s Cascade Christian coach Brian Morse, whose three-day, 32-team tournament that began today has been turned upside down. [...]
By TIM TROWER You’ll notice the schedule of local events on our Scoreboard will have a different look beginning Wednesday. With the Varsity541 Web site we started this fall, there’s a calendar of games that requires a different form of data entry than what we’ve always done for the print edition. As we intensify our [...]
By TIM TROWER Like most people, Kelsey George enjoys free stuff. Especially free throws. The junior point guard for the Phoenix High girls basketball team is making them at an impressive 87-percent clip. She was 11-for-12 Saturday in a 65-50 win over Eagle Point in the championship game of the Berry’s Holiday Classic at Phoenix. George [...]
By TIM TROWER I wrote a couple days ago about how press conferences aren’t as beneficial to us as they are the electronic media, largely because of their timing and sometimes because the subject matter doesn’t require such an investment of time. However, I’m reminded of the best “presser” we’ve had here. It was highly [...]
