The time has come to throw in my two cents on how the Super Bowl will play out. This game is never easy to pin down because there are so many stats, story lines and opinions floated for two weeks that change your way of thinking. Initially, I liked Pittsburgh to win but not to [...]
I got a phone message Monday. The guy seemed in good spirits, but there was more than a hint of sarcasm in his voice. He couldn’t believe he opened his paper and didn’t see a photo of Kyle Singler. We get that from time to time. While I suspect the vast majority of readers enjoy [...]
Oregon State basketball, which hadn’t made much in the way of waves since Ralph Miller’s reign, has done just that in the past week. With new coach Craig Robinson attending his brother-in-law’s inauguration, then returning west to guide the Beavers to huge upset road wins over Cal and Stanford. They were about 17-point underdogs in [...]
The PBA’s Tournament of Champions should be quite a show Sunday, but be aware — the air time for the major on ESPN has been moved up a half hour to 9:30 a.m. On the line is $50,000 and a two-year exemption on tour, and a couple of familiar faces will be going for that [...]
Like the intro says, this comes under the heading of, “What were those guys thinking?” That would have been my reaction if I opened Friday’s sports section and found a Pac-10 basketball roundup that had Oregon’s game against Stanford as the lead item but accompanied by a photo from the UCLA-Washington State game. I was [...]
My blog today was going to be about the recent PBA event, tying up loose ends and such. But it ran long enough I turned it into a column that will be in Thursday’s paper. So some other thoughts. I just flipped on the TV and realized it’s time to go from the NFL Network, where they’re [...]
Well, we tried to have a gathering of local sports media folks, but it didn’t come off too well. Actually, it didn’t come off at all as almost no one showed up for this session of the Third Monday Talks, a program sponsored by the Friends of the Medford Library. I should say a nice gentleman shook all our hands and thanked [...]
One thing about the Internet, we hear from more people in more places because they see us online and respond via e-mail. I did a story on Marshall Holman recently and got an interesting e-mail response from a bowling fan who long idolized the Medford Meteor. It’s Sam Villareale, a graphic illustrator in Rochester, N.Y., [...]
Maybe I’m a little late coming to this, but have you noticed the creepy crawlies running across the screen on ESPN college basketball games? What in the name of Arachnophobia is going on? I’m often working at the times these games are on, so I don’t get to see many. But when I tuned in [...]
We covered the Professional Women’s Bowling Association when it held its inaugural Bowl the Rogue Open at Showtime Lanes in Grants Pass nearly nine years ago. Then, the women’s tour was flourishing. It had just signed its biggest TV deal to have all 24 events shown live on ESPN2. Three years later it folded after [...]
