A West Coast League team will take up shop in Klamath Falls in the near future, as soon as 2010, it looks like. K-Falls got a conditional membership to the WCL, a wood-bat summer college league that began play in 2005. It would be the ninth member. The WCL fills rosters with college players from [...]
Puh-leeze, with the hype. I heard on ESPN radio on the way in today that if Louisville beats UConn tonight for the NCAA women’s national championship, it would go down as the biggest upset in sports history. Huh!?1? OK, so I doubt few people really think that, and sure, how else are you supposed to [...]
Two former Oregon State players were to open the major league season Monday, but only one did. Brian Barden and the St. Louis Cardinals lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 6-4, but Jacoby Ellsbury and the Boston Red Sox were postponed until today, when they’re to open against Tampa Bay. Ellsbury is in his third big-league season. [...]
A reader took issue earlier in the week about how little space we gave to the NCAA women’s basketball tournament in Tuesday’s paper. A Pac-10 team, Stanford had won to advance to the Final Four and the Cardinal’s Jayne Appel scored 46 points. He said many people follow the women as well as the women, [...]
You wouldn’t have known South Medford’s E.J. Singler was bothered by a bum knee the way he went about his work in the football and basketball seasons. The 6-foot-6 University of Oregon recruit had surgery Tuesday to repair a meniscus in his left knee that was first injured in football in October. Nevertheless, he was all-state in football at [...]
Jason Allred is back at it, having tried to Monday qualify for the Nationwide Tour event this week in San Francisco. The former Ashland standout played on the PGA Tour last year, his second go-round there. He didn’t keep his card, then didn’t make it back through Tour Qualifying School. Without status on either tour, [...]
Former North Medford tennis player Nate Schnugg continues to shine in the college ranks, helping Georgia to a No. 3 national ranking and a 16-2 record. The Bulldogs are going for a third national title in a row. Schnugg was named outstanding player of last year’s team championships. A story from a Georgia Web site [...]
