Josh Havird, a junior wing for South Medford — I mistakenly called him a senior in today’s paper — scored a career-high 30 points in the Panthers’ opening, 71-49 win over Redmond in the Medford Abby’s Holiday Classic Monday. So what does he have to do to threaten the scoring record in the 20-year tournament? That and a little more. Jamie Snook of [...]
Allison Gida showed what a hot-shot she is Monday in the South Coast Les Schwab Holiday Tournament at Marshfield High. Sure, the Ashland senior did fine in the game, scoring 19 points in a rout of North Bend, but it was her exhibition at halftime of the preceding game that opened eyes. As part of the [...]
Just a heads up. The good folks at North Medford High are concerned someone out there is posing as a representative of the school’s baseball team and soliciting money for a team poster. Black Tornado coach Brett Wolfe got wind of it when the poster imposter called a coach trying to get money in exchange [...]
It appears Tiger Woods’ golf schedule won’t be as limited as originally thought. That’s if the reports he and wife Elin are headed for divorce. It’s the best thing for him and for her, in my opinion, given recent events. Once they are apart, the scandal will fade. He’ll get back on the golf course [...]
Talk about a road trip. I don’t know if the boys and girls Tenison Woods high school basketball teams from Mount Gambier, South Australia, have a nickname or a mascot, but I have one for them. You’ve heard of the Dayton Flyers? The PF Flyers? We’ll call Tenison Woods the Frequent Flyers. They’re in the midst of a [...]
I don’t expect Tim Tebow to win the Heisman, but here’s another heartwarming example of what a class act the Florida quarterback is: Florida Today article.
I’ve heard some pundits blast the 6 percent of Heisman voters who turned in their completed ballots before the final weekend’s games. They have a point. The season wasn’t over, of course. But I’m thinking their ballots might be more representative of the season as a whole than 90 percent of other voters. More than [...]
Oregon coach Chip Kelly wouldn’t seem to be a front-runner for national coach of the year, given the seasons that TCU, Cincinnati and Boise State had. But he was put in the spotlight at the beginning of the year — and put there in a bad light because one of his players punched an opponent [...]
We just put up another poll on our Web site: Who should win the Heisman Trophy? My vote is for Stanford running back Toby Gerhart. And my reasoning is fairly basic. The award is supposed to go to the best college football player of 2009. Looking only at the finalist, I think that’s Gerhart. Never [...]
This came my way via and e-mail, so I thought I’d share: Oregon’s 37-33 win over Oregon State on Thursday drew the attention of an impressive television audience. The game, televised nationally on ESPN, averaged a 4.2 Nielsen rating equal to 4,150,000 households and 5,727,000 total viewers, an ESPN spokesman said. Those figures trailed only [...]
