We’re starting to get jacked up for the third annual Mail Tribune All-Star Basketball Classic. And so are the players, judging from conversations with many who have played before and will be back. There are two games on Saturday, March 20, at Kids Unlimited. The girls play at 5:15 p.m. and the boys at 7. Proceeds go [...]
The latest news is that Hawaii dodged a bullet following the threat of a tsunami. That’s good news for, among others, the members of the Oregon baseball team, who are in Honolulu to play Hawaii. Game 2 of the four-game series scheduled for Saturday was postponed after tsunami warnings were issued for the islands. A [...]
As much as they hate to see it, Oregon State baseball fans might have to get used to the idea the University of Oregon is coming on. I got a call from a distraught Beaver arguing that a story in Tuesday’s paper incorrectly said the Ducks are ranked 25th. Should have been the Beavers, he [...]
Oregon is making national news for its troubled football program. ESPN’s Outside the Lines addressed the Ducks’ situation Tuesday. But it’s a radio program closer to home that gets the “must hear” billing. Oregon coach Chip Kelly went on the air with Oregonian columnist John Canzano and the two had a contentious, 10-minute discussion about discipline [...]
Oregon State inches closer and closer to having a real men’s track team again. The NCAA and the Pac-10 Conference have granted OSU’s appeal to permit qualifying male athletes to compete in the 2010 Division I Track and Field (Indoor and Outdoor) and Pacific-10 Conference Championships, according to a release. The Beavers have eight football [...]
Here’s a good column by George Schroeder of the Eugene Register-Guard on E.J. Singler and his impact, however understated, on the struggling Oregon basketball team.
Samaritan’s Feet Night got off on the right foot — I couldn’t resist — Friday at North Medford High. The school’s boys basketball program helped raise more than $600 and collected about 30 pairs of shoes for children in need. The Black Tornado varsity and sub-varsity coaches were barefoot as they worked the games to drive home the point that [...]
I watched Tiger and tried to imagine myself in that situation, apologizing for flaws in front of the world. He’s not a guy who’s had to say he’s sorry for a very long time, I’m guessing, so I can overlook the awkward, scripted nature of it at times. And I thought the prolonged stares into [...]
North Medford’s boys basketball team is doing a cool thing, raising shoes and money — as well as awareness — for those in need with a Samaritan’s Foot night Friday. A story in Thursday’s M-T outlined it. The coaches will go barefoot at all levels when the Black Tornado teams host Sheldon. If you can [...]
Random thoughts on prep basketball: North Medford’s Karissa Dixon has left little doubt she’s a go-to girl. Early this month, she made a 3-pointer at the regulation buzzer to force overtime at Sheldon in a game the Black Tornado eventually won. Wednesday, her 3 from the top of the key in the final two minutes [...]
