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MAN-SCAPING LEG SHAVERS HAVE THEIR REASONS?

Is any Man-scaping that important? To who? Shapely well-turned legs are a standard on all fashion runways. Their smooth look means one thing, a terrific shaver. No nicks or cuts in high fashion lady-scaping. You’ve seen the ‘model’ walk? They walk a different walk. Maybe it’s the shoes? An anatomical anomaly? They walk a line […]

COACHES CHANGE PEOPLE, PLAYERS CHANGE COACHES

    Sports works best when coaches change people for the better. A coach new to youth football talks about fun. “Football is fun, but more fun when you win,” he says. The new coach played high school football on a championship team. He knew winning. Coaches change people from ordinary to extraordinary in the […]

NORTH BEND BULLDOGS WIN BIGGER THAN FOOTBALL

A win for North Bend Bulldogs reaches across decades. A hundred years from now North Bend Bulldogs will remember the first football championship. Two guys more than forty years out of uniform explain: “This is a big deal?” “A huge deal. Yes. That big.”

UNDERDOG OREGON FOOTBALL THEORY

  Underdog Beavers beat underdog Oregon football. The theory of underdog Oregon football goes like this: We all like underdogs until your team loses to one. It’s hard on players, fans, boosters, but not the other team.

THE ELEVEN TIGERS OF 6A FOOTBALL

The 6A Football Semi-Final. “Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again.” That was Grantland Rice in 1924 writing about college football. “In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. They formed the crest of […]

PARTICIPATION TROPHY FOR WINNERS, LOSERS

Participation trophy for cheating sports dads. About that participation trophy deal: A rant from an adult started, “Dear Everyone Older Than Me…” It was hilarious. Turns out he didn’t want the trophy then, and doesn’t want to hear about it now. That makes sense. Who doesn’t enjoy knocking little kids hopes and dreams into the […]

SEIZE THE DAY, WIN THE DAY, JUST DO IT

If you Win The Day, this is the day, not tomorrow. Former Oregon Duck Football Coach Chip Kelly coined ‘Win The Day’ and that’s what his Ducks did. They won the day, day after day, season after season. It almost felt like they really wanted Alabama. Current coach, and former Marshfield Pirate, Mark Helfrich, says […]

SPORTING DIFFERENCE IS THE DIFFERENCE

What is the sporting difference? Looking forward to getting better tomorrow, working on your game, your life, and doing whatever it takes, whether doing what you think is right or doing what you’re told. Coach tells you what’s what, what to do, when to do it, and where. After that it’s all you. Can you […]

OREGON DUCKS FLOCKER ROOM REVEALED

Not quitters, not winners, who are the Oregon Ducks now? Local sports radio reported a split in the Oregon Ducks locker room. If it’s a split, that means there’s two locker rooms. The winning side is the flocker room where the team builds a winning culture; the other side is a college locker room, any […]

OREGON DUCK FOOTBALL LONELINESS IS REAL

Oregon Duck Football loneliness grows after Colorado loss. What’s next? “Winners do what losers won’t do.” That’s the saying all winners fall back to in victory, the other team did more to win. It’s also an excuse for bad sportsmanship since time erases all but the final score. Winners celebrate, dance, sing. They party and […]