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SCOREBOARD MATTERS IN SPORTS AND LIFE

When a game ends, any game, anywhere, scoreboard matters. Coaching co-ed youth soccer teams meant getting trained to de-emphasize the final score. The problem was the kids. They kept score with each other.

GOLDEN MEMORIES: HOW SPORTS DEFINE YOU

Golden memories, the ones that stand the test of time, reveal you who you are. Remember when you hit the homer that won the game in extra innings? When you picked up a fumble and ran ninety-nine yards for the score? Or when you drained a half court shot to win in overtime? Sure you […]

OLYMPIC SPORTS EVENTS THAT HAVE CHANGED THE MOST?

The original Olympics had two sports events: Running and Wrestling. The funny part states that if you couldn’t wrestle, you ran, had to run, or the wresters would catch you. Every sport since has fit somewhere between wrestling and running. At least that’s the theory.

GREG STROBEL AWARDS MEDALS, CHANGES LIVES

In 1973, Greg Strobel was the best college wrestler in the NCAA Championship meet. The best of the best. A group of high school wrestlers from North Bend drove up to Seattle to watch the matches. We saw what greatness looked like toward the end of the finals when Greg Strobel stepped out on the […]

OREGON STATE RAPE RIPPLE EFFECT HITS HOME

An Oregon State rape phone call starts the rape ripple effect. Throw a stone into a calm lake and count the ripples until it’s a calm lake again. Then throw a bigger rock for bigger ripples. An Oregon State rape phone call makes a rape ripple and it goes through every room of every place […]

BRENDA TRACY, UNDEFEATED

When you need help, Brenda Tracy is right here. How many times have you had problems no one understands? Every time you’ve had a problem? If you’re like most of us, you see half an inch of water and think you’ll drown. Brenda Tracy sees half an inch of water and walks right through. She’s […]

INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN BOOMER

I hear you asking, “What’s a ‘proven’ boomer?” You know what a ‘made man’ is in the Mafia? They’ve taken an assignment from the boss and done good with it. Usually the assignment that makes you a Made Man also makes you a Button Man. You push the button, pull the trigger, you’re a made […]

OREGON SPORTS HALL OF FAME

When You Finally Make The Oregon Sports Hall Of Fame Team, What’s Next? How do you make it to the Oregon Sports Hall Of Fame? The same way you make it to Carnegie Hall, you practice. No one gets there accidentally. Just like it takes more than a few words to write a sports column, […]

OREGON’S WRESTLING WEEKEND

Putting Pride On The Line. The sound you hear in Oregon, all up and down the west coast, comes from wrestling families. It’s championship weekend. Oregon high school wrestlers meet on the mats inside Memorial Coliseum starting Friday. By Saturday night every place on the podium will be filled, all medals hung. Sunday the big […]

SEARCHING FOR MARIOTA’S HEISMAN

The View Of Oregon From The East “West of the Mississippi.” The words could describe another planet, an alien land to our Eastern brothers and sisters who couldn’t find Oregon if you dropped them off on Vancouver’s Waterfront Renaissance Trail and pointed across the Columbia River. Dear Eastie, that’s not California over there. Oregon State’s Terry […]