The Dean Of Portland Sports

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A day in the life of Oregon State hoops
A day in the life of Oregon State hoops

CORVALLIS — The double-header was once a staple on the college basketball calendar.

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Chinook Winds fans will catch the fever with ‘Australian Bee Gees’
Chinook Winds fans will catch the fever with ‘Australian Bee Gees’

Initially, I was skeptical of tribute bands.

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With Billups, it’s a different kind of serious
With Billups, it’s a different kind of serious

After the news broke about Chauncey Billups two weeks ago, I got several notes via text and email from friends and acquaintances.

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‘Bottom line, whatever it takes to win the damn game,’ and the Beavers did
‘Bottom line, whatever it takes to win the damn game,’ and the Beavers did

CORVALLIS — You can call it the Pac-12, or the Pac-2, or whatever you want in this mangled exercise that is known as college football in America these days.

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Order your copy of ‘Scrolls of a Sports Scribe’ now
Order your copy of ‘Scrolls of a Sports Scribe’ now

My 11th and 12th books — “Scrolls of a Sports Scribe Volume i and Volume II” — are now available for sale at kerryeggers.com.

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With Robb Akey: ‘Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, and today is the only thing I can control’
With Robb Akey: ‘Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, and today is the only thing I can control’

CORVALLIS — When Robb Akey arrived here last winter, the last thing he expected to become was Oregon State’s interim head coach.

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My Favorite Blazers:

The Underrated Andre Miller

Editor’s note: My first season covering the Trail Blazers was 1989-90. Much time has passed and may players have donned the Portland uniform since that time. We will run an occasional column in this space about some of the players I have enjoyed getting to know.

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Scrolls of a Sports Scribe, Volumes I & II
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Scrolls of a Sports Scribe, Volumes I & II
$50.00

Release date: 2025

This a two-volume, 740-page collection of stories written by Kerry Eggers through 50 years of sportswriting in Portland — 45 of them with the Oregon Journal, Oregonian and Portland Tribune newspapers. There are 120 articles divided into a two-volume set featuring a wide array of sports and subject matter from 1974 to the present.

Ahead of and behind each reprinted article is a preface and postscript, setting up the story and explaining what happened with the subject after it was published.

There is no “A” and “B” volume, incidentally. Stories of import and interest are equally divided between volumes — at least that is the intent of the author.

You will see stories on legendary figures such as Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Muhammad Ali, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Walton, Karl Malone, Carl Lewis, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Charles Barkley, Jerry West, John McEnroe, Michael Jordan, Phil Knight, Tiger Woods, Clyde Drexler, Bob Costas, Steve Kerr, Hank Aaron, Shaquille O’Neal, Carmelo Anthony, Mondo Duplantis, Mike Tyson and Henry Rono. On characters or controversial subjects such as Dennis Rodman, Tonya Harding, Rasheed Wallace, Roddy Piper, Vince McMahon, a pit bull fight and former Portland State receiver Randy Woodfield, later known as the “I-5 Killer.” On local favorites such as Terry Baker, Bill Schonely, Pat Casey, Mitch Canham, Dick Fosbury, Jerome Kersey, Sidney Wicks, Adley Rutschman, Sabrina Ionescu, Mikayla Pivec, Jade Carey, Steven Kwan, Travis Bazzana, Chip Kelly, Damon Stoudamire, Danny Ainge, Tinker Hatfield, Clive Charles, Jim Barnett and Brent Barry. On the sad stories of Fred Quillan, Stu Gaussoin, Perry Hines and Ned Hastings.

Also: Columns from three Super Bowls, two NBA Finals, Oregon State’s first College World Series title, the “Subway” World Series and the first-ever game at San Francisco’s Pac-Bell (now Oracle) Park. And a participatory piece from a week in 1978 when Eggers played George Plimpton, participating in spring football drills with Mouse Davis’ Portland State Vikings.

It’s all there, plus much more, in one grand collection. A good autumn read or a great holiday gift for a friend or loved one!

Frosty Is No Snowman
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Frosty Is No Snowman
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Release date: 2023

By trade, William “Frosty” Comer was a hospital pharmacist and a military man. But there is much more to his story, and to his life, that is told in this book, the first-non sports book in the Kerry Eggers collection.

Comer is a family man — he and his wife of 55 years, Vicki, have two daughters and five grandchildren — and a live wire renowned for getting things done, and doing them well. He is an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, a believer and an achiever,

The Comers’ outside passion is Oregon State and, in particular, Beaver athletics. Frosty is past president of Our Beaver Nation, a fund-raising arm of OSU athletics. The Comers bleed orange and black, pure and simple.

“Frosty is No Snowman” is a motivational tale that showed an awful lot can be accomplished by determination and hard work. It’s ethos that carried both Frosty and “son” Brian Cook to unforeseen heights. Can do? Indeed.

WHEREVER YOU MAY BE …NOW: The Bill Schonely Story 2022 Edition
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WHEREVER YOU MAY BE …NOW: The Bill Schonely Story 2022 Edition
$25.00

This is an extension of the biography of the Hall of Fame broadcaster that was written and released in 1998. The entire manuscript from the previous book is augmented here for the first three chapters detailing Schonely’s life and career through his final 25 years. An entirely new collection of photos is included.

If you read the first book, it will bring back memories. If you didn’t, you’ll have a whole new set of stories about the original voice of the Trail Blazers, who retired in 2022 after 50 years with the NBA club.

In this book, “The Schonz” gets help telling his story from dozens of those who were close to him through the years. For the first time, get the real story behind what happened when he was removed from his role as radio play-by-play man and shuffled to a lesser role.

The first three chapters covers the “fourth quarter” of the hallowed life and career of Schonely, who died in January 2023 at the age of 93.

 

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Five years are in the books for kerryeggers.com

Message dated October 31, 2025

Welcome to the domain of a guy who, it might seem, has been writing sports since the dawning of the Ice Age.

On May 3, my website celebrates five years of operation. We started the site in 2020, shortly after I retired following 45 years in Portland newspaper sportswriting — seven at The Oregon Journal, 18 at The Oregonian, 20 at the Portland Tribune.

If you are a subscriber, thank you! If not, insert your email in the space provided above and sign up. You will be sent every story we post on the website.

Unlike most sites, we do not have a paywall. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, your subscription is covered as well as the assorted costs of running a website. We are committed to at least another year of providing material from the Fourth Estate we hope you will find informational and entertaining, with quality and substance you can’t get elsewhere.

As of October 31, 2025, we have posted more than 600 stories — most of them sports-related, but also Q&As with musicians such as Chris Botti, Billy Ocean, 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Chubby Checker, George Thorogood, Don Brewer of Grand Funk Railroad, Lonnie Jordan of War, Don Felder (Eagles), Otis Williams of The Temptations and Mike Reno of Loverboy. But sports is our lifeblood, and you will get a wide variety of reporting on it here.

We continue to get a strong response from our readers. We have over 176,000 page views this year, a 20 percent increase from this point a year ago. Over five years, we have had almost 757,000 page views. We are trending upward.

We welcome comments, criticisms and story suggestions. If you would like to comment publicly on a story, see the “post comment” tab at the bottom of each story. For a private note or a story suggestion, use the “Contact” tab atop this page. I will respond. I appreciate feedback from readers, letting me know what I am doing right and, occasionally, what I am doing wrong.

If you are looking for a particular story, the “Search” tab should be of help. We have all stories posted since our debut in May 2020.

Also, under “Books” are covers of the 11 books I have written through the years, beginning with “Blazer Profiles,” published in 1991 after Portland’s 1990 run to the NBA Finals. Several of the books are available for purchase via the site’s “Store” tab.

I am in gratitude to our presenting sponsor, courtesy of Frosty Comer, Brian Cook and Cook Solutions Group. Also, to supporting sponsors Cutsforth’s Market in Canby, Steve Saxton’s Bravura Cellars Vineyard, Jeff Sanders Entertainment, Jim Fisher Volvo, Tim Euhus and Edward Jones, Chris Dussin and Old Spaghetti Factory, Pat Quigg, Sam Yockey and Incight, Greg Krpalek Financial Services, Ken Eagon and Rick Coutin. Please patronize their businesses. We couldn’t do this without them. Thank you for your support!

Kerry Eggers

The Dean of Portland Sports