For Steve Coury, it has always been about the kids
LAKE OSWEGO — A half-hour after Lake Oswego’s 35-0 thumping of Mountainside in the Oregon 6A quarterfinals last Friday night, Coach Steve Coury finally made it to his office adjacent to the Lakers’ locker room.
1974 ‘Northwest champions’ whoop it up, 50 years later
CORVALLIS — It had been a half-century since the gang had been together.
On the Pre Classic, Rich Brooks’ 80th birthday party, Adley (and Ad) Rutschman, Damian Lillard, Kevin Calabro and the Trail Blazers …
Sporting items on my mind as we swing into a new week …
I’ll put the Prefontaine Classic up against any 2 1/2-hour sports event in the state of Oregon — and yes, I’m including a basketball game involving the Trail Blazers.
The 47th annual invitational — with a crowd of 8,937 looking on at the newly refurbished track and field shrine called Hayward Field — featured nine meet records and seven world-leading marks in the first international meet since the end of the Tokyo Olympic Games two weeks ago.