Offering a final salute to the legacy of Bud Ossey: ‘He went out on top’
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Offering a final salute to the legacy of Bud Ossey: ‘He went out on top’

I thought Bud Ossey would live forever.

I don’t really mean that, of course. Forever isn’t in the cards for anybody.

But after 101 very solid years on the planet, with his health reasonably stable and his intestinal fortitude beyond mortal levels, I figured those who called him friends — and there were so many of us — would be lucky enough to have him around for at least a couple of more years.

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Beaver sports a way of life for auction winner Al Nyman
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Beaver sports a way of life for auction winner Al Nyman

Al Nyman and Oregon State athletics go way back.

“My dad (Karl) was a coach who got a masters degree from Oregon State,” says Nyman, whose $250 bid earned him a copy of “Civil War Rivalry: Oregon vs. Oregon State” autographed by 20 former Beaver and Duck football greats. (One hundred percent of proceeds go to the Willamette Humane Society of Salem.) “My mom got her masters degree there, too. A lot of my family went to OSU.”

Al Nyman, 80, graduated from OSU in 1964.

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On Beaver and Duck football, reffing in the NBA this season, Keanon Lowe’s movie, Terry Baker and the Heisman and death of a champion …
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On Beaver and Duck football, reffing in the NBA this season, Keanon Lowe’s movie, Terry Baker and the Heisman and death of a champion …

Knocking it around on a variety of subjects on a drizzly Sunday in the Willamette Valley …

• I can’t imagine Jonathan Smith got much sleep Saturday night.

Oregon State’s 27-24 loss to Stanford couldn’t have been much more painful for the third-year Beaver coach.

Losses like that are daggers to the heart a coach trying to build a program.

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Wishing the best                       For two of the best                    In the SID business
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Wishing the best For two of the best In the SID business

The coronavirus pandemic has affected all of us, and in many ways.

At Oregon State, 23 positions in the athletic department were eliminated recently, including two of the five full-time members of the sports information staff.

These folks let go to help cut the department’s financial losses aren’t greenhorns. Steve Fenk had been a member of the SID staff since 1990, the head of the department since 2004. Jason Amberg, who had been on board as an assistant for 16 years, was Fenk’s first hire.

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