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Mariners well-armed, but need more bats for extended playoff run
SEATTLE — How are the Seattle Mariners doing it?
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Twins’ Larnach on his HR in Omaha: ‘I just remember time standing still’
SEATTLE — Minnesota’s annual visit to the Northwest for a series against the Mariners is like Old Home Week for the Twins’ Trevor Larnach.
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Blazers strike big with Clingan, Avdija via draft, trade
Joe Cronin met the media with a smile and an easy-going nature following Wednesday night’s first day of the NBA draft.
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Summer 2024 Book Reviews
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Talking Bill Walton on the Basketball Intelligence podcast
I have been a subscriber to “Basketball Intelligence” for several years.
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With Henninger, coaching and teaching golf is more than mechanics
For a long time, Brian Henninger found he could play golf at the highest level.
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‘D’ and Coach Ely: “They are coaches, they are educators, they are great human beings’
CORVALLIS — The boys are huddled around a table in a meeting room in the administrative offices of Cheldelin Middle School at 8:30 a.m. before a recent school day.
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My Favorite Blazers: Johnny Davis, Rick Carlisle, Dick Harter
It has been long enough ago — three decades, in fact — that many of you may not be familiar with the era that bridged the Clyde Drexler/Rick Adelman era with the Jail Blazers.
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Gundy is back at OSU, this time to run the offensive show
Oregon State football is nothing new to Ryan Gunderson.
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Beavers continue College World Series quest: ‘We all believe we can win it’
CORVALLIS — It took 20 hours to seal the deal, but Oregon State is on its way to Lexington, Ky., for next weekend’s Super Regional.
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Kmatz is K-matz as Beavers move one step from Super Regional berth
CORVALLIS — When Jacob Kmatz walked off the field — really sort of floated off it — following the seventh inning of Oregon State’s 5-3 win over Cal Irvine in the Corvallis Regional Saturday night, the standing ovation was deafening and the situation defining.
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Turley turns the tables on Tulane as Beavers advance
CORVALLIS — One big swing, one big turn of momentum.
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We’re offering a Father’s Day book package special
Father’s Day is Sunday, June 16. You could get Dad some slippers, a new putter, a silk necktie, a nice bottle of hooch — all nice gifts.
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Big Red is gone: ‘No one did it like he did it’
Monday was Memorial Day, but a very different one for many who played in the NBA. Heck, for people across the country, and around the world.
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Something big is brewing for Paris, and it simmered at the Pre Classic
EUGENE — It’s not Sebastian Coe vs. Steve Ovett, or Jim Ryun vs. Marty Liquori, or John Landy vs. Roger Bannister — at least not yet.
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Keith Heyward is back home in Corvallis; ‘I have a job to do’
It was almost a quarter-century ago that Oregon State took the college football scene by storm, going 11-1 and thrashing Notre Dame 41-9 in the 2001 Fiesta Bowl.
Elston Turner finds himself in the West finals again, after all these years
A couple of dozen assistant coaches are working for the four teams that have reached the conference finals in the NBA playoffs.
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Scott Rueck’s mission in the new college sports world: ‘Go to work and keep doing what we do’
Scott Rueck hasn’t been in hibernation since the end of Oregon State’s heralded 2023-24 season, though it may seem that way.
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On Beaver basketball’s new look next season — ‘quick improvement’ possible, Tinkle predicts
CORVALLIS — He didn’t sulk. Well, perhaps he did, but for only a moment.
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With Joey Mundt, Beaver bullpen stays in the hunt
In a season in which much of Oregon State pitching has been an adventure, Joey Mundt has been a serene walk in the park.