Rueck: ‘We’re confident, we’re gritty. That’s what it takes this time of year’
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Rueck: ‘We’re confident, we’re gritty. That’s what it takes this time of year’

Patience, a poet once wrote, “is a companion of wisdom.”

I’ve grown to appreciate Scott Rueck’s wisdom since our paths first crossed more than a decade ago.

It has taken me until this year to understand his patience.

In late January, the Oregon State women’s basketball team was 3-5 and had lost more games to COVID-19 than it had played. Having lost three top players from the previous season to graduation (Mikayla Pivec), transfer (Destiny Slocum) and injury (Kennedy Brown) and dealing with an almost entirely new lineup, it would have been easy for a coach to write this off as a building year and starting thinking about next season.

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On shoddy officiating, COVID’s impact and Pac-12 women’s hoops, along with a little Terry Stotts and Charles Barkley …
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On shoddy officiating, COVID’s impact and Pac-12 women’s hoops, along with a little Terry Stotts and Charles Barkley …

Reflections from ye old scribe on a few sporting subjects …

• I’m rarely one to criticize sports officials. I have friends who are referees and admire their integrity and intestinal fortitude. I umpired and refereed during my high school and college years. I believe those who work college and pro sports most often do a very credible job.

But what happened Saturday night in Seattle was nothing short of a travesty.

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