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.
Those bronze statues? On second thought …
Had the news come on April 1, I would have laughed it off as an April Fool’s joke.
For the Beavers, how Sweet (Sixteen) it is
CORVALLIS — That trip to Albany, N.Y.? It’s happening now.
Beavers game, but Brink’s truck carries Stanford to victory
Timea Gardiner scored 15 points and went toe-to-toe with Stanford’s Cameron Brink through much of the game (courtesy Dominic Cusimano)
Unbeaten Beavers eye Civil War opener: ‘We’re super-excited’
CORVALLIS — So much for the preliminaries: Bring on the main event.
All in a day (plus): A look at men’s and women’s hoops and the gridiron in Beaver country
CORVALLIS — Monday was a busy day for sports on the Oregon State campus. I was there to sniff out information of interest to readers of kerryeggers.com.
‘Old soul’ von Oelhoffen leads the way for Beaver women
The weight of the world is not on the shoulders of Talia von Oelhoffen.
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.