Final Four players return to Gill 60 years later — ‘We were pretty good’
CORVALLIS — There they were, together again, 60-plus years after joining forces to put Oregon State into college basketball’s Final Four.
From Baker to Colletto to Fouts to Miller, thoughts on the Pac-2 madness, and other things
Not too long ago, college athletics were largely amateur.
For 130 years, the Civil War game has been a rivalry. Ahead of what could be the finale, read all about it
With Oregon’s departure for the Big Ten and Oregon State’s uncertain future, it’s possible that the Nov. 24 game at Autzen Stadium between the archrivals will be the final Civil War football game.
In memory of the Schonz, let’s find a home for the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame
June 1 would have been Bill Schonely’s 94th birthday.
Pros vs. Joes No. 16: Frank Peters at 78: ‘Everything has been replaced except my balls and my brain, and they’re both still working’
Frank “The Flake” Peters was in my conscience from a young age.
Pros. vs. Joes No. 6: Leave it to the ‘Wizard of Foz’ to keep working to help the cause
For those of you Baby Boomers — or perhaps members of the “Silent Generation” — I have some daunting news to deliver:
Dick Fosbury turns 75 on Sunday.
During a very difficult 2021, it was a very good first year
A first full year is in the books for kerryeggers.com after my retirement after 45 years in the newspaper in April 2020.
First, thanks to all of you for being subscribers. I appreciate all the feedback we have received, both as responses to be published on the website and others of a personal nature.
On Oregon State’s historic takedown of Troy, along with a look at that win back in 1960, and a nod to the late Steve Hall
Pontificating on one of the biggest Oregon State football victories this century …
• Every 61 years, the Beavers beat Southern Cal on its home turf.
The way they did it Saturday night in a 45-27 dismantling of the Trojans in LA Memorial Coliseum was impressive.
This isn’t a great USC team, and it seems in some disarray following the Sept. 13 dismissal of Clay Helton as head coach.
That doesn’t lessen the impact that the victory has on Oregon State’s program in the fourth year under Coach Jonathan Smith.
Ex-Beaver greats weigh in on Tinkle, 2020-21 Beavers …
We asked a collection of names familiar to Beaver Nation — most of them former players — for their opinion of this year’s Oregon State team, which faces Loyola of Chicago at 11:40 a.m. PDT in a Sweet Sixteen showdown of underdogs. Their responses, in alphabetical order:
JIMMY ANDERSON (player from 1957-59, assistant coach from 1961-90, head coach from 1990-95):
“I haven’t missed a practice all year, so I have a pretty good handle on why the season has gone like it has. They brought in five new and (coach Wayne Tinkle’s) defensive system is a little complicated.
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.
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.
Farewell to the ultimate “behind-the-scenes guy”
On July 3, Bob Gill — probably the state of Oregon’s top sports historian — died from the effects of brain cancer. He was 83.
“He gave it a great fight to the end,” says his daughter, Amy Candello.
With Ron Callan and Jim Wilson, offering our favorite Beaver athletes ever…
Note to readers: Jim Wilson and Ron Callan will serve as occasional guest columnists on my website. The Oregon State broadcasters’ first offering is a list of each’s top five favorite Beaver athletes to watch through the years. That’s not necessarily the best players, but the ones they most enjoyed watching at their craft.