Mariners well-armed, but need more bats for extended playoff run
SEATTLE — How are the Seattle Mariners doing it?
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.
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.
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.
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.
‘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.
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.
Gundy is back at OSU, this time to run the offensive show
Oregon State football is nothing new to Ryan Gunderson.
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.
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.
Turley turns the tables on Tulane as Beavers advance
CORVALLIS — One big swing, one big turn of momentum.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.