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Six years down … already?
Six years down … already?

Wow, does time fly.

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My Favorite Blazers: The underrated Rod Strickland
My Favorite Blazers: The underrated Rod Strickland

There is a certain irony to Rod Strickland’s success as head basketball coach at Long Island University that even he gets

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He used to protect quarterbacks. Now it’s clients for Krpalek
He used to protect quarterbacks. Now it’s clients for Krpalek

For five decades, Greg Krpalek has taken care of his clients’ needs with Krpalek Financial Services of Albany

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Terry Baker at 85: Still a man to be admired
Terry Baker at 85: Still a man to be admired

It seems like only yesterday that Terry Baker was throwing passes and running wild on the gridiron and helping guide Oregon State to the Final Four in basketball

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Bjornstad files suit against Blueprint; Is Oregon State next?
Bjornstad files suit against Blueprint; Is Oregon State next?

A lawsuit was filed Wednesday morning in federal court on behalf of Kyle Bjornstad, the co-founder and former owner of Dam Nation, an NIL collective working for Oregon State athletics

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A look at the Beavers’ Spring Game, from my perspective and Coach Shep’s
A look at the Beavers’ Spring Game, from my perspective and Coach Shep’s

CORVALLIS — The defense won out in the Spring Game Saturday at Reser Stadium, but the offense got its licks in as JaMarcus Shephard’s first spring practice concluded

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My Favorite Blazers:

The Underrated Rod Strickland

Editor’s note: My first season covering the Trail Blazers was 1989-90. Much time has passed and may players have donned the Portland uniform since that time. We will run an occasional column in this space about some of the players I have enjoyed getting to know.

Read The Rest Of The Story
Read The Rest Of The Story

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Scrolls of a Sports Scribe, Volumes I & II
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Scrolls of a Sports Scribe, Volumes I & II
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Release date: 2025

This is a two-volume collection of stories written through Kerry’s 50 years of sportswriting in Portland — 45 of them with the Oregon Journal, Oregonian and Portland Tribune newspapers. There are 60 articles in each set covering a wide array of sports and subject matters from 1974 to the present.

Ahead and behind most of the reprinted articles are a preface and postscript, setting up the story and explaining what happened with the subject after it was published.

There is no “A” and “B” volume, incidentally. Stories of import and interest are equally divided between volumes — at least that is the intent of the author.

There are stories with legendary world sports figures (Muhammad Ali, Wilt Chamberlain, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Mike Tyson) and those with local ties (Bill Walton, Clyde Drexler, Phil Knight, Tonya Harding, Pat Casey). There are major events (Super Bowls, NBA championship series, College World Series, the “Subway” World Series) and offbeat pieces, such as Kerry’s venture into participatory journalism with a week practicing with Mouse Davis’ Portland State football team.

Frosty Is No Snowman
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Frosty Is No Snowman
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Release date: 2023

By trade, William “Frosty” Comer was a hospital pharmacist and a military man. But there is much more to his story, and to his life, that is told in this book, the first-non sports book in the Kerry Eggers collection.

Comer is a family man — he and his wife of 55 years, Vicki, have two daughters and five grandchildren — and a live wire renowned for getting things done, and doing them well. He is an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, a believer and an achiever,

The Comers’ outside passion is Oregon State and, in particular, Beaver athletics. Frosty is past president of Our Beaver Nation, a fund-raising arm of OSU athletics. The Comers bleed orange and black, pure and simple.

“Frosty is No Snowman” is a motivational tale that showed an awful lot can be accomplished by determination and hard work. It’s ethos that carried both Frosty and “son” Brian Cook to unforeseen heights. Can do? Indeed.

WHEREVER YOU MAY BE …NOW: The Bill Schonely Story 2022 Edition
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WHEREVER YOU MAY BE …NOW: The Bill Schonely Story 2022 Edition
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This is an extension of the biography of the Hall of Fame broadcaster that was written and released in 1998. The entire manuscript from the previous book is augmented here for the first three chapters detailing Schonely’s life and career through his final 25 years. An entirely new collection of photos is included.

If you read the first book, it will bring back memories. If you didn’t, you’ll have a whole new set of stories about the original voice of the Trail Blazers, who retired in 2022 after 50 years with the NBA club.

In this book, “The Schonz” gets help telling his story from dozens of those who were close to him through the years. For the first time, get the real story behind what happened when he was removed from his role as radio play-by-play man and shuffled to a lesser role.

The first three chapters covers the “fourth quarter” of the hallowed life and career of Schonely, who died in January 2023 at the age of 93.

 

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Six years down … already?

Message dated May 11, 2026

Wow, does time fly.

We have covered a lot of ground in the six years since we started Project Enterprise, my landing spot after 45 years writing sports for The Oregon Journal, The Oregonian and the Portland Tribune.

Since May 2020, we have survived a pandemic, the break-up of the Pac-12, the metastasis of NIL and the transfer portal, the Trail Blazers’ four-year tank-a-thon and a dismantling of power positions with Oregon State athletics.

Six years and 668 stories later, kerryeggers.com is still alive and kicking, informing and entertaining.

At least that is the message I am getting from the people who count — our readers.

We are closing in on one million pageviews through our history. We should reach that total by the end of the year. Pageviews from the first of the year are up 40 percent from the previous year.

The most-read story over the six years was one on a controversial subject — figure skater Tonya Harding, with whom I had lunch and interviewed last December. The page-view total for that article through May 9 was 22,383.

The others in the top five: Otis Williams of The Temptations in September 2024; The ABCs of NIL in October 2022; Clyde Drexler, on why he didn’t return for a 25-year celebration of the 1990 Trail Blazers in March 2025;  and Trent Bray as he began his short tenure as head football coach at Oregon State in January 2025.

I offer variety. Over the past year, I have written often about the Blazers, the Beavers and the Winterhawks. I have done in-depth nostalgia pieces with the likes of Rod Strickland, Andre Miller, Bucky Buckwalter, Les Gutches and Terrell Brandon. I have done profiles of personalities such as Harding, Erik Spoelstra, David Adelman, Travis Bazzana and Adley Rutschman. I have covered events such as Tom Dundon’s purchase of the Blazers, Damian Lillard’s return to the team, Meyers Leonard’s new world, Corvallis High’s football number retirement ceremony for Donny Reynolds, the AL Division Series in Seattle, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Regional in Portland and the NCAA baseball Regional and Super Regional in Corvallis.

There have been stories on the Portland State football reunion featuring Mouse Davis, the Portland Diamond Project’s bid to bring MLB to Portland, Scott Brosius’ hiring as Linfield athletic director, the death of former Oregon basketball great Stan Love and former radio/television personality Paul Linnman’s new life as an umpire. And to step outside the sports box for a minute, I have written about upcoming concerts featuring Jay Leno, ventriloquist extraordinaire Terry Fator and the Australian Bee Gees.

If you are looking for a particular article, the “Search” tab atop the home page will be of help. We have all stories posted since the very first one about Rasheed Wallace and Bonzi Wells on May 3, 2020, titled “Hey Guys! I Was Listening.” Ironically, the former Jail Blazer pair finally got to tell “their side” with a little revisionist history on a recent Netflix documentary. No reason to let facts get in the way of a story.

https://www.kerryeggers.com/stories/hey-guys-i-was-listening

If you are a subscriber, a hearty thank you! If not, insert your email in the space provided on the home page and sign up. It’s free — we have sponsors, and as a reader, I hate paywalls — and you will be sent every story we post.

Thanks to those who have reached out to offer opinions, perspective and compliments in the comments section following each story. Your input is greatly appreciated. It lets me know what you want and like as readers.

Special thanks to our sponsors; without your help to cover all the costs related to operating a website, there would be no kerryeggers.com. I am in particular gratitude to our presenting sponsor — Frosty Comer, Brian Cook and Cook Solutions Group of Portland. Also, to supporting sponsors Cutsforth’s Market in Canby; Steve Saxton’s Bravuro Cellars Vineyard; Jeff Sanders Entertainment; Jim Fisher Volvo; Tim Euhus and Edward Jones; Chris Dussin and Old Spaghetti Factory; Pat Quigg, Sam Yockey and Incight; Greg Krpalek Financial Services; Ken Eagon and Rick Coutin. Please patronize their businesses. They are the reason we are able to keep doing this.

Kerry Eggers

The Dean of Portland Sports