Release date: 2025
In this volume, the reader will find stories about Kobe Bryant as an 18-year-old rookie and, at 37, in the twilight of his career. Three stories on Bill Walton — one in 1978, when a leg injury threatened his career; one in 1990, with Bill at home with his four boys during a hiatus in his playing days, and one in 2024, remembering him after his death. Stories on Oregon State baseball greats Pat Casey, Mitch Canham, Adley Rutschman, Steven Kwan and Travis Bazzana. On Muhammad Ali during a stop-over at Portland International Airport in 1981. Four pieces on Clyde Drexler, from 1992 to 2004, the Dream Team to the Hall of Fame. Stories covering the Super Bowls of 1998, 2000 and 2015. Two articles on Tonya Harding — as a pro boxer in 2003 and after the film about her life, “I, Tonya,” aired in 2017.
There are stories at lunch with the eccentric Dennis Rodman, the mysterious Sidney Wicks and entertaining NBA superstars Charles Barkley and Karl Malone. And if you really want to laugh, a Q&A with pro wrestling royalty in the form of “Rowdy Roddy” Piper.
You’ll read an account of Dwight Clark’s “Catch” that gave the 49ers their first NFC championship; the life story of Heisman Trophy winner Terry Baker; profiles of Steve Kerr and ex-pro basketball star Jackie Stiles; Danny Langsdorf’s life-saving kidney donation to the wife of fellow OSU assistant football coach Mike Cavanaugh, and women’s basketball pieces on Sabrina Ionescu, Mikayla Pivec, Kim Mulkey and OSU’s ride to the 2016 Final Four.
There is a look inside college football during a coaches meeting at Nebraska with head coach Mike Riley; a piece with Wilt Chamberlain on the 35th anniversary of his 100-point game; with Arvydas Sabonis at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games; with Vince McMahon in Las Vegas on the possibility of the XFL coming to Portland; with Fred Milton, the linebacker at the center of the controversy at Oregon State that led to a black student walkout in 1969, and an account of a real live pit bull fight witnessed in the basement of a young reporter’s house.
And as a bonus (!), a story on legendary Oregon State wrestling coach Dale Thomas while I was managing editor of the Daily Barometer.
Release date: 2025
In this volume, the reader will find stories about Kobe Bryant as an 18-year-old rookie and, at 37, in the twilight of his career. Three stories on Bill Walton — one in 1978, when a leg injury threatened his career; one in 1990, with Bill at home with his four boys during a hiatus in his playing days, and one in 2024, remembering him after his death. Stories on Oregon State baseball greats Pat Casey, Mitch Canham, Adley Rutschman, Steven Kwan and Travis Bazzana. On Muhammad Ali during a stop-over at Portland International Airport in 1981. Four pieces on Clyde Drexler, from 1992 to 2004, the Dream Team to the Hall of Fame. Stories covering the Super Bowls of 1998, 2000 and 2015. Two articles on Tonya Harding — as a pro boxer in 2003 and after the film about her life, “I, Tonya,” aired in 2017.
There are stories at lunch with the eccentric Dennis Rodman, the mysterious Sidney Wicks and entertaining NBA superstars Charles Barkley and Karl Malone. And if you really want to laugh, a Q&A with pro wrestling royalty in the form of “Rowdy Roddy” Piper.
You’ll read an account of Dwight Clark’s “Catch” that gave the 49ers their first NFC championship; the life story of Heisman Trophy winner Terry Baker; profiles of Steve Kerr and ex-pro basketball star Jackie Stiles; Danny Langsdorf’s life-saving kidney donation to the wife of fellow OSU assistant football coach Mike Cavanaugh, and women’s basketball pieces on Sabrina Ionescu, Mikayla Pivec, Kim Mulkey and OSU’s ride to the 2016 Final Four.
There is a look inside college football during a coaches meeting at Nebraska with head coach Mike Riley; a piece with Wilt Chamberlain on the 35th anniversary of his 100-point game; with Arvydas Sabonis at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games; with Vince McMahon in Las Vegas on the possibility of the XFL coming to Portland; with Fred Milton, the linebacker at the center of the controversy at Oregon State that led to a black student walkout in 1969, and an account of a real live pit bull fight witnessed in the basement of a young reporter’s house.
And as a bonus (!), a story on legendary Oregon State wrestling coach Dale Thomas while I was managing editor of the Daily Barometer.
