Meet Alex Derlago and Oliver McMaster, Steve Brandon Scholarship winners
There were seven or eight finalists for the third annual Steve Brandon Scholarship, given in honor of my late sportswriting colleague at the Oregon Journal, The Oregonian and Portland Tribune, who died in 2022 at age 68
Rueck on Beavers in Pac-12 2.0: ‘We’ll be a tough out every night’
CORVALLIS — Scott Rueck’s 17th season at the helm of Oregon State women’s basketball begins officially on Nov. 1 when the Beavers play host to Seattle Pacific in an exhibition game at Gill Coliseum.
Wait a minute — 17 years? Can it really be?
Shephard after first win: ‘There’s something going on in Corvallis’
CORVALLIS — Hey, Beaver Nation. Before the season, if you’d been told that Oregon State would stay with nationally ranked opponents Houston and Texas Tech right to game’s end, then blow out FCS powerhouse Montana in Game 3, would you have taken it?
After four pro seasons, Justin Boyd says, ‘I’m done’
The Boyd family had everything in order. Flights were scheduled, hotel rooms reserved, game tickets purchased
With Chris Dudley, discussing Tom Dundon and the Moda Center mess
On Tuesday, during the NBA Board of Governors meeting in New York, NBA commissioner Adam Silver publicly addressed the ownership/Moda Center renovation situation with the Trail Blazers
Red Raiders make ‘Great Escape,’ but Beavers show what is possible
CORVALLIS — The scoreboard read Texas Tech 35, Oregon State 24. From the Beavers’ perspective, that’s a shame
The ABC’s of ABS
By now, most Major League Baseball fans are aware of the Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) that was implemented prior to the 2026 season
With KATU, talking the passing of Darrell Aune, Beaver football and other subjects …
I was on with KATU-TV’s Bobby Corser and Dai Podziewski in separate interviews recently.
For Moore and Oregon State’s pitching staff, everything is new
CORVALLIS — You think your life has been busy this summer? Probably not compared to that of Andrew Moore.
Steven Kwan is back to ‘being Kwannie’
Steven Kwan has been hot, and so have the Cleveland Guardians.
With Mitch Dahlen, it’s a Beaver born, a Beaver bred
CORVALLIS — Initial impression of Mitch Dahlen after a reporter’s first meeting with Oregon State’s offensive coordinator:
Young. Personable. Bright. Gifted. A relationship-builder.
A few sports books to consider (besides ‘Scrolls of a Sports Scribe’) …
The First All-Star Game
By Randall Sullivan
Atlantic Monthly Press (2026)
Talking ‘Miz-zles,’ along with minor-league marvels Rick Sweet and Dave Brundage
Jacob Misiorowski hasn’t just taken Major League Baseball by storm
A fan’s lament: ‘I didn’t leave college sports; it left me’
By Steve Saxton
Owner and proprietor, Bravuro Cellars Winery
On a wing and a prayer, Broadway Rose Theatre goes boffo
It began as a bit of a daydream in the minds of Sharon Maroney and Dan Murphy, a young married couple living in Queens, N.Y., in the early ‘90s
Joyner beginning to put Beaver basketball pieces together
CORVALLIS — Five months in, Justin Joyner sounds like a man sold on his new job.
Mac is back in the Pac-12, this time at Oregon State
CORVALLIS — Since he began a peripatetic coaching journey in 1990 as a grad assistant under Ray Goff at Georgia, Mike MacIntyre has had 15 changes of address in 36 years
In his sixth season with the Twins, Trevor is creating a tremor
SEATTLE — As he leads a sportswriter he has known for some time out of the visitors clubhouse and into the dugout at T-Mobile Park, Trevor Larnach looks out at a blue-sky, picture-perfect Northwest day and exclaims, “Man, I love it up here.”
With a third of the season left, Mariners send out SOS signal
SEATTLE — The Seattle Mariners seem to be sending out a message to all hands on deck these days: SOS
Getting inside the cages with ’Sports Animal Eugene’
I was on today with the guys from “The Drive” (102.9 FM, 1050 AM) in Eugene. AKA, I guess, as “Sports Animal Eugene.”