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.”
More poor decisions in the Land of Dum-Dum
Since his purchase of the Trail Blazers in late March, Tom Dundon — who made his fortune in subprime auto lending primarily in Dallas — has given every indication that penny-pinching will be a high priority of his ownership
To help inner-city kids, Gerald Bolden goes Extra Innings
The sun breaks through the clouds on an early Saturday afternoon at Farragut Park in North Portland, where Team Rad of Washougal, Wash., is facing the pride of “Extra Innings PDX,” the Monarchs, in a duel between teams of 11- and 12-year-olds
Rick Wise’s MO during his long MLB career: ‘A fastball with an idea behind it’
I had an event recently for my new book, “Scrolls of a Sports Scribe,” at The Springs, a senior living center in Lake Oswego
On Ja Morant, Jay Triano, USA soccer and MLB All-Star Game Beavers …
Knocking it about on a few sports subjects as we swing into the second half of 2026:
Big performances all around at Pre Classic, and in the grand finale, it’s Australia’s Myers
EUGENE — The Bowerman Mile is the signature event of the Prefontaine Classic, so a tip of the cap to Australian Cameron Myers, who overcame a stellar field to claim victory Saturday at Hayward Field
As ‘The Tailgater of Golf,’ Sanders makes it also about entertainment, and charity
Broadcaster Steve Sands (left) calls Albertsons Boise Open tournament director “the best-dressed man in all of golf” (courtesy Jerry Smart)
They’re slinging it, they’re bringing it and they’re singing the praises for Slingball
PACIFIC CITY — It was one of those all-weather weekends at the Oregon Coast