Sixty-five years ago, a conference rang a death knell, too
A friend recently sent me a program from a Washington-Oregon State game at Portland Multnomah Stadium on Oct. 25, 1958.
Pros vs. Joes No. 16: Frank Peters at 78: ‘Everything has been replaced except my balls and my brain, and they’re both still working’
Frank “The Flake” Peters was in my conscience from a young age.
Offering a final salute to the legacy of Bud Ossey: ‘He went out on top’
I thought Bud Ossey would live forever.
I don’t really mean that, of course. Forever isn’t in the cards for anybody.
But after 101 very solid years on the planet, with his health reasonably stable and his intestinal fortitude beyond mortal levels, I figured those who called him friends — and there were so many of us — would be lucky enough to have him around for at least a couple of more years.
Beaver sports a way of life for auction winner Al Nyman
Al Nyman and Oregon State athletics go way back.
“My dad (Karl) was a coach who got a masters degree from Oregon State,” says Nyman, whose $250 bid earned him a copy of “Civil War Rivalry: Oregon vs. Oregon State” autographed by 20 former Beaver and Duck football greats. (One hundred percent of proceeds go to the Willamette Humane Society of Salem.) “My mom got her masters degree there, too. A lot of my family went to OSU.”
Al Nyman, 80, graduated from OSU in 1964.
On Beaver and Duck football, reffing in the NBA this season, Keanon Lowe’s movie, Terry Baker and the Heisman and death of a champion …
Knocking it around on a variety of subjects on a drizzly Sunday in the Willamette Valley …
• I can’t imagine Jonathan Smith got much sleep Saturday night.
Oregon State’s 27-24 loss to Stanford couldn’t have been much more painful for the third-year Beaver coach.
Losses like that are daggers to the heart a coach trying to build a program.
Wishing the best For two of the best In the SID business
The coronavirus pandemic has affected all of us, and in many ways.
At Oregon State, 23 positions in the athletic department were eliminated recently, including two of the five full-time members of the sports information staff.
These folks let go to help cut the department’s financial losses aren’t greenhorns. Steve Fenk had been a member of the SID staff since 1990, the head of the department since 2004. Jason Amberg, who had been on board as an assistant for 16 years, was Fenk’s first hire.
With Ron Callan and Jim Wilson, offering our favorite Beaver athletes ever…
Note to readers: Jim Wilson and Ron Callan will serve as occasional guest columnists on my website. The Oregon State broadcasters’ first offering is a list of each’s top five favorite Beaver athletes to watch through the years. That’s not necessarily the best players, but the ones they most enjoyed watching at their craft.