2023 Year In Review Part 1: The 10 Most Read Stories
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A capper to the best of times for Adley Rutschman
SEATTLE — While doing commentary for the MLB Network before the 2019 draft, former Oregon State coach Pat Casey was asked about the Beavers’ Adley Rutschman.
Adley falls in first round, but makes a memory
SEATTLE — During a Monday afternoon meeting with the media, Adley Rutschman allowed how his participation in the MLB Home Run Derby “will be a memory for a lifetime.”
Rutschman’s maiden MLB voyage has been ‘an awesome experience’
SEATTLE — The Baltimore Orioles dressed quietly in the visitor’s locker room at T-Mobile Park Wednesday afternoon after taking a 9-3 thumping by the Seattle Mariners.
During a very difficult 2021, it was a very good first year
A first full year is in the books for kerryeggers.com after my retirement after 45 years in the newspaper in April 2020.
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Iconic coach alive and still kicking at 90: ‘Linfield might as well be called Rutschman U’
McMINNVILLE — The mid-week lunch crowd at Golden Valley Brewery is bustling, but few of the customers seem to notice the sporting royalty in their midst. Then again, perhaps they are just giving Ad Rutschman some privacy as he dines with sons Don and Randy while conducting an interview with some guy holding a digital recorder.
On the Pre Classic, Rich Brooks’ 80th birthday party, Adley (and Ad) Rutschman, Damian Lillard, Kevin Calabro and the Trail Blazers …
Sporting items on my mind as we swing into a new week …
I’ll put the Prefontaine Classic up against any 2 1/2-hour sports event in the state of Oregon — and yes, I’m including a basketball game involving the Trail Blazers.
The 47th annual invitational — with a crowd of 8,937 looking on at the newly refurbished track and field shrine called Hayward Field — featured nine meet records and seven world-leading marks in the first international meet since the end of the Tokyo Olympic Games two weeks ago.
No games in 2020, but Rutschman is doing what he can do to prepare for a major-league career
Minor league baseball went dark last season due to the COVID-19 crisis, bad timing for those in the beginning stages of their professional careers.
Even so, Adley Rutschman made the most of his 2020 non-season.
The No. 1 pick in the 2019 major-league draft spent the summer on the Baltimore Orioles’ 60-man roster, though he trained with the minor-league group in Bowie, Md., about 30 miles south of the city.