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OREGON SPORTS HALL OF FAME

When You Finally Make The Oregon Sports Hall Of Fame Team, What’s Next? How do you make it to the Oregon Sports Hall Of Fame? The same way you make it to Carnegie Hall, you practice. No one gets there accidentally. Just like it takes more than a few words to write a sports column, […]

A LAKE OSWEGO FOOTBALL COMMENT

Warning: Adult Language And Profanity Regarding Lake Oswego Football. Last year Lake Owego football suspended ten players for team rules violation. This year LO suspended thirty players for conduct outside the team rules agreement they signed. I see it as a type of non-disclosure statement, except it’s between the players and the team. A BoomerPDX […]

A NEW WORLD OF SPORTS

The New World Of Sports Forgot This? The world of sports turns at the same speed for everyone, though the Oregon Duck football season seems to spin faster than other seasons. And it should. You get that in a sport with fewer games, greater risk, and rabid enthusiasm than other sports. It goes even further. […]

THE SPORTS DREAM

What Happens To Sports Dreams? Dreams never die. They don’t fall over. The don’t sit down and never get up. Dreams don’t stop breathing. Too often it’s us. We give up, try to forget, or redirect. The worst is trying to  pretend you never had the dream that won’t stop haunting your sleep. Drive by […]

STEPPING ON YOUR DUCK FOOTBALL?

Oregon Football Stepped On Their Duck. Now What? Watching the Ducks fly south at Autzen was a shocker that’s settling in slowly. That it was the worst defeat since the 1977 season was an unwanted reminder of dark Duck days. As a UofO student in 1977 high scores for the other team didn’t feel as […]

CTE SO FAR

Watching the New York Jets and Indy Colts on Monday Night Football, one guided by a Harvard guy the other by a Stanford guy. Smart guys from smart schools playing a little football. What are they thinking? Ryan Fitzpatrick and Andrew Luck have got to know about CTE. They probably heard about it in college. […]

COACH DAVE GROHL AND THE TEAM

One observation claims that athletes want to be actors, actors want to be athletes, and everybody wants to be a rock star. What do rock stars want to be? After seeing a rock show with Foo Fighters headlining, maybe the greatest rock band working on the world stage, rock stars apparently want to be coaches. […]

COLLEGE FOOTBALL 2015: OHIO STATE vs THE FIELD

Only one group gets to knock the defending national champion in big school college football. Alabama stays down after the Ohio State Buckeyes rolled them in last year’s semi-final at the New Orleans Super Dome. Florida State, the defending champ in 2014, got run out of the Rose Bowl. No word from them. That leaves […]

THE 500 CLUB

The Only Rule For Joining The 500 Club Is Benching Five Hundred Pounds. I’ve seen it done on television and youtube, never in person. Until last week when a man loaded up the bench bar and repped over 500 lbs with no spotter. If you’re like me, the only way you’re benching 500 is pushing […]

SEC FOOTBALL AND LANDFALL

SEC Football Is Ingrained In The Soul Of The  South, As Demonstrated At Powell’s Landfall Book Launch. Remember the last literary reading you attended? An author sat beside a stack of books, read a few pages, took questions, then signed copies. It’s the way it’s supposed to be, nice and traditional. The audience knows what […]