Posts tagged "University of Oregon"

Only-in-my-dreams Final Four

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Predictably out on a platypus limb once again: Beavers by 3

For years, I’ve identified with the animal that looks like a duck and a beaver. I don’t know if the Platypus Club exists, but I consider myself a member of it. I like the Ducks and the Beavers, about equally so. I graduated from the University of Oregon in 1975 and love my alma mater,...
Mac2Matt: A smooth transition

Mac2Matt: A smooth transition

After spending about three and a half hours Thursday evening in the new Matthew Knight Arena on the University of Oregon campus, I can sum up the place in two words: It's cool.

Good for TCU

Remember the talk four months ago as Oregon State started its 2010 football season. The Beavers, everyone was saying, had the toughest nonconference schedule in the nation. One of the big reasons for that, Texas Christian, which beat the then-21st-ranked Beavers 30-21 Sept. 4 in Dallas, completed a perfect 13-0 season about an hour ago....
Not done saying farewell to Mac Court

Not done saying farewell to Mac Court

It was about 10:20 Friday night. I had finished up my video interviews following the Crescent Valley-Mountain View 5A boys state semifinal game, and was outside Mac Court starting to walk toward my truck. Then I had another thought. I knocked on one of the doors and a member of the security crew let me in....