Month: December 2020

From breakfast, a book emerges

It began over eggs and hash browns at a nondescript eatery in Corvallis. “So,” I prodded Rick Coutin, “you’ve got to tell us about the night Dick Harter tripped you.” Thus launched the seed for “Mad Hoops,” my just-released chronicle of the most controversial basketball program in the history...

Larry Scott’s reign drags on . . . and on . . . and on

So here we are, about to hit the finish line in the weirdest of weird years. In the Pac-12, that means allowing a football team that never should have been in the championship game, Oregon, which replaced another team that never should have been in the championship game, Washington....