Not so shockingly, Pac-12 is rolling
In the wake of the Pac-12 Conference short-sheeting the NCAA tournament last weekend, we’ve sought explanations from hundreds of hoops savants, including advanced-metrics statheads, Nate Silver, Charles Barkley, Joe Lunardi and Jake from State Farm. The consensus: Stuff happens. No, actually, there really is some perspective to...
The iconic ’77 photo …
That photograph. That photograph, of the Eugene Register-Guard’s 1977 boys all-state basketball team, stared back at me for a decade, before I left that paper in 1987 to wreak my own brand of infamy with the Seattle dailies. But the photo comes back, a rebound of sorts, with the...
If that ’77 photo could talk …
That photograph. That photograph, of the Eugene Register-Guard’s 1977 boys all-state basketball team, stared back at me for a decade, before I left that paper in 1987 to wreak my own brand of infamy with the Seattle dailies. But the photo comes back, a rebound of sorts, with the...
Meanwhile, in that other dance …
The silly season began in earnest this week. Coaches were cashiered and the dance – the one involving the guys diagramming plays, not the NCAA-tournament bracket – continued. Gotta find the Next Big Thing, gotta keep feeding the monster. Pardon me, but I don’t know which is...
50 years ago, the next Oregon coach would be Harter (eventually, anyway)
Saturday marked an anniversary of sorts: It was 50 years ago, also on a Saturday, that Oregon ended its 1970-71 basketball season with a 71-65 victory over Oregon State behind 30 points from Stan Love in his final game. And thus began a trudge toward a monumental hire...
Musing on Pac-12 venues (still)
Stumbled across a post on Twitter the other day that caught my eye and inspired more social-media talk: A rating by a media panel commissioned by Athlon Magazine on the best college towns in the Pac-12. Only today did I realize that the poll was taken six...