I have to say goodbye to a friend today. I’ll miss him. Saying goodbye is tough. No one does it correctly. There are often awkward pauses. Fidgeting. People resort to swapping old stories. Living in the moment is too uncomfortable; […]
Usually I don’t get my vacation from writing until late July and early August. It was a special treat this year when Zack, my editor at The Forest Grove News-Times was nice enough to grant me some “vacation” in mid-May. […]
Let it be known, Pacific University junior golfer Max Bonk is a scientist, not a farmer. He grew up in Hawaii. He doesn’t own a tractor. He calculates, analyzes and experiments. He does not enjoy wading through knee-deep grass in […]
A few months ago I posted, in a quick blurb along with a video, that Chad Ochocinco amazes me. He is a skilled wide receiver on the field and gifted in the art of entertaining outside the lines – as […]
Over the past decade, athletically speaking, Oregon State has held Notre Dame in a headlock. Or a full-nelson. It’s not that the Beaver are always better, they are just better at the right moments. Maybe it’s even luck. The Beavers […]
Okay, forget Beyonce for a moment. April showers bring the opportunity to stay indoors. Long hours slaving over a room-temperature keyboard staring at a .css stylesheet (while failing to come up with anything original) eventually led to a faster, quicker […]
Things haven’t quite gone according to plan in Banks. Wymon Smith, Banks’ baseball coach since 2006 and athletic director since 2007, wasn’t pleased with his team’s performance. While he knew the boys were getting better every day, the situation just […]
Dreaming takes courage – it bears the potential for failure. Those who dream do not do so blindly because a blind dream is a wish. Dreaming takes patience, planning and persistence. Those words sound familiar to Brandi Dawson. The Forest […]
In life, circling the wagons and gathering the troops is often a last ditch effort. In sports, there is different verbiage. Some call it rebuilding. Others call it reloading. The Gaston Greyhounds call it finishing a puzzle. A puzzle with […]