This business is a funny beast.On a personal level, my dad chose to see me as a sports writer when he described me in his memoir. To an extent that is very true. I cover sports for Oregon. Occasionally, I help out other sites; as I did this summer for Florida. What I find intriguing, I suppose, is that this is not my 'job' so to speak.Now, make no mistake about it, I take what I do very seriously

It has been a strange trip this summer; really since spring.I was asked by someone yesterday what was wrong. This is my attempt at an answer. I don't intend this as a post to engender sympathy or condolences; this is my method of attempting to both explain my current malaise as well as (hopefully) fight my way through this time. In March, as many know, my father called me to meet him for dinner on

Good evening. Did anyone miss me? It has been a long summer.Earlier this year, my father was informed he had less than six months left to live. At best. It was a dire prognosis, but he was also a fiercely independent and stubborn man. Given those character traits, he was determined to live his life as normally as possible given this prognosis. That meant he wanted no part of assisted living facili

I have written about Brenda Tracy’s courageous efforts in the past. To watch some of the vile vitriol directed her way in the name of wins and losses is pathetic at times. This week more of that hatred reared its ugly head as she spearheaded a campaign that ultimately ended when Oregon State pitcher Luke Heimlich ‘left the team.’ While it is a sort of win for the cause Ms. Tracy is fighting, it wa

I am a white man. I will never know what it is like to be a black man. No amount of makeup, contrived scenarios or specified directed taunting will ever allow me to know what it is like to be born and raised as a black man.That being said, I don't need to be black or any other skin color, national origin or religion to know racism.Recently Lebron James was the victim of racism at his Brentwood est

Let's run had a fascinating take on the question of whether Edward Cheserek is the 'best' college distance runner of all time. Like most sports, it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to name a singular greatest player or athlete. Times change and we can really only compare athletes against the generation in which they competed.First, I need to come clean, so to speak. I was a distance runn