Archive for March, 2009
Three Oregon basketball players cited for firing weapons in Alton Baker Park Monday
Three Oregon freshman basketball players were cited Monday night for shooting at geese and ducks at Eugene’s Alton Baker Park and have since been released, a Eugene police spokeswoman said.
The three, Cedric Josh Crittle, Michael Dunigan and Teondre Williams, all 19, will appear in Eugene Municipal Court on April 14 for the misdemeanor charges.
“As far [...]
Pacifica Forum topic getting hot again.
Here’s a thread of comments on Lauren Fox’s recent Emerald article the Pacifica Forum’s designation by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group. It involves ASUO President Sam Dotters-Katz and ASUO Sen. Deborah Bloom.
The comments thread began with protests from forum members or sympathizers. “Pacifica Forum is not a hate group,” a poster identifying [...]
Snap judgments: Paul Westhead to Oregon
The Oregon athletic department is contrarian. It forges its own path. It marches to the beat of its own drummer. Pick a euphemism, and it follows. But in hiring Paul Westhead to be just the sixth women’s basketball coach in school history, somehow, one gets the feeling that this couldn’t go any further against the [...]
Paul Westhead to be named Oregon women's basketball coach
Oregon Athletic Director Pat Kilkenny is expected to announce the hiring of Paul Westhead, 70, as the sixth Oregon women’s basketball coach, succeeding the recently departed Bev Smith.
Westhead, offered the job after a national search was conducted, has experience coaching at the highest levels of both men’s and women’s basketball. Named assistant coach of the [...]
Gonzaga advances to face North Carolina on Goodson's coast-to-coast layup
PORTLAND — Memories of Tyus Edney, anyone?
Gonzaga’s Demetri Goodson scored on a bank-shot floater with .9 seconds left that sealed the Bulldogs’ 83-81 win to push them into the Sweet 16, only after Western Kentucky had tied the game on a tip-in with 7.9 seconds left in the game.
“That’s his shot,” GU guard Micah Downs [...]
A good freshman year, indeed, for one Boilermaker bench player
PORTLAND — When Purdue plays top-seeded Connecticut in Glendale, Ariz., next week in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament, Ryne Smith will be on the bench.
Not that he wouldn’t be. The freshman has been there all season.
His freshman season, out of Toledo, Ohio’s Whitmer High, hasn’t been along the same lines of a Derek [...]
Boilermaker or Boring-maker?
PORTLAND — You can’t help but see the peripheral aspects of college basketball when you sit courtside at the NCAA Tournament. (See photo from a couple posts ago)
Two bands have been about 10 feet away from my left ear, letting everyone knows about their spirit. Or noise. Or both. After five games here at Portland, [...]
Quincy, Quincy, Quincy
Quincy Pondexter has simply matured, Washington coach Lorenzo Romar said after Thursday’s win over Mississippi State.
As today’s Purdue vs. Washington game gets closer to the end, the Huskies are looking for the lead they’ve never had today. Purdue has been up by as many as 14 points in the first half, when the Huskies did [...]
