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 [...]
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 [...]
