Sooners, Longhorns favored in Big 12 race
There may be no more difficult path to a national championship than through the Big 12 South. Ask Texas, which was 11-1 in the regular season last year and didn t even make the Big 12 championship game because of a three-way tiebreaker. It may work f...
 7.3K - Aug. 19, 2009; scored 89.0 Babe Ruth team one win from nationals
The South Coast s 14- and 15-year-old Babe Ruth baseball team is one win away from a trip to nationals. With a 10-0 win over Wyoming Friday in Centralia, Wash., the team earned a game against Southern Washington today for a berth to the national tour...
1.9K - Aug. 8, 2009; scored 89.0 A fond farewell for the South Coast region
Column by Joe Hansen , Outdoors Editor The feeling came like a freight train one Friday morning; it was time to move on. Granted, as my 30th birthday draws near, I m willing to admit I have a lot to learn. But I look back at myself at age 20 and thi...
3.6K - Aug. 8, 2009; scored 115.0 Making waves
It s a special kind of person who willingly straps themselves into a boat that approaches 200 miles per hour, knowing full well the ride might end at the bottom of a lake. Next weekend, dozens of people who live for such a ride will gather in Lakesid...
2.8K - Aug. 8, 2009; scored 89.0 South Coast Babe Ruth wins
With a win over Northern Oregon on Thursday, the South Coast s 14- and 15-year-old Babe Ruth team earned bragging rights as the top team in Oregon. The win moved the squad to 1-2 in pool play at the regional Babe Ruth tourney in Centralia, Wash., as ...
1.7K - Aug. 7, 2009; scored 89.0 South Coast Babe Ruth one win from title round
The South Coast 14-year-old Babe Ruth team moved within a win of the championship game Tuesday with a 12-4 win over host Latah County in the regional Babe Ruth tournament in Moscow, Idaho. The kids played good ball yesterday, said South Coast coach ...
1.9K - Aug. 5, 2009; scored 89.0 South Coast Babe Ruth falls
The South Coast s 14- and 15-year-old Babe Ruth baseball team lost a heartbreaker Monday, falling 9-8 after giving up the winning run to Alberta in the bottom of the seventh inning at the regional Babe Ruth tournament in Centralia, Wash. We played ha...
1.8K - Aug. 4, 2009; scored 89.0 Area stars line up for East-West Shrine Game
When North Bend High School football coach Rick Taylor walks the sidelines as the West Coach in the East-West Shrine Game today in Baker City, at least he ll know his captains. North Bend all-star lineman Trae Collins and Siuslaw standout quarterback...
1.9K - Aug. 1, 2009; scored 89.0 Teamwork the key for South Coast
The South Coast s 14-year-old prep all-stars enter this week s regional Babe Ruth tournament knowing they reached the tourney by knocking off one of the region s toughest squads in Josephine County twice. So the South Coast team understandably is c...
2.8K - Aug. 1, 2009; scored 89.0 Ways to ruin a walk: 139
Column by Joe Hansen , Outdoors Editor Before I teed off the first golfing attempt of my life at Kentuck Golf Course on Monday, I asked my duffing partners, John Gunther and Ron Jackimowicz , what a good, modest goal might be for my inaugural sho...
3.5K - Aug. 1, 2009; scored 133.0 Champion Cowgirl
MYRTLE POINT Olivia Train can t recall the first time she rode a horse. So for all intents and purposes, the 17-year-old Myrtle Point High School senior might as well have been born in the saddle; she can t remember a time in her life when she wasn...
4.1K - Jul. 30, 2009; scored 89.0 Umpqua Valley wins tourney opener
NORTH BEND Trailing 15-2 after the top of the fourth inning, the mostly 14-year-old South Coast Americans could ve just rolled over to an older Umpqua Valley squad in the opening game of the Southern Oregon State Babe Ruth Tournament at Clyde Allen...
5.8K - Jul. 25, 2009; scored 89.0 High as a kite
FLORAS LAKE Emerging sunshine and 15 to 24 mph winds meant one thing for a handful of wetsuit-clad folks on Floras Lake on Thursday time to go kiteboarding. It s a great day for it, said Will Brady, who operates Floras Lake Windsurfing and Kiteb...
3.0K - Jul. 25, 2009; scored 89.0 Weightlifting Wonder
Larry Muth has always tried to lift things, beginning with his grandfather s lawnmower around age 6. Muth tried and tried, eventually getting his father to bring the piece of equipment home from his grandfather s garage in Empire to the Muth s home i...
4.5K - Jul. 23, 2009; scored 89.0 Olympian trains wrestlers in Bay Area
Some laughed and some just stared as former Olympic wrestler and storied coach Ken Chertow screamed and did flips on the mats in front of nearly 90 young grapplers at Southwestern Oregon Community College on Tuesday. Soon, Chertow had his rapt audien...
4.4K - Jul. 22, 2009; scored 89.0 Landing a dinosaur
Column by Joe Hansen , Outdoors Editor A man sitting in a boat sturgeon fishing threw up his hands as Rob Durgan, Jon Major and I dropped anchor in the Coos River on Thursday. Nothing all day, he shouted. So he must have been at least slightly anno...
4.1K - Jul. 18, 2009; scored 89.0 Sandblasters' struggles continue
The Three Rivers Sandblasters American Legion AAA baseball team dropped its second straight and sixth of the past seven Tuesday, falling 19-9 via 10-run rule in eight innings against visiting Richey s Markey. The loss capped a rough week for Three Ri...
1.7K - Jul. 16, 2009; scored 89.0 Pair of aces return to Waterfront
As North Coos gears up for a late-season run at the American Legion A baseball playoffs, the Waterfront received two welcome additions to its pitching staff Wednesday. Aces Bryce Weidman and Kyle Davis, who had spent most of the Legion season with t...
1.2K - Jul. 16, 2009; scored 89.0 North Coos takes two from Blaze
NORTH BEND With a pair of nearly identical 13-3, five-inning wins over the visiting Umpqua Blaze on Wednesday at Clyde Allen Field, the North Coos Waterfront moved to .500 on the league season and positioned itself for a run at the American Legi...
4.6K - Jul. 16, 2009; scored 89.0 Coos Bay Yacht club hosting regatta at Tenmile Lakes
Thursday through Sunday the Coos Bay Yacht Club will be hosting the Geary 18 International Sailing Regatta yacht race at Tenmile Lakes. Fourteen boats from the United States and Canada will take part in a handful of races around buoys on the lake, ut...
1.6K - Jul. 16, 2009; scored 896.0 | 
