Strange weekend ahead
Heavy rains for three days created heavy flooding in the Corvallis area. If you are from out of the area, read the home page of the GT to see what’s going on. While life ground to a halt in more areas, Oregon State sports carried on. The men’s basketball team defeated UCLA in Gill Coliseum....
Parker honored for broadcasting
Mike Parker was named the Oregon Sportscaster of the Year for the sixth time, the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association announced Wednesday. The “Voice of the Beavers” is in his 13th year announcing Oregon State athletics. Parker handles the play-by-play work for the football, men’s basketball and baseball teams. He serves as co-host of the...
Stansbury reaction
Associate AD Todd Stansbury left Oregon State to be the AD at Central Florida. Read the details here. I’m sure you will say that’s no big deal. He’s just an administrator. It’s not like WR Markus Wheaton or G Jared Cunningham left, or baseball coach Pat Casey retired. Stansbury kept his thumb on the money...
Associate AD leaves Beavers for UCF
Central Florida named Oregon State executive associate athletic director Todd Stansbury as UCF vice president and director of athletics today. Since 2003, Stansbury supervised business operations, including developing and managing a $56 million budget, for an OSU program that features 17 sports and more than 500 athletes. Among other achievements during Stansbury’s tenure: – More...
Non-football predictions
The New Year brings the bulk of the non-football sports at Oregon State, so let’s look into the crystal ball. Overall, things are looking up for the Beavers. Many of the programs are making improvements. So here we go. Men’s hoops The Beavers are off to a great start, but stumbled at the start of...
Pac-12 vs. Big Ten
Check out this story about the Pacific-12 Conference agreeing to face the Big Ten in nonconference games for all teams starting in 2017. For football, that means nine Pac-12 games and one nonconference game against the Big Ten every other year in the home stadium, and then a trip to the Midwest every other year....
Penn State scandal waves
I was a little late on this story since it was in the middle of the Oregon State football season, but here’s OSU reaction to the Penn State scandal of child sex abuse. The Penn State saga is still in the news since the legal system is working through the details, and it was voted...
OSU year-end story
The annual look back at the top 10 stories the Corvallis Gazette-Times covered at Oregon State, voted on by the sports staff, ran in Sunday’s edition. Check it out here. There are many football-related stories, since football always draws the most interest. However, there are some hoops, baseball and gymnastics stories. It was a rough...
Wrestling team signs four
The Oregon State wrestling team signed four athletes Monday for the 2012-13 season. They are Joey Delgado (Hermiston), Joey Palmer (Covington, Wash.), Patrick Downey (Oviedo, Fla.) and Jack Hathaway (Iowa City, Iowa). “It’s a good group that has accomplished a lot,” coach Jim Zalesky said. “They’ve gotten a lot of titles so far and have...
Late football update
Starting RB Malcolm Agnew (hamstring) was listed at out for Saturday’s game at Arizona State, Oregon State football coach Mike Riley said after Friday morning’s walkthrough. Terron Ward will start in his place and rotate with Jordan Jenkins. OLB Rueben Robinson will start in place of regular starter Michael Doctor for the second game in...
Looking at ASU
The Oregon State football faces long odds Saturday night at No. 25 Arizona State. The Sun Devils are 17.5-point favorites. Here’s my main story in Tuesday’s GT on what coach Mike Riley thinks of the Sun Devils. Here’s my ASU scouting report. It’s a look at what the Beavers can expect. Here’s the notebook with...
UCLA postgame
CORVALLIS — The Oregon State football team’s loss in the Pac-12 Conference opener Saturday in Reser Stadium 27-19 to UCLA extended the losing streak to five games dating back to last season. Oregon State has lost three straight to begin the season for the first time since 1996. UCLA leads 41-15-4 and 13-8-1 in Reser...
