From the Cheap Seats

I have several role models in my life. One of them just celebrated a birthday not too long ago. This person is one of my role models because even though […]

I was going through a pile of stuff that needed to be filed when I came across a card…it was written to my wife and I from one of the […]

Legendary WSU football announcer Bob Robertson (speaking of the Cougs…who was the blogger that said they would beat USC? Oh yeah, me) ends his broadcasts every week by encouraging listeners […]

Thousands of Clark County kids went back to school yesterday, which means the fall sports seasons really get going. Summer and pre-season practices come to an end and games/matches/meets have […]

     The sport I feel most Pacific Northwest sports fans are most passionate about, college football, begins tonight. So I did my annual process of looking at each Pacific Northwest […]

One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned in life is the biggest mistake is not trying and failing, but doing nothing at all. The heavy breathers who run the University […]

My son, who will be 13 next month, was playing catch last Sunday with our good friends’ son….my son is on a makeshift rubber 50 feet away and our good […]

After a 28-month investigation the NCAA announced sanctions against the Oregon football program last Wednesday. I happen to agree with the majority that the penalties were too light given what […]

My son’s baseball team was at a tournament in Medford last weekend. The tournament took place at U.S. Cellular Community Park…a sprawling complex with football and soccer fields in addition […]

I have a class reunion coming up this summer and a lot of my Facebook friends are classmates and some of them have been putting up photos from our school's […]