Oregonian Sports: Recent Episodes
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Oregonian Sports is your home for entertaining and informative analysis and discussion of the Ducks, Beavers, Blazers and other sports stories. Look for episodes each week from The Oregonian/OregonLive’s sports columnist Bill Oram and KOIN-TV sports anchor/reporter Brenna Greene.
Marc Spears, a senior NBA reporter for ESPN’s Andscape, believes Damian Lillard will be traded to the Miami Heat before the start of training camp. He joins Bill Oram to discuss that, as well as his new series on Hulu, The Conversations Project. Spears, who attended San Jose State, also shares his thoughts on the Oregon State Beavers Week 1 matchup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian/OregonLive and KOIN 6's Brenna Greene talk Beavers future, Timbers crumble while Thorns continue to rise and how out of place Fentress felt at Damian Lillard show at the Roseland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian/OregonLive and KOIN 6’s Brenna Greene react to the destruction of the Pac-12 in part at the hands of the Oregon Ducks and what this development means for Oregon State. Plus, Blazers updates and why Brenna, a Swifty, failed to see Taylor Swift in Seattle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Oregonian’s OSU beat writer, Nick Daschel, joins Bill Oram to discuss what the Beavers do after the rival Oregon Ducks fled the Pac-12. Daschel explains the Beavers most likely options and explains why an annual football game between the state’s biggest university’s may not really be all that likely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian/OregonLive and KOIN 6’s Brenna Greene discuss why Oregon gave Dan Lanning such a huge contract extension, if it was cool for him to punch down on Colorado, the Pac-12 mess, Damian Lillard’s situation and Aaron’s trip to Florida to ride frightening roller coasters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Oregonian/OregonLive’s Aaron Fentress and KOIN 6’s Brenna Greene review the Blazers NBA summer league experience and also discuss the Damian Lillard situation, the All-PAC-12 media preseason football teams, Arena football to Salem and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Oregonian/OregonLive’s Aaron Fentress and Brenna Greene of KOIN 6 examine the Trail Blazers’ options during the latest episode of the Sports by Northwest podcast. Trade the pick for a star? Is Zion Williamson the perfect fit? Keep the pick and potentially alienate Damian Lillard? Does GM Joe Cronin owe it to Lillard to deal the No. 3 pick? Much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rumors surrounding Damian Lillard’s future are heating up with the NBA draft two weeks away. Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian/Oregon Live and KOIN 6’s Brenna Greene dive into the latest noise surrounding Lillard as well as the idea of the team potentially drafting Henderson and keeping Lillard. Plus, the Zion Williamson scandal is a twisted mess. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Portland Trail Blazers face a tough decision surrounding the No. 3 pick in the 2023 NBA draft. Trade the pick for a star to pair with Damian Lillard? Or use the pick to select guard Scoot Henderson and start a rebuild with or without Lillard? The Oregonian/OregonLive’s Aaron Fentress and Bill Oram examine the Blazers’ dilemma on the latest episode of the Sports by Northwest podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Phil Knight wants to purchase the Portland Trail Blazers. Franchise chair Jody Allen says the team is not for sale. But should it be? The Oregonian/OregonLive’s Bill Oram and Aaron Fentress tackle the discussion from differing vantage points on the latest episode of the Sports By Northwest podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As the president of business for the Trail Blazers and the Rose Quarter, Dewayne Hankins has his hands in a lot of different projects. Beyond the recent Phil Knight basketball tournaments and the Blazers new PDX Carpet uniforms, he is helping to orchestrate a long-term vision for Portland as a city that can, and will, host major events. That includes an NBA All-Star Game by 2030 — the same year that the city is slated to host the NCAA Women’ Final Four.What will the Rose Quarter look like by then? And Moda Center, which is already more than a quarter century old?Hankins get into all of that and much more on this week’s episode of Sports by Northwest.Here are some highlights from this week’s show:· Hankins discusses the development of the PDX Carpet uniforms and says they’re the most popular uniforms the team has ever produced.· Jody Allen is an enigmatic figure, but Hankins says the Blazers owner is heavily involved in plans and committed to the future.· Teams around the NBA have developed entertainment districts around their arenas. Hankins says the Blazers can have the same thing at the Rose Quarter.· The Blazers are committed to a major renovation of the Moda Center before 2030.· A former journalism major at Iowa State University, Hankins critiques Bill’s interview style.Subscribe to Sports by Northwest anywhere you listen to podcasts.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ari Wasserman is a national college football reporter for The Athletic. Like many, he believes the Oregon Ducks are the best team in the Pac-12. He also thinks that they are the conference’s worst candidate to break into the college football playoff. Why? Well, here’s a hint: Georgia. Wasserman joined Sports by Northwest this week to break down Oregon’s path to the CFP and discuss his recent column in The Athletic: Oregon’s dominance and why that’s an issue for the Pac-12 in the Playoff race. Here are some highlights from this week’s show: · Wasserman explain why he thinks both USC and UCLA would have stronger playoff chances than Oregon if one of them wins out · Why the Ducks did the right thing by scheduling Georgia, even though it’s hurting them now · Discussing Bo Nix’s Heisman candidacy and why it’s not actually all that surprising · Oregon’s final three (or four) games could give them a boost in the playoff chase, but they have to win them first Subscribe to Sports by Northwest anywhere you listen to podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Ducks are in the CFP hunt with a surprise Heisman contender, the Beavers are back in the top 25 and the Blazers are exciting and (maybe?) good. Oh, and the Thorns just secured their third NWSL championship. If existential dread is the underpinning of a sports fan’s existence, Oregonians don’t know what to do with themselves right now. Everything is going — knock on wood — well. Weird, right? That’s the theme of this week’s episode of Sports by Northwest, with sports editor Joel Odom joining host Bill Oram to discuss the overwhelming positivity across the local sports landscape. Here are some highlights from this week’s show: · With the first CFP rankings out, Bill and Joel discuss how plausible Oregon’s path to the playoff really is. · The Beavers will face Washington amid an “atmospheric river” in Seattle on Friday night. Who does that favor? · The good vibes extend to flag football. Joel tells us about his 10-year-old son’s weekend triumph. · Producer Andrew Theen steps out of the shadows to gush about the unabashed joy Shaedon Sharpe has brought to the Blazers. · We introduce new theme music from Portland band Haystack Rock that you won’t be able to stop humming once you hear it. Subscribe to Sports by Northwest anywhere you listen to podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It’s a big week for the Portland Trail Blazers, who won their season opener on Wednesday night. It’s a big week for the 10th-ranked Oregon Ducks, who host No. 9 UCLA and former coach Chip Kelly on Saturday. Aaron Fentress knows plenty about both. The Oregonian’s Blazers beat writer covered the Ducks for more than a dozen years, and was up close for Kelly’s tenure in Eugene. He joined Sports By Northwest to talk about both. Here are some highlights from this week’s show: · Fentress shares his big-picture takeaways from the win over Sacramento, including the play of rookie Shaedon Sharpe · Was Damian Lillard’s rough start to the season more discouraging or Jerami Grant’s impressive debut more encouraging? · Fentress explains why he thinks Kelly struggled to find success after leaving Oregon and why he finally seems to have found it in his fifth year in L.A. · Host Bill Oram and Fentress both make picks for Ducks-Bruins. Hint: They don’t agree. Here’s the full episode: [I’ll drop audio hyperlink] [I’ll drop episode embed here] -- Bill Oram Subscribe to Sports by Northwest anywhere you listen to podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 15 seasons covering the Mariners for the Seattle Times, Ryan Divish has covered seven different managers, three general managers and exactly zero playoff games. Until this season. Divish, a Montana native, is usually back in his hometown of Havre by this time of year. Except a magical run by the Mariners has the Northwest’s lone Major League club back in the postseason for the first time since 2001. Prior to Game 2 in Houston, Divish joined this week’s episode of Sports By Northwest to discuss the Mariners breakthrough and his career covering a losing franchise. Here are some highlights from this week’s show: · Divish talks about the moments this season when he felt like the Mariners might finally have luck and a little magic on their side · What is it like to see a city fall in love with a team again? Divish sees it every day in Seattle. · Divish talks about baseball writers he loves and how he found his voice on the beat. · Baseball is perhaps the most literary of all sports. Divish discusses his favorite books about America’s pastime. Subscribe to Sports by Northwest anywhere you listen to podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
There are some names in the sports world that deserve to be said, and remembered, forever. Jackie Stiles fits that description. On the latest episode of Sports by Northwest, columnist Bill Oram and sports editor Joel Odom chat with the women's basketball hall of famer about her life and her career. Stiles is the subject of a new documentary called "The Jackie Stiles Story." The documentary is streaming online but it will be shown live at the Portland Film festival starting next week. Her story, in its totality, is incredible. Stiles was an NCAA legend who held the all-time scoring record for years. She was a cult figure (think Steph Curry meetings Pistol Pete) who drew massive crowds to her games in small town Kansas and then at Southwest Missouri State in college. She went on to a brief career with the now-defunct Portland Fire of the WNBA before a series of devastating injuries ended her career far too soon. Some highlights from this week's show: -Bill and Joel discuss the U.S. Soccer investigation -They discuss Jackie Stiles' legendary performance and place in basketball history -Jackie Stiles interview (starts at 12:00) Subscribe to Sports by Northwest anywhere you listen to podcasts to hear the latest episodes.
After a 27-win season that ushered in a total roster overhaul, Blazers fans are all eager to move on from that tough year and for a look at the new team. Consider Brooke Olzendam among those fans. In fact, Blazers sideline reporter said she has never been more excited for a season to start. On this week’s episode of Sports by Northwest, Olzendam joins the show from Santa Barbara, Calif., where the Blazers are holding training camp. She talks to columnist Bill Oram and sports editor Joel Odom about her admittedly rosy outlook on the season. Here are some highlights from this week’s show: · Oram and Odom revisit the wild college football weekend and look ahead · Why Olzendam thinks this could be “the year” for the Trail Blazers. · Her favorite (and least favorite) NBA cities · What this week has been like for women in sports after Boston Celtics Ime Udoka suspension Subscribe to Sports by Northwest anywhere you listen to podcasts
In 2000, Oregon State welcomed USC into Corvallis and upset the Trojans 31-21 behind 234 yards rushing from star tailback Ken Simonton. More than two decades later, Simonton is a federal investigator for the Department of Labor and a youth track coach in his hometown, but he will be closely watching the Beavers game against the seventh-ranked Trojans on Saturday. This week on Sports by Northwest, the Beavers legend joined columnist Bill Oram to discuss this weekend’s game and to reflect on his career in Corvallis. His 5,044 career rushing yards remain a school record. Here are some highlights from the show: · His memories of beating USC in 2000 · The reason he wanted to be on the sidelines for Oregon State’s game at Fresno State and not in the stands · How close he came to attending USC instead of Oregon State · Why he is upset with USC and UCLA for bolting for the Big Ten · His prediction for Saturday’s game
Would Oregon's football glory days have happened without Brigham Young University laying the smack down more than a decade ago? On the first episode of Sports by Northwest, The Oregonian/OregonLive's Bill Oram chats with Los Angeles Times reporter Andrew Greif (our former colleague and pal) about how Oregon's best football moments can be traced back to two football coaches who are no longer with those respective programs. Related Reading: How Bronco Mendenhall helped Oregon 'Win the Day"
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