MONDAY
- The Bakersfield Blitz of Arena Football League 2 singed former Oregon State center David Lose.
- Jefferson basketball juniors Marquis Hall and Lathen Wallace
are both interested in attending Oregon State. The Beavers have shown Hall
interest and have offered Wallace a scholarship.
- The Clemens Foundation to pull their grants to Oregon State have caused
much debate. More peopled
weighed in saying the foundation is too narrow sighted.
TUESDAY
- Oregon State assistant coach Kevin Mouton was in consideration for
the San Jose State men's basketball head coaching position.
WEDNESDAY
- Defensive tackle Ben Sigert was pulled over for speeding last week,
he was doing 60 in a 25 mpg zone. He had a stolen
ram in the back of his pickup truck that he took from the OSU sheep barns,
the funny thing is that he claims to not remembering taking the ram ("I don't
know anything about that," he said. "I'm from a city. I don't know anything
about sheep."). The 20-year old also failed a sobriety test
registering a .14 blood-alcohal reading, .6 above the legal limit. Former OSU
football player Brent Bridges was also in the vehicle.
- Cottonwood High defensive tackle Simione Fili tested well at the
Nike Combine in Los Angeles this week. Keep an eye on this sophomore as he
will be one of the most heavily recruited players in Utah.
- BeaverFootball 101, the annual Beaver football workshop for women,
has been set to take place at the Valley Football Center, Saturday, April 23
from 11:30 am - 2:00 pm. For more information visit OSUBeavers.com.
- Brad Coen, who transferred from Oregon State in 2001, played his
last game for Southern Oregon. The senior wing was a member of the Cascade
Conference All-Defensive team this year. He also averaged 10.4 points per game
while hitting a team high 68 three-pointers.
THURSDAY
- An opinion piece from the Gazette Times (kind of hard to disagree with the
person):
Rein
in the drunks on OSU team
The most recent entrant in the "What were you thinking?" category goes to
Oregon State University football player Ben Siegert. The junior defensive
tackle from Glendale, Ariz., claims to have no memory of wrangling a 200-pound
ram from the OSU sheep barns about 1:30 last Friday morning.
- The men's basketball season ended in the first round of the NIT when Cal
State Fullerton's Ralphy Holmes hit a jump shot as time expired to
lift the Titans over OSU, 85-83. The Titans are a very active team
with their hands and feet. They killed the Beavers on the offensive
glass and with their back door cuts.
- Another opinion piece, this one from The
Oregonian's John Canzzano, suggests that Riley should be harder
on his players.
"And what about Beavers football coach Mike Riley?
We just don't know. Because when Riley should have been sending a stern
message about drunken driving and publicly ripping his player for
embarrassing the university and football program, he went silent."
- Mike Slaughter, a defensive end from Allan Hancock College
recently singed a letter of intent to play at Baylor. Oregon State was
interested in the 6-foot-6, 260-pound player, but did not offer him a
recruiting trip until Tuesday, which was too late.
FRIDAY
- The Beaver football program has been receiving a lot of press over the
sheep incident. The Beavers made the front page of JimRome.com.
One of the more humorous headlines from the incident came from the North
County Times -- "Drunk Beaver found with stolen
Ram from gay sheep project." Some Duck fans are trying to work out a plan
to buy 40,000 sheep noise makers for the Civil War.
- According to The Arizona Republic, John Saintignon, who coached
at Goodyear Desert Edge High School last year, is on the verge of accepting
an assistant coaching position at Oregon State.
SATURDAY
- Two days after doctors suggested that Cincinnati Bengal Dennis Weathersby retire, the cornerback was released.
- Arizona coach Lute Olson is not happy with the Pac-10's TV
arrangements and used the Pac-10 Tournament to voice his opinion on the subject.
"I'm concerned because I don't think our guys in the Pac-10 get the kind of
recognition nationally that they should," Olson said. "Something is wrong that
has to be fixed.
"If that means a change in the TV contract, or that means a change in what is
being done at the Pac-10 level, I don't know. But something is haywire."
- After releasing DeLawrence Grant last week, the Oakland Raiders
will try and sign him soon.
- Baltimore Raven defensive end Dwan Edwards is expected to start
this year.
SUNDAY
- Josh Tarver, who will be attending OSU on a basketball scholarship,
scored 17 points, grabbed 10 rebounds, and dished out four assists during
Jesuit's 57-53 victory over Lake Oswego in the 4A State Championship
game.
"It's a great feeling," Tarver said. "I've always dreamed of this, and now
I've got it."
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