It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a...
Horizon Air recently unveiled three new Bombardier CRJ-700 jets sporting
the logos and colors of the Pac-10's three northwest universities. The University
of Washington plane is coming shortly.
The paint job for the Oregon State plane was so intricate that it is the the
only jet out of the four that required the graphic artist who designed it to
be present throughout the process. Another fun fact: Out of the four college
hometowns (Eugene, Pullman, Seattle) Corvallis is the only college hometown
that Horizon does not fly to.
Click the play button below to see a time lapsed video of the transformation
of the plane into the flying Beaver mobile!
Off to the meat market.
Four Oregon State players - Yvenson Bernard, Roy Schuening, Alexis Serna and Dorian Smith - have been invited to the NFL's Scouting Combine, Feb.
20-26 in Indianapolis.
Schuening and Serna will be the first Beavers at the Combine, arriving Feb.
20. Bernard arrives Feb. 21 and Smith Feb. 22. ESPN and the NFL Network will
televise or recap a portion of the Combine.
In the meantime, if you want an interesting look at what players go through
while preparing for the NFL Combine and draft, watch Two
days in April. The documentary follows four players, two whom Beaver fans
should be familiar with, Arizona State's Derek Hagan and New Mexico's DonTrell
Moore.
If you have a Netflix account and a high speed internet account you can stream
the movie on your computer.
Almost spring time!
Spring practice is right around the corner as the 15-day practice schedule kicksoff
Mar. 31 with practices Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The spring game game is
May 3.
The updated spring
roster can be viewed at OSUBeavers.com.
Mr. Postseason Honors
Oregon State running back Jacquizz Rodgers continues to reel in the honors as
he was recently named one of 50 Old Spice Red Zone Players of the Year. He was
selected out of a pool of over 5,000 candidates.
You've probably read it all before, but here are his senior prep accomplishments:
- Named the inaugural Texas Associated Press Sports Editors Player of the
Year,
- Named the Texas Sports Writers Association Class 4A Offensive Player of
the Year,
- A First Team EA Sports High School All-American
- A 2008 Parade All-American.
- Helped lead Lamar Consolidated to its first state title (4A) and an undefeated
season
- As a senior accounted for 2,902 yards on the ground and 43 touchdowns
- Broke the state record for career touchdowns with 136.
Wiiiiiiii!
To commemorate the first NCAA Football video game on the Wii, the video
game's package will feature a team's mascot which will be voted on by fans.
Head on over to EASports.com
and vote for Benny! You can vote one time per day with voting ending March 14.
A lightweight approach.
The Wizard
of Odds blog put together a conference by conference breakdown of games
scheduled against D1-AA opponents. The graph below is a percentage breakdown
of games played by 1-A conferences vs. 1-AA opponents.
Way to go Pac-10.
Searching...
Who is going to be the 20th head coach of the men's basketball program? Former
player Lester Conner? Former Trailblazer Jerome Kersey? Current college coaches
Randy Bennet, Mark Fox, Bob Thomason, Stew Morril? Or recent retiree Bobby Knight?
Only time will tell, but Ross
the Prof has an interesting post about Knight and how it would be a win-win
for both parties.
Bye bye Duckie.
Former Oregon quarterback/announcer Dan Fouts' contract with ABC/ESPN has expired
and won't be renewed.
That's good news for Oregon State fans who had to suffer through his color
commentary during Pac-10 games.
Back to back to back?
- GET THEM BULLDOGS: In just five days the Oregon State baseball
team heads to Portland to start the defense of their national title in a three
game series versus the Georgia Bulldogs. Tickets, starting at $10 for adults,
$5 for youth and OSU students, are still available. More information can be
found at OSUBeavers.com.
- STUDY TIME: Fourteen lettermen are gone from last year's
team including six position players and eight pitchers, but six starters return
including the sensational Joey Wong and preseason All-American pitcher Jorge Reyes. Learn more about the 2008 team from the media
guide.
- THEIR GOLDEN: Oregon State pitchers Mike Stutes and Jorge
Reyes (pictured right) are two of the 75 collegiate baseball players named
to the Golden Spikes Award Watch List as announced by USA Baseball. The award
is given annually to the nation's top collegiate baseball player.
- FOUR IN THE TOP 10: The media recently selected OSU to
finish fourth in the conference behind Arizona, Arizona State and UCLA. UCLA
and Arizona are ranked one, two respectively in the Baseball American preseason
Top 25, while OSU checks in at No. 7 and Arizona State at No. 9.
- MEDIA DAY: A baseball media day was held early last week.
Quotes from head coach Pat Casey and players Jordan Lennerton, Jorge Reyes
and Mike Stutes can be found at OSUBeavers.com.
Video can be found at Oregonlive.com.
The, uh men's basketball program.
H ere's the latest on the struggling men's basketball program.
- PUT ME IN COACH: Former OSU basketball player C.J. Giles
told the Eugene
Register Guard's Adam Jude that he wants back on the team, but Kevin Mouton
will have none of it as he promptly kicked off the troubled star as soon as
he replaced Jay John in late January.
- RECORD SETTERS, SORT OF: No Pac-10 team has ever gone winless
in conference play and while that record is still a few games off the 2008
squad set another dubious streak. With their loss to the Huskies Saturday
the Beavers have now lost 15 straight, (0-13 in conference play), the most
consecutive losses in the program's history.
Five, six including the Pac-10 tournament, games remain on the regular season
schedule, two are on the road (UCLA, USC), three are at home (Oregon, Arizona,
Arizona State.
- POTTY MOUTHS: You wouldn't think that a team with a just
six wins and zero conference victories would pick a fight, but that's just
what Marcel Jones, Sean Carter and others did as they got into a confrontation
with Husky players at the end of practice in Gill Coliseum the day before
the game.
Details can be found in a Seattle
Time's blog. Suffice to say the scare tactics didn't work as Washington
crushed Oregon State by 38 points.
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