Grand Blanc graduate Geena Gall's quest for second World Track Championships berth begins Thursday

06/21/11 Grand Blanc graduate Geena Gall recently ran a personal 800 meters best and begins her quest for a second World Championships of Track and Field team berth this week.

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Green Sea Floyds alum Elliott hits new gear in mile run

06/20/11 The quest to break the 4-minute mile has been the goal of middle-distance runners since England's Roger Bannister first completed the feat in 1954.

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Oregon Football Scandal: Oregon's Recruit Records Contain Notable Discrepancies

06/20/11 Plot Thickens in Oregon Football Scandal Time to open up the old "College football is a joke" file, folks. We have a new entry. Here's hoping there's enough room for it. Several months ago, there were reports that the Oregon football program paid $25,000 to a man named Willie Lyles for various recruiting services he performed in 2010. This payment just so happened to coincide with the ...

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Former Bison competing on national stage

06/20/11 Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - Former Bison track standout Laura Hermanson, now Laura Januszewski, loves running, and later this week she gets to take part in her own all-star series, racing in the 800 at the US Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon.

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Residents Pan Service During OpenBand Franchise Hearing

06/14/11 Standing before the Board of Supervisors, Southern Walk resident William Rambo held up his smartphone.

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Lane County warns elderly of common virus

06/14/11 EUGENE The Lane County Public Health office says elderly residents or those with chronic diseases and reduced immunity should call a doctor if they develop a severe cough and fever. Health officials said Monday they have noticed several clusters in recent weeks of a respiratory infection called human metapneumovirus. Officials say it's a common virus but it can cause serious problems among the ...

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Five Best Tuesday Columns

06/14/11 Eugene Robinson on Mitt Romney's Unpopular Pragmatism   The Washington Post 's Eugene Robinson  predicts  that Mitt Romney's "pragmatism" will be what leads him, as "an early front-runner," down the same path as "Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani and quite a few others who never got to be president." Though " Mitt Romney is basically an ideological conservative who believes in tax cuts as a panacea ...

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U.S. state votes to outlaw sale of suicide kits

06/14/11 PORTLAND, Ore (Reuters Life!) - Sales of suicide kits, like the do-it-yourself asphyxiation hood used by a man to kill himself late last year, could soon be outlawed in the state of Oregon.

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A matter of choice

06/09/11 Sharon Tan is the Chief Executive Officer for Grains Handler Philippines Inc. and Executive Assistant to the Chairman and President, Foremost Farms Inc.

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Sponsored By:

06/09/11 Amelia Island Plantation, Amelia Island, Fernandina, FL 32034, application #40-089-127836-1. The project is located in Nassau County, Section 20, Township 2 North, Range 28 East, and includes 0.08-acres.

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Athletics: City middle distance pair race for a place in American Collegiate Final

06/09/11 They once trained together with the same coach at Meadowbank and competed for Edinburgh AC but later today in Des Moines, Iowa, USA, Chris O'Hare (Tulsa) and Kris

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Pine Forest runners get in gear for Nike Track Nationals

06/09/11 WANT TO Watch? The 2011 Nike Track Nationals will be broadcast live on NikeTrackNationals.com on June 25. The Pine Forest High girls track team once again proved to be the best in the state of Florida this season.

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Local Report

06/09/11 Due to a lack of interest, Portland State football officials have canceled the Nigel Burton Viking Camp for high school football players, originally slated for June 17 at U.S. Cellular Community Park.

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Papers provide jobs and a voice

06/03/11 A new form of hand-to-mouth economics has emerged in Eugene during the past 1 1/2 years with the development of the Oregon Vagabond street newspaper.

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This Duck still taking flight

06/03/11 Mike Bellotti looked about as comfortable as one could be Thursday afternoon in his golf slacks and Oregon Ducks coaches shirt in an empty banquet room at Rogue Valley Country Club.

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LBSU's Hicks moves on to NCAA meet

05/28/11 EUGENE, Ore. - Senior Randi Hicks punched her ticket to the NCAA Championships in the women's javelin on the first day of the West Preliminary Rounds at the University of Oregon's Hayward Field.

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Northwest Notes May 29, 2011

05/28/11 EUGENE, Ore. - John Coyle, a junior from Lake City High, finished the third heat of the men's 3,000-meter steeplechase in 9 minutes, 53.72 seconds for Weber State, failing to advance past the NCAA Track and Field West preliminary round of the NCAA championships Friday at Hayward Field.

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College Roundup: Roadrunners' Benford to join Garrett at nationals

05/28/11 share: digg facebook twitter UTSA high jumper Keith Benford and Texas A&M 800-meter runner Joey Roberts have qualified for the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships from June 8-11 in Des Moines, Iowa.

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Presidential critic spurs racial debate

05/22/11 A leading black scholar is unapologetic for his scathing and racially loaded comments about President Obama last week, which have ignited fierce blowback from African-American leaders and intellectuals in arguments that continue to rage in black media and on the Web.

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Farmingdale land sale on again

05/22/11 FARMINGDALE -- The Farmingdale Commons Committee appears to have changed its position on pursuing the purchase of the Dragon Products Co. property on Pit Street.

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