Sometimes there are no words — but not for icon Bill Walton
You want to ask him just one last question, but William Theodore Walton III is a master of control.
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Nike’s dance party
It was Jan. 2, the day after the Oregon Ducks had crushed Florida State in the Rose Bowl, and Ohio State had upset mighty Alabama in the Sugar Bowl, in the semifinals of the first-ever College Football Playoff.
Going the distance against Parkinson’s
If you were a progressive, debilitating disease, you might be wise to pick someone other than a McChesney to inflict.In Track Town, USA (aka Eugene), there’s not much danger in…
Record breaker
She stands perpendicular to “the machine,” her eyes intent on the target. She kicks her left leg back a few times, like a stallion ready to bolt, lets out a…
Grasscar
OAKRIDGE – Ladies and gentlemen, start your – lawn mowers? No, it wasn’t the Indianapolis 500, and no one chugged a celebratory jug of milk after the waving of the…
A Civic engagement
He could have taken her out to dinner and hidden the ring in her dessert when she went to the ladies’ room. He could have hired a skywriter to puff…
Pre
40 years after the Oregon track legend’s death, the mysteries concerning his fatal car crash linger
Dad’s identity no tall tale, man says
The South Eugene High grad says he has no doubt a 7-foot-1 NBA Hall of Fame legend was his father
Overwhelmed
ARLINGTON, Texas — Ouch! Why did this all feel so familiar? They’d been there, done this — made it all the way to the national championship game, only to lose…
Fans ready to roll
DALLAS – They called it Playoff Fan Central, and it was a decidedly corporate affair inside the enormous Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in downtown Dallas. The three-day fan festival…
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