A Reckless Autonomy
I stretched my legs as far as the backseat of my truck would allow. Right outside my window, hotel guests dragged wheeled luggage toward the lobby, letting their big oblivious footsteps pound atop the pavement. One of the slammed doors set off a car alarm, and now a high-pitched squeal echoed through the parking structure like the angry call of a predatory bird. With the sheet back over my head, I squeezed my eyes tight and took a deep breath. When I awoke later, it was almost 8:15. The hotel would stop serving its complimentary breakfast in 45 minutes, and on road trips like this, I always helped myself to the complimentary breakfast.
This was my vacation. I lived in Phoenix but had driven to Tucson to see a Bay Area garage band. Countless bands were returning home from South by Southwest in Austin, and most had booked shows along the way.
Greg Hansen: Dear Mr. Football
CORVALLIS, Ore.
Dear Mr. Football: What's the difference between a football game at Oregon State and one at Arizona?
A: Friday at lunch at The Depot café in nearby Albany, Ore., three consecutive couples to walk through the door were outfitted in Beavers gear. Two pickups parked in the lot had OSU flags attached to the windows. Another had a garish orange and black OSU sign on the passenger-side door. At the Phoenix Inn on Interstate 5, the room maids wore orange OSU T-shirts. And the Beavers haven't won a game since 2010.
On Fridays before an Arizona home game, director of athletics Greg Byrne wears a red golf shirt. People ask, "Why do you keep wearing that shirt on Fridays?"
Dear Mr. Football: Is Mike Riley the Joe Paterno of Oregon State football?
A: When Riley signed "a lifetime" contract (through 2019) a year ago, OSU director of athletics Bob DeCarolis told reporters "Mike wants to be the Joe Paterno of Oregon State."
Riley is 58. Paterno is 84. In Paterno years, that means Riley could coach at OSU until 2037. In Las Vegas, oddmakers make it 3-to-1 that Riley coaches until he's 84 over Arizona getting to the Rose Bowl by 2037.
Oregon's US attorney's office has recently become the first federal prosecutor's office in the nation to produce a video for the "It Gets Better" campaign, according to JustOut.com. Several prosecutors and staff members detail their own experiences,
Participants, outfitted in everything from tie-dyed T-shirts to superhero costumes, cheered and danced to drumming by Portland's Last Regiment of Synopated Drummers. Individually or in teams of dozens, they raised more than $419000 this year,
