If high schools in Eastern Oregon resume competitive events in 2021, the teams might seek to limit their opponents to relatively nearby schools to reduce travel and make it easier to comply with COVID-19 precautions.
REDMOND — The American West Football Conference has approved a new professional indoor franchise in Central Oregon, according to a news release Tuesday, Oct. 20.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Erik Jones will drive NASCAR's iconic No. 43 next season for Richard Petty Motorsports, a pairing of a driver and a team both in need of fresh starts.
CORVALLIS — The 2020 Cascade Collegiate Conference Women’s Soccer Coaches’ Preseason Poll is out, and the Eastern Oregon University Mountaineers are the favorite to win it this year.
LA GRANDE — Presley Justice’s versatility on the volleyball court has been evident the last two years with the La Grande Tigers.
I’ve often wondered what I would write when this day came along. Now that it is upon me, I honestly am not sure I have the words.
LA GRANDE — The COVID-19 pandemic meant Eastern Oregon University head baseball coach Mike McInerney had less time for in-person recruiting as he would have liked.
The Pac-12 will soon be playing football again, although under strange circumstances forced by the pandemic.
SEATTLE — By this point, Russell Wilson piecing together more late dramatics that ends with the Seahawks erupting in celebration seems almost expected.
LA GRANDE — The Eastern Oregon University volleyball team edged rival Southern Oregon University to be selected as the preseason favorite in the Cascade Collegiate Conference coaches poll, whi…
LA GRANDE — The Eastern Oregon University football team will play a seven-game regular season schedule in the upcoming season that will feature a contest against each Frontier Conference opponent.
U.S. ice dance champs Chock/Bates withdraw from Skate America
BAKER CITY — Jesse Brown is used to wrestling with several hundred pounds of uncooperative steer, but it turns out sitting still and watching his cellphone can be even more stressful.
LA GRANDE — The Eastern Oregon University men’s cross-country team was ranked 21st in the NAIA preseason top 25 coaches poll, which was released Thursday, Oct. 1, while the women’s team was ra…
'Sidelined' ran in print Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. Here are additional photos from those sessions.
'Sidelined' ran in print Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. Here are additional photos from those sessions.
'Sidelined' ran in print Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. Here are additional photos from those sessions.
'Sidelined' ran in print Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. Here are additional photos from those sessions.
'Sidelined' ran in print Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. Here are additional photos from those sessions.
'Sidelined' ran in print Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. Here are additional photos from those sessions.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — LeBron James vs. the Heat.
LOS ANGELES — Items from the personal collection of Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully sold at auction for more than $2 million, including World Series rings from the Dodgers’ championships i…
A major college football season that was in peril six week ago as conferences succumbed to concerns about COVID-19 is reconstituting.
LA GRANDE — A former all-American from Eastern Oregon University died last week from colon cancer.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Anthony Lynn didn’t find out his starting quarterback was injured until right after the coin toss.
LA GRANDE — The recruiting class for the Eastern Oregon University softball team’s 2021 season has head coach Nicole Christian excited.
Players were pumped. Coaches were stoked. Fans seemed relieved. Even the president was pleased.The Big Ten is going to give fall football a shot after all.
ATLANTA — The Seattle Seahawks let Russell Wilson do the cooking.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Bob Baffert endured the lowest of lows and highest of highs within minutes during the Kentucky Derby.
LA GRANDE — The small schools of Union and Wallowa counties have a joint plan for sports during the Oregon School Activities Association’s Season 1.
FAIRBANKS — The University of Alaska Fairbanks hockey team and other student athletes are in quarantine or isolation after athletes tested positive for COVID-19 following an off-campus party, …
LA GRANDE — The new championships dates for the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics 2020 season — which the NAIA recently moved to the spring of 2021 — have been set.
LA GRANDE — There could be an opportunity for some prep sports this fall, after all.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Kentucky Derby will run without fans for the first time, Churchill Downs announced Friday, citing increasing COVID-19 cases in the area.
LA GRANDE — The Eastern Oregon University football team looks like it will be playing its Frontier Conference opponents in the spring after all.
LA GRANDE — When her junior softball season was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, Harley Creech found an outlet in weightlifting.
A crumbling college football season took a massive hit Tuesday, Aug. 11, as the Big Ten and Pac-12, two historic and powerful conferences, succumbed to the pandemic and canceled their fall foo…
LA GRANDE — It wasn’t a typical summer for the La Grande Legacy Ford Legends in that they didn’t play an official American Legion schedule. Standards put in place due to COVID-19 rearranged ho…
LA GRANDE — The city of La Grande will be helping Eastern Oregon University revive its baseball program.
SALEM — High school sports in Oregon will not kick off until 2021.
LA GRANDE — A mid-inning meeting between head coach Parker McKinley and his club proved highly effective, spurring the La Grande Legacy Ford Legends 18U baseball team to a sweep.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Jayson Tatum scored 34 points, Jaylen Brown added 30 and the Boston Celtics built a big early lead before holding on for a 128-124 victory over the Portland Trail Blaz…
LA GRANDE — The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics voted to move its football championship to the spring of 2021, just as it did with the rest of its fall sports.
CORVALLIS — Athletes and others have accused Oregon State University's head volleyball coach of running a program so abusive 11 players quit or transferred since 2016 and two team members cont…
The OSAA executive board is set to meet next week to further discuss how to proceed with the fall sports season. The executive board last week delayed the start of the season to Sept. 23, and …
LA GRANDE — The La Grande Legacy Ford Legends 18U baseball team used a six-run sixth inning to pull away for a 9-1 victory Monday, July 27, over Baker, while the 16U squad swept Pendleton in a…
LA GRANDE — The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics announced late Tuesday, July 28, the championships for all its fall sports with the exception of football will be moved to the…
LA GRANDE — Put four marks in the win column for the La Grande Legacy Ford Legends.
HOUSTON — Kyle Lewis hit a tiebreaking two-run single in the eighth inning to lift the Seattle Mariners over the Houston Astros 7-6 on Sunday, snapping a 15-game losing streak in the series.
LA GRANDE — The Oregon School Activities Association’s decision Wednesday to delay the start of the 2020 fall sports season grants the state’s high school athletics body flexibility as it trie…
SEATTLE — The name Seattle Kraken seems to have had an air of inevitability around it even during the earliest days of the NHL expansion franchise.
LA GRANDE — The La Grande Legacy Ford Legends 18U baseball team swept a pair of doubleheaders Saturday, downing Columbia Gorge 9-3 and 9-2, and topping Hodgen Distributing from Pendleton on Mo…
SALEM — The Oregon School Activities Association is holding out hope for a fall sports season — but if there is one, it will start about a month late.
ENTERPRISE — About 60 entrants are expected to take part in a junior rodeo July 31 and Aug. 1 to be held for the first time in more than a decade in conjunction with the Wallowa County Fair, o…
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A 60,000-square foot museum that will include a first-of-its-kind tribute to the 1980 U.S. Olympic team is scheduled to open July 30 in Colorado Springs after a three…
With the start of Major League Baseball's shortened season a week away, games in empty stadiums and strange extra-inning rules are on the verge of becoming reality.
