Oregon state looks for HUGE win in Civil war vs. Oregon.

By Hunter Hendrickson

The Oregon state beavers Basketball team has been struggling latley, their last win was over Washington, since then, the Beavs have lost 3 straight games. Tommrow, they will face the Oregon Ducks in the Civil war.

The Game will be played at the new Matt Court, which is known has the most UGLY court in all of College Basketball, and I got to say, I agree.

The best face-off tommrow will be who for the Beavs will have to guard Oregon Center, Joevan Catron. It will probley be Devon Collier vs. Catron. Great Matchup.

So the Beavers will need some Scoring tommrow if they really want to win. I say the Leading scorer will have to be Ahmad Starks. He's a Great shooter from the Outside, and he's to small to go to the Basket, so let him shoot from the Outside alot. He can make alot of them.

We will need to Play Defense on Joevan Catron is the Most important part. We have to guard him and make him throw up wild shots and lose the ball. Devon Collier and Joe Burton will have to box out and fight for the rebound.

Jared Cunningham is a supreme Defender. Leads the Pac-10 in steals and Helps Oregon state lead the Nation in steals. Tommrow, to not let Oregon get easy baskets is Cunningham to keep up the great defending.

So I guess I should end this here. Wish the Beavers luck tommrow. They will need it. GO BEAVS!

Trail Blazers get 6th straight win, head into All-star break in 5th place.

By Hunter Hendrickson

Finnaly, With everything that has happen to the Blazers this year, this finally, right before the All-star break, win 6 straight games and climb into 5th in the West.

The Blazers beat the Hornets, 103-96 behind LaMarucus Aldridge's 34 points.

The Blazers won have anybody heading to Los Angeles for the All-star game, but fourntely, we dont need all-stars. We have all the talent we need to go far into the Playoffs this year.

Brandon Roy and center Marcus Camby says they should be back by next week on wendsday when the Blazers face The Los Angeles Lakers at the Rose Garden.

Well, the Blazers are 32-24 and 5th in the west, and 2nd in the Northwest. 2 weeks ago, if I said that the Blazers would be 5th in the west at the all-star break, you would be thinking im Crazy. But with all that has happen to this Injured Team, we find a way to seek Greatness.

Trail Blazers Climb into a tie in 6th place in the west, 2nd in Northwest.

By Hunter Hendrickson

Today, was a good day.

The Portland Trail Blazers how have been in the 8th spot of the West for 2 months, finally climbs out of the 8th spot and the 4 spot in the Northwest.

So, off to the game. The Blazers defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves, 95-81 on Monday. Dante Cunningham had 18 points and 13 Rebounds.

Oklahoma City leads the Northwest with a Record of 34-19. The Blazers are just 4 games out of The Thunder. Tonight, the Houston Rockets beat the Denver Nuggets, who the Blazers past who are now 8th in the West and 4th in the Northwest.

Utah did not play today. But they do battle Phoenix tommrow in Arizona. The Blazers next play New Orleans at home, kicking off a 5 game home stand.

So I guess this is it! Until we get into first, Just Kidding, We'll Keep you Updated.GO BLAZERS!

By the way, LaMarcus Aldridge was named Western Player of the week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GO BLAZERS!!!

OMOC BB POLL!

HD's Top 25

1. Kansas

2. Texas

3. Ohio State

4. Pittsburgh

5. San Diego St.

6. Duke

7. Notre Dame

8. BYU

9. Georgetown

10. Purdue

11. UCONN

12. Arizona

13. Wisconsin

14. Florida

15. Louisville

16. Villanova

17. Texas A&M

18. Syracuse

19. Vanderbilt

20. North Carolina

21. Saint Mary's (CAL)

22. Utah State

23. Temple

24. Xavier

25. Missouri

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Other Reciving Votes

Kentucky, West Virgina, George Mason, Minnesota

Dropped from Rankings

#25 Minnesota, #19 Kentucky

Oakland Raiders Back-up RB Micheal Bush Arrested for DUI.

By Hunter Hendrickson

Raiders Back up RB Michael Bush was arrested Saturday for Drunk driving in South Indiana, according to Louisville Courier-Journal.

Bush, 26, was pulled over for a traffic violation in Jeffersonville, Ind., at 3:47 a.m., and Clark County police Maj. Chuck Adams told the Courier-Journal that Bush was booked into the Clark County jail and released on his own recognizance at 1 p.m.

Raiders senior executive John Herrera declined to comment.

Bush rushed for a career-high 655 yards on 158 carries, scored eight touchdowns, and teamed with Darren McFadden to help give the Raiders the NFL's second-ranked running game this past season.

Pending a collective bargaining agreement, Bush is scheduled for free agency this offseason. The Raiders drafted him in the 4th round of the 2007 Draft.

Beavers lose on the road again, 69-61.

Malcolm Lee scored 19 points before fouling out and UCLA defeated Oregon State 69-61 Saturday, extending the Bruins' winning streak against the Beavers to 13 games.

Josh Smith added 15 points for UCLA (18-7, 9-3 Pac-10), which won its fifth in a row and ninth in 10 games.

Of course, it helped that the Bruins were playing the Beavers, who haven't beaten them since the 2005 Pac-10 tournament, making UCLA's domination the longest active streak by a league team against another.

Oregon State (9-15, 4-9) was led by Jared Cunningham with 14 points, and Devon Collier and Roberto Nelson had 10 each. The young Beavers -- who started one senior, two sophomores and two freshmen -- have lost three in a row and nine of 11. Third-year coach Craig Robinson has beaten every other Pac-10 team, but he's 0-6 against the Bruins.

Prediction for OSU Baseball.

By Hunter Hendrickson

I know a lot of you just think I follow the Reds in baseball, but I also follow the Oregon State Baseball team. They have won 2 NCAA Championship's (2006, 2007). Here's my Prediction for their 2011 season.

The Oregon State baseball team is working out on a daily basis at Goss Stadium, getting ready for the start of the season that is now approximately 10 days away. OSU opens its 2011 campaign Feb. 19 against Gonzaga, in Fresno, Calif.

Today, we will look at the team in general, and the schedule the club will face in 2011. We will let head coach Pat Casey do most of the talking, in an archive of the team's media day available below. It has 24 minutes of great information about how he feels the team will stack up and what he feels it will take to be successful.

The club is returning 14 letterwinners from a year ago, including six position starters. Matt Boyd, who was a freshman All-America in 2010, returns for his sophomore campaign, as does Andrew Susac, who was a Pacific-10 Conference Honorable Mention selection.

The team has five returning seniors, all of whom had big roles in 2010 and expect to do the same in 2011. Jared Norris manned right field and first base last season, while Michael Miller returns for his fourth season in the outfield. Dylan Jones is back to doing double duty at first base and on the mound, while Parker Berberet brings back his valuable bat to play behind the plate, at first, and really, anywhere the Beavers need him. Last, but certainly not least, the team's fifth senior is right-hander James Nygren, who like Miller, will be in Corvallis for his fourth season and who expects to anchor the team's relievers.

All told, the club has many key pieces that will make the club successful in 2011.

Did you know 10 Oregon State players on the 2011 roster have already been selected by MLB clubs but decided they wanted to become Beavers? That's true. They are: Carter Bell, Tony Bryant, Dan Child, Adam Duke, Sam Gaviglio, Garrett Nash (twice), Jordan Poyer, Jake Rodriguz, Susac and Ben Wetzler. Four of the 10 - Child, Duke, Rodriguez and Wetzler - had the opportunity this past summer to sign but elected to come to Corvallis.

Now that is saying something.

That group, and all of the Beavers on the 2011 roster, will be tasked with playing a tough schedule this season. With eight Pac-10 teams making the tournament in 2010, it means the Beavers will be playing a former NCAA Tournament team just about every league weekend this year.

The Beavers also put together an outstanding non-conference schedule that will take them to Fresno, Corpus Christi, Texas, San Antonio and Long Beach, Calif. They'll play the 2008 national champion Fresno State Bulldogs in the opening weekend of the season, then the next week, will head to Corpus Christi to square off with 2010 NCAA Tournament club Connecticut, along with Indiana, among others.

Oregon State opens its 2011 home slate March 4 against Hartford in the start of a four-game series and one that will see the Beavers play an eight-game homestand.

The trip to Long Beach will see OSU play the vaunted "Dirtbags" of LBSU for a three-game series before OSU takes on UC Santa Barbara the following weekend at Goss Stadium. The club, all told, will play 28 home games in 2011.

Arizona awaits Oregon State on April 1 in Tucson in what amounts to the Pac-10 opener for both clubs. OSU will see Arizona State, Washington State, California and USC at Goss this season for conference series. The Beavers will also get Oregon twice - March 8 and May 3 - in two non-conference games.

Here's my Pac-12 Prediction

1. #5 UCLA

2. #14 Stanford

3. #21 Arizona State

4. #23 Oregon

5. #25 Oregon state

6. Washington State

7. Arizona

8. Washington

9. Califorina

10. USC

Portland Trail Blazers SG Brandon Roy Practices, Return unknown.

By Hunter Hendrickson

Guard Brandon Roy has returned to practice with the Portland Trail Blazers but he won't return to the lineup this weekend as he had hoped.

The three-time All-Star, who had arthroscopic surgery on both knees a little more than three weeks ago, worked out for about a half hour with his teammates on Wednesday. He said afterward that he did not have any pain.

Blazers coach Nate McMillan says Roy will be eased back into the rotation and his minutes will be closely watched. There is no timetable for Roy to start playing again.

Blazers center Marcus Camby, who also had arthroscopic surgery last month, also returned to practice. He too was limited to 30 minutes.

Camby was averaging 5.9 points and 11.3 rebounds in 39 games this season.

The return of Roy and Camby was encouraging for the Blazers, who have been dogged by injuries for the second straight season.

In November, the team announced that center Greg Oden, the No. 1 draft pick in 2007, would miss the season because of microfracture surgery on his left knee. Oden missed his rookie year because of microfracture surgery on his right knee.

Second-year forward Jeff Pendergraph injured his knee in the preseason and required season-ending surgery. And rookie guard Elliot Williams has undergone surgery this season on both knees.

Last season, Roy had arthroscopic surgery to repair the meniscus in his right knee two days before the Blazers opened their first-round playoff series against Phoenix.

He made a remarkable comeback and played in the fourth game of the series, which the Suns eventually won, but some have suggested he might have returned too soon.

Roy said he accepts McMillan's caution.

"I feel good but at the same time I understand where he's coming from," Roy said. "He wants me to feel great."

HD's Top 25.

HD's Top 25 teams

1. Ohio State

2. Kansas

3. Pittsburgh

4. Duke

5. Texas

6. San Diego State

7. BYU

8. Villanova

9. Syracuse

10. Notre Dame

11. UCONN

12. Georgetown

13. Arizona

14. Purdue

15. Florida

16. Louisville

17. Missouri

18. Wisconsin

19. Kentucky

20. Utah State

21. North Carolina

22. Texas A&M

23. Temple

24. Vanderbilt

25. Minnesota

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Other Reciving Votes.

West Virgina, Xavier, Cincinnati, Saint Mary's CAL

Dropped from Polls

#22 Washington, #24 Xavier

When will the Raiders be in the Super Bowl again?

By Hunter Hendrickson

So, today is the Biggest day almost ever in sports, Super Bowl 45. Its between the Packers and the Steelers. But, I am wondering, when will the Raiders be back into the Super Bowl? Well My Prediction is in a Long long time. Here's why....

Al Davis is the reason. He is old and does not make very SMART descion making. He been with the Raiders almost since they have been a franchise.

The Raiders need a QB. The Last time we had a Great QB was Rich Gannon. Gannon left after the Raiders lost in the 2002 Super Bowl to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The QB we have now is Jason Campbell. Campbell was part of the reason the Raiders had a 8-8 year but mostly it was the Rushing game. The Raiders need to Draft a QB in the Draft. I would love Cam Newton, or Terrell Pryor, or even Ryan Mallet.

The Rushing game for the Raiders is Just fine. We have Darren Mcfadden, Michael Bush and Marcell Reece had Break-out years. Drafting a RB would be a Waste in the Draft. And our WR crew could need Improvement. Such as Louis Murphy and Darius-Heyward bay arent very good. But the Raiders have a Great young WR named Jacoby Ford. He has speed and can catch. He is like Desean Jackson or Devin Hester.

Another key is Hue Jackson. He was a huge reason the Raiders went 8-8 last year. He was the Offensive Cordinator and in this Offseason, ex-Head Coach Tom Cable was fired, and the raiders promoted Hue Jackson to head Coach. My Thoughts is that Jackson wont be that great. He more Offensive.

Defense Wins championships. The Old saying is still new. The Raiders have almost all they need on Defense Like Nnadmi Asmougha, Richard Seymour and Rolando Mcclain. If I were the Raiders I would draft a CB in the draft like Brandon Harris from Miami (FL).

Special Teams Is the Raiders best spot on this team. Returner Jacoby Ford and in my opinion the best punter and Kicker in the NFL, Shane Lechler and Sebastion Janikowski.

So Now you see what the Oakland Raiders need into Improve on to be Real Contenders.

Beavers Fall to Cougars, 61-55.

Omari Johnson for the Beavers tangles with Washington state's Deangelo Casto.

CORVALLIS, Ore. -- Reggie Moore had 14 points and DeAngelo Casto added 11 points and 10 rebounds to lead Washington State to a 61-55 win against Oregon State Saturday night.

The Cougars (16-7, 6-5 Pac-10) overcame an off-night from leading scorer Klay Thompson, who had six points on 2-of-7 shooting and fouled out with 1:57 left.

Devon Collier had a career-high 16 points and 10 rebounds for Oregon State (9-13, 4-7), which led only once, at 11-10.

The Beavers cut a 10-point second-half deficit to two, but Washington State steadily built its edge back to 10, going ahead 41-31 on Casto's three-point play with 12:49 left.

Collier's lay-in got Oregon State within 45-41 before Moore and Marcus Caspers each had three-point plays to increase the Cougars' margin again.

Oregon State got within 57-55 with 20 seconds left on Roberto Nelson's basket, but Faisal Adian made four free throws to close the scoring.

Trail Blazers back into 8th!

By Hunter Hendrickson

A Huge win tonight Over the Cavaliers put the Blazers in the 8th seed in the West.

The Blazers SG Wesley Matthews had 31 points in a 111-105 win Causing the Cleveland Lebron less- Cavaliers, their 24th STARIGHT loss.

Lamarcus Aldride added 20 points for the Blazers who were on a 2 game losing streak going into tonight.

The Grizzlies lost to the Rockets, 95-93 in OT to fall into 9th.

The Trail Blazers are 27-24 and the Grizz are 27-25. The Grizzlies are right there. Its not even the All-star break yet!

HD's Keys to keeping 8th: Wesley Matthews needs to shoot more. The Blazers can't have Lamarcus Having 30 points a game or hes gonna get tired.

HD's Keys to keeping 8th 2: Bench Andre Miller. I know the fight between Him and Brandon Roy earlyer this year was Roy's fault, but Andre Miller is old and slow.

HD's keys to keeping 8th 3: Win games. End of story.

So Hopefully The Blazers can keep that 8th spot and keep on winning!

Beavers Pull Off Huge Upset over #22. Washington.

By Hunter Hendrickson

The Last time the Beavers beat The Washington Huskies was Feburary 22,2007, That streak has been Now Broken.

The Oregon state beavers pulled out a huge win over the Washington Huskies on Thursday 68-56.

The Beavers were led By Jared Cunningham who had 19 Points after getting off to a very slow start to the game.

The Beavers Took a 53-50 lead then never trailed in the game again. Calvin Haynes also added 11 points for the Beavers.

Washington coming into this game was 22 in the nation, (based on the OMOC Sports poll), and tied for first in the Pac-10 with 20 Arizona.

Near the end of the game Washington started to bomb up three pointers and couldnt make any of them. The Beavers Out-rebounded the Huskies, 47-32.

The Huskie PG's were Terrible tonight. Isaiah Thomas had 7 Turnovers, Venoy Overton only had 4 points in a struggling Performance.

Jared Cunningham Said, "I am excited and hopefully we will beat Washington state and get a Sweep."

No Doubt Jared Is right. A Huge win for the beavers who go to 9-12 and 4-6 in the Pac-10. Huskies however will drop in the OMOC Sports poll.

Lamarcus Aldridge NOT named an All-star.

By Hunter Hendrickson

How Screwed up is the NBA? Oh I will tell you.

Portland Trail Blazers PF Lamarcus Aldridge has put Portland on his back after losing best Player and All-star Brandon Roy. He doesnt its Credit for it and look at this now. A Big freaking mess that really shouldnt happen.

Ok Lets start out with this. Blake Griffin made the all-star team. Just because you can get 10 feet above the rim doesnt mean you put the your team on your back. Lamarcus Aldridge is a Great player. The NBA is too Blind to Notice. Probley Because Roy is down with an injury.

Well Have fun at the all-star game Miami Big three, Blake Fiffen, and Old 3 Celts.

Sooooo Im done with the NBA. Thanks for ruining my day Voters. See ya in the Playoffs Clippers. WAIT Clippers wont be their BECAUSE THEY SUCK!

Oregon state Head Football Coach Annouces 2011 Signing Class.

By Hunter Hendrickson

Oregon State football head coach Mike Riley announced the team’s 2011 signing class on Wednesday afternoon.

The Beavers announced that 24 players have signed with the Beavers for the 2011 season.

A full list of signees can be found by clicking here. Please see below for a sampling of what Coach Riley had to say about the class.

Head Coach Mike Riley

Opening statement…
“Signing day is always an exciting day, and obviously a very positive and optimistic day. We are excited about this group. This is the culmination of at least a year’s work, and sometimes, for some individuals that we’ve known longer than that, it stretches into a year-and-a-half or two years. To get to this day is a major deal. From the start of this term, with the grayshirts, right up to today, we’ve added 31 names to our roster.

“We have to get through everybody getting their applications, getting accepted and being certified. We have to get through all of that in the next little while, but that’s a normal process and we feel like we have hit the mark in some areas where we really needed to address. You want to get good football players and you want to balance it out with the right number of guys, if you can, at each position where you’re trying to go. If you look at our deal, we’re going to be heavy in the defensive line and there are a lot of names here. I wish I could have them here right now and line them up; it’s a great looking group of guys. I’m very excited about that.

“We wanted to find some guys, some playmakers that would impact our program, perhaps immediately, at the wide receiver area. I’m very excited about that. Running back for the Beavers is always important, particularly now with Quizz coming out early for the NFL draft. Now it’s very important that we add some great competition there, and some good depth.

“We didn’t want as many numbers, but we wanted to get a couple of offensive linemen, which we did. We wanted to get a tight end, which we did. We got our place kicker who came in as a grayshirt and waited until Justin Kahut graduated to start his eligibility process.

“We got another guy, usually one a year - you go through all the process, all the names, and all the film to get to one quarterback, which we did. We got a corner in the process. We got a couple of really good, athletic speed linebackers. We got a smattering everywhere, but we really hit the mark with our numbers with what we wanted to do with the defensive line and wide receiver core.”

On Malcome Agnew and Storm Woods…
“We saw these guys a long time ago and recruited them hard for a long time, kind of selecting them out of all the guys we evaluated, and we really like both their versatility and their production. They’ve been really productive guys and I think that for us they’re going to be bona fide contenders early. A running back that can run the football - like Quizz came in as a true freshman and he just started playing - so we’re going to let this play out. These guys are guys who are used to carrying the loads for their teams; they’ve been very productive, and size-wise, they’re going to be absolutely fine when they come in here. They can both run and catch the ball, so the kind of versatility we need we’re getting in these two guys.”

On the wide receivers…
“He’s an overall exciting football player, whether it’s returning a kick or catching the ball and running with it, screen passes down the field. I think that he fits in as a natural flanker for the Beavers. He’s somebody who can run the fly sweep, somebody who can go deep and catch the ball.

“Richard Mullaney is just an outstanding football player. He looks great playing safety on defense; broke the California state record for catches in one year at 122. You talk about production and athleticism and competitiveness, and Mullaney brings that to us.

“Tyler Trosin is another guy who had been recruited by major schools as a safety. We really love him as a receiver, a playmaker, a tough guy, just a really good football player.

“Tyrequek Zimmerman is another big, strong, playmaker at receiver. He plays a heck of a safety. I love these guys who play receiver and that play both ways. I think you’re looking at overall football players. Trosin did that, Mullaney did that, Zimmerman did that, and Cooks could be used in that way.

“It’s a great group of receivers; I love that group.”

On the process of selecting quarterback Peter Ashton…
“It looks like he’s a spread quarterback; a runner. Frankly, if that was all we had on him, that’s probably where we would have left it. I don’t know that we would have recruited him, but he actually came to camp out here and threw for us. I really liked his athletic ability, his arm, and his accuracy. If you watch the guy play defense, watch him run the football, he has great feet. He’ll be a very versatile guy. If he weren’t going to play quarterback, which he is for us, he would be an outstanding prospect at safety. He can really run. I think he can easily run in the 4.5 category. ”

On Darryl Jackson…
“He is a very agile 330. I’m very excited about Darryl Jackson. Justin Addie is a good athlete coming in here as an offensive lineman we just signed out of Arizona. He was hurt for the year; we basically recruited and evaluated him off of last year, then he had a wrist problem all season. He’s playing basketball now, which is good, another multi-sport athlete. Darryl Jackson is a grayshirt who came in January and is a big athlete. I anticipate with Darryl being here, he’s a true freshman for this whole time and he’ll have the off-season program and spring practice and the summer workouts, I anticipate him having a chance to move right into the mix here for competition.”