The Portland State softball team capped off its tremendous run this season by rolling through the competition at the inaugural Big Sky tournament over the weekend, sweeping all three games to capture the conference championship and earn an automatic bid for the NCAA regional tournament.
FRIDAY, MAY 10 Softball Big Sky Championship Pocatello, Idaho Second round Vikings 5 Idaho State 3 Top performers Sadie Lopez: 1-for-3, HR, 2 RBIs SATURDAY, MAY 11 Softball Big Sky…
I have dearly missed Derrick Rose in this year’s NBA playoffs, and I think he should be playing. Rose sat out the entire regular season recovering from an anterior cruciate ligament tear he sustained more than one calendar year ago. He has been medically cleared to return to play for about two months now, and he has been participating in full-contact scrimmages for much of that time.
Portland State hosted the conference championships for the first time in Forest Grove last weekend, and didn’t waste the home field advantage. The women’s team took second place in a packed field, marking the best finish for the program since 2006, while the men took ninth.
We’re more than a month into the 2013 Major League Baseball season, and there are surprises popping up everywhere. The Toronto Blue Jays, a team many experts predicted would be sitting pretty at the top of the American League East standings, is wallowing at the very bottom.
In their final game of the season last November, the Portland State volleyball team faced off against Idaho State University to decide the Big Sky regular-season title. The Vikings played their hearts out and beat the Bengals for the honor, but took a huge loss in the process as outside hitter Jaklyn Wheeler went down with an anterior cruciate ligament tear in her knee.
The Kentucky Derby kicks off a five-week stretch of elation and enervation for everyone who loves horse racing. Ownership dynasties spend generations longing to see one of their stable’s steeds garlanded in roses in the winner’s circle.
The Portland Thorns extended their unbeaten streak to four games as they handed the Washington Spirit their second defeat of the season last Saturday at the sold-out Maryland SoccerPlex. Portland maintained its hold on the top spot in the National Women’s Soccer League standings, improving to 3-0-1. The team remains the early favorite to finish the year in first place.
THURSDAY, MAY 9 Softball Big Sky Championship Pocatello, Idaho First Round Vikings vs. Southern Utah Miller Ranch Stadium, Noon Forecast: high of 77 degrees, sunny FRIDAY, MAY 10 Track and…
We are finally ready to start Round 2 of the NBA playoffs. Which is fine, because Round 2 is where the playoffs really start, anyway. Every playoff pretender (basically everyone in the East who lost in Round 1) is out of the way. We can begin to think seriously about the teams remaining as title contenders. Here’s a look at what’s great about the matchups in Round 2.
Competing at the Pacific Twilight meet in Forest Grove, the Portland State track and field squad showed why they will be tough to handle at the Big Sky Championships next week, with several first-place finishes. The team prepares to compete at the same site this coming weekend.