Tag: 10 things
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10 Things Found Cleaning Out My Desk At The Oregonian: No. 2
A collection of random memories found in and around my desk at the Oregonian as I prepare for my Aug. 28 departure. Today: A patient’s guide to catheter ablation. Of course. You don’t have one? And so it was, just after Thanksgiving 2002, that I found myself in a cinder block bar in Romulus, Michigan.…
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10 Things Found Cleaning Out My Desk At The Oregonian: No. 3
A collection of random memories found in and around my desk at the Oregonian as I prepare for my Aug. 28 departure. Today: A coloring book. For a band named Pancake Breakfast. A coloring book for a band named Pancake Breakfast and that band made songs about trucks, and pie, and nature, and happy things.…
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10 Things Found Cleaning Out My Desk At The Oregonian: No. 4
A collection of random memories found in and around my desk at the Oregonian as I prepare for my Aug. 28 departure. Today: Wish I’d had this on layoff day. What would ninja do? The only thing in that folder was a copy of Paste magazine featuring the Avett Brothers on the cover and a…
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10 Things Found Cleaning Out My Desk At The Oregonian: No. 5
A collection of random memories found in and around my desk at the Oregonian as I prepare for my Aug. 28 departure. Today: A VHS tape! From the Great Heisman Campaign of 2001. If I had an outlet for the story, I’d march this thing to the door of that sleek new monument to ego…
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10 Things Found Cleaning Out My Desk At The Oregonian: No. 6
A collection of random memories found in and around my desk at the Oregonian as I prepare for my Aug. 28 departure. Today: A program from Jan. 15, 2002, when Oregon celebrated the 75th anniversary of Mac Court (and my apartment was robbed). But let’s start with Ernie Kent. Ol’ Million Moves his own bad…
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10 Things Found Cleaning Out My Desk At The Oregonian: No. 7
A collection of random memories found in and around my desk at the Oregonian as I prepare for my Aug. 28 departure. Today: A snapped-off driver turned hobo bindle. I bought the driver for $19.99 from Target at the dawn of my golf writing career. Golf is a fun thing to cover, because golf doesn’t…
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10 Things Found Cleaning Out My Desk At The Oregonian: No. 8
A collection of random memories found in and around my desk at the Oregonian as I prepare for my Aug. 28 departure. Today: A letter from Oregon defensive coordinator Nick Aliotti to a judge in California. The story wasn’t much fun, but the letter is awesome, because awesome. In 2003, Aliotti and head coach Mike…
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10 Things Found Cleaning Out My Desk At The Oregonian: No. 9
A genuine imitation snakeskin baseball from Alice Cooper’s sports bar in Phoenix. Probably purchased in advance of the 2002 Oregon-Colorado Fiesta Bowl. Possibly picked up the year prior when we were in town for the Oregon State-Notre Dame Fiesta Bowl. I remember explicitly being in the bar during the 2000 Oregon-Texas Holiday Bowl. Our waiter…
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10 Things Found Cleaning Out My Desk at the Oregonian: No. 10
A collection of random memories found in and around my desk at the Oregonian as I prepare for my Aug. 28 departure. I have no idea if I was supposed to keep this or not. If not, I suppose the PGA of America is welcome to come collect it. It’s the media bib from the…
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