Baseball Articles

Looks like the new scoreboard is going up!

.: Corvallis Gazette-Times :. Sports

Life has yet to slow down for the Oregon State baseball program in the three weeks since the Beavers captured the 2006 NCAA championship by defeating North Carolina at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha.

To wit:

• The new state-of-the-art scoreboard is being erected in right-center field.

• The new synthetic infield surface will be installed in October, immediately after fall practice.

• The Gill Coliseum coaches offices are getting a facelift.

The interesting thing for the future will be if the Beavers can significantly upgrade or at least maintain the talent level over the next couple of years. Should be a fun few years ahead of us!


Here's another article from last week that is good about how the baseball story is bring people to the OSU program that wouldn't normally be contributing:

Knight and Casey show true character

This whole saga taught us something about two people. One of them, of course, is Casey. We’ll get to him in a minute.

But the second is Phil Knight. A source inside the OSU athletic department has confirmed the rumor that’s been raging since last week – Knight, Super Duck, as he’s called around Eugene – played a big role in keeping Casey in Corvallis.

Casey’s base pay at OSU has nearly doubled, and Knight, it is now known, is going to pay a sizable chunk of that raise, every single year Casey is coaching at Oregon State. And Knight stepped up to do it without being asked. He volunteered.

And while that may irk a few stray Ducks (even a few misguided Beavers, who can’t come to grips with it), I find it incredibly refreshing. Knight loves this state, and he loves winners. He recognized how important Casey is and what a remarkable job he’s done.

I'm OK with that as a Beaver fan. Let's make him a Super Beaver!