SPRINGFIELD – There was lots of talk coming into the season that the annual crosstown rivalry football game between the Springfield Millers and Thurston Colts was going to go differently…
SPRINGFIELD – There was lots of talk coming into the season that the annual crosstown rivalry football game between the Springfield Millers and Thurston Colts was going to go differently…
PIERRE WEIL / CHRONICLE PHOTO. Thurston’s Emily Buller (1) sets the ball in the team’s sweep over rival Springfield last week. Buller, a senior, had 36 assists in the victory.…
PIERRE WEIL / CHRONICLE PHOTO. Thurston’s Emily Buller (1) sets the ball in the team’s sweep over rival Springfield last week. Buller, a senior, had 36 assists in the victory.…
SPRINGFIELD – Springfield brought plenty of sizzle to Friday night’s rivalry game against Thurston. But along with that sizzle, there was a heaping helping of fizzle, as the Millers self-destructed…
SPRINGFIELD – Springfield brought plenty of sizzle to Friday night’s rivalry game against Thurston. But along with that sizzle, there was a heaping helping of fizzle, as the Millers self-destructed…
CRESWELL – While the Creswell Bulldogs volleyball team was swept for the second time this season by rival No. 2 Pleasant Hill Tuesday, head coach Anna Baltrusch isn’t panicking. Last…
CRESWELL – While the Creswell Bulldogs volleyball team was swept for the second time this season by rival No. 2 Pleasant Hill Tuesday, head coach Anna Baltrusch isn’t panicking. Last…
FOOTBALL GAME-BY-GAME PREVIEWS MARIST CATHOLIC SPARTANS (4-1)AT COTTAGE GROVE LIONS (1-4) тЦа Game facts: Friday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m., CGHSтЦа What2Know: The Lions play host to No. 4 Marist…
FOOTBALL GAME-BY-GAME PREVIEWS MARIST CATHOLIC SPARTANS (4-1)AT COTTAGE GROVE LIONS (1-4) тЦа Game facts: Friday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m., CGHSтЦа What2Know: The Lions play host to No. 4 Marist…
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PHOTO PROVIDED / Asahi Shimbun. Burleson (714)competes in the 1500m at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. Burleson, a Cottage Grove High School alum who was inducted into the Collegiate Athlete Hall of Fame last week, came in 5th in the Olympic finals.
EUGENE – Few people get a chance to live out their dream.
Dyrol Burleson is one of those lucky people.
Because the former Cottage Grove High School star was so dedicated and so determined and so doggone good at distance running, he was inducted Thursday night into the Collegiate Athlete Hall of Fame.
“Very honored to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. I don’t really feel I deserve it but it’s a fantastic honor,” Burleson said via videotape from his home in Turner, Ore., a small town south of Salem. Due to health issues, he was unable to attend the induction ceremony at the Hult Center. “I was very fortunate to have been born 15 miles south of the U of O and to have Bill Bowerman as my coach. I attribute what successes I did have really to Bill.
“When I was 14 years old a magazine came out called Sports Illustrated and I was sitting in the high school library and Roger Bannister was on the front page and I thought, ‘Wow, I wanted someday to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated.””
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