SPRINGFIELD – This Friday, the Springfield Millers (4-0) host the Thurston Colts (2-2) in the annual football rivalry game. With stars abound on both sides, it’d be easy to get…
SPRINGFIELD – This Friday, the Springfield Millers (4-0) host the Thurston Colts (2-2) in the annual football rivalry game. With stars abound on both sides, it’d be easy to get…
COTTAGE GROVE – Cottage Grove High School was on dreadful streak, having lost 29 of its last 30 football games – including the last 17 in a row. New Lions…
COTTAGE GROVE – Cottage Grove High School was on dreadful streak, having lost 29 of its last 30 football games – including the last 17 in a row. New Lions…
SPRINGFIELD – It hasn’t been an easy start to the season for the Thurston Colts girls soccer team. A tough non-league schedule was made more difficult as the Colts were…
SPRINGFIELD – It hasn’t been an easy start to the season for the Thurston Colts girls soccer team. A tough non-league schedule was made more difficult as the Colts were…
Volleyball Previews Recaps PREVIEWS Cottage Grove Lions: 3-6, ranked #16тЦа Setting up: Cottage Grove continues league play with a home game against No. 3 Marist before heading to the Creswell…
Volleyball Previews Recaps PREVIEWS Cottage Grove Lions: 3-6, ranked #16тЦа Setting up: Cottage Grove continues league play with a home game against No. 3 Marist before heading to the Creswell…
FOOTBALL PREVIEWS Cottage Grove Lions (1-3) at Cascade Cougars (3-1)Game facts: Friday, Sept. 29 at 7 p.m., 10226 Marion Rd. SE, Turner.What2Know: The Lions got their first win in two…
FOOTBALL PREVIEWS Cottage Grove Lions (1-3) at Cascade Cougars (3-1)Game facts: Friday, Sept. 29 at 7 p.m., 10226 Marion Rd. SE, Turner.What2Know: The Lions got their first win in two…
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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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