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Baseball’s final weekend is full of implications and the most-anticipated Wild Card matchups…ever may not be determined until the season’s last out is recorded. But before we get to all that, a fond farewell to one of the all-time postseason greats, Jeremy Affeldt. By Andrew Pridgen Jeremy… Continue reading Here are 5 things I will miss about Jeremy Affeldt

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The over-marketing of the most accessibly awful of all first-world diseases has basically done more harm than good for cancer awareness – namely, it makes the disease look as friendly as a pair of fuzzy dice. While ranting on this recently, a coworker stopped me and asked,… Continue reading The Pink Stink: How professional and amateur sport profits from cancer awareness month

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Truckee resident Erik Roner, 39, died Monday in a skydiving accident at Squaw. The incident was the equivalent of a NASCAR driver perishing in a head-on on the way to the store to grab a gallon of milk. That said, Roner was a guy who lived without… Continue reading How to remember Erik Roner’s life without focusing on his death

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It is the morning after Oregon’s worst home loss since the beginning of the Carter administration…and I couldn’t be more nostalgic. By Andrew Pridgen I first came to know the University of Oregon in the fall of 1993. I was a freshman in Eugene and those first… Continue reading How it feels to be a Duck

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“Mr. Berra,” his first Yankee manager Casey Stengel once said, “is a very strange fellow of very remarkable abilities.” He died Tuesday at age 90. By Andrew Pridgen I don’t believe in heaven. Not the kind they try to sell you on TV, anyway. There is no… Continue reading Yogi Berra took a little piece of heaven with him

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Just prior to the season’s start Kyle Magin and myself wrote a Bet It or Forget It column—a capsule of every MLB team’s odds to win the World Series. Like a drunken Tinder spree, we placed faith in some sleepers, missed on some keepers and mostly were… Continue reading Who to Bet and Who to Forget — 2015 MLB playoff edition

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Each week, during college football season DPB’s Kyle Magin and Andrew J. Pridgen pour on the prose with Pints and Picks™. Who to wager and what to drink while doing it. Here, the boys are talking about Mormons gone Hollywood, Randy Newman’s ironic love for LA and… Continue reading Pints and Picks Week 3: The Mormons love LA and Heineken brings its end-of-wedding-reception skunkiness to the microbrew masses

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Oregon Football hasn’t yet fallen far enough to need a comeback. But the signs are there that this evening has come to an end. By Andrew Pridgen Oregon Football is holding a foam-lined pint glass in one hand and its iPhone 5c in the other hovering over… Continue reading It’s 2 a.m. and Oregon Football is alone at the end of the bar

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Editor’s Note: In celebration of the likely event that Monday night’s 49er game is the last event, ever, at Candlestick Park, the letter below and attached waiver PDF was submitted to San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department Commissioner Mark Buell and San Francisco 49ers’ CEO Jed York… Continue reading All I want for Christmas …is a Candlestick urinal

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Paul K. Sloan died on the 89th floor of the South Tower, World Trade Center on 9/11/01. To read more about him or make a donation in his name click here. By Andrew Pridgen My first contact with a family member in the immediate hours following the… Continue reading 9-11-15