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Ducks Miss Series Sweep with Game 3 Loss to No. 1 UCLA

Oregon returns home to PK Park on Friday to host a three-game series with USC beginning at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.

(LOS ANGELES) - The game was closer than the score makes it seem, as UO threatened to come back all the way to the end of the 5-1 loss in Los Angeles Sunday.

The difference in this series was early leads; this time it was UCLA jumping ahead scoring 4 runs in the first inning.

A Letter to Janet About the Sabra-Shatila Massacre

Remembering a Martyr for Palestinian Refugees.

(BEIRUT, Lebanon) - Dr. Franklin Lamb is an American who has dedicated the best years of his life and more to the service of Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon.

This is a letter to his wife Janet on the anniversary of the Sabra & Shatila Massacre, on Sept. 14, 2007.

How I Spent My 2010 Spring Vacation: With Salem-News.com!

Note: Odd Man Out spent his 2010 Spring vacation with editors Bonnie and Tim King as his Oregon tour guides. It wasn’t exactly Homer (The Iliad and The Odyssey), but it was quite an adventure!

(LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.) - I found a few days for a whirlwind weekday tour of Salem and it’s environs recently.

This was a multi-purpose trip, allowing me to meet all of the King family-----not to mention a few members of that band of gypsies known as the S-N.com staff and friends.

Africa: Faces in Words

New weekly update on the breaking stories in the African nations.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Unseen, unheard; no one should be the bearer of these two words. Unfortunately, Africa is often in the forefront of this association.

Our common humanity should change this; we should never look away because it is too distant.

Cleanup at Hunters Point Stirring Controversy

Getting the entire shipyard up to rigid residential standards will take more review, and will take longer to accomplish, but some local residents believe this is the only way to ensure their safety.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - The long wait to clean up the Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard will continue.

In the past, the site was used by the U.S. Navy for nuclear weapons research and radioactive laboratory operations when the effects of such activities were unknown.

Portland Wrestling Politics

The two party system is a scam designed to give us the illusion of democracy.

(SAN BLAS, Mexico) - I was ten when I first started watching Portland Wrestling. My buddies and I were fanatical about it, and never missed a Saturday night broadcast.

We loved the drama, the action and the intense (or so we thought) rivalry. We loved to see the "bad guys" get their dues and the heroes snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

U.S. Defenders Take Oregon Motorcycle Rights to the Streets

The majority of the bikers are American military veterans.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Police cars shadowed Oregon motorcyclists Saturday who rode together as part of a program called U.S. Defenders, designed to help establish the rights of motorcycle riding club members in the United States.

They rode in solidarity - to protest local businesses that deny club members service. Numerous clubs were represented.

Time for Florida to Boot the Pill Mills

"It's time to tell southern Florida state lawmakers and the 'pill mills' they allow to stay in business -- to get out of Dodge -- We're taking back our state."

(FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.) - State lawmakers in southern Florida have given the "green light" to pill mills.

Op Ed: `Denialism` Defined: Why and How Used By Revanchists

Political Debris of Decades Poisons Current Politics.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - In the 90’s, a popular “comic strip” was “Frank and Ernest”. I keep some sets framed over computer here.

One shows these two colleagues seated on park bench, with caption: “My psychiatrist put me in touch with reality, and I’ve been confused ever since.”

Medical Marijuana: Magnificient Maestros

Memorial to Tod Mikuryia and Jack Herer; it's a crying shame we've lost both.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Everybody in the world owes these two fine gentlemen a great debt of gratitude.