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This week on The I-5 Corridor podcast I’m joined by John Canzano of JohnCanzano.com. Ok, still getting used to that one, but it’s certainly been interesting watching The Oregonian’ s former columnist and 2021 Oregon Sportswriter of the Year navigate his way through the independent publishing field over the last few months. “I wake up every day and I get to write what I want to write,” he told me i...

The reason for this podcast? I’m damn proud of a friend. For the better part of pandemic, Brian Koch was driving up and down the streets of North Portland in a Volkswagen van trying to keep his dream alive. He opened up Lombard House in 2016 and quickly turned it into one of the area’s best community hang outs. Then the pandemic shut him down, switching Brian’s role from friendly host to delivery...

You ever reply “Yes” to an email a little too quickly?  Happened to me a couple of weeks ago. One minute I’m a happy, sedentary sports writer. The next, I’ve impulsively agreed to participate in Saturday’s media only 400-meter “Race the Wavelight” competition to kick off the second day of the Prefontaine Classic.  Like anyone who’s visited Hayward Field before, I’ve imagined what it would be like...

This week on The I-5 Corridor podcast we have an interview with Oregon equipment administrator Kenny Farr. On and off with the staff since the 1990s, Farr is one of the most recognizable faces on campus and the most popular among Oregon’s athletes. For good reason: He’s the guy who makes sure the school known for looking good looks so good week in and week out. Today we talk about how his job has...

AJ McCord leaves Portland having covered a Rose Bowl, the NBA Playoffs and multiple Super Bowls. She anchored KOIN 6’s sports coverage, was the only woman in Portland hosting a sports radio show and was named the 2021 Oregon sportscaster of the year by the National Sports Media Association. It’s an impressive list of accomplishments for someone who came to this state five years ago without a job a...

This podcast from The I-5 Corridor is free for everyone thanks to the support of Dark Star Barbers. If you’re a Portlander — or just coming through town — Dark Star is a fantastic shop for quality cuts and conversation in the Jubitz Travel Plaza. Book an appointment with Tyson — great name — or Adam at Darkstarbarbers.com Look Oregonians, we get it. Mother Nature has thrown just about everything s...

This podcast from The I-5 Corridor is free for everyone thanks to the support of Dark Star Barbers. If you’re a Portlander — or just coming through town — Dark Star is a fantastic shop for quality cuts and conversation in the Jubitz Travel Plaza. Book an appointment with Tyson or Adam at Darkstarbarbers.com In the last 48 hours the Seattle Mariners have lost two games, scored two runs and wasted o...

Bill Oram, a Tillamook native, has covered the Los Angeles Lakes for nine seasons. As of Tuesday night, the Lakers have now missed the playoffs in seven of those. While movie projects and books have been written about the Showtime and Kobe/Shaq Lakers, Bill might just be SOL. “Probably have the worst record of any relatively long-term Lakers beat writer in franchise history,” Oram said on this wee...

Oregon baseball won a lot of games with “Horton Ball.” Under former manager George Horton, the Ducks played a purist’s form of the game. Horton’s Ducks got on base. His Ducks advanced the runner. His Ducks, at their best, would manufacture runs and ride pitching and defense the rest of the way. In 2012, it got Oregon one inning away from reaching the College World Series. That year, the Ducks hit...

On this episode of The I-5 Corridor: Tyson and Aidan catch up after a few weeks, preview Oregon’s spring practice schedule and wonder if Anfernee Simons jerseys come in an XL.  Then, former Oregonian sportswriter Connor Letourneau stops by the show. Connor used to cover Oregon State for the O, then went off to cover the Golden State Warriors dynasty with the San Francisco Chronicle. He recently as...

Former Oregon running back Cyrus Habibi-Likio got Ducks twitter talking Wednesday, pondering the sort of thing that’s right up The I-5 Corridor’s alley. “So a former Oregon teammate of mine are debating. He thinks his 2015 Ducks team would beat our 2019 Ducks. I disagree! Let’s debate.” The 2019 team won the Rose Bowl with Justin Herbert, yet both Aidan and Tyson are siding with the team that coll...

After significant struggles to start the season, Dana Altman’s Ducks have won nine of 10 games to position Oregon surprisingly well for the stretch run of the regular season. After a road sweep of the mountain schools, which included a win at Colorado for the first time in program history, the Ducks are 8-3 in Pac-12 play — just two games behind conference-leading Arizona. How has Altman concocted...

On this episode of The I-5 Corridor podcast, Tyson is joined by DeVon Pouncey. DeVon works for Street Roots , does men’s basketball analysis for Portland State and Pacific University, hosts the Wake up and Win podcast and spins a little music on the side. He’s a grinder, whose media career in Portland began in 2017, just weeks out of college as a co-host on 750 AM – right around the time the Dino...

Aidan Schneider has a few fond memories of his first pursuit of professional kicking. There was Pete Carroll in Seattle, smacking gum in his ear during a Seahawks minicamp, imploring him to miss left. At another camp in Kansas City, he had the best performance of his career — after being told the team wasn’t actually looking to sign anyone. And then there was the time he was one of numerous candid...

The University of Oregon football team’s head coach is currently finishing out his time with Georgia. His new staff is still being assembled and, among other pressing needs, a recruiting class desperately needs to be shored up. After four years of stability, it’s been an unsettling start to the winter in Eugene. Still, as Aidan and Tyson discuss in this week’s episode of The I-5 Corridor, the Duck...

The last time Tyson and Aidan got together for an I-5 Corridor podcast, Mario Cristobal was Oregon’s head coach, the Ducks were about to play for the Pac-12 championship and Twitter wasn’t angling to put us out of business. So today, we had a bit of catching up to do, beginning with Aidan’s thought’s on the Dan Lanning hire. “It’s a little late to want to go back to where Oregon’s been. I thought...

This week on The I-5 Corridor, Tyson and Aidan preview this evening’s Pac-12 championship featuring Utah and Oregon, and then dive into a wild week that drastically changed the college football landscape. You can listen in the player above, or find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. If you’re receiving this free podcast and would like to upgrade to a paid subscription that gives you access to all s...

(2018/Tyson Alger) This week on The I-5 Corridor, Aidan recalls the time his mom dropped him off at the front gate at Reser before a game, Tyson breaks under the pressure put on sports writers to coin a new name for rivalry, and together the two parse through the Oregon men’s basketball team wreckage from the last week. You can listen in the player above, or find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts....

On Today’s I-5 Corridor podcast: 1. Aidan and Tyson on how a 12-team playoff would benefit the Ducks, and Mycah Pittman’s transfer. “This comes with the territory of how well Cristobal has been recruiting,” Aidan says, “Oregon four or five years ago was far less likely to have a really talented recruit with his eyes on the NFL getting buried on the depth chart.” 2. (22:40) Former Ducks pitcher Col...

This week on The I-5 Corridor, Tyson and Aidan wrap up a memorable Washington week, sympathize for Oregon State kicker Everett Hayes’ roller coaster of a Saturday and continue to wonder if the Blazers are going to turn this thing around. Then (at the 20:30 marker) Tyson travels out to Hillsboro to sit down with Hillsboro Hops general manager K.L. Wombacher. The Hops just completed their first year...

Kyle Bonagura had an excellent piece up on ESPN.com Wednesday taking readers behind the scenes of Nick Rolovich’s firing at Washington State. Bonagura stops by The I-5 Corridor today to talk about his story, where Washington State goes from here and whether or not any or Oregon’s numerous coaches with WSU connections will be considered for the vacant job. That interview starts at the 23-minute mar...

Seth Wickersham, senior writer for ESPN and author of “It’s Better to be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness,” stops by The I-5 Corridor podcast this week to share stories about Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and former Oregon State coach Mike Riley’s near miss at greatness. But first, I had a question for Seth. How does someone from Anchorage end up reporting the defi...

Longtime Register-Guard sports writer Steve Mims stops by The I-5 Corridor podcast this week to preview the Pac-12 men’s basketball season and answer this question: Who has had the bigger impact on their program at Oregon: Dana Altman of Chip Kelly? That’s a complicated one, Mims said, because it doesn’t look like Altman’s stopping anytime soon. If you’re receiving this free podcast episode email...

Sean Meagher had a busy weekend. The Oregonian’s sports photographer captured Oregon State’s win over Washington Saturday night at Reser Stadium, the Portland Timbers’ 1-0 win over Inter Miami at Providence Park on Sunday, then spent his Monday night at the Moda Center capturing the Blazers preseason opener against Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors. Sean’s been behind various lenses at som...

For much of the summer, Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard seemed unhappy. The Blazers were bounced early from the playoffs, Portland fired its coach and throughout the summer the 31-year-old guard and his NBA future were under the microscope. “It was a really odd thing for everyone, including Dame because he’s usually so positive and inspiring and this was a different side of Damian that...