The early evening was dark and damp as we made our way through Yamhill County wine country on the first Friday after falling back the previous Sunday.  It wasn’t raining, but looked like it could if it chose to.  We came into Sherwood through the back door, so to speak, on the section of Highway 99 just south of Sherwood known inauspiciously as the Herbert Hoover Highway.  After a short tour of the heights south of downtown that offer panoramic views of the surrounding countr

It was the final Friday of the regular season.  Rivalry night.  And how better to spend it than watching one of the biggest rivalries in the state:  Dayton vs. Amity. Both of these teams have impressive football histories by any standard, even if I have reason to think they’re not quite as impressive as they’d like everyone to believe.  The Pirates from Dayton have been playing football since 1928 and won a state B Division title in 1948.  In 1965 Dewey Sullivan took over as

We did a little more driving this Friday night than we had originally planned on, but in the end everything turned out well for everyone except the South Umpqua Lancers.  We had made plans to attend a game in Glide, but after arriving there only to find out their game had been rescheduled, we put Plan B into action and drove on south through the rain showers and gusting wind to Winston.  We didn’t have time to do much exploring before the game, but when we turned west off of

When I heard that the students in Jewell were going to have their own football team this year, I knew I had to get to a game there while I had the chance.  The Blue Jays have been playing football since 1981, and as recently as 2016 they played 11-man ball.  But they didn’t have a team in 2015 or 2017, and even after dropping down to 6-man football in 2018 they had to team up with Vernonia in 2023 for their players to have a chance to play.  They’re back with a team of their

Sometimes attending a football game takes a lot more courage than people think.  It had crossed our minds to change our schedule and head...

We do things differently in the Ednold family, and things don’t always make sense at first glance.  Let me give you just one example:  Ma...

We drove east on Highway 126 through Springfield and followed the McKenzie River up into the mountains.  The river is named for Donald...

On the last Friday evening of the summer I decided it would be fun to spend an hour or so checking out the freeways in and around...

The road north out of Pendleton across the rolling hills of northeast Oregon is pretty monotonous this time of year, and I can’t imagine...

When I look at the football schedules to look for likely places to watch a game, I may not know where all of them are, but I've at least...

As we approached Eugene, the smoke and haze off in the distance was making me a little nervous. I had checked the forest fire maps and...

I can’t remember what I was doing last December that took up all of my time.  I don’t remember it taking me all month to put up the...

I’ve been updating my list of things I’m going to address when I become King of the World, and at the top of my list is fixing the whole...

It was the last week of the regular season, but it also happened to be the first week of basketball season and I’m still perfecting my...

It was overcast for our last game of October.  It wasn’t the all-encompassing grey that it will be in a month or two after the sun has...

Since I happened to be in central Oregon on a Saturday, I figured I may as well travel down to Lake County for some football.  North Lake...

I was not taking any chances this weekend.  Since we’d been smoked out last weekend, I was looking for a football game far from any...

For the first time in a long time, we had an off week this week during the season.  It wasn’t on purpose, but both our “A” game and our...

This was a busy week for the Ednold family, and I had a different kind of road trip scheduled for the weekend, so I opted for a Thursday...

This week, Mrs. Ednold got off work early so that we could head to the big city for a game that started at 3:45. That start time was a...