Steve Mims
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Steve Mims
@SteveMimsPBC
Ex-sportwriter, now Financial advisor/Registered Rep/Life Insurance. Looking for an excuse to get @BandonDunesGolf. Never won the Havemeyer Trophy, just posed.
Can we retire this line? Feels like it’s said at 75% of intro pressers now.
How a Wisconsin team that hadn’t won in two months just ended Oregon State’s season at home oregonlive.com/beavers/2026/0…
30 years ago, USA manager Mark DeRosa spent his first pro season in Eugene. Here are some memories from my encyclopedia on the @EugeneEmeralds. It was one of the best Ems seasons ever and his late-season injury still cited by many as the reason they lost NWL title series.
"We're going to need you to ask some questions," is not what you want to hear from the moderator at the start of a presser.
A team from Maryland playing one from Oregon—in Illinois—on a Tuesday to a crowd of hundreds for a league championship that neither fan base has any longstanding affection for nor historical attachment to speaks to the insistent lunacy of the college sports industrial complex.
I’m sorry, but if someone implied they were setting me up to look good w/ a question & then proceeded to drag me before asking anything, I’d be offended too 😭😭 I’m not a Jeff Walz apologist, but we gotta have a bit more perspective when picking apart his comments from today.
🚨 A former Chicago White Sox pitcher is suing the team, alleging he was coerced into taking the COVID-19 vaccine and that the shot left him with a permanent autonomic nervous system disorder that ended his career. Isaiah Carranza, drafted by the White Sox in 2018, says team officials warned he would be blacklisted from professional baseball if he refused the two-dose regimen. According to the lawsuit, minor league players faced the mandate while major league players did not. MLB players had union protection. Minor leaguers allegedly had little leverage and risked losing their careers if they refused. Shortly after receiving the Pfizer vaccine, Carranza says he developed extreme dizziness, nausea, near-fainting, and a wildly fluctuating heart rate. Team staff reportedly dismissed the symptoms as dehydration, anxiety, and rookie nerves. Carranza’s attorneys say the condition permanently damaged his autonomic nervous system and ended his baseball career. They estimate his future medical costs could exceed $557,000, with lost wages ranging from $3.4 million to $19.9 million. The lawsuit also highlights the broader debate around workplace vaccine mandates that swept through professional sports, universities, and corporations during the pandemic. Meanwhile, compensation programs set up for vaccine injuries have been widely criticized as slow and difficult to access. Out of more than 14,000 claims filed, only 133 have been deemed eligible for compensation. Carranza’s case attempts to pursue accountability outside that system through the courts. The White Sox have not yet publicly responded to the allegations. Read the full story by @smiddendorp22 here: bit.ly/White_Sox_Sued
Coming out of school, I turned down an agate job at the L.A. Times. Needed to write, see? Figured I’d get there soon enough. Twenty-six years later… I’m writing sports columns for the L.A. Times. Surreal. I love L.A. and I love sports. Let’s rock: 🔗latimes.com/sports/lakers/…
March 4 1990…College 🏀 lost an All Time Great. After a Lob Dunk vs. Portland in the WCC semis - Hank Gathers collapsed and was gone…He & LMU revolutionized 🏀 and re defined what playing FAST was. My freshman year we played LMU - Hank went for 36 & 22 #RestInPower Big Hank
Almost missed mentioning a couple big milestones… March 1, 2002: @BeaverBlitz launched. Shoveller, Pondering and others created a truly special community for #GoBeavs fans 24 years ago. March 1, 2006: I took the ownership reigns and am so proud of what we’ve built. 20 years in and I’m as excited as ever about the future!
EXCLUSIVE: Oregon State men's basketball coach Wayne Tinkle went 1-on-1 about his dismissal, integrity, authenticity, the challenges in Corvallis, and why he decided to finish the season. Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/SVUbTgpmu-E
Lawyers will be involved. Can't imagine that tirade rises to level of "for cause." Kansas State has 18 million reasons to give it a try, but doubtful that holds up in court. usatoday.com/story/sports/n…