Brooks Hatch

Shopping for a baseball bat for the PNG’s upcoming Little League season later today, and production duties await tonight, but we have a few notes to update:

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Former Beavers’ linebacker Derrick Doggett has signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers and should be in the NFL next season. Here’s the link reporting the news. He played for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 2009.

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Now here’s something we don’t have every day: A story on a potential OSU women’s crew recruit, in this case one Hailey Engstrom of Meadowdale High in Everett, Wash. Here are the details from the Everett Herald.

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Former Crescent Valley High football star Robert “Bobby” Jackson was named to the Champaign (Ill.) News-Gazette newspaper’s University of Illinois all-decade team.

Jackson is a member of the CV Sports Hall of Fame, and is the son of ex-Beavers assistant Robert Jackson, who coached during the Jerry Pettibone era and then was Mike Riley’s first director of football opps in the Riley I era.

Jackson the younger is presently an assistant football coach at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., the alma mater, if I’m not mistaken, of former vice-president Dan Quayle, and the program that plays Wabash University of Indiana every year for Monon Bell.

Imagine that, two longtime, nearby college football rivals playing for an actual trophy (not that ugly platypus monstrosity, which thankfully was misplaced for about 40 years, that some people have been trying to resurrect).

What a concept.

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Speaking of football ops directors, Ron Davis, who held that title throughout the Dennis Erickson coaching era, and for several years under Mike Riley, is the new ops director at Portland State for new coach Nigel Burton, an assistant for five season in the Riley II era.

Happy landings to RD, the mediator and peace-maker on several pretty irate phone calls between “the Chief” and your’s truly from 1999-2002.

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Finally, we’ve known for several weeks that OSU defensive back Jordan Poyer, a standout baseball player at Astoria High who was also expected to play that sport at OSU, had approached baseball coach Pat Casey and informed him he wouldn’t be playing baseball this year.

Casey asked him him to think on it a little longer before making a final decision. Apparently he has, and he hasn’t changed his mind. Poyer won’t be playing baseball this spring.

We hope to meet with Casey on Wednesday and have a short followup.

We’ve also had several requests for an OSU roster. Practice doesn’t start until Feb. 1 and the final 35-man list isn’t due until Feb. 19, when the Beavers open the season at Hawaii.

They have 36 players right now and the cut won’t be made until the last possible minute, because once the roster is submitted, there can be no changes.

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