Brooks Hatch

We’re back, after a weekend off, with a few items to note.

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We’re attending a fashion show – well, not really, but sort of – on Tuesday.

The Oregon State baseball team will unveil its five new Nike uniforms on Tuesday in an 11:30 a.m. ceremony at the Valley Football Center.

The general public isn’t invited, but we’ll have a story, and have arranged for a photographer to be there, so there should be plenty of photos to accompany our story in Wednesday’s print/online versions of our story.

Now, anyone whose seen the PGN knows my idea of high fashion is a baseball cap, accented by blue jeans, a long-sleeved shirt and a sweatshirt in the winter and cargo pants and a short-sleeved tee or polo in the summer. So you can take my observations with a grain of salt.

But we’ve seen enough uniforms over the years to recognize between the good and bad, and I’ve been told OSU’s new togs are very tasteful and not over the top/ghastly, like the usual Nike fare. And no secret messages/song lyrics/washing instructions will be encrypted in any of the pinstripes.

For the Blog’s money, the creams the Beavers wore against North Carolina in the 2006 NCAA championship game are the best-ever. The gray pinstriped Miami knockoffs they wore against the Heels in the 2007 title game should never have seen the light of day.

But, we shall see what we see, and report accordingly.

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You probably read last week that Arizona has placed its men’s basketball program on in-house probation for a series of violations that occurred during the final years of the Lute Olson coaching era.

It gave itself some minor penalties that, in essence, don’t amount to a hill of beans and won’t seriously impact this program at all, much like forfeiting some wins in football and in several sports and vacating an NCAA track title won’t seriously affect Florida State, which also got caught for cheating recently.

You want meaningful punishment for major NCAA transgressions? No postseason play in the cheating sport, for the length of the probation. That’s the only way to get the offender’s serious attention.

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Here’s a story from the Hillsboro Argus on new OSU women’s soccer recruit Brandi Dawson of Forest Grove High.

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Finally, we’ve actually joined the 21st century and set up a Twitter account, which will (or might not) be updated regularly with breaking news about the Beavers, the Knights, and other sports we cover, or even a few personal observations.

For anyone without a life who might want to follow, it’s at twitter.com/EAFlash

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