Brooks Hatch: OSU baseball unveils new uniforms

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The OSU baseball team showed off its new uniforms earlier today at the Valley Football Center.

Players Sam Gaviglio, Jared Norris, John Tommasini, Rob Folsom and Carter Bell strutted on the catwalk like those guys from Right Said Fred – well, they didn’t really.

Pretty mellow ceremony, and Nike showed some restraint in the design of the five uniforms, which are fairly traditional. Here’s a link to some photos of each uniform.

And here’s a preview of our story for online tonight and Wednesday’s print edition.

Oregon State revealed five new baseball uniforms on Tuesday that give the Beavers a fresh, consistent look that won’t ruffle the feathers of the traditionalists.

“It makes us look polished and consistent,” assistant coach Marty Lees said of the new Nike duds, which drew universal praise from Sam Gaviglio, John Tommasini, Jared Norris, Rob Folsom and Carter Bell, the models at the Valley Football Center ceremony.

The jerseys are orange, white, cream, gray and gray with black pinstripes. Each has a “Pac-10” inscription on the right sleeve and one trademark swoosh apiece on the jersey and pants.

“They’re nice,” Bell said. “They feel like they breathe, they’re loose and light, and really have a nice feel. They don’t restrict me anywhere.”
Added Norris: “They’re perfect, they’re great.”

The exact uniform rotation hasn’t been determined but with 34 scheduled home games, OSU fans should be able to see all five combinations. There’s also a black jersey in the mix, but that wasn’t available on Tuesday.

Norris said the preliminary plan for home weekends has the team wearing all white on Friday, orange and white on Saturday and the cream or possibly the black jerseys on Sundays. The pinstripes will be worn on midweek and road games and the grays will generally be worn on the road.

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Oregon had its media day earlier this week and here’s a preview from Bob “Horace” Clark of the Eugene Register-Guard and another one from Jeff “Mayo” Smith of the Oregonian.

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More talk of Pac-10 expansion on Tuesday during a conference call with commisioner Larry Scott and his newest hire, former Big 12/Big Ten administrator Kevin Weiberg.

A Pac-10 TV network is one thing, even though I suspect a lot of fans wouldn’t like some of the associated fallout: 11 a.m. kickoffs for the football games that don’t get picked up by the networks, and a lot more Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night men’s basketball games.

But please, expansion? Who? It’s not like the Big Ten adding Penn State or the ACC adding Virginia Tech, Miami and Boston College. Those schools are national players, and added huge new TV markets.

Utah, BYU or any other of the potential Pac-10 candidates (any CSU school, or Boise State? Puh-leeze) aren’t national players, and don’t add huge TV markets. So why do it?

Funny that it takes Blair Kerkoff of the Kansas City Star, a guy from Big 12 country, to understand what some out here in Pac-10 land don’t. Expansion to 12 teams is a lose-lose proposition for almost every Pac-10 school.

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Former OSU volleyball star setter Laura Collins (2000-03) has been hired as an assistant coach at Portland State. She was honorable mention all-Pac-10 in 2002 and 2003, Pac-10 all-academic in 2002 and 2003 and still ranks third all-time with 3,786 career assists.

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We’ve heard through the grapevine that the OSU men’s soccer team – which we saw working out at Reser Stadium on Tuesday during the baseball shindig – will play friendlies against the Seattle Sounders of the MLS and the Portland Timbers of the A league this spring.

We’ll have more info on that development coming later this week.

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