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Former American Press sportswriter Carl Dubois blogs about the games people play, in and out of sports, and the people you meet between and outside the lines.

Carl is an award-winning reporter and columnist living in the Willamette Valley in northwest Oregon, near Portland. He is sports editor of the News-Register newspaper in McMinnville, Ore.

 Meet the Blogger

No promises, but I’ll see what I can do

NEWBERG, Ore. — I don’t get to Portland often enough to contribute consistently to this cause, but I will try my best to do what I can when possible.

The one where I see “A Prairie Home Companion”

Garrison Keillor first came to my attention by accident. In the mid 1980s, I subbed for Scooter Hobbs on coverage of an LSU home basketball game vs. Western Kentucky, and on the drive back to Lake Charles from Baton Rouge I discovered “A Prairie Home Companion.”
We’ve been friends since then, the kind who drift in [...]

What do you want to tell the world?

NEWBERG, Ore. — What do you want the world to know, and how do you want to say it? There are many ways.
I like what Cassidy did. I don’t know her, but I’m already pulling for her. Allow me to explain. Today I went for a walk at a nearby park, and before I could [...]

One of the things I like about my new home

MCMINNVILLE, Ore. — If you want to know the way to the fire department, to Linfield College, to the beaches, to the hospital, and a few other places, there are helpful posts downtown to guide you.

I have another idea for an invention

Remember my post about Control  + Z? Click here if not.
My latest idea is a TMI setting for cell phones. Here’s how it would work: If you begin to give too much information, the phone automatically drops the call.
I got the idea after two conversations I had this weekend dropped right about the point when [...]

Soft shoulders next 23 miles

That’s a sign I saw in northern California during my drive to northwest Oregon. I thought it was an interesting, unusual sort of alert to motorists. Soft shoulders next 23 miles? Just what I needed to break up the monotony.
Would they be displayed in off-the-shoulder sundresses? And whose soft shoulders would I see? Would it [...]

I won’t be pumping my own gas for a while

MEDFORD, Ore. — This afternoon I crossed the Oregon state line. Nearly 3,000 miles after setting out from Baton Rouge early last week, I’m in my new home state.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Tomorrow I’ll finish the drive to where I’ll work and where I’ll live. The next time I stop at a gas station, I won’t be able to [...]

I hope you have 100-foot-high ceilings

DRIVING THROUGH NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHERN OREGON — I’ve picked out really awesome Christmas trees for all of you.
Disclaimer: They’re really tall.
Call it a legitimate head’s up, so to speak.

I feel like I owe you a photo today

ANAHEIM, Calif. — So here you go.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Angels Stadium of Anaheim.
Sincerely,
The Los Angeles Carl Dubois of Anaheim

The Los Angeles Carl Dubois of Anaheim

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Hey, if the Angels can have a silly name like they do, so can I.
Good morning from Anaheim Hills, where I am visiting my sister Renee and her family. The weather’s lovely. Wish you were here.
Sorry, no photos to share, but soon I hope to post more from my journey to Oregon.

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