Basketball on the Radio

Oregon State avenged their season opening loss to Howard in emphatic fashion. Listening to the Beavers via an internet stream it sounded like they played well. They continued to play hard and work even after they opened up a 21-2 lead in the opening minutes of the game they never let Howard mount a serious charge. These are positive developments after the dismal results of last season, but the truer test will come when Pac-10 play starts. Then we will see how far OSU needs to come to get back to the way it was during the Ralph Miller era.

Tonight was also the first night in a while that I had listened to a basketball game on the radio. As a child I would often sit in my room and listen to basketball games on the radio and it was a fun thing to do. This of course was before the rise of cable television and there wasn't nearly the amount of sports on TV then. The idea of listening to the game via the Internet wasn't even in my wildest dreams as I had no idea that an Internet even existed. Listening to basketball on the radio is far different than football because there aren't many stops in the action so there aren't nearly the opportunities to try and catch your breath.