Fast Break

Track and field

Ex-Mead coach run over by car

Former Mead cross country coach Pat Tyson had each of his lower legs put in casts last week after a car ran over his feet when he was jogging in Lexington, Ky.

Tyson, 56, cross country coach at the University of Kentucky, said he feels lucky to be alive.

“I hate to say he only ran over my feet, but I should have been dead or crippled,” Tyson told the Eugene Register-Guard. “For about five or 10 minutes, it felt like somebody took a sledgehammer and started hammering away at each foot. I was yelping and agonizing like a dog that just got hit by a car.”

Tyson said he was in the middle of a crosswalk when an approaching car made a sudden turn directly into his path.

Baseball

Cubs to name Piniella today

Lou Piniella was expected to be introduced today as the new manager of the Chicago Cubs, a baseball source told the Associated Press.

The source spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the hiring has not been announced.

Piniella led the 1990 Cincinnati Reds to the World Series championship and replaces Dusty Baker, who was not brought back after a 66-96 season that ended a four-year contract.

Piniella spent last season with Fox TV and has 19 years of managerial experience with four different teams – Tampa Bay, Seattle, the New York Yankees and the Reds.

Inside

Ranked teams head to Palouse

No. 16 Oregon and No. 18 Boise State will be playing football in the Palouse this weekend. Oregon takes on Washington State and undefeated Boise State faces rival Idaho.

Both games start at 2 p.m.

In today’s paper, staff writer Glenn Kasses takes his First Look at Oregon and staff writer Jim Meehan has notes on the Idaho-Boise State rivalry.