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PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Portland State University says it’s “pausing” its cheer program. Current members of the team say they feel disrespected by this decision and say their requests to discuss the matter have been ignored. Portland State University’s cheer team not only competes, they win.

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Where is the most-friendly city for naked bike riders? Most Portlanders agree it’s the Rose City. But according to this study, Portland is second-best. A marketing company analyzed several factors to come up with a ranking, including: naked biking events, local interest in nude cycling,...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - The numbers are officially rolling in as the Portland Bureau of Transportation kicks off its annual bike count. Between Tuesday and Sept. 28, they’ll use volunteers to collect data from 300 biking areas around town. This comes after numbers in PBOT’s 2022 study showed a 37% downtrend in city bikers between 2019 and 2022.

Sometimes it’s just not your night. That was last night for the Hillsboro Hops, who allowed 11 extra-base hits to the Spokane Indians in a 15-7 loss in the first game of the two teams’ six-game series on Tuesday, June 6, at Ron Tonkin Field in Hillsboro. In all, the Indians tallied 19 hits, including seven doubles, a triple and three home runs, and had everyone in their lineup tally...

With the culmination of last weekend’s baseball and softball state championship games, you can put a bow on the high school spring sports season. And while none of the Forest Grove or Hillsboro area Pacific Conference schools lifted a state title trophy, many of their players earned accolades for their work on the diamond. The Pacific Conference recently announced all-conference selections. Leading the way in softball was league champion Sherwood,...

Max Nowlin not only quarterbacks for the Scappoose High School football Indians — he’s also on the school’s baseball team, the newly crowned state 4A baseball champions. Nowlin, who pitched and played first base for the Indians this spring, is thrilled with the Indians’ 12-2 thumping of sixth-seeded Pendleton at Volcanoes Stadium in Keizer on June 3. “You can’t really put it into words,” the sophomore said. “I remember, we...

Driver Josef Newgarden won an electrifying 107th run of the Indy 500, as the May 28 race ended with the fourth closest finish in 100 years.

Pioneer Century Annual Bike Ride—June 3, Canby, three routes 33–103 miles, low traffic and affordable. Bike NonStop US (2023)—starts June 18, from Portland, OR to Washington, DC; for the overzealous rider, 3,500 miles of what is described as “a mellow alternative to the Trans Am Bike Race.”

Move over, pickleball. Roofball is here.

In a thrilling culmination of the season, the Portland State Vikings softball team concluded their 2023 campaign with a whirlwind of excitement and determination. Battling their way through fierce competition and demonstrating resilience, the Vikings showcased their prowess on the diamond, leaving the team eager to head into the next season. With the final pitch thrown and the dust settled on another exhilarating year of ball, it is time to recap on the performance of the Vikings this season.

Portland has apparently been “named a ‘platinum’ bicycle-friendly community by the League of American Bicyclists—its highest rating,” according to the Portland Bureau of Transportation’s fact sheet about bicycles in Portland. Moreover, “385 miles of bikeways are on the ground in Portland,” but does this make it safe enough to get on that mechanical device with two wheels, a handlebar and a frame, and peddle out into the great unknown of downtown Portland?

Last Saturday’s 0-2 win at Lumen (“It’ll Always Be The Clink”) Field was the first away win in Seattle since August 26th, 2017. It was the first Portland win over Seattle since September 15, 2018 (that season’s home semifinal). The following three seasons (if we skip over the tasty beating in Utah’s 2020 COVID Cup…) were a dreary procession of losses (five) and draws (three).

Kristin Tattar and Adam Hammes closed out the 2023 Disc Golf Pro Tour — Portland Open presented by Latitude 64 on top. Both had to battle to the finish to return to the winner’s circle. Tattar struggled at times during Championship Sunday of the first Elite+ event of...

TEMPE, Ariz. – Portland women's tennis players Iva Zelic and Sally Pethybridge capped the most impressive doubles campaign in program history by coming in at No. 69 in the final Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) national doubles rankings. Zelic and Pethybridge were dominant all year with a 24-7 overall record...

The newly refinished track at Mt. Hood Community College provided fast times this weekend at the Portland Track Festival. In the marquee event, the men’s 1,500 meters, former Oregon Ducks star and Tokyo Olympian Cole Hocker used his trademark kick to come from behind and almost catch Puma-sponsored Amon Kemboi of Kenya.

The fourth race of the ARCA Menards West Series season, the Portland 112, ended with the first win of the season after three consecutive second positions for the championship leader Landen Lewis. His second career win after Bakersfield last year for his debuts. A first in career for his crew Richard Mason.

There are not many pool players who can point to their first recorded years competing for money in the sport and note that in the course of their first year, they won five of the seven events in which they cashed. Portland, OR’s Molina Ortíz is one of them. In her first year of (known) competition anywhere (2022), she won the Northwest Women’s Pool Association Tour’s first three events, held between July and September. She finished as runner-up to Liz Cole on the 4th stop in October, closed out the 2022 season finishing 4th in the final stop in December and became the tour’s Player of the Year.

Eric Johnson Jr., a 20-year-old from Woodland, battled for a 10th place finish at the ARCA Menards Series at the Portland International Raceway on Friday, June 2. Johnson said he didn’t

Alpha Prime Racing struggles on the ‘Oregon Trail’; NASCAR picks up the hauler. This weekend, the NASCAR Xfinity Series is racing at Portland International Raceway in Portland, Oregon. Alpha Prime Racing, based in Mooresville, NC, makes this the longest trip of the year. Alpha Prime Racing fields three...

Ding-dong, the drought is dead. After a tortuous losing spell, the Hops are again in the winner’s circle after taking four of their six games with the Everett Aqua Sox this past week. The series win was Hillsboro’s first since April, when they took four of six from the same Everett team in Hillsboro. The Hops’ bats were alive most of the week, with the team averaging nearly 10 runs...