ENTREE NOTES.
Byline: The Register-Guard Festival features wine and art Wines from 15 local wineries and an "art garden" with 16 local artists and chamber musicians will highlight Saturday's Oregon Coast Gourmet Fest Holiday Preview in Coos Bay. Wines will be available for...

Goodbye cruel world, hello sunshine.
TEAM ZERO SAN DIEGO, CA CHALENGES Frontside grind over the corner love seat at Washington Street skatepark Get Willy Santos to give you $50, (you may not pay him back or trade him anything) Leave a burning bag of poop on TWS's doorstep...

Woman among four nominees as next Episcopal top bishop.
One woman from Nevada and three southern men have been nominated to lead the Episcopal Church for a nine-year term as the badly divided denomination faces an uncertain future and threats of schism after decades of fighting. The four bishops--J. Neil Alexander of Atlanta; Henry Parsley of...

Personalized bats for special sluggers.
Back in the 1920s and '30s, Paul and Lloyd Waner of the Pittsburgh Pirates dominated the National League like no brothers before or since, piling up batting titles and hitting records galore. Paul was dubbed "Big Poison"; his younger brother, "Little Poison." While we don't claim to have produced...

Player loyalty buys Brooks a fourth year at UK.
Byline: AROUND THE NATION By Bob Clark The Register-Guard There was always that one thing about Rich Brooks that perhaps mattered the most to him, that loyalty to and from his current or former players. It was so evident when Oregon's 1994 football team gathered in Eugene...

The enemy within.
"We don't have to worry about foreign aggressors. We are killing ourselves off," said Baretta R. Casey, M.D., director of the East Kentucky Family Practice residency program in Hazard, commenting on news that her state is among the unhealthiest in the union. Residents of Kentucky die at a rate...

Cards clean OSU's clock.
Byline: Bob Rodman The Register-Guard LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Louisville peeled away its mid-major label in crushing fashion on Saturday, striking hard and often en route to a 63-27 destruction of Oregon State. Those 63 points, gathered by the 11th-ranked Cardinals on nearly half as many...

GAME REPORT.
Byline: The Register-Guard LOUISVILLE 63, OREGON STATE 27 KEY STAT Offensive plays - Oregon State had nearly twice as many offensive plays - 94-50 - as Louisville but Cardinals scored 63 points, more than a point a play. GAME NOTES ...

ONES TO WATCH.
Byline: The Register-Guard Some names that might surface in discussions about potential replacements for University of Oregon athletic director Bill Moos. Name Mitch Barnhart Jim Bartko Renee Mack Baumgartner Mike Bellotti Rich Brooks...

Beavers finding means to an end.
Byline: Bob Rodman The Register-Guard CORVALLIS - There was a time, like less than a month or so ago, that the Beavers could not contain their concern about the end of Bill Swancutt's eligibility. "I don't know that anybody can be Bill Swancutt," said Mike...