Winners & Losers WINNERS The master masticator strikes again! On July 14, Joey "Jaws" Chestnut devoured 7.65 pounds of pig flesh at the Chinook Winds Casino World Rib Eating Championship, successfully defending his t ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERS Happy campers, c'mon, get happy. Last weekend, you got the opening of Oregon's first state park in 30 years with L.L. "Stub" Stewart State Park in Washington County. The new park, within 40 m ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERS Don't believe what you read about the Trail Blazers "giving away" Zach Randolph to the New York Knicks in a trade last Thursday. Randolph's averages of more than 20 points and 10 rebounds a g ...   More

Winners & Losers Winners Beavers baseball is no fluke. For the second straight year, Oregon State University faced the University of North Carolina in the College World Series final. And, again, OSU handed UNC its as ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERS Portland street people may be the new duct tape—or at least they could be at Rose Festival 2008. They can still loiter on downtown sidewalks since City Council last week delayed enforce ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERS The Federal Trade Commission objected like a drunken ex to the proposed marriage of Whole Foods and Wild Oats, two natural-food stores that compete in Portland and 20 other cities. The FTC sa ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERS Good news for Oregon vineyards: Winos are rich and thirsty. According to an Oregon State University study released last week, wine grape sales in Oregon hit record levels in 2006, bringing in ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERS Bottoms up, Fred Meyer. Oregon grocers won a victory over scruffy, can-collecting entrepreneurs when the state House approved a very limited update to the bottle bill. Grocers and bottlers go ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERS U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) might appear to be on the ropes, but no big-name Demo contender will step in for a knockout. Either Gordie (a) has compromising pictures of would-be Democratic ...   More

Winners & Losers WINNERS Fraternity theme parties aren't the only place for pimps and hos. Ex-OSU football star Richard Seigler was charged with being a pimp in Vegas—just days after OSU senior Sara Jean Underw ...   More