IN THE MEDIA

• Beaver Sports Talk will not air this week. It will air again starting next Tuesday.

• Beavers All-Access airs every week on Wednesday on FSN Northwest. The show also airs on the Fox College Sports network. Mike Parker is the host of the show.

• Beaver Press Pass also airs this week, with the show featuring Men's Basketball head coach Craig Robinson.

• Good Morning America on ABC will run a piece with Men's Basketball head coach Craig Robinson Thursday.

IN THE COMMUNITY

• The 10.0 Booster Club hosted the Pink Out Breakfast and Silent Auction Saturday morning. The event raised more than $9,000 for The Corvallis Clinic's Project H.E.R.

• UPDATE: Approximately 120 student athlete and 15 community volunteers boxed the nearly 24,000 pounds of donations by Beaver Nation for Haitian Relief spearheaded by Football's Yvenson Bernard. The clothing donations have been shipped to the Haitian Consulate in Miami by Reser Fine Foods.

• The Women's Basketball team will host its 2009-10 "Pink Zone" game on Feb. 13 against Arizona. Buy a specially designed OS pink pin for $5 from Beaver Authentics and receive $2 admission to the game. Beaver Authentics is also selling a pink mini basketball. A portion of the proceeds from the pin and mini basketball will go to Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund and the Corvallis Clinic's Project H.E.R.

IN THE CLASSROOM

• This week's everyday champion is Women's Track's Abby Chesimet. A junior from Astoria, Ore., Chesimet is majoring in exercise and sports science. She chose Oregon State because of its great academic program.

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

• Yvenson Bernard recently made a large impact for the citizens of Haiti who need help after the Jan. 12 earthquake. He spearheaded Oregon State's response to the tragedy, and Beaver Nation came out in full force. Bernard was a four-year Footbnall letterwinner for the Beavers and is considered one of the top running backs in school history.

LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE UPDATE

• Oregon State Student-Athletes have a new resource to turn to for career development. The "Beaver Internship Insider" blog was launched this past week and features an interactive listing of internships available across the country and throughout the world. The blog will also feature upcoming internship fairs on campus and in the local area. The blog can be accessed here: http://BeaverInternshipInsider.blogspot.com.

• Terry Fiez will speak to the class this week. Fiez is a Professor (and department head) at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at OSU. She co-founded the solar energy startup Azuray Technologies two years ago. Fiez knew she and her team could use their technical expertise to solve the most difficult problems plaguing the solar energy industry.

• Last week, Seth Walker spoke to the class. He is a former Oregon instructor and has taught "how to get a job" classes. He is currently in marketing and communication at Ecotrust and spoke to the class about how he got started on his career path.

BEAVERS OVERSEAS

• Former Women's Soccer Student-Athlete Ashley Wood is in South Africa on a medical internship. She just finished up her third week. You can follow Ashley's stay in South Africa by visiting her flikr page at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ashley21wood/.

• Former Football student-athlete Taylor Kavanaugh recently left on a 91-day journey that will take him to Hawaii, American Samoa, Western Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand and he will finish the journey with Australia. You can follow his travels by going to his Facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/#/profile.php?id=100000557182415&ref=ts. Taylor is taking suggestions on his Facebook page on some places to visit, and he's also just looking to hear from some other Beavers.

ON THE FIELD

• The new AD Report is available by clicking here.

• National Letter Of Intent Day (for Football, Track/Cross Country and Soccer) is Wednesday. Fans can follow along on osubeavers.com as the official  online home of OSU brings you up-to-date news on the latest class of signees, beginning at 7 a.m. PST. Osubeavers.com will announce every letter of intent signee as the paperwork clears the fax machine in the Valley Football Center (VFC) and is approved by compliance officials. To go along with the typical biographical information, you will also be able view high school/junior college video from each prospect if you're a subscriber to Beaver Nation Online (BNO), the official audio/visual home of OSU Athletics.

• Men's Basketball plays in the Civil War Saturday and looks for a season sweep of the Ducks at legendary Gill Coliseum. The game tips at 3 p.m. and can be seen on FSN Northwest. A sweep would be the first since 1993, and it is also alumni weekend for the Men's Basketball team.

• Women's Basketball plays in two games this week. OSU is in its last regular season non-conference game Tuesday night at Cal State Bakersfield, starting at 7 p.m. On Saturday, the Beavers travel to Eugene to face Oregon, starting at 5:30 p.m.

• Fifth-ranked Gymnastics travels to the Bay Area to face California on Sunday. The meet starts at 2 p.m.

• Senior Gymnast Mandi Rodriguez earned Pac-10 Gymnast of the Week for the week of Jan. 25-31. Rodriguez scored a season-best 39.475 in the all-around to lead the Beavers to the victory over No. 5 Stanford.

• Mandi Rodriguez and Laura-Ann Chong have been nominated for the AAI Award, which is annually presented to the most outstanding senior female gymnast in the nation.

• Wrestling also travels to California this weekend. The Beavers face Cal State Fullerton on Friday at 7 p.m., and then head to San Luis Obispo to compete against Cal Poly Saturday night, also at 7 p.m.

• No. 13 Men's Golf starts the spring season this week (Wednesday through Friday) at the Mauna Lani Invitational at Hawai'i-Hilo. Senior Diego Velasquez begins the spring season as the No. 2 ranked golfer in the nation.

• Football's Jordan Poyer was named the co-recipient of the Johnny Carpenter Prep Athlete of the Year Award and Sunday's Oregon Sports Awards ceremony. Al Reser received the Friends of Sport Award.

• Football was named as the nation's Most Family Friendly program for the third straight year.

• Baseball was ranked 14th in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches Collegiate Preseason Poll as well as No. 17 by Rivals.com and No. 18 by the NCBWA. The Beavers have also been selected to finish second in the Pac-10.