IN THE MEDIA

• Beaver Sports Talk from McMenamins will air on Tuesday at 7 p.m. Guests will include Men's Basketball assistant coach Nate Pomeday and Wrestling assistant coach Kevin Roberts as well as this week's everyday champion, Softball's Tarah Black.

• Beaver Sports Talk will continue through March 23. Football head coach Mike Riley will be on the show March 16, while Baseball head coach Pat Casey and Gymnastics head coach Tanya Chaplin will follow on March 23.

• 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.

IN THE COMMUNITY

• The Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis and the Oregon State Beavers have scheduled the fifth annual free OSU Youth Football Clinic to enable interested young people to learn football from some of their Beaver gridiron icons. Boys and girls in grades three through eight are eligible. The event is planned from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Saturday, March 13 at the Truax Indoor Center, located northwest of Reser Stadium.

• Several members of the gymnastics team participated in a Read-A-Thon at Periwinkle Elementary School last Wednesday.

IN THE CLASSROOM

• This week's everyday champion is Softball's Tarah Black. She is a senior who hails from Portland, and is majoring in exercise and sports science.

• Wrestling's Ryan Harold and Women's Basketball's Talisa Rhea have been selected to attend the 2010 Career in Sports Forum from May 11-14 in Indianapolis.  The conference will expose student-athletes to the various pathways and careers in sports, specifically the collegiate sports world.   

• For the sixth consecutive year, the Cross Country team, coached by Kelly Sullivan, has been honored for their work in the classroom by being named one of the USTFCCCA NCAA Division I Women's Cross Country All-Academic Teams by the U.S. Women's Track and Cross Country Coaches Association.

• Women's Swimming was honored as a CSCAA Scholar All Academic Team for Fall 2009. The Beavers had a team grade point average of 3.19.

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

• Ed Fredenburg started at center for Men's Basketball from the second game of the season his sophomore year (`64-'65) through senior year (`66-'67). Ed graduated from OSU with a BS in civil engineering in 1968 (later an MS in Nuclear Engineering from Washington in 1983). He was drafted by the U.S. Army in October, 1968. He served one year in Vietnam (June 1969-June 1970) as a combat engineer. Ed won the Clydesdale division (over 205 pounds) at the Portland Marathon in 1985 and 1986. He has worked since 2003 for Washington State Dept. of Ecology on permitting of Waste Treatment Plant for vitrifying Hanford nuclear waste after working in commercial nuclear power plant design and construction from 1971-1983 and nuclear waste management (U.S. Dept. of Energy) from 1983-2003.

ON THE FIELD

• Men's Basketball opens the Pacific-10 Conference Tournament Thursday night at 8:30 p.m. PT against Washington. The Beavers are the No. 6 seed at the four-day event held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

• Men's Basketball's Seth Tarver has been named the Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year. Calvin Haynes was named to the All-Pac-10 Second Team and Tarver and Roeland Schaftenaar were both named All-Pac-10 Honorable Mention.

• Women's Basketball also heads to Los Angeles this week and the Beavers will also play Washington on Thursday night. Tip is scheduled for 8:15 p.m. at the Galen Center.

• Baseball hosts its Spring Tournament this weekend. The Beavers will host Utah Friday and Saturday and Portland Saturday and Sunday. The four games are the first of 12 straight at home for Oregon State. During that stretch, OSU will host Maine, Southern Utah and Long Beach State in addition to Utah and Portland.

• Softball opens its 2010 home slate this weekend. The Beavers host Boise State and North Dakota in the Cascade Clash. Admission for non-conference Softball games this season is free.

• Eighth-ranked Gymnastics is at Utah Friday night for a meet that starts at 6 p.m. PT. OSU will return the next week to host Kentucky, on March 19, that will serve as the Beavers' last meet at Gill this year and in turn, is the team's Senior Night.

• The NCAA will announce the remaining at-large Wrestling bids as well as other automatic qualifiers due to participate in the 2010 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships via a web stream selection show on NCAA.com, beginning at 3 p.m. on Wednesday. OSU has already qualified five.

• In Track news, Football student-athletes Obum Gwacham (7' 1") and Jordan Bishop (7' 0.5") have posted provisional qualifying heights in the high jump but were not invited to the NCAA Division I Indoor Track Championships this week.

• Women's Swimming sophomore Anna Heller was invited to the NCAA Division I Swimming Championships March 18-20 after posting provisional qualifying times in the 100 and 200-yard backstroke events at the Pac-10 Championships last week. She becomes the first Oregon State swimmer to advance to the NCAA championships in the backstroke events.

• Women's Golf is at the UNLV Spring Invitational in Boulder City, Nev., through Wednesday. It began Monday.

• Men's Rowing opens the season by taking on the University of Victoria Saturday at Dexter Lake.

• Women's Rowing also takes on Victoria on Saturday at Dexter Lake.