Sports in Oregon

Kerry Eggers is a journalist/author who wrote sports for Portland newspapers for 45 years before retiring last year. He worked for the Oregon Journal from 1975-82, at The Oregonian from 1982-2000 and at the Portland Tribune from 2001-2020. Eggers is a six-time the National Sports Media Association’s Oregon Sportswriter of the Year, winning for the first time in 1981 and the final time in 2018. He now provides content for his own website (kerryeggers.com) and is in the process of publishing his eighth book, “Overcoming the Odds: The Jerome Kersey Story,” scheduled for an August release.