Bob Welch: Heart, Humor & Hope

Bob Welch: Heart, Humor & Hope

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May 2025

Giving away four tickets to Arizona-Utah Valley tonight
UV's stunning 6-5 upset of the Ducks sends UO into a noon game Saturday
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Fifty years after
I saw Pre's breakout race in 1969 and his last race in 1975 — and, like so many, marveled at the in-between
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One in a billion
As Oregon and Oregon State prep for NCAA Regional home baseball games, those are the literal odds of this amazing Beaver-Duck connection
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One life
On this Memorial Day, I remember a WWI soldier close to home
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Most readers would like their favorite restaurants back
Some 60 people respond to my question, breaking our HH&H feedback record
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Last call for what you'd like to bring back
Restaurants, products, places, businesses, fashion, ideals, whatever. Other than people and relationships, tell us what went away that you'd like to…
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By the numbers
An Oregon-accented list that will likely lead to lots of head scratching
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Two tickets to paradise
OK, that's overstating it, but it sort of rhymes with "Two tickets to PK Park," which is the truth. (See below.)
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Remembering Marolyn with an 'o'
On the five-year anniversary of her passing, a tribute to an extraordinary mom
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The rough draft is finished
Update #4: At 78,500 words, 'Writer' is off to my editor for its first critical test
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