50 ForOregonState.org/Stater OUR COMMUNITY PHOTO BY KARL MAASDAM, ’93 STICKIN’ TO THE STORIES Alumnus Nick Daschel and a lifetime on the sports beat. BY > KEVIN MILLER, ‘78 It’s hard to follow Beaver sports without reading a lot of Nick Daschel stories. Daschel, ’80, covers football, both basketball teams and, most recently, the chaos surrounding the Pac-12 conference for Oregonlive.com and The Oregonian. He doesn’t shy away fromothersports when things get busy, sometimes writing as many as 15 or 20 stories a week. During his own OSU days, Daschel served as sports editor for the Daily Barometer and wrote for the Corvallis Gazette-Times. He graduated with a degree in agricultural economics, believing he didn’t need a journalism degree to get a newspaper job. His first gig was working as a loan o!cer in Portland. After clocking out at 5:30 p.m., four nights a week he worked on the sports desk at the Oregon Journal until 1 a.m. It was a lot of hours, he recalled, and “was as far as I got in the finance world.” He went to work at The Oregonian when it merged with the Oregon Jour- ↑Reporter Nick Daschel outside Reser Stadium.
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