- ...that Portland Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy (pictured) won the 2007 Rookie of the Year Award by a near-unanimous vote despite missing almost a third of his first season in the NBA due to injuries?
- ...that Malheur Reservation in Oregon was set aside for Native Americans in 1872 and opened to European American settlement by Ulysses S. Grant in 1876?
- ...that the Willamette Collegian, the college newspaper of Willamette University in Oregon, was named an all-star publication by the National Pacemaker Awards a record 16 times in a row?
- ... that Oregon cattle baron Peter French was murdered near the Sod House Ranch in 1897?