Jacoby Ellsbury is among the finalists for the Harry Glickman professional athlete of the year award at the Oregon Sports Awards, to be given out next Sunday the 27th. The other finalists include Oregon athletes Derek Anderson (Cleveland Browns), Randy Couture (Ultimate Fighting), T.J. Houshmandzadeh (Cincinnati Bengals) and Brandon Roy (Portland Trail Blazers). The ceremony, to be held at the Tiger Woods Center on the Nike campus in Beaverton, OR, will also be broadcast on Comcast SportsNet Northwest on Sunday night.

And in other awards news, Josh Beckett was on hand in Houston this past Saturday to give away the Josh Beckett Awards at the RBI Foundation dinner. For the second year, Josh handed over the awards in his name to the best high school baseball and softball players from the Houston area. Sorry, Josh - you're still a Houstonian no matter how much you try to deny it. No pictures from the dinner this year, but here's a shot of Josh from last year's dinner.

I think he pulled out the formal hemp necklaces for that dinner outfit.





on January 22, 2008 4:42 PM