UO E-clips, June 24

Visiting for the Trials? Here's 'must' reading (Register-Guard): You're an out-of-stater here for the Olympic Trials. And you want to understand Oregon. You're not a Gray Line tour type. You don't want to dip your big toe in our state. You're after total immersion. OK, here are the 10 books you need to read by Trials' end to understand us from all angles: "Hiking Oregon's History" by Bill Sullivan. Few people know this state, particularly off the beaten trail, better than Sullivan, who lives only a few hammer tosses from Hayward Field. From Chief Joseph and the "trail of tears" to ghosts at Heceta Head Lighthouse on the coast -- a must-see on one of your two "rest days" -- Sullivan offers insightful stories of Oregon's historical nooks and crannies.

UO's new arena: $17 million a year (The Oregonian): The University of Oregon's basketball arena project is all in -- for about $17 million per year. State officials sold $200 million in bonds Wednesday to fund design and construction of a planned replacement for 82-year-old McArthur Court. Oregon took on annual payments of $14,515,000 on the bonds. It also has a $1,835,000 annual payment for the land on which the arena sits, and $500,000 for the bonded portion of an $18 million parking garage to be built for the arena. Total annual debt service for the project: $16,850,000.

The art of track and field (KVAL News 13): A pole vaulter launches himself into the sky. An athlete propels herself across the long jump. A group of runners race toward the finish. These powerful images celebrating track and field are front and center at local art galleries. The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, on the University of Oregon campus, is showing photographs from noted photojournalists like Dave Burnett and famed portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz in "Faster, Higher, Further: The Spirit of Track and Field."