Nick Krupke
Sports Anchor
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Nick arrived at KPTV in 2013 and has spent nearly two decades covering sports in Oregon.
A native of Mt. Vernon, Washington, the married father of three daughters and two dogs graduated from the Murrow College of Communication at Washington State.
You can find Nick hosting Friday Night Lights, Timbers pregame shows (Countdown to Kickoff) and covering the big events from the preps to the pros in Southwest Washington and Western Oregon.
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FOX 12’s Nick Krupke sat down for a One-on-One with Timbers midfielder Marvin Loria before the PTFC heads to Miami for the first time in franchise history.
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FOX 12′s Nick Krupke went One-on-One with Timbers head coach Gio Savarese as PTFC is still aiming for consistency and good health.
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Brotherhood and belonging, Jordan Taff had both.
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Professional sports are about peaks and valleys and you can’t get much higher in soccer than what the Timbers did on Saturday – a club record, seven goals on 11 shots against Kansas City.
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What was a 3-1 series lead turned into a decisive game seven on the junior hockey ice in Portland.
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Born and raised in Adogawa City, Japan, Taichi Kitagawa came to the United States back in 2004 to learn English and study up on how to become an athletic trainer.
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Fox 12′s Nick Krupke went One-on-One this afternoon with MLS Player of the Week, Sebastian Blanco, who tallied two assists and his first two goals of 2022.
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Friday Night Lights for a Cascadia derby, Portland and Seattle meeting for a 26th time in season ten of the league that has grown globally.
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FOX 12’s Nick Krupke went One-on-One with team’s central midfielder whose in his sixth season and recently signed a contract extension -- Cristhian Paredes
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FOX 12's Nick Krupke sits down with Timbers coach Giovanni Savarese to talk how COVID outbreaks are affecting the team and the team's season so far.
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Scratching that seven-year itch it’s Portland and Seattle in the WHL playoffs for the first time since 2015. For longtime ticket holders Jan and Dave Vandervort, this is just another piece of hockey history in the Rose City, and they’ve seen a lot of it.
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In this High School Spotlight, FOX 12 highlights a brotherly bond from the Sherwood Bowmen.
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The hockey moms were having a Mother’s Day Sunday on the ice.
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FOX 12′s Nick Krupke went One-on-One with rookie Justin Rasmussen as the 23-year-old defender out of Las Vegas is set to make his third professional start against New York on Saturday.
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Nearly 2000 people soaked in the sun for the professional ultimate frisbee debut at Providence Park with the first-ever game for the Portland Nitro in the American Ultimate Disc League with a battle against Seattle.
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For the college football players dreaming of their day as an NFL player, waiting is the hardest part
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Baseball is a game that instills a lineup of life skills. The current crop of Sunset High Apollos and classes to come will always know the story of John Pelham.
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No longer virtual, the NFL draft is again an in-person reality.
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The two teams joined forces with Team Yellow and Team Blue in the 60-minute exhibition ‘PTFC for Peace’ to benefit UNCIFEF’s relief efforts in Ukraine.
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In this high school spotlight, FOX 12 highlights a family from Wilsonville where lacrosse is the name of the game.
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After more than two years away, the Western Hockey League playoffs are back in the Rose City.
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It’s being billed as “Duck Day” in Eugene as the University of Oregon football team will host a spring game that is open to the public at 1 p.m. Saturday.
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After the last two weeks on the road and the following two weeks away as well, the Timbers are more than happy to be coming home to Providence Park this Saturday night.
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The Lake Oswego baseball team has a ten member senior class as the boys have grown up with the game and grown up together through some of the toughest times in life
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FOX 12′s Nick Krupke went one-on-one with Evina Westbrook ahead of her first professional training camp.
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Diego Chara has done a lot of things in his long-tenured Portland Timbers career, and when you play a lot, that means you might foul a lot.
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The boys of summer are back in town, in the spring, as it’s “One Vine” for season nine for the hometown nine of the Hops.
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The big man on campus then and now, Ben Petrick will always be remembered at Ben Petrick field in the home of the Glencoe Crimson Tide.
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The spring sports season has sprung and for the first time since 2019, OSAA state championship trophies will be played for.
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Drafted 10th overall out of Lehigh now nine years ago, number three played 564 games in the scarlet and black leaving as the fifth-leading scorer in franchise history.
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CJ McCollum, a former Portland Blazers player who was traded to the New Orleans Pelicans, is back in Portland to play against the Blazers for the first time since he was traded.
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The Junior Wheel Blazers are on the trail to Wichita and the wheelchair basketball national championships for the first time in five years.
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Portland Winterhawks’ player and artist draws his path on the ice and in the sketch pad
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From Reynolds High School to Oregon State University to the NBA, Drew Eubanks is living a dream as a pro athlete after signing a fourth 10-day contract with the Portland Trail Blazers.
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The Gonzaga Bulldogs are the top overall seed---- in the men’s NCAA basketball tournament. And moving on from the Portland regional, to the sweet 16 in San Francisco.
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2020 was closed out during the semi, 2021 didn’t crown a sole, so 2022 is how the Wilsonville boys can say they are back-to-back state champs from way back in the before times of 2019.
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Coaching can be a calling and a salvation.
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Individual achievements are secondary in a team sport like basketball, especially for Milwaukie High School’s star senior Cali Denson, as number 22 leaves behind a storied career with the Mustangs.
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Basketball teams certainly need stars to go far at state, but they also need those kids who have the heart, the hustle, and the desire like Benson Polytechnic players have in senior Carlos Barfield.
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The first day of Spring would have been perfection for high school athletes who would have been full-go into their new seasons.
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Roosevelt’s 6-foot, 6-inch senior Raysean Seamster waited his entire career to play varsity basketball as a senior.But then he suffered a setback when he snapped a bone in his leg.
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After a 6A state football championship appearance in December, the top-rated Tualatin High School boys basketball team is looking to score the big blue trophy on the Timberwolves’ hunt for a first-ever hoops state title.
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‘It really opened up so many doors’: Legacy of CJ McCollum’s Press Pass program lives on after trade
Former Portland Trail Blazers guard CJ McCollum left a lasting impact in Rip City off the court with “CJ’s Press Pass,” which offered local high school students a journalism-based mentorship program.
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In her third season on the Portland Trail Blazers’ bench, Jessica Cohen, the former assistant athletic trainer and physical therapist, is now an NBA ‘trailblazer’ as the first female head athletic trainer in league history.
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Griffin Barlow learned how to swim just five years ago after being adopted from China.
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A pair of starting guards are twice as nice for the Tigard boys basketball team.
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It was the second national signing day of the offseason for college football recruits and it made for special moments for kids across the metro area.
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In this high school spotlight, FOX 12 highlights a Grant High School junior in the always highly competitive Portland Interscholastic League.
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Living life in a wheelchair can be challenging to play sports for those aspiring athletes but where there’s a will, there’s a way. In this sports spotlight, FOX 12 will highlight a champion wheelchair bowler from Polk County.
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Megan Everetts Zellick is a proud 2008 McKay High School graduate who has the honor of coaching at the school in Salem alongside her father, her husband and twin sister, and now feels like she has a few new sons.