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  • Visitor’s Guide to the Great State of Oregon

    Every year the Oregon Ducks, and Duck fans, welcome visitors from around the country to our beautiful state, wax their sub-par teams, and send them on their way.  Not very neighborly.  In light of that I offer the following visitor’s guide to help folks understand, and perhaps …

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  • Oregon’s Brenner Faces Stiff Competition for S.I. Player of the Year

    As many of you know Oregon multi-sport star Liz Brenner is up for Sports Illustrated female athlete of the year.  You can help Ms. Brenner to victory by going to  http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-athlete-of-the-year/ and casting your vote.   Liz’ task will not be easy however.  Here is a look …

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  • Spring Game News From Around the Country

    The Ducks’ annual spring game was held under sun dappled skies, and in front of 35,000+ fans last Saturday in Autzen Stadium.  Early returns on the 2013 iteration of Oregon football indicated continued success based on speed, precision, conditioning, and execution.  News from spring games around the …

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  • Fun with Writer’s Block

    Some days a deadline looms and nothing in particular comes to mind.  Creative writing isn’t something that can be forced, so when it doesn’t come, I just have to wait it out.  As I go through my day, something will organically grow…I hope.  Meanwhile: 12:17 …

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  • The Passion of Boston and Eugene

    In August of 1984 I was standing on a footbridge in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.  Just over the water was a group of elderly gentlemen playing Bocce’ Ball.  I knew nothing about the game, but was trying to pick it up just from …

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  • “42″ and Other Numbers of Cinematic Import

    I’m taking my wife to see “42″ tonight.  The “based on history” story of racial strife, cultural change and baseball in the late 40′s is right in my strike zone.  Of course, I’ve never spent two consecutive hours rooting for the Dodger, but that’s a …

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  • Auburn is Just the Tip of the Iceberg

    The story is just now coming to full light, but according to Sports Illustrated, in 2010 Auburn coaches were only interrupted in giving hundreds of dollars to their players by the need to get busy changing their grades to keep them eligible.  Gene Chizik apparently …

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  • Surprising Things I Learned from the Oregon/Louisville Game

    I learned last night that our Ducks can stay with a very good Louisville team.  Nine times out or ten we’re going to go down to defeat to them, but we played them tough, won the game over the last 37 minutes, and comported ourselves …

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  • 12 Over 5 Down Through History

    I am going to start a movement to ban alcohol at NCAA Selection Committee hotels in the future.  The obviously liquored-up 2013 committee placed Oregon in the 12 spot in this year’s bracket, a spot normally reserved for SUNY/Stony Brook, IUPUILSMFT. and Washington.  The Ducks …

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  • Marching to Insanity

    I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the definition of insanity is NOT doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.  That’s the definition that your know-it-all brother-in-law will bring out if he disagrees with you …

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