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  • No. 3 Duck Softball Tops Cougars in NCAA Regional Opener, 5 – 2

    EUGENE – The No. 3 University of Oregon softball team (47-9) stayed perfect in NCAA Regional play under fourth-year head coach Mike White with its 5-2 win Thursday evening over BYU (33-24) at Howe Field. Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year Jessica Moore (26-4) cruised to …

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  • Duck Softball Tops Nation with Six All Region Honors

    EUGENE – For the second straight season, the University of Oregon softball team picked up a school-record six All-Pacific Region honors in the annual announcement by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association. Five Ducks received first-team laurels in the vote by region head coaches – senior …

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  • Sherfy Named to Pitcher of the Year Watch List

    EUGENE, Ore. – Jimmie Sherfy is one of 22 pitchers on the latest watch list for the 2013 Pitcher of the Year Award, sponsored by Diamond Sports and presented during the College Baseball Hall of Fame’s Night of Champions on June 29. The junior right-hander …

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  • A Baseball First: Ducks vs. Bucks

      Oregon (34-11), which holds a half-game lead in the Pac-12 standings over Oregon State with three weeks to play in the regular season, steps out of conference this weekend to visit Ohio State (32-15).  The three-game series in Columbus will be the first ever …

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    Oregon Seeded 12th? Really? Really??

    The NCAA Basketball Tournament selection committee met Sunday in the mile-high city of Denver – or maybe it was high atop the Space Needle in Seattle – okay, I don’t really know where they met, but they were obviously at very high altitude when they met and they had …

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  • Duck Women Take 4th Straight Indoor – Triple Crown on Track

    This just in:  The University of Oregon women’s track team — an underdog despite winning the last three consecutive indoor titles — captured its fourth straight NCAA Indoor Track & Field Indoor Championship, Saturday night in Fayetteville, Arkansas.  The Ducks ran away with the final event, the 4 X 400 …

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    Football: PAC-12 Champion Needs Every Opportunity to Move Forward

    The PAC-12 Championship game is a perfect two-for-two in failing to bring together the top two teams in the conference for a championship showdown.  In fact, the formula has yet to produce a competitive game.  At the root of the problem are the fiction that …

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    Ted Miller, Bi-Polar Dogs and the Transitive Property: Right or Wrong?

    We all know how Ted Miller and the ESPN Pac-12 Blog hate the overuse of the transitive property.  You can read about it here (among lots of other places).  Could Ted Miller and all the posters on the football blogs be WRONG about this?  For as long …

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    Why All the Love for Ohio State?

    Ohio State must be great because they were undefeated last year, right?  Undefeated yes, but like Notre Dame, tOSU dodged more bullets than a firing squad survivor — and to top it off, they must replace ten out of their 22 starters! In 2012 tOSU …

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    Jilted But Not Wilted

    I was one of the few who throughout the entire process this year thought Chip Kelly would stay at Oregon.  I believed the idea “If it works, don’t fix it!” would prevail.  In a world that delivers so many ups and downs, it appeared to …

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