Knocking off those Duck hatsThe time period between the end of Oregon spring practice and when the buzz about the college football season starts in mid-July is always an agonizing and excruciating one. What to do, what to read, what to ponder…Oh, and what to write? That is, absent …
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Ducks and Beavers: Gotta remain trueIt’s Saturday and I’m sitting in a Wenatchee coffeehouse waiting for the Apple Blossom Festival Parade to pass by outside, and I can’t help but recall my own little parade of a week ago to the Oregon spring football game. Myself in the lead, my …
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Mariota: Calm, cool and goodGet used to hearing that name. And pronouncing it correctly. Get used to that arm. That vision. That stride. Who’s the best Duck quarterback? That’s not decided yet. And probably won’t be until roughly the end of August. But we got an inkling Saturday during …
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‘Reefer Madness’ redux in EugeneIn case you haven’t been paying attention — maybe you’ve been lost in a haze — a whole bunch of people got quite a buzz this week over a magazine story alleging, among other things, that “40 to 60 percent” of Oregon Duck football players …
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Inside Oregon’s spring? Read between the linesMy old friend, I.C. Green, was staring into his beer by the time I walked into Rennie’s Landing across from campus. He had that far-off look on his face, the kind he always gets when he’s lost deep in thought about the Oregon Ducks and …
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Tweets from an Oregon proI don’t know Andy McNamara. But, then again, I do. I follow him on Twitter. Which means I get to see his bald head a lot each day. And read, of course, his latest burst of insightfulness. If you keep tabs on the Oregon football …
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Foot-Ball it was. Football it is.With the University of Oregon spring football practice starting Tuesday, this is as good a time as any to refresh everyone’s minds about how far things have come — really, really, really come. And, oh, how some things haven’t changed at all. No, we are …
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Frozen in time? Not Autzen.I wasn’t there mid-week. I was some 400 miles north-northeast in a place where snow has a far greater chance of coming down in late March than in little old Eugene. In Autzen Stadium. So when the photo popped up on Facebook, showing the Ducks’ …
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How we found Beavs and Dawgs on St. Pat’s DayIt’s over. St. Patrick’s Day, that is. You can put away the green beer now, Corvallis and Seattle. Before it gets any worse. We know what you were up to. We saw you. Our crack photographers, hired just for the occasion, spent a solid 12 …
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Deep in Cougar and Husky country, a DuckTo put things into proper perspective, we must first describe the setting. Washington state. East slopes of the Cascades. Deep in the heart of Apple Country. Roughly halfway between Pullman and Seattle. Lots of Cougars and Huskies. And right smack in the middle of Wenatchee …
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