Sweet Easter Greetings From Fish & Friends

Kim Hastings FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

The arrival of Spring indicates two things in the Pacific Northwest.  It means that the rain is slightly warmer, and it means the Easter season is upon us.  Easter has some very serious and genuine significance behind it, but this only makes it that much more incongruous to find so much fun and nonsense attached.  A rabbit … that lays …

Ducks’ Nine Getting Needed Relief!

Gar Pearson Coach's Opinion

[Ed note: The first three paragraphs reference north-of-the-Columbia River stuff — this is the epitome of “friends in low places.”] I knew it was coming, it always does, my buddy Frank and his Husky purple heart calling to give me grief over the Ducks losing their PAC-12 baseball series to the Huskies.  I’ve known Frank for a lifetime, and he has …

My Wife’s Birthday Got Me to Thinking …

Kim Hastings Best of FishDuck.com Humor, FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

Thursday was my wife’s birthday  (“Happy birthday, honey.  Sorry about, well, you know.”)  It being her special day, I just wanted to take this opportunity to tell all of you what a lucky guy I am. When I met her all those years ago, she didn’t know the difference between Oregon and Oregon State.  Last season, at the end of the Civil …

Spring Football Questions As Pondered by FishDuck

Kim Hastings FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

Spring football gets underway around the Pacific Northwest this week.  Looking forward, Duck fans have a few questions for the 2014/15 campaign.  Will the linebackers step up?  Is the offensive line improved?  After they lose for the 11th time in a row, can we expect Washington fans en masse to jump off a Seattle area bridge, or will they use …

FishDuck at the Movies

Kim Hastings FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

We are hard up against the 2014 Academy Awards and this one is going to be particularly exciting.  The Big Fish pulled some strings and FishDuck has been invited to appear on the red carpet for the awards. This year’s roster of Best Picture nominees is one of the main reasons why we were selected to attend.  Never have there …

Men’s Basketball: Ducks Lean on Seniors, Dump Dogs

Josh White FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

Oregon needed to make a statement during this three-game home stand.  And now it is two down, one to go for the Ducks (17-8, 5-8) after a 78-71 win over the Washington Huskies (14-13, 6-8) on Wednesday night. The win marked the 500th for Dana Altman – and 90th (most all time at UO) for Johnny Loyd — but it wouldn’t …

The Tax Man Cometh . . . and is Subdued

Kim Hastings FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

The perks of working for FishDuck.com are ridiculous.  I’m writing this from my timeshare week in Aspen, and its less than a month after this Super Bowl party: But there comes a time, every year, when we have to pay the piper for all of these perks.  When tax season rolls around free-lance writers take it up the . . …

The Unholy Mess That Is Football Recruiting

Kim Hastings FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

National Letter of Intent day has come and gone.  How your Webfoots fared depends on who you ask.  National publications list Oregon’s class in the 22-26 range.  Those posting on Oregon message boards rank the class anywhere from “The bestest class in the history of classes, sure Hall of Famers every one,” to a class on par with the likes …

Pac-12 Power Positions: A 12-pack of PAC-12 Fleet-Footed Wide Receivers

Pat Pannu FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

Months away from the start of football season, what’s a football fan to do to feed the addiction to college football than to look at the best returning players for next year. The Pac-12 has a lot of amazing talent coming back at every position for the 2014 football season, and wide receivers rightly make up a skilled part of …

Coaching Carousel: The 5 Biggest Coaching Changes Around the Pac-12

Pat Pannu FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

The off season always brings about a deluge of coaching changes around the college football world.  Some coaches get fired during the season, such as Lane Kiffin at USC, but aren’t replaced until the dust has settled on the final games of the year, while others, like our very own Nick Allioti, retire gracefully after long, successful careers. No matter the situation, …

The Ballad of the Green Brigade

Kim Hastings FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

  Fighting Ducks against the sky These are men who jump so high Men who mean just what they say The brave men of the Green Brigade Trained to live on Husky meat Washington they’re sure to beat Men who fight by day and night Listen not, to Herbie’s hype Put silver wings on my son’s chest Make him one …