After a long flight back from Texas Wednesday night, the Ducks basketball team was looking to put the triple-overtime loss suffered at UTEP in the rear view mirror as soon as possible. With a home game scheduled Saturday against Houston Baptist, the hangover from the disappointing defeat wouldn’t last long. Oregon jumped on the young Huskies early and cruised to …
Notes From Around the College Football Nation: Duke to the SEC and Bowl Season in Full Swing
Bowl season is still going strong after another two bowl games end in great fashion on Saturday. I don’t know what it is about bowl season, but every team plays like there is no tomorrow (but there is, the Mayans were wrong). If every game continues to keep coming down to the final drive or final play, then we are …
Bowl Games Were Different When Dinosaurs Walked the Earth
November 19, 1989: We had just beaten the Beavers in the Civil War. Most seasons that would have been a good end to a season. This year we had a chance for more. I went to a local liquor store that I knew sold papers from around the country. (Remember, this was before there was a computer in everyone’s home.) I wanted to …
Could Jabari Brown Be The Next Chris Harper?
Normally, a reserve guard for the Missouri Tigers going 1-for-7 on three-pointers while playing twenty minutes in a Tuesday night non-conference game would elicit as little interest as any topic that could be written about herein. However, the reserve guard in question isn’t just anyone, but once the most celebrated recruit to have signed with Oregon in nearly a decade, …
Missed Opportunities Plague Ducks in Triple-Overtime Defeat
EL PASO — The Ducks battled back to take the lead in the second half of their game at UTEP Wednesday night, but failed to get key defensive stops down the stretch and missed chance after chance at the free throw line at the end of regulation and in overtime, in dropping a winnable game on the road Wednesday night, …
Recruiting Update: He’s Committed Elsewhere… Until He Visits Oregon
Football Recruiting Offers Oregon has made a living playing cloak and dagger games, so why stop now? Recently opening his recruitment, offensive lineman Sean Dowling (3-Star/Fallbrook, CA) is receiving renewed interest from Eugene as signing day approaches. A 6’6″, 265 lb. trench dweller, Dowling’s signed LOI would be a solid late-hour get for the Ducks as he has the potential …
What you don’t know about Oregon’s next Place Kicker
Oregon has a new place kicker coming to town, and for a lot of fans it is none too soon. Chip Kelly has often made a decision to go for broke on fourth down, the reasoning of which has been unclear at times. I used to think that he believed the odds were in his favor when he would forgo …
It’s time to make sports a release, not a way of life
I, like many of you, am passionate about the Oregon Ducks. I rise and fall with every play, just like most of you. With that being said, I have poked fun, laughed at and mocked our rivals. I have been in heated arguments, bitter discussions and trite conversations about the most pointless of sequences. I have also, at times, let …
Notes from around the college football nation: Utah State rolls and Arizona rallies
First, let’s give a moment of silence for the victims of the horrible shooting that happened in Connecticut. When things like that happen, it makes you reflect on life and what is important. My thoughts and prayers go out to the families who have lost loved ones; may God comfort you in your time of need. Bowl season has started, and …
Ducks vs. Nebraska: This Set Basketball Back a Few Years
“This set basketball back a few years.“ That’s how Coach Dana Altman described Oregon’s 60-38 thumping of Nebraska Saturday afternoon at Matthew Knight Arena. He was speaking mainly about the dismal outside shooting for both teams. The big win that improved Oregon’s record to 9-1, over a Big-10 team with a winning record, one that could possibly propel the Ducks …
Sports Medicine — ACL Tears
Sports Medicine ACL Tears By Dr. Jack Dreisen “As I am not privy to the type of injury Oregon players sustain or the severity of it, I can only discuss shoulder injuries in general.” — Dr. Dreisen Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Tears If you’re a sports fan and/or participant, you’ve probably heard of ACL injuries — but do you know …
Unspeakable Horror… Again
Every couple of minutes something new trickles out about the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. As I write I have a window open to the CNN coverage of the event. The very latest word is that the shooter, 24 year old Ryan Lanza, killed his mother, who was a teacher at the school, as well as …