If you wanted a quiet week with little college football news, then you’re not gonna find it here. Just when we thought the summer would finally kick in and slow things down, the years of complaints and swirling rumors regarding playoffs has now turned into a raging wildfire, and yet more conference expansion. Now if only they played some games …

I got an email from an angry reader this week.  It said, “Why do you have to be so mean to the other schools?  You suck!” I didn’t know Mom even had email. She is right, though.  I’ve been pretty hard on some of the other Institutions of Higher Education during my weekly chats with you folks.  Maybe it’s time …

Every week Kurt Liedtke (better known as Keeerrrttt1), co-owner of FishDuck.com, creates video blogs (vlogs) to update all you fine folk on all things FishDuck, a free-form discussion of current events about Oregon Ducks sports and all that’s new with FishDuck.com, with the occasional off-topics or rants. It’s a little off-the-cuff, perhaps slightly pretentious, somewhat rambling, and hopefully entertaining…so kick …

  The day it happened was a memorable one, September 3rd, 2011. Outside, the thermometers in Dallas had been registering triple digits, a humid-but-windy true “Texas heat.” For those who haven’t had the pleasure, try to imagine the feel of standing in a wind tunnel fed by an industrial-sized blow dryer, with occasional whiffs of car exhaust and decaying plant life.  …

Follow me on Twitter: @MarkDFlores Be sure to like us on Facebook: FISHDUCK.COM Basketball Recruiting News/Visits In the world of recruiting, the age-old phrase “win some, lose some” holds true. Prized power forward Anthony Bennett (5-Star/Henderson, NV/Rivals150) has opted to stay local and play his collegiate ball at unlv (no capitalization of opposing programs by this author). A serious contender to land …

In case you haven’t been paying much attention to the Oregon athletic program lately outside of football, it’s been quite a year all-around for the Ducks. Men’s Basketball, Volleyball, and Lacrosse all made post-season tournaments. Acrobatics & Tumbling became back-to-back national champions. The Women’s Track & Field team added a national championship of their own by taking the indoor title, …

The 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 anyone going 118 mph down Interstate-5 with a spliff between their teeth. So I’ve come …

Note from FishDuck.com: This is the first column from FishDuck’s newest writer, Jeff Hostetler. We have welcomed Jeff aboard the FishDuck team, a Florida Gators fan with a fascination of Duck sports as well, to provide us all with weekly reviews of all that is taking place in college athletics as well as the Ducks, and providing some important links …