Throughout this upcoming season, fans and media professionals alike will debate every stat, game, and āHeisman Momentā in an attempt to determine whether or not Marcus Mariota deserves to win Oregonās first Heisman Trophy. If people bother to consider performance off the field this season, it will distinguish Mariota from the past two winners. Both Johnny Manziel and Jameis Winston ā¦
My FishDuck Friends ā I wish to roll out a new feature called āScottās Turfā on the site that will appear on every Monday, which will have opinion-editorial pieces written by Scott Reed.Ā Scott has been writing recruiting and game analyses articles every week for the Oregon franchise of Rivals.com Duck Sports Authority for many years.Ā Iāve known him long before FishDuck.com ā¦
In other news, the NCAA (court) trials are still making headlines. It looks like the NCAAās chances took a huge blow whenĀ Jim DelanyĀ took the stand and pretty much ran wild with his ideas and backed up the plaintiffās case. Right now the NCAA is just getting hammered with so many witnesses against them. Both this week and next, the NCAA ā¦
Duck fans are sucked into team fervor for several reasons. First off, itās the Ducksā incredible talent ā but itās also their outrageous uniforms. Throughout University of Oregon football history, the Ducksā uniforms have progressed from basic green and yellow school colors to intense neonĀ green and lightning yellow. Not many other teams can quite say they have the same flare ā¦
Doug Brenner is a rarity of sorts when it comes to the Ducks. It has nothing to do withĀ skill sets or voluminous hair like Troy Polamalu, and everything to do with where heās from. And that would be ā¦ the state of Oregon! Considering this is the University of Oregon, one would assume (incorrectly) that the team would have a ā¦
If you are a soccer fan then you are just about in heaven right now. You will have your next couple weeks occupied and not realize all the college football action is happening in court rooms and police reports. I will put in my two cents about the World Cup and the NBA playoffs since that is really all there ā¦
One of the great unknown elite match-ups of the 2013 season pitted the UCLA All-American and 9th pick in the NFL draft, Anthony Barr against Oregonās Tyler Johnstone. Ā As the game approached, I was worried about the protection of Marcus Mariotaās blindside, and yet I knew it would be quite entertaining to examine in slo-mo later. Barr was picked early ā¦
Ā We might not have football games to enjoy, Ā but get ready to tune into the court room as your new gridiron this week. OāBannon v NCAA begins this coming week and is about to shake up college sports as we have never seen before. Andy Staples was kind enough to go over the Fact vs Fiction about the lawsuit ā¦
Ā As this off season drags on, we really have only the Conference Media days to keep us busy along with the NCAA going to court against everyone. The NCAA will be on trial for five different cases in the upcoming months. All cases will change the college football world dramatically, if won. With all this going on, the SEC ā¦
I hope things work out for Colt Lyerla and he makes it in the NFL āĀ does that make me a bad Oregon fan? He was one of our most promising athletes to come out of the state of OregonĀ in years, yet his college football career unraveled right before ourĀ very eyes. If you search āColt Lyerlaā on Twitter, you will see ā¦
The window for us fans that is the Spring Game revealed much more this year than many would believe as I too had a hard time fathoming what I was seeing on the field from Head Coach Mark Helfrich. Ā Just as he has been aggressive in recruiting and charging ahead faster than previous coaches in pursuing recruitsāhe is doing the ā¦
The Philadelphia Eagles are increasinglyĀ becoming an NFL reflection of the Oregon Ducks. Ā The NFL draft earlier this month saw twoĀ Ducks go to the Eagles, wide receiver Josh Huff (3rd round) and defensive lineman Taylor Hart (5th round). Ā The Eagles also signed un-drafted UO defensive lineman Wade Kelikipiki, the three joining fiveĀ other former Ducks already on the Eagles roster, in Brandon ā¦