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Update on All Oregon Ducks Drafted by NFL This Year
Are you like me? Do you have trouble letting go and saying good-bye when your favorite players leave the Ducks and go on to greener pastures? You would think that after decades of ...
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Picking the Starting Quarterback for All Pac-12 Schools
2012 will be an intriguing year for Pac-12 football. With USC off probation, superstars like Andrew Luck and LaMichael James gone to the NFL and four exciting new head coaches, it feels more wide open than ever...
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Oregon Football: Replacing LaMichael James Is Not as Easy as It Looks
I absolutely cringe every time I hear someone say that it doesn't matter whom Oregon's running back is. The Ducks just plug in the next guy in line and carry on from year to year...
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Oregon Football Recruiting: The Ducks Need to Pick Up the Slow Pace for 2013
Years ago, I worked for Nike. One morning, a day after I had produced a terrific event with Andre Agassi and Nike employees on the Oregon campus, Phil Knight was behind me in the coffee line...
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Pac-12 Television Network: The Facts and What It Means to You
August 15, 2012, will mark a bright new day in the Pac-12 conference. On that day, the conference will launch its brand-spanking-new TV network. The Pac-12 network will consist of seven new cable network channels: six regional channels and one national..
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Oregon Ducks: Predicting the Score of Every Game in 2012
It was such a beautiful day in western Oregon yesterday, I found myself wishing I could go to Autzen Stadium, have a cold one with my friends in the parking lot, take my seat inside the stadium and prepare to yell my fool head off for the Ducks...
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10 Most Intriguing Players in Pac-12 Conference
The talking heads all agree that the Pac-12 Conference is all about Oregon and USC in 2012. I don't disagree with that assessment, but I do believe there are some very talented, interesting ...
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Oregon Ducks Football: Unsolved Mysteries from the Spring Game
If you've come to this slideshow expecting answers to all of your Oregon Ducks questions for this year, you've come to the wrong place...
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NFL Draft 2012: Other Than Andrew Luck, How Did the Pac-12 Do?
Here's a shocker for the East coast media: the SEC is not the only college football conference in the country. There is this little-train-that-could conference out West that you are going to hear a whole heck of a lot about in 2012...
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Oregon Ducks QBs: Grading Bryan Bennett and Marcus Mariota on Spring Game
Even a fan like me who loves defense recognizes that the BIG story that came out of the Oregon Ducks spring game on Saturday was the heated competition developing at the quarterback position following Darron Thomas' departure for the NFL, er, departure...
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Winners and Losers of the Oregon Football Spring Game
The Oregon Ducks 2012 spring game is now history. On a remarkably beautiful late April day in Eugene, the fans were treated to a very solid effort by the team...
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Oregon Football Spring Game: Live News, Results and Analysis
Here we are for the Ducks’ spring game in April—when it should be raining—and it’s a beautiful spring day. Thank you, Don Essig...
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Oregon Ducks Spring Game: Can't Make It to Eugene Saturday? No Problem
So, you don't live in Eugene. Or, you have to work Saturday. Or, you can't spare three cans of non-perishable food for Food for Lane County. C'mon, really? For whatever reason, you can't make it to the Ducks' spring game Saturday at 11:00 a...
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Oregon Ducks: 5 Weakest Positions to Start Worrying About Now
First, let me say that I honestly do not believe that the Oregon Ducks have any weaknesses this year. Cheerleader may be the weakest position on the field—and I think the Ducks' ...
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Oregon State's Mike Riley: 4 Reasons Why He's Underrated
No one is writing or talking about Mike Riley and the Oregon State Beavers. Not a word. Nothing. Nada. Doesn't that make those of you who cheer for one of the other 11 Pac-12 teams just a little nervous? Any team can have a bad year...
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5 Reasons Why Marcus Mariota Will Be the Starting QB for the Oregon Ducks
Not so fast, my friend! My most excellent colleague, Joe Penkala, wrote a fine article earlier this week about why Bryan Bennett will be the starting quarterback for the Oregon Ducks in the fall...
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5 Players the Oregon Ducks Can't Afford to Lose in 2012
It takes a total team effort to be successful in college football, like the Oregon Ducks' big win in the 2012 Rose Bowl...
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Oregon Ducks: Grading Each Unit so Far in Spring Practice
Spring drills are barely underway for the Oregon Ducks, but we are beginning to get a feel for the 2012 team...
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Matt Barkley and USC Trojans Deserve Credit for Haiti Effort
If you read this space regularly, you know that I am a loyal Oregon Ducks fan. I don't much care for the USC Trojans. I don't like Lane Kiffin ...
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Oregon Ducks: 3 Possible Replacement Head Coaches for Chip Kelly
Wasn't it just great seeing Chip Kelly and the Oregon Ducks at practice this week? Kelly, in his trademark shorts and visor, looked trim...
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Oregon Ducks Football: Updating the 5 Best Spring Battles
And so it begins. On a very cold, wet day the 2012 Oregon Ducks football team came together for the first time. After joking that it was "the worst practice ever" Coach Chip Kelly expanded in an interview broadcast on oregonlive...
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20 Beers to Sample During the College Football Season
It's the offseason for college football. Writers are desperate for news to write about. Fans are desperate to read about their team. I think there are only three things worth doing in the offseason while we wait for fall...
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10 Ways You Know You're an Oregon Ducks Fan
Some of you have been around for a very long time. Some of you are new to the Ducks bandwagon. But you are all passionate, loyal fans of the green and yellow. You have been through the depths of hell with your football team...
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Constructing the Ultimate College Football Coach
How many times have you said: "If only our coach was better at defense or recruiting or special teams, etc. etc. etc...
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Chip Kelly vs. Lane Kiffin: Why Oregon Will Beat USC in 2012
Their current head coaching record against each other reads Kiffin 1, Kelly 0. How many of you believe it will be 1-1 on Nov. 4, 2012? I do...