News While waiting (and waiting and waiting) for the Jan. 10 championship game between Auburn and Oregon, the mind tends to wander. Last week, we wrote about how college football in Alabama is taken very, very seriously. This week, we note one more example from the video archives of the state's football passion. Below is a much-watched chestnut from December 2008, in which one very distraught ...   More

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News  While waiting (and waiting and waiting) for the Jan. 10 championship game between Auburn and Oregon, the mind tends to wander.Last week, we wrote about how college football in Alabama is taken very, very seriously. This week, we note one more example from the video archives of the state’s football passion.Below is a much-watched chestnut from December 2008, in ...   More

News As Oregon and Oregon State football fans pretend to get work done (not me, of course) while gearing up the new season, there's a new apparel company called Oregon Platypus that caters to a class of Oregonian I've never understood. The business, which takes its name from the animal that has features of both a duck and beaver, sells shirts, hoodies and other items that blend the schools' colors ...   More

News As an incredibly superstitious Oregon football fan, I'm very sensitive this week to anything that could tip the cosmic karma in the Ducks' rivalry game Saturday against the University of Washington. So imagine my "shock" to learn that Portland's Morrison Bridge is apparently lit this week in UW's purple and gold for something called "Husky Heritage Week." Could this be the final revenge of ...   More

News Three quick moments of disclosure before I opine on the latest problem for an Oregon football player: 1) I am a season-ticket holding Ducks fanatic who has followed this team's fortunes with childish passion since I was a child in the 70s. 2) I did a lot of dumb things in college. 3) And I of course believe in the concept of innocent until proven guilty. But what the hell is going on in Eugene? We're ...   More

News Utah's official announcement today that it will join Colorado in becoming the Pac-10's newest members means a lot in terms of TV money and recruiting for the league, much of which got hashed out in this piece. But one thing remains uncertain: what the new conference should be called. Let's give the league some suggestions beyond the predictable choice of the Pac-12. The Dirty Dozen? Twelve Angry ...   More

News Lincoln High School's principal Peyton Chapman is scrambling to raise $30,000 so the school can keep its new varsity football coach, who has already started leading practices. Mike Fanger, a former head football coach at Lewis & Clark College who came to Lincoln from La Salle Catholic College Preparatory in Milwaukie, was hired this winter. Fanger replaces the interim Lincoln football coaches, ...   More