By Jay Jones, June 24, 2008

A couple of weeks ago, Portland’s The Fan (1080 AM) had Pac-10 commissioner Tom Hansen on the Isaac & Big Suke show.
Here are a few of the things they talked about:
- Misconceptions about the job of the Pac-10 Commissioner
- ESPN vs. Fox Sports Network
- Pac-10 bowl affiliations
- Pac-10 expansion
- Biggest [...]

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By Jay Jones, June 23, 2008
Last week, ESPN.com concluded releasing their selections for the “Face of the Program” feature on college football.
As noted right here on Duck Sport News, Phil Knight was named Oregon’s “Face of the Program”. And noted on Beaver Sports News, Terry Baker was selected as the “Face of the Program” for [...]

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By Jay Jones, June 4, 2008
The Athlon Sports 2008 College Football Annual is shipping this week.
Here’s a sneak peak at the Athlon Sports 2008 Preseason Top 25:
1. Florida
2. Ohio State
3. Oklahoma
4. USC
5. Georgia
6. Missouri
7. West Virginia
8. Auburn
9. LSU
10. Clemson
11. Texas
12. Wisconsin
13. Kansas
14. BYU
15. Arizona State
16. Illinois
17. Tennessee
18. Texas Tech
19. OREGON
20. South Florida
21. [...]

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Jay, here.
Last Thursday, former Seattle P.I. sports columnist and current ESPN.com Pac-10 columnist Ted Miller joined George Schroeder and Justin Myers in studio on “The Writer’s Block” to talk Pac-10 football.
Ted was the special guest for the entire hour. So, his interview is presented here in four parts.
Part 1: Pac-10 vs. SEC Football
Part [...]

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Jay, here.
This past Thursday, Sports Illustrated opened the vault on all of their content.
Explore the 54 years of Sports Illustrated history including over 150000 stories, 2800 covers, 500000 photographs, a Wiki sports encyclopedia and links to …
Covers. Articles. Ads. Everything.
That got me to thinking: how many times has the University of Oregon been represented [...]

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March 13, 2008
Jay, here.
On Tuesday, Eugene radio station KPNW-AM pulled “Sports Talk”, the long-running sports talk show hosted by Steve Tannen and Nate Gorman, and replaced it with Michael Savage’s “Savage Nation”. Considering that as of last week I was scheduled to appear as a regular guest on Thursdays to talk about the Ducks [...]

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Jay, here.
Last night, One Click Sports News (Duck Sports News & Beaver Sports News) made the trip to Corvallis for the Civil War. While the Ducks and Beavers were playing something referred to as “basketball” on the court, my mind wandered while I was sitting in the stands trying to watch the game.
Before last [...]

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Jay, here.
Admittedly, I’m a bit sheepish about posting this entry. But it’s just too funny.
However, I have to give credit where credit is due. This blog entry came from a discussion on one of the eDuck forums.
First, let’s start [...]

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[Update 2/21/08: You can take a look at footage of the the Oregon plane being painted here, the Oregon State plane being painted and in use here, and the Washington plane being painted here.]
What does a PR move by Horizon have to do with sports? Let’s put it this way: Horizon did not decide [...]

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OSU’s Kyle DeVan made some pointed remarks about the class differences between Oregon and Oregon State on OregonLive.com.
“It’s white collar-blue collar. it’s like, ‘oh, look how nice their facilities are!’ ..
“It seems like they get babied. They got some crazy stuff over there, and it’s neat to see all that stuff, but you don’t need [...]

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