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.
Almost a month ago, FOX News aired a story on a University of Oregon program to provide sensitivity training for Eugene residents in anticipation of the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials.
Take a look.

Politically incorrect? Overly sensitive?
Well, if you’re overly sensitive about politically incorrect parodies (spoofs seem to be in vogue right now), you [...]

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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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1. Aaron Pflugrad is the Second Coming of Joe Reitzug.
2. Pete Carroll and Jack Hanna were separated at birth.
3. The bravest soul in Autzen Stadium was the student getting tossed in the air by the student section.
4.  The second and third bravest souls in Autzen Stadium were the two USC fans walking up one of [...]

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There’s no denying the numbers. USC’s defense in one of the best in the land. They rank in the top-5 nationally in rushing defense and total defense and the top-10 in both pass efficiency defense and scoring defense. Their pass defense ranks 21st.
But after looking closer, you’ll notice that USC’s schedule has not been full [...]

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Download PDF: GameDay in a Box | Oregon vs USC

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Welcome to “The 4|4 with Peter Sirmon”, the USC Edition. Every week throughout the remainder of the college football season, visitors to DuckSportsNews.com ask Peter four questions and he answers them.
If you would like to ask Peter a question for next week’s edition, leave it in the comment section or send Peter an [...]

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For the last eight years of my life I have undergone an identity crisis. And I don’t think I’ve been the only one.
In our day and age, growing up in one town and moving to another for college is not uncommon. Every year more and more people venture [...]

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