Here is Chip Kelly’s appearance on John Canzano’s “Bald Face Truth” radio show in Portland.

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By Jay Jones
One Click Sports News

Ready for some Inside Baseball?

Actually, this is more TMZ, than DSN.

But it’s a real diamond-in-the-rough, this one.

On Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported that USC tailback Joe McKnight has been driving a 2006 Land Rover owned by a Santa Monica, Calif., businessman.

Today, Santa Monica, Calif., businessman Scott Schenter, a Husky fan, responded. And in the process, he threw Daily News USC football beat reporter Scott Wolf under the aforementioned Land Rover.

Unfortunately, it was also at Oregon cheerleader Amanda Pflugrad’s expense.

Here’s part of his response (from Ted Miller’s ESPN Pac-10 blog):

5. As for his ownership of the Web site, www.4joemcknight.com, Schenter claims he’s squatted on a number of similar Web site names.

“I also have uscmarketing.com, uclalove.com (where’s the Kevin Love article), stanfordindians.com, 24kobe.com, airkobe.com, trumpcancer.com, shaqcancer.com, caltchbeavers.com, uscromeo.com, and for Scott Wolf, amandaflugrad.com.”

Despite the typo, Mr. Schenter does indeed own amandapflugrad.com.

Why did this catch my attention?

Mr. Wolf has a long history of an inappropriate, unprofessional, stalker-like fetish with Pac-10 cheerleaders. More specifically, he is obsessed with Oregon’s cheerleaders and Amanda Pflugrad. (Just for reference, can you imagine The Register-Guard’s Rob Moseley getting his picture taken with opposing teams’ cheerleaders at every game? I don’t think so.)

Here’s Scott Schenter’s response on Scott Wolf’s blog.

In my book, Scott Schenter almost hit a home-run in referencing Scott Wolf in his explanation (almost reason enough to let him off the hook if he did what he’s accused of doing). I don’t use the words “inappropriate”, “unprofessional”, and “fetish” lightly. But Mr. Wolf’s interests are so clearly known throughout USC and Pac-10 fandom that a Husky fan accused of being part of a potentially major NCAA violation goes out of his way to mention him in his response.

That’s the amazing thing here.

But that near home-run veered just foul with the mention of Amanda Pflugrad.

I feel bad for Amanda.

When she signed on to be an Oregon cheerleader, I don’t think “further objectification by USC football beat reporter” was part of the job description.

However, I also don’t think there has been a more well-known cheerleader in recent Oregon history than her.

Now let’s see if Joe McKnight goes down as one of the more well-known football players in USC history. If he does, let’s some hope (for his sake) that it’s something for USC fans to cheer about.

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[UPDATE 12/20/2009: Saturday Night Live did not feature another skit goofing on the Ducks. Based on the information I had, the skit that came closest to the description provided to me was that lame fraternity skit. Maybe it got dropped at the last minute because of time. One thing is for certain, SNL definitely did not drop it because they exceeded their funny quotient.]

By Jay Jones
One Click Sports News

Didn’t think much of Puddles’ team getting the paddle on last week’s Saturday Night Live?

Well, get ready to assume the position…again!

According to a source familiar with the situation, the Oregon Ducks are going to get spoofed again on Saturday Night Live. However, it is unclear if it’s tonight’s “SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE PRESENTS: A VERY GILLY CHRISTMAS” or “SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE” on…what day is it on?…uh…Saturday. Considering that tonight’s show is a Christmas clips show, it’s probably a good bet that the Ducks are going to get sucker-punched again Saturday night.

In case you missed it, here’s last week’s skit:

While it is rumored that the SNL writer responsible for these skits is an Oregon graduate, current Oregon Ducks were none too pleased at the last attempt at humor.

Thank you, sir…may I have another?!

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By Jay Jones
One Click Sports News

Phil Pomeroy? Marcus Hastings?

Do these names sound familiar to you?

Marcus is Oregon’s tight end and Phil is the backup backup quarterback.

And they are taking the Ducks to the Rose Bowl for the first time in like…forever!

Duh!

Well, that’s the way Saturday Night Live had it last night in a skit.

Quick review: it’s about as lame of a skit as Taylor Lautner is as a celebrity.

Yeah, yeah, I know – Twilight.

Here’s another review for you: the Twilight saga is an emo ripoff of the original emo, and slightly effeminate (okay, it’s slightly more than effeminate), vampire series, The Vampire Chronicles (Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned).

It’s Matt Barkley who reads “Twilight”, not any of the Oregon Ducks.

I hope.

But I digress.

Here’s the skit…

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By Jay Jones
One Click Sports News

As soon as Supwitchugirl’s Twitter and Facebook accounts went silent (not shut down, just quiet) about their “I Love My Ducks!” music video, that was the first clue that the controversial video was going to get played on Duck Vision during the Civil War.

The second clue was word that Nike and other sponsors were getting involved.

The third clue? Probably “I Love My Ducks!” t-shirts being sold at The Duck Store.

Indeed, an edited version of the video played on Duck Vision before the game, instead of the usual open.

But it all seemed strangely anti-climatic.

Here’s that version of “I Love My Ducks!”:

After all the completely unnecessary controversy surrounding this video (unnecessary on the University of Oregon Athletic Department’s part – completely necessary for Supwitchugirl), it seemed much ado about nothing.

A lot of teachable, and sellable, moments emerged over the course of this grudge match.

Too bad the people who should be interested in teaching, and selling, don’t have the Duck vision.

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By Jay Jones
One Click Sports News

How do you follow up the success of the hot-selling Grim Reaper “Welcome to Autzen: Where Teams Go to R.I.P,” black T-shirts and sweatshirts?

More t-shirts!

And a once-in-a-lifetime Civil War for the Rose Bowl helps, too.

Here is a sneak peak at the new t-shirt designs available tomorrow in-store only at Oregon Sports at the Gateway Mall (they sell both Ducks, and Beavers, gear).

These t-shirts will not be available online through Oregon Sports at the Gateway Mall. If you’re not in the Eugene/Springfield area , have a friend or family member in the area pick up one for you.

Oregon Sports at the Gateway Mall is located at 3000 Gateway St # 530, Springfield, OR.‎

[Disclaimer: Oregon Sports at the Gateway Mall is an advertiser on Duck Sports News and Beaver Sports News.]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
University of Oregon Sports Information Department
Nov. 9, 2009

OREGON’S BLOUNT REINSTATED TO FOOTBALL PROGRAM
The running back continues to be held accountable for conditions that prompted reinstatement.

EUGENE – University of Oregon senior running back LeGarrette Blount has been reinstated to the Ducks’ football program and will be available to play Saturday when they host Arizona State in a game scheduled to kickoff at 7:20 p.m. (PST), according to an announcement from the school’s head coach Chip Kelly Monday.

Blount, who has missed Oregon’s last eight games after being suspended by Kelly following the season-opening loss at Boise State, has remained a member of the team and has participated in practice since the post-game incident which led to his suspension.

Kelly said he forwarded his recommendation for Blount’s reinstatement to Oregon Athletics Director Mike Bellotti Sunday night, who in turn passed it along to University President Richard Lariviere and Pacific-10 Conference Commissioner Larry Scott.

Blount’s suspension was originally announced to encompass the entire 2009 season, but Kelly announced on Oct. 2 the potential for reinstatement contingent upon the running back completing a series of conditions to the satisfaction of athletics department, University and Pac-10 officials. Kelly emphasized that Blount would continually be held accountable to those conditions for the remainder of the year.

“I’m grateful to Coach Kelly that he cares enough to offer me this second chance,” Blount said. “Now it is up to me to prove to people that their lasting impressions of me are not what they saw in Boise.

“When I am ready to address this further with the public and the media, I will do so,” Blount added. “Until that time, I feel my actions can speak louder than anything I could say. I just want to help my teammates who have been supportive of me.”

The Ducks’ 1,000-yard rusher from a year ago was held to minus 5 yards in his only appearance this year in a 19-8 loss at Boise State.

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(This photo of the Hawthorne Bridge is for illustration purposes only. Translation: it’s a pretty stock photo because we couldn’t find a good one of the Morrison Bridge.)

A DSN visitor emailed this to us earlier today…

Got a tip for you here, if you haven’t already heard it…

The Willamette Light Brigade plans to light the Morrison Bridge in downtown Portland in Purple and Gold this week. Ironic/angering timing considering the UW UO football game this weekend. Even as a diehard 3rd generation Beaver alumni this frustrates me. I can’t remember any OSU or UO heritage weeks recently? And to do that while 20000 duck fans drive by each day? I already emailed the contact at their website encouraging them to prepare for some serious flack from Duck/Pac10 Fans.

Willamette Light Brigade
http://www.lightthebridges.org/index.php

OK. I’m only familiar with “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, not the Willamete Light Brigade. Considering there’s something here that got a Beaver fan all worked up, I went to the source.

According the website, this is their purpose:

WHY LIGHT PORTLANDS BRIDGES?

To make the Willamette River and its bridges the visual focus of our city by night as well as by day.
To visually enhance the historic and remarkable features of the bridges.
To highlight and honor these structures which connect the mutually-dependant east and west neighborhoods of Portland.
To show in a bright and cheerful manner the civic pride felt by those who live and work here.
To strengthen positive impressions of our city gained by visitors, business and tourist alike.
To add a dimension of delight to river crossings.

Up until this point, I’m fine with all that. I like the idea of lighting up bridges. I think it should be done throughout the state. I don’t care what it costs. Wouldn’t lighting up the bridges over the Willamette and McKenzie rivers around Eugene add a little cheer and civic pride to those hideously boring pieces of architecture? Sure they would. And of course that’s why it will never happen. Because it makes sense.

But this is the part I don’t understand:

Purple and gold this week to celebrate the University of Washington and support the Huskies!

WHAT?! IN THE CITY OF PORTLAND? IN OREGON? AND WHY CAN’T YOU DO THIS IN VANCOUVER…WASHINGTON! OR BRITISH COLUMBIA! WHO IN THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS APPROVED THIS? WHAT BUREAUCRATIC MONKEY WITH THE CITY OF PORTLAND, MULTNOMAH COUNTY, THE STATE OF OREGON OK’D THIS? I WANT A HEAD ON A PLATTER NOW! I DEMAND SATISFACTION! I DEMAND JUSTICE!

Needless to say, this makes very little sense to me and has me quite perplexed.

I have but one question: could Duck fans get away with this in Seattle? (Because you know there are like 50,000 Oregon alumni up there.)

ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Does this make sense to you?

If it does not, and you’re interested in bringing on “The Charge of the Heavy Brigade”, let them know at information@LightTheBridges.org.

“When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made!”

JM, thanks for the tip.

- Duck Sports News staff

[UPDATE: Addicted to Quack has a good follow-up to this story here.]

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After the debacle in Boise, Oregon needed some serious PR artillery.

And it looks like Head Coach Chip Kelly might have found inspiration from weapons manufacturer and industrialist Tony Stark, aka Iron Man.

To borrow a line from Mr. Stark:

“They say the best PR weapon is the check that you have to write. I say the best PR weapon is a check that you only have to write once. That’s the way Chip did it, that’s the way Oregon does it, and it’s worked out pretty well so far.”

With this check-fu move, Chip Kelly will not have to write another one of these checks.

Ever.

But do you cash it or send it back?

Make sure to catch “The Lead Block” with The Register-Guard’s George Schroeder and Jay Jones of DuckSportsNews.com every Oregon home-gameday from 7am to 9am on 95.3 FM “The Score” in the Eugene/Springfield, Corvallis, Albany, and Salem areas.

If you don’t want to miss anything on the DSN blog, make sure to bookmark or subscribe to the blog.

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Oregon football spring practice number four

Oregon’s defense ‘wins the day’ and dons the black practice jerseys. D-Line coach Jerry Azzinaro runs some tough drills. Coach Bellotti works on reads with QBs – and has some nice moves of his own.

Plus: why is Masoli wearing a hand warmer around his waist?

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