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THE SUN DEVILS SHOCKER OVER OREGON

November 26, 2019 by

The Sun Devils did their best to ruin Oregon’s playoff run. And they did it during my first visit to Frank Kush Field. As a sports fan, I had great seats for the biggest football game of the year. My takeaways from the night were more than game results. To start, the Ducks and Sun […]

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American Football Matters More Now Than Ever Before

October 1, 2017 by

    American football players at every level are our betters. From Pop Warner to the NFL they show us how to get up after being knocked down, how to play after a painful hit, and how to listen.   Even with helmets and pads and identifying uniforms, American football is a hurting game. Helmet […]

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High School Football Explained For Better Understanding

September 18, 2017 by

    It doesn’t take a genius to understand the risk of playing high school football. But if you need a genius to explain football from top to bottom, ask retired Baltimore Raven John Urschel.   He’s enough of a genius.   At the old age of twenty six he hung his jock on an […]

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OREGON DROPOUT TOO HIGH? KGW SAYS YES

May 18, 2017 by

  Oregon students drop out of high school more than any other state? Education statistics work to show progress, decline, indifference. You’ve seen those graphs. Chances are good these aren’t dropouts analyzing the data. They are smart people working the numbers. Depending on the point being made, the numbers are the name of the game. […]

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THE REAL WESTERN AMERICA OUT HERE IN OREGON

April 12, 2017 by

The real Western America isn’t Texas or California Readers around the world see the American west through movies. From John Wayne in his cowboy costume, to private eye Jack Nicholson in LA’s Chinatown, to policeman Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry franchise, they view the west through a distorted lens. Forget about the red rocks of Colorado, […]

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ONE POINT LOSS ENDS OREGON DUCK SEASON

April 2, 2017 by

    The last game of the year turns Oregon Duck season sour at Final Four Get to the Final Four and lose, and you’re a loser. Get to the championship game and lose? You’re still a loser. If you don’t defend your championship the next season you’re a loser. See how often you can […]

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NORTH BEND BULLDOGS WIN BIGGER THAN FOOTBALL

November 28, 2016 by

A win for North Bend Bulldogs reaches across decades. A hundred years from now North Bend Bulldogs will remember the first football championship. Two guys more than forty years out of uniform explain: “This is a big deal?” “A huge deal. Yes. That big.”

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THE ELEVEN TIGERS OF 6A FOOTBALL

November 26, 2016 by

The 6A Football Semi-Final. “Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again.” That was Grantland Rice in 1924 writing about college football. “In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. They formed the crest of […]

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OREGON DUCKS FLOCKER ROOM REVEALED

October 10, 2016 by

Not quitters, not winners, who are the Oregon Ducks now? Local sports radio reported a split in the Oregon Ducks locker room. If it’s a split, that means there’s two locker rooms. The winning side is the flocker room where the team builds a winning culture; the other side is a college locker room, any […]

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KING OF THE HILL IN NORTH BEND, OREGON

January 9, 2016 by

People know the place when you say you’re from North Bend. Ask someone where there from and you expect one answer, one place. Then you get this: “I grew up all over the place.” Hear that and know you’ve got someone ashamed of where they’re from. They know the name of their town, they just […]

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