The Oregon Ducks played an opponent out of the Power Five conferences for the first game of the 2021 season. It was a tune-up for the biggest game on the schedule: Ohio State next week. They were supposed to roll in, roll up the score, and bore us half to death with plays called and […]
WINNING MINDSET STARTS EARLY FOR WINNERS
November 27, 2020 by
A winning mindset starts before anything else. Get it locked in as soon as possible. I heard a variation on sports talk radio where a host and guest talked about professional athletes on losing teams. Big time pros never consider themselves losers; they’re good players on bad teams that don’t win. In other words, it’s […]
JUSTIN HERBERT HOPE: WILL THE NFL TRASH ANOTHER OREGON QB
April 18, 2020 by
Justin Herbert image via KCBY, Coos Bay, Oregon Oregon quarterback Justin Herbert joins a long green line of Duck signal callers headed to the NFL. How long a line? Who is in that line? Please proceed.
DRY JANUARY IN PORTLAND OREGON WITHOUT THE JITTERS
January 22, 2020 by
The first time I mentioned Dry January to a stranger, they corrected me. “I believe you mean Sober October.”
BITTER SPORTS TAKE VOLUME ONE: THE BAD BULLY
August 29, 2019 by
Today’s the day for ‘Bitter Sports Takes,’ a new feature here. What’s it take to make the bitter sports take? Look at Oregon, more specifically the Oregon Ducks of Oregon Duck football. Who remembers Auburn from nine years ago, and why does it matter? Sports history, my friends. Sports history.
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 […]
OREGON DUCKS vs COLLEGE FOOTBALL’S BIGGEST LOSERS
January 4, 2017 by
Any team the Oregon Ducks lost big games to qualify for this homer. Oregon Ducks vs Auburn, 2010. All these years later it feels like it’s time to move on from 2010, to get on with new teams and new eras. Not for this Duck fan. Like the alleged Russian hack of the 2016 […]
SEIZE THE DAY, WIN THE DAY, JUST DO IT
October 16, 2016 by
If you Win The Day, this is the day, not tomorrow. Former Oregon Duck Football Coach Chip Kelly coined ‘Win The Day’ and that’s what his Ducks did. They won the day, day after day, season after season. It almost felt like they really wanted Alabama. Current coach, and former Marshfield Pirate, Mark Helfrich, says […]
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 […]
HOW OREGON DUCKS SAVED COLLEGE FOOTBALL FOR ALABAMA
January 12, 2016 by
Alabama takes CFP Championship 45-40 over Clemson with TEMPO. By now alert college football fans understand tempo is code for Oregon in the Chip Kelly era. It wasn’t a travel accident that Kelly dropped in on the Crimson Tide last week. The coach now being called ‘toxic’ by NFL experts offered some tempo advice to […]
