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Given that the NCAA has mastered in inertia since its inception, filing for bankruptcy is unlikely, add in that even though it is standard practice, the NCAA is so thin skinned, bankruptcy is probably out of the question. The NCAA has fed on low hanging food forever, wouldn't touch the UNC classroom scandal, but ripped Reggie Bush's Heisman away over his parent's and a car. Vacating wins is the silliest punishment ever conceived; the NCAA loves it.

The unbelievable weekend generated an unbelievable result in the D1Baseball polls for Our Beloved Ducks. They went from No. 16 last week to No. 6 in the nation, while Oregon State dropped from No. 3 to a very respectable No.7...having to Duck-below their rival in Eugene in the poll. What is interesting also is how the west coast has three teams in the top 10, (as does the ACC) and I am not sure I have witnessed both Oregon and Oregon State in the top ten EVER at the same time. I am sure I will have a press release coming to me soon about the historical significance of this week's poll. Regardless, it is a proud moment for College Baseball in the state of Oregon! The only other team ranked in the top-25 from the B1G is No. 14 UCLA, while Iowa is unranked. I assume it is because the majority of their wins are against sub-.500 teams, but it will get settled when the Ducks travel to Iowa City for the final three-game series of the conference season in three weeks. D1Baseball Top 25: Texas remains No. 1; chaos reigns throughout rankings • D1Baseball D1BASEBALL.COM While Texas remains the No. 1 team in the land, the rest of the rankings are filled with carnage after a tumultuous Week 11. For the first time EVER...they feature a picture of Oregon Baseball at D1Baseball for their lead rankings article! That is Cole Stokes exulting at a key strike-out late in the second game... My Duck-Buddies....I NEVER thought last weekend would happen, as I hoped for a split between the four games in order to have a chance at hosting a NCAA Playoff Regional Series. But now...if we keep winning most of our remaining games--we have a shot at hosting a Super-Regional? Holy Crap!

Wondering about that too. Beavs were No.3, their highest of the season, OBD at No.13, their highest. 13 sweeps 3 at home? I'll go Beavs drop to 6, OBD to 10. So, not 8 yet.

Pretty awesome, wish I could have been there this past weekend, sounds like it was a great environment. Going to be interesting to see where the Ducks are ranked. It's a huge win for the quest to hosting a regional. I'm pretty doubtful we can get into the top 8, but I do think we could get a regional.

JPJ adds a helping hand Las Vegas Raiders Jackson Powers-Johnson Recruiting 5-Star Jackson Cantwell To Orego WWW.SI.COM Five-star offensive line recruit Jackson Cantwell visited the Oregon Ducks over the weekend for the team's Spring Game, and it was...

Oh Boy! Troy contributed 3 of the picks, but is spot-on when it comes to the ramifications of the Power 2 dominating the draft. Big Ten and SEC dominate the 2025 NFL draft TROJANSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Much like all of college football in 2025, the NFL draft was dominated by the “Power Two” conferences. It will lead to discussions about the system The argument against the Power 2 having four teams each in the PO is as 'sound' as the Beavers and Wazzu blaming Oregon and UW for the demise of the Pac-12. The better questions to ask: Why is the B12 assured of two PO spots? And shouldn't the ACC be guaranteed one and a half teams?

I see the Ducks just went 1 slot ahead of the Beavs in the rankings. Lovely Isn’t it? Great weekend for the Ducks. I wonder if Beavis is upset. Makes me want to Shout.

ND, I, along with many others, do not believe the House settlement will curtail NIL in any meaningful way. It could have done so, but not with the cap on what schools can pay directly to their athletes. It's the same old, same old: the NCAA is trying to control the benefits that 'student-athletes' can receive. And the idea that seven accountants are going to decide on what is 'reasonable' when it comes to every NIL deal $600 and over will hold up until the first deal that is found to be 'unreasonable.' How can any lawyer advising the NCAA opine that this nonsense will withstand a legal challenge? How can any lawyer advising Georgia and Oregon not see this? It's the same Fantasyland the NCAA has been living in for decades, especially since losing its college football broadcast monopoly courtesy of Georgia and Oklahoma. Why Georgia and Oregon are supporting this so-called settlement is beyond me. Why should programs capitalizing on their success with better media revenue agree to the same direct payment cap as programs not in the same league financially? The remedy to escape the House jury's potential $2 billion plus judgement, should the case go to trial, is for the NCAA to file for bankruptcy and automatically stay the House proceedings until the NCAA is liquidated or reorganized. Yes, the NCAA can file for bankruptcy. The NCAA does not manage the P4 and G6 football playoffs. The P4 and the G6 can regulate sports free of the NCAA and its over 1,100 members. And also conduct other playoffs with invitations to teams outside of the P4 and the G6. The House settlement does nothing to control 'unrestricted' transfers that, coupled with NIL and poaching, has the college moneyball sports in chaos. Sorry for another rant on the subject. I don't Get It! I can see this, and I am far from the smartest lawyer who practiced bankruptcy law back then and today.

Predicting . . . Defensive depth chart post spring game Predicting Oregon football defensive depth chart after Ducks' spring game DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Projecting what the defensive depth chart looks like for the Oregon Ducks football after the annual spring game over the weekend. And the Offense Predicting Oregon football offensive depth chart after Ducks' spring game DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Projecting what the offensive depth chart looks like for the Oregon Ducks football after the annual spring game over the weekend.

Feb.21, 1970 Oregon 78 UCLA 65, the headline on the Register-Guard the next day "Who's Number 1 Now?" Stan, Billy Gaskins, Bill Drozdiak over UCLA and Sidney Wicks, Curtis Rowe, Henry Bibby, Mac Court was craaazy!!!

Busy day for Bryce Boettcher. Spring football game and then throws out the ceremonial first pitch in the baseball game against the Beavers. Bryce Boettcher Throws Out Ceremonial First Pitch After Oregon Ducks Spring Game WWW.SI.COM It truly was a busy Saturday for senior linebacker Bryce Boettcher. After the spring football game at Autzen Stadium, the No. 403 pick in the 13th round of the

Which players' stock improved most at Oregon football spring game Which players' stock improved most at Oregon football spring game DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM A bunch of young players flashed at the Oregon Ducks' spring game on Saturday, with these players doing the most to raise their stock.

No. 13 Oregon completes sweep over No. 3 Oregon State with Sunday victory Oregon brought out the brooms on Sunday, taking down Oregon State 3-2 to sweep the weekend series. No. 13 Oregon completes sweep over No. 3 Oregon State with Sunday victory

Oregon's Spring Game was a great spectacle for fans and recruits alike on Saturday.

Discussing an unexpected standout from Saturday's Spring GameHUGE DEVELOPMENT: Oregon quarterback Luke Moga SHOWED huge progress at Ducks' Spring Game

Great Duck. I always thought his kid would be a Duck but he chose the Bruins instead. Kevin is a beast. Great family of athletes. May Stan rest in peace.

Brock got nearly three times that amount last year in signing bonus and Ladd's signing bonus at the top of the second round was also higher than Beck's reported NIL. But many of the guys drafted in rounds 5-7 can only dream about making the money next year that Carson Beck will pocket. One such player is Quinn Ewers. Had he opted for the portal rather than the NFL draft, He'd have made at least three times as much actually playing football for a good college team than he will as a 7th round draftee carrying a clipboard on an NFL sideline and maybe hoping for some mop-up duty in a blowout. Jon what say you about the likely House settlement? Do you believe this will bring some sanity to NIL payouts?

I stated going into the UCLA series that up to that time...for every team we played....we were the hunted, the ranked team they wanted to beat, and everybody raised their game when they played us. I was hoping that facing a higher set of ranked teams in No. 10 UCLA and No. 3 Oregon State, that we were now the hunter--and it would inspire our best efforts which would not only win games, but allow the team to see their true upside. And THAT is what happened!

I think it is difficult to judge QBs when personnel are divided between two different offenses. It takes time for a starting QB to get in sync with the starters, much less players that will probably be on the sidelines most games. To me, It looks like our defense will be formidable, and the offense will need game time to gel. As far as slipping on the turf, I think some players are amped up and trying to defy physics. These guys are strong and fast, and want to show they belong. With more playing time those slips will diminish.

Now that was an excellent weekend of baseball! Super excited for this team to go out and be able to adapt to the game. They played small ball when needed and then they went on a huge run of consistent batting to mass a 13-1 pummeling in game 2. Followed by another pitching duel in game 3. The Ducks held the Beavs to 5 runs in 3 games while they racked up 20 runs. This is a testament to some excellent pitching, feilding, batting and base running, played 3 complete game with few to little errors. Can't forget to mention the coaching. The biggest difference in the 2 close games was game strategy and the manufacturing points off of minimal hints with minimal base runners. Every part of this team was firing on all cylinders this weekend. Now go out there and do the same on Tuesday.

Most entertaining spring game since Marcus’ coming out party imo. Feels like we have 4 good QBs, but it’s always fun to watch people fall in love with the backup(s). I left the game feeling like we had a pretty clear #1 based upon upside and clear arm talent. Not trying to knock Novasad, as I think we’d do great with him, but he was 5 of 9 with the bulk of his numbers coming on one pass. I’m not drawing any conclusion from that. I’ll be surprised if we don’t lose him though, he seems very capable of being a starter on a top-20 team. My biggest takeaway is that it would be shocking to not win at least 10 games. The offense will do Oregon things no matter who is at QB, and I think the D will be as good as ever.

Kevin Love announces his father’s passing. One of the all-time greatest Duck B-Ballers! Miami Heat's Kevin Love announces passing of his father WWW.SUN-SENTINEL.COM

A brutal day for golf on the Baltimore Country Club course that was designed by noted golf architect A.W. Tillinghast and opened in 1898. Tillinghast was involved in the design of 256 golf courses, including US Open tracks Winged Foot, Bethpage Black in New York, and Oakland Hills in Michigan. Closer to Eugene, AW designed the Lake Merced, Presidio, and San Francisco Golf, Stanford Golf Course, and the original Monterey Peninsula golf course. courses. Today, 35 mph plus wind gusts made the course close to unplayable. Play was stopped for a few hours on Saturday due to the wind that made it impossible to mark a moving ball on the green. UCLA's Omar Morales at 7 under won the individual title. OBD's Grayson Leach finished 2nd at 4 under. Gutty effort by Leach, who shot even par, on a day when Leach and Morales were the only golfers to shoot par or better. UCLA Men’s Golf Wins First Big Ten Championship BIGTEN.ORG UCLA Men’s Golf Wins First Big Ten Championship Make no mistake, this was UCLA's first attempt to win the title as a B1G member. This was not the Big Ten's first Men's Golf Championship. The first Big Ten Golf Championship was played in 1920. I hope OBD will receive an NCAA invite, but I doubt it. OBD's women's golfers are definitely in the NCAA title hunt.

Sweep! Ducks Beat Beavers Again on Sunday EUGENE, Ore. — Oregon baseball has been searching for some consistency. For three days, at least, the Ducks found it, with historic results. The UO baseball team completed a sweep against a top-three opponent for the first time Sunday, with the No. 13 Ducks beating No. 3 Oregon State, 3-2, before the third consecutive sellout crowd at PK Park. Oregon came into the weekend playing .500 baseball over its previous 14 games, but finished off its first sweep of OSU since 2021. “It's huge,” said UO senior first baseman Jacob Walsh, who homered in all three games. “I think it shows everyone how good we really are. It's a good weekend to start building off of going into the end of the season.” The Ducks (30-12) came from behind Sunday, with Maddox Molony driving in a run after Walsh’s fourth-inning homer to make it 2-1, before Molony’s second homer in as many days provided much-needed insurance in the sixth. That made a winner of Jason Reitz (2-0), and Santiago Garcia earned his second save as the UO bullpen got the last six outs after OSU made it a one-run game again. “That's a good team that we played, and we were able to win today and get a couple more on the weekend to beat a good team,” UO coach Mark Wasikowski said. “So, yeah, I think that was probably good for our guys to be able to see that and see that we can win a lot of different ways.” Jason Reitz How It Happened: After Reitz faced the minimum in the top of the first, the Ducks struck out three times in the bottom of the inning against OSU starter Ethan Kleinschmit — kicking off a game in which Oregon struck out 17 times. But as Wasikowski said, they found a way regardless. Reitz temporarily lost command with two outs in the second, walking four straight batters as the Beavers took a 1-0 lead. Wasikowski said the coaching staff was considering a pitching change to start the third, but Reitz lobbied to stay in the game, and UO pitching allowed a lone solo home run the rest of the way. “I’m so proud of the guys,” said Reitz, who allowed only one hit and the one run over five innings. “It was so fun to be around, and I think that's a really good step for us. Everyone came in with the mentality of just getting after it and not backing down from anyone.” The Ducks were hitless with seven strikeouts through three innings. That all changed in the fourth, when Walsh ambushed the first pitch of the inning for his UO-record 54th career homer. “I got that one pretty good,” he said. “That was a nice one.” Oregon continued to take advantage of opportunities on the basepaths, as Drew Smith followed Walsh’s homer with a walk, was bunted to second and stole third. Molony then gave Oregon the lead with an RBI single to center. Santiago Garcia celebrates his final strike vs. Oregon State Ian Umlandt replaced Reitz to start the sixth and pitching around a leadoff single. Molony made it 3-1 in the bottom of the inning, with a two-out homer in an inning when Kleinschmit struck out three more Ducks. Umlandt left after a leadoff homer in the eighth, and Cole Stokes came on to preserve the 3-2 lead. Seth Mattox and Garcia combined to pitch the ninth, in front of a jubilant PK Park crowd that produced so much noise Garcia had to step off the mound at one point because he couldn’t hear the pitch call in his ear. “It’s awesome,” Garcia said of pitching in that atmosphere. “Man, coming from JUCO with like 24 people watching us and going straight to here, it was pretty good.” Garcia entered with one out and a runner on second before retiring the side, striking out the final hitter of the game. Up Next: The Ducks play at Oregon State on Tuesday (5:30 p.m., Pac-12 Insider).

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