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Big miss by the writer....(Only the fastest player!)

The NCAA is toothless. Congress is paralyzed. Schools making direct payments to athletes refuse to classify the recipients as employees, thus no opportunity to negotiate with a players' union. For today's student athletes and their agents, it's cake on the plate with a side order of champagne. What would athletes gain from a bargained agreement compared to what they would lose? I've got nothing. But in the long run, are college sports going to benefit from what could be a zero-sum game? Good luck, NCAA, Yuck, Yuck! Harsh memo. Action to follow? https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-tampering-ncaa-dabo-swinney/

The Fusky rowing team's main opponent in the 1936 Olympics was the Germans. Yet, the villain still won.

26 million folks tuned in to watch the Golden Goal and a goalie make Golden saves. USA Men's Hockey's Historic Olympic Gold Medal Win vs. Ca...The United States men's hockey team's 2-1 overtime victory over Canada to capture a gold medal in the 2026 Winter Olympics drew a large audience.

Is there a big gray area that can be used by “agents” to shop their player to other teams? We all know that if there is an inch of wiggle room, they will take a mile. Until someone is actually punished, it will continue. Seems like a monetary penalty would need to be huge to make it less appealing to the elite level boosters.

Today's CFB wide open free agency, direct payments to (student) athletes, and NIL, have buried this lede: 'Phil Knight and Nike are trying to buy a Natty for the Ducks.' Today's CFB Battle of the Billionaires has Uncle Phil's Ducks swimming with the sharks. And Tigers, Buckeyes, Hoosiers, Red Raiders, Canes, Golden Domers, Wolverines, and ... Badgers? On3 ($ wall) reporter Pete Nakos recently checked in with CFB General Managers (GMs) regarding the 2026 CFB transfer portal. Biggest Spenders, some of them B1G, in this order - LSU, a roster worth $40 million plus, Texas, Texas Tech, Miami, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Indiana, and the Badgers didn't back down when making offers to top-rated players in the portal. The GMs noted that 60% plus of transfer transactions were done deals before the players entered the portal. There's more poaching going on than the Sheriff of Nottingham had to deal with. And to date, no poacher has been drawn and quartered, hanged, or had their hand cut off. QBs who will be paid @$5 million in 2026-27: Brendan Sorsby - Indiana, to Cincinnati, to Texas Tech/ Sam Leavitt - Michigan State, to ASU, to LSU/ Darien Mensah - Tulane, to Duke, to Miami. Plus, Miami paid $2 million plus to Duke in a Mensah exit fee. Smart, Mensa-like move by Mario? We'll see. Players other than QBs, with deals of $2 million plus: WR Cam Cameron - Auburn to Texas/ Edge Damon Wilson, Missouri to Miami/ Taking the $0 out of O-line, $3 to $5 million for OT Jordan Seaton, CU later to LSU. The GMs' Favorite Portal Classes in order: Texas, Indiana, Texas Tech, Penn State, Ohio State, Week 2 opponent Oklahoma State, Ole Miss, Will Stein's Kentucky, South Carolina, VA Tech, Houston, and Texas A+M. Fret not, Forum Friends, OBD is No. 1 ranked in teams that best retained and added players from the portal - Oregon, USC, Louisville, Miami, Michigan, Georgia, Florida, Ole Miss, and (🤬) Washington. Big Ten teams are stepping up. Referred to in the article with kudos: Oregon, Indiana, Ohio State, Penn State, USC, Michigan, Wisconsin, and That Other School Up North. Among the teams mentioned in the article, in 2026, OBD plays at Oklahoma State, USC, and Ohio State, and plays Michigan and UW in Autzen Stadium Brother, can you spare me a dime?🤑

My employer had mandatory oran̈ge.coveralls provided for many years... I had a strange knack for "accidentally" ripped them in short order. Funny. I'm not normally that careless. My older brother kept inviting my son and I to got to football games in Seattle, to sit on a yacht with his buddy, who happened to be a high ranking fuskie administrator. Just couldn't do it.

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When living in Washington and attending a few Dawg/Duck games home and away I had a chance to compare the hatred of the Oregon and Washington to the IU/PUkes (purdue) rivalry. I would see the hatred, believe it or not, might be a little more intense back in the state of Indiana. Yet in 2003 I am sitting at Husky Stadium watching Gerry DiNardo's (BTN now) IU's Hoosiers play UDub. Of course Washington has won the game by early in the 3rd quarter, when a Husky fan stands up in the section next to the IU Visitor section and yells "**** IU we HATE THE DUCKS" and is waving a 10' pole with a duck hanging by a noose around it's neck .... it brought the loudest roar from the crowd the game had. Add on the Twitter posts I see now between Duck and Dawg fans ... I would say the hatred is real between you two ... but until you shut down an IU and PUke forum for two weeks due to personal threats in the Indy Star forum many years ago, the UO/UW hatred might rank #2. I understand not wearing colors of rivals. I follow the same policy. So Drake, it is not irrational excluding purple and orange from your wardrobe ... it just makes sense to do so with the colors of our rival teams.

The sports 'press' occasionally astounds with it's lack of thoroughness and presumably AI driven writing. The players listed in the article are fast and football quick. We've seen what DAK, Finney and DHill2 can do. Lott should be a beast. But Hill's 11+ time is not track fast. For heaven sake, how do you leave Bair and his 10.15 sec 100 meter time (as a HS junior, no less) off the list? You line him up with the other four, and he smokes them by several meters.

I would say that Riley is dangling by a thread of that rope and he better hope that highest paid recruiting class of freshman can play big time football fast.

I will add a third sport that has be watched live ... Hockey. As far as baseball, I agree. Luckily 4 miles from my house we have the infamous Frontier League Evansville Otters, played in the same stadium as Tom Hank's movie A League of Their Own was filmed. For college football I can watch that any time, any day, live or on tv and I seemed to be counting days until the 2026 season stars.

Gatlin Bair?

I recommend that Dana and Jackson go to Mars. Attorney Thomas A. Mars. Google him. 😁

Dakorien Moore, Jalen Lott and Finney Jr. all under 11 seconds in 100 meters. D Hill gathering their dust at 11.04 These Four Players Will Be the Fastest Oregon Ducks This Season

Lindsay granted. Shelstad applying. Dezdrick Lindsay gets medial waiver for another year, Oregon will try to get Jackson Shelstad one too Jackson Shelstad to seek medical redshirt after injury-plagued season

Why Dan Lanning Is Worth Every Penny for the Oregon DucksAfter a 13-2 record for the 2025-2026 season, Oregon Ducks coach Dan Lanning finds himself in the middle of the top 10 highest-paid coaches across the nation. Oregon Ducks On SIWhy Dan Lanning Is Worth Every Penny for the Oregon DucksIn the 2025-2026 season, the Oregon Ducks put in a 13-2 overall record and the first-ever Orange Bowl win in program history before reaching the College Footbal

The key to achieving Oregon's first national championship in 2026In short, the Ducks were explosive, but volatile. In some ways they were like a race car, capable of impressive speed, prone to glitches and breakdowns. The key to smoothing out their performance and executing with more consistency in big games lies with Dante Moore, specifically in his second-year improvement. Moore produced solid numbers in his first year as a full-time starter but had two terrible games against Indiana. Autzen ZooThe key to achieving Oregon's first national championship...Oregon's nucleus of senior leadership has marked them as one of the way-too-early favorites for the national championship.

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USA Today's Blake Toppmeyer article on Petitti's proposed 24-team playoff. I'm biased. But it seems to me that Blake's three arguments in support of the proposed PO make economic sense, and the three arguments against seem to be personal concerns over what he thinks could happen. I do like that Toppmeyer reminded everyone that last season, 8-4 Iowa defeated 10-2 Vanderbilt. I'll say it if he won't. Iowa played the more difficult schedule. College Football Playoff 24-team plan offers upsides — but not enough

Hmmm… Is excluding purple from my wardrobe irrational? Btw…I only wear orange when state law mandates it.

Yep. Some are wackos... My Husky Hatred is Irrational...is YOURS? (Pay no attention to who the author is)

Two things that are annoying within college football, the purple mutt fans in Seattle, and the trojan band. Have to laugh that Riley is at the end of his $10 million rope.

Agreed. It took 6 long years after the infamous “83 toilet bowl game” to finally muster enough wins to qualify for that bowl game. It put an end to the 26 year drought of sitting at home with no invites. They went 2-9 twice when I was at U of O. But, the rodents were one of the wins both times. Not the greatest year when that is what you hang your hat on for the highlight of your season. Two sports that must be watched live when you have the time, college football rivalry games, and baseball. The TV just doesn’t do either game justice.