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Speaking of Larry Scott’s legacy, whatever happened to the “missing” few-hundred-thousand in ad overpayments?

…rankings of Oregon liens…? Are the Ducks putting liens on players? Or, do dumb Huskies’s fans get their words mixed up?

Whew! For a moment there, I thought the sanctuary had been breached. Thank you, Charles!

Flip ‘em, Dano!

“They’ve been hard on me, especially Dan Lanning,” Flowers noted. “The head coach is really on me, the whole staff really likes me and they’re texting me every day, calling me and FaceTiming me, and showing true love.” These coaches are good at it! It's gotta be exhausting.

We've got an Ozzie, sending up banana punts...clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose!

I’m blocked, too.

More details in this account: Receiver Traeshon Holden reinstated to Oregon Ducks football team WWW.OREGONLIVE.COM Holden was reinstated following the decision by the Lane County District Attorney’s office not to...

Assuming there are no other issues (something we on the outside will never know), he should be reinstated to the team.

With those charges, there's no way he should stay on the team. Good job, Lanning.

MLS (Major League Soccer) is conducting a real-life experiment/jump-into-the-deep-end with streaming in just a few weeks. Apple + will stream all league games, as an extra-cost package on top of the monthly Apple subscription fee. Only one or two marquee match up games per week will be broadcast on Fox. As a Portland Timbers fan, I'm not wild about this, and I'm not yet sure if I'll pony up the funds. All Timbers' game have until now been available on local television/cable. I really don't care about watching teams and games that I'm not interested in; I just want to watch the Timbers games. But, to do that I have to pay for the ability to watch all the league games.

Starting to appear that Mario’s sales pitch fails once you’re older than about 18.

Get used to it: all the SoCal recruits will be heading to Eugene soon, because there isn't going to be any water down there. Like they say, ducks to water...

Considering that USC has brought in a good class, this sort of hysterical over-reaction is especially amusing. I like the guy in the image quote who doesn't know the difference between "who's" and "whose".

I wish I had been as thoughtful when I was 18 as Pleasant seems to be.

Charles, that makes me wonder if, in general, recruits let the winning schools know in advance about their decisions. Or, do coaches find out by watching the the announcements along with everyone else?

FWIW, all the predictions for Harbor on Duck Territory are for South Carolina.

It's always all good in Mario-world until the games actually start.

Now we’re talking!!

According to Canzano, the results of the audit were given to Dixon back in 2017, as well as to Scott.

I would never deal with a lawyer named Woodie.

What will Larry do? He'll hire lawyers for himself. This thing makes no sense though. Wilner's article says only Comcast can determine how much they should pay because the size of the payments is based on data only Comcast has access to. If that's true, how can Comcast claim they overpaid, and continued to do so for years, if they used their own data as the basis of the payments? I'm confused. In any event, that was some, at best, shoddy management going on down there. What else will come out?

This is going to blow up.

Why are years-old “overpayments” surfacing now? Could this have anything to do with it? Fox looking at how it paid for other rights? https://www.usnews.com/news/sports/articles/2023-01-18/testimony-lays-bare-soccers-biggest-corruption-scandal

I think this is going to be a big story. Even in today's world, $50 million is a lot of money, and it went somewhere, likely somewhere it wasn't supposed to go. The two fired execs are not accused of personally keeping the money, which raises even more questions as to where the money went. Did no one else notice the extra $50 million over the years? "Overpayment" is a strange term; what does it mean? How can a "distribution partner" (FOX? ESPN?) overpay, year after year, without some sort of arrangement, likely illegal, on both sides, the conference and the partner? Whaddaya got to say about this, Larry? Have you already lawyered up?