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Thunder No. 55, Isaiah Hartenstein is the son of former Duck basketball player Flo Hartenstein (played 112 games in late 1990's) Both Isaiah's parents: Flo and Theresa were U of Oregon students. Older sister Jasmine and Isaiah were born in Eugene where mom Theresa held the family together while Flo played in Germany. Then, reunite in the off-season. After playing, Flo became a coach in Germany. Isaiah moved to Germany with mom and Jasmine when he was 11.

On the other hand, Brandon Arrington chose Tex A&M, which is 90 miles to Houston. College Station/Bryan may be more diverse, but not dissimilar from Eugene in size. And, four-star defensive lineman David Schwerzel, the No. 2 recruit from Washington joins the Bruins class one week after the No. 3 recruit in the Evergreen State, Ramzak Fruean, committed to UCLA

Would be interesting to see a list of decommitments, or close but not successful commitments, the Ducks have encountered in the last six months. Is there a trend, aside from presuming a player was offered a higher NIL? Here's some I can recall: Wesley to Austin Greene to Seattle Topui to Los Angeles Williams to Los Angeles Mulitalo to Salt Lake City (Provo) Tofi to Bay Area Tafa to Seattle Colman-Brusa to Seattle I'm sure there are other names, particularly in the close but not cigar category. But, looking at that list the one common thread is city size.

"So, after spending a Saturday watching Big Ten football games… I wanna tune into the CW Network to watch Colorado State versus Texas State in the evening?" Well, it didn't work so well either when it was Arizona vs Cal on the Pac12 Network or ESPN. Or, UCLA vs Oregon State. Or, WSU vs Stanford. etc. at 7:30 - 8:00 pm starts Pacific on Saturday night. I suspect the New Pac is going to see quite a few Thursday and Friday night games starting in 2026, in an attempt to garner viewers whose eyeballs aren't glazed over from watching football since 9:00 am. Maybe even earlier Thurs/Fri starts than 10:30 pm Eastern.

Dan Lanning and the Oregon Ducks have extended a scholarship offer to Xavier Berry, a 6-foot-6, 260-pound offensive lineman from Puyallup, Wash. Berry's weight might be considered light for a college offensive lineman, but it's understanding for his age, as he will be entering the eighth grade in the fall. 247Sports shows that Berry has scholarship offers from Washington, Sacramento State, San Jose State, and the Ducks. Remember when Kiffin at USC offered a couple 8th graders? 8th-grade wide receiver accepts USC scholarship offer - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Wide receiver Nathan Tilford, who's yet to start high school, has accepted a scholarship offer from USC. He's not the youngest player Lane Kiffin has ever offered.

Memphis last conference distribution was $11 million. But, there is unequal distribution in the AAC, and Memphis received the most. Based on performance such as Tournament and bowl participation apparently. The distribution that year also included money from the SMU buyout when they went to the ACC. I don't think Memphis can see this as a money play. It would only be if they feel it would put them in the best Group of 6 conference with a CFP possibility. Likely football only with the other sports staying east such as the Big East for basketball. And if that happened, the Pac would still need Texas State first as an all-sports member. 4 football road games in the West also would not make an easy nut to crack to win the Pac9.

30,890 - Tex San Antonio 27,135 - UNLV 20,609 – Tex El Paso 16,771 - Memphis 5,163 – Gonzaga <2,000 – St. Mary’s

A Google search will lead to more aluminum bat stories than anyone could read in a week. But, this one was interesting because it claims one Ducks player was using wooden. Why does college baseball use metal bats? NCAA history, rules on bats heading into CWS WWW.KNOXNEWS.COM Why does college baseball use metal bats instead of wooden ones? Here's a look at the history of metal bats in college and...

Seeds to Omaha 3-seed Arkansas 6-seed LSU 8-seed Oregon State 13-seed Coastal Carolina 15-seed UCLA Louisville (from 1-seed Vanderbilt) Arizona (from 12-seed Oregon) Determined on Monday Duke (from 7-seed Georgia) or Murray State (KY) (from 10-seed Ole Miss) Don't know much about the others, but Beavis definitely has a shot. A bunch of teams who will be sitting at home looking at this field say'in "damn, it coulda been us."

June 8 - Arizona, the Eugene winner, just beat N. Carolina in the Super and is headed to Omaha. So, far on Sunday morning, 8 of the top 16 seeds have lost their home regional or Super Regional. If there was a year when the Ducks might have squeezed into Omaha, this might have been it. Darn.

short excerpt from a column in The Athletic on June 3 USC added five-star tight end Mark Bowman, who plays for Southern California power Mater Dei, to its 2026 class on Friday. That was a significant pickup for the Trojans, who have the No. 1 class in the country. Bowman is also the third USC commit from Mater Dei this cycle. Mater Dei has long been a traditional pipeline program for the Trojans, but that well dried up in recent cycles. USC hasn’t signed a Mater Dei prospect since the 2022 recruiting cycle, which was Lincoln Riley’s first as head coach. As we open June, Texas’ 2026 class is ranked 26th nationally in 247Sports Composite. Oregon is 27th. Auburn is 33rd. Michigan is 38th, and Alabama is 45th. Each of these programs finished in the top 10 during the 2025 recruiting cycle. Oklahoma, South Carolina, Nebraska, Florida and Missouri all sit outside the top 35 of the national rankings after signing top-25 classes last cycle. Kentucky ranks 91st after signing the No. 29 class in 2025. updates here: 2026 Recruit Football Team Rankings June and July have become the most important months on the recruiting calendar. (Illinois, Kansas and Rutgers all have top-15 classes at the moment), but things don’t start to feel real until June and July, when the heavy hitters put in the most work to build their classes.

I think former assistant Jimbo Fisher was 1-5 vs Saban. Relative to Lombardi, sometimes it is really hard to beat an established program when it plays less than 30 miles from home.

contact above the waist... Uh, when the catcher drops to his knees, how is that avoidable?

As everyone thinks about the umps, keep in mind the home plate ump called him safe. It was the NCAA review crew somewhere that made the call after a several minutes delay while they checked Aunt Polly's Cookbook for an interpretation.

Oregon Ducks go down in first round of Eugene Regional to Utah Valley WWW.OREGONLIVE.COM The host Oregon Ducks received a mostly strong performance from pitcher Jason Reitz, save for two innings that ultimately cost the Ducks.

Losses today by Top 25 D1Baseball.com ranking (not seed): 6-5 Utah Valley vs 5-Oregon 6-4 S. Mary’s vs 8-Oregon St 11-4 Columbia vs 12-S. Miss 9-6 Murray St vs 15-Ole Miss 11-6 E. Carolina vs 17-Florida 11-2 Miss State vs 19-Northeastern 13-1 USC vs 22-TCU 4-2 ASU vs 23-UC Irvine 5-4 Miami vs 24-Alabama 11-4 Creighton vs 25-Kansas

Temporarily on ESPNNews not ESPNU

This will be Penn State's fourth straight home game. While Oregon is playing Beavis the week before, PSU has a bye. 5 of PSU's first 6 games are at home. 2 of their final 6 are at home.

The early season Apple Cup in Seattle in 2024 was Peacock.

Canzano has a core readership that laps up his woe is me Pac2 columns. They are repeaters on every column he writes on the subject. They consistently comment about how terrible Oregon was to abandon the Pac while ignoring the sequence of USC>UCLA>Colorado being the first to head out the door. Rarely do people who affiliate themselves with WSU complain about the defectors (which I call escapees) and almost never solely target UW with their ire. The Beavis readers have PTSD (Pac Terminal Separation Disease) When the $21M CFP shares kick in during 2026, Oregon's Big Ten conference share will be well worth the jump even during a period of partial media share. archive.ph ARCHIVE.PH

3 men's sports, 3 women's - and seems to be the sports with most D1 schools participating. Not meant to diminish other sports such as men's wrestling, but wrestling for example has much fewer schools participating and what would be the women's equivalent to make 4 men's, 4 women's?

"Oregon State had more Power-4 teams scheduled in the early season" It would be interesting to see their record at the end of the season based on opponent's RPI. They did drop to No. 8 which maybe is a clue, but in comparison to teams that got the 9, 10, 11 seeds how would Beavis compare? The "big wins" over Iowa turned out to be not so much. Iowa was leading the B1G entering the final week, and wasn't picked as an at-large.

The 16 sites pretty much followed the RPI at Walter Nolan's website...except he had 16-Florida and 17-Oregon. Florida didn't make it for a regional. Likely because the ratio of wins vs losses in Quad 1, and losing early in the SEC Tournament.

Oregon vs UCLA at 6:30 PT on May 29.

Four states are home to 2 regionals: Oregon, Tennessee, S. Carolina, Mississippi. Not sure I could have guessed any of them at mid-season. Perhaps the Vandy and Tenn combo.