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Yep, this is what I was responding to.... ".... the conference (B1G) has been horrible in baseball forever. I honestly think they might care more about Wrestling and Hockey (nothing wrong with those sports btw). " Aside from 2019 Michigan, it had been since 1966 Ohio St. 58 years is almost forever in today's short attention span sports. laugh And, wrestling and hockey are indoors.... I suspect in those earlier years of short seasons (i.e. 27-6-1) they weren't going to "pre-season" tournaments in Arizona, Texas, Florida. That 2019 Michigan team played a bunch of games in Florida, S. Carolina and California before it played its first one in Ann Arbor. But, other B1G teams have as well. One since 1966 is still a long time for the B1G.

A big influence affecting college baseball that began about 1960's was length of season which in the early years didn't start until April, then mid-March. Now games are being played in February. 1966 Ohio State champs were 19-5-1 then played 10 games in the "regional" and Omaha to claim the title with 27-6-1. By 1970, USC champs were 45-13 after Omaha. Tennessee, the 2024 champ was 60-13. Weather, and game experience, started having a big impact on development of teams prior to Omaha. And the kids that loved baseball thought the best place to nurture that love was in a warmer climate.

NCAA baseball champs with current B1G connections 2019: Michigan runnerup 2013: UCLA champs 2010: UCLA runnerup 1998: USC champs 1995: USC runnerup 1978: USC champs 1970-74: USC 5-time champ 1968: USC champ 1966: Ohio St champ 1965: Ohio St runnerup 1964: Minnesota champ 1963: USC champ 1962: Michigan champ 1961: USC champ 1960: Minnesota champ, USC runnerup 1958: USC champ 1957: Cal champ 1956: Minnesota champ 1953: Michigan champ 1948: USC champ 1947: Cal champ

Tough situation for Oregon player... Oregon baseball player suffers major spinal injury while weightlifting WWW.OREGONLIVE.COM Cole Fisher is on the road to recovery after a scary incident in early February. His remaining medical expenses will be covered by UO.

Top 25 this week. Texas A&M LSU Tennessee Arkansas North Carolina Georgia Florida State Florida Oregon State Virginia Oregon Wake Forest Clemson Vanderbilt Texas Oklahoma Duke Mississippi State Dallas Baptist Santa Barbara Troy Southern Miss Cincinnati Ole Miss TCU 11-SEC 6-ACC 2-Big12 1-B1G 1-Pac

SDSU's AD has said networks will be announced by end of March, then an 8th football member to qualify for CFP eligibility. To me, 8 is not enough. That would be just 7 conference games and 5 holes to fill on the schedule. If other major conferences enter into cross conference scheduling alliance, not sure where the Pac could find attractive opponents for stadium seat sales? Rumor this morning is that ESPN family may be interested in up to 18 games in 2026. Obviously that would likely mean Saturday night games, and slots on Thursday/Friday. And, TNT for a streaming option. With Texas State a nose ahead of other options for the 8th member. ESPN has recently extended agreements with ACC and BigSky conferences. Has the SEC, and a partnership with the Big12. ESPN would be good for the Pac. Though it is cable only - not over-air broadcast - it would still be best option for exposure. And, since ESPN has their hands in the CFP contract it might help provide some leverage when the CFP wild card pick is made.

Appears this is 2025 record for B1G travel games East? 4-3 - Oregon (in 3 losses, 2 were back-to-back on Michigan trip; but OSU/PSU and IA/WISC were back-to-back wins) 2-5 - USC 2-4 - Washington with 1 more to go (Wisc) 1-4 - UCLA with 2 yet to go (Purdue/Northwestern)

USC coach complains after loss at Rutgers. MSN WWW.MSN.COM

Ducks were delayed getting out of Madison, but will be back in Eugene about 6:00 pm local time today.

Defense. The Badgers 66 pts in regulation was the fewest since a 64-67 loss to Michigan on December 3. That was also Wisconsin's only other loss at home this season.

Big Ten today 12-11 Rhode Island at Oregon 2-1 Notre Dame at Iowa 3-2 Oklahoma at Minnesota 8-7 Western Carolina vs Maryland 6-4 Niagara vs Purdue 10-4 TCU at Michigan 2-0 Stanford vs Washington 4-3 Texas Corpus Christi vs UCLA winners: Ohio St, Michigan St and Nebraska at 7:00 pm, not yet complete: Rutgers & USC are both 1-run games on the scoreboard two canceled games: Penn St & Illinois

It's the opening game of a 4-game series hosting Rhode Island. Rhode Island scored 7 in the sixth, and 4 in the 7th. Lead 12-9 headed into top of 9th, after leading 12-4.

Ducks now 14-1 entering Saturday morning's final game at Cathedral City tournament. Will face ranked Missouri at 9:30 am. Home opener vs San Diego next Friday. 4 tournament games so far, four wins: Cal - ACC Tennessee - SEC Utah - Big12 San Diego St - Mt. West

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If that's him in the photo, he resembles the infamous pitcher Sidd Finch.

I live far enough away attending the Spring "Game" is often a last minute decision depending on weather and whether there is a battle for skill positions. That being said, Oregon has been lucky to have decent size crowds which means some revenue from concessions. And, quite a bit of donations to the Lane County Food Bank. The latter especially would be a downside of discontinuing. From a practice standpoint, these teams dumping the public scrimmage can still have a closed scrimmage to evaluate players. I think a scrimmage would be a more motivating end of 15 practices than skill challenges like cone runs. It also means some easy content disappears from various in-house conference networks that will have to be replaced with alternative programming.

USC joins Nebraska and Ohio State calling off its annual spring football game WWW.LATIMES.COM USC coach Lincoln Riley won't host a spring game giving fans an early look at the team, joining other coaches fending off the poaching of players.

Man, both of those late calls that went to Iowa were close. Looked to me like the ball was clear of Shelstad's fingers for the 3 before time expired. The out of bounds ball didn't really have a conclusive camera angle between the two hands. Home court officiating means something. Lesson is you can't let the game be that close where a call could have decided the game. The inconsistency of individual players game to game has to be driving Altman nuts. Iowa last two seasons: 19-14, 14-12. Indiana may not be the only one with an opening - maybe. Longest tenured coaches 1995 - Izzo - Michigan St 2005 - Painter - Purdue 2010 - Altman - Oregon 2010 - McCaffery - Iowa

An interesting but largely irrelevant stat: In the ACC, the distance from Boston College to Miami is essentially the same as Los Angeles to Lincoln, Nebraska.

Feb. 18... The Ducks started their second East trip this morning (Tuesday) heading to a game at Iowa on Wednesday evening. They then stick around, I assume, for a game at Wisconsin on Saturday. The Ducks will be at an Iowa airport which is close in distance to Mahlon Sweet is to Corvallis. The Ducks have two Wed - Sat trips this season. Iowa - Wisc 175 miles, earlier MSU - Michigan 64 miles. The tail end includes playing on a weekend, and traveling on a weekend. Though with a Tuesday departure, they could miss classes Tues - Fri. The other trip was Thurs - Sun schedule. Again, involved a weekend. Ohio St - Penn St What Cronin was bitching about a few days ago was a two game set Tuesday and Friday which meant being gone 5 week days.

architectural renderings https://gcr.uoregon.edu/sites/default/files/maps_7_14.pdf

2024-2025 Construction Updates | Eugene Science Center EUGENESCIENCECENTER.ORG

Oregon men's Basketball visit on same trip 64 miles - Michigan - Michigan St 175 miles - Iowa - Wisconsin 320 miles - Ohio St - Penn St - and I believe the men and women traveled together on that trip one offs: at USC, at Minnesota, at UCLA, at Washington That's 4 trips for 7 games. at USC, at UCLA, at Washington would have happened before. UCLA's Cronin was complaining about missing class time, but the reality is most trips include a weekend for football and basketball. He was yapping after a trip that combined visits to Illinois and Indiana and missing several class days. But, that was an unusual trip that was weekdays in the same week. That is not common. Either they involve weekend days, or like Oregon's visit to Minnesota on a Saturday, the next game was home on Thursday.

Fox Super Bowl had 59 commercials. 2 were pharmaceutical companies. Both "issue advertising" (cancer) rather than promoting a particular drug. Pfizer and Novartis placed the ads. That being said, anytime a network loses an advertiser they have to seek replacement revenue for that 24 hours whether it is a sporting event or not. Advertisers target the demographic of the audience - thus a lot of beer commercials for sporting events.

These were the numbers on both the 14 and 16 format. Like the first link, you have to click on the second Dellenger tweet to see the whole table. There is a lot of "meat" to ponder in the first link. Probably not preferred reading for fans of the Pac2.