Charles Fischer

3-1, USC after six innings. Featherston in for relief.

0-0 after five innings!

0-0 after four innings. RJ Gordon has been studly thus far, and the team looks sharp on defense.

0-0 after three innings.

It could be a lot worse, as we could have a short week prior to playing at Wisconsin! Or at MICHIGAN.

Damn. 4-2 Utah after seven innings,

Good grief. She proves what I've said for years...."this OBD community knows more football than the vast majority of media pundits, present company included." Yep, she is the smart one at the bar...

2-2 after six innings, as Brock Moore went about 73 pitches to slowly build his arm, and perhaps be available for the final on Sunday? Logan Mercado is pitching now...

2-2 after five innings.

1-1 after four innings.

We will take a run on an error!

Tomorrow is win or go home vs. USC at 2:30 on the Pac-12 Channel. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oregon leads 1-0 after three innings, and wowsa, as surprises all the way around. Utah saved their Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year to face us after losing to USC yesterday 7-6, and he is tough to hit! The Ducks have a surprise of their own, starting reliever Brock Moore today! Clearly Oregon is trying to save their best for later, and has confidence in Moore. Thus far he has all three of his pitches in control between his 97 mph fastball, a nasty slider, and just struck out a star hitter with a potent breaking ball that really drops. But wait! There is more! Stanford went 2-0 in their pod beating Oregon State today, 2-1 and thus advance to Friday's semifinal while the Beavers go home... There is a shot of Oregon hosting a Regional series if we can win the Pac-12 Tournament. Nasty is right!

I LOVE this, as the curiosity about Oregon will be high before the Ohio State game, and we should have a lot of eyeballs watching. If we beat Ohio State, then the interest and eyeballs will be even more. What a great way to build our audience immediately!

Well, they call it 3-1 because they did not finish the last match where Oregon was leading. I guess once a team gets to three--they end it.

Too bad, but Final Four in two of three years is pretty darn good. SIDEARM Integrations GODUCKS.COM The Ducks came up one step short of the national title match on Tuesday, dropping a 3-1 decision to UCLA in the match play semifinals at the NCAA Championshi...

For HC Derek Radley to get to the finals in 2022, (lost to the ‘Furd 3-2) and now the Final Four? Two Final Fours in three years? Imagine how hard that is in football or basketball or any sport! Whew!

Note they play UCLA later today, not tomorrow. Long day!

This is fun to follow! All four Pac-12 teams advanced to the National Semifinals! Ducks Down LSU, Advance to NCAA Semifinals CARLSBAD, Calif. — The Oregon women’s golf team is one win away from the national title match after defeating No. 2 seed LSU, 3-2, on Tuesday morning in the quarterfinals of the 2024 NCAA Championships at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa. The No. 7 seeded Ducks advance to play No. 6 seed UCLA in the semifinals later on Tuesday, beginning at 1:15 p.m. PT. Golf Channel will have coverage beginning at 3 p.m. Oregon got two points from its two seniors, Ching-Tzu Chen and Minori Nagano, before freshman Kiara Romero won her match on the 18th hole to send Oregon into the semifinals. “I’m so proud of our group for coming together,” head coach Derek Radley said. “Our two senior leaders stepped up and put two points on the board, and our three freshmen are fighting like crazy. So honored and so proud to be going back to the final four.” How it Happened: Nagano wasted little time to secure Oregon’s first point of the day, immediately picking up a 1 up advantage on the first hole. Her lead remained 1 up until the sixth hole, where she won her first of six straight holes to move to 7 up through 11. She halved her next hole and put her opponent away, 7&6. Chen held a 3 up lead through 14 holes, after winning back-to-back holes to start the back nine. A pair of impressive birdies by LSU’s Carla Tejedo Mulet brought Chen’s lead to 1 up through 16, but Chen halved each of the final two holes to win, 1 up. LSU pulled the match even with a pair of wins in the third and fourth pairings, leaving Romero on the course against LSU’s Aine Donegan. Romero was trailing through the first eight holes before winning No. 9 to pull even, and she picked up another win at No. 10 to go 1 up. After Donegan tied the match again at No. 13, Romero bounced back to win No. 14 and move back in front. Donegan made a long birdie putt at No. 15 to put the pressure on Romero, but Oregon’s star freshman responded with a birdie putt of her own. Romero again drained a birdie putt at No. 16 to move to 2 up with two holes to play. Donegan responded with a birdie at No. 17 to cut Romero’s lead to 1 up, but Romero made par on No. 18 to lock up Oregon’s spot in the semifinals. What it Means: Oregon reaches the NCAA semifinals for the second time in program history, and will look to return to the national title match after finishing as the NCAA runner-up in 2022. The semifinals features only Pac-12 teams, with the winner between Oregon and UCLA advancing to face either Stanford or USC in the championship match on Wednesday afternoon. NCAA Quarterfinal – Oregon 3, LSU 2 Ching-Tzu Chen (Oregon) def. Carla Tejedo Mulet (LSU), 1 up Minori Nagano (Oregon) def. Taylor Riley (LSU), 7&6 Latanna Stone (LSU) def. Ting-Hsuan Huang (Oregon), 3&2 Ingrid Lindblad (LSU) def. Karen Tsuru (Oregon), 4&3 Kiara Romero (Oregon) def. Aine Donegan (LSU), 1 up

OK...that is a very legit point. Where would we be without superior recruiting? Where would Lanning be without the portal? The rebuild would have taken twice as long... A conversation like this demonstrates the impact that each coach made to the future of Oregon football, and THANKS to Ryan for the fascinating topic!

Oregon was down 3-2, but is now leading 3-2, but by thin margins. Check the progress right here! All four quarterfinal matches have a Pac-12 team in them, with three of them going to the B1G later...

The link works for me, but UNDEFEATED?

Long story short...Delta is adding flights to Portland and Eugene for the big game versus Ohio State. Has that happened before? Is Autzen going to be OVERRUN?

It is pretty hard, because without Brooks....nothing happens and we are in the fix that OSU is in. Yet Belotti raised the bar, and Chip made us a household name...and Lanning makes us all believe that the final step is finally achievable. Phil Knight was approached often by Brooks and Bellotti, but would not take part until Oregon went to the '94 Rose Bowl and '95 Cotton Bowl on their own. Winners want to work with winners, and our two coaches had to do it on their own first. Even when he joined...he was not the major donor of the first major project; the Indoor Practice Facility was named and primarily funded by Ed Moshofsky, a former Oregon player who founded a timber company. Ed Moshofsky