Charles Fischer

The picture I referred to as "perfect" is in today's analysis article on the front page. Just so gorgeous!

It is good for me to be writing again, and in particular, doing an analysis article again. Lots more in there than just analysis, since former DC Nick Aliotti gave us some hints as to what to look for this next season. More of these coming this summer!

Thanks to the people who donate to the sites so that between their money and advertising--I have enough to pay for all the tech work and photographers...I'm sure some wonder how it all comes together. Well, it is a ton of time coordinating things, and then you have these talented people doing their skills in an extraordinary way. Above is (Red Arrow) FishDuck Photographer Tom Corno checking his digital camera after an Oregon touchdown. I got this from a screenshot off the digital version of the game, but screenshots are not the quality that a pro like Tom provides with pictures. Look at the photo he got from his positioning in the end zone. Look at the vivid colors, and how the audience behind makes an ideal background. That, to me, above, is a perfect picture. So beautiful and timeless, and it makes an old-fart Oregon fan like me wistful. So many times we are to enjoy the roses in life, but as an intense Duck fan? What you see above brings me so much joy, and so much appreciation for the work of our photographers. God bless everyone who helps this site for the benefit for so many thousands of people reading!

A blacked out stadium looks VACANT on TV. So stupid... Yell-O looks best...

My favorite photo of him and Ronnie Lee....

Ducks headed to Santa Barbara Regional EUGENE, Ore. – The Oregon baseball team will make its fourth consecutive postseason appearance starting on Friday. The Ducks were selected as an at-large team and will play in the Santa Barbara Regional along with UC Santa Barbara, San Diego and Fresno State. The Ducks (37-18) open the regional on against San Diego (40-13) on Friday at 12 p.m. on ESPNU at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium. No. 14 UCSB (42-12) faces Fresno State (33-27) at 6 p.m. on Friday in the other first round game. Winners on Friday advance to play on Saturday at 7 p.m. while the two losers meet in the first game of the day at 1 p.m. Oregon is 38-26 all-time against the tournament field including a 32-19 record in the modern era of Oregon baseball. The Ducks own a 12-5 advantage over the Toreros with all but one of those games coming since 2009. The Ducks and USD last played last season when Oregon swept a four-game series in Eugene. Oregon and UCSB have split their all-time series with both teams winning 11 times. The Gauchos won two of three against Oregon earlier this year while Oregon swept UCSB in a four-game series that last time the two programs met in Santa Barbara in 2021. Oregon holds a 15-10 all-time series advantage over Fresno State, including a 10-5 record against the Bulldogs since 2009. The Ducks and Bulldogs last played in 2019 when the two squads split a four-game series in Eugene. Oregon is making its 11th all-time appearance in the NCAA Tournament. The four consecutive appearances matches the longest stretch in school history with the Ducks also qualifying four straight seasons from 2012 to 2015. The Ducks have two regional championships winning the Eugene Regional in 2012, while also winning the Nashville Regional last season. Santa Barbara Regional Field No. 1 UC Santa Barbara (Big West Champions) No. 2 San Diego (West Coast Conference Champions) No. 3 Oregon (At-Large) No. 4 Fresno State (Mountain West Champions)

I am so sorry. Truly a fantastic representative of the conference, and while I was not a fan of his broadcasting at times--he was truly a champion for the conference. This was way too soon for him, and we will miss him.

I am beside myself. Oregon got a Regional No. 3 Seed? This means the Ducks were not in even the top 32 teams in the nation, when we spent so much time in the top 20? Only three Pac-12 teams got into the tournament, and this proves what I feared; had USC upset Arizona in the Pac-12 Tournament title game (it was 3-3 going into the ninth inning) then the third Pac-12 spot would have been taken by the Trojans, and bounced the Ducks out. (Oregon missed winning the regular season league championship by one game) Oklahoma was a National No. 9 seed, a team Oregon beat at the beginning of the season. Grand Canyon is in the Tucson Regional as the WAC champion, a team that Oregon beat easily twice earlier in the season. Santa Barbara is a No. 14 seed, and we played a series with them at the beginning of the season and lost two games to one while we were figuring out our pitching. Good team, but better now than Oregon? The Ducks played San Diego last year, so there is familiarity with the regional for Coach Waz. The coach at UCSB, Andrew Checketts, was a great player at Oregon State, and was a pitching coach at Oregon for years under George Horton. If the Ducks win this regional, they would go to face the No. 3 national seed Texas A&M in College Station. We can do it! The B1G got three teams in, as the Pac-12 did, but NONE of them were nationally ranked as the Pac-12 teams were. Indiana 32-24, Nebraska 39-20, and Illinois 34-19 represent them. The Ducks beat the No. 2 National Seed last year, so let's go to work! We will see Ian Umlandt this next weekend...

A very cool article, and averaging 11 points in the Indiana series while shooting over 50% from the three-point line? Whew! Former Oregon Men's Basketball All-American Payton Pritchard an NBA Postseason Force WWW.SI.COM Fueled by a year spent watching from the sidelines, Boston Celtics guard Payton Pritchard is determined to help the Celtics return to the NBA Finals.

A very informative article David, and I thank you for explaining the rule and many different implications. While I agree that teams that best afford the technology will benefit, I also believe that the knowledge and skill of the quarterback, and the tendency of the OC to place confidence in that quarterback will also be the difference among teams. Cristobal, for example, would not allow a QB to over-ride a play-call. Yet Dilly and Stein had that confidence in Bo Nix that created many great matchups and explosion plays as a result. So indirectly, teams that will benefit most are those with good QB coaching, and a more lax policy to staying-on-the-called-play. Great stuff to ponder David, thanks!

OK, so Oregon is in Tier One, and it will help pay for one NIL...

A CFB player was reported to have been given a $120,000 truck, and I wondered..."have they got THAT expensive?" Never thought I'd see the day...

Damn Green in Eugene? I LIKE IT!

The one that got away....

Whoa! Some serious talent here that I think we have forgotten about!

Oh, and BTW....our percentage of violation posts is still incredibly low. Less than HALF of One-Percent of all posts are hidden as violations. (Actually about 4/10ths of 1% is all) Those are mostly new people getting adjusted to civilized conduct as we all did when joining. And we have locked the Spammers out with all the money spent on tech changes to registration. Cool!

USS Enterprise (CVN-80), the third in a line of prominent Navy aircraft carriers to bear that name. The Gerald Ford-class nuclear-powered Leviathan is scheduled to enter service as early as 2028. But the origins of America's next Big E carrier actually began in 2012 with the decommissioning of CVN-65, the second Enterprise carrier. May history never forget the name....ENTERPRISE!

You end up getting a big portion of that stuff here for free. What they are really paying for is timing at the subscription sites. They hear it first, and then a day or two later--the free sites report it. Thanks for the feedback, as I enjoy all the voices in this community.

I got to say, that I’m still shaking my head at the number of people who visited the two sites last year. 368,000? Almost precisely in between a quarter and a half million people? Pretty amazing! We got something special here…

My FishDuck Friends, as a newly single man, I cannot help but wonder if I am big enough to impress? Does the size of my websites matter? I thought I would have some fun with looking at the metrics of last year, 2023, and pass them along to you. I know I am impressed with them, but you know beauty-and-the-beholder, thing. What I have below is the combination of both the FishDuck.com article site, and the Our Beloved Ducks forum. The number of users on both sites: 368,000 Wowsa. This was a surprise that so many came to the two different sites last year, and it shouts to what this fall will bring! Total page views: 3,078,000 Holy Toledo! Over three million pages viewed between the two sites? Whew! Total Visits by all: 1,200,000 People were on the sites a ton! Average duration of visit: 6:28 minutes Top Ten Countries of Readers: United States, (96%) Canada, Germany, Mexico, China, Guam, United Kingdom, Portugal, France, Costa Rica. Some Observations: 1) For a fun set of quiet sites...we were bigger than I thought. Now we are much smaller than the two huge subscription sites, but when you take into account the thousands of small mom-and-pop and retail sites--we compare pretty impressively. 2) Too bad I cannot leverage it into something beyond just paying-the-bills. But we would have to be 10 times bigger to be a commercial entity. 3) I like our size, as it is just-right. And I love this community!