Charles Fischer

Yeah, Baby!

He was the best player in Idaho when recruited, and the coaches made a very big deal about it. Since then--Will Stein has mentioned often how he creates difficult matchups for defenders; Sadiq can block the smaller, faster defensive backs who can cover him on pass patterns, but Sadiq can burn linebackers on pass routes when they are assigned to him to stuff the run-blocking. He is quite the hybrid-player, and I expect do see more plays with him.

My tech guy was supposed to do that and a couple of projects a month ago. But some more urgent projects were jumped ahead of me, and I have to wait my turn. He dropped everything to help me when the site went down for two days in April, so now I have to let emergency situations with his other clients stand ahead of me in line.

Oregon was not the only one hosed by the NCAA again, as Oregon State was given a No. 15 National Seed, when they had been No. 5 or No. 6 for most of the season? No. 15? Oh wait...wasn't UC Santa Barbara, where Oregon is going the 14th National Seed? They were ranked higher than Oregon State? And within that Corvallis Regional is UC Irvine, who hovered between No. 12 and No. 18 for most of the season....placed in the same regional?

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!