Annie

(Please delete if this is not appropriate.) I'm looking for information on The Cooler restaurant near Autzen. How is the food? Prices? Is it a dive, or not a dive? Thanks!

I just kept checking in for the first 8 hours of today's rounds, but sat glued to my chair for the last hour!

SDSU made it to the championship game in men's basketball this year, so I'd say they're already at a pretty high level in that sport.

Yes, so they don't know any better.

Yes! I think that stadium is a pit! Worn, uneven stairs, narrow tunnels (took us an hour to get out the stadium after the 2010 Rose Bowl, because one--one!--tunnel was closed due to some sort of construction), you have to go outside the stadium for concession stands and bathrooms--and the bathrooms dreadful.

And I want to be a part of it as a fan.

I agree!

And this is why I want to scream when I hear people say that the rankings at the beginning of the year don't matter, that it's only at the end of the year. But where a team is ranked at the end of the year, as you point out, can be determined by how it and its opponents are ranked at the beginning of the year.

At this rate, I may have to settle for following only Oregon games--on the radio.

PD, I hope you will be out of the hospital soon, and back home and feeling well again.

Yes, I guess all PAC-12 teams would be with one streaming service. But then there would still be games from other conferences. If each conference would be on a different streaming service, that could get pricey. However, if games are on TV and streamed, then .

I don't know. When it gets so that, in order to watch all the PAC-12 games we want to watch (not to mention other conferences) that we have to pay multiple services, some of us (cough, me) might just say enough.

Oh, boy, 5:30 game late in November.

So glad you are feeling better PD! Hope you will be back home real soon.

I hope and pray that the doctors can find a way to knock out that viral/bacteria infection.

Ah, yes, those three were also great writers. I do have to say, though, that Newnham always bugged me with what I felt was his attitude about the huskies being superior. So I found it satisfying that when he moved to Seattle was also when the Ducks started beating uw.

So many great writers used to be at the RG. Just in sports we had Ron Bellamy, George Schroeder, Austin Meek, and many, many others. On Sundays (only one day after a Duck Saturday football game!) we could look forward to 4 pages of photos and articles. I started reading the local newspaper in CT, where I grew up, as soon as I could read. Okay, I started with the comic section--but isn't that in part what the comic section is for? To draw in young readers? As skimpy as the RG is now, I still read it. I also read Eugene Weekly. Print versions of both (except Saturday for the RG, when I have to read it online). My home town paper in CT had been published for 100 or so years before it stopped. Yes, I can get home town news online. But it's not the same. And does anyone publish wedding and birth announcements anymore? It's those "small" parts of life that matter as much as the big news. What did Kurt Vonnegut say? “Enjoy the little things in life because one day you`ll look back and realize they were the big things.”

If the BIG gets big enough, then eventually it may break into two conferences, because there will be so many teams that half of them will never play the other half!

I wonder if it's a health issue, if he is leaving. He did have a serious medical condition last year.

Kind of abrupt.

Thoughts, prayers, and good juju for Pennsylvania Duck and her husband!

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