Annie

You reported on and said a lot more important stuff, but this made me laugh out loud: In addition to all of her other necessary attributes, Taylor brings one more: lip gloss. Lots of it. So much lip gloss, in fact, that you could wax your Chevy Blazer with it and still have enough left over to polish the coffee table in your living room. Interesting how ESPN and FOX applaud what their money helps to achieve.

Well, it's fun/not fun to speculate on what might happen conference wise, but I'm glad that I don't actually have to try to do anything about it. I'm hoping that the powers that be that do have to try to do something will come up with something that will pleasantly surprise us all. Fingers crossed.

Perhaps USC will get their revenge on Oregon this way, but the Trojans may very well not do any better in the expanded Big 10, maybe will struggle even more.

Well, except I don't think TX and OK were on board with that idea.

I wonder how that would work, as SEC schools seem reluctant to cross the Rockies.

and maybe basketball, but what will all the conference hopping that's happened and is to come do to the non-revenue sports? Football and men's basketball can afford (at least at present) to go all over the country to play, but what will having to travel to the Midwest and East Coast on a regular basis do to non-revenue teams on the West Coast? Hopping down to the Bay area or up to Seattle is one thing, but traveling to Iowa, Ohio, New Jersey every year? That's a lot more $$$. Will athletic departments be will to spend to keep non-revenue sports going?

I wonder how USC and UCLA fans feel about this, at least the ones who travel to an away game or two or four. Pretty easy to zip up to Cal & Stanford, fairly easy to get to Oregon and Seattle. Not such a quick trip going to the Midwest.

And how will recruits feel about this?

The California players at USC and UCLA may find it interesting playing in Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio in late October and into November on a regular basis. Brrr.

Wow. That will be so weird. Guess nothing stays the same forever. Wonder if the rest of the PAC will want to join with Big 10 to form a really super-sized (you want fries with that?) conference.

I wonder, over the years, when all is said and done, how much have the number of stars per player has mattered all that much once they starting playing in college?

The American Council on Exercise suggests an ideal body fat percentage for a female athlete to between 14% and 20%. One female athlete at Oregon whose body fat was 16% was told she should consider lowering it to 13%. Having too little body fat could impact muscle function and other body systems.

I think it's pretty much that. Women athletes allege body shaming within Oregon Ducks track and field program WWW.OREGONLIVE.COM Six former UO athletes say they felt devalued as individuals and at risk for eating disorders because of the program’s data-driven...

Not sure many basketball coaches would want to wear the bb uniform while on the sidelines.

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While I can understand the reasons why fans are no longer allowed to attend practices, I do miss the olden days when we could see for ourselves how the players are doing.

I've always thought the "the" was so silly, but to each his own.

On his twitter page it looks as if he has offers from Utah and Oregon State, among others.

After 1988, I think it was, when Musgrave broke his collarbone and the Ducks went through 6 quarterbacks due to injury after injury, I have always felt you could never have too many QBs.

Looks good, but looking forward to see how he does when there's a defense on field.

When DL came to Daisies he told about the Chinese bamboo tree, which takes 5 years to grow. It has to be watered and fertilized in the ground where it has been planted every day. It doesn't break through the ground for five years. After five years, once it breaks through the ground, it will grow 90 feet tall in five weeks! While he didn't say that was how the Ducks' path was going to go, I sort of concluded that's what he might have meant.

Consider this deleted. And Ryan Walk started out as walk on.

I thought stickers on helmets were a thing of the past! I think any helmet looks better without them. Love the Duck helmets, they are #1 with me.

Let's see. The PAC-12 already has night games, sometimes as many as 4 on a Saturday night. Most fans attending the games (and some of us watching at home) don't like them--I hate them. I will watch Duck games that are on at night, but not any other games. The day before Thanksgiving at 5 pm? Uh, no. Believe it or not, a lot of people are still preparing for Thanksgiving the day before. The day before Labor Day? I might watch then, but I like to spend Labor Day weekend at home--not sure those going camping, to the beach, mountains, etc. are looking to watch a football game. While I would be fine with a 9 am game, since I live in Eugene and am an early bird, I certainly understand why it would not be a good time for most fans attending the game.

Make the pants white and silver too and put a green stripe on the pants, a good look for an away game.