By Luke Andrews Oregon’s win Saturday in Eugene was, for many reasons, critical. Sure, it keeps Oregon alive in the Pac-10 and BCS races and the Ducks finally thwarted USC, which had won three straight over them – the longest by any Pac-10 opponent. If the Ducks weren’t on the nation’s radar for [...]
By TIM TROWER Someone asked me at midweek which I was going to choose, Oregon or Southern Cal, in our weekly feature, the Pick-It Line. Staff and readers predict the outcomes of football games and we list them in Friday’s paper. It’s become a popular item, so much so that friends and acquaintances often know better than [...]
By LUKE ANDREWS Though the Oregon Ducks are in the midst of a potentially historic football season, basketball is just around the corner in Eugene as well. The last time we saw the Ducks, they were giving a valiant effort but came up short in the Elite Eight against eventual tournament champion Florida in St. [...]
By TIM TROWER Oregon suffered a loss before it ever took the field at Washington on Saturday. Not in the win-loss column, but for its future, because news broke earlier in the day that a coveted quarterback who had been considering the Ducks committed elsewhere Jack Elway, the son of Hall of Fame quarterback John [...]
By KEVIN GOFF Instant gratification is the name of the game in college football. It’s the microwave syndrome. Get it done now, or get out. That’s why Rich Brooks was on the hot seat almost instantly upon his arrival in Lexington, Ky., for the 2002-03 season. Although this is University of Kentucky football (that’s football, [...]
By TIM TROWER I know there are a lot of Fantasy Football players out there. I’m in a couple leagues myself. This seems a nice place to rant about various FF topics, particularly the mind-boggling way some running back talent is being utilized — or not being utilized — by head coaches. The [...]
By TIM TROWER Cross country runners don’t get a lot of credit for being tough, but if you’ve ever seen a race, particularly the finish of one, you know how much pain they endure. That was evident at the State of Jefferson Saturday in Ashland, when hundreds of kids gutted it out in a number [...]
By LUKE ANDREWS Hello, loyal Mail Tribune readers. My name is Luke Andrews, and yes, I’m the newest member of the sports staff after the venerable Don Hunt recently announced his retirement. I clearly have enormous shoes to fill in Hunt’s absence, but I am honored to have that opportunity and can only hope that [...]
By MARK VINSON The clock has long since struck midnight, but the busiest place in downtown Medford on this, or practically any, Friday night isn’t one of the clubs along Central Avenue. It is in a corner of the Mail Tribune newsroom, where a staff of dedicated professionals is working frantically to put together a [...]
By TIM TROWER There’s a lot happening around the University of San Diego golf team, where Medfordite Mike Barry is a junior, and around the Barry family in general. Barry shot a round of 62 last week to tie the course record at The Farms Golf Club in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. The round came [...]
