Ding dong, the witch is dead. Oregon State’s star quarterback Sean Mannion will be undergoing a knee surgery of indeterminate length, which takes away a large part of the threat that has put the Beavers at 4-0, and made them the Gonzaga of this college football season. @@checked@@
While my first response to this story is Duck Schadenfreude, I can’t honestly take too much joy from this in the long run. For starters, I was really looking forward to a Civil War between two top-15 teams. But also, with John Boyett and Carson York and Brandon Roy and Greg Oden, someone needs to find out if there’s a contagious knee condition sweeping Oregon. @@http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schadenfreude@@ @@http://www.goducks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=500&ATCLID=1550409@@ @@http://www.goducks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=500&ATCLID=1550510@@ @@http://espn.go.com/nba/player/_/id/3225/greg-oden@@
On to the links.
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The Emerald’s own Dash Paulson delves into the tangled webs that make up the current status of the EMU.
Sam Stites’ article about what it would take to get DirecTV and Pac-12 Networks to become friends reveals “a whole lot.”
“We find DirecTV’s position baffling,” reads a Pac-12 statement in the article.
Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber and three former governors all oppose the new casino proposed in this fall’s ballot measures 82 and 83. @@http://www.johnkitzhaber.com/@@
Oregonian columnist John Canzano writes about being bored by Oregon’s latest trouncing. He calls the victory over our friends in purple and gold “a small splat on the side-view mirror” of “the speeding football tour bus driven by Charles E. Kelly.”
The unemployment numbers dropped 0.3 percent, but because no one expected it, it’s proving to become a big boon for President Obama. The conspiracy theorists aren’t having it, and are now accusing the president of fixing the stats in his favor, quickly proving to backfire on their attempt to unseat the president.
Over the weekend, one Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz and William James O’Reilly were in a pay-per-view debate which is still available online to watch recorded live. I haven’t caught it yet, but I plan on doing so if anyone would be willing to go in on the $4.95; this Salon review just makes it sound too good.
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And, for our northern neighbors, lest we forget…
