Former Duck Jenny Mowe, now playing for the WNBA’s Portland Fire, was injured, fined and suspended after an altercation with Seattle rookie Lauren Jackson.
Who says there aren’t any sports in the summer?
Sure, all the Oregon teams have packed up until their seasons start. Yes, there’s no football games to go to yet, not even any practices for at least a couple weeks. And surely Mac Court is gathering dust as we speak.
But that doesn’t mean there’s no Oregon sports going on. What with former players getting down and dirty, Duck coaches competing on an international stage and football season poking its head through the cracks, there’s enough going on to fill a whole article.
Welcome to the middle of summer.
City of Roses turning into Mowe-town?
Former Oregon women’s basketball player Jenny Mowe has been making an impression on the WNBA. Big time.
Mowe, playing for the Portland Fire, went face-to-face with Seattle Storm rookie sensation Lauren Jackson two weeks ago, and Mowe won the battle of the big women — sort of. Mowe threw a punch at Jackson after the two players tussled at the top of the key late in the first half of the game on Friday, July 20. The officials gave Mowe a flagrant foul for the incident.
Two days after the game, Mowe was suspended for one game by the league and fined $250. She was fined an additional $300 for the flagrant foul.
Tuesday, Mowe was placed on the Fire’s injured reserve list with a strained left rotator cuff.
Remaining Duck football
tickets to go on sale
While Oregon has yet to sell out of tickets for the 2001 football season, the Ducks are close to putting their ticket-seller out of business.
The Athletic Department has announced it will release all remaining football tickets Wednesday starting at 8:30 a.m.
Reserved seating is available for only one game: Sept. 8 against Utah. Standing-room tickets are available for matchups with Wisconsin Sept. 1, Southern California Sept. 22, Stanford Oct. 20 and Arizona State Nov. 3.
All tickets are sold out for the Ducks’ Civil War with Oregon State Dec. 1.
If Oregon sells out of tickets for the season, the Ducks will boast a string of 16 straight sellouts.
Student tickets are released two weeks before each home contest. The first date to pick up student tickets for the Wisconsin game is Aug. 20.
Single-game tickets will be available at the Casanova Center Ticket Office or by calling (541) 346-4461 or 1-800-WEBFOOT.
Kent’s Dream Team ready to play
Oregon men’s basketball head coach Ernie Kent has been working hard with his team this summer.
Kent’s summer team doesn’t have any Ducks on it, however. It’s filled with Blue Devils, Bruins, Eagles and Jayhawks.
The Oregon coach is an assistant coach for the U.S.A. World Championship For Young Men Team, which will compete at the FIBA World Championship for Young Men Tournament against teams from around the world.
The U.S.A. team includes many big-name college players from around the country, including Duke’s Chris Duhon and Carlos Boozer, Kansas’ Nick Collison, UCLA’s Jason Kapono and Boston College’s Troy Bell. The team is coached by Syracuse legend Jim Boeheim.
The tournament is being held in Saitama, Japan. The U.S.A. squad will begin competition against Croatia Friday and continue through Aug. 12 if it can make the medal games.