Whether you love it or can’t stand it, one thing is certain about the BCS system in college football; it was never boring. The upcoming 2013 season will be the last in the BCS era as college football will shift to a playoff format in 2014. While this change in format has been widely accepted [...]

Oregon track and field will compete in the NCAA West Preliminary rounds starting tomorrow in Austin, Texas. Oregon has 29 men’s entries and 23 women’s entries in the first round of prelims. The top 12 finishers in each event will earn of spot to compete at the NCAA Championships, which will be held in Eugene [...]

Oregon tight-end Colt Lyerla was named to CBS Sports’ Bruce Feldman’s Freaks List. He joins the ranks of Jadeveon Clowney and former Duck Lache Seastrunk as one of the top-20 craziest athletes in college football. At number 15, Lyerla’s paragraph in the article includes this video, which depicts the tight end’s massive vertical leap. *** [...]

Ducks baseball team has aspirations to play in the College World Series in Omaha, Neb. Coming within a game of the tournament last season, Oregon head coach George Horton and his squad entered 2013 with a College World Series berth as one of their main objectives. Earlier in the season, the Ducks looked poised to [...]

In addition to dropping two-straight games to Oregon State in the Civil War conference series, the Oregon baseball team also lost their once-realistic hopes of clinching the Pac-12 title. The Ducks are tied with UCLA for second place in the Pac-12 with four games left and are a full two games behind Oregon State. The [...]

After sweeping in the first regional round of the postseason, Oregon softball will again host a super regional this season. The Ducks will take on the Cornhuskers of Nebraska in a best-of-three series to start Saturday. Oregon is ranked No. 3 in the nation. See the details here. *** The preliminary qualifiers for the NCAA [...]

Oregon softball took care of business in their second-straight game in regional play as they took a 3-0 victory over UNC. Star pitcher Jessica Moore had her second start in under 12 hours but was effective as always. The Emerald’s Hayden Kim has a full recap. *** Oregon baseball will take on Oregon State in [...]

Oregon softball came out on top Thursday night in their first game of regionals as they beat BYU, 5-2. Oregon struggled at times but, as they have come to expect, were helped by a strong game from pitcher Jessica Moore. Moore, the Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year, threw her 12th complete game of the season. [...]

The Ducks teed off at the NCAA Tallahassee Regional Thursday morning in Tallahassee, Fla., as they compete for one of five spots to advance to the NCAA Championships in roughly a week and a half. After shooting an impressive 280 in round one, the Ducks sit in a tie for fourth place with Georgia Tech and [...]

The Oregon softball team kicks off postseason play at Howe Field on Thursday, where they will face off against BYU at 6 p.m. The Cougars enter today’s game with a 33-23 overall record and are making their ninth-straight postseason appearance. However, Oregon has been dominant this season, especially at Howe Field. The Ducks won all 16 of [...]

It looks as though the Holiday Bowl is in for a bit of a shakeup starting in 2014. According to sources, the Big Ten Conference is close to finalizing a deal with this bowl that would end the bowl’s previous relationship with the Big 12. The supposed deal would last six years and would allow [...]

With a walk off RBI single in the bottom of the ninth from Ryan Hambright, the Ducks grabbed a win over Gonzaga Tuesday, 4-3. The Emerald’s Aubrey Wieber has a full recap here. The game was the first of the Duck’s two-game home series against the Bulldogs. The second game will start Wednesday at 6 [...]

Oregon baseball (40-11, Pac-12 19-5) begins a midweek, two-game series with West Coast Conference leader Gonzaga (32-6-1, WCC 18-6) Tuesday night at 6 p.m. at PK Park. The Ducks enter the series ranked 10th nationally by Baseball America and 6th by both Collegiate Baseball and the USA Today Coaches Poll. The second game of the [...]

Following the tragic death of Oregon tennis player Alex Rovello, the School of Journalism and Communication in conjunction with the Oregon athletic department, is providing transportation to his memorial service in Portland on Saturday. Rovello, a 21-year-old journalism major, died on Saturday as a result of a cliff diving accident in Tamolitch Falls. *** One [...]

Oregon baseball traveled to Ohio State over the weekend, and swept the Midwestern team. The Ducks are now 12-1 in their last 13 games and 40-11 overall. Freshman Cole Irvin pitched his third complete game — shutting the Buckeyes out, 4-0 — and went on to receive the Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week award. Oregon [...]

Five in a row for the women, seven straight for the guys — that is Pac-12 track and field titles we are talking about. The athletes from Eugene snapped up dual championships in Los Angeles this weekend. *** The University of Oregon softball squad is on a roll right now, winning the Pac-12 title, and [...]

No. 6 Oregon (34-11, Pac-12 16-5)baseball heads across the country to play a big series against Ohio State (32-15, Big Ten 14-7)this weekend. The series with the Big-10 school is the first of a home-and-home series that will be played over the course of two seasons. While the team has a wealth of veteran leadership, non have [...]

The No.2 Oregon softball team fell yesterday to Arizona State, 3-2, in game one of their away series in Tempe. The series is the Ducks last of the regular season before heading into post-season play. Oregon had a six-game winning streak heading into the game. Their two runs were due to the efforts of sophomore [...]

The Pac-12 is arguably the pinnacle in the world of softball. From powerhouses like UCLA to this year’s Pac-12 champion Ducks, the conference has definitely proven its worth in the realm of softball over the course of its history. But among all the great players, coaches and teams lies two potential candidates for USA Softball Collegiate [...]

The Champions League Final is among the toughest tickets to get in sports. With Bayern and Borussia Dortmund fans scrambling to get tickets for the May 25 match, some have been jumping at tickets that seemed way too good to be true. When they got them in the mail, the fans learned they’d bought tickets [...]