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Zone Read AM: Oregon track and field kick off preliminary action, Urlacher announces retirement

By on Wednesday, May. 22 at 4:19 pm.

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 [...]


Zone Read PM: Colt Lyerla featured in national list, Oregon baseball rained out

By on Tuesday, May. 21 at 5:05 pm.

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. *** [...]


Zone Read AM: Oregon baseball struggles down stretch, Larry Scott highest paid commissioner

By on Tuesday, May. 21 at 3:31 pm.

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 [...]


Zone Read PM: Ducks baseball unlikely to clinch Pac-12 title, OSU pitcher Andrew Moore named Pac-12 pitcher of the week

By on Tuesday, May. 21 at 12:36 pm.

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 [...]


Zone Read AM: Oregon softball moves on, track prelims ahead, Pistorius speaks

By on Monday, May. 20 at 10:21 am.

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 [...]


Zone Read PM: Softball cruises past UNC, baseball takes on Oregon State

By on Saturday, May. 18 at 12:10 pm.

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 [...]


Zone Read AM: Softball wins first regional game, men’s golf tied for fourth going into round two

By on Friday, May. 17 at 4:01 pm.

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. [...]


Zone Read PM: Oregon men’s golf tied for fourth at NCAA Tallahassee Regional, Raven’s Rolando McClain retires

By on Friday, May. 17 at 12:26 am.

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 [...]


Zone Read AM: Oregon softball kicks off postseason play today, Beckham to retire at end of season

By on Thursday, May. 16 at 2:13 pm.

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 [...]


Zone Read AM: Oregon baseball earns win in game one against Gonzaga, Hasay wins Pac-12 Scholar Athlete of the Year

By on Wednesday, May. 15 at 4:11 pm.

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 [...]


Zone Read PM: Oregon baseball begins set with Gonzaga, track moves to No. 3 in nation

By on Thursday, May. 16 at 10:56 am.

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 [...]


Zone Read AM: SOJC to provide transportation to Rovello’s memorial, a look at the Oregon special teams unit

By on Tuesday, May. 14 at 2:22 pm.

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 [...]


Zone Read PM: Irvin wins Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week, Chip gives former Duck Will Murphy another shot

By on Tuesday, May. 14 at 1:27 pm.

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 [...]


Zone Read AM: Men and women win track and field Pac-12 title, softball high seed for postseason

By on Monday, May. 13 at 2:21 pm.

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 [...]


Zone Read PM: Baseball and Softball take action, Casey Martin takes second shot at US Open

By on Friday, May. 10 at 10:58 pm.

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 [...]


Zone Read AM: Oregon softball’s loss to ASU ends six-game winning streak, more replay in college hoops a possibility

By on Friday, May. 10 at 10:42 am.

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 [...]


Zone Read PM: Jessica Moore finalist for college softball Player of the Year, MLB acknowledges mistake

By on Thursday, May. 9 at 4:37 pm.

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 [...]


Zone Read AM: German fans buying tickets for wrong game, Heat fan really doesn’t like Joakim Noah

By on Thursday, May. 9 at 3:19 pm.

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 [...]