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 [...]

We know, we know … this is ‘Merica (!), and we don’t care about soccer. But from the a-picture-is-worth-a-1,000-words department, West Brom’s Gabriel Tamas after a collision with a Manchester City player — to shamelessly quote the British — is bloody disgusting. *** Derrick Rose may not have made the best PR move when he [...]

Coach Robert Johnson and the Oregon track team cam now turn their attention to the postseason: The Pac-12 meets next week in Los Angeles, the west regionals in Austin, Texas and the NCAA championships at Hayward Field in early June. Towards the end of the Oregon Twilight meet, the Ducks recognized their 19 seniors, including [...]

De’Anthony Thomas once again scratched from the field, but fellow football players Dior Mathis and B.J. Kelley finished first and second, respectively, in the 100 meters at the Oregon Twilight. Mathis clocked a 10.70 with Kelly not far behind at 10.85. It’s the second-straight meet Thomas has scratched from. The sophomore also played very limited [...]

The Oregon Twilight kicks off today at 3:40 p.m. featuring Olympian Galen Rupp, among others. Oregon football players B.J. Kelley, Dior Mathis, and De’Anthony Thomas will be running the 100 meters. As the Oregonian’s Ken Goe reports, a late change has moved Rupp from the 800 to the 3,000. **** Oregon baseball opens up a [...]

Oregon baseball was fresh off a five game winning streak, including their first series win of the season against a ranked opponent, but slipped up during a mid-week two game series against Seattle, going 1-1. In the first game they were helped by freshman Mitchell Tolman, who had a career night with seven RBI. They [...]

Comfortable. That is the best word to express the atmosphere and play at Oregon’s spring game. With weather in the high 60s and sunny, T-shirt clad spectators were quite comfortable in the limited seating of Autzen Stadium. The first units on both the offensive and defensive sides looked comfortable, as Marcus Mariota chucked the ball [...]

With Marcus Mariota playing limited action and De’Anthony Thomas out of action, the spring game offered a chance for backups to take center stage. Jake Rodrigues and Jeff Lockie alternated leading drives down the field and after each stalled on their first few drives, both eventually found their grooves. Lockie matched Mariota’s 13 completions in [...]

Each week, the Emerald invites a student journalist from the Ducks’ opponent to write a guest column on why the Ducks will lose. With Oregon playing its first “game” without Chip Kelly in the booth or on the field since 2007, here’s why the Ducks’ bubble will burst and they will manage to lose their own spring [...]

Heading into the spring game and looking to next season, Oregon football is adapting to change. Head coach Mark Helfrich has replaced Chip Kelly, Scott Frost is taking over as offensive coordinator and Oregon has lost standouts on both offense and defense. Perhaps the biggest mystery lies in Oregon’s running game after the departure of [...]

The long-awaited spring game is quickly approaching. Not only will it be the beginning of the Mark Helfrich era, it will also be a great opportunity for incoming players along with second-year players who may not have played much last season to come in and prove that they belong on this team. Coach Aliotti is [...]

Spring practices continue to roll on as the Ducks prepare for the upcoming season. Players are getting back into shape and coaches are beginning to formulate their rotations as newly hired head coach Mark Helfrich begins a new era of Ducks football. But for one player, this offseason has been nothing short of a pleasant [...]

Oregon track and field faces its stiffest test of the season against the formidable Texas A&M. Here’s a closer look at how two of the nation’s best teams stack up against each other ahead of Saturday’s Pepsi Invitational at historic Hayward Field. 4 — Top four teams in the nation will compete — the No. 2 [...]

We won’t get to see any of this until the Spring Game, but here are three storylines from the training camp: 1.) De’Anthony Thomas becomes a first option De’Anthony Thomas had an explosive first two seasons with the Ducks but he’s always been a second or third option behind LaMichael James and friends. It’s not [...]

The weather in Eugene is in full capricious spring mode. Sunshine gives way to torrents of rain,followed by heavy gusts of wind. Then, back to sunshine. But Oregon’s track and field team will be ready to compete Saturday in the Pepsi Invitational regardless of the color of the sky. Fresh off recent successes at the [...]

Just less than three months after the Oregon Ducks defeated Collin Klein and the Kansas State Wildcats 35-17 in Glendale, Ariz., the Ducks returned to the practice field today for the first day of spring ball. While many faces present after practice were familiar, there was one obvious and glaring difference; Chip Kelly, after four [...]

During an event usually accustomed to mid-March sunshine, the 2013 Oregon Preview was instead filled with grey skies. TrackTown USA was cold and windy throughout most of the event, but there was a lone moment in which the sun came out to tease the home crowd of 4,402 for just a little while. Star football [...]

It was a cold, gray, drizzly day at Hayward Field on Saturday, but that didn’t stop the Oregon track and field team from impressing in front of 4,402 TrackTown USA fans at its first outdoor meet of the season. Though most of the Ducks who competed in last weekend’s indoor national championships sat the meet [...]