Electric. Lightning in a bottle. Maybe more often than anything else — fast. Sophomore De’Anthony Thomas has been called these and more in his short athletic career as a Duck. In fewer than two full years, the Crenshaw High School product has earned Heisman Trophy buzz, two BCS wins and a Sports Illustrated cover. And [...]

As the Ducks continue their streak of BCS Bowl appearances over the past few seasons, the University has perpetuated its own tradition of delegating an official party of faculty, administrators and students to represent the University in special service projects and recruitment events centered around the bowl game.

Three NFL teams — the Bills, Eagles, and Browns — sent representatives to Arizona to meet with Oregon head coach Chip Kelly with aspirations of luring him to the NFL. All three flew home without Kelly’s signature. Sunday morning the Bills hired Syracuse head coach Doug Marrone, leaving only Cleveland and Philadelphia in the hunt for Kelly. Apparently the [...]

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Marcus Ardel Taulauniu Mariota won eight games as a collegiate starting quarterback before his 19th birthday. He swooped into Oregon, snatched an unexpected quarterback vacancy from a talented sophomore and passed and ran his way all over the Oregon record books. Hoisting the Fiesta Bowl’s Offensive MVP award after the game was [...]

PHOENIX — Ducks’ fans from far and wide, donning green and yellow in variations of everything from jerseys to sombreros, filled an Oregon-obsessed baseball park on Wednesday afternoon. But it wasn’t the familiar confines of PK Park in Eugene, instead it was the site of the Oregon Fiesta Bowl pep rally at Salt River Fields [...]

PHOENIX — If Chip Kelly ever decides football isn’t for him anymore he may look to comedy as an alternate career. During his largest press conference of the week, the suit-donning Kelly quipped deadpan answers to the room of over 100 journalists, just a day before the Fiesta Bowl. Kelly wise-cracked without hesitation, often with [...]

After a spate of NFL firings, Chip Kelly is once again in the spotlight; this time he is tabbed as the frontrunner for the head coaching job for the Philadelphia Eagles, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Arizona, Buffalo, San Diego, Kansas City and Chicago are all also looking for a new coach. Despite the rumors, [...]

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In the days leading up to the 2012 Fiesta Bowl, the Emerald will take a position-by-position look at Oregon and Kansas State, determining which team has the edge going into the BCS showdown on Jan. 3. Oregon- Special teams have been a touchy subject for Duck fans of late.  Missed kicks  have been — in a [...]

A roundup of FBS college coaches’ salaries.

Oregon football’s last BCS trip to Glendale, Ariz., wasn’t the happiest moment in program history. Coming off a program-best undefeated regular season and led by Heisman-finalist LaMichael James, Oregon fans legitimately thought the Ducks could hang with No. 1 Auburn and their dual-threat QB monster Cam Newton. In truth, they were correct — right up [...]

Don’t forget about us over break. We’re working hard to bring you great stories like these: → We sent sports reporter Eddie Paskal to Louisville, Ky., to cover the Ducks’ run to the NCAA volleyball national championship tournament. Check out our videos, recaps, photos and more chronicling Oregon’s historic season. → Confused about the Mallard [...]

People outside of the Ducks football universe like to say that Oregon is just a flavor-of-the-month program without any tradition. It’s true that Oregon doesn’t have any Heisman Trophy winners or national championships (yet), but the numbers simply don’t back up the notion that the Ducks are upstarts. When the Ducks take the field against [...]

Growing up, Oregon linebacker Kiko Alonso didn’t even want to play football. Born to Carlos and Monica Alonso in Newton, Mass., young Kristian was more interested in baseball, a sport rich with his family’s Hispanic tradition. “My dad is from Cuba, and he grew up in Puerto Rico,” Alonso says. “Baseball is big for him. [...]

Some football teams struggle to find 11 capable players on each side of the ball. For the Ducks, the wealth is overwhelming at some spots, with quite possibly the nation’s most explosive player in De’Anthony Thomas not even listed at a top spot on the depth chart. Recently for the Ducks, the problem hasn’t been [...]

It’s finally here. Oregon and Kansas State. Speed against power and discipline. While many pundits remain traditional and call the Fiesta Bowl matchup the best game outside of the National Championship, Oregon and Kansas State have the potential to play a far more exciting game than the game that will be played in Miami. The BCS [...]

For a sport that carries such enormous weight here at Oregon, football season always seems regrettably short. Thirteen games — 14 if you’re lucky — simply doesn’t feel like enough in one year. Maybe this will change in 2014 when the angels sing and trumpets sound, and the NCAA institutes a playoff system. But until [...]

So much has been made of the canceled home-and-home series between Oregon and Kansas State, it’s become a bit of a soap opera. The two teams were supposed to play in 2011 and 2012, but when Oregon was faced with the opportunity to start their 2011 season against LSU, Oregon asked to move the series back one [...]