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 [...]

In case you haven’t heard, the U.S. Team Olympic Trials for Track and Field will return to Hayward Field for the sixth time in 2016. The Emerald’s Turner Maxwell has more. **** Friday marks the start of a huge weekend for Oregon sports, hosting seven different events in Eugene; baseball and men’s tennis, along with [...]

The Essentials: What: Championship game of the men’s basketball Pac-12 Conference Tournament. When: 8:00 p.m. tipoff. Where: MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas. Televised on ESPN. Who: Oregon Ducks versus UCLA Bruins. Why: Top-seeded UCLA scored two come-from-behind wins against both Arizona schools, while third-seeded Oregon snuck past Washington and dispatched Utah, setting up a [...]

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Round One Game Previews – Wednesday, March 13 No. 8 seed Stanford vs. No. 9 seed Arizona State. 12:00 p.m. Winner plays No. 1 seed UCLA. This is a matchup of two teams that are complete enigmas on any given night. The Cardinal beat the second-seeded Golden Bears by 10 or more both times the [...]

Things are getting worse, not better, for Oregon women’s basketball. The Ducks dropped their 24th game of the year Sunday, losing to No. 4 Stanford 74-50 at Maples Pavilion. For the Cardinal, it was the 17th straight win in what has been one of the most lopsided rivalries in Pac-12 women’s basketball. “There’s a history [...]

The Oregon Ducks snapped their three-game losing streak and defeated the Utah Utes 73-64 Saturday night at Matthew Knight Arena. The Ducks, despite turning the ball over 17 times and shooting 39% from the field, dominated the boards with a 41-19 rebounding advantage. The Ducks also went 27 of 35 from the free-throw line (77%), a little above their season average of 72%. The Utes shot 11 of 16 from the freethrow line and 48% from the field. The men’s basketball team, at 18-5 (8-3), holds sole ownership of the second place spot in the Pac-12 and is a half-game behind Arizona (20-2, 8-2). The Ducks will take on the Washington Huskies in Seattle on Wednesday night.

With today being national signing day for college football recruits, Duck fans are starting to see the early effects of coach Kelly’s departure for the NFL. The first of which came in the form of four-star running back Dontre Wilson deciding on joining the Ohio State Buckeyes after first giving a verbal commitment to the [...]

Former Duck Brandon Hanna tweeted Thursday evening that Oregon defensive line coach Jerry Azzinaro will join Chip Kelly in Philadelphia. Howard Eskin, a sports talk radio personality in Philadelphia, also tweeted the news, though the reports have not been confirmed by the Eagles or the Oregon athletic department. If it’s true, Azzinaro would be the [...]

After it seemed like the most unlikely of outcomes had occurred and much sought after football coach Chip Kelly elected to stay with the Oregon program, the result that we all expected almost two weeks ago came to fruition today. Kelly, after seemingly spurning the NFL, jumped aboard the Philadelphia Eagles ship and was named [...]

Two hours after news broke about Chip Kelly’s departure from Oregon, his predecessor Mike Bellotti gave his thoughts on Kelly’s decision to join the Philadelphia Eagles as their head coach, taking over after former coach Andy Reid was fired on Dec. 31. Read the transcript here: “… I think obviously something changed in his thinking and I [...]

#Eagles hire Chip Kelly as 21st head coach. More details bit.ly/TgSqAG — Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) January 16, 2013   BREAKING – Sources: Oregon coach Chip Kelly will be the new coach of the Philadelphia Eagles (via @mortreport) — SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) January 16, 2013   Chip Kelly is the new coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, according [...]

Ryan Brewer, an assistant professor of finance at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus, found the inherent value of over 100 FBS teams.

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Bill Walton’s return to broadcasting, this time with the Pac-12 Networks, is being coupled with a bus tour for the storied and eccentric big man who brought the state of Oregon’s only professional basketball team it lone NBA championship in 1977. “Walton on Wheels” as it is being referred to, kicked off this week in [...]

On Wednesday, Willamette Week published an in-depth look at Chip Kelly’s career at Oregon, both as a coach on the field and as an invaluable money generator off it. UO alum John Locanthi spoke to boosters, former coaches and players and members of the media to paint a portrait of a coach whose sole focus is [...]

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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. [...]

Kiko Alonso sits down with the Emerald for an exclusive interview on the pressures he has faced, mistakes he has made, and what he has done to progress as a football player at the University of Oregon.