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As the final years of the BCS tick away, and another team is loosely crowned “champion”, the other teams that did not win enough games/beat enough good teams/play in the SEC/sacrifice a ...

It has not been a bad season so far for the Portland Trail Blazers.  8-12 through twenty games is not awful for a team in a rebuilding year, and the team is showing signs of competing in the Western ...

The Pac-12 has been a wide open conference over the last several seasons.  Only Arizona is ranked in the entire conference, and the top is loaded with a log jam of one and two loss teams.  Oregon ...

The Pac-12 regular season kicked off in style last weekend with the interstate rivalry games for the Ducks, Beavers, Huskies and Cougars.  Four teams entered, two teams left with a good start to ...

Now that the Seattle Seahawks time in the playoffs is over, and the Northwest's attention is shifted to the NBA (either the Blazers, or the Kings possibly moving to Seattle, your choice), it is ...

Buried in last week's hype of non-existent girlfriends, Lance Armstrong shockingly admitting that the rest of the world was right about him, and the Lakers cursing David Stern while Chris Paul lights ...

With the All-Star break (Feb. 15-17) and the trade deadline (Feb. 21) rapidly approaching, the Portland Trail Blazers are caught between a rebuilding era and becoming a team of surprising overachievers.  ...

We're taught from a very young age in this country that speculation is wrong. You're innocent until proven guilty. You have to prove someone is doing something wrong; you can't just tell ...

When the Oregon Ducks men's basketball team hit #10 in the NCAA Top 25 rankings last week, it looked like no team outside of Arizona in the Pac-12 was going to be able to handle them, and the Ducks ...

A case can easily made that no team in the NFL had more of an up and down season last year then the Seattle Seahawks.  Starting the year 4-4 (and some would say 3-5 after the "Fail Mary" ...

It has been no secret throughout Major League Baseball  that the Seattle Mariners offense the last few seasons has been, well, offensive.  Lowest scoring output in the American League since ...

This was supposed to be a rebuilding year.  A year to build some cap space, let Damian Lillard and Meyers Leonard learn, and try and compete next year.  Then the wins started rolling in, and ...

At the start of the season, there were realistic hopes for three of the four Northwest men's basketball teams to make the NCAA Tournament.  Those hopes are long gone for everyone outside of ...

5.25 ounces.  9.25 inches in circumference.  Constructed of a mixture of cowhide, rubber, and thread.  Hardly the description of a lethal object.  Even when hurled at over 90 miles ...

Unpredictably predictable.  It is normally the other way around, but this year everything seems backwards.  No team has been able to lay a solid claim as the top team in the nation all year ...

  Think the NCAA selection committee has learned its lesson? The Oregon Ducks, woefully under seeded coming into the tournament, handled Oklahoma State in the round of 64 before pummeling ...

On the 100th episode of The Slant, host Brad Stein invites several Oregon Sports News writers to discuss the hottest topics in the world of sports. Ryan A. Chase talks about the Seattle ...

The game was by no means a cakewalk.  Louisville was the Big East champion, the number one overall seed in the tournament, and a favorite to win it all.  However, these were the Ducks with ...

Why are we always surprised?  Why, as fans, do we get shocked, outraged, indignant, and overwhelmed over every sports scandal that breaks seemingly every week of the year?  When the news ...

In many activities, policing yourself is the lone method of enforcing the rules.  It does not make much sense pay for a referee for a game of pickup basketball, does it?  If someone breaks ...