Monthly Archives: June 2013
BREAKING NEWS: Additional Oregon football “penalties”
After a 28-month investigation the NCAA announced sanctions against the Oregon football program last Wednesday. I happen to agree with the majority that the penalties were too light given what they did, and feel there should be more penalties. So I’ve come up with a few. All of these sanctions will be for three years. […]
If cows don’t eat it…it’s OK to play on it
My son’s baseball team was at a tournament in Medford last weekend. The tournament took place at U.S. Cellular Community Park…a sprawling complex with football and soccer fields in addition to baseball diamonds. There was a complex within the complex that had five sparkling fields with full FieldTurf from backstop to fence. I made a […]
Multi-sport vs. single sport athletes….which is the best approach???
I have a class reunion coming up this summer and a lot of my Facebook friends are classmates and some of them have been putting up photos from our school’s “Wall of Fame”. I look back at those pictures and we had some pretty good athletes in our class…ones that made at least all league […]
2013 Ducks football = 1993 Huskies football???
The great Yankee catcher Yogi Berra once said “it’s déjà vu all over again”. And I can’t help but think of this when looking at where the University of Oregon’s football program is now and where the University of Washington’s was a 20 years ago. And although I’m sure a lot of Duck fans will […]