You still have a few months to find your best one-piece, neon snowsuit, schwinn ten-speed and vintage kayak, but the starting line is officially in sight for the 35th Annual PPP. MBSEF announced yesterday that it is now taking on-line applications for individuals and teams for this year’s rite of spring race.
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Best. Dunk. Ever.
This kid literally slam dunks himself at halftime of a Phoenix Suns game.
Have a case of the Fridays this afternoon? Well, watch this boy literally slam dunk himself at halftime of a Phoenix Suns game. It will make your day.
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Keep Up the Good Work, Milton Bradley
The Seattle Mariner’s Milton Bradley was arrested…just in time for spring training.
Since I didn’t have a Left Field column in this week’s paper — which will be hitting the web in about two hours and the streets a few hours after that — I need to unload some of the sports idiocy currently boiling my brains.
And there’s no source of idiocy more reliable than Seattle Mariner’s sometimes outfielder/constant embarrassment, Milton Bradley.
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Our (Ridiculous) Predictions: How the Ducks will fare in the BCS Championship
Who will win tonight’s BCS Championship? We take a few guesses.
Kickoff is now only a few hours away and we thought we’d wade into the treacherous waters of college football predictions with some (mostly ridiculous) game predictions from the Source staff.
Mike Bookey, Arts and Culture Editor: Oregon 82 Auburn 7.
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Humane Society of Central Oregon offers Adoption Special for Ducks BCS Game
The Humane Society of Central Oregon offers reduced adoption fees for yellow cats and dogs in honor of the Ducks BCS Championship game.
The latest news in our Duck Watch coverage finds the Humane Society of Central Oregon (HSCO) joining in on the BCS National Championship fever, in a very good way. The HSCO highlights the University of Oregon’s big game by reducing the adoption fee for “yellow” cats and “yellow” dogs to $20.
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Big Screen Options for the BCS Championship in Bend and Beyond
Want to see the Ducks on a big, big screen? Check out these locations in Bend.
OK, it’s finally here. For University of Oregon fans (and the legions of other Oregonians who’ve been caught up in the frenzy) the wait for the BCS National Championship is over.
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Oregon vs. Auburn: The curfew battle
There are plenty of differences between Auburn and Oregon — for starters, one of the schools is located in Alabama and the other in the Pacific Northwest, and secondly, only one team has LaMichael James.
There are other differences too, like, for example, the one illustrated by a USA Today post yesterday that described the differences in the approach the two teams take in terms of player curfews.
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Oregon Ducks Power Ballad on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
Sebastian Bach belts out college football’s first power ballad in support of the Oregon Ducks.
As The Source’s only Oregon alum, I find it’s my duty to share with you this awesome video from Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. The video features Sebastian Bach (yes, really) belting out a power ballad for the Oregon Ducks.
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Washington Faces Nebraska in the Blowout Bowl…I Mean Holiday Bowl
Why is Nebraska playing Washington in the Holiday Bowl.
I have to look back pretty far to find more of an odd match up for a bowl game than is taking place tonight down in San Diego where #18 Nebraska is facing the 6-6 Washington Huskies.
Why is this odd?
First off — The two teams already played once this year with the Huskers rocking Washington 55-22 up in Seattle.
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Crossing Over: A cyclocross national championships post mortem
Some observations from the 2010 Cyclocross National Championships in Bend, Oregon.
The 2010 National Cyclocross championships again proved that Bend is a superb venue for large-scale self-propelled sports events. A great deal of credit for the event’s success goes to those community members who volunteered and spectators who came out to cheer.
