By Charles Martindale

Winners of eight straight games, the Thurston Colts will have their biggest challenge of the season begin Friday at 7:00 PM. Making the drive to Portland for the start of 5A playoffs, the Colts will need to come up with a new strategy for the Wildcats, who dispatched them 44-15 in an earlier meeting this year.

QB Noah Blair leads a Thurston attack looking to complete the upset. In last week’s season finale, Blair threw for 326 yards and four touchdowns. A second year starter despite being only a junior, Blair’s numbers have all improved in his second year under center, nearing 3000 yards on the season with a completion percentage of 74. Blair’s favorite target is senior Walker Bonar, who accounted for 16 of Thurston’s touchdowns this season and put up over 1000 receiving yards on the year. Ethan Burkhead is the only player outside of Blair with 50+ carries, and he’s done his part to help even things out in a pass heavy…

Hosts: Ryan Milano, Austin Ota, Saul Galvan

6:00 Oregon Football under the lights vs. USC

• A Heisman QB battle; the implications for Nix and Williams
• Does Oregon have the capability defensively to impact USC's offense?
• What is left on Oregon's schedule to boost their CFP resume?

6:35 Duck Basketball is back in full swing

• What to make of the Men defeating Georgia in the opener
• The Ducks banged up to start the season...again
• The outlook for the Oregon Women after Peyton Scott's injury

Directors Games

• All-Aboard
• Predictions

Hosted by Knight Jarecki, Saul Galvan and Griffin Bowes

(6:00) Oregon Volleyball sweeps the mountain schools

• What stood out from this past weekend
• Were Sunday home matches just cursed or. challenge this year
• Stanford on Thursday, what we learned from the first match versus the Cardinal

(6:15) GUEST: Eli Kleinmann, USC's KXSC and Annenberg Media

by Mario Ponce

EUGENE, Ore - Hoop season comes to Eugene once again, as the Oregon Ducks Women’s Basketball program suit up for their 10th season under head coach Kelly Graves. The team comes off consecutive 20 win seasons, but a loss in the Pac-12 quarterfinals to Stanford kept the team off the NCAA tournament for the first time since the 2015-16 season. Now the Ducks look to keep up the pace and return to March Madness.

Oregon’s deficiency last season was its conference play, as it had a 7-11 record against Pac-12 opponents. Now that six teams here start the season ranked, and two do so in the Top 5, Oregon must start strong and capitalize on it’s opportunities in a stacked Pac-12. The Ducks will play a series of 11 non-conference clashes to start the season, and won’t take on a conference opponent until a New Year’s Eve game up in Corvallis against the Oregon State Beavers. The team will play throughout all of January and February before…

by Mario Ponce

EUGENE, Ore - Hoop season comes to Eugene once again, as the Oregon Ducks Women’s Basketball program suit up for their 10th season under head coach Kelly Graves. The team comes off consecutive 20 win seasons, but a loss in the Pac-12 quarterfinals to Stanford kept the team off the NCAA tournament for the first time since the 2015-16 season. Now the Ducks look to keep up the pace and return to March Madness.

Oregon’s deficiency last season was its conference play, as it had a 7-11 record against Pac-12 opponents. Now that six teams here start the season ranked, and two do so in the Top 5, Oregon must start strong and capitalize on it’s opportunities in a stacked Pac-12. The Ducks will play a series of 11 non-conference clashes to start the season, and won’t take on a conference opponent until a New Year’s Eve game up in Corvallis against the Oregon State Beavers. The team will play throughout all of January and February before…

Written by Yaniv Horenstein and Leo Schulhof

College basketball is BACK! The Oregon men’s basketball team is set to begin their season this Monday (Nov 6) against Georgia. With the transfer portal taking over NCAA sports, players jumping ship has become the new normal in college basketball. Oregon is a prime example of the changing times with heavy roster turnover. Of the 15 players on the roster, eight are playing their first season in green and yellow. Let’s dive into Dana Altman’s squad for this year.
 
Oregon’s most intriguing position will be the center. N’Faly Dante is returning for his fifth season at Oregon, and the 6’11 dominant big man was named to the preseason All-Pac 12 first team. Dante averaged 13 points and eight rebounds last season while recording ten double-doubles in 30 starts. Dante shines in the low post as a force on both offense and defense and is looking to raise his stock in next year’s NBA draft. He came back for a…

Written by Yaniv Horenstein and Leo Schulhof

College basketball is BACK! The Oregon men’s basketball team is set to begin their season this Monday (Nov 6) against Georgia. With the transfer portal taking over NCAA sports, players jumping ship has become the new normal in college basketball. Oregon is a prime example of the changing times with heavy roster turnover. Of the 15 players on the roster, eight are playing their first season in green and yellow. Let’s dive into Dana Altman’s squad for this year.
 
Oregon’s most intriguing position will be the center. N’Faly Dante is returning for his fifth season at Oregon, and the 6’11 dominant big man was named to the preseason All-Pac 12 first team. Dante averaged 13 points and eight rebounds last season while recording ten double-doubles in 30 starts. Dante shines in the low post as a force on both offense and defense and is looking to raise his stock in next year’s NBA draft. He came back for a…

Written By: Ben Schoenfield

EUGENE, OR– On Saturday afternoon the Oregon Ducks Football team played at Autzen Stadium versus the Cal Berkeley Golden Bears in a Pac-12 matchup. The Ducks beat the Golden Bears 63-19 with a combined air and run attack. Bo Nix and Tez Johnson lead this team with big games for each of them. Bo Nix threw 29/38 for 386 yards and 4 touchdowns. Tez had 12 receptions for 180 yards and had 3 punt returns for 75 yards. Nix has 25 passing touchdowns and 5 rushing touchdowns, including 2 today, to only two interceptions. 

The first quarter was very sloppy on both sides. There were four turnovers in the quarter alone, including on the first play where Bo Nix threw a slant to Tez Johnson, and it slipped out of his hands and got picked off. The Oregon defense returned the favor on Cal’s first drive, when Steve Stephens IV got the ball back with a redzone pick. Stephens interception came after a blocked field goal returned for a…

By John Evans

EUGENE, OR - On Friday night, the Thurston Colts defeated the Dallas Dragons 37-24 to quarterfinals of the 5A Oregon state playoffs. The Colts were once again led by their high-powered air attack, as quarterback, Noah Blair, threw for 326 yards while tossing four touchdowns and adding another on the ground. Blair now has 41 touchdowns on the season, 37 passing and four rushing, and has only turned the ball over three times.

Again for the Colts, the star of the game was receiver, Walker Bonar, who finished with 155 yards and two touchdowns, including a 95-yard house call that opened scoring for both teams. Bonar has been incredible this season for Thurston, averaging over 130 yards per game while catching 16 touchdowns in only eight games, as he missed the Colts first two contests with an injury.

Thurston’s defense was able to limit the Dragons offense, especially their passing game, until late in the contest, which allowed them to build…

By: Ian Sutliff

When Oregon takes the field Saturday at Autzen stadium; a game which it is favored to win by more than three touchdowns, Dan Lanning’s team will have the same attitude it has this season regardless of opponent. The goal: win and do it in convincing fashion. With the first college football playoff rankings of the 2023 season released on Halloween, the Ducks are just two spots out of a potential trip back to the CFP for the first time since 2014. Cal will be looking to snap a three-game losing streak on the other hand but will be tested against an Oregon team with much larger aspirations.

Cal:

The Golden Bears are one of the most interesting teams in the nation with an offense that has been led by three different quarterbacks in its eight games this year. With Fernando Mendoza under center, Cal’s offense finally looks capable of putting up consistent outings. After starting the season as the third-string quarterback,…