Setting the stage for Oregon-ASU
This week No. 14 Oregon returns home to face unranked Arizona State in Autzen Stadium on Saturday at 7:20 p.m., a game to be televised live by ESPN. The Ducks are 7-2 and ranked No. 14 in the latest AP poll of media, No. 16 in the coaches poll. Oregon is…

Ducks set to drop in polls
I’m flying into Portland and driving home this afternoon, so I won’t have a chance to update this much, but I’ll get to it whenever I can. The Ducks are in line to drop in the polls today, after losing to Stanford 51-42 on the road Saturday. John Hunt of the…

Without D, it’s ucky
Here’s the game story I filed Saturday: STANFORD, Calif. — Oregon will have to settle for the Rose Bowl race in 2009. Any glimmer of hope the No. 7 Ducks had for a national-title shot went up in smoke Saturday — or rather, up in a cloud of dust. Stanford and…

Schroeder: All isn’t lost for UO, including Rose Bowl
Here’s a column filed Saturday by George Schroeder: STANFORD, Calif. — They looked lost. More than an hour remained before kickoff when the guys in the bright red blazers emerged from the tunnel and wandered down the sideline. They stopped near the Oregon bench, not far from a group of Duck…

Ducks say they have no excuses
Here’s a sidebar I filed Saturday: STANFORD, Calif. — The label is going to be applied, whether the Ducks believe it’s deserved or not. And some do, when it comes to calling Saturday’s 51-42 loss at unranked Stanford a letdown, a week after No. 7 Oregon crushed USC. “Everybody can say…