The Duck Stops Here on The Johnny Ballgame Show

Appearing on The Johnny Ballgame Show 1450 AM in Eastern Oregon, 4:05 this afternoon. Watch live: http://johnnyballgameshow.com/live/




We'll be previewing Oregon-Stanford and the rest of the PAC-12 and Top Twenty schedule.

Interview with a vampire--well no, just a blood-red Cardinal blogger

Hank Waddles of the website GoMightyCard.com dropped by to ask some Oregon-Stanford questions.

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Darron Thomas vs. Andrew Luck, in high school, 2007

The two Houston-area quarterbacks locked up in a district playoff game in the fall of their senior years. Luck's team won, but Thomas had better stats, including 101 yards rushing.

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Grading the Ducks: Oregon at Washington

It wasn't a massive stat accumulation, but it was the most complete victory by the Oregon team this year.

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photo left: Right now, he might be the most maligned and muttered about 19-2 starter in the country. Fans are restless about Darron Thomas, who is plagued by inconsistency but continues to pad an impressive Oregon resume. Will he rise to the challenge, facing two top-drawer quarterbacks in the season's next two weeks? (AP Photo/Greg Wahl-Stephens).

Keys to the game: Oregon at Washington

The Northwest football writers are chittering like squirrels as Husky Hate Week reaches its culmination. The tree branches and telephone lines of the interwebs are filled with upset talk, much of it coming from Seattle. Art Thiel and Bob Condotta of the Emerald City papers, along with Ted Miller of ESPN and even Adam Jude of the Oregon are opining that the Ducks have likely flown high long enough, and in The Last Game in Old Husky Stadium, with Don James tossing the coin and the The 1991 National Champions honored at halftime, the foghorns of the yachts steaming out of Lake Washington will blow loud and long in historic triumph.

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Scouting the Huskies

For much of the year the Duck defense has given up chunks of yards between the 20s, and this week they face an offense with the firepower to exploit that weakness. The Huskies are much tougher in the red zone than Arizona, California or Colorado, the gamut of also-rans the Ducks have pummeled on their way to 7-1. UW has a 1,000-yard rusher in Chris Polk, and a quarterback who's shocked the conference with his first-year effectiveness.

photo right: Can the Ducks hang on to their share of first place against Washington? A lot depends on wrapping up Chris Polk, who thrives on yards after contact (nfldraftmonsters.com photo).

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New stories at duckstopshere.com

At our new url, duckstopshere.com, we have the following features so far this week:

Recruiting updates on Fabian Moreau and Gehrig Dieter.

Tales from the stat sheet: which Oregon defense will emerge in November?

The Washington-Oregon rivalry--this is how long it's been since the Huskies won.