WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.520 and be prepared room for error is much slimmer 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:05.360 in basketball one player and it changes your 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:07.660 entire team it's not like that in football it's 00:00:07.660 --> 00:00:10.480 just not it's not interesting guests kelly graves 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:14.000 mike parker coach mark waskowski noah eagle melissa 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:16.480 lombardi kenyon barnard jonathan stewart sharp 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:20.859 opinions dana altman probably earned a pass for 00:00:20.859 --> 00:00:26.100 a down year after almost 20 years of what he's 00:00:26.100 --> 00:00:28.679 done for Oregon basketball. And some smiles. 00:00:28.940 --> 00:00:30.820 Guys, I was stuck in a car wash. Sounds like 00:00:30.820 --> 00:00:34.439 an R. Kelly song. It's not an R. Kelly song. 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:37.859 It's Danny Havel. I can't remember, and I've 00:00:37.859 --> 00:00:39.979 been doing this for longer than you've been alive, 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:43.159 which is really horrible that I have to say that, 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:45.600 but it's the truth. Justin Grossweiner. It's 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:47.460 like the saying in Alaska, that you don't have 00:00:47.460 --> 00:00:49.359 to be faster than the bear. You just have to 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:51.530 be faster than your friend. Danny and Justin 00:00:51.530 --> 00:00:54.869 starts now on Fox Sports Eugene and Fox Sports 00:00:54.869 --> 00:01:08.549 Newport. Hello. And welcome high top to Delta 00:01:08.549 --> 00:01:12.069 Triad, the Crystal Palace, the Bigfoot Beverages 00:01:12.069 --> 00:01:14.650 Studios, Fox Sports Eugene, Fox Sports Newport 00:01:14.650 --> 00:01:18.650 on a soggy. Monday. Welcome to the Danny and 00:01:18.650 --> 00:01:20.730 Justin radio program. Thanks for lending us your 00:01:20.730 --> 00:01:24.109 ears for the fastest 60 minutes in sports. Please, 00:01:24.189 --> 00:01:28.109 arms and legs inside the moving vehicle at all 00:01:28.109 --> 00:01:31.650 times. Do not lean your head out either as we 00:01:31.650 --> 00:01:35.010 will traverse through this busy, busy Monday. 00:01:35.109 --> 00:01:38.790 It was overall a very positive weekend for Oregon 00:01:38.790 --> 00:01:42.790 Athletics, Oregon State as well. Wow. There are 00:01:42.790 --> 00:01:45.819 some things to talk about. We've got Ryan T. 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:49.239 Clark. The T stands for Thomas. We call him Sawbones. 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:51.900 We'll talk to the Oregonian writer who covers 00:01:51.900 --> 00:01:54.760 the Oregon beat at about 20 after. We've got 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:56.659 the good, the bad, the ugly. We've got our results 00:01:56.659 --> 00:02:01.140 from Big Bets as Baby J ruled the weekend. And 00:02:01.140 --> 00:02:05.359 also you. So thanks for tuning in. The Oregon 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:10.659 Man Clinics Hotline at 541 -343 -5673. Right 00:02:10.659 --> 00:02:14.419 over there is intern Blaze who's running. the 00:02:14.419 --> 00:02:17.639 board making us sound good. I'm Doc, right over 00:02:17.639 --> 00:02:20.639 here to my right doing a happy dance in his chair. 00:02:20.900 --> 00:02:23.280 Justin Grosso and I, we call him Baby Che. What 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:26.759 a boy! Have you ever had your YouTube think that 00:02:26.759 --> 00:02:28.699 you're Spanish? I'm just starting to get all 00:02:28.699 --> 00:02:30.439 these Spanish ads now. I don't know what's going 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:33.259 on. I figured I'd bring this up and see if anybody 00:02:33.259 --> 00:02:36.300 else has had this happen to them. This is where 00:02:36.300 --> 00:02:38.240 intern Blaze needs to make sure he has a microphone 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:41.000 on so we can ask him because you guys are all 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:44.300 in the, you know, in the vein and in the... The 00:02:44.300 --> 00:02:48.719 slot of the social media and the TikTok and the 00:02:48.719 --> 00:02:51.979 Instagram, the IG. What are you smiling at me 00:02:51.979 --> 00:02:55.680 for, please? The IG. The IG, baby. Yeah, you 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:57.379 just got to roll with it. He's sometimes a little 00:02:57.379 --> 00:02:59.419 safe in things in some ways. You just got to 00:02:59.419 --> 00:03:04.360 accept it. The OG and the IG. So have you ever 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:06.840 had your, what is it? You said the YouTube? Yeah, 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:08.740 my YouTube is starting to give me Spanish damage. 00:03:09.669 --> 00:03:11.669 Have you ever had that happen to you? I've had 00:03:11.669 --> 00:03:14.150 weirder ads before, not necessarily Spanish, 00:03:14.250 --> 00:03:17.590 but maybe Arabic before. I don't know where that 00:03:17.590 --> 00:03:20.270 came from. Really? Wow. Yeah. So have you ever 00:03:20.270 --> 00:03:24.490 had a friend leave their phone sitting, and then 00:03:24.490 --> 00:03:27.509 they get up and leave, either going to the restroom 00:03:27.509 --> 00:03:30.090 or whatever, and then you go and change their 00:03:30.090 --> 00:03:32.400 language settings on their phone? Have you ever 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:34.699 done that? I have never personally done that. 00:03:34.819 --> 00:03:37.099 Or taken selfies or pictures? I've done selfies 00:03:37.099 --> 00:03:38.800 before. I've heard of people accidentally doing 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:40.960 that to themselves, though. Which sounds worse. 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:43.479 Changing the language? Accidentally, yes, to 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:45.460 another language. The reason I bring this up 00:03:45.460 --> 00:03:47.439 is that happened to me years and years. Sounds 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:50.060 like it has. Somebody changed my stuff to Portuguese, 00:03:50.139 --> 00:03:52.759 and I could not figure out how to get back to 00:03:52.759 --> 00:03:54.439 the language portion. Was this a friend? To switch 00:03:54.439 --> 00:03:58.800 it back. No. Not anymore. Not anymore. They weren't 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:00.620 a friend. Yeah, it was kind of like a, yeah, 00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:02.219 it was an interesting relationship, but we're 00:04:02.219 --> 00:04:03.620 not going to go there. How was your weekend, 00:04:03.699 --> 00:04:06.379 buddy? It was good. We had a nice little outing 00:04:06.379 --> 00:04:09.949 on Saturday. We did. You and I. Baseball games, 00:04:10.189 --> 00:04:12.830 yes. Baseball games. Last -minute announcement. 00:04:13.409 --> 00:04:15.530 I was trying to get out. I didn't go out last 00:04:15.530 --> 00:04:17.329 week for opening weekend, so I wanted to get 00:04:17.329 --> 00:04:19.449 out there. Where were you? You were studying 00:04:19.449 --> 00:04:21.550 and doing it. You were being a big boy. I had 00:04:21.550 --> 00:04:24.730 to finish a group project, yeah. Way to stay 00:04:24.730 --> 00:04:28.129 dedicated to the schoolwork. Yeah, food and business. 00:04:28.430 --> 00:04:30.889 Instead of coming out and playing with Danny 00:04:30.889 --> 00:04:32.610 and Justin. Your bosses, by the way. I would 00:04:32.610 --> 00:04:34.709 have loved to. I would have loved to. We'll make 00:04:34.709 --> 00:04:36.430 it happen sometime soon. It's going to happen. 00:04:36.550 --> 00:04:39.529 Yes. And then Sunday, I just kept it pretty chill, 00:04:39.709 --> 00:04:42.689 just cleaned up my place, went and got a good 00:04:42.689 --> 00:04:46.730 workout in, and, you know, played some video 00:04:46.730 --> 00:04:51.089 games to the normal just downtime thing. So you're 00:04:51.089 --> 00:04:53.370 going to be very proud of the Havel household. 00:04:53.449 --> 00:04:56.990 I'm ready. We watched two movies this weekend. 00:04:58.170 --> 00:05:05.300 Okay. 28 days later. Okay. 28 weeks later. Okay. 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:07.860 I have thoughts on both. We watched the first 00:05:07.860 --> 00:05:10.839 two, and apparently there are four? There is 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:14.680 a 28 months later that I don't think is very 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:16.720 popular. I'm watching them in order, though. 00:05:17.259 --> 00:05:19.420 I haven't seen 28 months later. The first one 00:05:19.420 --> 00:05:22.019 with Cillian Murphy, who I saw way too much of 00:05:22.019 --> 00:05:24.019 him in the opening scene, by the way. Isn't that 00:05:24.019 --> 00:05:26.259 crazy, though, how he's in that movie? My daughter 00:05:26.259 --> 00:05:29.199 said... When she was describing it to my mom, 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:32.300 because we took the mothers out for breakfast 00:05:32.300 --> 00:05:34.319 as we normally do on the weekends, we went out 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:36.759 to Vanita to Our Daily Bread, which you have 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:38.740 to go to. Blaze, you have to go there as well. 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:42.339 And so as my daughter's describing this to our 00:05:42.339 --> 00:05:46.000 70 -plus and 80 -plus -year -old mothers, she 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:48.220 says, yeah, we see Killian Murphy's ding -a -ling 00:05:48.220 --> 00:05:52.639 in the first 15 minutes of the show. movie yeah 00:05:52.639 --> 00:05:55.399 abigail well and did she recognize that the opening 00:05:55.399 --> 00:05:59.040 for that movie is where the walking dead was 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:02.420 inspired from yes so i thought you'd be ice very 00:06:02.420 --> 00:06:04.779 cool yeah very cool all -time classic that's 00:06:04.779 --> 00:06:06.879 what i know killian murphy from originally is 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:09.620 from was that one of his first movies i don't 00:06:09.620 --> 00:06:11.759 know if it's one of his first i am but it could 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:13.639 be i mean it's certainly the first thing i knew 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:15.889 him from it's an old movie that's from Yeah, 00:06:15.889 --> 00:06:18.649 it looked really grainy. It wasn't in HD. Well, 00:06:18.709 --> 00:06:22.410 you can have the intro to it, too. 2002. 2002. 00:06:22.670 --> 00:06:25.589 So that's got to be early on in his career. Yeah, 00:06:25.610 --> 00:06:27.009 it's definitely early on. He's come a long way 00:06:27.009 --> 00:06:29.490 from playing that to Oppenheimer. That's for 00:06:29.490 --> 00:06:32.009 sure. But then 28 weeks later, not as good as 00:06:32.009 --> 00:06:34.069 a movie. I think there are some cool parts in 00:06:34.069 --> 00:06:38.029 there. Me, I'm just like a zombie fanatic. Am 00:06:38.029 --> 00:06:40.170 I giving something away to say that a couple 00:06:40.170 --> 00:06:42.129 of the people that you don't think are going 00:06:42.129 --> 00:06:46.259 to die, die? I'm going to say the characters' 00:06:46.420 --> 00:06:48.879 names or the actors' names because I was surprised. 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:52.279 Amazing opening sequence. The first sequence 00:06:52.279 --> 00:06:55.920 is incredible. The rest of the movie, it's solid. 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:58.220 It's not the first movie, though. The first movie 00:06:58.220 --> 00:07:00.079 is an all -time classic. You need to watch the 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:01.899 newest one now. Well, I've got to watch them 00:07:01.899 --> 00:07:04.300 in order, though. Don't worry about 28 months 00:07:04.300 --> 00:07:06.920 later. Go to 28 years later. So just skip that 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:09.189 one? I've never even seen it. I didn't even know 00:07:09.189 --> 00:07:11.490 it existed until pretty recently. So you don't 00:07:11.490 --> 00:07:13.430 have any... I don't even know how you can watch 00:07:13.430 --> 00:07:15.649 it, to be honest with you. I'm not sure if it's 00:07:15.649 --> 00:07:17.750 by the same director, even. You have a strong 00:07:17.750 --> 00:07:20.069 view on that. Blaze, have you watched these at 00:07:20.069 --> 00:07:21.730 all? I have strong opinions, unfortunately. No, 00:07:21.930 --> 00:07:23.610 I'm glad you guys haven't said too much, because 00:07:23.610 --> 00:07:25.029 I haven't watched either. You've got to watch 00:07:25.029 --> 00:07:27.110 them now. There's homework for you. Do you like 00:07:27.110 --> 00:07:29.990 horror movies? I love horror movies. Okay, all 00:07:29.990 --> 00:07:32.519 -time favorite horror movie, Blaze. See, I'm 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:33.639 putting you on the spot here. This isn't a great 00:07:33.639 --> 00:07:35.980 horror movie, but one of my favorites, because 00:07:35.980 --> 00:07:38.000 it made me scared of the dark again for a little 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:40.980 while, was called Lights Out. Lights Out. And 00:07:40.980 --> 00:07:43.360 it's a monster. I've never heard of this. In 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:45.019 the dark, you turn on the lights, they're gone. 00:07:45.139 --> 00:07:48.100 But in the dark, they crawl. You are tripping 00:07:48.100 --> 00:07:50.720 up our horror expertise. My mom is a horror film 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:53.620 professor. Oh, wow. So I've been inundated from 00:07:53.620 --> 00:07:57.930 a young age. So Lights Out, you've got homework 00:07:57.930 --> 00:07:59.430 now. Well, it's not a great movie. Let me be 00:07:59.430 --> 00:08:01.230 clear on that. That doesn't matter. It doesn't 00:08:01.230 --> 00:08:03.410 matter. In the Grossweiner household, that does 00:08:03.410 --> 00:08:05.689 not matter. Yeah, we just watched a movie that 00:08:05.689 --> 00:08:07.790 I wouldn't consider super great, but we really 00:08:07.790 --> 00:08:09.629 enjoyed it, The Mist. We talked about that last 00:08:09.629 --> 00:08:12.170 week. It's about structure, content, framing, 00:08:12.410 --> 00:08:15.129 and the storyline. And if some of those elements 00:08:15.129 --> 00:08:17.670 come into play, they're okay with it. The mise 00:08:17.670 --> 00:08:20.170 -en -scene, right? There you go. Ooh, look at 00:08:20.170 --> 00:08:22.370 you, fancy boy. I took a film class. That's a 00:08:22.370 --> 00:08:25.180 nice cinematography word. Justin Radio Program. 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:26.939 Thanks for tuning in. We will get to sports. 00:08:27.019 --> 00:08:29.879 By the way, let's start here. I just teased it 00:08:29.879 --> 00:08:33.419 a second ago. Big bets. Atta boy, Justin. You 00:08:33.419 --> 00:08:36.940 went 4 -1. I went 1 -4, so now I am three games 00:08:36.940 --> 00:08:40.159 behind you. You picked up a game on Goose, who 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:45.279 went 3 -2. Blaze, you and I are 1 -4, boys. That 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:48.059 was just horrible. I mean, I never should have 00:08:48.059 --> 00:08:50.159 taken Iowa State on the road, but you know what? 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:52.659 I did. You got that game right, though. You got 00:08:52.659 --> 00:08:56.039 BYU in that game. The one game. The coin went 00:08:56.039 --> 00:08:58.840 two and three. Well, that sounds about right. 00:08:59.179 --> 00:09:02.419 Laura, front office manager, went three and two. 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:06.240 Shout out to Laura. The best P1 out there. Coach 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:08.620 went three and two. So you won it outright. Didn't 00:09:08.620 --> 00:09:11.399 have to go to tiebreakers, thank goodness. Do 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:14.820 you see what I put for the total points? I think 00:09:14.820 --> 00:09:17.830 it was like 150 -something. We were all way over. 00:09:17.950 --> 00:09:20.149 We were way over. No, I didn't have the total 00:09:20.149 --> 00:09:21.570 points on this one because it didn't matter. 00:09:21.649 --> 00:09:23.629 It didn't come down to tiebreakers. This is like 00:09:23.629 --> 00:09:25.350 the master sheet that I put together. Well, I 00:09:25.350 --> 00:09:26.730 didn't get the game right anyways because that 00:09:26.730 --> 00:09:29.250 was the one I picked wrong. I picked Michigan. 00:09:29.950 --> 00:09:32.750 But it doesn't matter. It would still come down 00:09:32.750 --> 00:09:35.490 to it. It was a great weekend in terms of the 00:09:35.490 --> 00:09:38.149 slate. No, no. They were really good games. It 00:09:38.149 --> 00:09:39.330 made it really easy for me. They were really 00:09:39.330 --> 00:09:43.820 good games. Still, Goose leads 21 -9. He's still 00:09:43.820 --> 00:09:47.039 12 games over .500. You're at 14 -16, back near. 00:09:47.220 --> 00:09:51.299 I am sucking it right now at 11 -19. So, you 00:09:51.299 --> 00:09:53.539 know, all this means. So, listen, just for Blaze, 00:09:53.679 --> 00:09:55.860 for you and everybody else listening, I started 00:09:55.860 --> 00:09:58.600 this way in football, and then I rose like a 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:01.799 phoenix at the end to win it by a game. We're 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:05.159 trying to figure out these teams, I guess. Basketball 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:07.620 is a little harder. It's definitely a little 00:10:07.620 --> 00:10:10.809 bit harder. But thanks for everybody who participated. 00:10:10.990 --> 00:10:13.649 And thanks to Cokewell Casino and Resort because 00:10:13.649 --> 00:10:19.169 of Baby J's huge win this weekend. $100 going 00:10:19.169 --> 00:10:22.190 to South Coast Special Olympics. Love that. So 00:10:22.190 --> 00:10:25.309 either the fans are going to win or South Coast 00:10:25.309 --> 00:10:28.470 Special Olympics wins. Everybody wins. And all 00:10:28.470 --> 00:10:30.230 the people who participated still get their name 00:10:30.230 --> 00:10:33.840 into the drawing for the stay. for the national 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:36.200 championship game for basketball. You and seven 00:10:36.200 --> 00:10:38.679 of your closest friends are going to get to hang 00:10:38.679 --> 00:10:40.600 out in the Cocoa Suite. You get all the food 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:44.000 and bev you can handle, non -alcoholic, and we'll 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:46.340 play it again this weekend, all right, on Friday. 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:51.039 So let's recap the weekend. And by the way, we've 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:53.779 got Ryan Clark, Sawbones from the Argonian, to 00:10:53.779 --> 00:10:58.960 talk Oregon basketball, Oregon baseball. Before 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:00.740 we do good, bad, and the ugly, so get ready for 00:11:00.740 --> 00:11:04.000 that, Blaze, I want to let you know that. Oregon's 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:08.600 men's distant medley relay broke the school record 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:12.620 last night as a part of the DMR Challenge in 00:11:12.620 --> 00:11:16.980 Boston. Simeon Birnbaum, Fuad Omer, Elliott Cook, 00:11:17.220 --> 00:11:21.659 Thomas Palfrey combined for a 9 -14 -88 at the 00:11:21.659 --> 00:11:25.419 BU's Track and Tennis Center. With that performance, 00:11:25.700 --> 00:11:29.330 the Ducks move to number two. On the season's 00:11:29.330 --> 00:11:32.649 NCAA descending order list and are now the second 00:11:32.649 --> 00:11:37.029 fastest quartet in collegiate history. We don't 00:11:37.029 --> 00:11:38.129 talk a lot of track and field. We're going to 00:11:38.129 --> 00:11:39.889 talk more track and field as we get closer to 00:11:39.889 --> 00:11:42.169 the pre, the U -20s that are going to be at Hayward 00:11:42.169 --> 00:11:45.309 Field. You and Goose are going to be out there 00:11:45.309 --> 00:11:48.690 at Hayward Field on the 5th of March. We'll talk 00:11:48.690 --> 00:11:50.289 about that as we go through the rest of this 00:11:50.289 --> 00:11:52.590 week. Oregon becomes just the second program 00:11:52.590 --> 00:11:57.009 to run a sub -915 on a banked 200 -meter track. 00:11:57.610 --> 00:12:00.629 Virginia did it in 2025, just last year, 9 -14 00:12:00.629 --> 00:12:06.610 -19. So there we go. The postseason starts February 00:12:06.610 --> 00:12:10.990 26th, 28th with the Big Ten Indoor Championships 00:12:10.990 --> 00:12:14.429 at Indiana State's Fairgrounds in Indianapolis. 00:12:14.850 --> 00:12:17.669 So there we go with that. So you ready for the 00:12:17.669 --> 00:12:19.429 good, bad, and the ugly? I am ready. All right, 00:12:19.450 --> 00:12:22.309 so let's cue the music. That's the Olympic music. 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:27.039 Oh, it is? Oh, it is. There you go. Good, bad, 00:12:27.059 --> 00:12:28.820 and the ugly from the weekend. We do this every 00:12:28.820 --> 00:12:32.059 week now. I mean, I just heard timpani, okay? 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:34.779 I heard the kettle drums. So let's start out 00:12:34.779 --> 00:12:36.960 with the good. There was a lot for me to choose 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:43.220 from on the good. But I am going to go. It was 00:12:43.220 --> 00:12:45.080 a good weekend. It was a good weekend. Since 00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:46.840 we're going to talk a little bit more about it 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:49.840 later on, I do want to say, because of all of 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:52.100 the cane that's been going on with Oregon basketball, 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:56.659 Oregon's late run closing out with a 7 -0 scoring 00:12:56.659 --> 00:13:01.240 run. The Ducks improve to 10 -3 all time at the 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:04.259 Galen Center for Dana Altman. They defeat USC. 00:13:05.780 --> 00:13:09.759 71 -70. A 7 -0 run in the final 51 seconds. That's 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:12.179 my good of the weekend, baby J. All right, I 00:13:12.179 --> 00:13:14.379 could go with none other than Oregon State's 00:13:14.379 --> 00:13:17.639 Dax Whitney, who is, by the way, named the USA 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:20.080 Baseball Golden Spikes Player of the Week for 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:24.679 his performance. Amazing performance of 17 strikeouts 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:29.929 in seven innings. against Baylor in the Round 00:13:29.929 --> 00:13:32.509 Rock Classic in a 3 -1 win. 17 strikeouts, Danny. 00:13:32.590 --> 00:13:35.149 He reached over 100 miles per hour, like 101, 00:13:35.269 --> 00:13:38.070 100 .1 miles per hour, which was the fastest 00:13:38.070 --> 00:13:41.330 ever recorded pitch by Oregon State baseball. 00:13:42.269 --> 00:13:44.370 I mean, he's the guy that is being talked about 00:13:44.370 --> 00:13:47.309 now as potentially the number one pick in 2027. 00:13:47.789 --> 00:13:50.529 And when you think about this team in particular, 00:13:50.710 --> 00:13:52.730 we don't exactly know where the power is going 00:13:52.730 --> 00:13:55.470 to be coming from on the offensive side. We certainly 00:13:55.470 --> 00:13:56.769 know where the power is going to be coming from 00:13:56.769 --> 00:13:58.929 on the pitching staff. And that seems like the 00:13:58.929 --> 00:14:01.070 kind of guy that he could take you to the College 00:14:01.070 --> 00:14:03.830 World Series and maybe over the top. I mean, 00:14:03.850 --> 00:14:06.269 that's exciting, exciting stuff we saw from Dax 00:14:06.269 --> 00:14:09.129 Whitney. The Danny and Justin radio program, 00:14:09.269 --> 00:14:10.730 the good, bad, and the ugly from the weekend. 00:14:10.750 --> 00:14:13.049 So we got our good out of the way. What was the 00:14:13.049 --> 00:14:16.549 bad from the weekend? Okay, my bad, which you 00:14:16.549 --> 00:14:19.009 convinced me that I could spin this in a bad 00:14:19.009 --> 00:14:23.470 way. It's bad for the Oklahoma Summers at Cathedral 00:14:23.470 --> 00:14:26.350 City in California. Wrigley Field is the setting. 00:14:26.649 --> 00:14:29.590 And Long Beach State, the home team in this game, 00:14:29.710 --> 00:14:32.850 against Oklahoma. the Sooners, and they lose 00:14:32.850 --> 00:14:38.350 the Sooners 6 -4. Ooh. That's a bad loss. By 00:14:38.350 --> 00:14:41.990 the way, Oregon State softball played Long Beach 00:14:41.990 --> 00:14:44.669 State, and they lost by a few runs. They lost 00:14:44.669 --> 00:14:50.850 4 -3. Oklahoma lost 6 -4. So Oregon State softball 00:14:50.850 --> 00:14:53.309 did a little better against Long Beach State 00:14:53.309 --> 00:14:55.950 this season. Oklahoma softball is the bad. My 00:14:55.950 --> 00:14:59.080 bad is... I'm going to go back to Oregon State. 00:14:59.179 --> 00:15:01.299 You just mentioned Whitney. The bad for Oregon 00:15:01.299 --> 00:15:04.899 State is they end up losing to Purdue at Round 00:15:04.899 --> 00:15:07.779 Rock. Oregon State men's baseball is just 4 -3. 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:11.440 They've had a rough start. Starting pitching, 00:15:11.700 --> 00:15:14.860 immaculate. You just touched on it. The bullpen? 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:21.059 Yeah. That was a little rough for the Beavs. 00:15:21.100 --> 00:15:25.330 They end up losing to Purdue. 5 -2 as the Boilermakers 00:15:25.330 --> 00:15:28.509 wrap out eight hits. I'm not sure how good Purdue's 00:15:28.509 --> 00:15:30.049 going to be in the Big Ten. I don't know either. 00:15:30.129 --> 00:15:33.350 This might be a little bit of a warning sign 00:15:33.350 --> 00:15:36.490 for Oregon State baseball. Mitch Canham can't 00:15:36.490 --> 00:15:38.549 flip this around, especially in that back end. 00:15:39.080 --> 00:15:41.059 Well, I think that we need to see the offense, 00:15:41.259 --> 00:15:43.179 too. Not a lot of runs scored on the weekend. 00:15:43.259 --> 00:15:45.220 Well, they knew they had a lot of power they 00:15:45.220 --> 00:15:47.600 needed to replace. I know. And they've relied 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:49.879 on small ball in their history under Pat Casey. 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:51.919 Let's see if Mitch Canham, his disciple, can 00:15:51.919 --> 00:15:53.159 do that. You can't be making errors like they 00:15:53.159 --> 00:15:55.340 did against Purdue. Error on a bunt led to some 00:15:55.340 --> 00:15:58.379 unearned runs. This isn't a team that can sustain 00:15:58.379 --> 00:16:00.860 that. Okay, my ugly, and then we'll get to your 00:16:00.860 --> 00:16:06.080 ugly. My ugly is the Canadian national hockey 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:12.120 team players, Nathan McKinnon, who came out, 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:15.700 Connor McDavid as well, saying, we don't like 00:16:15.700 --> 00:16:19.100 the rules in overtime. Why are we doing three 00:16:19.100 --> 00:16:24.200 on three? Well, you do that in the NHL. You do 00:16:24.200 --> 00:16:27.019 it. You do it because you put your best skaters 00:16:27.019 --> 00:16:30.320 out. Of course, USA Hockey, after a 40 -year 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:32.580 drive, I think it was 41 years officially, beat 00:16:32.580 --> 00:16:36.320 Team Canada. We'll have that audio here in a 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:39.110 second when I do my Olympic update. But they 00:16:39.110 --> 00:16:42.350 beat Team Canada in overtime, the first gold 00:16:42.350 --> 00:16:44.669 medal for the U .S., as I said, I think in 40 00:16:44.669 --> 00:16:48.340 -plus years. Yeah, since the miracle on ice. 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:51.179 A miracle on ice. So that was 80 and it was 46 00:16:51.179 --> 00:16:54.840 years since it's been that. But they were winning. 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:57.720 It's just an ugly look. Listen, why don't you 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:00.879 just tip your cap and say they were the better 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:04.799 team today. Yes, Canada outshot the U .S. by 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:08.339 14, 16 shots. Doesn't matter. Connor Hellenberg 00:17:08.339 --> 00:17:11.539 was awesome in goal. And in hockey, if you got 00:17:11.539 --> 00:17:15.319 a hot goaltender, you're going to win. Tip your 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:18.180 hat and walk away. Don't complain about the rules. 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:21.240 Everyone's got to play on the same ice and with 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:24.220 the same rules. That was the ugly. My ugly from 00:17:24.220 --> 00:17:27.539 over the weekend was a continuation of the Darren 00:17:27.539 --> 00:17:31.859 Peterson saga. Talented guard, freshman from 00:17:31.859 --> 00:17:35.480 Kansas, the Jayhawks. And he did have 17 points 00:17:35.480 --> 00:17:38.220 over the weekend, but... Kansas lost to unranked 00:17:38.220 --> 00:17:40.740 Cincinnati, and what people are looking at is 00:17:40.740 --> 00:17:44.319 this one picture of Mr. Peterson as his teammates 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:47.900 are all huddled together, and he is slowly walking 00:17:47.900 --> 00:17:50.920 back, not a part of the group, clearly a little 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:53.099 bit of dissension with his teammates, and man, 00:17:53.259 --> 00:17:56.180 it says a lot about a guy the same weekend that 00:17:56.180 --> 00:17:58.160 Aja DeBansa, you mentioned in our big bets, one 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:00.980 of the games we picked, he plays 40 minutes in 00:18:00.980 --> 00:18:04.579 a upset win over a top 10 team the same weekend 00:18:04.579 --> 00:18:07.329 that... Darren Peterson is taking himself out 00:18:07.329 --> 00:18:09.930 of games and not looking engaged with his teammates. 00:18:10.130 --> 00:18:13.430 This guy, nobody questions that his talent is 00:18:13.430 --> 00:18:16.910 number one pick talent. How weird do things have 00:18:16.910 --> 00:18:20.049 to be to where it looks like now he might not 00:18:20.049 --> 00:18:22.069 be the number one pick because there's this other 00:18:22.069 --> 00:18:25.490 guy who seems like he's safer. Attitude is altitude 00:18:25.490 --> 00:18:27.930 sometimes in sports. Competitors are important. 00:18:28.009 --> 00:18:30.309 Yep, they are. All right, that's your good, bad, 00:18:30.329 --> 00:18:33.660 and the ugly. on the danny and justin radio program 00:18:33.660 --> 00:18:35.220 all right so we got through the first segment 00:18:35.220 --> 00:18:40.279 okay no blood everybody's fine no casualties 00:18:40.279 --> 00:18:43.819 so thanks for tuning in on the bigfoot beverages 00:18:43.819 --> 00:18:47.059 studio fox sports eugene fox sports newport little 00:18:47.059 --> 00:18:49.279 radio program we call danny and justin we're 00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:52.400 gonna head to a break when we come back old sawbones 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:57.480 from the ergonian ryan t clark esquire is going 00:18:57.480 --> 00:18:59.500 to join us we're going to talk and break down 00:18:59.500 --> 00:19:02.170 a little bit further The big win by Dana Altman's 00:19:02.170 --> 00:19:06.109 squad down in L .A. Mark Waskowski's team is 00:19:06.109 --> 00:19:09.750 in rarefied air. Their most wins coming out of 00:19:09.750 --> 00:19:13.269 the gate. They're undefeated at 8 -0 since 2014. 00:19:13.630 --> 00:19:16.170 We'll break those down with the esteemed Ryan 00:19:16.170 --> 00:19:18.470 Clark on the Danny and Justin Radio program for 00:19:18.470 --> 00:19:24.049 a Monday. Thanks for tuning in. The Danny and 00:19:24.049 --> 00:19:26.210 Justin Radio program rolls on for a Monday. Thanks 00:19:26.210 --> 00:19:29.349 for tuning in wherever and however. I'm Doc. 00:19:29.450 --> 00:19:31.930 Right over there is baby Jay, Blaze, sitting 00:19:31.930 --> 00:19:35.869 in the pilot's chair. And as we head on over 00:19:35.869 --> 00:19:38.549 to the Oregon Man Clinics hotline at 541 -343 00:19:38.549 --> 00:19:43.170 -5673, we welcome in yet again our good friend 00:19:43.170 --> 00:19:46.369 from the Oregonian. He is a Cronkite alum. That's 00:19:46.369 --> 00:19:50.369 Arizona State University, folks. He is Ryan Thomas 00:19:50.369 --> 00:19:52.390 Clark. We call him Sawbones. How was your weekend, 00:19:52.450 --> 00:19:56.640 buddy? Good, guys. Kept it low -key. Spent some 00:19:56.640 --> 00:19:58.759 time in wine country with the wife. Can't complain. 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:02.019 Nice. Okay, there's a lot of wine country, though. 00:20:02.059 --> 00:20:05.859 You have to kind of pull it down just a little 00:20:05.859 --> 00:20:08.839 bit because there's up and down the valley. There's 00:20:08.839 --> 00:20:11.339 up in the gorge. There's like in the Newburgh, 00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:14.980 Dundee, Amity area. Which location were you at? 00:20:15.039 --> 00:20:17.910 Not like we've got the tracker on you. Oh, for 00:20:17.910 --> 00:20:21.589 sure. We spend a lot of time in primarily the 00:20:21.589 --> 00:20:24.009 Newburgh and Dundee area, obviously great Pinot 00:20:24.009 --> 00:20:26.710 Noir and Chardonnay out there. We're a couple 00:20:26.710 --> 00:20:29.170 of big wine people, so Beau Frere is a spot we 00:20:29.170 --> 00:20:33.430 love. Bethel Heights, Resonance, a couple of 00:20:33.430 --> 00:20:36.609 good recommendations for those wine -inclined 00:20:36.609 --> 00:20:40.390 sports fans. So, Ryan? There is some breaking 00:20:40.390 --> 00:20:42.569 news, and your colleague James Krepia, I think, 00:20:42.569 --> 00:20:45.769 just broke it from the Oregon State side. And 00:20:45.769 --> 00:20:50.710 we wanted to talk baseball and men's basketball, 00:20:50.829 --> 00:20:53.009 but, well, lo and behold, football just kind 00:20:53.009 --> 00:20:54.849 of sticks their nose back into everything. And 00:20:54.849 --> 00:20:57.509 thank goodness, because normally we get the breaking 00:20:57.509 --> 00:20:59.910 news at like 3 .02, two minutes after we get 00:20:59.910 --> 00:21:02.130 off the air. So go ahead and let the listening 00:21:02.130 --> 00:21:04.089 audience know what's going on with the Civil 00:21:04.089 --> 00:21:08.089 War. Yeah, so it had originally been reported 00:21:08.089 --> 00:21:10.890 by my colleague Bill Orem that they're not going 00:21:10.890 --> 00:21:13.589 to continue the series in 2026. We knew that 00:21:13.589 --> 00:21:16.470 there wouldn't be a game this fall. Now, James 00:21:16.470 --> 00:21:19.609 Creppi is speaking to OSU Athletic Director Scott 00:21:19.609 --> 00:21:23.890 Barnes, finds out that 2027 there will also not 00:21:23.890 --> 00:21:27.390 be a game between Oregon and Oregon State. Scott 00:21:27.390 --> 00:21:29.769 Barnes said that they had some adjustments they 00:21:29.769 --> 00:21:33.140 needed to make. most recently on their side to, 00:21:33.220 --> 00:21:36.480 in his words, get through some things. And they're 00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:39.059 looking to sign a deal for a four -year series 00:21:39.059 --> 00:21:43.359 that would begin at Reser in 2028 and go back 00:21:43.359 --> 00:21:47.650 to Austin in 2029. If that deal goes through 00:21:47.650 --> 00:21:50.369 and that's not even finalized, 2028 would be 00:21:50.369 --> 00:21:53.109 the earliest we'd see another football game between 00:21:53.109 --> 00:21:55.829 Oregon and Oregon State. So that's kind of cryptic, 00:21:55.829 --> 00:21:59.490 get through some things. Was there any amplification 00:21:59.490 --> 00:22:04.190 on that statement? Is it because the new Pac 00:22:04.190 --> 00:22:06.569 -12 and they want to kind of hunker down and 00:22:06.569 --> 00:22:11.329 get as many conference games in or, I would guess, 00:22:11.430 --> 00:22:15.019 pump up their schedule a bit? If I could speculate, 00:22:15.119 --> 00:22:18.140 I would say that the level of uncertainty with 00:22:18.140 --> 00:22:21.640 regard to the size of the Pac -12, their plans 00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:25.160 for future attempts to get into the college football 00:22:25.160 --> 00:22:28.160 playoff and build maybe a little bit more manageable 00:22:28.160 --> 00:22:31.599 non -conference schedules for some of its more 00:22:31.599 --> 00:22:35.759 robustly funded programs, all of that could absolutely 00:22:35.759 --> 00:22:40.299 factor in. But on the Oregon State side, that 00:22:40.299 --> 00:22:44.230 is a game that... Until things change quite a 00:22:44.230 --> 00:22:46.970 bit for their football program is a non -competitive 00:22:46.970 --> 00:22:51.690 penciled NL for them every year. And how much 00:22:51.690 --> 00:22:53.930 of that do you think is important? Do you think 00:22:53.930 --> 00:22:56.349 that part of this a little bit is at least Oregon 00:22:56.349 --> 00:22:59.009 State gives them a couple years to build up their 00:22:59.009 --> 00:23:02.529 team? There could be a couple years into the 00:23:02.529 --> 00:23:04.369 new Pac -12 at that point to get their team a 00:23:04.369 --> 00:23:06.490 little bit more competitive. How actually important 00:23:06.490 --> 00:23:08.970 is that to this rivalry, the competitiveness 00:23:08.970 --> 00:23:12.950 of the game? I think that it certainly should 00:23:12.950 --> 00:23:16.269 be a consideration behind the scenes. But in 00:23:16.269 --> 00:23:20.230 terms of financial reasons and positive reasons 00:23:20.230 --> 00:23:23.470 to keep it going for the Oregon State side, it 00:23:23.470 --> 00:23:26.589 would be ticket sales. It would be having a game 00:23:26.589 --> 00:23:30.150 at Reser that you know you're going to sell out 00:23:30.150 --> 00:23:32.130 that's going to be a boon financially for your 00:23:32.130 --> 00:23:38.119 program. That's a boost. Yeah, I mean, you can't 00:23:38.119 --> 00:23:40.500 obviously, if you're at Oregon State, admit publicly 00:23:40.500 --> 00:23:43.200 that, look, we're not competitive in this rivalry 00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:47.920 anymore. Why even keep playing it? But some Oregon 00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:50.980 State fans wouldn't mind them coming out and 00:23:50.980 --> 00:23:53.759 saying that because, frankly, they're tired of 00:23:53.759 --> 00:23:57.140 the rivalry itself, and they have harsh feelings 00:23:57.140 --> 00:24:00.759 towards Oregon with how everything went in terms 00:24:00.759 --> 00:24:03.720 of the Pac -12's collapse. A lot of layers and 00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:06.700 emotional complication to it, but certainly something 00:24:06.700 --> 00:24:10.299 that we'll see how it ends up playing out. I 00:24:10.299 --> 00:24:12.519 guess my question to those people then, and I'm 00:24:12.519 --> 00:24:13.920 not saying you're saying this, would be then, 00:24:13.980 --> 00:24:15.420 OK, what's the difference between that and then 00:24:15.420 --> 00:24:17.640 in baseball? They're playing a series up in Beaverton. 00:24:17.720 --> 00:24:19.339 They're playing three times. Almost every other 00:24:19.339 --> 00:24:22.259 sport. Every other sport's playing in, you know, 00:24:22.279 --> 00:24:24.000 they're playing in that rivalry series, but it's 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:26.799 just not football. Yeah, I think that the gap 00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:29.819 in football is. quite a bit larger than it is 00:24:29.819 --> 00:24:31.940 in baseball. Now, obviously, Oregon State has 00:24:31.940 --> 00:24:34.779 much more success historically than Oregon does 00:24:34.779 --> 00:24:39.019 in baseball, but it's not the sort of beatdown 00:24:39.019 --> 00:24:41.160 that we've seen these last couple of years. Now, 00:24:41.200 --> 00:24:44.680 is there more tradition and history with football 00:24:44.680 --> 00:24:46.880 because of football's popularity? Of course. 00:24:47.039 --> 00:24:50.079 But, you know, the landscape of college football 00:24:50.079 --> 00:24:55.240 is so rife with uncertainty and the gap has grown 00:24:55.240 --> 00:24:58.240 so much that... That has to be factoring in here, 00:24:58.359 --> 00:25:01.160 and we'll probably learn more in the coming months, 00:25:01.220 --> 00:25:04.400 and myself and James Krepia will continue to 00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:07.759 try to report out details of how this is sort 00:25:07.759 --> 00:25:10.869 of viewed behind the scenes. It's Ryan Clark. 00:25:10.970 --> 00:25:13.549 You can follow him on Twitter from the Oregonian 00:25:13.549 --> 00:25:17.390 at Ryan T. Clark. And you also give the Oregonian 00:25:17.390 --> 00:25:20.170 a follow as well at Oregonian and also Oregon 00:25:20.170 --> 00:25:22.410 Live Online. He joins us on the Danny and Justin 00:25:22.410 --> 00:25:24.670 radio program. We call him Sawbones live from 00:25:24.670 --> 00:25:26.390 the Bigfoot Beverage Studio and the Oregon Man 00:25:26.390 --> 00:25:31.630 Clinics Hotline at 541 -343 -5673. So let's stay 00:25:31.630 --> 00:25:33.869 on baseball. Oregon baseball off to its best 00:25:33.869 --> 00:25:36.950 start in more than a decade. Going back to 2014, 00:25:37.470 --> 00:25:40.480 the Ducks improved to eight. 8 -0 after the sweep 00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:44.960 of Youngstown State. And Oregon's going to have 00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:48.759 to stay hot in the Live Like Lou Las Vegas Collegiate 00:25:48.759 --> 00:25:52.099 Classic. The competition is going to increase 00:25:52.099 --> 00:25:55.900 exponentially with Arizona, UC Irvine, and Vanderbilt 00:25:55.900 --> 00:25:59.779 this next weekend. But what was your takeaway? 00:25:59.900 --> 00:26:01.460 Because Justin and I were at the game on Saturday. 00:26:01.519 --> 00:26:04.420 What was your takeaway from these first two opening 00:26:04.420 --> 00:26:07.619 weekends of Waz's team and what they've improved 00:26:07.619 --> 00:26:11.549 over last year? Yeah, obviously, you like what 00:26:11.549 --> 00:26:13.849 you see from the bats, being able to produce 00:26:13.849 --> 00:26:16.789 offensively the way that they did, even against 00:26:16.789 --> 00:26:19.609 that level of competition in George Mason and 00:26:19.609 --> 00:26:22.369 Youngstown State. That's something that is definitely 00:26:22.369 --> 00:26:26.269 encouraging. But something that Oregon really 00:26:26.269 --> 00:26:28.960 shored up in the portal that... I think has shown 00:26:28.960 --> 00:26:31.140 itself these couple of weeks, again, despite 00:26:31.140 --> 00:26:34.839 the competition, is the overall improvement of 00:26:34.839 --> 00:26:37.799 the pitching staff and I think the balance. That's 00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:40.299 something that when it came postseason time last 00:26:40.299 --> 00:26:43.059 year really killed the Ducks. And, you know, 00:26:43.059 --> 00:26:45.160 for them to have played as well as they have 00:26:45.160 --> 00:26:48.119 these first few weeks, not putting up any lopsided 00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:52.000 or ugly or concerning numbers. It is a good thing. 00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:55.599 Now, obviously, at the very alliterative live 00:26:55.599 --> 00:26:58.460 like Lou Las Vegas college baseball classic, 00:26:58.720 --> 00:27:02.559 they are going to get more of a test for sure 00:27:02.559 --> 00:27:05.599 as a pitching staff and really as a team overall. 00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:08.200 And that Oregon State game, that first one that 00:27:08.200 --> 00:27:10.599 they're going to play in Eugene on March 3rd, 00:27:10.599 --> 00:27:14.940 another big test. a way to celebrate a rivalry 00:27:14.940 --> 00:27:18.539 that's in tatters on the football side. But certainly 00:27:18.539 --> 00:27:21.839 these next few weeks are going to be what I think 00:27:21.839 --> 00:27:27.160 are a real example of what this team is at this 00:27:27.160 --> 00:27:30.799 point in the season. Oregon's head coach, Mark 00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:35.119 Wasikowski, also reached his 300th win as a head 00:27:35.119 --> 00:27:37.819 coach in the sweep over Youngstown State. Just 00:27:37.819 --> 00:27:40.990 how steady... has he made this program? Because 00:27:40.990 --> 00:27:42.910 it just seems like year to year now, this could 00:27:42.910 --> 00:27:44.349 have been one of those years he had a really 00:27:44.349 --> 00:27:47.769 disappointing loss the way that last season ended. 00:27:47.930 --> 00:27:49.730 Coming into this year, it seems like, hey, this 00:27:49.730 --> 00:27:52.890 team's also really, really good. How steady does 00:27:52.890 --> 00:27:56.289 Coach Wazikowski have this program now? I think 00:27:56.289 --> 00:27:59.009 that he's done a really good job with two things. 00:27:59.069 --> 00:28:02.950 One, building out his staff with guys that have 00:28:02.950 --> 00:28:05.730 a lot of deep connections in Major League Baseball. 00:28:06.490 --> 00:28:09.609 Also navigating something that's a challenge 00:28:09.609 --> 00:28:13.309 for a lot of baseball coaches at schools like 00:28:13.309 --> 00:28:17.259 Oregon, which is. doing as much as he can with 00:28:17.259 --> 00:28:20.220 perhaps a more limited NIL budget than maybe 00:28:20.220 --> 00:28:23.920 an SEC school or a traditional power in baseball 00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:26.180 that doesn't have to elbow football out of the 00:28:26.180 --> 00:28:32.000 way for dollars. Not that there's a shortage 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:34.279 of money by any stretch when it comes to the 00:28:34.279 --> 00:28:37.599 Oregon baseball program relative to some others 00:28:37.599 --> 00:28:39.359 in the country. They're still a Big Ten team. 00:28:39.460 --> 00:28:42.190 They're still Oregon. But they're at a school 00:28:42.190 --> 00:28:44.829 where football is absolutely the priority and 00:28:44.829 --> 00:28:47.349 is going to continue to be so, especially in 00:28:47.349 --> 00:28:49.730 the rev share era. So I think Waz has done a 00:28:49.730 --> 00:28:52.990 great job navigating that and building out competitive 00:28:52.990 --> 00:28:56.930 rosters, you know, year after year. Ryan T. Clark 00:28:56.930 --> 00:28:58.950 joining us from the Argonne on the Danny Justin 00:28:58.950 --> 00:29:02.759 radio program. And by the way, it is hard. And 00:29:02.759 --> 00:29:04.539 people shouldn't discount this, although they 00:29:04.539 --> 00:29:06.900 can say, you know, George Mason and Youngstown 00:29:06.900 --> 00:29:09.420 State, maybe not the stiffest of competition. 00:29:09.619 --> 00:29:11.619 But we're going to see that, you know, ramp up, 00:29:11.700 --> 00:29:14.160 especially in these next four games for the Ducks. 00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:17.500 However, it is hard to keep going out and beating 00:29:17.500 --> 00:29:20.819 the number one pitchers in these opposing staffs. 00:29:20.839 --> 00:29:23.380 And for the Ducks in the middle of this, Braden 00:29:23.380 --> 00:29:26.079 Gebhardt, who took Auburn to near the end. And 00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:29.200 then on the Saturday, I think it was a Saturday 00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:32.240 or the Sunday win, Brandon Mikos. Both those 00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:35.920 guys, they can throw some heat. And the bats 00:29:35.920 --> 00:29:39.180 were just good enough in that win against Gebhardt 00:29:39.180 --> 00:29:41.420 and then exploded again with six runs in the 00:29:41.420 --> 00:29:44.880 first two innings against Mikko. So you touched 00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:47.640 on it a little bit. And I think one thing that 00:29:47.640 --> 00:29:50.400 Woz is going to lean into, besides what he's 00:29:50.400 --> 00:29:52.019 done with the pitching staff with Matt Flora 00:29:52.019 --> 00:29:55.240 coming in from San Diego. Are those bats? Because 00:29:55.240 --> 00:29:57.619 he had to replace almost two -thirds of his runs 00:29:57.619 --> 00:30:03.000 that either left or went to the draft after last 00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:06.150 year. Am I on the right track? Oh, certainly. 00:30:06.349 --> 00:30:09.690 And I think you can't discount the manner in 00:30:09.690 --> 00:30:11.769 which they've been beating these teams, despite 00:30:11.769 --> 00:30:13.710 the fact that they obviously aren't power conference 00:30:13.710 --> 00:30:16.170 teams. You got to remember that Eugene Regional, 00:30:16.190 --> 00:30:19.150 they lost to Utah Valley and Cal Poly. Those 00:30:19.150 --> 00:30:23.089 aren't like historic national championship contending 00:30:23.089 --> 00:30:26.109 programs. So, you know, even with the talent 00:30:26.109 --> 00:30:28.509 that they had at that time, they didn't put the 00:30:28.509 --> 00:30:30.730 pieces together. And that's where I think that 00:30:30.730 --> 00:30:33.109 the intangible aspect could come in for this 00:30:33.109 --> 00:30:34.920 team. And it's something they talked about. in 00:30:34.920 --> 00:30:38.119 their preseason media availability is that, yeah, 00:30:38.180 --> 00:30:41.160 last year's team was talented, but where some 00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:43.019 of the players feel like they slipped up was 00:30:43.019 --> 00:30:45.640 playing as a team, and, you know, that's a cliche, 00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:49.069 and that's... something that's intangible, but 00:30:49.069 --> 00:30:52.269 you felt it these first eight games for Oregon, 00:30:52.329 --> 00:30:54.549 and if they can keep that rolling and remain 00:30:54.549 --> 00:30:57.369 competitive against some power conference teams, 00:30:57.430 --> 00:31:00.029 starting with Arizona, I think they could be 00:31:00.029 --> 00:31:02.289 a pretty good team this year. Let's transition 00:31:02.289 --> 00:31:05.829 over to Oregon men's basketball, where Dana Altman's 00:31:05.829 --> 00:31:08.269 team picked up their third win in the Big Ten. 00:31:08.309 --> 00:31:11.490 They're now 3 -13, so tied for second to last 00:31:11.490 --> 00:31:15.210 place in the Big Ten. But, hey, listen, USC... 00:31:15.819 --> 00:31:17.940 I don't think anybody is upset on the Oregon 00:31:17.940 --> 00:31:19.859 side that they get a big win, maybe preventing 00:31:19.859 --> 00:31:22.400 USC from getting to the tournament. Something 00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:24.140 Danny and I have talked about. I know Danny's 00:31:24.140 --> 00:31:28.039 wanted to see a win like that. Yeah, a win against 00:31:28.039 --> 00:31:30.279 a team that he maybe didn't expect. I've sort 00:31:30.279 --> 00:31:31.720 of been on the train of, like, I'm not really 00:31:31.720 --> 00:31:34.000 sure at this point with this roster that's on 00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:36.279 this court if any of this really even matters 00:31:36.279 --> 00:31:38.079 at this point. Where do you kind of stand on 00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:40.400 that? How big is this win against USC? Is this 00:31:40.400 --> 00:31:43.440 just sort of a nice -to -spite arrival, or is 00:31:43.440 --> 00:31:46.460 there anything to this one? I think it's a little 00:31:46.460 --> 00:31:49.039 deeper than that. Obviously the season's lost, 00:31:49.220 --> 00:31:51.619 and obviously the same type of questions are 00:31:51.619 --> 00:31:53.140 going to be asked at the end of the year about 00:31:53.140 --> 00:31:55.839 what does the future look like for Dana Altman 00:31:55.839 --> 00:31:59.000 with two years left on his contract. Nothing 00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:01.720 solid on that front yet by way of our reporting. 00:32:02.750 --> 00:32:05.190 In terms of this season, this group of guys, 00:32:05.390 --> 00:32:08.269 it's a pride thing. It's an opportunity for them 00:32:08.269 --> 00:32:10.529 to play for a coach that they respect in Dana 00:32:10.529 --> 00:32:13.990 Altman and, you know, stick it to a rival. Look, 00:32:14.109 --> 00:32:19.309 in basketball, people like to, you know, be a 00:32:19.309 --> 00:32:23.130 bit of a thorn in the side of a conference rival. 00:32:23.309 --> 00:32:26.109 And I think Oregon's been that for USC over the 00:32:26.109 --> 00:32:28.710 last couple of years. And USC was on the bubble. 00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:31.779 and they might have just burst that bubble by 00:32:31.779 --> 00:32:35.339 losing to an Oregon team that, you know, other 00:32:35.339 --> 00:32:38.220 than the Penn State game, has not been terribly 00:32:38.220 --> 00:32:41.500 competitive for the last couple of months. And, 00:32:41.519 --> 00:32:43.279 you know, it's nice for them to have Nate Biddle 00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:45.859 back, but the bellwether for them has been Kwame 00:32:45.859 --> 00:32:48.259 Evans Jr., and he had a great game against USC, 00:32:48.619 --> 00:32:51.920 and that was, I think, the difference for Oregon. 00:32:52.410 --> 00:32:55.329 Yeah, KJ, 11 of 13 at the charity stripe, four 00:32:55.329 --> 00:32:57.230 of nine from the field, including two of three 00:32:57.230 --> 00:33:00.029 from outside the mark with the 21 points of the 00:33:00.029 --> 00:33:02.529 eight rebounds. Nate Biddle, another double -double. 00:33:02.609 --> 00:33:04.690 Just, you know, he brings his lunch pail, his 00:33:04.690 --> 00:33:07.430 hard hat to the game every single time he's out 00:33:07.430 --> 00:33:09.829 on the floor. 14 points, 11 rebounds, leading 00:33:09.829 --> 00:33:12.329 four players in double figures as Oregon sneaks 00:33:12.329 --> 00:33:15.230 away with the win. Southern Cal drops to 18 -9 00:33:15.230 --> 00:33:18.130 overall, 7 -9 in the Big Ten as Oregon improves 00:33:18.130 --> 00:33:22.099 to 10 -17 and 3 -13 in the Big Ten. Is the biggest 00:33:22.099 --> 00:33:24.839 challenge for Rob Mullins going to be, and this 00:33:24.839 --> 00:33:26.680 is just conjecture on your point, so I'm going 00:33:26.680 --> 00:33:29.960 to ask you to put your little soothsayer's hat 00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:36.180 on, Sawbones, is can, and I think the only knock 00:33:36.180 --> 00:33:39.420 I've heard about Dana Altman is that The game 00:33:39.420 --> 00:33:42.079 hasn't passed him by on the floor, but it's about 00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:44.279 the talent that he's recruiting or gathering 00:33:44.279 --> 00:33:47.200 and not necessarily navigating the NIL and the 00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:50.039 transfer portal accurately or effectively for 00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:51.660 the University of Oregon the last few years. 00:33:51.799 --> 00:33:53.960 So is that something you think Rob Mullen's going 00:33:53.960 --> 00:33:56.400 to just press Dana on in the offseason? Because 00:33:56.400 --> 00:33:58.559 he's got a guaranteed deal. If they want to get 00:33:58.559 --> 00:33:59.920 rid of him, they're going to have to pay more 00:33:59.920 --> 00:34:02.900 than $10 million to replace him and then find 00:34:02.900 --> 00:34:04.660 another coach where it's not going to be a lateral 00:34:04.660 --> 00:34:06.859 move but an upward move. So you think that is 00:34:06.859 --> 00:34:09.150 going to be the discussion about? What is Dana 00:34:09.150 --> 00:34:11.750 Altman's plan for this program moving forward 00:34:11.750 --> 00:34:15.070 and how to adjust? Yeah, I think it's going to 00:34:15.070 --> 00:34:17.110 be a question of whether Rob Mullins wants to 00:34:17.110 --> 00:34:19.849 navigate the challenge of doing something like 00:34:19.849 --> 00:34:23.030 that in this first fiscal year of rev share in 00:34:23.030 --> 00:34:25.690 this crucial year for football where so many 00:34:25.690 --> 00:34:28.170 resources are being allocated towards it and 00:34:28.170 --> 00:34:31.269 there's a lot of pressure on the football program 00:34:31.269 --> 00:34:34.809 to take another step as they've continued to 00:34:34.809 --> 00:34:37.420 take steps year after year. But on the basketball 00:34:37.420 --> 00:34:40.179 side, yeah, I think that it's fair to criticize 00:34:40.179 --> 00:34:44.019 these last couple of years under Dana Altman 00:34:44.019 --> 00:34:47.599 as not being necessarily up to pace with the 00:34:47.599 --> 00:34:50.800 rest of the country and, frankly, obviously the 00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:54.539 Big Ten Conference in transfer portal acquisitions, 00:34:54.599 --> 00:34:57.980 spending on the right positions, building depth 00:34:57.980 --> 00:35:01.960 out. It was evidenced this year by the fact that, 00:35:01.960 --> 00:35:04.500 you know, Shelstad went down and suddenly they 00:35:04.500 --> 00:35:06.679 didn't have a guard on the roster that was a 00:35:06.679 --> 00:35:09.539 reliable and consistent playmaker. That can't 00:35:09.539 --> 00:35:11.360 happen. You know, Jackson Shelstad's a great 00:35:11.360 --> 00:35:14.860 player, but it's something that Altman himself 00:35:14.860 --> 00:35:16.519 has admitted that he should have done a better 00:35:16.519 --> 00:35:20.039 job building depth out for that position. And 00:35:20.039 --> 00:35:22.519 that's across the board and something that I 00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:25.369 certainly think will be part of the... conversations 00:35:25.369 --> 00:35:29.869 between Altman and Rob Mullins this offseason 00:35:29.869 --> 00:35:33.349 is how do you build out the program? Do you invest 00:35:33.349 --> 00:35:37.409 in a general manager that can assist as they 00:35:37.409 --> 00:35:40.010 do for great programs and great coaches all over 00:35:40.010 --> 00:35:43.469 the country in building out a competitive roster 00:35:43.469 --> 00:35:47.429 so that Altman can coach up guys that are capable 00:35:47.429 --> 00:35:49.670 of winning some games? Right now they aren't 00:35:49.670 --> 00:35:53.079 built that way. Speaking of the way that you're 00:35:53.079 --> 00:35:55.480 building, how important is it at this point to 00:35:55.480 --> 00:35:57.579 be able to build through freshman classes in 00:35:57.579 --> 00:36:00.119 high school? It's something that Dana has been 00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:01.800 very willing to go through the portal. It's not 00:36:01.800 --> 00:36:04.400 like he's never had freshman classes, and not 00:36:04.400 --> 00:36:07.079 that they are always very small, but looking 00:36:07.079 --> 00:36:09.679 ahead to next year, Taj Ariza, and then you've 00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:11.059 got Kendra Harrison, who's going to obviously 00:36:11.059 --> 00:36:14.260 be playing football and maybe playing some basketball, 00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:17.019 but not a huge freshman class right now. How 00:36:17.019 --> 00:36:19.139 important do you think it is, and how possible 00:36:19.139 --> 00:36:22.840 do you think it is? current modern day college 00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:25.719 basketball to build that way through the high 00:36:25.719 --> 00:36:28.579 school ranks? I think it's harder than it's ever 00:36:28.579 --> 00:36:32.260 been, especially for a coach as late in their 00:36:32.260 --> 00:36:35.809 career as Dana. You can't sell the... development 00:36:35.809 --> 00:36:38.329 piece to guys as much anymore as you might have 00:36:38.329 --> 00:36:40.670 been able to earlier in Dana's career. And that's 00:36:40.670 --> 00:36:42.449 something that, you know, you think about the 00:36:42.449 --> 00:36:44.469 names over the years, like Peyton Pritchard, 00:36:44.469 --> 00:36:47.730 like Jackson Shelstad, who have developed in 00:36:47.730 --> 00:36:49.710 their time in the program and, you know, seeing 00:36:49.710 --> 00:36:52.630 that bear fruit. But a lot of guys, frankly, 00:36:52.690 --> 00:36:55.210 just are not patient enough in the modern college 00:36:55.210 --> 00:36:58.090 landscape to want to go through that. And yet 00:36:58.090 --> 00:36:59.710 on top of that, they don't know how many more 00:36:59.710 --> 00:37:01.949 years a guy like Dana Altman is going to coach 00:37:01.949 --> 00:37:04.619 at Oregon. that level of uncertainty makes it 00:37:04.619 --> 00:37:07.980 harder to sort of plumb the high school recruiting 00:37:07.980 --> 00:37:10.380 ranks and build your roster out that way, at 00:37:10.380 --> 00:37:13.380 least in the short term for Oregon. So it's got 00:37:13.380 --> 00:37:15.639 to be a lot of portal stuff. It's got to be a 00:37:15.639 --> 00:37:22.019 greater level of investment in scouting and talent 00:37:22.019 --> 00:37:26.900 acquisition staff that can help build this thing 00:37:26.900 --> 00:37:30.800 to a place where a guy that knows the X's and 00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:33.639 O's better than a lot of... college basketball 00:37:33.639 --> 00:37:36.760 and Dana Altman can. find the success in these 00:37:36.760 --> 00:37:39.039 last couple of years and go out on a better note 00:37:39.039 --> 00:37:41.559 than a season like this one. Well, roster construction 00:37:41.559 --> 00:37:43.519 is going to be at the top of everyone's mind. 00:37:43.619 --> 00:37:45.760 And for Coach Altman, he's got a couple of kids, 00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:48.340 four and five stars, led by Taj Ariza, Trevor's 00:37:48.340 --> 00:37:50.599 son, who are going to be in this incoming class. 00:37:50.780 --> 00:37:53.719 In fact, Oregon's also on the bubble with another 00:37:53.719 --> 00:37:57.460 four -star guard. So there could be three really 00:37:57.460 --> 00:38:00.780 high -level recruits coming in that would be 00:38:00.780 --> 00:38:03.300 incoming freshmen. And then you got to look at 00:38:03.300 --> 00:38:04.340 what you're going to be losing. You're going 00:38:04.340 --> 00:38:06.849 to be losing. Nate Biddle. You're going to probably 00:38:06.849 --> 00:38:09.730 be losing Jackson Shelstad. I don't know. KJ. 00:38:10.070 --> 00:38:12.869 KJ, obviously. So roster reconstruction is going 00:38:12.869 --> 00:38:15.710 to be first and foremost. Oregon returns home 00:38:15.710 --> 00:38:18.690 to play Wisconsin Wednesday night, 8 p .m. on 00:38:18.690 --> 00:38:21.130 the Big Ten Network. Well, Sawbones, you did 00:38:21.130 --> 00:38:23.630 well, as always. You get a gold star. I don't 00:38:23.630 --> 00:38:25.170 know if you can put that on Twitter or whatever, 00:38:25.309 --> 00:38:27.929 but gold star for the content today, as always. 00:38:28.090 --> 00:38:29.929 Great job here on the program. We appreciate 00:38:29.929 --> 00:38:32.760 you, bud. No problem. I'll get a whiteboard set 00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:35.699 up in my bedroom and put some little smileys 00:38:35.699 --> 00:38:38.179 and gold star stickers on there and, you know, 00:38:38.179 --> 00:38:40.059 feel like I've accomplished something. That a 00:38:40.059 --> 00:38:42.719 boy job. Thanks, Ryan. Take care. Thanks, guys. 00:38:42.860 --> 00:38:44.820 All right. There he goes. The great Ryan T. Clark. 00:38:44.960 --> 00:38:47.400 We call him Sawbones on the Danny and Justin 00:38:47.400 --> 00:38:49.719 radio program. So when we come back, we'll have 00:38:49.719 --> 00:38:52.679 our last Olympic update. Olympic Games are finally 00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:56.559 over. They've passed the torch to France for 00:38:56.559 --> 00:39:00.289 the next Winter Games. But we'll have one last 00:39:00.289 --> 00:39:03.010 right around the horn on the Olympics. We'll 00:39:03.010 --> 00:39:05.690 talk Oregon women's softball, recovered with 00:39:05.690 --> 00:39:07.969 a big win over a ranked team. They will go 3 00:39:07.969 --> 00:39:11.170 -2 in the Mary Nutter. We'll talk Oregon women's 00:39:11.170 --> 00:39:13.489 basketball as well, Oregon State men's and women's 00:39:13.489 --> 00:39:15.570 basketball. Oregon softball has a no -hitter 00:39:15.570 --> 00:39:17.949 as well. A lot to cram in in the last few minutes. 00:39:17.969 --> 00:39:19.789 Stay tuned on the Danny and Justin radio program. 00:39:22.599 --> 00:39:25.500 Thanks once again to the great Sawbones, Ryan 00:39:25.500 --> 00:39:28.280 T. Clark from the Oregonian, talking a lot of 00:39:28.280 --> 00:39:32.880 Oregon. Well, we pushed football in there. Kind 00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:36.780 of noses its way into everything we do. And the 00:39:36.780 --> 00:39:41.440 rivalry game is going to be a no for the next 00:39:41.440 --> 00:39:44.139 two years between Oregon and Oregon State. So 00:39:44.139 --> 00:39:46.719 no Civil War in football, but apparently they'll 00:39:46.719 --> 00:39:48.719 keep playing each other in basketball and baseball. 00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:52.099 and everything else, like tumbling, acrobatics. 00:39:52.260 --> 00:39:55.199 I don't know if they do lacrosse or soccer against 00:39:55.199 --> 00:39:59.579 Oregon State. I don't know. Thumb wars. Whatever 00:39:59.579 --> 00:40:02.639 it is, except for football. One, two, three, 00:40:02.699 --> 00:40:05.340 four, I declare a thumb war. That's the way we 00:40:05.340 --> 00:40:07.719 do it. Live from the Bigfoot Beverages Studios, 00:40:08.239 --> 00:40:10.139 Fox Sports, Eugene, Fox Sports, Newport. If you 00:40:10.139 --> 00:40:11.840 missed any of that interview with Ryan Clark 00:40:11.840 --> 00:40:14.119 or any of our programs, go back to the podcast. 00:40:14.679 --> 00:40:16.719 Danny and Justin, just go look it up wherever 00:40:16.719 --> 00:40:21.000 you platform. your music or your podcasts, and 00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:24.300 we're there for you. That's right. All the time. 00:40:24.340 --> 00:40:26.860 On demand. You just push the button and Justin 00:40:26.860 --> 00:40:29.880 starts talking to you. How great is that? You're 00:40:29.880 --> 00:40:32.179 just like one of those dolls with the string 00:40:32.179 --> 00:40:34.340 on the back. You pull it back and then you let 00:40:34.340 --> 00:40:37.039 it go. To some family and friends, it's not great. 00:40:38.619 --> 00:40:43.139 All right. Our last Olympic update of the season. 00:40:43.239 --> 00:40:46.659 And let's go ahead and start out. The women took 00:40:46.659 --> 00:40:51.079 care of Canada. So did the men in the gold medal 00:40:51.079 --> 00:40:54.880 game. And here's how the overtime goal sounded. 00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:27.300 Jack Hughes, along with his brother Quinn, were 00:41:27.300 --> 00:41:31.099 on the team. Well, they weren't on the team. 00:41:31.139 --> 00:41:33.400 They knew people on the team in the 2010 Vancouver 00:41:33.400 --> 00:41:36.400 Olympics gold medal game and in the Four Nations 00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:41.039 face -off final, but not denied this time as 00:41:41.039 --> 00:41:44.579 Connor Hellenbrook was just awesome in goal between 00:41:44.579 --> 00:41:48.320 the pipes, as they say. And for the first gold 00:41:48.320 --> 00:41:52.750 in 46 years, the men defeat Canada in... Overtime, 00:41:52.750 --> 00:41:58.269 2 -1. Team USA struck gold on the first official 00:41:58.269 --> 00:42:02.309 day of the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics. Breezy 00:42:02.309 --> 00:42:05.690 Johnson didn't have an opportunity to even compete 00:42:05.690 --> 00:42:08.329 in the Olympics in 2022, but she made that wait 00:42:08.329 --> 00:42:10.949 worthwhile. We didn't talk about this because 00:42:10.949 --> 00:42:12.429 we didn't start our Olympic upstakes until later 00:42:12.429 --> 00:42:17.110 when intern Dom shamed me. But I want to give 00:42:17.110 --> 00:42:19.269 recognition to Breezy Johnson who got a gold. 00:42:19.639 --> 00:42:21.599 Cross -country skiing, one of just six events 00:42:21.599 --> 00:42:23.539 that has been contested in every Winter Olympics 00:42:23.539 --> 00:42:28.400 going back to 1924. This year, competing in his 00:42:28.400 --> 00:42:30.920 second Olympics, 26 -year -old Ben Ogden broke 00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:33.920 a 50 -year drought by securing silver for the 00:42:33.920 --> 00:42:37.840 U .S. in the cross -country skiing sprint. The 00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:40.780 final medal count, and it was a record, Norway 00:42:40.780 --> 00:42:45.099 with 18 gold, 41 total, U .S. 12 gold, 33 total, 00:42:45.239 --> 00:42:49.030 Netherlands and Italy 10 gold, 20... Overall 00:42:49.030 --> 00:42:51.769 medals for the Netherlands. Italy with 30 overall. 00:42:51.849 --> 00:42:55.409 Germany, eight golds, 26 medals overall. So there's 00:42:55.409 --> 00:42:58.190 the Olympics for you. Now that you can encapsulate 00:42:58.190 --> 00:43:00.449 the whole thing, was it a good Olympics? I thought 00:43:00.449 --> 00:43:04.170 it was. So my wife and daughter went over to 00:43:04.170 --> 00:43:06.269 my mom's. They were watching figure skating. 00:43:06.510 --> 00:43:09.170 I got into curling a little bit more. Curling 00:43:09.170 --> 00:43:11.789 was fun. You know, and then there was controversy 00:43:11.789 --> 00:43:13.949 with the finger and everything else from, again, 00:43:14.050 --> 00:43:17.489 the Canadians, not in the greatest light in this 00:43:17.489 --> 00:43:19.349 Olympics, and then the whining after the hockey 00:43:19.349 --> 00:43:22.510 game. Do you think you'd ever go curling? No, 00:43:22.510 --> 00:43:23.929 I don't think I could do that. I've done it before. 00:43:24.510 --> 00:43:27.289 So did you need the little, like, I was watching 00:43:27.289 --> 00:43:28.829 people who hadn't done curling before. Do you 00:43:28.829 --> 00:43:31.190 see they had the little, if you're pushing the 00:43:31.190 --> 00:43:33.750 stone with the right hand, the left hand, they've 00:43:33.750 --> 00:43:37.090 got this little tripod thing or, like, that holds 00:43:37.090 --> 00:43:40.099 you upright so you don't tip over? Balance -wise? 00:43:40.300 --> 00:43:43.159 Yeah. Did you use that, or did you just... I 00:43:43.159 --> 00:43:46.780 don't remember. It was when I was like 10, so 00:43:46.780 --> 00:43:49.619 I can't remember. I had a good time, though. 00:43:49.619 --> 00:43:51.840 Was the stone heavier than you when you were 00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:54.019 10 years old pushing that? Yeah, it was a normal 00:43:54.019 --> 00:43:58.780 stone. Okay. Gotcha. We got just a couple of 00:43:58.780 --> 00:44:03.840 minutes left here, Baby J. So the Oregon women's 00:44:03.840 --> 00:44:06.780 basketball team had a tough one. And they kept 00:44:06.780 --> 00:44:08.719 digging themselves into a hole and trying to 00:44:08.719 --> 00:44:10.420 dig themselves back out of it, but they could 00:44:10.420 --> 00:44:13.460 not come back all the way from another double 00:44:13.460 --> 00:44:17.159 -digit deficit. They end up losing in Assembly 00:44:17.159 --> 00:44:20.820 Hall in Bloomington, Indiana, to the Hoosiers, 00:44:20.920 --> 00:44:25.400 72 -65. The Ducks still sitting at 19 wins, 19 00:44:25.400 --> 00:44:29.739 -9 now, overall 7 -9 in the Big Ten. And Coach 00:44:29.739 --> 00:44:32.340 Kelly Graves said it. He said, we dug ourselves 00:44:32.340 --> 00:44:35.920 that big hole, and we got it chipped away. But 00:44:35.920 --> 00:44:38.039 what a game. I know you've been on her all year 00:44:38.039 --> 00:44:42.920 long. He's a two -tay. Another double -double, 00:44:43.019 --> 00:44:48.860 27 .17 rebounds. But she didn't have a ton of 00:44:48.860 --> 00:44:52.500 support from the rest of the team. But Estera 00:44:52.500 --> 00:44:54.760 Tahina came off the bench, played 26 minutes. 00:44:54.820 --> 00:44:57.460 She scored 14 points off the bench. She was 6 00:44:57.460 --> 00:44:59.619 of 9 from the field, 2 of 3 from 3, but didn't 00:44:59.619 --> 00:45:02.199 get to the free throw line. But she came off, 00:45:02.420 --> 00:45:06.769 and there was no... Mia Jacobs in this game. 00:45:06.949 --> 00:45:10.070 And Coach Graves said that Mia Jacobs is probably 00:45:10.070 --> 00:45:12.309 not going to play until they get into the postseason. 00:45:12.929 --> 00:45:14.849 That's a big loss for the Ducks as they fight 00:45:14.849 --> 00:45:17.190 for playoff positioning. By the way, your Tahina 00:45:17.190 --> 00:45:20.409 hair update, she has hearts on her hair now, 00:45:20.510 --> 00:45:22.789 which looks... She held those over from Valentine's 00:45:22.789 --> 00:45:24.969 Day, did she? I think so. I think so. Those look 00:45:24.969 --> 00:45:27.010 pretty good. Yeah, a little bit of a disappointing 00:45:27.010 --> 00:45:29.949 loss, obviously. It's kind of a theme now. Not 00:45:29.949 --> 00:45:31.849 starting off great. Have a really great third 00:45:31.849 --> 00:45:33.329 quarter. It looks like you might get back into 00:45:33.329 --> 00:45:35.590 it. And then there have been a couple games now, 00:45:35.670 --> 00:45:37.630 like that Washington game, where they just haven't 00:45:37.630 --> 00:45:39.750 been able to close the deal. And it's hard. Sometimes 00:45:39.750 --> 00:45:41.989 when you come back, that takes all the energy 00:45:41.989 --> 00:45:44.010 out of a team when you're there, and then your 00:45:44.010 --> 00:45:46.769 team can finish you off. So that seems like that's 00:45:46.769 --> 00:45:49.429 what happened in this game. Down by nine at the 00:45:49.429 --> 00:45:52.570 break. Cut it down to a one -point deficit at 00:45:52.570 --> 00:45:54.429 the end of the third quarter, but then get outscored 00:45:54.429 --> 00:45:56.769 by six in the final frame. I'm a little tired 00:45:56.769 --> 00:45:59.619 of Indiana. Yeah, we all are. I'm a little tired 00:45:59.619 --> 00:46:01.019 of Indiana. There's a little exhaustion there. 00:46:01.099 --> 00:46:03.800 I agree. Ducks finish their road trip at Purdue. 00:46:03.860 --> 00:46:07.900 It'll be Wednesday at 4 p .m. Pacific time. That'll 00:46:07.900 --> 00:46:10.320 be on the Big Ten Plus. So let's flip the script. 00:46:11.039 --> 00:46:13.760 Number 18, Oregon. Number 20, Duke. First ever 00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:15.960 meeting at the Mary Nutter Classic. First ever 00:46:15.960 --> 00:46:19.139 meeting ever in Cathedral City. Ducks score three 00:46:19.139 --> 00:46:21.420 times on the top of the seventh, five times in 00:46:21.420 --> 00:46:24.619 the eighth to complete a come -from -behind 11 00:46:24.619 --> 00:46:27.739 -8 win over the Blue Devils. And they finish 00:46:27.739 --> 00:46:31.880 off the Mary Nutter with a 3 -2 mark as they 00:46:31.880 --> 00:46:35.079 were taking on Duke, Texas A &M, and South Carolina. 00:46:35.579 --> 00:46:37.800 And they beat all those teams in the Mary Nutter. 00:46:37.860 --> 00:46:41.090 So three ranked teams, they got wins over. They're 00:46:41.090 --> 00:46:42.929 calling Oregon one of the most confusing teams 00:46:42.929 --> 00:46:45.809 early on. I agree. And it's been a really interesting 00:46:45.809 --> 00:46:47.710 year. There's been a lot of upsets, except for 00:46:47.710 --> 00:46:49.590 Tennessee. Tennessee seems to be the only team 00:46:49.590 --> 00:46:51.730 that doesn't have a loss to anybody right now. 00:46:51.909 --> 00:46:53.670 And, of course, they played Oregon. Oregon played 00:46:53.670 --> 00:46:57.090 them very well. But it's a weird weekend, right? 00:46:57.150 --> 00:46:59.090 You beat the two teams, the three teams you really 00:46:59.090 --> 00:47:00.949 want to beat, and then Cal State, Fullerton, 00:47:01.030 --> 00:47:02.429 and Auburn, you think that those are probably 00:47:02.429 --> 00:47:04.309 going to be wins, and they lose those two games. 00:47:04.389 --> 00:47:07.489 So it's early season. This is very clearly a 00:47:07.489 --> 00:47:09.610 talented team. It's a weird year in softball. 00:47:10.090 --> 00:47:11.510 They're going to have to be consistent at some 00:47:11.510 --> 00:47:14.650 point, though. So Oregon uses all four of their 00:47:14.650 --> 00:47:16.989 pitchers in the win against Duke. Duke dropped 00:47:16.989 --> 00:47:19.769 to 9 -7. Great win. Yeah, and Taylor Spencer 00:47:19.769 --> 00:47:22.610 finished it off with two innings, four hits, 00:47:22.670 --> 00:47:25.809 two runs. She struck out two, didn't walk anybody. 00:47:26.590 --> 00:47:29.070 and she gets the win. She's now 3 -2 on the year, 00:47:29.110 --> 00:47:31.230 but Lindsey Grein started the game, went two 00:47:31.230 --> 00:47:33.090 innings. Maddie Milhorn pitched two and a third. 00:47:33.389 --> 00:47:36.090 Lisa Kolsky pitched one and two -thirds. So they 00:47:36.090 --> 00:47:38.409 used all the arms in the last game of the Marinetta. 00:47:38.469 --> 00:47:42.590 Oregon now 8 -6 overall as they will come back 00:47:42.590 --> 00:47:44.590 home now. First time, come back home and get 00:47:44.590 --> 00:47:47.449 to stay here. Hosting Stetson and Idaho State 00:47:47.449 --> 00:47:50.929 at 1230 and 330 on Friday, the first day of the 00:47:50.929 --> 00:47:53.510 Oregon Classic. Let's fill up the Jane. Let's 00:47:53.510 --> 00:47:56.949 do our dad joke. Oh, a joke! I got fired from 00:47:56.949 --> 00:47:58.829 the bank today. A woman asked me to check her 00:47:58.829 --> 00:48:03.329 balance, so I pushed her. Dad jokes! How do you 00:48:03.329 --> 00:48:07.710 keep cool at a baseball game? Ooh. A beer, usually. 00:48:07.849 --> 00:48:12.250 What is the real answer? Well, you sit next to 00:48:12.250 --> 00:48:16.110 a baseball fan. Yeah, well, there's plenty of 00:48:16.110 --> 00:48:18.030 those. How do you keep cool at a baseball game? 00:48:19.130 --> 00:48:23.650 So, Oregon baseball is on the road. Oregon women's... 00:48:24.039 --> 00:48:26.340 basketball on the road. Oregon men come back 00:48:26.340 --> 00:48:29.820 home. Oregon softball back home. We're going 00:48:29.820 --> 00:48:31.119 to spend some time. We got to spend some time 00:48:31.119 --> 00:48:33.059 tomorrow. Let's talk a little Oregon State a 00:48:33.059 --> 00:48:36.800 little bit more. We kind of, we didn't dismiss 00:48:36.800 --> 00:48:38.340 them, but there are some things we want to talk 00:48:38.340 --> 00:48:41.000 about. Oregon State softball, who threw a no 00:48:41.000 --> 00:48:42.960 -hitter. We'll talk about that tomorrow. Oregon 00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:44.760 State baseball team a little bit more tomorrow 00:48:44.760 --> 00:48:47.400 as well. You want to talk about up and down. 00:48:48.039 --> 00:48:50.380 I don't think Mitch Canham looked at his squad 00:48:50.380 --> 00:48:51.699 and said, hey, we're going to be four and three 00:48:51.699 --> 00:48:54.489 after the first two weekends. Yeah, they might 00:48:54.489 --> 00:48:56.869 be ranked below Oregon in a lot of polls. And 00:48:56.869 --> 00:48:59.429 I do believe they play today as well. So we'll 00:48:59.429 --> 00:49:02.150 recap all that tomorrow. Thanks for tuning in, 00:49:02.190 --> 00:49:04.469 lending us your ears. Baby J, nice job. Thank 00:49:04.469 --> 00:49:06.989 you. And over there, Blaze, running everything. 00:49:07.230 --> 00:49:09.909 That a boy. We'll be back tomorrow right here 00:49:09.909 --> 00:49:11.590 on the Fastest 60 Minutes. Fox Sports Eugene, 00:49:11.769 --> 00:49:13.869 Fox Sports Newport. God bless. Put a smile on 00:49:13.869 --> 00:49:15.030 your face. Someone else says they deserve it. 00:49:15.050 --> 00:49:15.929 So do you. Peace.