and be prepared room for error is much slimmer
in basketball one player and it changes your
entire team it's not like that in football it's
just not it's not interesting guests kelly graves
mike parker coach mark waskowski noah eagle melissa
lombardi kenyon barnard jonathan stewart sharp
opinions dana altman probably earned a pass for
a down year after almost 20 years of what he's
done for Oregon basketball. And some smiles.
Guys, I was stuck in a car wash. Sounds like
an R. Kelly song. It's not an R. Kelly song.
It's Danny Havel. I can't remember, and I've
been doing this for longer than you've been alive,
which is really horrible that I have to say that,
but it's the truth. Justin Grossweiner. It's
like the saying in Alaska, that you don't have
to be faster than the bear. You just have to
be faster than your friend. Danny and Justin
starts now on Fox Sports Eugene and Fox Sports
Newport. Hello. And welcome high top to Delta
Triad, the Crystal Palace, the Bigfoot Beverages
Studios, Fox Sports Eugene, Fox Sports Newport
on a soggy. Monday. Welcome to the Danny and
Justin radio program. Thanks for lending us your
ears for the fastest 60 minutes in sports. Please,
arms and legs inside the moving vehicle at all
times. Do not lean your head out either as we
will traverse through this busy, busy Monday.
It was overall a very positive weekend for Oregon
Athletics, Oregon State as well. Wow. There are
some things to talk about. We've got Ryan T.
Clark. The T stands for Thomas. We call him Sawbones.
We'll talk to the Oregonian writer who covers
the Oregon beat at about 20 after. We've got
the good, the bad, the ugly. We've got our results
from Big Bets as Baby J ruled the weekend. And
also you. So thanks for tuning in. The Oregon
Man Clinics Hotline at 541 -343 -5673. Right
over there is intern Blaze who's running. the
board making us sound good. I'm Doc, right over
here to my right doing a happy dance in his chair.
Justin Grosso and I, we call him Baby Che. What
a boy! Have you ever had your YouTube think that
you're Spanish? I'm just starting to get all
these Spanish ads now. I don't know what's going
on. I figured I'd bring this up and see if anybody
else has had this happen to them. This is where
intern Blaze needs to make sure he has a microphone
on so we can ask him because you guys are all
in the, you know, in the vein and in the... The
slot of the social media and the TikTok and the
Instagram, the IG. What are you smiling at me
for, please? The IG. The IG, baby. Yeah, you
just got to roll with it. He's sometimes a little
safe in things in some ways. You just got to
accept it. The OG and the IG. So have you ever
had your, what is it? You said the YouTube? Yeah,
my YouTube is starting to give me Spanish damage.
Have you ever had that happen to you? I've had
weirder ads before, not necessarily Spanish,
but maybe Arabic before. I don't know where that
came from. Really? Wow. Yeah. So have you ever
had a friend leave their phone sitting, and then
they get up and leave, either going to the restroom
or whatever, and then you go and change their
language settings on their phone? Have you ever
done that? I have never personally done that.
Or taken selfies or pictures? I've done selfies
before. I've heard of people accidentally doing
that to themselves, though. Which sounds worse.
Changing the language? Accidentally, yes, to
another language. The reason I bring this up
is that happened to me years and years. Sounds
like it has. Somebody changed my stuff to Portuguese,
and I could not figure out how to get back to
the language portion. Was this a friend? To switch
it back. No. Not anymore. Not anymore. They weren't
a friend. Yeah, it was kind of like a, yeah,
it was an interesting relationship, but we're
not going to go there. How was your weekend,
buddy? It was good. We had a nice little outing
on Saturday. We did. You and I. Baseball games,
yes. Baseball games. Last -minute announcement.
I was trying to get out. I didn't go out last
week for opening weekend, so I wanted to get
out there. Where were you? You were studying
and doing it. You were being a big boy. I had
to finish a group project, yeah. Way to stay
dedicated to the schoolwork. Yeah, food and business.
Instead of coming out and playing with Danny
and Justin. Your bosses, by the way. I would
have loved to. I would have loved to. We'll make
it happen sometime soon. It's going to happen.
Yes. And then Sunday, I just kept it pretty chill,
just cleaned up my place, went and got a good
workout in, and, you know, played some video
games to the normal just downtime thing. So you're
going to be very proud of the Havel household.
I'm ready. We watched two movies this weekend.
Okay. 28 days later. Okay. 28 weeks later. Okay.
I have thoughts on both. We watched the first
two, and apparently there are four? There is
a 28 months later that I don't think is very
popular. I'm watching them in order, though.
I haven't seen 28 months later. The first one
with Cillian Murphy, who I saw way too much of
him in the opening scene, by the way. Isn't that
crazy, though, how he's in that movie? My daughter
said... When she was describing it to my mom,
because we took the mothers out for breakfast
as we normally do on the weekends, we went out
to Vanita to Our Daily Bread, which you have
to go to. Blaze, you have to go there as well.
And so as my daughter's describing this to our
70 -plus and 80 -plus -year -old mothers, she
says, yeah, we see Killian Murphy's ding -a -ling
in the first 15 minutes of the show. movie yeah
abigail well and did she recognize that the opening
for that movie is where the walking dead was
inspired from yes so i thought you'd be ice very
cool yeah very cool all -time classic that's
what i know killian murphy from originally is
from was that one of his first movies i don't
know if it's one of his first i am but it could
be i mean it's certainly the first thing i knew
him from it's an old movie that's from Yeah,
it looked really grainy. It wasn't in HD. Well,
you can have the intro to it, too. 2002. 2002.
So that's got to be early on in his career. Yeah,
it's definitely early on. He's come a long way
from playing that to Oppenheimer. That's for
sure. But then 28 weeks later, not as good as
a movie. I think there are some cool parts in
there. Me, I'm just like a zombie fanatic. Am
I giving something away to say that a couple
of the people that you don't think are going
to die, die? I'm going to say the characters'
names or the actors' names because I was surprised.
Amazing opening sequence. The first sequence
is incredible. The rest of the movie, it's solid.
It's not the first movie, though. The first movie
is an all -time classic. You need to watch the
newest one now. Well, I've got to watch them
in order, though. Don't worry about 28 months
later. Go to 28 years later. So just skip that
one? I've never even seen it. I didn't even know
it existed until pretty recently. So you don't
have any... I don't even know how you can watch
it, to be honest with you. I'm not sure if it's
by the same director, even. You have a strong
view on that. Blaze, have you watched these at
all? I have strong opinions, unfortunately. No,
I'm glad you guys haven't said too much, because
I haven't watched either. You've got to watch
them now. There's homework for you. Do you like
horror movies? I love horror movies. Okay, all
-time favorite horror movie, Blaze. See, I'm
putting you on the spot here. This isn't a great
horror movie, but one of my favorites, because
it made me scared of the dark again for a little
while, was called Lights Out. Lights Out. And
it's a monster. I've never heard of this. In
the dark, you turn on the lights, they're gone.
But in the dark, they crawl. You are tripping
up our horror expertise. My mom is a horror film
professor. Oh, wow. So I've been inundated from
a young age. So Lights Out, you've got homework
now. Well, it's not a great movie. Let me be
clear on that. That doesn't matter. It doesn't
matter. In the Grossweiner household, that does
not matter. Yeah, we just watched a movie that
I wouldn't consider super great, but we really
enjoyed it, The Mist. We talked about that last
week. It's about structure, content, framing,
and the storyline. And if some of those elements
come into play, they're okay with it. The mise
-en -scene, right? There you go. Ooh, look at
you, fancy boy. I took a film class. That's a
nice cinematography word. Justin Radio Program.
Thanks for tuning in. We will get to sports.
By the way, let's start here. I just teased it
a second ago. Big bets. Atta boy, Justin. You
went 4 -1. I went 1 -4, so now I am three games
behind you. You picked up a game on Goose, who
went 3 -2. Blaze, you and I are 1 -4, boys. That
was just horrible. I mean, I never should have
taken Iowa State on the road, but you know what?
I did. You got that game right, though. You got
BYU in that game. The one game. The coin went
two and three. Well, that sounds about right.
Laura, front office manager, went three and two.
Shout out to Laura. The best P1 out there. Coach
went three and two. So you won it outright. Didn't
have to go to tiebreakers, thank goodness. Do
you see what I put for the total points? I think
it was like 150 -something. We were all way over.
We were way over. No, I didn't have the total
points on this one because it didn't matter.
It didn't come down to tiebreakers. This is like
the master sheet that I put together. Well, I
didn't get the game right anyways because that
was the one I picked wrong. I picked Michigan.
But it doesn't matter. It would still come down
to it. It was a great weekend in terms of the
slate. No, no. They were really good games. It
made it really easy for me. They were really
good games. Still, Goose leads 21 -9. He's still
12 games over .500. You're at 14 -16, back near.
I am sucking it right now at 11 -19. So, you
know, all this means. So, listen, just for Blaze,
for you and everybody else listening, I started
this way in football, and then I rose like a
phoenix at the end to win it by a game. We're
trying to figure out these teams, I guess. Basketball
is a little harder. It's definitely a little
bit harder. But thanks for everybody who participated.
And thanks to Cokewell Casino and Resort because
of Baby J's huge win this weekend. $100 going
to South Coast Special Olympics. Love that. So
either the fans are going to win or South Coast
Special Olympics wins. Everybody wins. And all
the people who participated still get their name
into the drawing for the stay. for the national
championship game for basketball. You and seven
of your closest friends are going to get to hang
out in the Cocoa Suite. You get all the food
and bev you can handle, non -alcoholic, and we'll
play it again this weekend, all right, on Friday.
So let's recap the weekend. And by the way, we've
got Ryan Clark, Sawbones from the Argonian, to
talk Oregon basketball, Oregon baseball. Before
we do good, bad, and the ugly, so get ready for
that, Blaze, I want to let you know that. Oregon's
men's distant medley relay broke the school record
last night as a part of the DMR Challenge in
Boston. Simeon Birnbaum, Fuad Omer, Elliott Cook,
Thomas Palfrey combined for a 9 -14 -88 at the
BU's Track and Tennis Center. With that performance,
the Ducks move to number two. On the season's
NCAA descending order list and are now the second
fastest quartet in collegiate history. We don't
talk a lot of track and field. We're going to
talk more track and field as we get closer to
the pre, the U -20s that are going to be at Hayward
Field. You and Goose are going to be out there
at Hayward Field on the 5th of March. We'll talk
about that as we go through the rest of this
week. Oregon becomes just the second program
to run a sub -915 on a banked 200 -meter track.
Virginia did it in 2025, just last year, 9 -14
-19. So there we go. The postseason starts February
26th, 28th with the Big Ten Indoor Championships
at Indiana State's Fairgrounds in Indianapolis.
So there we go with that. So you ready for the
good, bad, and the ugly? I am ready. All right,
so let's cue the music. That's the Olympic music.
Oh, it is? Oh, it is. There you go. Good, bad,
and the ugly from the weekend. We do this every
week now. I mean, I just heard timpani, okay?
I heard the kettle drums. So let's start out
with the good. There was a lot for me to choose
from on the good. But I am going to go. It was
a good weekend. It was a good weekend. Since
we're going to talk a little bit more about it
later on, I do want to say, because of all of
the cane that's been going on with Oregon basketball,
Oregon's late run closing out with a 7 -0 scoring
run. The Ducks improve to 10 -3 all time at the
Galen Center for Dana Altman. They defeat USC.
71 -70. A 7 -0 run in the final 51 seconds. That's
my good of the weekend, baby J. All right, I
could go with none other than Oregon State's
Dax Whitney, who is, by the way, named the USA
Baseball Golden Spikes Player of the Week for
his performance. Amazing performance of 17 strikeouts
in seven innings. against Baylor in the Round
Rock Classic in a 3 -1 win. 17 strikeouts, Danny.
He reached over 100 miles per hour, like 101,
100 .1 miles per hour, which was the fastest
ever recorded pitch by Oregon State baseball.
I mean, he's the guy that is being talked about
now as potentially the number one pick in 2027.
And when you think about this team in particular,
we don't exactly know where the power is going
to be coming from on the offensive side. We certainly
know where the power is going to be coming from
on the pitching staff. And that seems like the
kind of guy that he could take you to the College
World Series and maybe over the top. I mean,
that's exciting, exciting stuff we saw from Dax
Whitney. The Danny and Justin radio program,
the good, bad, and the ugly from the weekend.
So we got our good out of the way. What was the
bad from the weekend? Okay, my bad, which you
convinced me that I could spin this in a bad
way. It's bad for the Oklahoma Summers at Cathedral
City in California. Wrigley Field is the setting.
And Long Beach State, the home team in this game,
against Oklahoma. the Sooners, and they lose
the Sooners 6 -4. Ooh. That's a bad loss. By
the way, Oregon State softball played Long Beach
State, and they lost by a few runs. They lost
4 -3. Oklahoma lost 6 -4. So Oregon State softball
did a little better against Long Beach State
this season. Oklahoma softball is the bad. My
bad is... I'm going to go back to Oregon State.
You just mentioned Whitney. The bad for Oregon
State is they end up losing to Purdue at Round
Rock. Oregon State men's baseball is just 4 -3.
They've had a rough start. Starting pitching,
immaculate. You just touched on it. The bullpen?
Yeah. That was a little rough for the Beavs.
They end up losing to Purdue. 5 -2 as the Boilermakers
wrap out eight hits. I'm not sure how good Purdue's
going to be in the Big Ten. I don't know either.
This might be a little bit of a warning sign
for Oregon State baseball. Mitch Canham can't
flip this around, especially in that back end.
Well, I think that we need to see the offense,
too. Not a lot of runs scored on the weekend.
Well, they knew they had a lot of power they
needed to replace. I know. And they've relied
on small ball in their history under Pat Casey.
Let's see if Mitch Canham, his disciple, can
do that. You can't be making errors like they
did against Purdue. Error on a bunt led to some
unearned runs. This isn't a team that can sustain
that. Okay, my ugly, and then we'll get to your
ugly. My ugly is the Canadian national hockey
team players, Nathan McKinnon, who came out,
Connor McDavid as well, saying, we don't like
the rules in overtime. Why are we doing three
on three? Well, you do that in the NHL. You do
it. You do it because you put your best skaters
out. Of course, USA Hockey, after a 40 -year
drive, I think it was 41 years officially, beat
Team Canada. We'll have that audio here in a
second when I do my Olympic update. But they
beat Team Canada in overtime, the first gold
medal for the U .S., as I said, I think in 40
-plus years. Yeah, since the miracle on ice.
A miracle on ice. So that was 80 and it was 46
years since it's been that. But they were winning.
It's just an ugly look. Listen, why don't you
just tip your cap and say they were the better
team today. Yes, Canada outshot the U .S. by
14, 16 shots. Doesn't matter. Connor Hellenberg
was awesome in goal. And in hockey, if you got
a hot goaltender, you're going to win. Tip your
hat and walk away. Don't complain about the rules.
Everyone's got to play on the same ice and with
the same rules. That was the ugly. My ugly from
over the weekend was a continuation of the Darren
Peterson saga. Talented guard, freshman from
Kansas, the Jayhawks. And he did have 17 points
over the weekend, but... Kansas lost to unranked
Cincinnati, and what people are looking at is
this one picture of Mr. Peterson as his teammates
are all huddled together, and he is slowly walking
back, not a part of the group, clearly a little
bit of dissension with his teammates, and man,
it says a lot about a guy the same weekend that
Aja DeBansa, you mentioned in our big bets, one
of the games we picked, he plays 40 minutes in
a upset win over a top 10 team the same weekend
that... Darren Peterson is taking himself out
of games and not looking engaged with his teammates.
This guy, nobody questions that his talent is
number one pick talent. How weird do things have
to be to where it looks like now he might not
be the number one pick because there's this other
guy who seems like he's safer. Attitude is altitude
sometimes in sports. Competitors are important.
Yep, they are. All right, that's your good, bad,
and the ugly. on the danny and justin radio program
all right so we got through the first segment
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gonna head to a break when we come back old sawbones
from the ergonian ryan t clark esquire is going
to join us we're going to talk and break down
a little bit further The big win by Dana Altman's
squad down in L .A. Mark Waskowski's team is
in rarefied air. Their most wins coming out of
the gate. They're undefeated at 8 -0 since 2014.
We'll break those down with the esteemed Ryan
Clark on the Danny and Justin Radio program for
a Monday. Thanks for tuning in. The Danny and
Justin Radio program rolls on for a Monday. Thanks
for tuning in wherever and however. I'm Doc.
Right over there is baby Jay, Blaze, sitting
in the pilot's chair. And as we head on over
to the Oregon Man Clinics hotline at 541 -343
-5673, we welcome in yet again our good friend
from the Oregonian. He is a Cronkite alum. That's
Arizona State University, folks. He is Ryan Thomas
Clark. We call him Sawbones. How was your weekend,
buddy? Good, guys. Kept it low -key. Spent some
time in wine country with the wife. Can't complain.
Nice. Okay, there's a lot of wine country, though.
You have to kind of pull it down just a little
bit because there's up and down the valley. There's
up in the gorge. There's like in the Newburgh,
Dundee, Amity area. Which location were you at?
Not like we've got the tracker on you. Oh, for
sure. We spend a lot of time in primarily the
Newburgh and Dundee area, obviously great Pinot
Noir and Chardonnay out there. We're a couple
of big wine people, so Beau Frere is a spot we
love. Bethel Heights, Resonance, a couple of
good recommendations for those wine -inclined
sports fans. So, Ryan? There is some breaking
news, and your colleague James Krepia, I think,
just broke it from the Oregon State side. And
we wanted to talk baseball and men's basketball,
but, well, lo and behold, football just kind
of sticks their nose back into everything. And
thank goodness, because normally we get the breaking
news at like 3 .02, two minutes after we get
off the air. So go ahead and let the listening
audience know what's going on with the Civil
War. Yeah, so it had originally been reported
by my colleague Bill Orem that they're not going
to continue the series in 2026. We knew that
there wouldn't be a game this fall. Now, James
Creppi is speaking to OSU Athletic Director Scott
Barnes, finds out that 2027 there will also not
be a game between Oregon and Oregon State. Scott
Barnes said that they had some adjustments they
needed to make. most recently on their side to,
in his words, get through some things. And they're
looking to sign a deal for a four -year series
that would begin at Reser in 2028 and go back
to Austin in 2029. If that deal goes through
and that's not even finalized, 2028 would be
the earliest we'd see another football game between
Oregon and Oregon State. So that's kind of cryptic,
get through some things. Was there any amplification
on that statement? Is it because the new Pac
-12 and they want to kind of hunker down and
get as many conference games in or, I would guess,
pump up their schedule a bit? If I could speculate,
I would say that the level of uncertainty with
regard to the size of the Pac -12, their plans
for future attempts to get into the college football
playoff and build maybe a little bit more manageable
non -conference schedules for some of its more
robustly funded programs, all of that could absolutely
factor in. But on the Oregon State side, that
is a game that... Until things change quite a
bit for their football program is a non -competitive
penciled NL for them every year. And how much
of that do you think is important? Do you think
that part of this a little bit is at least Oregon
State gives them a couple years to build up their
team? There could be a couple years into the
new Pac -12 at that point to get their team a
little bit more competitive. How actually important
is that to this rivalry, the competitiveness
of the game? I think that it certainly should
be a consideration behind the scenes. But in
terms of financial reasons and positive reasons
to keep it going for the Oregon State side, it
would be ticket sales. It would be having a game
at Reser that you know you're going to sell out
that's going to be a boon financially for your
program. That's a boost. Yeah, I mean, you can't
obviously, if you're at Oregon State, admit publicly
that, look, we're not competitive in this rivalry
anymore. Why even keep playing it? But some Oregon
State fans wouldn't mind them coming out and
saying that because, frankly, they're tired of
the rivalry itself, and they have harsh feelings
towards Oregon with how everything went in terms
of the Pac -12's collapse. A lot of layers and
emotional complication to it, but certainly something
that we'll see how it ends up playing out. I
guess my question to those people then, and I'm
not saying you're saying this, would be then,
OK, what's the difference between that and then
in baseball? They're playing a series up in Beaverton.
They're playing three times. Almost every other
sport. Every other sport's playing in, you know,
they're playing in that rivalry series, but it's
just not football. Yeah, I think that the gap
in football is. quite a bit larger than it is
in baseball. Now, obviously, Oregon State has
much more success historically than Oregon does
in baseball, but it's not the sort of beatdown
that we've seen these last couple of years. Now,
is there more tradition and history with football
because of football's popularity? Of course.
But, you know, the landscape of college football
is so rife with uncertainty and the gap has grown
so much that... That has to be factoring in here,
and we'll probably learn more in the coming months,
and myself and James Krepia will continue to
try to report out details of how this is sort
of viewed behind the scenes. It's Ryan Clark.
You can follow him on Twitter from the Oregonian
at Ryan T. Clark. And you also give the Oregonian
a follow as well at Oregonian and also Oregon
Live Online. He joins us on the Danny and Justin
radio program. We call him Sawbones live from
the Bigfoot Beverage Studio and the Oregon Man
Clinics Hotline at 541 -343 -5673. So let's stay
on baseball. Oregon baseball off to its best
start in more than a decade. Going back to 2014,
the Ducks improved to eight. 8 -0 after the sweep
of Youngstown State. And Oregon's going to have
to stay hot in the Live Like Lou Las Vegas Collegiate
Classic. The competition is going to increase
exponentially with Arizona, UC Irvine, and Vanderbilt
this next weekend. But what was your takeaway?
Because Justin and I were at the game on Saturday.
What was your takeaway from these first two opening
weekends of Waz's team and what they've improved
over last year? Yeah, obviously, you like what
you see from the bats, being able to produce
offensively the way that they did, even against
that level of competition in George Mason and
Youngstown State. That's something that is definitely
encouraging. But something that Oregon really
shored up in the portal that... I think has shown
itself these couple of weeks, again, despite
the competition, is the overall improvement of
the pitching staff and I think the balance. That's
something that when it came postseason time last
year really killed the Ducks. And, you know,
for them to have played as well as they have
these first few weeks, not putting up any lopsided
or ugly or concerning numbers. It is a good thing.
Now, obviously, at the very alliterative live
like Lou Las Vegas college baseball classic,
they are going to get more of a test for sure
as a pitching staff and really as a team overall.
And that Oregon State game, that first one that
they're going to play in Eugene on March 3rd,
another big test. a way to celebrate a rivalry
that's in tatters on the football side. But certainly
these next few weeks are going to be what I think
are a real example of what this team is at this
point in the season. Oregon's head coach, Mark
Wasikowski, also reached his 300th win as a head
coach in the sweep over Youngstown State. Just
how steady... has he made this program? Because
it just seems like year to year now, this could
have been one of those years he had a really
disappointing loss the way that last season ended.
Coming into this year, it seems like, hey, this
team's also really, really good. How steady does
Coach Wazikowski have this program now? I think
that he's done a really good job with two things.
One, building out his staff with guys that have
a lot of deep connections in Major League Baseball.
Also navigating something that's a challenge
for a lot of baseball coaches at schools like
Oregon, which is. doing as much as he can with
perhaps a more limited NIL budget than maybe
an SEC school or a traditional power in baseball
that doesn't have to elbow football out of the
way for dollars. Not that there's a shortage
of money by any stretch when it comes to the
Oregon baseball program relative to some others
in the country. They're still a Big Ten team.
They're still Oregon. But they're at a school
where football is absolutely the priority and
is going to continue to be so, especially in
the rev share era. So I think Waz has done a
great job navigating that and building out competitive
rosters, you know, year after year. Ryan T. Clark
joining us from the Argonne on the Danny Justin
radio program. And by the way, it is hard. And
people shouldn't discount this, although they
can say, you know, George Mason and Youngstown
State, maybe not the stiffest of competition.
But we're going to see that, you know, ramp up,
especially in these next four games for the Ducks.
However, it is hard to keep going out and beating
the number one pitchers in these opposing staffs.
And for the Ducks in the middle of this, Braden
Gebhardt, who took Auburn to near the end. And
then on the Saturday, I think it was a Saturday
or the Sunday win, Brandon Mikos. Both those
guys, they can throw some heat. And the bats
were just good enough in that win against Gebhardt
and then exploded again with six runs in the
first two innings against Mikko. So you touched
on it a little bit. And I think one thing that
Woz is going to lean into, besides what he's
done with the pitching staff with Matt Flora
coming in from San Diego. Are those bats? Because
he had to replace almost two -thirds of his runs
that either left or went to the draft after last
year. Am I on the right track? Oh, certainly.
And I think you can't discount the manner in
which they've been beating these teams, despite
the fact that they obviously aren't power conference
teams. You got to remember that Eugene Regional,
they lost to Utah Valley and Cal Poly. Those
aren't like historic national championship contending
programs. So, you know, even with the talent
that they had at that time, they didn't put the
pieces together. And that's where I think that
the intangible aspect could come in for this
team. And it's something they talked about. in
their preseason media availability is that, yeah,
last year's team was talented, but where some
of the players feel like they slipped up was
playing as a team, and, you know, that's a cliche,
and that's... something that's intangible, but
you felt it these first eight games for Oregon,
and if they can keep that rolling and remain
competitive against some power conference teams,
starting with Arizona, I think they could be
a pretty good team this year. Let's transition
over to Oregon men's basketball, where Dana Altman's
team picked up their third win in the Big Ten.
They're now 3 -13, so tied for second to last
place in the Big Ten. But, hey, listen, USC...
I don't think anybody is upset on the Oregon
side that they get a big win, maybe preventing
USC from getting to the tournament. Something
Danny and I have talked about. I know Danny's
wanted to see a win like that. Yeah, a win against
a team that he maybe didn't expect. I've sort
of been on the train of, like, I'm not really
sure at this point with this roster that's on
this court if any of this really even matters
at this point. Where do you kind of stand on
that? How big is this win against USC? Is this
just sort of a nice -to -spite arrival, or is
there anything to this one? I think it's a little
deeper than that. Obviously the season's lost,
and obviously the same type of questions are
going to be asked at the end of the year about
what does the future look like for Dana Altman
with two years left on his contract. Nothing
solid on that front yet by way of our reporting.
In terms of this season, this group of guys,
it's a pride thing. It's an opportunity for them
to play for a coach that they respect in Dana
Altman and, you know, stick it to a rival. Look,
in basketball, people like to, you know, be a
bit of a thorn in the side of a conference rival.
And I think Oregon's been that for USC over the
last couple of years. And USC was on the bubble.
and they might have just burst that bubble by
losing to an Oregon team that, you know, other
than the Penn State game, has not been terribly
competitive for the last couple of months. And,
you know, it's nice for them to have Nate Biddle
back, but the bellwether for them has been Kwame
Evans Jr., and he had a great game against USC,
and that was, I think, the difference for Oregon.
Yeah, KJ, 11 of 13 at the charity stripe, four
of nine from the field, including two of three
from outside the mark with the 21 points of the
eight rebounds. Nate Biddle, another double -double.
Just, you know, he brings his lunch pail, his
hard hat to the game every single time he's out
on the floor. 14 points, 11 rebounds, leading
four players in double figures as Oregon sneaks
away with the win. Southern Cal drops to 18 -9
overall, 7 -9 in the Big Ten as Oregon improves
to 10 -17 and 3 -13 in the Big Ten. Is the biggest
challenge for Rob Mullins going to be, and this
is just conjecture on your point, so I'm going
to ask you to put your little soothsayer's hat
on, Sawbones, is can, and I think the only knock
I've heard about Dana Altman is that The game
hasn't passed him by on the floor, but it's about
the talent that he's recruiting or gathering
and not necessarily navigating the NIL and the
transfer portal accurately or effectively for
the University of Oregon the last few years.
So is that something you think Rob Mullen's going
to just press Dana on in the offseason? Because
he's got a guaranteed deal. If they want to get
rid of him, they're going to have to pay more
than $10 million to replace him and then find
another coach where it's not going to be a lateral
move but an upward move. So you think that is
going to be the discussion about? What is Dana
Altman's plan for this program moving forward
and how to adjust? Yeah, I think it's going to
be a question of whether Rob Mullins wants to
navigate the challenge of doing something like
that in this first fiscal year of rev share in
this crucial year for football where so many
resources are being allocated towards it and
there's a lot of pressure on the football program
to take another step as they've continued to
take steps year after year. But on the basketball
side, yeah, I think that it's fair to criticize
these last couple of years under Dana Altman
as not being necessarily up to pace with the
rest of the country and, frankly, obviously the
Big Ten Conference in transfer portal acquisitions,
spending on the right positions, building depth
out. It was evidenced this year by the fact that,
you know, Shelstad went down and suddenly they
didn't have a guard on the roster that was a
reliable and consistent playmaker. That can't
happen. You know, Jackson Shelstad's a great
player, but it's something that Altman himself
has admitted that he should have done a better
job building depth out for that position. And
that's across the board and something that I
certainly think will be part of the... conversations
between Altman and Rob Mullins this offseason
is how do you build out the program? Do you invest
in a general manager that can assist as they
do for great programs and great coaches all over
the country in building out a competitive roster
so that Altman can coach up guys that are capable
of winning some games? Right now they aren't
built that way. Speaking of the way that you're
building, how important is it at this point to
be able to build through freshman classes in
high school? It's something that Dana has been
very willing to go through the portal. It's not
like he's never had freshman classes, and not
that they are always very small, but looking
ahead to next year, Taj Ariza, and then you've
got Kendra Harrison, who's going to obviously
be playing football and maybe playing some basketball,
but not a huge freshman class right now. How
important do you think it is, and how possible
do you think it is? current modern day college
basketball to build that way through the high
school ranks? I think it's harder than it's ever
been, especially for a coach as late in their
career as Dana. You can't sell the... development
piece to guys as much anymore as you might have
been able to earlier in Dana's career. And that's
something that, you know, you think about the
names over the years, like Peyton Pritchard,
like Jackson Shelstad, who have developed in
their time in the program and, you know, seeing
that bear fruit. But a lot of guys, frankly,
just are not patient enough in the modern college
landscape to want to go through that. And yet
on top of that, they don't know how many more
years a guy like Dana Altman is going to coach
at Oregon. that level of uncertainty makes it
harder to sort of plumb the high school recruiting
ranks and build your roster out that way, at
least in the short term for Oregon. So it's got
to be a lot of portal stuff. It's got to be a
greater level of investment in scouting and talent
acquisition staff that can help build this thing
to a place where a guy that knows the X's and
O's better than a lot of... college basketball
and Dana Altman can. find the success in these
last couple of years and go out on a better note
than a season like this one. Well, roster construction
is going to be at the top of everyone's mind.
And for Coach Altman, he's got a couple of kids,
four and five stars, led by Taj Ariza, Trevor's
son, who are going to be in this incoming class.
In fact, Oregon's also on the bubble with another
four -star guard. So there could be three really
high -level recruits coming in that would be
incoming freshmen. And then you got to look at
what you're going to be losing. You're going
to be losing. Nate Biddle. You're going to probably
be losing Jackson Shelstad. I don't know. KJ.
KJ, obviously. So roster reconstruction is going
to be first and foremost. Oregon returns home
to play Wisconsin Wednesday night, 8 p .m. on
the Big Ten Network. Well, Sawbones, you did
well, as always. You get a gold star. I don't
know if you can put that on Twitter or whatever,
but gold star for the content today, as always.
Great job here on the program. We appreciate
you, bud. No problem. I'll get a whiteboard set
up in my bedroom and put some little smileys
and gold star stickers on there and, you know,
feel like I've accomplished something. That a
boy job. Thanks, Ryan. Take care. Thanks, guys.
All right. There he goes. The great Ryan T. Clark.
We call him Sawbones on the Danny and Justin
radio program. So when we come back, we'll have
our last Olympic update. Olympic Games are finally
over. They've passed the torch to France for
the next Winter Games. But we'll have one last
right around the horn on the Olympics. We'll
talk Oregon women's softball, recovered with
a big win over a ranked team. They will go 3
-2 in the Mary Nutter. We'll talk Oregon women's
basketball as well, Oregon State men's and women's
basketball. Oregon softball has a no -hitter
as well. A lot to cram in in the last few minutes.
Stay tuned on the Danny and Justin radio program.
Thanks once again to the great Sawbones, Ryan
T. Clark from the Oregonian, talking a lot of
Oregon. Well, we pushed football in there. Kind
of noses its way into everything we do. And the
rivalry game is going to be a no for the next
two years between Oregon and Oregon State. So
no Civil War in football, but apparently they'll
keep playing each other in basketball and baseball.
and everything else, like tumbling, acrobatics.
I don't know if they do lacrosse or soccer against
Oregon State. I don't know. Thumb wars. Whatever
it is, except for football. One, two, three,
four, I declare a thumb war. That's the way we
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on the back. You pull it back and then you let
it go. To some family and friends, it's not great.
All right. Our last Olympic update of the season.
And let's go ahead and start out. The women took
care of Canada. So did the men in the gold medal
game. And here's how the overtime goal sounded.
Jack Hughes, along with his brother Quinn, were
on the team. Well, they weren't on the team.
They knew people on the team in the 2010 Vancouver
Olympics gold medal game and in the Four Nations
face -off final, but not denied this time as
Connor Hellenbrook was just awesome in goal between
the pipes, as they say. And for the first gold
in 46 years, the men defeat Canada in... Overtime,
2 -1. Team USA struck gold on the first official
day of the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics. Breezy
Johnson didn't have an opportunity to even compete
in the Olympics in 2022, but she made that wait
worthwhile. We didn't talk about this because
we didn't start our Olympic upstakes until later
when intern Dom shamed me. But I want to give
recognition to Breezy Johnson who got a gold.
Cross -country skiing, one of just six events
that has been contested in every Winter Olympics
going back to 1924. This year, competing in his
second Olympics, 26 -year -old Ben Ogden broke
a 50 -year drought by securing silver for the
U .S. in the cross -country skiing sprint. The
final medal count, and it was a record, Norway
with 18 gold, 41 total, U .S. 12 gold, 33 total,
Netherlands and Italy 10 gold, 20... Overall
medals for the Netherlands. Italy with 30 overall.
Germany, eight golds, 26 medals overall. So there's
the Olympics for you. Now that you can encapsulate
the whole thing, was it a good Olympics? I thought
it was. So my wife and daughter went over to
my mom's. They were watching figure skating.
I got into curling a little bit more. Curling
was fun. You know, and then there was controversy
with the finger and everything else from, again,
the Canadians, not in the greatest light in this
Olympics, and then the whining after the hockey
game. Do you think you'd ever go curling? No,
I don't think I could do that. I've done it before.
So did you need the little, like, I was watching
people who hadn't done curling before. Do you
see they had the little, if you're pushing the
stone with the right hand, the left hand, they've
got this little tripod thing or, like, that holds
you upright so you don't tip over? Balance -wise?
Yeah. Did you use that, or did you just... I
don't remember. It was when I was like 10, so
I can't remember. I had a good time, though.
Was the stone heavier than you when you were
10 years old pushing that? Yeah, it was a normal
stone. Okay. Gotcha. We got just a couple of
minutes left here, Baby J. So the Oregon women's
basketball team had a tough one. And they kept
digging themselves into a hole and trying to
dig themselves back out of it, but they could
not come back all the way from another double
-digit deficit. They end up losing in Assembly
Hall in Bloomington, Indiana, to the Hoosiers,
72 -65. The Ducks still sitting at 19 wins, 19
-9 now, overall 7 -9 in the Big Ten. And Coach
Kelly Graves said it. He said, we dug ourselves
that big hole, and we got it chipped away. But
what a game. I know you've been on her all year
long. He's a two -tay. Another double -double,
27 .17 rebounds. But she didn't have a ton of
support from the rest of the team. But Estera
Tahina came off the bench, played 26 minutes.
She scored 14 points off the bench. She was 6
of 9 from the field, 2 of 3 from 3, but didn't
get to the free throw line. But she came off,
and there was no... Mia Jacobs in this game.
And Coach Graves said that Mia Jacobs is probably
not going to play until they get into the postseason.
That's a big loss for the Ducks as they fight
for playoff positioning. By the way, your Tahina
hair update, she has hearts on her hair now,
which looks... She held those over from Valentine's
Day, did she? I think so. I think so. Those look
pretty good. Yeah, a little bit of a disappointing
loss, obviously. It's kind of a theme now. Not
starting off great. Have a really great third
quarter. It looks like you might get back into
it. And then there have been a couple games now,
like that Washington game, where they just haven't
been able to close the deal. And it's hard. Sometimes
when you come back, that takes all the energy
out of a team when you're there, and then your
team can finish you off. So that seems like that's
what happened in this game. Down by nine at the
break. Cut it down to a one -point deficit at
the end of the third quarter, but then get outscored
by six in the final frame. I'm a little tired
of Indiana. Yeah, we all are. I'm a little tired
of Indiana. There's a little exhaustion there.
I agree. Ducks finish their road trip at Purdue.
It'll be Wednesday at 4 p .m. Pacific time. That'll
be on the Big Ten Plus. So let's flip the script.
Number 18, Oregon. Number 20, Duke. First ever
meeting at the Mary Nutter Classic. First ever
meeting ever in Cathedral City. Ducks score three
times on the top of the seventh, five times in
the eighth to complete a come -from -behind 11
-8 win over the Blue Devils. And they finish
off the Mary Nutter with a 3 -2 mark as they
were taking on Duke, Texas A &M, and South Carolina.
And they beat all those teams in the Mary Nutter.
So three ranked teams, they got wins over. They're
calling Oregon one of the most confusing teams
early on. I agree. And it's been a really interesting
year. There's been a lot of upsets, except for
Tennessee. Tennessee seems to be the only team
that doesn't have a loss to anybody right now.
And, of course, they played Oregon. Oregon played
them very well. But it's a weird weekend, right?
You beat the two teams, the three teams you really
want to beat, and then Cal State, Fullerton,
and Auburn, you think that those are probably
going to be wins, and they lose those two games.
So it's early season. This is very clearly a
talented team. It's a weird year in softball.
They're going to have to be consistent at some
point, though. So Oregon uses all four of their
pitchers in the win against Duke. Duke dropped
to 9 -7. Great win. Yeah, and Taylor Spencer
finished it off with two innings, four hits,
two runs. She struck out two, didn't walk anybody.
and she gets the win. She's now 3 -2 on the year,
but Lindsey Grein started the game, went two
innings. Maddie Milhorn pitched two and a third.
Lisa Kolsky pitched one and two -thirds. So they
used all the arms in the last game of the Marinetta.
Oregon now 8 -6 overall as they will come back
home now. First time, come back home and get
to stay here. Hosting Stetson and Idaho State
at 1230 and 330 on Friday, the first day of the
Oregon Classic. Let's fill up the Jane. Let's
do our dad joke. Oh, a joke! I got fired from
the bank today. A woman asked me to check her
balance, so I pushed her. Dad jokes! How do you
keep cool at a baseball game? Ooh. A beer, usually.
What is the real answer? Well, you sit next to
a baseball fan. Yeah, well, there's plenty of
those. How do you keep cool at a baseball game?
So, Oregon baseball is on the road. Oregon women's...
basketball on the road. Oregon men come back
home. Oregon softball back home. We're going
to spend some time. We got to spend some time
tomorrow. Let's talk a little Oregon State a
little bit more. We kind of, we didn't dismiss
them, but there are some things we want to talk
about. Oregon State softball, who threw a no
-hitter. We'll talk about that tomorrow. Oregon
State baseball team a little bit more tomorrow
as well. You want to talk about up and down.
I don't think Mitch Canham looked at his squad
and said, hey, we're going to be four and three
after the first two weekends. Yeah, they might
be ranked below Oregon in a lot of polls. And
I do believe they play today as well. So we'll
recap all that tomorrow. Thanks for tuning in,
lending us your ears. Baby J, nice job. Thank
you. And over there, Blaze, running everything.
That a boy. We'll be back tomorrow right here
on the Fastest 60 Minutes. Fox Sports Eugene,
Fox Sports Newport. God bless. Put a smile on
your face. Someone else says they deserve it.
So do you. Peace.