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When something seemingly loud happens, we can't help but stare. The momentum of attention, which of course can be monetized by the media, creates a hungry void that is filled with endless analysis. The end-result is a suffusion of broad statements of...

The holidays are here and the Ducks are getting set to push toward signing day in February. The DuckNation mailbag has been overflowing with questions. It's about time to lighten the load and get right to it. Stephen R. (Laguna Beach, Calif.): Are...

Oregon Ducks fans have been witness to one of the greatest rises in college football history over the past two decades. The Ducks have risen from cellar dwellers to one of the hottest names in all of college football. And the facilities, the uniforms...

Today we ranked the Pac-12 coaching jobs -- an inexact science to say the least. ESPN.com's Mark Schlabach took another angle: Underrated coaching jobs. And he tapped two from the Pac-12: Stanford and Washington. Here's what he had to say: S...

Our theme today, as part of our "Love to hate" week at ESPN.com, is "Left in the lurch." This is about coaches who bailed out on a Pac-12 program at an unexpected or awkward time. We're not including Urban Meyer leaving Utah for Florida or Jim Harbau...

Sports Illustrated's Stewart Mandel rated the coaching hires across the country this week, and he's clearly split on how the Pac-12 did. He likes Mike Leach to Washington State - a lot - and Rich Rodriguez to Arizona. He's not so impressed with To...

First reported weeks ago, it's now official: Noel Mazzone will be UCLA's new offensive coordinator after serving in the same post at Arizona State the previous two years. The Bruins also announced the hiring of Jeff Ulbrich as special teams coordi...

Black Monday continues with Arizona State firing Dennis Erickson. On a day that the Pac-12 wanted it's first Pac-12 championship game to lead the news, two firings do instead, including UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel, who will coach in said championshi...

A quick look at the two new coaches in the Pac-12: Colorado's Jon Embree and Stanford's David Shaw. Embree and Shaw share some similarities. Both are first-time head coaches. Both played for the program they now coach. Both coached in the NFL. Bot...

PHOENIX -- Heated competition has cast Jim Harbaugh and Pete Carroll as bitter enemies, first in the Pacific-10 Conference and now in the NFC West. The heat sources at the Arizona Biltmore resort, site of the ongoing NFL owners meeting, are much l...

Both teams' head coaches came from the old Pac-10 Conference. Their general managers worked together for the Washington Redskins in 2001. Their athletic young quarterbacks turned down opportunities to play baseball instead of football. Both teams hav...

By now most people know the story of Brian Banks, the former USC recruit convicted and later exonerated of rape after serving five-plus years in prison. ESPN.com's Rick Reilly paints the picture of Banks, who is still hoping for his shot in the NF...

Not unlike his pop -- "Playoffs? Playoffs?!" -- Jim Mora can be kind of a grump. Not in a "I hate the world" sort of way. More in a football coach-y way. Which is why I got a kick out of Jon Gold's description of Mora from spring practice No. 1 fo...

For the second week in a row, a former USC football player is making headlines at San Diego State. While Brice Butler wasn't dismissed from the Aztecs or his new home on Montezuma Mesa - which was the case last week with former Trojan running back Di...

As expected, Oregon State coach Mike Riley named Rod Perry his secondary coach today to replace Keith Heyward, who resigned last month. Perry, 58, spent the last five seasons as a special assistant to the defense for the Indianapolis Colts, were h...

It wasn't random that Jim Mora, a NFL coaching lifer, ended up in college football. It was his specific plan. When his ill-fated, one-year tenure as the Seattle Seahawks head coach ended, he almost immediately started eyeballing the college game. ...