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Oregon, steadfastly adhering to coach Chip Kelly's philosophies, only plays nameless, faceless opponents. And every week is a Super Bowl. There are no rivalries. There are no special emotions. The idea is simple. You should always be 100 percent focu...

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is. Arizona fans will need to wait two weeks for Davonte Neal to make his college decision. Arizona State's spr...

EUGENE, Ore. -- Oregon's thing under Chip Kelly -- other than offensive pyrotechnics -- has been focus. Every game is a Super Bowl against a nameless, faceless opponent. Win the day. Don't look forward or backward. But the Ducks know what happened...

We've got bad news. College football rivalries aren't really about the emotional roller coaster, the good guys versus bad guys of a Hollywood movie. Their fundamental essence is far more akin to those self-help books you see stacked high on the deepl...

Every game is a "Super Bowl," Oregon coach Chip Kelly tells us. In part, he's right. Beating ranked foes only means so much if you fall to other teams you should beat. But some games, to use Kelly's term, feel a bit more Super Bowl-y than others. ...

Third in a series looking at potential dream and nightmare scenarios for all Pac-12 teams. Understand: These are not predictions. They are extreme scenarios and pieces of fiction. You can read last year's versions here. We're going in reverse o...

UCLA legend James Washington, one of the greatest safeties in Bruins history and a two-time Super Bowl champion, has returned to the athletic department as the director of scholarship development, where he will focus on raising funds for athletic sch...

Oregon State has hired a new head athletic trainer for football, Ariko (uh-Ree-ko) Iso (eye-so), whose previous position was assistant athletic trainer for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Iso, an Oregon State graduate, was the only female athletic traine...

Longtime NFL executive Jim Steeg has been hired by the Pac-10 "as a consultant to help plan and execute the inaugural Pac-12 Football Championship game," the conference announced today. The news release says Steeg "built the Super Bowl into the wo...

STANFORD, Calif. -- The media often falls for polite and polished and humble. It doesn't require a gaggle of publicists to know that a superstar athlete doing polite, polished and humble charms reporters and therefore the public. And, of course, it's...

Yeah, do you have the Beatles' White Album? Never mind, just get me a glass of hot fat. And bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia while you're out there. The end of Sparky's Lawn at Arizona State. Watching the Super Bowl has a California observer...

Welcome to the mailbag. You can follow me on Twitter here. To the notes. Nathan from Boston writes: You mentioned that Jeff Tedford's not quite on the hot seat, and it coincides with Aaron Rodgers' rise to the Super Bowl. Clearly, Rodgers sh...

The Super Bowl is set for Feb. 6 -- or as college football fans will remember it, "the Sunday after national signing day" -- and the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers both feature a number of former Pac-12 players. Here's the list (some ar...

CORVALLIS, Ore. -- Oregon coach Chip Kelly has said -- over and over and over this season -- that every game is a "Super Bowl" for the Ducks. Well, with the Civil War, he's got a point. Perhaps the battle with rival Oregon State is closer to the N...

Every week Pac-10 coaches say interesting things that don't get printed. Here are some of the best from this week. Oregon State's Mike Riley on the Pac-10 schedule: "They're all like the Super Bowl; they're all like playoff games." Arizona coac...

Damon Huard wants your money, Washington fans. The former Huskies and NFL quarterback has been hired as a "major gifts officer" for his former school's booster club, the "Tyee Club." A 1995 UW graduate, Huard was a three-year starter for the Hu...