Karate chop to the neck is Portland's best strike today.

Well, at least there's no edge-of-your-seat-keep-you-up-late-on-a-Sunday-night stress in this one. San Diego's doing this like a band-aid. Right off.

Let's take the temperature of the room: After nine games, Oregon is...?

I will again say this: If you're going to be bad... you can be bad with an Oregon kid at quarterback to at least give people a reason to come

Oregon State achieves the inexplicable, losing to previously winless Sam Houston State.

Atticus Sappington said he wasn't worried because God was on his side. It seems the man upstairs has finally made some time for an Oregon kicker in November. From Iowa: lookouteugene-springfield.com/story/ducks/...

Oregon may have won the Big Ten in its first year in the conference, but it didn't become an official league member until today, when the Ducks beat Iowa at Iowa's own game, 18-16 in the rain.

"Fuck yeah!" can be heard from the Oregon coaches' box as time expires.

Gronowski keeper. Ducks down with 1:51 to play.

Iowa's line has suddenly turned into a brick wall.

That's a 58-yard field goal for Iowa. Jeez. 15-10 now.

That looked a bit Ify

That's a forced fumble by true freshman corner Brandon Finney Jr. at a ginormous moment.

Oregon ball.

Was a pretty brisk pace here in the third before the refs decided to get involved.

Tuioti down.

Just a grown-man touchdown run there from Dierre Hill Jr. We will not have a 2-0 game.

Punt team coming on for Iowa, Oregon's best formation.

This game might end 2-0.

Ducks are down to four scholarship receivers.

Has to be carried off the field.

Perfect throw from Moore for a big completion to Gary Bryant Jr. Bad news: Bryant is down on the turf. Ducks can't afford another WR injury.

Only know the long snapper's name when things go wrong. Anyway, Iowa's is Bryant Worrell.

This year, I have had the honor of personally witnessing some of the worst long snapping in the history of college football.

Bad snap on punt. It's a safety. Ducks lead 2-0.

I wish Eugene was as nice as the rest of college football seemingly thinks it is in November.

Ducks get great field position after an Iowa 3-and-out and do nothing with it.

Well, the Ducks have a great opporutnity here: First drive they start at midfield.

And we're here.

Iowa update: just drove past a Bass Pro Shops larger than my college campus.

Lots of good details and texture on the MLS Apple deal www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

Not selling my Wei Lin stock, but it's in a buy-low mode after walk-on Drew Carter played a lot of that second half. 0-7 from the field. 0-4 from three. Forced a lot of shots. Had a nice would-be assist in the final minute that wasn't finished. It's going to happen, but that was a rough debut.

Just a blueprint, 21-turnover, 1-point, season-opening win for Dana Altman's Ducks.

The Oregon women run. They force turnovers. And eventually, they're going to start seeing those shots fall. A few thoughts from Oregon's 41-point season-opening victory. lookouteugene-springfield.com/story/ducks/...

With 6:22 to play in the first half, the Oregon women have 12 steals and Western Georgia has 13 points.

And with that, the college basketball season is officially upon us

With trust -- and a fair amount of risk -- the Portland Timbers lived to bring the fight back to San Diego. Looking back at the best -- and last -- game of the season at Providence Park: www.i-5corridor.com/p/with-trust...

A new story, where for the first time in 12 years of covering Ducks football, a coach described something as "moist." On cake, family and the sweet simplicity behind Will Stein's offense. lookouteugene-springfield.com/story/ducks/...

The sweet simplicity of Will Stein’s offense By Tyson Alger buff.ly/5FxGFiq

UO sends cease-and-desist letter to local marijuana dispensary By Grace Chinowsky buff.ly/YekiZoJ

JJ told me yesterday he felt rusty shooting soccer. Sure, pal. More shots here: www.i-5corridor.com/p/photos-tim...

Just an absolutely unbelievable Timbers win. The season stays alive. 3-2 win in PKs.

We will have PKs with Portland's season on the line.

99th minute. Timbers tie it. Holy cow. Gage Geurra.

13th is worse. 2-1 San Diego now.

In the 11th minute of stoppage, San Diego gets the equalizer.

Ouch

Man, Kelsy's foot connected right with the face of San Diego's keeper. The stretcher is coming out.

I wrote earlier this week about Velde shaking out of the goal-scoring slump: www.i-5corridor.com/p/kristoffer...

Holy hell, what a ball from Pantemis. Timbers take a 1-0 lead after a long Pantemis outlet leads to a Velde goal.