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Memories of chips
and sweaty palms
■The sports staff reflects on the
‘Year of the Duck’ by picking out
their favorite events this year
Adam Jude, sports editor: Please,
no more Tostitos. No more chips
and salsa, period.
The free nacho cheese so coated my
stomach that I was in detox for about
two weeks after the Fiesta Bowl on
New Year’s Day in Tempe, Ariz. “Tos
titos” was everywhere—those color
ful pastel signs, plastered here and
there and everywhere. Walk into Sun
Devil Stadium... wait, are they really
going to play a game here? It’s a carni
val — one that makes you sick. Try to
sleep, the Tostitos taste inhibits your
breathing. Go to the bathroom, Tosti
tos is there. Tostitos, Tostitos, Tostitos.
What does that mean, anyway?
But how can one resist? They’re
everywhere (we established that,
right?). But they were free. Free. I must
have them. Eat me, they say. I am free,
eat me. Aaaah. Relapse. Sorry. Focus.
Ah yes, the game: Joey Harrington
is perfect, blah, blah, blah, Maurice
Morris makes a great run, blah, blah,
blah, Joey Harrington still perfect,
blah, blah, blah, Oregon defense
stuffs Colorado run game, blah,
blah, blah... buy the highlight tape.
Oregon, of course, wins, 38-16.
Good game. Oregon, ranked No. 2,
is hoping to get a share of the nation
al title if Nebraska, which many be
lieve shouldn’t be in the Rose Bowl,
beats Miami.
Two days later, Miami wins. Ore
gon’s hopes for a national title were,
well, no more. It was fun while it lasted.
Jeff Smith, assistant sports editor:
The best part about working for the
Emerald sports staff is being able to be
the eyes and ears of our readers while
covering the Ducks on the road. To
pick one event as my favorite from
this past year of covering the Pac-10
champion football and men’s basket
ball team is practically impossible.
It was unreal to sit courtside at
Maples Pavilion in Stanford, Calif.,
and watch the Ducks and the Cardi
nal go at it in an intense overtime
showdown that Stanford eventually
pulled out. It was obviously a thrill
to cover the Fiesta Bowl and the
NCAA Tournament.
But for me, there was nothing like
being at the Rose Bowl in November
for the Oregon-UCLA football game.
Regardless of the final score, it was
the electricity of walking up to the
stadium and inside the turnstiles and
overlooking the historic building
from my view atop the vast press box.
And then, in the final minutes,
walking down the stairs and step
ping ito the sidelines gave me the
chills. I’ll never forget looking
around at the thousands in atten
dance and at the faces of the Oregon
sideline and absorbing the emotion
all around me. The unmatched pas
sion of collegiate athletics was on
full display as UCLA kicker Chris
Griffith missed a last-second 50
yard field goal to give the Ducks the
21-20 victory, sending the Ducks
storming on the field with helmets
raised and voices loud.
The history of the Rose Bowl it
self is incredible, and while it
would have been an awesome expe
rience to cover a game there on New
Year’s Day, I’ll never forget that No
vember afternoon.
Chris Cabot, sports reporter: There
may have been more exciting games
or those of greater consequence
throughout my one-year tenure at the
Emerald, but the most exciting con
test that I attended with pen and
notepad in hand was Civil War No. 2
of the 2001-2002 wrestling season.
Coming into the Feb. 13 meet, Ore
gon State had lost just once in the Pa
cific-10 Conference and Oregon held
a sub-.500 in the league. The Beavers
— ranked No. 2 in the Pac-10 — had
won the earlier edition of the inter
state rivalry on a technicality.
The second edition of the rivalry
promised to be a good one and it
lived up to expectations.
In front of 1,289 fans — the largest
crowd all season at Mac Court — Ore
gon dropped the first three matched to
go down 11-0. Elias Soto, Jake Leair and
Eric Webb all fell to their opponents.
Then the Ducks made their
charge, winning the next six weight
classes. After Shaun Williams won
his 125-pound weight class, Jason
Harless (133 pounds) came up with
a key upset victory that sent the Ore
gon fans soaring. Pitted against
Nathan Navarro, who was ranked
No. 19 in the country, Harless broke
open the 2-2 match in the third
round with two takedowns.
Brian Watson, Casey Hunt, Tony -
Overstake and Eugene Harris all
came away with wins. Harris’ victo
ry brought the score to 18-11, assur
ing an Oregon State loss.
The Ducks won the match 18-14,
and it could be considered one of
the most underrated victories of the
“Year of the Duck.”
Hank Hager, sports reporter: It
was the game Oregon wasn’t sup
posed to win.
After winning its first WNIT game
against St. Mary’s (Calif.), the Oregon
women’s basketball team came up
against hated foe Oregon State. The
two teams had split the regular season
series, but OSU’s Felicia Ragland and
Ericka Cook were supposed to handle
the Ducks’ Shaquala Williams and
Cathrine Kraayeveld.
The game turned out to be one of the
sloppiest and lowest scoring games of
the season. The Beavers jumped out to
a commanding 10-point lead at the
end of the first half, and it seemed as
though Oregon was through.
Not so. The Ducks bounced back,
coming from 12 points down at one
point in the second half, to tie Oregon
State with 1:54 left in the game. Neither
team could score after that, well at least
not until Kraayeveld took a stand.
The sophomore grabbed an offen
sive rebound and put it back in with
4.4 second left, sending the Beavers
home and led the way to a WNIT
championship for the Ducks.
After Kraayeveld won the game
for Oregon, the 3,140 in attendance
went crazy, as did the Ducks, who
congregated on the center court “O. ”
“There’s no better way to beat a
Beaver than to say ‘You’re not going
to play for the rest of the season,”’
Williams said after the game.
Peter Hockaday, sports reporter:
I’ve covered a lot of basketball
games in two years of reporting on
the Oregon men’s team, but only
one or two have made me actually
nervous, with the sweaty hands and
the short breath and all that. The
first was my first game as a reporter.
The second was that Kansas game
in Madison, the Elite Eight game that
put the Ducks so very close to the Final
Four. I could feel the weight of the air
in the Kohl Center bearing down on
me that afternoon, just like I imagine it
was bearing down on the players.
I knew I was witnessing history.
You can tell by the notes I took that
afternoon, which were shaky like
Scooby-Doo writing and had large
gaps where I decided to simply
watch the amazing game. The pace
of the action was frantic, the two
teams burning streaks into the court
as they sprinted end-to-end.
I’ll never forget that game, just
like I’ll never forget the electricity
that surrounds all Oregon athletics
right now, because that’s wbatsport,
is all about.