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Club Scene Murder ‘City of Roses’ A 32-year-old dance club employee is shot and killed after a New Years morning altercation outside downtown night spot See page 3, inside à f ì o r t la n b (O b s e rv e r 41 W W w W .p .D o O rtla r t l a n n d d o n b h s ç e p rv rv e p r.c r m o m ww m Volume XXXXI, Number 1 Wednesday • January 5. 2011 F c t n E h s l i ta c h b p lis d h in e d IQ in 7 H 1970 . ■ _ Committed to Cultural Diversity Title Game excitement Ducks play for a national championship T he O regon D ucks from the PA C 10 co n feren ce w ill face the Auburn Tigers from the SEC conference in the BCS national c h a m p io n s h ip g am e to be played M onday night Jan. 10 Kick o ff time from Uni versity o f P hoenix S tadium in G len dale, Ariz. is scheduled for 5:20 Mascots for the Oregon Ducks and Auburn Tigers set the stage for the NCAA college football title The BCS cham pionship game is scheduled to air on ESPN on Monday, Jan. 10 at 5:30 p.m. A special free broadcast will also take place at the Hollywood Theater on Northeast Sandy Boulevard. Oregon Ducks Quarter back Darron Thomas, (right), a sophomore who leads his team to the Jan. 10 BCS title game with an unde feated record, will face Auburn Quarterback Cam Newton, (left) the season’s Heisman Trophy winner. p.m . E S P N will p rovide the national television coverage. O regon's players have a se rious task ahead: facing top- ra n k e d A u b u rn a n d th e ir HeismanTrophy-winningquar- terback C am N ew ton. The sec o n d -ran k ed D ucks are also playing in th eir first national championship. "W e're excited to be here," O regon coach Chip Kelly. "The am ount o f support we get ev erywhere, it's an exciting time to be a D uck." N ow com es the biggest week in the p ro g ram 's 1 15-year his tory. O regon (12-0) had a fairly easy run through the regular sea son, cru sh in g team s w ith an uptem po offense that had o p ponents feigning injuries in an attem pt to slow it dow n. T he D ucks had one close gam e — 15-13 o v er C al — and led the nation with 49.3 points per gam e w hile averaging nearly 540 yards. continued on page 18