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Oakland Ballers fire Micah Franklin, first manager in franchise history
OAKLAND — In a surprising development, the first-year Oakland Ballers announced on Sunday afternoon they have fired manager and ex-major leaguer Micah Franklin after just 54 games. The B’s, currently in their first season while the A’s are in the midst of their last in Oakland, are currently 29-25,...
Oregon Ducks Football And The Revamped College Football Playoffs
The Oregon Ducks are preparing for their inaugural season in the Big Ten Conference and an expanded College Football Playoffs. For the first time, this tournament will include 12 of the best teams in college football and Oregon looks to be a contender fo
Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel tops 247Sports’ Big Ten QB rankings for 2024 season
By Cody Nagel, 247Sports: The Big Ten welcomes a fresh wave of new starting quarterbacks in 2024, even as some battles continue into training camp. Only five starters from last season return expecting to maintain their place on the depth chart. That makes the process of ranking the projected starters...
Video of Jabbar Muhammad’s offseason workout is turning heads in Eugene
It appears the Oregon Ducks gained a really good one with former Washington Huskies cornerback Jabbar Muhammad. Of course, fans knew that already after the Ducks faced Muhammad twice last season and watched him lock down Troy Franklin on multiple occasions. Now that the elite cornerback is wearing green and yellow, Oregonians are taking a closer look at the transfer. And they’re liking what they see. A new video of Muhammad going through offseason work and drilling his footwork and coverage abilities has hit the internet, and it’s certainly something that should fire up Duck fans as we get set for fall camp...
ESPN names Oregon’s biggest weak point going into 2024 season
On paper, the Oregon Ducks defense set to take the field in 2024 is among the most talented we’ve seen in Eugene in quite some time. With a mix of transfer portal stars and homegrown talent, Dan Lanning has the unit ranked among the nation’s best so far this preseason. If there is a vulnerability, it is the very last line of the defense on the field (safety), at least according to ESPN. It’s not for the lack of talent, however. Oregon’s so-called safety problem is inexperience and bringing in newcomers such as transfer Kobe Savage from Kansas State and true freshman Kingston...
Crews battle 534-acre Ore Fire amid ‘Red Flag Warning’ for lightning
Firefighters are battling the 534-acre Ore Fire in Lane County amid a "Red Flag Warning" for lightning that could rapidly grow existing Oregon fires thanks to dry conditions and potential strong winds.
Feds say new investments in Oregon sage grouse habitat paying off, but conservationists disagree
Work to restore imperiled sage grouse habitat in southeast Oregon is moving faster than Tracy Stone-Manning had imagined a year into massive federal investments in landscape restoration. Stone-Manning, director of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, recently visited the agency’s Lakeview field office and federal land near burns to see a spring and a lake […] The post Feds say new investments in Oregon sage grouse habitat paying off, but conservationists disagree appeared first on Oregon Capital Chronicle.
Update: Oregon under a heat advisory until Monday night
On Monday at 9:18 a.m. the National Weather Service issued an updated heat advisory in effect until 10 p.m. for Lower Columbia Basin of Oregon, Grande Ronde Valley, John Day Basin and Foothills of the Northern Blue Mountains of Oregon as well as Wallowa County. The weather service adds to...
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