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Pac-10 Report: Are Opponents Faking Injuries to Slow Down Oregon?

Oregon has seen it many times already this season. The Ducks' high-speed offense is rolling along at its standard blistering pace until ... a player from the other team goes down with an injury, stopping play, stopping momentum. Trainers come out, everybody waits as the player is taken off the field and the Ducks don't...

McMurphy's Law: Oregon's Replay Man Gets a Significant Workout

EUGENE, Ore. – Except for the defensive coordinators of Oregon's remaining opponents or Lindsay Lohan's public relations spin doctor, the individual with the toughest job in America would be none other than Olaf Bahr. That's right, Olaf Bahr. Bahr is the "slow motion replay operator" at Autzen Stadium. It's the...

Kevin Riley Earns Another Reprieve as Cal Blows out Arizona State

BERKELEY, Calif. -- If you are Kevin Riley, how many times can you hear the question asked of Cal coach Jeff Tedford? "Have you thought about replacing Kevin Riley at quarterback?" "Are you replacing Kevin Riley at quarterback?" "Are you sure you don't want to replace Kevin Riley at quarterback?" "Is there really no...

Dennis Erickson On The Edge at ASU

We're not saying Dennis Erickson is too old for this. We're just saying Arizona State's 63-year-old head coach has 28 years on USC's Lane Kiffin, 18 years on Oregon's Chip Kelly, and 17 years on this week's foe, Washington's Steve Sarkisian. Those aren't normal-people years either, but long, life-sucking football...

Pickin' on the Big Ten, Week 3

Look, Northwestern ... we need to talk. It's been a long time since the days of "Interstate 94, Northwestern 0," hasn't it? Some programs have a couple bad years. You guys had a couple bad decades. That's all behind you now. Since the improbable Rose Bowl run in 1995, you've turned from a punchline into a program. No, you...

Dennis Erickson News From the Web

04/26/12 Brock Outtakes: Interviews with McCarvel, Bennett and... Source: Flathead Beacon - Kalispell MT Sometimes the best quotes never make it into a story.
04/19/12 Cerise Park singletrack trails named Source: Montrose Daily Press - Montrose CO Bike riders, runners and walkers will now have an easier time finding their way around Cerise Park, as its six singletrack dirt trails now have names.
03/29/12 Love out as Arizona State AD | A.M. Briefing Source: The Seattle Times - Seattle WA Lisa Love is out as athletic director at Arizona State, replaced by longtime sports executive Steve Patterson.

Background on Dennis Erickson

Dennis Erickson (born March 24, 1947) is a former American football coach, most recently the head coach at Arizona State University from 2007 to 2011. Previously, Erickson was the head coach at the University of Idaho (1982–85, 2006), the University of Wyoming (1986), Washington State University (1987–1988), the University of Miami (1989–1994), and Oregon State University (1999–2002).

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