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The main building for Powell's bookstore is one city block and I think it's four stories. They have an annex with tech books in a separate building.

Hope you found Powell's Bookstore, while you were there. It's certainly the largest bookstore west of the Mississippi, and I think their is one in NYC that might be as large or a little larger. It's a great place. Deschutes Public House is only a few blocks away.

Good point on pronouncing "Oregon" or better "Orygun". It's definitely not Ore-gone. It's about as irritating to Oregonians as "Ill-a-noise" is to Illinois.

Just a quick comment on Ernie, loved the guy. Great basketball player when he was with the Ducks team that was nicknamed the Kamikaze Kids for the level of intensity hustle and defense they played. He is a gentleman and just an excellent human being. Wish him well.

Yea, those chainsaw sound effects are a real pain. And we are going to keep playing them home and home. It's one of the 10 oldest rivalries in the country. It's a cultural thing, Ore St draws from rural areas do to the nature of the programs offered.... Forestry, Agri, Oceanography etc. The U of...

I remember it well. I'm probably older than most on here. I remember getting indoor plumbing and electricity as well as going to a one room school with 9 students k-8 grades.

Yea I'm aware of hockey in MN. Some years ago, I had the "pleasure" of staying in a Minneapolis/St Paul hotel next to an arena hosting a high school state tournament in hockey. It was not a place to get a good night's sleep. Service carts going down the halls loaded with exuberant fans/players...

Actually, Portland has been a pretty good hockey town for many decades. The Winter Hawks probably average 5000 to 7000 attendance. It's not the big leagues and they are competing with the NBA for fans. So in my opinion, that's pretty reasonable for a metro of 2 million.

You are correct, I don't follow the NHL. Last hockey I watched might have been the Miracle on Ice. You do know I was joking a bit about not knowing hockey was a college sport.

LOL, I didn't even know hockey was a college sport until the expansion. As far as wrestling goes, probably the most famous U of O wrestler was Ken Kesey and his fame had more to do with "other pursuits". Actually, once upon a time Oregon did have a pretty good wrestling team, perhaps that will...

I don't think the games against the old Big 10 schools will be that strange. A few decades ago it was normal for PAC and Big schools to play at least one OOC against the opposing conference. Games that will be strange are games like playing a league game against Rutgers, that feels weird.

Good point, he definitely missed on that one.

When they are on a roll, it's a tough place to play. If they've struggled a bit.... not so much.... So you want to catch them when fans are doubting themselves. Of course the Ducks have sort of frustrated the condoms over the last 20 years :)

Actually, I agree with you, I think the new DC will likely solve the scheme issues. And as I said, they have to take care of the trench warfare, if they solve that problem they could be scary. They play at Minn, at Mich, at Maryland. Sorry I know this is your board, but they could win all three...

USC could be scary good next year. This is assuming they can solve defensive problems and I think they made a good hire at DC. If they take care of the trench warfare, they will win a lot of games.

If Oregon and Ohio St are undefeated when they meet at Autzen that will likely be a Game Day Game. Autzen will be overflowing, I think they normally are averaging 102% of capacity and I'm sure for Ohio St they'll find a way to get a few extra thousand standing room only people in Autzen. I'm...

That means Oregon has to beat Ohio St at home, Wisconsin and Mich on the road. Plus Washington at home. Hard to win all four of those games in one year. Additionally, that means sweeping the rest of the schedule without a hickup. This kind of prediction is way to early.

I think Iowa and Northwestern are too high. USC, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois are too low. I'd probably move MSU up a slot, Rutgers down a bit. Nebraska might finish higher. Not sure UCLA is low enough with all the changes.

UCLA better take who they can get at this point. Not a whole lot of good things going on with UCLA football. I personally think it's a very difficult job without enough support from the Alumni. People on the West Coast have always had a strong interest in Fleck as a head coach, so if UCLA puts...

The only problem with that is when someone says take the Santa Monica to the Anaheim and go north.