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Opinion: How the ‘enrollment cliff’ is impacting college athletics

Scott ReedAugust 9, 2023393 Views0

As America's education landscape undergoes a transformation due to declining school-age children, colleges and universities are also grappling with declining enrollment. This trend is rooted in various factors, including the aftermath of the Great Recession and changing demographics. Even before the pandemic, cities and states were facing shrinking enrollment in public school systems. The pandemi...

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Sunday Morning Sidewalk: Chasing Ghosts

Scott ReedOctober 2, 2022578 Views0

I was thinking a lot this week about chasing ghosts. There is an application to sports through individual existence that lends depth to the concept for me. As a middle child, it feels at times Like I have been chasing ghosts for most of my life. What does that mean? Psychotherapist Alfred Adler posited a relationship theory about a child being ‘sandwiched’ between siblings which affects the ps...

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Sunday Morning Sidewalk: Return of the Quack fun

Scott ReedSeptember 25, 2022485 Views0

As I prepared yesterday for a perfect fall day full of football, I took a little longer morning walk than normal – to the tune of an 8-mile walk. It was such a perfect morning for a walk and it seemed almost an insult to not enjoy my favorite time of year holed up in a living room watching pre-game broadcasts. I was thinking a lot about that walk as I watched Oregon make its comeback against W...

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Sunday Morning Sidewalk: Fall and Hope

Scott ReedSeptember 18, 2022480 Views0

I have always loved fall. As a boy, the cool, crisp air came with football and the World Series. Whenever I go outside on a fall evening the smell of wood-burning fireplaces always transports me to football practice as a kid. As I am now firmly in the fall of life, it takes on a unique duality to experience the onset of the season. Last season, as I walked to and from the press box, I knew ...

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Tuesday Tenor: Fan-Centric NIL Collectives

Scott ReedSeptember 6, 2022634 Views0

On Saturday I was headed to the grocery store for the basic necessities of a gameday at home with my wife. On my way into the store, a couple of guys in jeans and tee shirts greeted me at the door. As I (almost) always do, I greeted them with a good morning. I knew they were soliciting funds as I had seen their hand-drawn ribbons and poorly designed signs for breast cancer awareness. I did not st...

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Rose Bowl Memories – how the 2010 game changed our family

Scott ReedJuly 21, 2022254 Views0

John Canzano wrote a piece about his grandfather attempting to get to the Rose Bowl in 1929 - and how he made it to Pasadena a day late. This reminded me of my first trip to Pasadena. I would love to tell you a romantic story about a just graduated college kid who hitched a ride to Pasadena and found his way to the 1995 game against Penn State, but that would be a fantasy; a story that may be...

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Beyound Flock Talk: Clay Travis, Non-Comparable statistics and deceptive agenda making

Scott ReedSeptember 29, 2017417 Views0

By now it is probably no secret that I take my shots at Clay Travis. He's a big boy, he can handle a few errant shots from some small time blogger, right?So what on earth could I be talking about today?Clay Travis is not stupid in the traditional sense. He is educated and speaks well. He has a forum in which to share his thoughts which is considerably larger than my own forum.So am I jealous? Not

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Wide Receiver week at Duck Sports Authority

Scott ReedMay 19, 2017152 Views0

This week at Duck Sports Authority we looked at the top three wide receivers in several categories; All Time at Oregon; top three prospects for 2018; top three current Duck wide receivers and the top three receivers int he Pac-12. I actually enjoyed working on the top three all-time, but as I read around some of the other sites, it really stands out to me that there are a lot of people who only k...

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Football, pain, marijuana, opioids and a growing problem

Scott ReedMay 2, 2017396 Views0

On Friday night, I spent a very long session chatting with six players from a Southern California high school. The topics we discussed were wide ranging. Sometimes they bordered on regular chit-chat, as was the case when we discussed my former powerlifting career and subsequent ‘retirement/weight loss’, but there were also some very important topics broached.First, what impressed me most about al...

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Uproar, shouting and unecessary vitriol

Scott ReedApril 28, 2017152 Views0

There is something on my mind tonight – as there is on most nights – this night it relates to fans and their relationship with the media.This is a strange place for me to be because my initial relationship with the, so-called, traditional media was, at best strained and at worst non-existent. Some members of that traditional media were harsher in their treatment of me than others. This was d...