Category: Feature Articles

Some thoughts this afternoon from the other side of Duck.Often times, in our thrill of cheering for exceptional athletes in a sport we all love, many of us lose sight of how much sacrifice is involved. Many times, when we hear this phrase, we believe it to be about the athlete; the amount of blood, sweat, tears and emotion that is poured into the sport that brings us all such pleasure on Saturda...

This is the original article in it's entirety. In a Duck Sports Authority Exclusive interview with several close relatives of Lache Seastrunk, as well as Deanna and Scott Carter the nature of the relationship between Deanna Carter, Scott Carter, Willie Lyles, Lache Seastrunk and his extended family became much clearer than has been depicted. Mrs. Carter and her husband Scott first met Lache Seas

The more in depth you get into Lache Seastrunk's life, the more you understand his desire to get away from Texas.During the Summer before his Senior year in Temple, Texas, Lache Seastrunk should have been on top of the world; a dream was about to come true. Yet through this dream, turmoil reigned. Turmoil in his personal life truly took a toll. We all heard of Lache Seastrunk as an incredibly ta...

I am working for a national distribution for the previous post... there has been great demand for which I am grateful!Today, though, just a brief snippet of another subject I am looking into; the broader problem of mentors and where they fit into NCAA guidelines.The NCAA is keenly aware of mentors and their relationships with athletes. However, most of their literature is related to mentors and cu

Time for a new tidbit that might shed even more light on how mangled Lache Seastrunks relationships were during his last two years of high school.We have heard Lyles call himself Lache's “mentor." Yahoo printed such statements as fact simply because they came from the man's mouth. But that's the thing about mentor's; typically, kids who are mentored by someone appreciate their mentors and talk can

I have a couple of belated thoughts on Chip Kelly's statements yesterday. They seemed pretty tame on the surface, not likely to get much attention. But let's look again at two different statements: "misconceptions" and "80 schools."I think those two things give us a great deal of insight into what the Ducks strategy is with the NCAA.In every business there is a worker who is new and working his wa