SPORTS MAIL.Byline: The Register-Guard Ducks lacking fire I am a two-time Oregon graduate. I have rooted and bled and supported the Ducks everywhere I have lived. Oregon, Idaho, California and now Louisiana. I pay extra to get feeds of the Duck games Overview The duck game is a series of questions and answers that are repeated. The entertaining aspect of the game is both that the questions and answers can be funny in various different ways and that the people playing the game might begin to forget their lines. because I don't want to wait to know when we win. I just watched the Arizona football team kick the Ducks up and down Autzen Stadium The stadium is tucked between the Willamette River and Coburg Hills. The uniquely shaped bowl blends in with the wooded Eugene landscape. The shape also allows for unique acoustics, making it one of the loudest stadiums in NCAA Football for its capacity. for four miserable quarters. One of my Southeastern Conference `friends' called up to tell me that Oregon looked `damn weak.' Thanks, I needed that. I watched a no-class, idiot coach passionately lead an average team to a crushing victory over a team that has little fire, little fight and no vision. The coaches seem unable to generate a hunger for excellence in this group. Preservation of a player's confidence and self-esteem does not take precedence The order in which an expression is processed. Mathematical precedence is normally: 1. unary + and - signs 2. exponentiation 3. multiplication and division 4. over teaching them how to overcome adversity ad·ver·si·ty n. pl. ad·ver·si·ties 1. A state of hardship or affliction; misfortune. 2. A calamitous event. and refuse to lose. Overcoming adversity builds confidence and self-esteem. Coaches need to demonstrate passion. Sportsmanship doesn't require a stoic exterior. It's one thing to be beaten. It's another to surrender with little or no effort. Oregon left Autzen as a double loser on Saturday. We lost on points and we lost on passion. I hope we can find some focus, heart and sacrifice before we play Oregon State. I hate calls from Southeastern Conference fans. I hate calls from OSU (Open Source UNIX) Refers to the Unix variants that are maintained as open source, which were primarily BSD Unix and Linux until Sun made its Solaris operating system open source in 2005. fans more. BILL CLARK Pineville, La. What hype? I laughed out loud after seeing "Let the Hype Begin," in a mini-headline on the front page of today's (Monday, Nov. 20) R-G. What a joke. The only hype that needs to be talked about for (today's) matchup between Oregon and the inspired Beavers is just how badly OSU is going to beat the hapless hap·less adj. Luckless; unfortunate. See Synonyms at unfortunate. hap  less·ly adv. , clueless clue·less adj. Lacking understanding or knowledge. clueless Adjective Slang helpless or stupid Adj. 1. and bumbling bum·ble 1 v. bum·bled, bum·bling, bum·bles v.intr. 1. To speak in a faltering manner. 2. To move, act, or proceed clumsily. See Synonyms at blunder. v.tr. Oregon football team. Oh, wait, that's not hard to do, just kick off, punt or try to throw a pass and it's an automatic touchdown - for the other team. Someone forgot to tell the Ducks that Thanksgiving doesn't start until Nov. 23. The coaching staff and team has been delivering turkeys since getting beat by Washington State on Nov. 4. Sit down, I'm not done. Yes, I've been a Duck fan since 1974, so I think I have a right to mouth off. I'm kind of tired of watching our kids forget to show up for the game. If someone on the coaching staff could just get our kids some sticky stuff to help them catch the ball, it might be nice. Heck heck interj. Used as a mild oath. n. Slang Used as an intensive: had a heck of a lot of money; was crowded as heck. [Alteration of hell. , put some hook-and-loop Velcro stuff on the ball and on the kids' gloves. We've got to figure something out. DAVE A file sharing program from Thursby Software Systems, Inc., Arlington, TX (www.thursby.com) that allows a Macintosh to share files with a PC. Designed specifically for and needing installation only on the Mac, DAVE works with Microsoft's native SMB/CIFS file sharing protocols and uses BARTLETT Eugene Playing favorites This is the second time I have been forced to voice my disgust with the RG's blatant favoritism. The football coverage in Sunday's paper was ridiculous. OK, I get that 90 percent of your readers want stories on the Ducks. But I have a problem with the coverage being so biased. When an inferior opponent outplays the Ducks and capitalizes on numerous errors, is it really bad luck for the Ducks (also see Indiana several years ago)? Case in point, the front-page headline "Luckless Ducks." Nice headline. Very objective. On second thought, maybe you're right, just a bit more LUCK would have helped the 14-point favorites overcome their 27-point deficit. Oh yeah, and thanks for the nice piece on the Beavers. Too bad I had to turn to D7 to find it. Page 7? I thoroughly enjoy reading your column, but as sports editor Noun 1. sports editor - the newspaper editor responsible for sports news newspaper editor - the editor of a newspaper , it is also your responsibility to ensure that the coverage is fair. While I thought your piece in Sunday's paper was objective, the overall coverage was not. In my opinion, you shirked your responsibility. I was hoping for better. SCOTT SAVOIAN Eugene Get O.J. out of the picture Your sports page Noun 1. sports page - any page in the sports section of a newspaper page - one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains of Nov. 18 shows a picture of Bo Schembechler Glenn Edward "Bo" Schembechler (April 1 1929 – November 17 2006) was an American college football coach best known as the head coach at the University of Michigan, where he coached the Wolverines from 1969 until 1989. with O.J. Simpson. Whoever chose to run that picture to aid in memorializing Coach Schembechler is guilty of a serious breach of sensitivity and a lack of good judgment. Do you really believe that the Schembechler family and his friends and admirers appreciate Coach Schembechler being shown with the likes of O.J. Simpson? Shame, shame, shame on you. GEORGE WEIGUM Roseburg The Register-Guard sports department welcomes letters on all sporting topics. 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