Bill Walton explains the Tinder portal on Oregon-UCLA ESPN broadcast
Bill Walton referred to the transfer portal as the Tinder portal: "The way that works is that they put their name in there and then the coaches start pushing left and right."
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Joel Klatt apologizes for not pushing back on Kayvon Thibodeaux’s Alabama education comments
"Fact is a University of Alabama education is very good."
The three-year timeslot viewership high for Washington State-Oregon adds to criticism of ESPN’s production truck there
Washington State-Oregon drew the highest viewership for a 10:30 p.m. ET start on any network in three years. So why did ESPN send a subpar "E" production truck there, and provide the world with an opportunity to complain about the picture quality?
Chris Fowler handled Oregon’s Kayvon Thibodeaux’s “Great f***ing scheme” comment by quipping “Thibodeaux did a Thi-bo-don’t”
"Apologies. Thibodeaux did a Thi-bo-don't there. But he was excited. He had a big game, and it was a good gameplan, I'll say that."
ESPN’s Shelley Smith shared a story of her niece getting hit in the head with ice at a past Oregon-Oregon State game
"Once I was here with my niece Vanessa, who was wearing a Ducks' jacket, and she got hit on the head with a chunk of ice. It didn't knock her out, but it knocked her silly."
Bill Walton has plenty to say about ‘grass’ and pretends to call a 2000 Indiana Pacers game during Colorado-Oregon broadcast on ESPN
"Great offensive rebounding here by the Buffaloes! Looks like they had some good grass at halftime."
Ian Eagle and Bill Raftery make this Oregon game-winning 3 feel like March
It's not yet March, despite what this moment and Jon Rothstein's tweets may tell you.
Oregon’s 37-15 win over Utah was the most-watched Pac-12 Championship since 2014
This Pac-12 championship was up 44 percent over last year's.
Mark Helfrich ends broadcasting career after one season, leaving Fox Sports for Chicago Bears
This will be Helfrich's first job on a NFL staff.
Former Oregon Ducks recruit gets trash-talked by state representative after he decommits
Trash talking high schoolers isn't a good look for an elected official.
Portland Timbers, Oregon Ducks disavow Dino Costa’s “run ’em over!” remarks on broadcast partner (updated)
"As soon as one or two of these sumbitches are run over you’ll see the entire, in unison, everybody be up off the street."
Bill Walton growls, works out, talks Dead, and drops popcorn on “Dave?”
Broadcasts featuring Bill Walton are often a lot of fun, featuring discussion of everything from weed and mimosas...
Oregon upsets UCLA, Bill Walton gets upset at controversial non-call
College basketball saw a major upset Wednesday night, with #21 Oregon (11-2 heading into this) knocking off #2...
