Living Here

A regular Register-Guard column on the people, places and events that make Lane County, Oregon, a unique place to work and live

Prom for the ages

Bob Lyford had his hands full. As the Churchill High School Jazz Band struck up the 1933 show tune, “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” the dapper 92-year-old twirled Lena Jensen…

Stars in stripes

You are wearing a shirt with vertical black-and-white stripes. You have a whistle in your mouth. You have a couple of basketball coaches and a bunch of parents and grandparents…

Overwhelmed

ARLINGTON, Texas — Ouch! Why did this all feel so familiar? They’d been there, done this — made it all the way to the national championship game, only to lose…

Fans ready to roll

DALLAS – They called it Playoff Fan Central, and it was a decidedly corporate affair inside the enormous Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in downtown Dallas. The three-day fan festival…

First, a history lesson

DALLAS, Texas – They are here. They have arrived. Many of them, anyway. And some of them even have their own Facebook page: “Ducks in Dallas.” Those University of Oregon…

A game played on a field of green

Fan passion and spending are the engine that drives college football’s ever-more-powerful financial machine. Revenues – from broadcasting rights, advertising and ticket sales – are predicted to grow exponentially in…

Duck fans happy to pay the price

Jill Carter does not claim to be clairvoyant. But she is a supremely confident fan of University of Oregon football. When did she book hotel rooms for last week’s Rose…

Mariota runs away with it

Oregon quarterback becomes the first in UO history to earn the highest national honor in college football

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