• Stewart, Ducks see advantage, exploit it
EUGENE -- The sight of a staggered Fresno State defense brought out added excitement for Jonathan Stewart.

• Ducks' foe gives Pac-10 a tough fight
EUGENE -- Oregon coach Mike Bellotti, putting it as diplomatically as possible, tried to explain his football team's sudden success last week in stopping Michigan's offense in the second half of the Ducks' win.

• Ducks off to a special start
EUGENE -- Oregon's 2007 football season has gone so smoothly so far -- outscoring opponents 87-34 in its 2-0 start -- that the closely contested and zany final 20 minutes of last year's game at Fresno State seem a distant memory.

• Bellotti pounds away at avoiding complacency
With his Oregon football team having embarrassed Michigan for one half to the tune of 32-7, running back Jeremiah Johnson came back into Michigan Stadium at halftime and pounded a sledgehammer into the end zone FieldTurf.

• UO football Dixon wins Pac-10 honors for Michigan performance
In another emphatic answer to the questions surrounding Oregon quarterback Dennis Dixon entering this season, the Pacific-10 Conference chose Dixon offensive player of the week on Monday.

• Ducks get attention of poll voters with win
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The Oregon Ducks are no longer unranked or unnoticed after Saturday's 39-7 win over the Wolverines at Michigan Stadium.

• Day of Dixon delights
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The college football world may have been focused on Michigan and its wounded pride, but Oregon ran the Wolverines off the national stage with an eye-popping 39-7 win that quieted Michigan Stadium and raised the question:

• Dixon's decisions are near-perfect
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- There was one decision Dennis Dixon regretted making Saturday at Michigan Stadium.

• Fresno State at Oregon
When: 4 p.m. Saturday Where: Autzen Stadium, Eugene On the air: TV on KRCW (32/Comcast 3), radio on KXL (750) Records: Fresno State (1-1), Oregon (2-0) Briefly: This is the eighth meeting of the teams, with Oregon leading the series 5-2. The Ducks defeated the Bulldogs 31-24 last season at Fresno State via a run by Paul Martinez on a fake field goal with 4:55 left in the game. The close game continued a trend in the Oregon-Fresno State rivalry. In five meetings since 1996, all UO wins, the winning margin has been seven points or fewer with an average of 4.2. Fresno State took No. 23 Texas A&M to three overtimes Saturday before losing 47-45. Oregon is 2-0 for the sixth time in the past seven seasons. TRIVIA On Friday, we asked a question about Michigan Stadium, the largest in college football. What year did the Wolverines' streak of home games in front of at least 100,000 fans begin? The answer: 1975, a streak of 201 games. ONLINE Get more coverage, including notes and analysis from the Oregon-Michigan game, on John Hunt's Behind the Beat blog at http://blog.oregonlive.com/behindducksbeat STATISTICS

• Big House work rests on Dixon's shoulders
EUGENE -- True, most of the attention today will be on Michigan and whether it can overcome its historic loss to Appalachian State last week. But this is some serious attention.

• Ducks savor '03: a Michigan loss
EUGENE -- Standing in an empty Autzen Stadium on Thursday, Brian Paysinger quickly flashed back to a game played there four seasons ago.

• It's still a running debate
EUGENE -- On Sept. 20, 2003, the third-ranked Michigan Wolverines and the nation's leading rusher, Chris Perry, came into Autzen Stadium and were stopped cold. Perry gained 26 yards on 11 carries. As a team, Michigan ran 19 times for minus-three yards.

• Kickoff moved to 4 p.m.
The kickoff of Oregon's football game Sept. 15 against Fresno State will move to 4 p.m. to accommodate an Oregon Sports Network live television broadcast.

• Wolverines had goal set on title, not loss in first game
Throughout Mike Hart's post-game interview last Saturday, the standout University of Michigan running back did his best to give credit to Appalachian State.

• Beating an upset
Paging Dr. Freud: There's a winged football helmet in your office.

• UO's Colvin still hopes to prove himself
EUGENE -- Cameron Colvin's return to Ann Arbor, Mich., wasn't supposed to be like this.

• Wolverines' loss puts new spin on UO game
EUGENE -- You don't have to be Lloyd Carr to know that Saturday's loss by Michigan to Appalachian State changes things.

• The Ducks' next opponent Wolverines set new goals
Picking up the pieces from a disastrous opener for the Michigan football team begins with a visit by Oregon.

• DUCKS REPORT
Recap: In the season opener for both teams, Oregon and Houston combined for 75 points and 1,018 yards of offense, countless big plays and no doubt some hair-pulling by the defensive coordinators in a 48-27 win by the Ducks on Saturday at Autzen Stadium.

• Ducks' best defense? Run
EUGENE -- The Oregon football team was a bit of an enigma heading into 2007, with a new offensive coordinator, some issues at quarterback and questions on defense. After the season opener, this much we know:

• Appalachian State briefly raises the volume at Autzen
EUGENE -- During Oregon football games at Autzen Stadium, public address announcer Don Essig updates the college scores from around the country.

• Dixon shakes off boos, gets Ducks to 'step up'
EUGENE -- Dennis Dixon heard the boos rain down on him near the end of the first half.

• Ducks focus on here and now
EUGENE -- Season openers haven't been much of a problem for the Oregon football team under coach Mike Bellotti, who is 10-2 in such games with the Ducks. In fact, Oregon has won 20 of its past 23 openers -- the only blemishes being home losses to Hawaii (1992) and Indiana (2004) and a defeat at Michigan State in 1999.

• Just call it a guessing game
EUGENE -- Opposing coaches are always skeptical when a team touts a "new" defense heading into the season, and that's exactly what Oregon coach Mike Bellotti was this week.

• UO's best offensive lineman on new spot
EUGENE -- While most of the attention this month has focused on quarterback Dennis Dixon's baseball postseason, Chip Kelly's new offensive wrinkles and Jonathan Stewart's Heisman-or-bust campaign, a quietly successful experiment could pave the way for all those things.

• 2006 Results
Record (7-6)

• 2007 Schedule (Times subject to change)
Sept. 1, Houston, 12:30 p.m. (KRCW Comcast 3): Ducks will be favored, but who can forget the 2004 pre-Oklahoma season-opening loss to Indiana?

• Ducks are headed in the 'right direction'
Q&A With Oregon WR Jaison Williams

• His winning legacy teeters on the brink
EUGENE -- Mike Bellotti is the dean of Pacific-10 Conference football coaches. He is the University of Oregon's winningest coach. He has led the Ducks to 10 bowls in 12 years. This season, he is three wins away from becoming the sixth Pac-10 coach to reach 100 victories.

• Intelligence, check. Athleticism, check.
Middle linebacker John Bacon arrived at Oregon's preseason football camp with a Mohawk -- the sides of his head completely shaved, with a three-inch wide strip of hair down the middle.

• Speed could make tight end a target
In Oregon's spread-option offense, the tight end has seemed a bit like the 12th man at times.

• Time to erase bad memories
EUGENE -- To the Oregon football team, the 253 days that will have passed between the Las Vegas Bowl debacle and the 2007 season opener must seem a far greater number.

• UO's run defense promises roadblock
EUGENE -- At times last season, those eye-catching new Oregon football jerseys looked as though they were sporting tire tread marks instead of diamond plate. Weakened by injuries and a team-wide malaise, the Ducks finished ninth in the Pacific-10 Conference in rushing defense, giving up 4.3 yards per carry.

• Rush hour: Prime time for tailbacks
EUGENE -- Jonathan Stewart, a shoe on his left foot and his right foot bare, walked slowly off the practice field. And like any good running back, he saw what was coming at him.

• Big gift spotlights UO dilemma
As University of Oregon officials basked in the bounty of Phil Knight's $100 million donation to the athletic department, visitors toured a recently finished $8 million treatment facility for Oregon athletes that includes flat-panel televisions and an indoor waterfall.

• Ducks' run defense gets runaround
EUGENE -- At the start of fall camp, Oregon defensive coordinator Nick Aliotti was asked about the apparent dearth of run-stoppers in his front seven.

• Health center a sight to behold
EUGENE -- A list of things Oregon football coach Mike Bellotti does not want to see in today's final scrimmage of fall camp: Turnovers, big plays given up, penalties before the snap or after the whistle and, of course, injuries.

• UO mulls guest list for arena
EUGENE -- Now that Nike co-founder Phil Knight has pledged $100 million toward a fund to help build a new basketball arena at the University of Oregon, there is the matter of a housewarming party.

• 'Look out,' here come the Ducks
EUGENE -- When asked what impact the $100 million gift from Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, would have on his men's basketball program, Oregon coach Ernie Kent had two words:

• UO holds scrimmage at Nike
The University of Oregon's top three quarterbacks combined to complete 14 of 26 passes in addition to accumulating 226 yards of total offense as the Ducks held an 89-play scrimmage Saturday at the Nike Complex near Beaverton.

• $crimmage winner: arena?
If an Oregon football scrimmage falls in a Nike forest and no one is there to see it, does it make a sound?

• DePalo ahead of curve
EUGENE -- The University of Oregon's new $8 million athletic treatment facility is a picture of post-op opulence, where a waterfall accents therapy pools and other state-of-the-art diagnostic and rehabilitation equipment.

• Oregon's list of coaching candidates dwindles
EUGENE -- Two prominent baseball coaches took their names off the University of Oregon's wish list Wednesday.

• UO tight end Keeling suffers broken hand
EUGENE -- The most unwelcome of August visitors, the injury bug, hit the Oregon Ducks on Tuesday.

• UO's Kelly is loud and clear
EUGENE -- Chip Kelly and Gary Crowton, Oregon's current and former offensive coordinators, have something in common: They know the spread offense and . . . well, that's about it.

• Oregon football Good and bad numbers prove potential of offense
EUGENE -- So the Oregon offense has a new coordinator, features a somewhat embattled quarterback and still is looking to replace its leader on the line.

• Ducks hope to play in China
The University of Oregon football team is working on its longest trip ever: to China.

• Dixon? That's a leading question
EUGENE -- After Oregon's first preseason football practice Monday, quarterback Dennis Dixon left the field and walked into a gantlet of microphones and cameras.

• Oregon notebook Hairstyle spiked, shorn, thinning
EUGENE -- The first day of fall camp traditionally brings new hairstyles, and middle linebacker John Bacon did not disappoint, showing up with a Mohawk that he said was in tribute to Maynard James Keenan of the band Tool.

• Ducks try to regain face
If one can judge a football team by the cover of its media guide, then Oregon's mission in 2007 is clear: To become a football team again.

• Dixon turns in his glove, but still takes some jabs
LOS ANGELES -- Oregon quarterback Dennis Dixon will be in Eugene today after his first season as a professional baseball player ended a few days early -- welcome news to Ducks coach Mike Bellotti, who clearly was unhappy with Dixon's multisport aspirations.

• Three cheers for UO's new sport
As a child, Sarah Brock learned plenty about working hard by watching her father, Stan, participate in NFL practices.

• UO 'cheer' cheered, questioned
EUGENE -- When the University of Oregon considered adding a varsity women's sport, it bypassed mainstream choices -- such as swimming, gymnastics and crew -- and opted for one historically found on the sideline: cheer.

• Wrestlers grapple with rumors, then letdown
EUGENE -- Moments after Friday's news conference ended, a quiet man in the back of the room suddenly found himself surrounded by tape recorders and television cameras.

• LSU to UO: Taking the long way home
EUGENE -- Lounging in Section 103 of McArthur Court on Wednesday, a green-and-yellow-clad Ben Voogd gazed at the 80-year-old building and marveled at the path he had taken.

• UO football Top recruit Wade ineligible; Manley says he'll transfer
The University of Oregon flag hanging from Jerry Wade's home in Northeast Portland will remain on display, even though his son, Myles Wade, won't be in Eugene as expected this fall.