“It was terrible,” says Salazar, a University of Oregon student and Central Catholic High graduate. “It seemed like he was bleeding through his whole face and both eyes.” The Eugene Police Department investigated what happened the morning of March 1, when Eric Dylan Jones beat up Oregon defensive end Devan Long. Long needed five titanium plates to help heal his broken jaw and nose. He lost 20 pounds from his 265-pound playing weight — he jokes about having to eat his mother’s enchiladas blended. He has been held out of contact in spring football drills as he tries to regain full health.

The Ducks are three weeks away from the start of their championship track and field season, which begins with the Pac-10 Conference championships at USC in Los Angeles on May 17-18. This week, the Oregon Invitational takes center stage at Hayward Field on Saturday. A three-day mega-meet, it begins on Thursday with two days of the decathlon and heptathlon and concludes on Saturday with two sessions of competition.

Oregon freshman pitcher Amy Harris had a career-high 12 strikeouts and No. 20 Oregon hit two home runs to defeat Nevada, 6-1, in the first game of a doubleheader at Howe Field Tuesday. With the win, Oregon improves to 25-14 overall, 4-8 Pacific-10 Conference and Nevada fell to 20-28, 3-9 Western Athletic Conference. (Photo Left)

Oregon will send a youthful team to the 2003 Pac-10 women's golf championships that will be hosted by Oregon State Thursday through Saturday at Trysting Tree Golf Club (par-72, 6,160 yards) in Corvallis, Ore.

Oregon can clinch its first winning season since 2000 with a win in either game of today's 3 p.m. doubleheader against Nevada. If the No. 20 Ducks earn the winning season, head coach Kathy Arendsen will be only the second Duck coach since at least 1986 to lead Oregon to a winning record in her first season.

A year after finishing 52nd at its national tournament, the men's Oregon Club Volleyball Team started taking advice from coaches who know a thing or two about the sport.Behind the tutelage of ex-Oregon volleyball players Lindsay Closs and Sydney Chute, the Ducks improved to a 25th place finish at this year's National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association Tournament.

Carrie Zografos runs one of the wettest, wildest and hardest races on the track. Not only does the redshirt senior run seven and a half laps around, but she has to clear four barriers set at 33 inches high during every lap. And the most interesting part of the steeplechase is the water pit athletes jump into on the end of the back stretch. (Photo Right)

The first field is set for the 2003 Prefontaine Classic, and if things go the same as last year, it could be the most exciting.

All running events were moved 15 minutes earlier in the evening session, while field events will remain the same. Also included is Thursday and Friday's decathlon and heptathlon schedule.