The work morning began with an email from a reader who made the case that Oregon Ducks fans should hate Stanford. Not for the usual reasons, either. You know, the $64,000-a-year undergraduate tuition or the way Stanford grads often like to casually slip in that they're Stanford grads.
No. This reader, a Ducks fan, had a legitimate beef with Stanford. He believed that the Cardinal had robbed Oregon's two greatest football teams ever of the opportunity to compete for two football national championships. Two blocked punts in 2001 killed the Ducks' season in a 49-42 loss to Stanford.